Speakers
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Robert Colby Mr. Colby is a partner in Davis Polk's Washington DC office. He advises on complex regulatory and compliance matters involving securities and derivatives for broker-dealers, financial institutions, investment advisers, markets, and clearing organizations. Before joining Davis Polk in 2009, Mr. Colby served for 17 years as Deputy Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Trading and Markets, where he was responsible for the regulation of broker-dealers, securities markets, and clearing organizations. Previously, he was Chief Counsel of the Division and Chief of the Division's Branch of Market Structure.
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Michael Santoli Associate Editor, Barron's Michael Santoli is an Associate Editor for Barron's, The Dow Jones Business and Financial Weekly. He writes the "Streetwise" column, offering a forward-looking take on the financial markets, illuminating market trends and identifying investment opportunities. Mr. Santoli is a regular on-air contributor to several cable and broadcast networks.
Prior to assuming his current position in November 2006, Mr. Santoli had been a senior editor for Barron's since May 2002, writing "The Trader" column, which covered the stock market and investment trends. Previously he had been mutual funds editor for the magazine since March 2000, when he wrote the "Fund of Information" column, edited the quarterly mutual-fund pullout sections and wrote cover stories for the magazine.
In August 1993, Mr. Santoli joined Dow Jones & Company as a reporter for the Dow Jones News Service and covered the securities industry. He moved to Barron's in February 1997 as a staff writer and wrote the "Commodities Corner." In 1998, he began writing the "Striking Price" column, covering the options markets.
Before joining Dow Jones, he worked in New York as a reporter/editor for Investment Dealers' Digest from June 1992 through early August 1993.
Mr. Santoli has received two Dow Jones Newswires Awards for distinguished real-time journalism. In 1995, he was a member of a team honored for a series of stories on the demise of D. Blech & Co., and in 1996, he and a colleague received an award for their coverage of the securities industry.
Born in Manhasset, N.Y., Mr. Santoli received a bachelor's degree in history from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. |
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Rolf Andersson Co-Chair FIX Protocol Market Data Optimization Working Group Chief Executive Officer, Pantor Engineering AB
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Scott Atwell Scott Atwell is the Manager of FIX Trading and Connectivity for American Century Investments, a leading investment manager committed to delivering superior investment performance and building long-term client relationships since 1958. Serving investment professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, American Century Investments offers a broad array of products across a variety of investment disciplines. With offices in New York, Mountain View, Calif. and Kansas City, Mo., the company manages more than $90 billion in assets through mutual funds, institutional separate accounts, commingled trusts and subadvisory accounts. Mr. Atwell developed American Century's FIX system providing FIX connectivity to virtually all of the brokers used for their equity trading worldwide. He currently serves as Co-chairperson of the Global Steering Committee for FIX Protocol Limited (FPL), the non-profit organization which manages the FIX Protocol. He has served as Co-chairperson of the FIX Global Technical Committee from 1997 through 2005 and actively participates in several other FIX committees and working groups. |
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Dr. John Bates Dr. John Bates is Chief Technology Officer of Progress Software. Progress is a NASDAQ-listed software solutions company and among other things is a leading supplier of algorithmic and high frequency trading, liquidity aggregation, real-time risk and market surveillance to buyside, sellside, trading venues and regulators. Prior to Progress, John founded Apama - the pioneering Complex Event Processing company. John is a frequent author and speaker on high frequency trading-related topics. He was recently asked to serve on the CFTC's Technology Advisory Panel to advise on high frequency trading and market surveillance best practices. |
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Stuart Breslow Stuart Breslow is the Chief Executive Officer/Chief Information Officer of Townsend Analytics. Mr. Breslow joined Townsend Analytics in December 2005 and became Chief Executive Officer in April of 2008. As the Chief Information Officer (CIO), he is also responsible for Software/Technology Development, Infrastructure, and Operations. Prior to his roles in RealTick, Mr. Breslow was the Global Head of Client Facing Trading and Analytics Technology for Global Equities at Lehman Brothers and was also previously responsible for the development of Lehman's high-performance Equities Direct Market Access Trading platform. Mr. Breslow first joined Lehman Brothers in 2000 in the role of Global Head of Private Client Services Technology, responsible for the technology supporting the growing Investment Management and Private Wealth Management organizations. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Breslow was primarily focused on Private Client Technology, spending 8 years at PaineWebber (now UBS Financial Services) in senior technology roles servicing the firm's Financial Advisors and Private Clients, culminating with responsibility for all online client-facing activities for the bank. Mr. Breslow began his career in the High Performance Computing and Communications of IBM as Software Engineer developing microcode for high-speed network devices. Mr. Breslow holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering from Rutgers College of Engineering, a Masters of Science degree from NYU/Polytechnic Institute and a Masters of Technology Management degree from Stevens Institute of Technology. |
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Tom Brown Manager, Trade Support, RBC Global Asset Management |
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Michael Butowsky MICHAEL R. BUTOWSKY Partner, Financial Services Regulatory and Enforcement (FSRE) Group Mayer Brown LLP, New York City Michael Butowsky's principal areas of practice include advising registered and unregistered investment advisers with respect to legal and compliance matters (including registration, disclosure and trading questions); advising clients with respect to the formation of, and offering of interests in, private investment funds (e.g., hedge, private equity and other alternative asset vehicles); broker-dealers with respect to the negotiation of soft-dollar and other brokerage arrangements; industry participants with respect to investment adviser, broker-dealer and investment company "status" issues; and, private fund sponsors and investors with respect to issues relating to fund portfolio illiquidity (e.g., situations occurring during the recent financial crisis) including fund insolvencies and dissolutions. Mr. Butowsky has written extensively and is a frequent speaker at financial services industry conferences. |
