Russell Abramson
Executive Director, J.P. Morgan

Russell Abramson is Head of eTrading Strategy for the Americas and is responsible for J.P. Morgan’s eTrading strategy for the Futures & Options business. He is also a member of the Sales & Marketing team. His responsibilities include developing a coherent OMS/EMS agenda, furthering the use of the FIX Protocol, continuing the algorithmic trading agenda within the Futures & Options business.

During his ten years at J.P. Morgan Russell has been mandated with electronic trading systems for the derivatives business. This includes algorithmic trading, FIX, straight-through processing, back office integration and order management systems (OMS).

Russell also serves as First Vice President of the Futures Industry Association, IT Division and is a member of the FPL Derivatives Committee.

Russell has an MBA in Computer Information Systems from Baruch College.

Alberto Alvarez
Managing Partner, Fintec Group Inc.

Alberto Alvarez is the Founder and Managing Partner at Financial Technology Group - Fintec Group, a full-service Chicago based Independent Introducing Broker, catering to the spectrum of futures and commodities clients throughout Latin America and the US and specializing in hedging solutions for producers, importers and exporters of agricultural products.

Mr. Alvarez has over 30 years of experience in the trading industry serving as a Managing Partner of Alaron Latin America, Owner and Managing Director of Strategic Trading, Inc., Owner and Managing Director of AmeriSecurities Capital Corp., and as Co-Founder, Senior Vice President and Branch Manager of Shearson Lehman American Express, Latin America.

Mr. Alvarez holds a BA in Political Science with Minor in Economics from University of Florida.

Andrés Araya Falcone
CIO, Santiago Stock Exchange

12 Years CIO / Santiago Stock Exchange. Finance Professor at MTIG – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. IT Strategy and Technology. Senior experience in technology for the capital markets industry.

Andrés has experience of developing advanced projects related to Trading Systems (Matching Engines, FIX Gateways and Market Data Distribution, DMA) and Post-Trading Systems (depository, clearing & settlement and CCP).

He also has experience developing SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions for Brokerage houses systems, integrating straight-through processing front to back office. Some of his clients include: BBVA, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Larraín Vial, BICE, BANCOESTADO, CORPCapital, SCOTIA Bank among others.

Andrés’ knowledge area covers: Fixed Income, Cash and FX, Equities, Derivatives, Financial products for Brokerage houses and Mutual Funds, Santiago local Financial Market Products, Straight-through processing systems, real time market data systems, FIX Protocol.

Andrés is a graduate in Software Engineering and Business Administration MBA.

Scott P. Atwell
Co-Chair FPL 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 $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.

Alexis Machado is currently working at Banif brokerage house as IT / Electronic Desk Senior Manager. His team supports the creation of trading algorithms, and specializes in the Brazilian retail market. It works with the Risk Committee of the brokerage house to help monitoring risk strategies during intraday / post trade.

Machado coordinates a team of systems solutions developers focused on automating the routines of Middle / Back Office. He began his career more than 10 years ago in pioneering projects that offered solutions tailor-made for internet banking portals using the Java programming language. In large financial institutions in Brazil developers worked with objects that facilitated integration between different legacies, in transparent and low-latency systems. Machado participated in designing a system of passive investment funds, where the creation of portfolios was fueled by third-party funds, requiring large implementation layer of integration between FI's and the emergence of a process of decision making for portfolio manager based on an algorithm to analyze the profitability for cash flow.

A Graduate in Computer Programming from the Catholic Pontificate University - PUC - Rio de Janeiro and Marketing University Helio Alonso - Rio de Janeiro.

Being aware of the latest tendencies from the international derivatives industry, Mr. Caram writes, speaks, and advises on Argentinean derivatives industry with focus on increasing liquidity and expanding local markets. His recent research includes a two-year study of market microstructure. He holds a BA degree in economics and a MA degree in finance from the University of Rosario, Argentina. He also attended the “Market Maker program” at Rosario Board of Trade.

Prior to BM&FBOVESPA, Marcio was the Professional Services Director at SunGard Treasury Systems for Asia Pacific region (2002), Head of Strategic Development at the ADX – Australian Derivatives Exchange (2000) and Principal System Engineer at IBM Brazil (1998).

Marcio is a graduate in Software Engineering (FASP) and Business Administration (FGV).

Jimmy has been doing consulting work for more than 15 years before joining BVC in various types of industry such as Telecom, Finance, Clearing, Commodities, Transportation focused on the architecture and design of their core systems.

Jimmy has a degree in Computer Science at San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, Specialization studies in System Engineering at CICC in Tokyo, Japan, and Diploma studies in Finance and Exchange Operations in Bogota, Colombia.

