Speaker 04.02.25
04.02
AI Implementation Blueprint
8:00AM - 4:00PM CDT
Elizabeth Zimmer
T: +1.512.580.9630
T: +1.212.858.1037
Her expertise, thoughtfulness and attention to detail is a true blessing.
Elizabeth Zimmer, Pillsbury's Global Head of Global Sourcing & Technology Transactions, is widely recognized for her extensive information technology outsourcing knowledge, skill and experience, with particular experience in the financial industry.
A master of sophisticated technology transactions, Liz offers legal and strategic business counsel to global leaders in the financial services, energy, startup and media sectors. She guides clients throughout structuring, restructuring, negotiating and implementing their most critical technology-related initiatives. She is a recognized leader in the distributed ledger arena—structuring first-in-kind counterparty relationships with large financial institutions seeking to adopt blockchain and digital currency solutions—and regularly advises on major cloud and SaaS deals, cryptocurrency platform implementation, and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Liz is an industry leader assisting clients with all their strategic technology initiatives, including the outsourcing of multinational IT and business processes, facilities management and managed network services, as well as logistics and fulfillment deals, systems integration and software licensing arrangements.
Representative Experience
- Assisted several systemically important (Too Big to Fail) financial institutions in the strategy and execution of moving to cloud-based critical services, such as email, applications and core processing platforms.
- Advised an online financial services provider on the drafting and negotiation of software platform transactions to enable digital currency trading.
- Negotiated Fintech investments involving AI and blockchain for major financial institutions.
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- Negotiated a transformational series of IT infrastructure and AD&M global outsourcings with IBM and Wipro for one of the world’s largest providers of financial asset management services to institutional investors.
- Structured $1.3+ billion global business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology outsourcing (ITO) transactions between The Nielsen Company and Tata Consulting Services, spanning 180 countries.
- Negotiation of a series of application development, market data and deployment agreements for Merrill Lynch with Thomson Financial, Siebel and IBM for Merrill’s next generation broker workstation.
- Negotiation of offshore applications development and maintenance agreements for several NY-based financial and media-related institutions.
Professional Highlights
- Consistently recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers USA for Outsourcing & Technology and by The Legal 500 U.S. as a Leading Lawyer for Outsourcing.
- “Highly Commended” by the Financial Times in the “Great Legal Idea” category for the creation of the Golden Contract Coalition.
- Participated in Diversity Lab's "Diversity in Law Hackathon Pitch Event" at Harvard Law School.
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- Recognized by New York Rising Stars (published by Thomson Reuters), Technology Transactions (2013).
Education
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J.D., American University, Washington College of Law, 2001
cum laudeB.A., Tulane University, 1998
cum laude
Admissions
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New York
Texas