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Marc Adler, Senior Vice President, Equities and Head of Complex Event Processing, Citigroup Marc started out in Wall Street in 1986 as one of the first Windows developers, consulting for Goldman Sachs. In between running Magma systems, a successful software company, and being involved in multiple start-ups, Marc has consulted for companies like Wachovia, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Citigroup, and others. He is currently leading the new Complex Event Processing effort at Citigroup, and is always on the lookout for new ways to make money for the business. You can read his musings at magmasystems.blogspot.com |
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Robert Almgren, Adjunct Professor, Quantitative Finance, New York University Robert Almgren was Managing Director of Quantitative Strategies in the Electronic Trading Services group of Bank of America Securities (BAS). Before joining BAS in July 2005, Dr. Almgren spent five years at the University of Toronto as a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, including three years as Director of the Master of Mathematical Finance Program. For eight years he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago and was Associate Director of the Program on Financial Mathematics. Dr. Almgren holds a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University. He has written several papers on optimal strategies for securities trading balancing impact cost and volatility risk. |
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Carl Carrie, Executive Director and Global Head of Algorithmic Trading Products, JPMorgan Securities Carl Carrie is an executive director at JPMorgan Securities Inc., in charge of electronic product development for the Americas, and manages Neovest Inc., a wholly-owned electronic trading software subsidiary based in Utah. He is responsible for algorithmic and quantitative trading products and manages a team of developers, quantitative analysts and traders. Previously, Mr. Carrie was the chief business technologist in equities and spearheaded the development of algorithmic and quantitative trading systems for JPMorgan's cash, derivatives and convertibles divisions. Prior to JPMorgan, Mr. Carrie was the founder and president of TheBEAST Financial Systems, a financial trading systems firm spun-off from Tullett Liberty that specialized in fixed income derivative analytics and trading products. At Tullett Liberty he served as global head of software development. Earlier in his career, Mr. Carrie was a fixed income derivatives trader. Mr. Carrie has worked in the financial industry for over 24 years and has held diverse roles in trading and development. In addition to two patents, Mr. Carrie has written several articles on trading technology. He is a frequent speaker on technology and algorithmic trading trends in the financial industry and is frequently quoted in the press. |
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Penny Crosman, Executive Editor, Wall Street & Technology Penny Crosman has been a magazine editor for 22 years. Prior to her current post as Executive Editor of Wall Street & Technology magazine, she was Executive Editor at Intelligent Enterprise and one of its predecessor publications, Transform. She has also worked at Network Magazine/IT Architect, Customer Support Management, and ABA Banking Journal. She tries to cover topics from technology and business perspectives. She lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and a small yet very demanding cat. |
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Adam Honoré, Senior Analyst, Aite Group, LLC Adam Honoré is a senior analyst at Aite Group, LLC, specializing in brokerage and financial services technology. Mr. Honoré focuses on strategic technology initiatives, enterprise data management (EDM), complex event processing (CEP), straight-through processing (STP), and risk management issues. Mr. Honoré has been quoted in media publications like American Banker, Associated Press, Bank Systems & Technology, Banking Wire, Boston Globe, Clearing Quarterly, CNBC.com, Dealing with Technology, Financial News Online, Financial Times, Hedge Fund & Investment Technology, Inside Reference Data, Investment News, Investor's Business Daily, Newsday, On Wall Street, Pensions & Investments, Registered Rep, Screen Magazine, Securities Industry News, Securities Week, SmartMoney, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, STP Magazine, Wall Street & Technology, Wall Street Letter, and The Washington Post. Prior to joining Aite Group, Mr. Honoré was the Product Director responsible for front office solutions at Comprehensive Software Systems, Inc, including CRM, portfolio & account management, content management, and business intelligence platforms. While there, Mr. Honoré drove a front office product initiative for integrated CRM and portfolio management with early Microsoft .NET technology adoption. Mr. Honoré subsequently directed a product development initiative coupling the solution with a client configurable reporting engine and suite of AML compliance reports, generating the first product sale in over five years. Serving as product and business expert in sales, Mr. Honoré was the primary expert in every subsequent sale for CSS. He has also been a speaker at business intelligence seminars, online seminars for wealth management platforms, and discussions with senior business leaders. Prior to CSS, Mr. Honoré was responsible for development at Tucker Anthony Sutro Capital Markets, designing and creating applications for investment banking & research, including one of the early capital markets online personalized research delivery websites. Before Tucker Anthony, Mr. Honoré was a software engineer at Strong Capital Management. While there, Mr. Honoré helped create an online brokerage platform, tools for their award winning mutual fund site, and intranet applications supporting Strong's enterprise, including the call center. Mr. Honoré received his BA from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee with a double major in Public Relations and History. He is a four year veteran of the U.S. Army, including tours in Korea and Desert Storm. Mr. Honoré has received a citation from the Wisconsin State Legislature for charitable development work, and was Master of Ceremonies for the 1990 Missouri Special Olympics. |