Khushru Dadachanji
Head of Product Integration, Greenline Financial Technologies

Khushru Dadachanji (K.D.) is the Head of Product Integration with Greenline Financial Technologies. In this role, KD oversees FIX initiatives at Greenline and at client engagements around the world. KD has worked extensively on FIX infrastructure integration and migration, FIX testing and certification process improvement and infrastructure assessment and monitoring to help clients develop and maintain world-class electronic trading operations. Key clients include futures, commodities, and equities exchanges, global broker-dealers, and buyside asset management firms.

With over 10 years of project management and electronic trading best practices, in addition to versatility of experience ranging from developer, tester, and analyst to certification specialist, KD is widely regarded for his in-depth financial technology expertise along with his dedication to client satisfaction. Mr. Dadachanji holds BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma.

Drey Dias
LatAm Trading Systems Director, Bloomberg

Drey has been with Bloomberg for over eight years and directly involved with Trading Systems for the last two and a half years. He has worked with Bloomberg in Brazil, Mexico and New York managing terminal sales and joined the new division to focus on electronic trading and OMS solutions for all of Latin America. Most recently, he has been involved with SSEOMS implementations at two key regional brokers –one being in Mexico and also with multiple banks and asset managers discussing integrations and automation of workflow.

Luis Fernando Haddad Faloppa
Senior Equity Trader, Schroders Investment Management Brazil

Luis Faloppa is the Senior Equity Trader at Schroders Investment Management Brazil. Luis is responsible for a total book R$6 billion per year in the local Market.

Luis received his B.A. in Business Administration at Pontifícia Univerdade Católica de São Paulo Brasil in 2002 and an MBA in Derivatives at Bolsa de Mercadorias e Futuros/ Univerdidade de São Paulo in 2006.

In 2001 Luis joined SIM-Brazil and was responsible for developing their local equity trading desk. Before that Luis worked at Lloyds Bank PLC, as a back office analyst.

Michel Finzi
Global Head of Business Development, RealTick

Michel Finzi joined RealTick in 2006, bringing more than 22 years of experience in the electronic trading and global brokerage industry to his role.  He started his career in 1988 at Instinet, where he held numerous senior management positions in the United States and in Europe until 2003.  Responsibilities included running institutional client P&L’s, developing international equity trading businesses, leading various technology groups and contributing to the development of a wide variety of electronic trading functionalities for both the buy-side and sell-side. Prior to joining Townsend Analytics, Mr. Finzi managed a number of private investments and consulted to both the buy side and sell side.  He is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University.

Spiros Giannaros
Vice President, Sales, Americas, Charles River Development

Spiros Giannaros joined Charles River in 1999 as the firm emerged as a leader of compliance and order management solutions. Giannaros has been responsible to establishing a sales team, expanding global operations, and launching new products and service offerings. In his current capacity, Giannaros is responsible for revenue and operations in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition, Giannaros chairs several product steering committees related to strategic initiatives. Prior to Charles River, Giannaros worked in product specialist and sales roles in the investment software division of Thomson Financial. Giannaros holds a BS in finance and marketing from Boston College.

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.

Rapid Addition recently launched www.electronicdealing.com, a free vault and editor for the production of FIX ATDL files, RA did this because it believes consistency of implementation of these files is critical to the success of FIX ATDL.

Mr. Kaufmann is a frequent speaker at Fund Forums, Wealth management and Structured Products conferences in the U.S. and around Latin America, as well as a Structured Products and Investidor Institucional Magazine contributor.

Mr. Kaufmann holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics-Finance from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, and a Masters in business Administration from Sao Paulo University in Brazil. He also holds the Series 24, 7, and 63 licenses and is registered as a General Securities Principal with Bulltick LLC, a broker dealer member of FINRA and SIPC. In Brazil, Mr. Kaufmann is a Certified Investment Agent and a member of Ancor, the National Association of Broker Dealers of this country.

Alex Lamb
SVP Business Development and Marketing, RTS Realtime Systems Inc.

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.

Clecio holds a BS in Mecatronics Engineering and a PhD in Computer Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, where he also taught computer science from 2000-2003.

Todd is co-head of Sales Trading and head of International Sales for Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) in North America. He joined Goldman Sachs as a salesperson in Equity Electronic Trading in 2000. In 2003, he moved to London to assume responsibility for Electronic Trading Sales in Europe.

Todd relocated to Tokyo in 2005 to become head of sales for Electronic Trading in Asia. In 2007, he returned to the United States to head the GSET Boston office and lead the international sales effort for GSET. In 2008, he was named co-head of sales for GSET North America. Todd was named managing director in 2009. Prior to joining the firm, Todd worked at Bloomberg LP. Todd earned a BS in Finance from Boston College in 1996.

