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Geoff Round

Professor Vassil Alexandrov, Director, Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies (ACET), University of Reading
Vassil Alexandrov is a Professor in Computational Sciences at the School of Systems Engineering, Director of the Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies and Head of Research of PEDAL Laboratory at the University of Reading, UK. He has obtained his MSc in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University in 1984 and his PhD in parallel computing from the Institute for Parallel Processing at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1995. His main interests are in the area of simulation and mathematical modelling of complex systems, parallel scalable algorithms, Collaborative, Cluster and Grid Computing and using the advances in the above mentioned areas for efficiently solving large scale scientific and industrial problems. He is currently participating in over 6 national and international projects in the area of Collaborative and Grid Computing and e-learning. He also collaborates with Intel and IBM in the areas of Collaborative and High End Computing and with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Supercomputing Centre in Barcelona, Daresbury Laboratory, IPP- Sofia, Emory University and University of Tennessee in the area of Collaborative and High Performance Computing.




Yomi Abatan, Enterprise Architect, Deutsche Bank
Yomi Abatan has over 12 years experience as an Technical Architect covering several technology areas including SOA, GRID, and expertise on various messaging platforms while working for several financial institutions and IT consultancies. While working for Deutsche Bank, Mr. Abatan has worked as part of the Central Architecture group leading the introduction of an Enterprise Grid and research into High Performance Computing technologies across the Bank. Currently Mr Abatan is a Technology Client Manager overseeing the introduction of a new low latency messaging platform in the FX area. Prior to Joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Abatan worked as part of the Enterprise Architecture consulting group in IBM Global Services where he helped introduced some of the early concepts of SOA as part of the Enterprise Architect engagement model used within IBM.


Mark Austen

Mark Austen, Managing Director, European Primary Dealers Association
Mark Austen joined the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (formerly the Bond Market Association) in August 2005 where his primary areas of responsibility are the European Primary Dealers Association (EPDA) and SIFMA’s work in the international repo market. Prior to joining SIFMA, Mark worked for MTS Group, the European trading platform for fixed income securities, where he was head of Legal and Compliance. Prior to MTS, Mark spent three years as head of an international environmental web portal. A member of the Canadian Bar, he holds an LLM from the LSE, an LLB from Osgoode Law School, Toronto and a BA (Hons) from McMaster University, Ontario.




Ryan Bagnulo

Ryan Bagnulo, Founder and Innovation Architect, ASPECT - i, formerly Wachovia CIB, Head of Architecture and Innovation
From June 2006 to May 2008, Ryan led the SOA Grid Utility and DMZ Security teams for the technology division of Wachovia Corporate and Investment Banking, Ryan led a team of over 50 developers and architects locally, as well as over 100 remote developers in NY, CA, and India. He drove the SOA architecture strategy and framework development design for mass-customized and rapidly consumable, secure, and best of breed virtualized server runtime solutions that integrate high performance computing grids with thin and thick clients, and rich internet application (RIA) environments via the CIB Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Ryan has designed and implemented solutions for each CIB business line, including Global Capital Markets (Equities, FX, Structured Products, Credit Lending, Vertical Mortgage Integration), CIB International (LoCs, DDA, IFTs/SWIFT), Credit Risk and Treasury Finance. Technology Implementations: DataPower XI50, Verari w/ Intel Woodcrest, Tangosol Coherence, DataSynapse GridServer, JBOSS 4.0.5, RHEL. Prior to joining Wachovia Ryan was the chief security and infrastructure architect for the Business Transformation Outsourcing division of IBM Global Services, and was the leader of the IBM Global Services Grid Computing Community of Practice when Grid was an Emerging Business Opportunity for IBM in 2003. Ryan has received a number of industry awards, and in May 2008, SC Magazine awarded Ryan Bagnulo and his team the award for the best security team.



