Bill Janeway
Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus LLC

Dr. William H. Janeway has over thirty-five years of practical finance experience in investment banking and venture capital. As Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus and former Vice Chairman, he initiated and managed the investment strategy for Information Technology that established the firm as a global leader in the domain including funding from start-up such prominent providers of infrastructure software as BEA Systems and VERITAS Software.

Sessions

9:30am Thursday, 02/07/2008

Richard Bookstaber on Risk and Financial Technology: Have We Gone Too Far?

Location: Starlight Roof

Richard Bookstaber (Author of A Demon of Our Own Design), Bill Janeway (Warburg Pincus LLC)

The author of "A Demon of Our Own Design," argues that technology, rather than being a solution in financial markets, is part of the problem—and the creator of even more and potentially calamitous problems. Innovation is running amok, creating immense problems in calculating and managing risk. Read more.