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Tom Chippas Thomas Chippas, Managing Director, is Global Head of Quantitative Prime Brokerage at Barclays Capital. Thomas and his team are focused on servicing the global, multi-asset trading and financing needs of model-driven trading firms. He is active in the electronic trading community through multiple industry groups and boards. Having worked with buy and sell side institutions as well as custodial firms and hedge fund administrators as a technology and services provider, he brings a unique background to the electronic trading industry. Prior to joining Barclays Capital Thomas was North American Head of Autobahn Equity for Deutsche Bank. Thomas currently resides in New York City and holds a Bachelor's of Science in Accounting from the University of Illinois. He started his career as a CPA with Price Waterhouse LLC in Chicago. |
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Scott DePetris Scott DePetris has been an integral part of Portware's success and has won the support of tier one financial institutions worldwide. Before joining Portware, Scott co-founded, and was vice-president of, ExchangeLab, Inc, an intellectual property development company for financial services technologies. While at ExchangeLab, Scott helped to orchestrate the sale of the company's primary asset, Financial Auction Network, to a consortium of investment banks, which was later launched as Primex. In addition to Primex, PDQ ATS was also conceived and spun out of ExchangeLab. Prior to this, Scott specialized in equity derivatives at The Goldman Sachs Group. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors at Dekania Acquisition Corporation (Amex: DEK.U) and LSA Family Health Services. |
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Gregg Drumma Gregg Drumma is the Founder of Gamma Three Trading, LLC. Gamma Three Trading provides software solutions and consulting services for the global electronic trading and settlement markets. As an early adopter and proponent of FIX, Gregg has over 12 years of experience working with the protocol and developing trading solutions. He has been published multiple times and has been invited to speak at conferences around the globe on trading and settlement technology. Prior to launching Gamma Three Trading, Gregg was the Vice President of Electronic Trading Product Management at Linedata Services, Inc., one of the largest buy-side Order Management System (OMS) vendors. Over his 12 years at the firm, as a developer Gregg built the FIX engine and architected STP solutions and went on to become the product manager for electronic trading and STP. Before his employment with Linedata, Gregg held development positions at Motorola, Inc. as an engineer working with the GSM protocol for cellular communications. Gregg holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Watson School of Engineering at Binghamton University in New York. |
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Candyce Edelen Candyce brings more than twenty-two years of experience in launching and managing technology companies and founded four companies prior to PropelGrowth. She has a background in product and company launches, developing successful go-to-market strategies and building sales, marketing, and delivery teams. Candyce helps firms in the financial services industry implement best practices for complex sales processes. She has extensive experience in lead generation and lead nurturing for complex sales, and is highly effective at building sales pipelines. She also has expertise helping marketing and sales organizations align their sales approaches to their customers’ buying cycles to maximize close rates for complex sales. For the past ten years, Candyce has focused exclusively in the capital markets industry, launching two financial technology companies. She was a co-founder and President of Kaskad Technology, which provided complex event processing technology (CEP) for compliance, algorithmic trading, risk management and fraud detection. At Kaskad, Candyce spearheaded the development a CEP-based real time market surveillance system for the Boston Stock Exchange. Prior to founding Kaskad, Candyce co-founded Selero, a provider of order routing, compliance, and integration technology for the financial services industry. Selero developed the FIX gateways that handled all inbound and layoff business for the National Stock Exchange, the FIX gateways to Nasdaq's SuperMontage, and provided order routing and direct market access connectivity for a variety of sell-side and retail brokers including Scottrade, E*Trade, and Bank of New York, among others. Candyce and her PropelGrowth team have helped more than 20 capital markets and financial technology providers refine their sales and marketing strategy to increase revenue and drive organic growth. Candyce graduated from Colorado State University with a B.A. in Humanities. |
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Dmitri Galinov Dmitri Galinov is a Head of Liquidity Strategy at Credit Suisse Advanced Execution Services (AES). In his role, he is responsible for establishing relationships with new sources of liquidity, enhancing AES routing strategy, running AES Crossfinder and developing new routing products. Mr. Galinov joined Credit Suisse from Direct Edge ECN where he was Director of Strategy and helped a company grow from a small player into one of the major US trading destinations. Prior to Direct Edge ECN, he was at Lava Trading where he built and managed their buy side DMA product. Mr. Galinov is on the Board of Directors for BIDS Trading, L.P., and he is a member of the NYSE's Electronic Traders Advisory Committee (ELTAC). Mr. Galinov received his B.B.A. in Finance from Baruch College and an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. |
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Chuck Garcia Charles Garcia is Head of North American Sales for Sophis, Inc., a cross asset front-to-back portfolio and risk management system to financial institutions. He was previously a Director of Business Development for BlackRock Solutions, and spent 14 years at Bloomberg in a variety of sales management positions. Charles is a graduate of Syracuse University.
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Karen Glad Vice President, The Options Clearing Corporation |
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John Goeller With over 24 years of experience in the financial services industry with the last 15 years focusing on connectivity and electronic trading, Mr. Goeller has held Connectivity and Electronic Trading related positions at Credit Suisse First Boston, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and now manages Electronic Trading Services for Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s AMRS Execution Services group. In the role, he oversees Electronic Sales Trading, Trading Support, and Electronic Implementation for the New York and Chicago regions. He is a long time member of FIX Protocol Limited and currently the Co-Chair of the FIX Americas Regional Committee. |
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Neal Goldstein Neal Goldstein has been the US Head of Electronic Product Development at Nomura Securities International since December of 2008. Neal manages the electronic product and service team that covers high touch trading products for the equities division, including algorithmic trading engines, quantitative analytics, global program trading systems, cash OMS/EMS products and customized client connectivity solutions. Neal has 17 years industry experience working with electronic trading products, with an extensive background in the development and support of client facing FIX Connectivity solutions. Previous roles at sell side broker dealers, include Connectivity Product Manager at Lehman Brothers and Global Head of Client Connectivity at Morgan Stanley. Neal received an MBA from Long Island University C.W. Post Campus in 1994 and holds a BS in Physics and Applied Mathematics from SUNY Binghamton. |