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Richard Balarkas, President & CEO, Instinet Europe
Richard Balarkas is CEO and President of Instinet Europe Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings Inc. Instinet is a global pure agency broker providing a comprehensive suite of trading services including high touch sales trading, global portfolio trading, algorithmic trading, smart order routing, DMA and commission management services. Prior to joining Instinet Mr. Balarkas was a Managing Director of Credit Suisse and Global Head of AES (Advanced Execution Services) Sales responsible for multi asset electronic trading services including direct market access and algorithmic trading. Mr. Balarkas joined CSFB on its acquisition of BZW (Barclays de Zoete Wedd) in 1998. At BZW he was a Director and COO for equity trading, with specific responsibility for retail trading and front office technology. Before joining BZW Mr. Balarkas was a founder and CEO of the City Group for Smaller Companies (CISCO), which played a central role in the creation of new exchanges for high growth companies in Europe. Before joining CISCO he was Head of National Market Development at the London Stock Exchange. Mr. Balarkas started his career with Cap Group plc (now SEMA group plc) after graduating from the University of Warwick.



Robert Barnes

Robert Barnes, Managing Director, Equities, UBS
Robert has a BA from Harvard and a PhD Cambridge. He joined the proprietary trading team at Swiss Bank Corporation in 1994, gained experience 'downstairs' on the LIFFE derivatives floor as a yellow jacket and 'upstairs' trading special situations via brokers across most western markets. Currently Managing Director, Equities responsible for Market Structures at UBS Investment Bank, Chairman of the Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association, a member of user advisory groups for a number of Stock Exchanges and pro-competitive initiatives, the FSA's Capital Markets Sector Senior Practitioners Committee, Euroclear's UK Market Advisory Committee, a Fellow of the Securities & Investment Institute sitting on its Membership Committee, the UBS high level representative invited to the European Commission's CESAME2 Group, and a member of the FTSE Country Classification Committee.



Robert Boardman

Robert Boardman, Head of Algorithmic Trading Sales, ITG
Robert Boardman is head of algorithmic trading sales for ITG in Europe. Before joining ITG in April 2006, Boardman spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs where he held various positions, including executive director in the electronic transaction services sales team. He also led a team in implementing direct market access, algorithmic trading and arbitrage strategies for institutional investors and hedge funds. Prior to that he was head of connectivity in the equities division. ITG’s algorithmic business is an integral and important part of ITG’s offering to clients and is designed to improve trading performance by cutting transaction costs, sourcing liquidity and improving trader productivity. Robert Boardman was educated at Oxford University where he gained undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in particle physics.



Kevin Bourne

Kevin Bourne, Managing Director and Global Head of eEquities, HSBC
Kevin Bourne is Managing Director and Global Head of eEquities for HSBC in London. He joined HSBC in September 2004 and is a member of the Global Equities Management Committee. His day to day responsibilities include the business management of several product lines including: Global Program Trading, Algorithmic & DMA Trading and Quantitative & Index Products. Kevin is also the Equities representative on the HSBC Group Climate Change Committee and was responsible for the initiation & launch of the market leading HSBC Global Climate Change Index. Prior to joining HSBC, Kevin was at Citigroup for seven years, managing the electronic trading business in Europe. In 1995 he joined Fidelity Brokerage International Head of Institutional Electronic Trading. Prior to this, Kevin spent 10 years on the buyside in Group Pensions business development. Before joining the investment industry, Kevin spent 6 years with the British Army as an Artillery Intelligence Specialist with the Airborne Forces having enlisted as a professional soldier at the tender age of 16.




Dr. Tony K. Chau

Dr. Tony K. Chau, Global Chief Architect, Credit, Rates and Emerging Markets, IB Technology
Dr. Tony Chau is the Global Chief Architect for Credit, Rates and Global Emerging Market at JPMorgan. He is currently responsible for setting the strategic architecture direction for the technology in those business areas (with a combine annual revenue of >$9B). He is also the representative for JPMorgan in the ISDA FpML Standard's Committee. Prior to this role, Dr. Chau have done a number of roles in JPMorgan including the Chief Business Technologist for EMEA Credit Markets (2003/2005) where he was responsible for all the technology used by that business in the EMEA region; the Chief Business Technologist for JPMorgan Equities EMEA (2000/2003) where he was responsible for all the middle office and core processing systems for the Equity business in the region (with a department of more than 160 staff). He was also responsible for a number of global systems that were used within Equities (including Global Reference Data, P&L, etc.). Before joining JPMorgan in November 2000, Dr. Chau was the European CTO of New Era of Network (NEON) Inc. and before that he was the Head of Equity Trading Group IT at Nomura International plc. Dr. Chau received his Ph.D. in information engineering at The City University, London in 1986 and a B.Sc. from University College London in 1983. He is a full member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.


