Lawrence Dallaglio OBE

• IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens Winner (1993)
• Six Nations Grand Slam Winner (2003)
• IRB Rugby World Cup Winner (2003)

Lawrence Dallaglio was signed by Wasps in 1990 after catching their eye as a very promising England Colts player. He became Wasps captain in the 1995/96 season when he was also voted the RFU’s Player of the Year. 

Lawrence was a member of the triumphant England 7’s team which won the World Cup at Murrayfield in 1993 and has also played for his country at every representative level – Colts, Under 21, Student, ‘A’ team and 1st XV.

Regarded as one of the world’s greatest ever back row forwards, Lawrence was the only player to play in every minute of every match during England’s successful campaign in Australia when they were crowned World Champions in 2003.

This achievement made Lawrence the only northern hemisphere player to hold a world cup winners medal in both the 7s and 15 man game.

Lawrence’s achievements with Wasps are also exceptional having won a hat-trick of Premiership titles from 2002 to 2005, a Tetley’s Cup win in 2000 and a famous European Cup victory in 2004. His 18 year career with the club came to a fairy tale end this year when Wasps claimed the Premiership title over Leicester Tigers in his last ever game.

Lawrence was awarded with an OBE in the Queen’s 2008 Birthday honours list, and as well as being a Wasps, England and Lions hero, he is an icon and figurehead of world rugby.

Anthony Hilton won the 2007 "Decade of Excellence Award," for business and financial journalism given annually by the World Press Awards in competition with a short list of writers from Fortune, and the Wall Street Journal and other English language titles.  Also in 2007 he was named as the UK  Pensions Journalist of the Year by Aon, the Commentator of the year by the Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and was runner up as financial journalist of the year by the Institute of Internal Auditors. His most recent award in November 2009 was to be named Business Columnist of the Year by the Association of British Insurers.

He joined Fleet Street in 1968 as a Trainee on the Guardian.  He was on the Observer as a business feature writer from 1969 to 1971, the Daily Mail from 1971-1972 and the Sunday Express 1972-1974.  He then edited Accountancy Age from 1974 until he moved to New York for the Sunday Times in 1979 returning to become City Editor of the Times in 1981. In 1983 he left to help set up Redwood Publishing and in 1984 moved to the Evening Standard where he was City Editor from 1984 to 1989. In November 1989 he became Managing Director of the Evening Standard, a post he held for six years before returning to the City Office as Financial Editor and economics leader writer for the paper.

Rolf Andersson
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Market Data Optimisation Working Group
CEO, Pantor Engineering AB

Rolf Andersson is the CEO of Pantor Engineering. He is one of the architects of the FAST(SM) (FIX Adapted for STreaming) Protocol and is currently serving as a co-chair for the MDOWG (Market Data Optimisation Working Group) within FPL.

Mr. Andersson has more than 25 years of experience designing and building transaction systems for the financial industry.

George Andreadis
Head of AES Liquidity Strategy, Europe, Credit Suisse

George Andreadis is the Head of European Liquidity Strategy for Advanced Execution Services (AES), Credit Suisse's algorithmic trading platform. He works within the Equities department of Credit Suisse's Investment Banking division, where he is responsible for business and product development of AES's internal and external trading execution venues.

Scott Atwell
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Global Steering Committee
Manager of FIX Trading and Connectivity, American Century Investments

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 $83 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 organisation 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.

Daemon Bear
Co-Chair FIX Protocol EMEA Regional Committee
MD, Head of BlockCross, ICAP Securities Ltd

Daemon Bear is head of ICAP’s dark pool offering, BlockCross. He took up this position after his previous role at JPMorgan Asset Management where he was head of the Equity Dealing Team since 1998. Prior to this Daemon spent two years as head of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange Trading at Worldinvest Investment Management and before that he worked as a senior FI/FX Trader at Invesco GT for eight years.

Niki Beattie
Managing Director, The Market Structure Practice

Niki Beattie began her financial markets career in Information Technology at Security Pacific.   She went on to work at Merrill Lynch for 14 years and became Managing Director and Head of EMEA Market Structure.  Niki left Merrill Lynch in 2008 to set up The Market Structure Practice, a strategic consulting firm specializing in financial market structure.