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Harry Gozlan Before co-founding smartTrade Technologies, Harry spent 12 years in trading and management activities in the OTC market areas in Brussels, Paris, London and New York, including seven years at Citibank and then at Credit Agricole Indosuez in Paris. As part of his banking experience, he managed interest rate activities (FF derivatives at Citibank, International Money Market desk at Caisse Nationale du Credit Agricole), as well as FX activities (Global Head of FX Options Activity at Credit Agricole). During these long years of activity, the risk profile was high with high-recurrent profits. He has a deep understanding of the key needs and success factors of trading and sales activity in banks and trading firms. In addition to being responsible for the general management of the company, he also plays a critical role in the design and evolution of the smartTrade platforms. His contacts and reputation in the OTC trading community are key commercial assets. He holds an Msc from Ecole Centrale de Paris. |
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Ruben Guerrero Ruben Guerrero is the Strategic Partnership Manager for Orc Software. He is responsible for all business development aspects of the Orc Vantage partnership program in the Americas. In this role he helps sell-side partners design and deploy sophisticated trading solutions for their buy-side clients. Currently Ruben is leading the firm's expansion into the Brazilian cash and derivatives markets. Ruben joined Orc in 2008 as part of the Sales Engineering team, helping prop trading desks and large banks deploy low-latency trading strategies and infrastructure. Earlier in his career, Ruben was a member of the Product Management team for the Power E*Trade Pro platform at E*Trade Financial where helped deliver advanced trading solutions for active traders. Prior to that, he was a part of the REDIPlus Product Development group at Goldman Sachs. Ruben holds a Bachelors in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
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Pete Harris Pete Harris is President, Americas and Editor-at-Large at A-Team Group, a publishing, research and events company focused on the deployment of information technologies in the global financial markets. Pete is a regular contributor to A-Team's coverage of the financial markets IT space, focusing on front-office, low-latency, cloud and infrastructure technologies. Before joining A-Team, Pete worked as an independent consultant, advising technology innovators on how to best position their products and services to serve Wall Street and the financial markets. Prior to working as a technology consultant, Pete held a number of editorial, publishing and management positions - including Editor-in-Chief and President - at Waters Information Services (now Incisive Media). There, he spearheaded the company's move into events and online services. Earlier in his career, Pete specialized in software development. In the mid 1980s, he was a project manager and software architect, working in the Advanced Systems Group of the London Stock Exchange. At the LSE, Pete built one of the world's first digital market data distribution systems, dubbed Radix. He has also held a variety of software management and development roles at Intercom Data Systems (now Fidessa), Knight-Ridder Unicom (since merged into Reuters) and the Financial Times. |
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Bill Hebert William H. Hebert is currently executive director at CFS Consulting Services, LLC in Boston, MA. Mr. Hebert is responsible for strategy, business development, technology solutions and relationship management. CFS is a financial services-focused firm providing strategy, business, operational and technology solutions including product evaluations, system implementations, application development and staffing from a diverse network of experienced industry professionals. Before joining CFS, Mr. Hebert was the director of Strategic Business Development for Charles River Development. In this role, he was responsible for the growth of global alliances and connectivity solutions offered by Charles River, with a specific focus on institutional trading, electronic products, market structure, liquidity access and third-party partnership development and management. Mr. Hebert served for nine years as vice president and director of Strategic Development and Trading Solutions for Fidelity Capital Markets and the Institutional Products Group of Fidelity Investments, where he managed the various aspects of strategic business development, alliances and electronic trading solutions. Prior to joining Fidelity, Hebert was a director within the AutEx Group of Thomson Financial Services in Boston, where he managed the development and distribution of TradeRoute, AutEx's institutional order routing and trade execution reporting network. He was also responsible for third-party partnerships, product integration, and client connectivity solutions, including FIX protocol and other Straight-Through-Processing initiatives. Prior to Thomson, Hebert served as vice president of Trading Systems Development for the Boston Stock Exchange where he directed the development, implementation and ongoing support of BEACON, the BSE's automated member firm and specialist/floor broker trading system. Hebert was a reporting member of the Exchange Senior Management and Executive Committees involving technical development and strategic initiatives. Previously, Hebert was a systems engineer and group manager for Electronic Data Systems in Dallas, TX and Boston, MA, where he was involved in application software development and account management for Blue Cross/Blue Shield and other EDS Customers. Mr. Hebert has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Stonehill College and has engaged in graduate level studies in technology development at Harvard University. |
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George Hessler George Hessler is Chief Executive Officer and President of Stock USA Execution Services, Inc. Mr. Hessler oversees all areas of the firm's operations, including the brokerage's core electronic trading business. Stock USA provides high-performance trade execution and brokerage services to high-frequency, institutional, broker-dealer and active-trading clients. Mr. Hessler joined Stock USA in April after serving as Executive Vice President of Lime Brokerage, an electronic agency brokerage. Prior to Lime, he served as Senior Vice President and member of the management committee of Lava Trading Inc., an innovative electronic trading firm that was acquired by Citigroup in 2004. While at Lava, he held various positions, including director of sales and head of strategy. He previously held trading positions at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Prudential Securities, and Crimson Capital Management, a firm he founded in 1995. Mr. Hessler received an A.B. degree from Harvard College in Applied Mathematics and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. |
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Kevin Houstoun Kevin has over 20 years financial services industry experience and has initiated and implemented electronic trading technologies first at Robert Fleming Asset Management and then at Solomon Brothers. Utilising his unique understanding and knowledge, Kevin has co-authored one of the world's most performant FIX engines with his company Rapid Addition Limited, Rapid Addition specialise in product innovation in the FIX marketplace, offers a range of high performance FIX engines and tools which are used to advance the trading capabilities of firms globally. RA's clients currently include leading Stock Exchanges, buy-side and sell-side firms specialising in FIX. Kevin is also currently Co-Chair of the FPL Global Technical committee and has been intimately involved in the technical development of FIX for over 10 years.