Iain Craig

Iain Craig, Chief Architect of Investment Banking, Credit Suisse
Iain Craig is the Chief Architect for the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse. He joined Credit Suisse in 2002 and is responsible for Application and Technical Architecture across Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Prime Services and Operations. He has over 17 years experience delivering technology projects within Investment Banking including the first implementation of the FIDESSA Trading System, Nomura HOODINI project and JPMorgan Arcordia system. Iain holds a Bsc in Computer Science and Physics from Auckland University, New Zealand.



Artur Fischer

Artur Fischer, Joint CEO, EQUIDUCT TRADING
Artur was appointed as Börse Berlin´s CEO in 2007. Prior to this, he held leading positions with several top tier European banks. From 1986 until 1991, he was a Director at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange where he was a.o. responsible for the conceptual and technical realisation of the DAX. After three years as a board member of an English subsidiary of Hypo Bank, Artur joined Bankgesellschaft Berlin. There he became Corporate Division Manager and COO of the London branch. Since 2000 he has worked as a management consultant. At Equiduct Trading Artur is responsible for Business Services including Finance, Sales, Marketing and Communications.



Bob Giffords

Bob Giffords, Independent Banking and Technology Analyst
Bob Giffords, is an independent analyst and consultant for the European banking sector with over 25 years experience in financial technology. A frequent speaker at conferences, Bob writes regularly for several leading financial journals and acts as a judge on two technology innovation awards. Previously, he was Director, EMEA Research and Consulting, for Financial Insights, an IDC Company where he built up a significant pan-European consulting practice with 6 analysts. Before that he was Chief Technology Officer with EuroMTS Ltd., the leading European electronic bond-trading platform, where he launched internet trading for BondVision and a new service for real time bond indices, while managing the 4-fold growth of the main inter-dealer trading platform for all MTS markets.



Julio Gomez

Julio Gomez, CEO, GOMEZ MARKETS
Julio Gomez is Founder of Gomez Markets, a recently formed strategy consulting firm that is developing a series of benchmarks for financial markets in segments critical for achieving competitive advantage. Prior to founding Gomez Markets, Mr. Gomez was Vice President, Global Research for Financial Insights, an IDC company, responsible for shaping the global financial services technology research agenda for the firm across its offices in London, Toronto, Boston, San Paolo, and Singapore. Mr. Gomez is widely known and highly respected in the industry as the founder and CEO of Gomez, Inc., a leader in benchmarking services, including e-commerce rankings, research, and site performance measurement. He is a frequent keynote speaker on market trends and strategic initiatives in the financial services industry. Institutional Investor named him one of Wall Street's "50 Most Influential People" and Time Magazine listed him among the "Fifty Most Influential People Shaping Technology". He has been interviewed for his expertise by numerous media outlets, including radio and television networks, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, and Forbes. Mr. Gomez is a graduate of Princeton University.



Andrew P. Graham

Andrew P. Graham, Lead Client IT Architect, IBM
Andrew is the Lead Client IT Architect for IBM's City of London Financial Markets customers and a Chartered Engineer with the IET(Institute of Engineering and Technology). With over ten years Banking and Financial Markets industry experience Andrew has a background in innovative projects with his Clients and more recently specialises in High Performance Computing, Low Latency Architectures, technology trends and emerging technologies that are appropriate to the industry.




Mark Hemsley

Mark Helmsley, CEO, BATS
Mark Hemsley joined BATS in April 2008 as chief executive of the BATS Trading European Markets Division, the company's venture which is scheduled to offer trading in late 2008. Mr. Hemsley was previously managing director and chief information officer at LIFFE, working in its market solutions group. At LIFFE from 2001-2004, he won major contracts with top exchanges and transformed the technology organization to capture greater revenue from its exchange businesses. A LIFFE board member, he was also heavily involved in the sale of LIFFE to Euronext, the predecessor company to NYSE Euronext. Mr. Hemsley was a managing director of global technology - serving as chief operating officer and a CIO - during his tenure at Deutsche Bank GCI, the investment bank. With the company, he managed teams of professionals in Frankfurt, London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo, while working closely with the firm's trading operations. His previous positions included time as a vice president at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was global head of foreign exchange technology, and a stint as CIO at Natwest Capital Markets. Mr. Hemsley lives in London with his family. 



