Analyst Profile
Stessa Cohen
Sr Director Analyst
19 years at Gartner
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30 years industry experience
PA USA
Roles and Responsibilities
Stessa B. Cohen is Senior Director Analyst in Gartner, where she is a part of the Banking Industry Service Global Research team. Ms. Cohen's areas of expertise revolve around strategies and technologies for delivering the digital bank experience. She also has extensive expertise in deposit capture and processing as well as paper-based payments and transaction processing. She has a background in technology analysis, IT outsourcing and management, back-office process and workflow analysis, information design, and software development.
Stessa Cohen's Recent Gartner Activity
Latest Research
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Digital Banking Platforms: Balance Risk Tolerance With Strategy
05 March 2019
On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars
Background
Previous Experience
Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Cohen was a vice president for technology in a payment processing startup, where she managed IT services, technology implementation projects, and new technology analysis and acquisition. As an assistant vice president at a regional retail bank, she created and managed disaster recovery plans, analyzed emerging technologies for the bank's internet banking strategy, presented new technologies to senior bank executives, and analyzed payment processing technologies and business operations and workflow for its payment processing subsidiary.
Professional Background
CoreStates Bank, Assistant Vice President, Alternative Delivery Technologies, 3 years
ICL, Senior Technical Writer, 6 years
Transactis (formerly Regulus), Vice President, Technology, 4 years
Education
B.A., University of Maryland
M.S., Information Systems and Software Engineering (MSIS), George Mason University
Languages
English
Hebrew