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Robert Iati, Partner & Director of Research, TABB Group Bob Iati joined TABB Group in December 2004 as a partner in charge of research after spending seven years at TowerGroup, where he was the research director of its Securities & Capital Markets practice. With nearly 20 years of experience in capital markets technology, covering areas of securities operations training, planning and development, and IT strategy and implementation, he has authored and interpreted studies analyzing the impact of changing market structures on global financial markets, interpreted and presented surveys of the futures industry, and examined the critical processing issues faced by brokerage institutions. Bob has authored several of TABB Group's key recent studies, including "Global Equity Trading: The Buy-Side Perspective on Advanced Execution"", "Enterprise Data Management: Is This the Right Time for Outsourcing?" and "DMA: Transitioning from Aggregation to Execution Platform". He held senior systems development positions at Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank Securities. At Lehman Brothers, he managed the implementation of automated trading and clearance systems and led a detailed analysis of the company's global trading systems. At Deutsche Bank, he managed technology for global settlements and stock lending operations, with responsibility for trading-system support for branches in over 20 countries. A frequent presenter at industry forums, he has appeared on ROBTv, CNN and CNBC television and been quoted regularly in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Financial Times and The New York Times, as well as brokerage-industry trade media, including The Trade, Automated Trading, Traders, Wall Street & Technology, Waters and Securities Industry News. He holds an M.B.A. in finance and information systems from Rutgers Graduate School of Management and a B.A. in economics from Rutgers University. He also served on the faculty of the New York Institute of Finance and the Securities Operations Forum and taught at New York University. |
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Peter Johnson, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Architecture and Web Services, The Bank of New York Mellon Peter Johnson has been a leader in strategic technology at The Bank of New York Mellon for more than 15 years. As the lead executive behind the company's enterprise architecture practice, Pete works directly with key managers throughout its business units to provide technology/architectural leadership and promote innovation. In addition, Pete has played a central role in introducing new technologies including Pervasive Wireless Computing, Groupware, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Client/Server Middleware, and various Internet architectures. Pete currently manages Enterprise Architecture and Web Services within CIO Kurt Woetzel's senior management team. His group is responsible for tracking emerging technologies, managing the corporate architectural direction, providing the shared eCommerce infrastructure/framework, leading software engineering/project management practices, and developing enterprise technology strategy. The Bank of New York Mellon is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and move their financial assets, operating in 37 countries and serving more than 100 markets. The company is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, providing superior asset management and wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services and treasury services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has more than $20 trillion in assets under custody and administration and more than $1 trillion in assets under management. |
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Thomas Jordan, President & 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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Vinod Kutty, Associate Director, Distributed Computing, CME Group – A CME/Chicago Board of Trade Kutty is responsible for the Distributed Computing Research and Development initiatives, Kernel/Production Support and High Density Computing. He continues to develop expertise in technologies that improve the speed of the electronic trading systems platforms, cut costs through initiatives that reduce the overall support and infrastructure costs to the company, and monitor environment capacity. Kutty joined the exchange in 2002 and has held positions of increasing responsibility in the Technology Division since that time. |
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Peter Lankford, Director, Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Peter Lankford is founder and director of the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC). STAC conducts private and public hands-on research into the latest technology stacks for capital markets firms and their vendors. STAC provides optimization expertise, advanced tools, and simulated trading environments in STAC Labs. Public STAC Reports, available for free at www.STACresearch.com, document the capability of specific software and hardware to handle key trading workloads such as real-time market data, analytics, and order execution. STAC also facilitates the STAC Benchmark Council, an organization of leading trading firms and vendors that specifies standard ways to measure the performance of trading solutions. Prior to STAC, Peter was Senior Vice President of Information Management Solutions at Reuters, where he led the $240M market data systems business for 3 years. Peter's team led Reuters into the business of low-latency direct exchange feeds and catalyzed the widespread adoption of Linux on Wall Street by making RMDS the first major product for the securities industry on that platform. During his 8 years with Reuters, Peter also oversaw strategic marketing for realtime datafeeds and TIBCO-based enterprise integration solutions. Prior to Reuters, Peter held management positions at Citibank, First Chicago, and operating-system maker IGC. |
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Greg MacSweeney, Editor-in-Chief, Wall Street & Technology Greg MacSweeney has covered technology for the past nine years, mostly in financial services. A frequent moderator and speaker at industry events, Mr. MacSweeney is currently Editor-in-Chief of Wall Street & Technology Magazine, a TechWeb publication. Prior to joining Wall Street & Technology magazine, Mr. MacSweeney also worked for Insurance & Technology Magazine and Bank Systems & Technology Magazine, both TechWeb publications. In addition, Mr. MacSweeney covered technology for buy-side institutional investment organizations at Global Investment Technology, a biweekly news magazine. During his career Mr. MacSweeney also covered automation technology and enterprise applications for the manufacturing industry while he was managing editor for Managing Automation Magazine, a Thomas Publishing Co. publication. |