In her role at Merrill Lynch, Niki handled the relationships with the Exchanges and trading platforms and was instrumental in creating competition in the European Exchange environment; spearheading the development BOAT, acting as a key founder of Turquoise and working on the impact of new European regulation.  She sat on the Boards of Virt-x, BOAT, Turquoise and Trade Ideas.  

Since the establishment of The Market Structure Practice, clients have included some of the world’s leading investment banks, trading platforms and clearing houses, as well as high frequency trading firms, asset managers and hedge funds.

Tim Billinge
Director, NYSE Technologies

Tim Billinge has over fifteen years experience of working within the global financial service sector and is currently a Director at NYSE Technologies where he is  responsible for a range of order routing services for the high frequency trading and Algo buy-side community. In addition, Tim also specialises in providing ultra-low latency direct market access products and services. Prior to its acquisition by NYSE Technologies, Tim joined TransactTools in 2005 where he was Head of Professional Services and guided the delivery of high performance, ultra-low latency connectivity solutions to the global financial services industry.  An expert in FIX, SWIFT and other industry standards, Tim is also an avid sportsman and photographer.

Yossi Brandes
Director, ITG Group

Yossi has been working at ITG for the past 9 years and is currently responsible for ITG’s European Research and business development of research activities. Before that, Yossi ran the trading analytics group within the Analytical Products and Research group. The group is responsible for the delivery of model based analytics and the pre trade suite of products within ITG. Prior to this role, Yossi held several positions with ITG as a product manager in the Analytical Products and Research group and in the software solution organization. Yossi holds a Master in Business Administration from the Stern School of Business at NYU and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from Haifa University in Israel.

Robert Budden
Deputy Markets Editor, Financial Times

Robert Budden is Deputy Markets Editor at the Financial Times. He joined the newspaper in 1999 and has held a number of roles including Personal Finance Editor and Telecoms Correspondent. He has won several awards for journalism including Personal Finance Journalist of the Year and Pensions Journalist of the Year at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards.

Donal Byrne
CEO and President, Corvil

Donal Byrne is the CEO and President of Corvil, and has over twenty years experience working in the field of computer systems, networking and telecommunications. His most recent interest is in mathematical and algorithmic-based solutions for low-latency management and optimization of high frequency electronic trading infrastructure. Donal joined Corvil in 2000 as the non-executive Chairman and in 2002 took on the role of Chief Executive, with a view to building a successful multinational software company for the Financial Services sector. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, and has numerous publications and patents in the field of network communications.

Alan Cameron
Head of CSC Client Solution, BNP Paribas

Alan joined BNP Paribas in 2008 and his current role is to lead our clearing, settlement and custody business on a global basis.  He is a member of the BNP Paribas Securities Services Management Comex. Alan has over 25 years experience in Financial Services, in various senior management positions, primarily within the securities services environment. 
               
Prior to joining BNP Paribas Alan worked for Citi's Global Transaction Banking division, undertaking a number of different management roles in sales, relationship management and product management. 
He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.

Toby has over twenty years of experience as an IT specialist in roles ranging from Developer and Programmer, to Project Manager, Entrepreneur and Business Leader. His experience of large-scale multinational strategic projects means he brings business change management, price modelling, and brand promotion expertise to Rapid Addition.

Charlotte Crosswell
President, NASDAQ OMX Europe

Charlotte Crosswell is responsible for the operations and strategic development of NASDAQ OMX Europe, a multilateral trading facility that offers highly competitive pricing and is the first platform to connect European liquidity pools with pan-European order routing.

Prior to joining NASDAQ OMX Europe, Ms. Crosswell was a Partner and the head of Business Development at Pension Corporation, a London-based pension management firm.
Prior to joining Pension Corporation, Ms. Crosswell was head of International Listings for The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. While with NASDAQ, she was responsible for non-U.S. IPOs and managing NASDAQ's relationships with its overseas listed companies through representatives based in London, New York, Hong Kong, Bangalore, and Beijing.

Ms. Crosswell has also held a number of management positions at The London Stock Exchange, including Head of International Business Development. She has a BA (Hons.) in French from the University of Southampton.

Thomas Deinet
Executive Director, Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB)

In September 2008, Thomas Deinet was appointed Executive Director of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB). Before joining the HFSB, he was a senior manager at Oliver Wyman, the management consulting firm, where he has worked in depth with major financial institutions in Europe in both asset management as well as corporate and investment banking engagements. In 2007, Thomas was the project manager in charge of orchestrating the development of the best practice standards proposed by a group of 14 leading hedge fund managers and the establishment of the Hedge Fund Standards Board.