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Robert Hubbard Rob Hubbard is the Integration Business Manager for Bloomberg's Fixed Income Trading (FIT) Group which provides trade execution and STP services from the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL SERVICE. Bloomberg have made extensive use of FIX for the many Fixed Income asset types and STP workflows that are provided to Buyside customers and Sellside dealers. Before joining Bloomberg in 2007, Rob worked within Fixed Income at JPMorgan Asset Management, London as the International Operating Officer after managing their European Euro conversion project in the late 1990's. He has also worked for KPMG Management Consulting, Henderson Global Investors and Grant Thornton. |
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Mark Jarrett Director, Equity Options, TSX |
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Ignatius John Former Director and Global Trading Strategist, AXA Rosenberg |
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Gary Jones Mr. Jones is President of Jones and Jones Consulting a firm specializing in technology and operations management in the Managed Solutions industry. He has over 24 years of experience as a leader in the managed solutions industry. He is currently serving as the Technology and Operations Liaison to the Money Management Institute (MMI) board of Governors supporting the MMI effort to deliver message standards to the industry. Mr. Jones has extensive experience in building financial services applications and solutions and is current engaged with eBusinessware Inc. a Wall St technology firm that for over ten years has been building financial services solutions for many of the leading firms in the industry. Along with his experience with the MMI, he was a Director for the managed solutions products group in Merrill Lynch where he served in various leadership capacities. Gary brings significant experience in leading multiple technology and operations projects, product development, website development and data mining efforts. Gary was recently awarded the SMA Player of the Year award by Fund Action at the 16th annual Mutual Funds program. He also was awarded the Operations Leader of the Year by Operations Management a publication of Institutional Investor, for his efforts in leading the MMI standards effort. |
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Tom Jordan Tom Jordan, President and CEO, founded Jordan & Jordan in 1990. From 1985-1990, he was the Managing Director of Knight-Ridder Financial/Americas. Prior to this, he was the Chairman of Monchik-Weber, a Wall Street consulting and product development firm. He also held development and marketing positions at IBM. Prior to his business career, Tom served as an officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the First Cavalry Division and the 1st Infantry Division. Tom actively participates in many industry initiatives. He is the Advisory Chair of the Financial Information Forum, Advisory Committee member of the Consolidated Tape Association (CTA), Advisory Committee member of the Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) plan and a RTTM Industry Advisory Committee member. Tom holds a BS degree in Mathematics from Saint Peter's College and a MS in Industrial Administration from Union College in Schenectady, NY. He is a member of the Board of Regents of St. Peter's College and the Board of the Knights of St. Patrick. |
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Arzhang Kamarei Arzhang Kamarei is a Partner at Tradeworx, a quantitative investment management firm with expertise in fully automated, high-frequency and medium-frequency equity market-neutral strategies. He has been responsible for business development and corporate strategy at Tradeworx, including the development of new trading businesses and the launch of Thesys Technologies, a Tradeworx subsidiary, in 2009. Arzhang began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the International Equities Division, where he served as a market-maker in European, Asian, and Canadian shares and was Co-Head of the Global Equity Financial Analyst Program. Arzhang is a Chartered Financial Analyst and received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University.
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Andrew Karsgaard Andrew Karsgaard started his career in Equities IT at ING Barings in London, UK. After learning the fundamentals of equity order capture and trade systems (including exposure to a new-fangled protocol called FIX!), Andrew moved to the buy-side and was responsible for, among other things, the implementation of electronic trading systems in the FX space. Following his return to Canada in 2003, Andrew moved into a management role, responsible for the Middle Office and subsequently all Operations at State Street Global Markets Canada. This in turn was followed by a more strategic role as a business technology consultant at BMO Capital Markets. Andrew is currently responsible for client connectivity and DMA/Algo sales in the equity and equity derivatives space, and is actively involved in the creation and implementation of BMO Capital Markets' electronic trading strategy. Other committee work has included Chair, Bank of Canada FX Committee Operations Managers' Working Group (2006) and Member, Advisory Board, Urgent VC (2008 - present). Andrew lives in Toronto with his wife and 2 young children (4 and 1), and is a keen but now very occasional sailor. He is actively involved in a community-based adult literacy program in Parkdale. |
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William Karsh William Karsh has served as Direct Edge's as Chief Operating Officer since July 2007. He originally joined Direct Edge in March 2006, serving as Chief Executive Officer while the company operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Knight Capital Group. Mr. Karsh has over 25 years of financial services experience, serving in senior management positions at a number of firms, including the Bass Division of BTIG, Trading Services Group, LLC, UNX Inc., and National Discount Brokers.
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George Kledaras George Kledaras is a leader in developing financial software for instantaneous global trading anywhere, anytime, and most importantly, by everyone. He is the founder of FIX Flyer, a new technology company in New York City. He is also the author of numerous articles about electronic trading standards, and a frequent speaker on the major technology issues of our time. Kledaras started FIX Flyer in 2004 to re-invent low latency electronic trading infrastructure. Now more than ever, he says, "the securities industry needs sophisticated tools for managing diverse, networked communities in order to provide investors with more transparency and efficiency." In addition, he created new search based technology for core reporting including historical and real time trade, risk, commission management and monitoring for exchanges, ECNs and brokers. He is well known throughout the technology world as the founder, in 1996, of Javelin Technologies Inc. At Javelin, he was recognized as the leader in electronic trading software, especially through his initiative in creating the first high-speed messaging FIX engine built entirely in Java called Coppelia. Then, in 2000, he helped to ignite the world of high-speed global trading with Appia. Javelin was sold in 2002 to NYFIX and now owned by NYSE Technologies. Kledaras received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, and an MS degree in Mathematics from the Courant Institute at New York University. He is frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship. With his home and office in New York City, Kledaras says he lives and works in the "two greatest cities of the world -- the East Side of New York and the West Side of New York." |
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Hanno Klein In June 2006, he helped to re-establish the FPL Exchanges/ECN Working Group The GExMC seeks to enable and promote the harmonized usage of FIX by exchanges and other marketplaces. An increased adoption of FIX by this group of users requires a focus on performance together with a true standardization. |
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John Knuff John is General Manager of Equinix Financial Services. John Knuff is responsible for business growth across the global financial markets. He and his team regularly advise clients on complex network and systems deployment strategies for their trading infrastructure. Prior to joining Equinix, John was Managing Director at NYFIX where he was responsible for the deployment and ongoing operations of their global network and trading systems. John grew the NYFIX network into one of the largest global FIX routing networks where customers in 21 countries routed hundreds of millions of shares on a daily basis. |
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Dmitry Koltunov Senior Vice President, Highbridge Capital Management Dmitry Koltunov, CFA is a Senior Vice President of Highbridge Capital Management. Mr. Koltunov runs a Front Office development team responsible for various applications dealing with Trading, Risk, Option Analytics, and Quantitative Portfolio Construction. At Highbridge, Mr. Koltunov is a member of the Senior Development Management team, responsible for setting the firm's development standards and best practices. Mr. Koltunov is a CFA charter holder and a member of both the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), where he participates in the Alternative Investment Committee. Mr. Koltunov is also a member of FPL and involved in the Algorithmic Trading Working Group developing the FIXatdl Standard. Prior to joining Highbridge in 2005, Mr. Koltunov was an associate in Equity Research Technology at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Koltunov earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Martin Koopman Martin Koopman joined NYSE Technologies in August 2010 as its Head of Strategy. In this role, Martin is primarily focused on building a more robust buy- and sell-side client community across the NYSE Euronext business. Martin's experience includes over 10 years in the global securities industry with previous roles as President at Cameron Systems; President, North America for Orc Software; CEO for FMO Pty Ltd.; and a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. He served as a member of the global steering committee and as co-chair of the Americas committee of FIX Protocol Ltd from 2005 to 2007.
