Harumi Urata-Thompson

Harumi Urata-Thompson HUT Consulting, LLC, New York
Ms. Urata-Thompson is CEO of HUT Consulting. She specializes in leading and advising companies on taking innovative paths to achieve strategic, operational and marketing success in their businesses. Currently, she is consulting to and serving on the board of directors of several companies. In addition, she acts as mentor to a number of people and speaks at numerous events. Subjects include artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, outerspace, cross-border business, and diversity and inclusion. She also recently launched a space data company celestialdata.io.
Prior to starting HUT Consulting, Ms. Urata-Thompson was the chief operating officer for CFA Society New York (previously New York Society of Security Analysts), a nonprofit affiliate of the CFA Institute with 10,000 financial professionals previously. As COO, she was responsible for operating all aspects of the organization, and she successfully improved its performance through offering better value to its members, instituting significantly better operating processes, developing corporate partnerships, and establishing a new business model for attracting revenues from sponsors. Before CFA Society New York, Ms. Urata-Thompson spent 14 years at Thomson Reuters where she held various positions including: director at the corporate level overseeing innovation and managing a portfolio of mobile products across divisions; chief of staff to the CEO of the Healthcare and Science business, where she oversaw all management activities of five business units, including acquisitions, business and product management, and planning for an annual $900M budget covering 4,300 employees; and product manager looking after the company’s fixed income business, while launching the most significant product in this division’s history. Ms. Urata-Thompson began her career in investment banking with Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, working in fixed income sales and mergers & acquisitions.
Ms. Harata-Thompson has an MBA degree from INSEAD in France and a BA degree, magna cum laude, in business from Sophia University in Japan. She is a chartered financial analyst, certified project management professional, an advanced communicator and leader of Toastmasters, and she is bilingual in English and Japanese. Ms. Urata-Thompson has traveled extensively, plays piano, and keenly follows performing arts.