Thomas joined Oliver Wyman in 2002 after working as an analyst in energy trading for a major commodities trading firm. He graduated from University of Karlsruhe, Germany and holds a Masters degree from Purdue University, USA. Thomas Deinet is a CFA charterholder.

Scott DePetris
Chief Operating Officer and Global Head of Accounts, Portware

Scott DePetris is Chief Operating Officer and Global Head of Accounts for Portware, a leading provider of broker-neutral automated trading solutions for global equities, futures, options and FX. Scott joined Portware in 2002 and has been integral in the development of the business and products during that time. Prior to Portware, Scott co-founded ExchangeLab, Inc., the parent company of Primex and PDQ Enterprises, Inc., an Alternative Trading System. Prior to this, Scott worked in equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors at Dekania Acquisition Corporation (Amex: DEK.U).

Wolfgang Eholzer
Head of Trading System Design, Eurex

Wolfgang is Eurex’s Head of Trading System Design. Wolfgang has been in charge of the Eurex Technology Roadmap which resulted in the delivery of the new high speed trading interfaces Enhanced Transaction Solution and Enhanced Broadcast Solution in the last years.  In addition, he is responsible for performance monitoring and capacity planning as well as for design changes of the Eurex trading system with a particular focus trading functionality and on low latency and throughput. Prior to his work at Eurex, Wolfgang was in charge of application development for the electronic trading systems Eurex and Xetra at Deutsche Börse Systems the IT subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group. Before joining Deutsche Börse Systems, Wolfgang spent 2 1/2 years with Cambridge University, U.K., as a research associate in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Brian Gallagher is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in charge of Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) in Europe. He has had 19 years experience working in the financial services industry. He has been with Morgan Stanley for over 7 years and had previously run the MSET US coverage and sales desk. Prior to joining the company, Brian spent 5 years with Instinet focusing on electronic trading to hedge funds.  

Brian holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and received his MBA from Fordham University.

Harry Gozlan
Chief Executive Officer, Smart Trade Technologies

Harry Gozlan founded Smart Trade Technologies in 1999 in Provence, France with David Vincent, CTO, to develop advanced trading systems to optimize distribution, routing and matching processes of capital markets transactions on a cross-asset basis, now known across the capital markets industry as the smartTrade Liquidity Management System (LMS). 

Today, Smart Trade has its corporate headquarters and development center in Provence with sales and support offices in Paris, London, New York and soon, Tokyo. In 2006, Smart Trade was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 EMEA, including the Deloitte Fast 50 in France.  

Harry spent over 12 years in senior trading and management roles 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, e.g., FF derivatives at Citibank and the international money market desk at Caisse Nationale du Credit Agricole, as well as serving as the global head of FX options at Credit Agricole.  He began his financial markets career as an analyst at Banque Internationale de Placement in Paris.  He earned an Msc in 1986 from Ecole Centrale de Paris.

Ben is the European Director for the Mercer Sentinel Group. The Mercer Sentinel Group focuses on advising clients in the fields of governance and execution, operational due diligence, operations fee benchmarking and asset transitions.  Ben's role is to lead the team in London and to advise clients throughout Europe. Ben also sits on Mercer Sentinel's global management committee.
Prior to joining Mercer’s Investment Consulting business in 2002 Ben worked for the Financial Services Authority and a major Life Assurance Company. Overall, he has over 12 years experience in the pensions market.

Ben holds both Undergraduate and Masters degrees in Accounting and Finance. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

Alasdair Haynes
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Global Membership Committee
Chief Executive Officer, Chi-X Europe Limited

Alasdair Haynes was appointed as CEO of Chi-X Europe in December 2009.  Alasdair brings extensive international experience in building and managing brokerage operations and crossing systems.  From 2006-2009 he was CEO of ITG International, where he was responsible for all of ITG’s non-North American businesses. This role followed his ten year tenure as CEO of ITG Europe, during which time the firm launched Europe’s first fully electronic crossing network, POSIT®. During his career Alasdair has also served as Global Head of Equity derivatives at HSBC James Capel, Head of European Listed Derivatives at UBS, Head of Listed and Short Dated Equity Options at Bankers Trust and Head of Equities Risk Management at Morgan Grenfell.