Rob James, Architecture Domain Head for Methods and previously the Information Architect for Global Banking and Markets, HSBC
Robert James is an Enterprise Architect with wide experience relating to complex data architectures, providing thought leadership in systems integration based upon industry best practice together with innovative rule-based, model-driven software development techniques. An expert in information design and the software processes required to support enterprise-wide data management.



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Tom Jordan, President and CEO,Jordan & Jordan
Tom Jordan is President and Chief Executive Officer of Jordan & Jordan, which offer solutions that meet the business needs of the securities industry through the efficient use of technology. J&J have offices in New York, London, Chicago and Singapore. Tom is also Co-Founder and Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Financial Information Forum, a consortium of brokers, vendors, service bureaus and exchanges whom address issues regarding the effect of structural and technological changes on securities processing and the collection and distribution of market data. From 1985 to 1990, Tom was the Managing Director of Knight-Ridder Financial/Americas. Prior to that position, he was the Chairman of Monchik-Weber, a Wall Street consulting and product development firm. Tom also held various management positions at IBM both on the technical and marketing side of the business. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Irish America Magazine selected Tom as a member of the Wall Street 50. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Saint Peter’s College. Tom holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Saint Peter’s College and a M.S. in Industrial Administration from Union College.




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Anthony Kirby, Director of Regulatory & Risk Management, Ernst & Young
Anthony (Tony) Kirby is Director Regulation & Risk at the Financial Services practice at Ernst & Young. Prior to that, Anthony was responsible for Head of Regulation and Compliance within Accenture. His responsibilities included several initiatives in the Risk Management and Compliance space, including MiFID, KYC/AML, Basel II and PSD/SEPA. He is also an active and well-known member of the financial community with 20 years of experience in the global marketplace in the business, operations and technology sectors of the business. He gained vital knowledge and experience from working within the industry in senior client-facing roles at Merrill Lynch, S.W.I.F.T., Instinet, Deutsche Börse and Reuters.
Anthony brings a unique perspective and enthusiasm in building awareness in areas such as Trading, Operations, Liquidity Management, Risk Management, Compliance and IT. Anthony was the founder of the Securities Market Practice Group in 1998, the Reference Data User Group (RDUG) in 2002 and helped co-found the MiFID Joint Working Group (www.mifid.com) in 2005. He is an Executive Committee member of ISITC plus a member of the BSI Technical Standards Committee since 2004, and a participant within the FSA’s Market Advisory Committee on MiFID. Anthony is also a regular author of numerous articles on the subjects of Algorithmic Trading/DMA, Compliance/Risk Management, b2b/exchanges, AML/SEPA and Corporate Governance. He regularly addresses/chairs many industry events each year and was a visiting Fellow of the Promethee Think Tank in France. Additionally, he is also a Freeman of the City of London, and received his Phil. M.A. and PhD from the University of Cambridge, England in 1987.


Eli Lederman

Eli Lederman, Chief Executive, TURQUOISE
Eli was appointed as Turquoise's chief executive in October 2007. He was formerly a managing director in Morgan Stanley's Sales & Trading Division, where he oversaw the European electronic trading business for equity and fixed income products. Eli joined Morgan Stanley in New York in 1993 and was instrumental in developing the US equity electronic trading business, prior to moving to London in 2001 and establishing Morgan Stanley as a leading provider of electronic trading in Europe.




Robert Maher

Robert Maher, Head of AES Sales Europe, Credit Suisse
Mr. Maher is Head of European Sales for Credit Suisse’s Advanced Execution Services (AES) group. He is one of the original members of the AES group and has recently relocated to Europe after spending 5+ years in the United States. AES has grown to be a full-service suite of algorithmic strategies, tools, and analytics for trading securities throughout the world. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Maher was head of E-Commerce and Electronic Trading at Robertson Stephens. Throughout his 14 year career on Wall Street, Mr. Maher has been involved in the design, implementation, and marketing of numerous electronic and portfolio trading systems. Mr. Maher holds a Bachelor of Science from Bentley College in Massachusetts. He resides in London with his wife and three children.