Stephen Murphy
Head of Brasil Global Banking and Markets IT, HSBC

Stephen Murphy is currently the Head of Brasil Global Banking and Markets IT for HSBC, prior to Brasil Stephen was based in NY for HSBC leading the Equities and Structured Products IT team. Stephen has lived and worked in different locations around the world including Hong Kong, New York, London, Zurich and now Sao Paulo. Before joining HSBC in 2005 Stephen worked at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.

Stephen participates in a number of charitable and philanthropic endeavors which have included a charity bike ride in China, completing the London marathon and the London triathlon through to mentoring college students on personal development.

Pablo Negro
Senior Analyst, MATba (Buenos Aires Futures and Options Exchange)

At the moment Pablo Negro is working at Mercado a Termino de Buenos Aires SA, he leads all projects related to electronic markets. A graduate in Information Systems Engineering who specializes in Software Engineering, Pablo also has a Magister degree in Information Technology. He is a teaching professional and researcher for the Universidad Abierta Interamericana and has published various papers related to the Object Oriented Paradigm.

B.S. in Engineering from University of Buffalo and an MBA from Fordham University.

Jim Northey
Co-Chair FPL 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, 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.

Rodrigo Oliveira
Latam Sales, Advanced Execution Services, Credit Suisse

Rodrigo Oliveira is responsible for sales of Credit Suisse’s Advanced Execution Services (AES) to Latin American clients. The AES group designs and builds algorithms and systems capable of fully-automated trading based on client specifications. Algorithms based on thorough execution research and continuous live experimentation, performed by teams of Credit Suisse quantitative analysts and traders located throughout the globe. Prior to joining the AES team, Rodrigo was an equity research associate with the firm. He joined Credit Suisse in 2004 from Santander and is a graduate of University of São Paulo where he studied Computer Engineering.

Prior to running AE, Dan was the Managing Director for Thomson Financial Latin America from 2004-2008. Before joining Thomson, Dan worked at Bloomberg for 13 years where he was responsible for initiating and running Bloomberg’s Latin American business.

Dan is member of The Nature Conservancy do Brasil (TNC) Board of Trustees & the Chairperson of The American School of São Paulo (Graded) Board of Directors. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware in International Relations & Latin American Studies. His degree included course work at the University of Costa Rica, the Federal University of Ceará and UNICAMP.

Dan is a dual U.S. & Brazilian citizen.

Before coming to the exchange industry, Jitendra held various senior positions in both consulting and line roles at fortune 500 companies such as Hewlett Packard and Cambridge Technology Partners after having made a mark for himself in Management/IT consulting at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. He has advised senior management at large organizations both in Telecom and Finance sectors on how to leverage business and operational best practices to improve top line growth, operational efficiencies and customer satisfaction.

Jitendra has a degree in Economics, PG in Computer Science, an MBA from University of Warwick Business School and interludes at Harvard and MIT.

Juan Manuel Quintero
Director of the International Business Unit, Interbolsa Brasil

Juan Manuel Quintero B. recently joined Interbolsa Brasil to run the international business unit. Previously he had worked with Bloomberg for L.P. for eleven years in different commercial and business positions.  His last role was Senior Market Specialist. Previously he was in charge of sales in different countries in Latin America. Juan has been a speaker in more than 200 seminars in technical analysis and other subjects related to financial markets in the LATAM region. He also has been a university professor in some universities in Colombia.  He has an MBA Degree from the University of Liverpool in UK, a degree in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.

Mr. Ramos is a Project Management Professional (PMP®), with an MBA in Business Administration and a Bachelor degree in Computer Sciences.

As the Global Sales Manager, he has responsibility for selling the Thomson Reuters Athena product suite; which provides high performance, low-latency trade order management and liquidity aggregation solutions. He also has responsibility for selling the FIX Test Marketplace; an industry leading suite of FIX testing and Certification tools.

Prior to the 2010 acquisition of Aegisoft by Thomson Reuters, Steven was a partner at Aegisoft where he led the global sales team and was involved in Sales, Marketing and Product Development.

Steven has extensive knowledge of the financial markets. During his 10 years at Aegisoft, he was very involved with FIX and electronic trading; working with Hedge Funds, Buy-Side and Sell-Side firms, Banks, Market Data and Order Routing providers, Exchanges and ECNs. Early in his career, Steven worked for an Equity Trading firm in New York and then as a Commodities and Energy Trader.

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.

