Manager of Reference & Vendor Data AIG

Frank Hochheimer started his career as Deputy Chairman of Mathematics at New York Institute of Technology where he taught Mathematics and wrote computer assisted instruction manuals for the U.S. Department of Health and Education. He then moved to Merrill Lynch where he spent the next twenty eight years holding several positions including Director of Commodity Research, Manager and Director of several data areas including Financial Strategies, CMO’s and finally the Merrill Lynch Security Master Reference Data and Vendor Management department. Frank holds two masters degrees, one in Natural Science and one in Econometrics. Frank has written many articles on Computerized Research applied to Commodities and is a member of the EDM Council, the DMD of the SIA, Market Technicians Association and the NABE. He is listed in various editions of Who’s Who

Currently Frank is with AIG and is the Manager of Reference Data and Vendor Management for the Enterprise Risk Management Division.

Manager, Counterparty Data AIG Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Steven Steinerman is Manager of Counterparty Data for AIG Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) where he is responsible for the overall quality, content and timelines of business entity (counterparty) data used within various Enterprise programs such as Credit Risk (CRM), Market Risk (MRM) and Economic Capital. Before joining AIG, Steven held a variety of operations and technology positions at institutions such as AXA, Deutsche Bank, GoldenSource, Sungard and Credit Suisse Asset Management. Steven is an acknowledged subject matter expert in Reference Data/Master data and CDI. Steven is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), associate member of Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and is a member of the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ)

Director of Client On-Boarding Barclays Capital

Frank Principe is a Director and head of Client On-Boarding for Barclays Capital Americas. In this position he leads the Client Identification Team and Static Data Management groups in ensuring a smooth transition for new client relationships into the bank.

Frank joined Barclays Capital in 1996 and during the past 12 years has held a number of senior positions in Operations, Finance and Human Resources. Prior to joining Barclays he work for Citigroup for 17 years as Finance Controller for the National Operations Group, Retail Bank and Commercial Real Estate and Business Banking units. Frank holds a B.S. in Finance as well as an Associates in Aerospace Engineering. He is married with 2 children and is a private pilot.

Associate Director Barclays Capital

Robert Lepre joined Barclays Capital in 2005 as a Manager & is currently an Associate Director of KYC, within the Client On-Boarding Group. Rob is responsible for the overall KYC (Know Your Customer) process for the Americas.

Prior to joining Barlcays, he worked for Lehman Brothers for 7 years, where he held various roles. These roles included New Accounts Analyst, Fixed Income Sales Support Manager, Product Data Manager & Client Identification and Documentation Manager. Rob is a CAMS member and holds a B.S. in International Business from SUNY Plattsburgh.

VP / Chief Data Architect Citi Architecture & Technology Engineering (CATE)

Michael Simone’s career has spanned application development, data center operations, database administration and data architecture. He has held managerial and architecture positions at top-tier financial firms such as Lehman Bros., the Depository Trust Company, Salomon Bros., Smith Barney and Citigroup. He is a contributing author to “Mission Critical Systems Management” by Yuval Lirov, which is considered a seminal work in that space. He received his BBA in MIS from Pace University and his MS in CS from the University of Phoenix.

Director of Content Development FactSet

Ken has worked in the financial content business for over 25 years. After positions at Technimetrics and Thomson Financial, Ken was a founder of the LionShares database of global equity ownership content. Since LionShares' sale to FactSet Research Systems Inc. in 2001, Ken has been involved in the development and deployment of FactSet's entity driven content model which links all entity and issue driven content sets available via the FactSet platform. He currently serves as the Director of Content Development.

Vice President of Product Solutions GoldenSource

Neil Edelstein joined GoldenSource in 2007 as Vice President of Product Solutions. In his role, Neil has extended GoldenSource product line capabilities to reflect buy side investment strategies. He is responsible for GoldenSource Derivative Business Solution, which aggregates all derivative reference, counterparty and collateral information in single platform and thin client application.

Edelstein has more than 30 years experience in the financial services industry, including reference data and pricing expertise. He has previously held roles at Standard & Poors, Interactive Data, Thomson (as President of Muller Data), and SunGard, where he was Managing Director. Edelstein has also worked as an independent consultant for DTCC and Vanguard and has led Accenture’s Data Management practice.

Vice President, Investment Banking Solutions GoldenSource

Sam has over 15 years experience in the financial services industry, with extensive expertise in fixed income operations.