Alasdair, who is currently a director of FIX Protocol Ltd (FPL) and previously served as co-chair for EMEA, received the “Best Personal Contribution” awarded by the Financial News in 2008.

Lee Hodgkinson
Chief Executive Officer, SmartPool

Lee Hodgkinson was appointed CEO of SmartPool in May 2009.  Previously, he was CEO of SWX Europe (formerly known as virt-x) and Head of the Client and Product Group of SIX Swiss Exchange, a position he held from December 2006. He was Director of Market Operations in the five years prior to this and a Member of the Management Board of SIX Swiss Exchange from 2003.  Lee began his career in the Markets Division of the London Stock Exchange, where he worked for nine years and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School.

Hugh Holmes
Director – STP Integration, TradeWeb

Hugh Holmes has over 20 years experience in the City gained at various companies including the London Stock Exchange, Andersen Consulting, Omgeo and Tradeweb. Hugh’s career has spanned both pre and post trade activities and his product knowledge covers both Equity and Fixed Income.

Within his current role running the European STP Integration Team at Tradeweb, he believes he treads the “grey line” between Business and Technical environments, providing him an understanding of how the FIX protocol has expanded to embrace the fixed income space both from a business and technical perspective.

James is a senior developer employed by Rapid Addition, a fast growing financial services company that specialises in low-latency FIX and FAST solutions. Projects he has worked on include a .NET FAST engine, a real-time web portal for viewing FIX execution reports, and the software platform that powers BidRoute. The BidRoute platform employs RA's technology to provide an efficient and integrated FIX interface, permitting portfolio trades to be priced and routed transparently between buysides and sellsides. Prior to RA he worked for Sapient (a leading technology consultancy) which including work on an equity option pricing and FpML. James holds an honours degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Chris Jackson
Co-Chair FIX Protocol EMEA Regional Committee
Director, Head of UK Execution Sales, Citi

Chris Jackson is head of EMEA Execution Sales at Citi. He is responsible for sales of the firm's electronic trading, portfolio trading and quantitative research product to European Institutional and Hedge Fund clients. He joined the firm in September 2009 from Merrill Lynch where he was latterly responsible for sales of the electronic, portfolio and transition trading product to European clients. Prior to taking that role, Chris spent three years with Merrill Lynch in New York where he was responsible for sales of the international portfolio trading business. Chris joined Merrill Lynch London in 1997 having started his career at SBC Warburg.

In addition to his role at Citi, Chris is also co-Chair of the FIX committee in Europe.

Luke Jeffs
Trading and Technology Editor, Financial News

Luke Jeffs has been the trading and technology editor at Dow Jones Financial News since May 2006, having previously worked for publisher Global Business Information on a range of financial technology titles. Luke covers trading, clearing and settlement issues in a range of asset classes with a particular focus on equities.

Kim Johannessen
Co-Chief Technology Officer,  GLG Partners LP  

Kim Johannessen is the Co Chief Technology Officer for GLG Partners LP, a leading global Investment manager. GLG currently manages client assets of more than $22 Billion for both high net worth individuals and institutions. With over 17 years experience in financial markets, Kim is primarily responsible for GLG’s trading technology, research, and alpha capture systems.

Sheena Kelman
Director, Head of Dealing, Martin Currie Investment Management

Sheena joined Martin Currie in 2003 to head our dealing team and became a director in 2004. She came to us from Gartmore Investment Management, where she had been head of international dealing since 1994, having joined the company in 1987. Sheena started her career as clerk to a broker on the New York Stock Exchange in 1983.

Scott Kennedy
Global Business Manager for Direct Feeds, Enterprise, Thomson Reuters

Scott Kennedy is Global Business Manager for Direct Feeds within the Enterprise business unit at Thomson Reuters. Having joined the firm in 2006 Mr. Kennedy holds global responsibility for Thomson Reuters Data Feed Direct - an ultra-low latency feed handler that delivers data directly from an exchange to a customer’s site.
 
Mr. Kennedy has over 24 years of experience in the financial industry with more than six years within the equity markets. He joined Thomson Reuters from virt-x Exchange Ltd, where he served as Senior Manager of Strategic Business Development and Head of Trading Connectivity.  As Head of Trading Connectivity for TradePoint, Mr. Kennedy was part of a project team that launched the two first pan-European blue chip cross-border exchanges that became virt-x.