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Kerry Massaro, Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Trading Kerry has covered Wall Street for over ten years. She began her career covering the real estate market while working for Institutional Investor. She went on to cover back-office operations and technology, while managing editor of Operations Management, and corporate finance, while managing editor of Corporate Financing Week, Institutional Investor's flagship breaking news weekly. The last seven years of her career was as Editor-in-Chief of Wall Street & Technology, where, in addition to revamping the magazine, she helped launch a successful event business and co-founded Advanced Trading. While editor of Advanced Trading she co-launched the Buy Side Trading Summit, an elite event for head traders and technology execs on the buy side and Advancedtrading.com, a web site that offers a multitude of information and tools to the buy side. |
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Robert Newhouse, CEO, Ballista Robert Newhouse is CEO of Ballista, the first-ever equity options liquidity pool for block trades and delta-neutral/complex transactions. An industry veteran with 15 years experience in financial services, Newhouse has played a management role with technology design, engineering and platform implementation at various entities, including Island ECN, ABN AMRO, TORC Financial and Orbit II Partners. Ballista aggregates public and non-public liquidity via a single electronic platform, significantly enhancing the institutional options trading experience. |
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Melanie Rodier, Associate Editor, Wall Street & Technology Melanie Rodier has worked as a print and broadcast journalist for over 10 years, covering business and finance, general news, and film trade news. Prior to joining Wall Street & Technology in April 2007, Melanie lived in Paris, where she worked for the International Herald Tribune, and Rome, where she wrote for Reuters and Screen International, a film trade publication. Melanie was born in London, and graduated from Oxford University where she studied Spanish and Italian. She is also a fluent French speaker. |
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Steve Rubinow, CIO, NYSE Euronext Steve Rubinow is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, NYSE Euronext. He is responsible for most technology endeavors at the company. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Mr. Rubinow was Chief Technology Officer of Archipelago Holdings, Inc, prior to its merger with the NYSE in 2006. He was Chief Technology Officer since July 2001 and was responsible for Archipelago's software development, database development, quality assurance, operations, and client connectivity areas, whose staff is located in Chicago, New York, Orlando and San Francisco. Prior to Archipelago, Mr. Rubinow worked in Silicon Valley as Senior Vice President and Chief Information/Technology Officer at NextCard, Inc., a leading Internet provider of consumer credit that had a successful IPO in 1999. He was responsible for all aspects of technology including software and database engineering, operations, architecture and quality assurance. Prior to joining NextCard, he was the Chief Information Officer at another successful start-up, AdKnowledge, Inc. which was acquired by CMGI in 2001. Mr. Rubinow was Vice President, Corporate Management Information Systems at Fidelity Investments where he developed an Information Architecture to integrate the information housed in a vast array of software and hardware technologies across Fidelity's 40+ divisions. He also developed critical systems for use in the core mutual fund investment area and evaluated new companies as potential candidates for investment by Fidelity Ventures. He served on the adjunct faculty in Computer Science at DePaul University from 1986-1994, where he taught undergraduate and graduate classes in database technology and analytic systems. Steve earned the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry and a M.B.A. at the University of Illinois (ranking first in his class) as well as a M.S. in Computer Science at DePaul University. |
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Ivy Schmerken, Editor-at-Large, Wall Street & Technology Ivy Schmerken is Editor at Large of Advanced Trading and Wall Street & Technology Magazine. Ivy currently covers electronic trading and exchanges, market data and has written extensively about algorithmic trading. She also writes ibig picturei cover and feature stories on market-structure and topics such as compliance with Reg NMS. In 2006, Ivy won a regional award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) for her column At the Close in Advanced Trading. Ivy was Editor-in-Chief of WST from 1993 through the end of 2000 and named Editorial Director in 1999. Ivy joined WS&T in 1985 as an associate editor when the publication was called Wall Street Computer Review. Over the past 19 years, Ivy has reported on and authored countless numbers of articles on the automation of the securities and investment industries, spanning such topics as direct-access and algorithmic trading, order management systems, market-data delivery, fixed income systems, wealth management technology, offshore outsourcing, wireless technology and compliance. Ivy was also the founding editor of Financial Trader, a monthly magazine for the institutional trading community. Ivy speaks at industry conferences and has been interviewed by CNN and TechTV. Previously, Ivy was a reporter at Pensions & Investments covering institutional investing. She has also freelanced for publications including Investment Dealers' Digest, The Daily News and American Banker. She graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., majoring in English and American literature. |
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Malcolm West, Chief Software Architect, HSBC's Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets division Mr. West is the Chief Software Architect of HSBC Securities' Global Banking and Markets division. Malcolm is a Wall Street professional with over 15 years experience in the design, development and deployment of technology solutions for Financial Services firms, primarily in support of front office business activities. His areas of expertise include high performance trading solutions with current focus on Event Data Architecture (EDA). |
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