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Alex Lamb With over 13 years of experience in the trading technology space, Alex Lamb is SVP Business Development and Marketing for RTS Realtime Systems Inc., and a Board Member with global responsibility for developing the company's commercial and exchange relationships. Before this he was an independent consultant in the area of front, middle and back office systems for trading and brokerage firms. Lamb has had senior management roles at 2 other major independent software vendors, as well as leading development of a high performance multi market trading and risk management system at a trading company. Prior to the time in technology, he was involved in commodity trading and clearing, helping establishing LIFFE, trading money markets, FX, exchange traded options and developing OTC derivative trading in the international financial markets. |
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Laurence Latimer Laurence Latimer is the senior vice president & managing director of SunGard's Trading & Client Connectivity Americas business, managing the low-latent trading and risk management solutions for listed equity, equity options and derivatives across North and South America. During his tenure at SunGard, Mr. Latimer has been a principle in defining and building Trading's execution services solutions and led the team that launched SunGard's ATS. Mr. Latimer has deep experience at driving operational improvements across the trading value chain and monetizing new business opportunities domestically and internationally. |
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William Libby William Libby is a Vice President in the Electronic Trading Business at Barclays Capital. Based in New York, he is involved in the firm's global flow aggregation business that includes internalization, smart routing, market making and strategic investments. Before joining Barclays Capital, Mr. Libby worked for four years at Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for SIGMA and SIGMA-X products as well as other electronic trading initiatives on REDIPlus. Mr. Libby has a Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Libby previously served as an overseer to the Board of Directors at BIDS Holdings and Level ATS. |
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John Lothian John J. Lothian is the founder of MarketsWiki. He is also a futures broker, newsletter editor and publisher, Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and industry consultant. Lothian is the president & CEO of John J. Lothian & Company, Inc., a National Futures Association member CTA. John is also the president of the Electronic Trading Division of The Price Group. He is the editor and publisher of the John Lothian Newsletter and publisher of Environmental Markets Newsletter, John Lothian Newsletter - Metals Edition and JLN - Managed Futures Edition, JLN Options and JLN Interest Rates. He is a 1983 graduate of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Management/Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications/Journalism. John is active in the Boy Scouts of America and serves as a Scoutmaster of a suburban Chicago troop. |
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Frank Loughlin Frank Loughlin is a senior vice president on the Americas equity desk at AllianceBernstein L.P. He has senior responsibility for the financial and REIT sectors and oversees client facing activities related to equity trading. Mr. Loughlin joined the firm in 1990 as an associate in the US equity portfolio management group and moved to the trading desk in 1993. Since then he has held various senior roles on the US, international and global trading desks including co-head of Americas trading, head of US value trading and co-head of global value trading. He received a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Fordham University. He is a CFA charter holder and a member of both the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts. |
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Pat Luongo Mr. Luongo is a Vice President at Credit Suisse and is Head of Options Sales in the US for Advanced Execution Services (AES). In this role he focuses on delivering the Firm's options algorithmic trading strategies to clients. He has 17 years experience in the listed equity options sales and trading markets. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Luongo was Head of Electronic Options Sales at Bloomberg Tradebook and was responsible for implementation, sales and development for electronic options execution. Prior to Bloomberg, Mr. Luongo was an options specialist and market maker on the American Stock Exchange with TFM Investment Group which was acquired by Goldman Sachs (SLK-Hull Derivatives) and LaBranche Structured Products. Mr. Luongo is a graduate from the University of Scranton, Scranton, PA with a degree in Business Management. |
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Bob Moitoso Bob Moitoso is a Senior Vice President at NYSE Technologies, where he has successfully integrated its business with the recently acquired NYFIX business. At NYSE Technologies, Bob is managing the Transactions Services business, which includes order routing, liquidity discovery, software products, risk management gateway service for sponsored access and the managed transaction hub (XHUB). Before the acquisition, Bob was part of NYFIX where he served as Global Head of the FIX Division and managed the FIX Marketplace and Trading Technology businesses. He led those businesses' global expansion, reached the 10,000 order channel milestone for the Order Routing community, and helped make Appia the world's most widely-used FIX engine. Bob recently helped introduce ioinet v2, an innovative new solution for liquidity discovery. A 23-year veteran of financial market information products and technology industry, Bob previously led Thomson Financial's AutEx Division. He was responsible for the development and launch of several initiatives, including BlockOnline, and expanding the businesses into Europe and Asia. Bob received his BS and MBA from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. |
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Rishi Nangalia Rishi manages the Electronic Trading Business Development Group. He is responsible for executing the business objectives for the REDIPlus trading platform, SIGMA/X liquidity strategy and the products and services that constitute the Direct Market Access business globally. Rishi has been a member of the Products Group since 2001. He was named managing director in 2007. Prior to joining the firm, Rishi co-founded an e-trading startup in Asia after finishing his MBA. Prior to that, he was in real estate, first as a project manager in a development company and then as a research associate cover REITs at CIBC World Markets. Rishi earned an MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurship from Columbia Business School in 2000, an MS in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in 1998 and a BBA from St. Xavier's College, India. |
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Ann Neidebach Ann Neidenbach is Senior Vice President, Global Technology Services of The NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the world's largest exchange company. In this role, Ann is responsible for managing the strategic planning and development of the Global Technology products and services for NASDAQ OMX markets and commercial offerings. Ann is additionally responsible for the delivery team serving NASDAQ OMX Market Technology customers across the globe. Ann rejoins NASDAQ OMX from Citi, where she served as Managing Director and was responsible for the technology, infrastructure and support for Citi's Electronic Trading Group in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. While at Citi, Ann supported technology for all electronic execution, algorithmic trading, and electronic market making for options and equities. The focus of Ann's team was to provide reliable, high performance, low latency platforms for Citi's electronic execution business. Prior to this, Ann was Global Head of Operations for Lava Trading Inc, an innovative technology firm that develops unique, high-performance trading solutions for the financial services industry. In this role, Ann managed all aspects of Lava's operations of its equities and F/X platforms, overseeing 24/7 datacenter and network operations, customer support, market data development, and business services support. Ann previously spent nearly 20 years of her career at NASDAQ OMX and held positions as COO/CIO of NASDAQ Europe and NASDAQ Deutschland. Ann was COO/CIO of NASDAQ Europe and NASDAQ Deutschland. She was responsible for defining the market structure and technology solution for NASDAQ's European markets, part of NASDAQ’s global initiative. Prior to her European posting, Ann served as VP Trading Application Services, where she was responsible for overseeing the application development efforts for the NASDAQ Trading Systems. |
