About Your Speakers
Steve's role within the COO office of Global Markets is to establish and maintain a market data strategy that will provide the EMEA & Asia business with the most competitive content, tools and services, which scale to the business requirements in the region.
Sally Hinds has worked for over 25 years in the Financial Services industry. She has an extremely diverse background, having worked for end-user firms (Morgan Grenfell, UBS and CSFB), exchanges (London Stock Exchange) and market data vendors (Telerate, Reuters and Pont Data ). She joined HSBC in October 2005 to head up the global market data team, and in April 2006 also took on responsibility for instrument reference data. Prior to joining HSBC she worked for two consultancy firms (BCS and Capco) where she managed a number of market and reference data projects for global investment banks. Sally was the founding member of the Information Providers User Group (IPUG), the market data industry pressure group and is on the board of the EDM Council.
Juan joined UBS in 2002 and is now the Global Head of Market Data Sourcing for all UBS AG business units. Juan has over 13 years experience in the market data industry. Prior to joining UBS AG, he was at Thomson Financial where he was a Data Acquisition Regional Manager - Asia and a Product Manager/Content. Juan has an M.B.A. from the V.U.B. in Brussels, Belgium.
After finishing his B.A as market economist in 1999 at Aarhus Business School, John moved to the Netherlands, where he continued studyin g marketing and international management at Hanze University in Groningen. Having finished his studies in 2001 he was employed in the financial information industry as data analyst with Telekurs Financial and stayed there until 2005, where he joined Telekurs' strategic partner on the Scandinavian market; VP Financial Information. Not long after being employed at VP Financial John was promoted to team leader, sales support & client relations. During his nearly three years with VP Financial, John dedicated his time to presenting and advising Scandinavian financial institutions on data management solutions. Having been on the vendor side of the industry for most of his professional career, he decided to join Saxo Bank in December 2007. As team leader for the data management and department he's responsible for streamlining global data handling processes, securing data quality, implementation of data feed solutions, and vendor account management
Andre Kelekis is currently Head of Strategy for Market Data at BNP Paribas. His role is to analyse the market data landscape including all factors such as regulations, mergers, IT innovations, etc, that can impact it. He works on the offer side (vendors, new ventures to widen the offer) as well as the demand side (BNP Paribas business lines). Recently, he focused on the MiFID directive and its impacts on Market Data and Market structure for the different BNP Paribas business lines. He was previously Head of Market Data projects from 2002 to 2006.
Based in London, Mike heads up Thomson Reuters' real-time information business with global responsibility for all datafeed revenue, including the direct feed and tick history services. Mike has been at Thomson Reuters for over twelve years, much of that time spent in Tokyo as Marketing Director, Japan and, prior to his current position, in Sydney where he built and ran Reuters' Asian Service Centre and Business Direct function.
Catalin joined Dexia Credit Local France in 2004. He restructured, expanded and optimised the Market Data Services/ Infrastructure though seriously reducing costs.
Expert in Financial Markets and Risk Management, with more than 13 years of experience leading different IT areas, with exposure to the whole business cycle. He started his career at Deutsche Bank, assuming various management roles at Global Markets and Investment Banking IT division (Equities, Money Markets, Derivatives or Credit, amongst others). Afterwards, he moved to BBVA Global Markets IT, initially being responsible for Capital Markets IT Design and Development team, and finally gaining the Manager of Equities and Derivatives IT position. He joined Santander Group in March 2007 for directing global corporate initiatives on EDM.
Lodovic is responsible for developing the company's product strategy to access new Equities markets, take advantage of new regulations and develop new services. Prior to joining CA Cheuvreux, Ludovic ran Reuters Risk Management Business unit in Paris, Tokyo, Asia and London.
Ludovic Is married with 2 daughters and holds an Information Technology MSCs and a Business Management MSCs.
Tony is responsible for Etrading Services for 50+ exchanges across 4 ISV’s and the Market data systems in Newedge Group. Currently key strategic initiatives are provide low latency and high availability solutions to a multi asset portfolio.
Ian Lauder joined PLUS in May 2008, having spent 4 years at BT Radianz where he was responsible for Business Development within the Exchange and ECN community. At PLUS, Ian is responsible for Business Development for market data, and wider commercial initiatives that PLUS engage in.
Martin has been an active participant in various standards initiatives including in the ISO 20022 and the EDM Council's Semantics Repository. He has been hired by a number of the tier 1 financial intuitions to assist in the deployment of Enterprise-wide Data Management processes and messaging architectures.
Charles Hermans is Head of Market Data Management at HVB in Munich, serving around 2000 market data users across the world. He has over 16 years of experience in market data management through numerous market data and trading room projects around the globe for Dutch consultancies Heyligers (1993 – 1999) and Screen Consultants (1999 – 2007). He has spent the last 4 years as an external consultant at HVB in Munich, running several trading room projects, restructuring the market data management organization and optimizing market data costs.
Kenneth Richmond is currently Managing Director and Global Head of Market Data at Citigroup. Previously, he headed applications development at The NASDAQ Stock Market, including market data applications, and the UTP SIP Tape C plan. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President, and head of applications development at Charles Schwab Capital Markets. He has been involved with Market Data and it's evolution for over 20 years. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, and a BA in Economics from Clark University.
Peter Sharp is currently European head of market data for Morgan Stanley, a role he has occupied since 2006. Prior to this he was head of the Morgan Stanley market data projects group. In his current role he has overall responsibility for European market data technology, including direct feeds.
Nigel Phelan is an experienced infrastructure architect working in the market data department at JP Morgan Chase. He is currently working on low latency market data pricing systems.
