Risk Waters Group

Risk Waters Group is a London based company that provides business services such as risk management, credit, market data and computational finance via magazines, journals, newsletters, and conferences. They also have offices in New York and Hong Kong.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the Group was hosting a conference called the Waters Financial Technology Congress at Windows on the World[?] at the World Trade Center. They have reported the loss of 16 employees and possibly 71 guests in the terrorist attack that day.

Victims at the Congress include the following Risk Waters Group employees:

• Michele Beale (née du Berry)[?], Director of Conferences
• Oli Bennett[?], Staff Writer, Risk magazine
• Paul Bristow[?], Conferences Producer
• Neil Cudmore[?], Sales Director, Waters magazine
• Sarah Ali Escarcega[?], Freelance Marketing Consultant
• Elisa Ferraina[?], Senior Conferences Sponsorship Co-ordinator
• Amy Lamonsoff[?], Events Manager, North America
• Sarah Redheffer (née Prothero)[?], Conferences Operations Manager
• David Rivers[?], Editorial Director, Waters magazine
• Laura Rockefeller[?], Freelance Delegate Co-ordinator
• Karlie Rogers[?], Divisional Sponsorship Manager
• Simon Turner[?], Publishing Director
• Celeste Victoria, Conferences Telesales Executive
• Joanna Vidal[?], Event Co-ordinator
• Melanie de Vere[?], Publisher, Waters Reference Products
• Dinah Webster[?], Advertising Manager

It is believed that 71 industry delegates from the following companies attended the Congress and are unaccounted for:

• Accenture[?]
• Algorithmics Inc.[?]
• ARC Partners Inc.[?]
• BEA Systems[?]
• Bloomberg[?]
• Boston Investor Services Inc.[?]
• Callixa Inc.[?]
• Cambridge Technology Partners[?]
• Caplin Systems Inc.[?]
• Compaq Computer Corporation
• Credit Suisse First Boston[?]
• DataSynapse[?]
• Encompys[?]
• Financial Fusion/SYBASE Inc.[?]
• Freddie Mac[?]
• Gold Tier Technologies[?]
• Imagine Software Inc.[?]
• Instinet[?]
• Janus Capital Corp[?]
• Jennison Associates[?]
• JPMorgan Investor Services[?]
• Maxcor Information Inc.[?]
• Merrill Lynch
• Morgan Stanley Dean Witter[?]
• Nomura Research Institute[?]
• Optus[?]
• Radianz[?]
• Random Walk Computing Inc.[?]
• Reuters
• Salomon Smith Barney[?]
• Slam Dunk Networks[?]
• SSM Consulting[?]
• Telekurs[?]
• Thales Contact Solutions[?]
• Thomson Financial[?]
• UBS Warburg[?]
• Umevoice Inc.[?]
• Zurich Scudder Investments[?]

External link

• http://www.riskwaters.com/wtc/