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Matt Nelson Matthew Nelson is the Director of Market Intelligence for Omgeo LLC. In this role, Matt monitors trends and events in the financial services industry, including regulatory changes and the evolution of the market structure, and assesses their impact on Omgeo, its clients and competitors. Prior to joining Omgeo in 2007, Matt was a Senior Analyst in the Securities and Investments practice at TowerGroup, a leading financial services research and consultancy firm, where he examined technology trends impacting the investment management industry. During his tenure, he published more than 30 research notes on a variety of topics including alternative investments, risk and analytics and data management. He also advised executives at leading institutions and software providers and spoke at numerous industry conferences around the world. Matt has been quoted and his work cited in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Global Investment Technology and Wall Street & Technology. Before joining TowerGroup, Matt spent 10 years in the financial services industry holding a variety of positions with Fidelity Investments, Interactive Data Corp. and Forum Financial Group. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. |
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Nick Nickitas Co-Chair FIX Protocol MMI Collaboration Working Group, Director of Business Development, FIXFlyer Nick Nickitas is Director of Business Development at FIX Flyer, a company that is pioneering advanced technology and services for high-volume, multi-asset institutional securities trading using the FIX Protocol. In this role he leads the firm’s business development efforts as well as coordinating people, strategy, and operations globally to achieve business objectives. At FIX Flyer, Nick has expanded Flyer's presence in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia with growth from 4 to over 160 clients in less than four years. His enthusiasm, energy, and determination has positioned Flyer as one of the leading innovators of electronic trading technology globally. Nick co-chairs the FPL MMI Collaboration Working Group focused on establishing industry wide standards for orders, allocations, and EOD processes in the wealth management industry. Nick also serves as the co-chair of the FPL Global Fixed Income Education & Marketing Subcommittee where he is working to encourage the adoption and implementation of next-generation electronic trading technology in the Fixed Income community. |
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Jim Northey Jim Northey has over twenty years experience as a manager, consultant, and implementer in the financial markets. He is currently a partner in The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC, a Houghton, Michigan based engineering and products company focused on providing connectivity solutions for the financial markets. Jim has been a very active leader and innovator in creating and promoting financial messaging standards by regularly contributing to the FIX and ISO 20022 standardisation efforts. He served as co-chair of the FIX Global Derivatives Committee from 2003 to 2005. Currently, he serves as the co-chair of the FIX America's Regional Committee and is the Industry Standards Liaison for FIX Protocol Ltd. representing FPL on the ISO 20022 Requirements Management Group and Technical Support Group. Jim holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Indianapolis and an M.S. in Financial Markets and Trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology with an emphasis in Computational Finance. He periodically serves as an adjunct lecturer at Michigan Technological University - School of Business and Economics. |
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William O'Connor Director Global Commission Management Sales Americas, Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
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Feargal O'Sullivan Feargal O'Sullivan is the Head of Trading Solutions, Americas for NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext and the world's leading provider of end-to-end electronic trading solutions. Mr. O'Sullivan also manages NYSE Technologies' high performance messaging offering, including the industry standard Middleware Agnostic Messaging API, MAMATM and shared-memory based middleware, Data FabricTM. As Head of Trading Solutions, Americas, Mr. O'Sullivan manages the NYSE Technologies enterprise software solutions business across North and South America. Covering the complete trading life-cycle from quote to trade confirmation, NYSE Technologies' Trading Solutions deliver ultra high-performance direct market data feed handlers, next-generation middleware, tick capture and analytics, and highly-optimized gateways to a wide range of trading venues. These products combine into a customizable solution that enables Financial Services firms to build industry leading, high-performance trading platforms. Mr. O'Sullivan has more than 15 years experience helping Financial Services firms build and deploy front-office trading platforms. In 1995, Mr. O'Sullivan joined the end-user technology group at BlackRock Financial Management, where he supported a wide-range of business users until moving to TIBCO Finance Technology, Inc. in 1997 as a field engineer. At TIBCO, he initially focused on client side installations but soon moved to pre-sales engineering and ultimately managed a number of large projects. When TIBCO Finance merged into Reuters America, LLC., he spent seven years as a senior sales person with a focus on the Reuters Market Data System as well as TIBCO integration products. Mr. O'Sullivan holds a Bachelor's Degree from University College Dublin, Ireland, with a double-major in History and Philosophy. |
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Heeren Pathak Mr. Pathak joined Vestmark in January of 2004. As Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Pathak is responsible for the overall design, architecture, and product direction of Vestmark's product offering. Mr. Pathak brings over 20 years of experience in enterprise software development and management. Mr. Pathak actively contributes in Financial Industry Standards activity, most notably acting as the Co-Chair of Money Management Institute's Data Standards Committee, as well as Co-Chair of the Money Management Institute's Cost Basis Task Force. Prior to joining Vestmark, Mr. Pathak served at Vignette Corporation in several technical and management positions, most recently as a Senior Director of Engineering, responsible for the development of several products as well as the launch of Vignette's offshore software development initiative. Prior to Vignette, Mr. Pathak held various management and technical positions at Simulation Sciences Corp., Workgroup Technology Corporation, and MITRE Corporation. Mr. Pathak holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University. |