Lionel has worked in the Market Data industry for over 15 years, first as a vendor at Bloomberg and then Reuters and UBS. Lionel's current responsibilities include the technical service delivery of real and non-real time market data, the provisioning of services to end users, the management of all market data costs and the definition and execution of the bank's strategic agenda around market data in both commercial and technical areas.
Nick is a Director and Head of Market Data & Middleware Technology within the Nomura Bank European Infrastructure Division. Nick transitioned to Nomura in Nov '08 as part of the EU Lehman Brothers acquisition having spent 7 years with the firm as a specialist in Market Data, Middleware Messaging, & Process Automation Technologies. With market data update rates on an exploding growth curve, it is critical for financial organisations to know if their infrastructure can keep up.
Hardeep is an industry professional with over 15 years of experience in the Financial Services sector. Currently Hardeep is Group Chairman of IPUG (the Information Providers User Group (www.ipug.org) and joint Chairman of the IPUG Research Working Group.
Peter Lankford is founder and director of the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC® - www.STACresearch.com). STAC facilitates the STAC Benchmark Council™, an organization of leading trading firms and vendors that specifies standard ways to measure the performance of trading solutions. STAC helps end-user firms relate the performance of new technologies to that of their existing systems. It does this by performing public and private hands-on research into the latest solution stacks and by providing customers and vendors with STAC Test Harnesses™ for rapid execution of the standardized tests in their own labs.
Prior to STAC, Peter was Senior Vice President of Information Management Solutions at Reuters, where he led the $240M market data systems business. 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 the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) the first major product for the securities industry on that platform. Prior to Reuters, Peter held management positions at Citibank, First Chicago Corp., and operating-system maker IGC. Peter has an MBA, Masters in International Relations, and Bachelors in Chemistry from the University of Chicago.
Jerry heads Alternative Execution at Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux, providing DMA, Algorithmic Trading and Program Trading into European, US and Asian markets, combined with International CFD's. Prior to Cheuvreux, Jerry was a Director of Liberty SA, providing a global cross border order routing service. Jerry built his experience as head of Global Operations & Marketing for Quotron International (Citibank) and prior to that was founder and MD of Northgate Computer Services, a financial consultancy & systems business.
Evan is a Managing Director at Newedge LLC selling electronic trading solutions to global clients. After graduating from M.I.T., he started his finance career at Bear Stearns & Co. There he focused on International FIX client connectivity. Evan moved to London in 2001 to join Bear Stearns International Limited. Over a 5 year period, Evan built up both the Direct Market Access business from the ground up leading in to the formation of what was called the Bear Stearns Execution Team (BEST). From 2006 Evan's focus turned to Algorithmic Trading strategies and Transaction Cost Analysis. He joined Newedge in late 2008 to set up an Algorithmic Trading department. This group will leverage Newedge's superior multi-asset electronic trading capabilities and will provide a new layer of dedicated support and execution consulting towards algorithmic, DMA and portfolio trading clients. Newedge now offer's an extensive set of Algorithmic Trading and Transaction Cost Analysis, Global DMA in Equities/Futures/Options, and electronic FX from a single platform.
Alex joined the Equities & Derivatives division of BNP Paribas in 2006 with a specific remit to expand the Global Execution Services (GES) product line within the UK markets. GES offers world wide cash equity and listed derivatives execution capabilities ranging from vanilla trading, Direct Market Access, Algorithmic and Global portfolio trading & commission management. Previously Alex worked as a sales trader initially at Paribas then ING Barings & latterly at Macquarie where she was Divisional Director for Pan Asian sales trading for UK & Europe.
Adam joined Nomura as part of the recent acquisition of Lehman Brothers, he is responsible for the portfolio, electronic and futures sales/trading execution channels that Nomura offers in Europe.
Robert is one of the original members of Credit Suisse's Advanced Execution Services (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.
Brian Schwieger manages the quantitative engineering, execution desk and execution consulting associated with Merrill Lynch's algorithmic product in Europe. In this capacity, he leverages 14 years of trading experience to help traders and clients understand and identify the algorithmic strategies and tactics which best suit their objectives.
Peter is an expert in Financial Markets, with more than 10 years of experience in trading and front office systems. he joined Commerzbank AG in 2001 as Head of Trading Services, being responsible for the global trading infrastructure of Commerzbank AG and its subsidiaries.
Mark oversees the global Data Products business which is responsible for the development and management of information products and services in support of NYSE Euronext's global markets
Steve has extensive experience managing business relationships with financial markets data, software, and index vendors. He negotiates data, intellectual property, and software Agreements for corporate internal use, as well as for external content redistribution. Steve is currently coordinating the consolidation and centralization of index licensing on a global basis for Credit Suisse.
Georg Gross heads the section Front Office Data & Analytics, the real-time data business of Deutsche Börse. With its real-time data feed family CEF®, Deutsche Börse runs one of the most efficient and fastest data feed systems of all international stock exchanges. Georg started with DTB Deutsche Terminbörse (the predecessor of Eurex) in 1990. After filling several positions in Product Development, Strategic Marketing and Sales he has been heading the Front Office Data department (formerly known as Information Services Streaming Data) of Deutsche Börse AG since 1997. Born in 1964 in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Georg holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Mannheim. Charles Hermans, Head of Marke.
Wendy has worked at the London Stock Exchange for over 15 years, and is responsible for leading the growth and diversification of London and Italian, Real Time Market Data revenue through business and product development. Wendy’s portfolio includes; Infolect, the Exchange’s real time information service, Extranex, the IP feed for Market Data, hosting services and STX, the Exchange’s closed user phone network.