Dipen Mehta, Chief Architect, Financial Markets, Standard Chartered Bank
Dipen Mehta is the Chief Architect for Standard Chartered's global Financial Markets technology platform. He is currently responsible for setting the strategic architecture direction across asset classes, focused on enabling product scale and growing their emerging markets footprint. Prior to this role, Mr Mehta was responsible for the Global Equities Risk Infrastructure at Wachovia CIB where he managed all aspects of their global real-time risk platform. Crain's Business named him one of NY's Top 100 Technology Leaders and he is a frequent featured panelist on emerging technology trends in financial markets focused around grid and distributed computing technologies. Mr Mehta holds a BS in Computer Science and a MBA from the Stern School of Business.



Tom Middleton

Tom Middleton, Head of Algorithms, EMEA, Citigroup
Tom Middleton has worked in Electronic Trading at Citigroup in London for seven years, and has held roles encompassing client execution, proprietary trading and automated market making. Since 2004, Tom has been Head of EMEA Algorithmic Trading Products. This role includes the design, development and delivery of all aspects of electronic execution for Citi's internal trading desks and its clients: with particular focus recently on internalization and development of optimal Smart Order Routing Strategies to deal with the changing trading landscape in Europe. Tom holds a PhD in Chemical Physics from Cambridge University.




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Danny Moore, Co-Chief Executive Officer, NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions
Danny Moore is Co-Chief Executive Officer of NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions. In this role, Mr. Moore is responsible for increasing NYSE Euronext’s global customer base with best-of-breed commercial technology solutions, including all European operations of NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions as well as global responsibility for Enterprise Software. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions, Mr. Moore served as Chief Executive Officer of Wombat, a company acquired by NYSE Euronext in March 2008. While at Wombat, Mr. Moore had notable success extending the firm’s product portfolio; establishing new customer bases throughout EMEA and Asia Pacific; managing the set up of its center of engineering excellence in Belfast, Northern Ireland; and spearheading the acquisition of Harco Technology Ltd. Prior to joining Wombat in 2003, Mr. Moore contributed to the success of First Derivatives (representing Kx Systems) by helping to establish its US sales and marketing presence, while simultaneously developing its financial pricing software.



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Dr. Christian Nentwich, Model Two Zero/HSBC, Message Automation
Christian divides his time between Message Automation, where he is Director of Strategy, and providing independent consultancy to clients. For the last seven years he has been working on helping various capital markets organisations from the buy and sell side improve automation, concentrating in particular on OTC derivatives. Christian has a long and continuing involvement with the FpML standard, for which he founded and chaired the validation working group. He is a regular speaker at both finance and technology conferences. Christian holds a BSc and PhD in Computer Science from University College London.



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Giancarlo Papetti, Global Systems Strategist, PIONEER GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
Giancarlo has been working in Asset Management since 1994 as a fund manager in the Unicredito Group. After the integration with Pioneer Investment in 2002, he moved into IT. His main responsibilities are Front Office system strategy (trading, portfolio management, risk, performance), internal software development and data management. From 2008 he was responsible globally for overall application strategy at Pioneer Investments, reporting to Global CTO.



Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal, CMS Watch
Alan Pelz-Sharpe is a Principal at CMS Watch, covering ECM technologies and practices. Formerly he was a Strategist at Wipro and VP North America for Industry Analyst firm Ovum. An 18 year veteran of the document technology industry, Alan has written extensively on document, web and records management topics and delivered keynotes at events around the world.



Chris Pickles

Chris Pickles, Head of Marketing, Investment Banking & Global Accounts, BT Global Services
Chris Pickles is Head of Marketing, Investment Banking & Global Accounts, for BT Global Services. His responsibilities include interpreting the impact of industry and technology changes and new regulations on BT's customers across the financial services sector globally. With over thirty years experience in the financial technology sector, 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 a member of the Executive Committee of SIIA/FISD, the global association for the financial information sector.





Peter Randall

Peter Randall, Chief Executive, Chi-x Europe Ltd
Peter Randall was appointed Chief Executive following the launch of Chi-X Europe Limited in spring 2007 and is responsible for the strategic development of the business. Previous to this, Peter served as Chief Executive of Instinet in Asia. Peter started his career as an analyst and was named a leading analyst by Euromoney when he was at James Capel. He has also served on a number of regulatory committees and was educated at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford.