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Colby Payne Colby Payne is a Product Manager within the Trade Order Management & Compliance group at Advent Software, Inc. and is based in San Francisco, CA. Mr. Payne focuses on strategic connectivity projects within the managed accounts industry on behalf of more than 850 firms using Advent's MoxyTM Order Management System. Mr. Payne also oversees the post trade product suite used by Advent's clients for clearance and settlement within their middle and back office. Mr. Payne has been with Advent Software since 2007 and has previously held positions at Xtiva Financial Systems, Morgan Stanley Online, and RJ O'Brien on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. |
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Ari Pine Ari Pine is a market maker in gold options on the Comex representing Prime International Trading. Since 2003 he has been making markets in gold options and taking positions in other markets including foreign exchange and fixed income. He has traded in a variety of markets and environments including: trading short term debt for JP Morgan, equity options on the PCX and proprietary positioning for a volatility hedge fund. In addition to trading he co-founded options data and research firm Premium Research. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University. |
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Ben Polidore Ben Polidore is ITG's product manager for single stock algorithms. He sets the global direction for these products and consults with ITG's clients to improve their trading performance using algorithms. Ben joined ITG in February 2006 as a senior algorithm developer. In this role, he built much of ITG's next generation algorithm technology. He assumed the product manager role in January 2009. Ben graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2003 with a B.S. in computer science. He recently passed level three of the CFA program. |
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John Prewett John Prewett is a seasoned veteran with 36 years of experience developing software solutions for the financial sector. John is currently in his 9th year as a member of an established design and development team at what was originally Lava Trading. His responsibilities include architecture and implementation of major components of the popular ColorBook Smart Order Router. Prior to this position, he helped build an order processing system at Societe Generale and a market data distribution system at ADP. John has taken an active lead in the design and development of several FIX engines. His most recent FIX engine is extensively used in most components of Lava Technology on a daily basis for the majority of their client and exchange interfaces. John specializes in high-throughput low-latency order processing and is co-chair of the FIX Implementation and Optimization Working Group. |
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Cameron Rice Cameron Rice is an executive director and Head of Commission Management in the Americas for Morgan Stanley. Cameron has over 11 years of experience in the industry including 4 years as a trader on the buy-side and 3 years as a sales trader on the sell-side, prior to assuming her current role. Cameron joined Morgan Stanley after receiving her MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. |
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Bob Riley Bob Riley is Head of Post Trade Services for the Americas at Thomson Reuters Sales & Trading business, a post which he has held for the last three years, building the region's business and influencing future direction. Bob is a 20+ year veteran of the post-trade space, having worked in the back office, customer support for securities services operations, sub-custodian management, product management, and custody operations management for banks and central securities depositories. In addition, Bob has experience on the vendor side of the business having worked at Broadridge Financial Solutions and now at Thomson Reuters. He travels frequently in Latin America, meeting with clients, regulators, market utilities, and liquidity providers. |
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Ralston Roberts Ralston Roberts is a senior vice president for SunGard's trading business. Mr. Roberts helps shape strategic direction of SunGard's trading business in the U.S., exploring integration opportunities across product lines and defining new product offerings. His areas of expertise include trading strategies, market structure, smart order routing,algorithmic trading, internalization and crossing systems and OMS/EMS solutions.
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Josh Rosen Josh Rosen is Product Manager for Deutsche Bank's Private Wealth Management Worldwide Custody group and has over sixteen years of Institutional and Private Banking experience. Since joining Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank) in 1993, Mr. Rosen has held various roles within Private Wealth Management including business manger, and head of the performance group. Over the last seven years, Mr. Rosen has spent building Private Wealth Management's Worldwide Custody Product and DB InSight, Private Wealth Management's Internet-based platform. Mr. Rosen earned his B.S.B.A. from Bryant College and his MBA from Fordham University specializing in Taxation. |
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Brian Ross Brian Ross is the CEO and Founder of FIX Flyer, a leading provider of electronic trading software since 2004. Previously, Ross was Director of Trade and Risk Management Systems at Blackrock, a leading money manager and COO of Trepp LLC, a leading provider of CMBS analytics and data. Ross holds graduate degrees in management and computer science from Johns Hopkins University and Claremont Graduate School. |
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D. Keith Ross Jr. Mr. Ross is Chief Executive Officer of PDQ Enterprises LLC. Keith brings over thirty years of experience in the securities industry to PDQ. He began his career as an options analyst in New York, ran his own trading company during the 1980s, and was a floor trader on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange when he made the transition to electronic trading. He joined Getco, LLC in 2000 and as CEO from 2002-5 supervised their growth from a small company to a significant liquidity provider in stocks, bonds, options and currencies worldwide. Since 2005 Keith has been the Chief Executive Officer of PDQ Enterprises LLC, which is the owner of PDQ ATS, a broker dealer and matching platform for stocks. PDQ ATS launched its trading platform a year ago and currently offers algorithmic competition for customer orders. Mr. Ross is a graduate of Princeton University and resides in Chicago. |
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Raymond Russell Raymond is one of Corvil's founders and co-inventor of its core technology. Since joining Corvil in 2000 as Chief Technology Officer, Raymond has played an instrumental role in building a strong product suite around the core Corvil technology. As CTO, Raymond is focused on driving continued advancement and fulfillment of Corvil’s innovations with a focus on applications and infrastructure in capital markets. |
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Lee Saba Lee Saba is a Vice President on the Trading Applications team at Wellington Management and is the chair of the FPL Americas Buy Side Working Group. He has been with Wellington Management since April of 2002 and is responsible for the Global Equity and Fixed Income electronic trading infrastructure(s). Lee is also a member of the Equity Electronic Trading and the Derivatives Electronic Trading committees within Wellington Management. Lee and his team of FIX experts also provide the Wellington Management front office with updates on current trends in the electronic trading landscape. Prior to joining Wellington Management Lee worked at Fidelity and State Street Corporation. Lee has a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University. |
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Niranjana Sharma CME Group |
