Robert Thielmann, 2014 Honoree
- Title
- Senior vice president and CIO
- Employer
- Janney Montgomery Scott
- Location
- Philadelphia
- Skills you'll hire for this year:
- We look at skills, motivation and fit when judging the suitability of all candidates for IT positions at Janney. The most important ingredient is personal drive. You can't teach a strong work ethic. A person either has it or doesn't and that should resonate in their career progression.
- How many times have you had to reinvent yourself in your career?
- In terms of working in the financial services industry, I have a very unique experience from having worked in the three major sides of a broker-dealer. I learned the business on the clearing side with Pershing, then was recruited into the independent side, and am now in a regional wirehouse position.
- Coolest current project:
- Creating a management dashboard for capital markets-specific data, including institutional client-related metrics, firm inventory management related to trading, and capital usage. We have ideas and plans for creating a novel management tool that isn't available elsewhere.