Craig Beattie
I work at the intersection of financial services technology, enterprise architecture, and advisory. As Principal Architect & Technology Advisor at Celent (part of GlobalData), I support research, advisory, and consulting work across financial services — helping clients and teams make sense of complex technology landscapes in practical, grounded ways. My background includes platform modernisation, data and architecture strategy, and the adoption of emerging technologies in regulated environments. I’m particularly interested in advisory work, research, and speaking that helps senior leaders navigate complexity, where technology choices intersect with organisation, risk, and long-term strategy.
Craig Focardi
Craig Focardi is a Principal Analyst in the Banking Practice with Celent, and heads lending research. He is based in San Francisco and focuses on issues related to the intersection of business and technology with an emphasis on how technology can improve business practices. Craig is the lead analyst for loan origination, decisioning, and servicing technologies, and researches, advises, and consults on analytics, core banking systems, enterprise content management, and AI applied to lending. His consulting engagements for financial institutions, private equity, and venture capital firms include core lending and banking system vendor selection, technology provider acquisition due diligence, North American and European market entrant strategy for IT firms, and go-to market assessments for technology vendors. Craig’s experience has been forged during 20 years at mortgage banks, mortgage insurers, and LendTech firms. He has a multi-disciplinary background in economics, finance, technology and marketing. Craig began his career in the mortgage industry for lenders and IT vendors, including Wells Fargo, CoreLogic, the Federal Home Loan Bank, and The PMI Group. Prior to joining Celent in 2017, Craig spent 15 years as a banking industry analyst at TowerGroup and Corporate Executive Board (CEB/Gartner). Craig is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences, including Mortgage Bankers Association annual/technology conferences, AFSA, and FIS Emerald. He has written dozens of bylined articles for Mortgage Banking Magazine, Lending Strategy (UK) and American Banker. Craig holds the Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) designation from the Mortgage Bankers Association and often contributes to industry publications and conferences. Craig received an M.A. in applied economics from the University of San Francisco and graduated with high honors from the State University of New York with a B.S. in business economics. Craig also attended Schiller University in Heidelberg, where he studied international trade.
Daniel Mayo
With a long-standing background in industry analysis and research, Daniel leverages considerable experience in both quantiative and qualitative analysis as well as industry focus across financial services technology sectors to advise and consult on business-led technology strategy and investment for financial institutions, technology providers, and technology investment firms. Daniel's coverage areas focuses on the banking platform market. Complementary coverage areas include cloud, SaaS, analytics, digital transformation and platform transformation and modernization. His advisory engagements have included banking system vendor selection for financial institutions, IT benchmarking for financial institutions, and market feasibility and go-to market assessments for technology vendors. Daniel began his career at Datamonitor, before moving into Ovum and more recently Omdia with an ongoing focus on the financial services technology market. He was also responsible for enterprise IT strategy research, and data insight programs involving extensive primary research across the financial services sector as well as institution-specific IT insight. Daniel holds an MA and BA in Economics from Cambridge University.