Stuart Rutherford

Stuart Rutherford, Head of Trading Services, PLUS Markets Group
Stuart Rutherford joined PLUS in January 2007 as Head of Trading Services, responsible for developing and working with the Company’s broker and market maker customer base. Prior to recent consulting projects at BT Radianz and virt-x, Stuart spent eleven years at Merrill Lynch in senior positions in retail order execution and institutional electronic trading, as well as working on a number of major de-mutualisation projects. His earlier market experience was gained at Smith New Court, Fidelity Brokerage and Midland Stockbrokers.







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Brian Schwieger, Head of EMEA Algorithmic Execution, Merrill Lynch
Brian Schwieger is head of EMEA Algorithmic Execution for Merrill Lynch, managing the Quantitative Engineering, Execution Desk and Execution Consulting associated with Merrill Lynch’s algorithmic product in Europe. In this capacity, he leverages 15 years of trading experience to help traders and clients understand and identify the algorithmic strategies and tactics which best suit their objectives. His previous trading experience spans Equity Portfolio, Equity Cash and Commodities (Oil & Gas). Brian joined Merrill Lynch in 2005. Brian holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School and a BSc(Econ) from the London School of Economics.



Peter Sharp

Peter Sharp, Head of Market Data, Europe, Morgan Stanley
Peter Sharp is Executive Director and head of Market Data and Securities Reference Data for Morgan Stanley in Europe. The group provides market data services across the Morgan Stanley enterprise and covers commercial, engineering, development and support. Peter has over 20 years experience in the industry, previously having worked for Telerate, Dow Jones and Bridge Financial Systems.




Matt Simpson

Matt Simpson, Associate Director of Business Architecture, CME Group
Matt Simpson has been with the CME Group since 1995 and currently serves as an Associate Director of Business Architecture. 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. Over the past five years Mr. Simpson has worked to improve the state of post-trade automation and standardization in the listed derivative industry as the globalization of the marketplace has increased the cost and complexity of doing business and managing risk. This work has produced the development of a post-trade standard within the US which has made it possible for market participants to connect to either futures or options exchanges using a standard protocol. As markets have continued to expand and globalization attracts new participants on a daily basis this is proving to be a valuable asset to the industry. Recently, he has directed the work of the FIA/FOA Post-Trade Standards Working Group in the pursuit of a global standard for listed derivatives. The working group includes the participation of all the major clearing organizations in the US and Europe. The effort focuses on best practices and creation of a common post-trade interface which has the potential to reduce costs across the industry for market participants who connect to a wide array of markets and clearing systems. The potential for a common interface across a wide array of clearing entities offers a powerful value proposition to the global industry. Mr. Simpson has an in depth understanding of the factors that drive real time clearing and how growth in this area is dependent on the ability to achieve efficiencies through post trade automation.


Chris Sims

Chris Sims, Head of Investment Operations, Gartmore Investment Management
Chris is Head of Investment Operations at Gartmore Investment Management for responsible for providing solutions to all areas of the Gartmore business including order management and electronic trading. Implemented electronic trading via FIX at Gartmore in 2000. Member of the European governance board for FIX., 20 plus years of development experience at Gartmore, Barings, Nationwide Building Society and the Ministry of Defence.


Adam Sussman

Adam Sussman, Director of Research, Tabb Group
Adam Sussman, named director of research in January 2008, joined TABB Group in 2005 as a research analyst after serving as a senior product manager responsible for order management systems, routing and next-generation trading tools focused on the equities and options markets at Ameritrade, Inc., a brokerage industry subsidiary of Ameritrade Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:AMTD). Adam joined Ameritrade in 2002 with its acquisition of Datek Online and worked closely to merge each company’s technologies into a best-of-breed solution. He also developed several strategic initiatives, including a dynamic algorithmic order router, a distributed event notification system and Trade Triggers™, which allows clients to set orders in advance to be sent automatically when certain market conditions are met, days or weeks later. At Datek Online, beyond his primary responsibility for Datek Streamer, which was built on Windows servers and the first real-time streaming market data product available through the Internet. He also ran market-data processing, overseeing their decimalization conversion efforts in 2001. He earned a BA in philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Rhode Island. His background includes teaching English as a second language in Changwon, South Korea. A freelance writer, he has had articles in Details, Men’s Health and Time Out New York magazines. He has authored the following industry studies and research reports since 2005: European Institutional Equity Trading 2007: The Buy-Side Perspective; Modular Algorithms: The Growing Choice of Buy-Side Execution Strategies; Institutional Equity Trading 2006: Return on Relationship; Hedge Funds 2006: The Quest For Alpha in a Competitive World; Outlook on Algorithms: New Developments in Automated Trading; Trading Under a Microscope: The Buy-Side Perspective on Transaction Cost Research; From Best Ex to Coaching: The Future of Transaction Cost Research; Institutional Equity Trading 2005; and Managing Risk in Real-time Markets