As Vice President of Investment Banking Solutions at GoldenSource, Sam is responsible for GoldenSource’s investment banking sell-side clients and focusing on building out solutions based on customer requirements. Weibel joined GoldenSource in April 2001, serving as a business analyst lead and then progressed to product manager for securities and product operations prior to his current role.

Previously, Sam spent four years at Merrill Lynch & Co, undertaking various roles in derivative operations, fixed income operations and debt and derivative control and reporting.

Vice President Jefferies & Company, Inc.

Sanjay Nihalani is the Vice President at Jefferies & Company, Inc., recognized expert in the Data Management and Data Architecture space. Mr. Nihalani has over 20 years of experience and has led several large engagements related to MDM, Security Master, Reference Data Management, Counterparty Management, Data Quality and Data Warehousing, providing both strategic and operational solutions.

Prior to joining the Jefferies, Mr. Nihalani was a Vice President with Bank of America and prior to that he was an Associate Partner at Accenture, leading the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence practice. In his prior roles, he was a recognized subject matter expert with strong management and delivery skills. Mr. Nihalani, has managed several global initiatives, with matrix team structures which included team formations and collaborations with offshore vendors for global implementation and deployment. On the technology front, he has in-depth knowledge and expertise in implementing very large and high performance technical solutions, has extensively used other technologies like Java, J2EE and middleware technology for complex legacy integration.

Mr. Nihalani is a certified project manager from PMI and has extensive education in business strategy techniques, information engineering, systems development, and structured methodologies. On several projects he has played the role of subject matter expert (SME) to review designs and guided clients on the emerging technology and techniques to build next generation data warehousing architectures. He has been an acknowledged speaker on topics related to data warehousing and data management.

Principal Kingland Systems

Tony Brownlee is currently responsible for Kingland Systems’ business development in the financial services industry, personally specializing in engineering and managing custom solutions developed for process engineering, complex data, data management, and risk management problems. Mr. Brownlee was instrumental in the creation of Kingland Systems’ Data Solutions business and in the development and management of Kingland’s innovative Ames, Iowa data research operation. Mr. Brownlee is a member of the SIFMA Data Management Division and FISD/SIIA, and is active throughout the industry in driving entity data best practices

Vice President GMIS Product Data Services Merrill Lynch

I have been with Merrill Lynch for 23 years, with all that time in the product data area. The group has evolved from at first supplying government bond data to the trading area to supplying all product data throughout the entire firm. I have been responsible for among other recent projects, instituting an automated version of the firm's restricted list, the firm's municipal RTTM process, and the centralization of the firm's structured mortgage process. My main focus among those other efforts is managing the process of assigning internal company identifiers to all of the firm's unlinked inventory and collateral positions for risk management purposes and then maintaining that information from an issuer to issue standpoint. It also stores the data on a parent-child hierarchical perspective.

Program Director FISD

Bill is Program Director for Securities Processing Automation for FISD. In this role, he concentrates on the intersections between technology and business practice. Special emphasis is in the areas of Standards, where he manages the Standards Steering Committee, Shadow Groups to track Standards developments, represents FISD members on several ISO Committees and is responsible for maintaining MDDL. Nichols was Co-founder/CEO of a research firm acquired by Thomson, after which he spent 7 years at Thomson Financial. He has an extensive background in Internet architecture and business models, and was retained as an expert witness regarding online traffic and advertising models in Homestore vs. AOL. Much of the past few years have been spent consolidating portfolio companies for venture-backed entities. Most recently, he was consulting on compliance-related product development for Anti-Money Laundering offerings.

VP & Director of Global Technology TD Securities

Eric Sutherland is the Lead Data Steward and Vice President & Director in TD Securities. In his 12 years with TD, he has been an innovator in leading initiatives to develop and implement cutting edge market and credit risk methodologies, meeting and surpassing regulatory requirements. Most recently, he was asked to take a leadership role in the creation of the Office of Data Management to consolidate and standardize data practices across TD Securities and work with other members of TD Bank Financial Group.

Director of Sales Client & Research Technology Wachovia

J T. is head of Global Sales, Client and Research. He is responsible for the support of the following lines of business: research, client analytics, syndication and sales. He has 4 direct managers and leads a team of 50. He has been at Wachovia since 2005. Prior to Wachovia, J.T spent five years at Goldman Sachs where he led the Equities Sales Technology Division. He joined CIT Group – Lucent Technology Product Finance in 1999 where he held the position of Vice President, Operation and Ecommerce Manager. He worked at Andersen Consulting and JP Morgan.