Previously, Mr. Kennedy worked at Bankers Trust Company Ltd in London and Australia where he coordinated the IT infrastructure upgrade for the Euro currency worldwide, and significantly enhanced the firm’s in-house market data distribution platform. He began his career as a systems developer for PONT Data in England and Australia.

Hanno Klein
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Global Exchanges & Markets Committee
Senior Project Manager, Deutsche Böerse Group

Hanno Klein is Senior Project Manager at Deutsche Börse Systems, a Deutsche Börse Group Company. He joined the company in 1997 and worked in various positions and projects of strategic and operational nature in Germany and the USA. From 2001 to 2005, he served as Vice President of Deutsche Boerse Systems Inc. in Chicago.

In June 2006, he helped to re-establish the FPL Exchanges/ECN Working Group
(EEWG) which was elevated to the FPL Global Exchanges and Markets Committee (GEMC) in September 2007. He is also a member of the FPL Global Steering Committee (GSC) and the Governance Board of the FPL Global Technical Committee (GTC).

The GEMC 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.

Rustam Lam
Director, Global Head of Marketing, RealTick

Rustam is currently responsible for global marketing at RealTick®, the electronic trading industry’s premier global, multi-broker, broker neutral, multi-asset Execution Management System (EMS).

Rustam joined RealTick in 2003, to lead institutional sales in Europe, bringing over 15 years of experience in trading, vendor businesses and electronic brokerage to his role. Prior to joining RealTick, he held a number of senior positions at Reuters Group and Instinet, where his responsibilities included product management, sales and marketing across financial information products and electronic brokerage spanning the sell side, buy-side and corporate market.    
Rustam started his career as a trader at Irving Trust and Banque Paribas and has a BA Honors degree in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham.

*RealTick is a registered trademark of Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

Bob McDowell
Research Director, Europe, TowerGroup

Bob McDowall is a research director working for TowerGroup in London, covering European financial markets. Bob has published research on a range of business issues which impact financial institutions conducting business globally as well as in European and the Middle East including risk and regulation, exchanges and trading platforms. Bob frequently appears on the television networks including CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg to provide industry comment and analysis. He is a contributor to the international, national and the financial industry press. Bob McDowall has over 30 years experience in the Banking and Securities and Investment business. He has worked for a number of institutions including Merrill Lynch, Pru-Bache, Syntegra and Singer and Friedlander. He has contributed articles and research documents to publications as diverse as FX/MM, Reuters/FT/ Financial Regulation International (FRI).  

Bob has a degree in law (LL.B) from University College London.

Antonio Reyes Miras
Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd

Antonio Reyes is the global head of Electronic Trading Products for J.P. Morgan’s Prime Services business, which includes Prime Brokerage, Futures & Options and OTC Clearing and Broker Dealer Services. In this role Antonio is responsible for the firm's client-facing electronic trading platforms, third party EMS connectivity, algorithmic trading products, client and exchange connectivity and the group’s High Frequency Trading Platform. Antonio joined J.P. Morgan in July 1999 and has held various eTrading roles prior to accepting his current position in October 2009. Previous to J.P. Morgan, Antonio held junior positions at Gesmosa Brokers and Banco Central Hispano, both in Madrid.

Antonio has an MSc in International Securities, Investments and Banking (ICMA Centre, Reading), an MSc in Financial Markets (INESE, Madrid) and a BSc (Hons) in Business Administration (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid).

Brian Mitchell
Head of Dealing, Gartmore Investment Management

Brian joined Gartmore in January 2010 as Head of Dealing. He is responsible for overseeing all dealing activities including Equities, Derivatives, Fixed income, FX and Transaction Cost Analysis in London, Tokyo and Boston with a current team of 13 dealers.

Brian has over 23 years’ investment industry experience, including time at Morgan Grenfell and Robert Flemings but most recently at Barings Asset Management, where he was Global Head of Dealing & TCA for nearly 11 years. With a varied background in multi-asset dealing, he also has experience of numerous dealing jurisdictions.

Brian completed the London Business School, Investment Management Program in 1996, is a member of various industry working groups / advisory boards, including the IMA's - Dealer Group and is a regular public speaker on transaction cost analysis / all trading related issues.

Andrew Morgan
European Head of Autobahn Equity, Deutsche Bank

Andrew Morgan is European Head of Autobahn Equity, Deutsche Bank’s electronic trading platform for equities. Andrew joined Deutsche Bank in 2004 from the Equities Division of Goldman Sachs where he worked for 6 years. He began his career at PWC and is an ACA.