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Ron Tannenbaum, Co–founder, GlobeOp Financial Services and Hedge Fund Client
Ron Tannenbaum, Head of Sales and Marketing for GlobeOp Financial Services is based at the London office and was a Board Director since GlobeOp’s formation in 2000 until May 2007. Prior to becoming a founding partner he served as managing director and global head of hedge fund coverage at Rabobank International in London (1998-1999) and at Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) in London from 1991 to 1998. He also managed bonds, capital markets and structured derivatives teams at Salomon Brothers in New York, London and Tokyo from 1981 to 1991. From 1988 to 1991 he served as head of European Capital Markets. Tannenbaum holds a B.S. in Economics (magna cum laude) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.




Shirley White, Global Market Data Manager, Global Market Division, Deutsche Bank
Shirley started in the Financial Industry back in 1989 working for Telerate as a Client Support executive on TTS (The Trading Service). Moved into core sales environment selling Dow Jones Telerate Data to mid tier investment institutions in the City of London. Left Dow Jones Telerate in June 1998 and started at Deutsche Bank in the Market Data Technology Department - as a Senior Business Analyst In 2006 was promoted to the role of Global Market Data Manager for our Global Markets Division - responsible for driving the GM strategy for Market Data and being the main face off to Global Markets Market Data vendors along with management of the Market data budget for the division





Ian Williams

Ian Williams, Director, Global Head of Market Information Business Management, Credit Suisse
Ian Williams is a Director of Credit Suisse and Global Head of Market Information Business Management within the COO Division, based in London. Market Information Business Management is responsible for the acquisition and delivery of Market Information globally and Ian was given responsibility for this in January 2006. Ian joined Credit Suisse in 1999 as the Head of Global IT Supply Management for the Asset Management Division. His responsibility was subsequently expanded when he was made IT Chief Operating Officer for the Asset Management Division. Prior to joining CSAM Ian spent 19 years at Lloyds TSB and was a Senior Manager responsible for the overall commercial and contractual relationship with several major IT suppliers including BT and Unisys. Ian is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.



Jeff Weiner

Jeff Wierer, Group Product Manager, Windows Server Team, Microsoft
Jeff Wierer is a Group Product Manager on the Windows Server team focused future business and product strategy for High Performance Computing. Jeff joined Microsoft in 1998 as a Consultant within Microsoft Consulting Services. Previous roles include being the Technical Product Manager for Exchange Server 2000, Sr. Technical Product Manager working on the vision and strategy for BizTalk Server 2002, 2004 and 2006 and as a Sr. Product Manager for Office SharePoint Server 2007.



Spencer Woodward

Spencer Woodward, Senior Operations Manager, BlueBay Asset Management
Spencer Woodward is a Senior Operations Manager with responsibility for Operations trade processing including OTC documentation and collateral management for BlueBay Asset Management plc.  Prior to joining the company in September 2005 he spent 12 years with Morgan Stanley.



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Chaker Zammouri, Head of IT for Fixed Income, Calyon
Chaker Zammouri is the Global Head of Fixed Income and Derivatives Information Technology at Calyon – Credit Agricole CIB with 15 years experience in the financial and capital markets industry. Chaker was involved in many capital market business and technology areas such as Interest Rate, Foreign Exchange, Commodities, Equities; Treasury; Credit, Securitization. He managed Quantitative Engineering, Development, Infrastructure and Business Support organizations, providing trading, distribution, execution and risk management tools, Front-to-Back processing information systems, and Business Support. Chaker was member of the Board of SwapsWire Inc, he is member of Markit advisory board. Chaker is graduated of “Ecole Polytechnique” and “Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées” FRANCE.