Amy Young

Director, Global Strategic Partnerships, Financial Services

Microsoft

Amy Young has been an Industry Advisor in Microsoft’s Global Financial Services Industry team since 2019. Based in New York, her mandate is to help the firm’s largest Wealth & Asset Management customers realize the benefits of digital transformation. Most recently, she led Digital Wealth Strategy for BMO in Toronto.

 
For the 12 years prior to that she ran a boutique management consulting firm specializing in the transformation of the wealth management industry. She brings a diverse toolkit of strategic planning, facilitation and program management skills to help financial institutions achieve their growth and innovation objectives.

Amy spent the first decade of her career in capital markets working as an equity analyst
and trader. She made the move into industry in 2001 to lead investor relations at a
major Canadian software company and later held senior roles in the corporate
strategy team at a global utility. Amy holds an MBA from the Rotman School of
Management, a BA in English from the University of Toronto and is a CFA Charterholder. She has taught Masters-level business communications courses at two leading business schools, enjoys mentoring FinTech startups and chairs the Fintech Committee at CFA Society New York.