Mr Thomas is the original designer of UL AMS, a fully managed platform that creates FixAtdl files from a simple web interface to create algos, publish in different versions and test the rendering with validation rules. UL AMS has encountered a growing success in the USA, facilitating the life of Brokers who want to publish their algos quicker and more efficiently to the buy side community.

Manoel C. V. Lopes is the CMA Financial Lab Coordinator, responsible for developing strategies for derivatives and algorithmic trading, such as TWAP, VWAP, BestOffer and SpreadMaker (Pair Trades). Furthermore he is a manager for a private investment fund, where all the strategies developed by CMA Algos are applied.

He is graduated in physics and has a master in the same area and a doctorate in electrical engineering. He has a large experience in the financial markets, developing technological solutions for the equities and futures trading markets.

Dan Watkins - Global, Business Development and Marketing Manager for CMA looks after the message communications, product, services, business development and trading relationships between US and European financial markets and the CMA client base in Latin America including exchanges, brokers/dealers, banks which account for 20,000+ licensed deployed workstations. His responsibilities also include the dissemination of market information and news regarding trading and market data of Latin American exchanges, while promoting new business to entrants and investors into the market place.

Dan has over 10 years experience in high-speed network based trading involving FIX and market data as the business manager of the MCI Money Line Telerate team, the MCI Nasdaq team, the MCI Financial Extranet team, the Director of Provider Development at BT Radianz where he implemented and oversaw Financial Service participant growth of over 35 derivatives exchange communities. Dan now looks after business development and marketing for CMA in New York bringing a variety of experience in how connectivity in the FIX world can peer with the proprietary and FIX enabled systems of the Brazilian, Mexican, Chilean, Colombian and other Latin American exchange communities for both Southbound - to Latin America and Northbound - to North America and Europe, trading.

Stephen Wilson
Global Head of Exchange Traded Instruments, Sales & Trading, Thomson Reuters

Stephen Wilson joined Reuters in January 2002.

Prior to his appointment as Global Head of Exchange Traded Instruments, Stephen was responsible for Reuters transactions products for equities and exchange traded derivatives as part of the Next GenerationTransactions strategy.

Stephen has been involved in the financial services industry for over 25 years having started his career at Arthur Andersen and Co. in their Management Consulting arm and having worked in a number of Trading and Investment firms. He also spent 5 years in senior management positions at the London Stock Exchange being responsible for new markets development.

In 1995, Stephen was one of the founders of Tradepoint, backed by a consortium of investment banks and investment firms, which became the first fully electronic, centrally cleared stock exchange to trade equities across Europe.

Otavio Yazbek
Commissioner, Brazilian Securites Commision

Commissioner of the Brazilian Securities Commission. Member of the Financial Stability Board's Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation. Professor of the Continuing Legal Education and Specialization Program of Fundacao Getulio Vargas School of Law. Visiting Professor of the Corporate Law Diploma of the Post Graduation Program of University of Rio Grande do Sul School of Law. Holds a Doctorate Degree in Economic Law by the University of Sao Paulo. Former Self-Regulation Director of BM&FBovespa Supervisao de Mercados (BSM). Former Regulation Director of Bolsa de Mercadorias e Futuros (BM&F). Brazilian representative appointed by the Ministry of External Relations to the UNIDROIT Conference in Rome, 2006. Author of "Regulacao do mercado financeiro e de capitais", currently in its second edition, and of various articles on Corporate Law and financial and capital markets regulation.

Mr. Ziegelmann was an associate professor at Insper Education and Research Institute of IBMEC São Paulo’s and University of São Paulo’s MBA Programs during 10 years.

Mr. Ziegelmann has a vast experience in the Brazilian Capital Markets. Since October 2009, he has been the Managing Director of Equity Product Area at BM&FBOVESPA. Previously, Mr. Ziegelmann held the following positions: Director of the Itau Securities (2006-2009); Managing Director of Wealth Management Services for BankBoston (2002-2006); Director of Equities Management for BankBoston Asset Management (1997- 2002); and Executive Director of Investments for Banco Votorantim (1990-1977).

His responsibilities include quantitative support for the whole asset management group as well as the development of quantitative trading strategies. Since the acquisition of Bank Boston in Brazil, he also works as a manager of a quantitative hedge fund.

Mr. Zimmer came to Brazil in 2000 and joined Itaú Unibanco in 2002.

He gained his first experiences at Bank Gesellschaft Berlin in 1996 as quantitative support for the option trading desk.

Prior to his PhD studies in quantitative Finance he earned a Master in Business Administration from Ecole Superior de Toulouse (France) and a Master in Mathematics from the Technical University of Berlin.