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Alan Shontz Shontz and his team are responsible for managing the programs, relationships and connectivity for Third Party providers (Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Market Data Distributors and Data Centers) connecting to CME Group platforms such as CME Globex and CME ClearPort. The team's primary responsibilities include managing new functionality adoption by system providers; maintaining the feedback loop for new technology enhancements; relationship management; co-marketing and joint business development for third party providers and channel partner strategy development and execution for the exchange. Shontz is also the business owner for CME Group EOS Trader, the options front-end trading application for the exchange. Alan has been with CME Group since April 2002 and has been working in the futures & securities industry since 1983 with experience at a variety of companies from FCMs to ISVs to market data technology providers. |
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Chris Sims Chris Sims is Head of Investment Operations at Gartmore Investment Management. His responsibilities include operational support and systems provision to the front office. He implemented electronic trading via FIX at Gartmore in 2000 and is a member of the European governance board for FIX. He has more than 20 years of development and operational experience at Gartmore, Barings, Nationwide Building Society and the Ministry of Defence. |
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Nick Solinger An experienced growth technology executive, Nick Solinger is responsible for marketing and product strategy at Traiana. Prior to joining the company in 2002, Nick led the team that defined and launched the Traiana Harmony offering, which today is the firm's flagship product and an important infrastructure for FX markets. Before joining Traiana in 2002, Nick held a series of successively more senior roles at business-to-business ecommerce and supply chain leader Ariba Inc. He joined Ariba in 1997 when it was a small but growing start-up, and went on to serve as VP Product Marketing across Ariba's series of enterprise software and on-line service offerings. Prior to Ariba, Nick managed the Americas Application Technology team at Oracle Corporation. |
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Adam Striffler Adam is a Vice President within Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading. He is responsible for developing and executing the firm's business objectives across its electronic trading channels, liquidity strategies, and the products and services that constitute the firm's direct market access, smart order routing, and algorithmic trading business. Recently, Adam has managed the Goldman Sachs product offering for the Canadian marketplace, the North American cross border initiative and liquidity strategy, and electronic trading risk management. Adam joined Goldman Sachs in 2004 and the Electronic Trading group in 2006, where he remains a member of the team. Earlier in his career, Adam was an Associate at Fleet Boston Financial's investment banking arm, Robertson Stephens, in San Francisco, CA, where he focused on the firm's risk management efforts within the Sales and Trading and Principal Investment groups. Prior to that, Adam worked in the mutual fund trading group at Pioneer Investment Management in Boston, MA. Adam earned both his Master of Business Administration degree and his Master of Science in Finance degree from the Boston College Carroll School of Management in 2004. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Spanish, Magna Cum Laude, from The Ohio State University in 1998. |
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Adam Sussman Adam Sussman was named director of research at TABB Group in 2008 with responsibility for producing TABB's expanding global research catalog. Drawing on his reputation as an expert on market structure and regulatory reform issues, he testified before the U.S. Senate on HFT, dark pools and naked access in 2010, the only industry analyst to do so in the aftermath of the financial crisis. He joined TABB in 2005 as a senior analyst, moving from Ameritrade, which acquired Datek Online, where he served as a senior product manager for order-management systems, routing and next-gen trading tools for equities and options. He earned a BA in philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Rhode Island.
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Leslie Sutphen Leslie Sutphen is former Global Head of eSolutions Strategy and Implementation for Newedge Group. She is currently working on a project to develop a risk management strategy for the direct access client business of Newedge. Prior to joining Newedge, she held the same role at Calyon Financial, Inc. Before this, she was President of Financial Markets Consulting, Inc. for 9 years. Prior to that, Ms. Sutphen directed marketing of clearing and risk analysis systems for the Institutional Financial Futures Department of Prudential Securities. She also founded Prudential's global institutional futures and options service desk in London. She has also worked as an independent options trader and as a research analyst for McKinsey & Co., the management consultancy. Ms. Sutphen holds a Masters of Management in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and an AB magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She is also past president and a member of the board of the FIA Information Technology Division. |
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Lisa Taikitsadaporn Managing Partner, Brook Path Partners, Inc. |
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Philippe Thomas Philippe Thomas is the Managing Director ULLINK Americas, and Global Sales Director of Ullink. Ullink is an independent provider of comprehensive low latency connectivity and Trading solutions with 6 offices World Wide. Ullink low latency/high frequency trading platform is multi asset class and equipped with a comprehensive pre trade risk management tool Philippe Thomas has been involved in Ullink since its creation in 2001 and grew the business from 0 to 30 Millions USD. Prior to Ullink, Mr Thomas held management position for 6 years at Sungard in Belgium and in Australia. Prior to Sungard, Mr Thomas worked at The NYSE Euronext Exchange as a market controller. |
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Greg Wood VP Advanced Execution Services, Credit Suisse |
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Henry Young Henry Young is a founding director of Trading Systems Associates plc (TS-Associates), a firm that specialises in monitoring and analysis of networks and real time financial middleware products. TS-Associates' "TipOff" middleware analysis appliance leverages both FPGA and ASIC based hardware acceleration techniques in order to achieve real time capture, decode and analysis of 1GE and 10GE data flows. With a built in high resolution hardware based time stamping capability, TipOff is leading the charge into high resolution passive latency monitoring of direct exchange feed and transaction infrastructures. Prior to founding TS-Associates in 1999, Henry was a roving industry consultant splitting his time between London and New York with engagements for a variety of banks and exchanges. Henry led the team at MSB Consultants that, in the mid 90s, developed the RT Emulator - a product that delivered Reuters Terminal functionality integrated with six of the then available market data platforms. Henry holds an MSc in Computing from Imperial College and a BSc in Physics & Electronics from Edinburgh University. |
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Dan Yu Daniel Yu is responsible for North and South American sales and relationship management at RealTick. Mr. Yu joined Townsend Analytics in 2009, bringing over 17 years of experience in electronic trading to his role. Prior to joining Townsend, Mr. Yu held a number of senior positions at Lava Trading, where his responsibilities included managing the sponsoring broker program and business development for the ECN and smart order router. Mr. Yu started his career as a sales trader at Instinet, moving on to head trader at The Griswold Co. and Puglisi & Co. He is active with several non profit organizations including The Ronald McDonald House of New York and Dress for Success. He has a BBA and MBA from the University of Notre Dame. |