FIX Press Release: Jim Northey of The LaSalle Technology Group Elected as Co-Chair of the FPL Americas Regional Committee
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15 Mar 2007 12:03PM ETJim Northey of The LaSalle Technology Group Elected as Co-Chair of the FPL Americas Regional Committee
March 15th, 2007 – FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) is proud to announce that Jim Northey, co-founder of The LaSalle Technology Group, has been elected as the FPL Americas Regional Committee Co-chair. Within this position, Mr. Northey will work closely with Co-chair John Goeller, who has served in this role since 2003.
Mr. Northey has more than twenty years experience within the financial markets. He is currently the principal and founder of The LaSalle Technology Group based in Chicago, prior to which he managed the Derivatives practice area at Jordan & Jordan.
Mr. Northey has a long-standing involvement within the FPL organisation. He was the initial FPL Global Derivatives Committee Chairman and was a lead player in creating the Implicit Tagging version of FIX, which was a precursor to the FAST Protocol(SM) (a data compaction methodology developed by FPL in response to growing financial message volumes). He is also a regular contributor to the FpML and ISO 20022 standardisation efforts.
In addition to his work with FPL, Mr. Northey is also an active member of a number of other industry associations and in March 2006 he was awarded the ‘Futures Industry Association Annual Achievement Award’ in recognition of the significant effort he contributed to the development and deployment of FIXML for the post-trade processing of listed derivatives.
Mr. Northey will hold the position of Co-chair of the FPL Americas Regional Committee for two years, succeeding predecessor Martin Koopman of Orc Software who has served in this position since 2005. Commenting on this announcement John Goeller stated “The FPL Americas Regional Committee has definitely benefited from Martin's vision and leadership during his tenure as Co-chair. I wish to personally thank him for all of his efforts. It is also comforting to have such an experienced FIX professional as Jim Northey succeeding Martin in this position. I look forward to working with Jim on future initiatives.”
About FIX Protocol Ltd
FIX Protocol Ltd is a non-profit organisation that owns the intellectual property rights of the Financial Information eXchange Protocol (FIX), the FIX specification is available free of charge from the FPL website, subject to FPL’s copyright and acceptable use policy. FIX is a globally recognised messaging standard enabling the electronic communication of pre-trade and trade messages between financial institutions, primarily investment managers, broker/dealers, ECNs and exchanges. For more information, see www.fixprotocol.org.
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Daniella Baker, FPL Marketing and Communications Manager, Daniella.Baker@fixprotocol.org, + 44 (0) 20 7936 9334