Nick Nielsen
Head of Quantitative Trading, Marshall Wace Asset Management

Nick joined Marshall Wace LLP in 2008 and is Head of Quantitative Trading in London. Prior to this, he was at Citadel Investment Group in London and Chicago. He started his career in high frequency trading at Goldman Sach's Hull Group in the US. Nick has a BS in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Jim Northey
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Americas Regional Committee
Co-Founder, The LaSalle Technology Group LLC

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, which offers products and solutions for FIX specification management, testing, onboarding, operations, and monitoring.

Jim is a leader in creating and promoting financial messaging standards by contributing to the FIX and ISO 20022 standardisation efforts. He is currently serving his second term as the co-chair of the FIX America’s Regional Committee. Jim is the Industry Standards Liaison for FIX Protocol, Ltd. representing FPL on the ISO 20022 Requirements Management Group and Technical Support Group. Jim also represents FPL within ASC X.9 as the co-chair of the X9D Subcommittee for securities processing in the US. Jim recently began representing FPL on the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB).

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. He serves as an adjunct lecturer at Michigan Technological University School of Business and Economics.

Chris Pickles
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Global Events Committee
Head of Marketing – Financial Markets & Wholesale Banking, BT Global Services

Chris Pickles is Head of Marketing, Financial Markets and Wholesale Banking, for BT Global Services.  On behalf of FIX Protocol Ltd, SIIA/FISD, ISITC Europe, RDUG and TWIST, from April 2005 to November 2007 he chaired the MiFID Joint Working Group that was formed to examine the business and technology impacts of the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID).  Chris has previously worked as secretary-general of the European Association of Securities Dealers in Brussels, as Head of Exchange Products for Deutsche Boerse in Frankfurt, and as a marketing manager with Reuters internationally.  He is a member of the Global Steering Committee of FIX Protocol Ltd and of the Executive Committee of SIIA/FISD, the global association for the financial information sector.

John Prewett
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Implementation and Optimisation Working Group
Senior Vice President, Lava Trading, Citi

John Prewett is a seasoned veteran with 35 years of experience developing software solutions for the financial sector.

John is currently in his 8th year as a member of an established design and development team at 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 at Lava Trading on a daily basis for the majority of their client and exchange interfaces.

John specialises in high-throughput low-latency order processing and is co-chair of the FIX Implementation and Optimisation Working Group.

Peter Randall
Chief Executive, Equiduct Systems Ltd.

Peter Randall is the Chief Executive of Equiduct Systems Ltd. Peter started his career in investment research and was named a leading analyst by Euromoney when he was at James Capel. He spent an extended time in Asia with the joint venture between Sanford Bernstein and James Capel where he was responsible for quantitative sales, after this he became the MD of Thamesway and then CEO of Instinet in Asia. Peter relocated to Instinet Europe in 2005 and was responsible for delivering the MiFID compliant Chi-X platform. He latterly served as CEO of Chi-X Europe Limited. Peter has been on a number of regulatory committees and was educated at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford.

Will Rhode
Analyst, TABB Group

Will Rhode joined TABB Group as an analyst in March 2010 and is based in London. He brings fourteen years experience as a financial journalist specialising in the risk management and derivatives industry, principally for Risk Magazine and its associated publications. Previously, he was Editor Americas for Risk in New York and Editor of AsiaRisk Magazine in Hong Kong. In addition to journalism, Will has also worked as a novelist and has had three thrillers published and translated into five languages by major international publishing houses. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

Guy Sears
Director, Wholesale, Investment Management Association

Guy Sears is Director, Wholesale at the Investment Management Association, the trade association of the UK’s £3trn investment management industry. His area is responsible for wholesale and institutional issues, non-retail FSA regulation, prudential regulation, financial crime, operational risk and legal.

Mr. Sears is a member of the Banking Liaison Panel appointed under the Banking Act 2009 and a director of the UK’s Joint Money Laundering Steering Group; and is an officer of his local credit union. Prior to joining IMA, he served as Deputy Chief Executive of APCIMS and was a member of the UK’s MiFID Connect steering committee; he has also served as a Board Director of a commodity derivative market maker on the London Metal Exchange; Consultant to the Jersey Financial Services Commission; Head of Market Conduct and Market Infrastructure at the FSA; and Solicitor on the Record for SIB.

