Gary E. Bischoping Jr.
With an extensive financial leadership background in the technology sector, Gary has responsibility for all of Finastra's traditional finance and accounting activities, as well as managing the Risk, Legal and Procurement functions.
Over the course of his career, he has been responsible for multiple transformation projects, including the optimization of capital allocation processes to accelerate investments for growth.
Gary has a keen interest in the intersection of finance and technology. As well as envisioning the financial models of the future, he is passionate about how innovative technology can optimize Finance operations, having previously developed and implemented a pioneering internal machine learning-based finance tool.
Before joining Finastra, Gary was CFO and, later, President of the Interventional Solutions, for Silicon Valley-based Varian, a mid-cap medical technology multinational. Prior to that, he spent 17 years at Dell in various senior positions, working his way up to Senior Vice President, CFO Client Solutions Group, a $38BN business.
Gary holds an MBA from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester, as well as a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the State University of New York at Oswego. He passed the Certified Public Accountants examination in 1991.