Celent Leadership

Daniel W. Latimore, CFA, is Celent’s Chief Research Officer, based in the firm's Boston office. As CRO he develops analyst research methodologies and coordinates topic selection across the firm. In addition to his role as CRO, Mr. Latimore is also a member of the Retail Banking team. His banking areas of focus include the banking ecosystem, digital banking and emerging technologies, and innovation. Underlying each is a keen interest in consumer behavior and technology-enabled strategy. Mr. Latimore has been widely quoted in the press, including the Wall Street Journal, American Banker, Boston Globe, CNBC, and CNBC Europe. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and client gatherings, having addressed audiences ranging from intimate meetings of CEOs and central banks to conference keynotes in more than a dozen countries. He led research groups at Deloitte and IBM, worked in industry Liberty Mutual and Merrill Lynch (where he lived in New York, Tokyo and London), and was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.

He received a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA institute.

Technical Lead in Celent's new digital strategy team, responsible for delivering the divison's new website and integrating Diliger's research technology with Celent's existing services.