Michael Simmonds
Head of Equity Liquid Markets Analytics, Nomura

Michael Simmonds has worked in the Equity marketplace in Europe for the last seven years, specialising in the analysis, measurement and modelling of algorithmic and electronic trading. He is responsible for Liquid Markets Analytics and Nomura’s Analytical products globally. In this role Michael has been instrumental in the roll out of the Nomura Analytical Suite of applications, including new their new Liquidity Monitor showing the use of both lit and dark MTFs and other dark pools in Europe. He holds a Cambridge PhD in Mathematics.

Matt Simpson
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Global Technical Committee
Associate Director – Product and System Development, CME Group

Matt Simpson has been with the CME Group since 1995 and currently serves as an Associate Director of Product and System Development. During his tenure he  has worked to integrate standards into the products and solutions of CME and to ensure the development of robust, flexible, and efficient processes that can be used across the industry.

He has been working with FIX Protocol Limited since May 2002 to enhance post-trade functionality and facilitate collaboration with the FIA in order to develop a common standard. He has also spent time working to increase exchange utilisation of FIX and expand the protocol for this purpose.
He has co-lead FPL’s Global Technical Committee and Market Data Optimization Work Group which have focused on addressing the pressing needs of the industry including efficiency in market data dissemination  and more recently OTC trading and clearing capabilities. Mr. Simpson has a unique perspective on the relationships between electronic trading, clearing, and technology and has brought this outlook to bear while participating in the extension of CME Group systems as well as the FIX standard.

Lynn Strongin Dodds
Managing Editor, Best Execution

Lynn Strongin Dodds has been a financial and business journalist for several years. She started her career at Reuters and has worked at a variety of publications including Financial World, Financial Director, Financial News and Professional Investor. Since 2003, Lynn has been a regular contributor to FTSE Global Markets, Investments and Pensions Europe, Global Pensions, financial-i, European Pensions and Financial News. She is also editor of Best Execution, a quarterly magazine. Lynn has a BA in journalism from University of Maryland, a MA in journalism from Northwestern University and an MA in international relations from the London School of Economics. More recently, she received an MA in human rights from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

Kee-Meng Tan
Managing Director, Electronic Trading Group Europe, Knight Capital Europe Limited

Kee-Meng joined Knight in March 2008, having managed equity trade execution businesses in Europe and Asia. He heads ETG, part of Knight’s retail and institutional electronic market making business incorporating Knight Link, the firm’s highly successful off-exchange liquidity source. Prior to joining Knight in March of 2008, Kee-Meng was a derivatives trader at CQS, a London-based multi-strategy hedge fund. Before CQS, Kee-Meng was the European Head of Global Execution Services at JP Morgan in London, a business which included single stock and portfolio execution, algorithmic trading product and ETFs. Previous to that, he was the Head of Delta One Trading at ABN Amro Bank NV in Hong Kong. He was also Head of Asian Portfolio Trading at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Securities and Morgan Stanley.

Stu Taylor
MD, Head of Matched Principal Trading, Fixed Income, UBS Investment Bank

Kristian West
Head of Equity Trading, J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Kristian West is head of Equity Trading for London. An employee since January 2008, Kristian was previously head of Trading Strategy. Prior to this, Kristian was head of Equity Execution Services at Barclays Capital, building global electronic and voice execution services for the hedge fund community. Prior to this, Kristian worked at Goldman Sachs and was responsible for trading within their Electronic Transaction Services (ETS) department.

Kristian obtained a BSC (Hons.) in Management & Design in Engineering at London City University, School of Engineering.

Tim Wildenberg
Head of Direct Execution, EMEA, UBS Investment Bank

Tim Wildenberg is the Managing Director running the Equity Direct Execution business in Europe, Middle East, and Africa for UBS Investment Bank. As such he is responsible for the product development, sales, marketing and day to day operations of UBS's award winning DMA and Algorithmic Trading services, our analytics platform: UBS Fusion, and our client execution management system, UBS Pinpoint. He has also recently taken responsibility for coordination of the Direct Execution sales and account management teams around the world.

Tim was one of the founding Director's of FIX Protocol Ltd. In prior roles Tim was a market maker in European Equities at BZW and a “Blue Button” on the London Stock Exchange prior to “Big Bang”.

Henry Young
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Inter-Party Latency Working Group
Director of Product Development, TS-Associates plc

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.