Apart from Japanese equity trading, leads initiatives in the electronic trading space for fidelity throughout Asia. Previous roles include interest rate derivatives sales, and risk management consulting.
Traded convertible bond at Mizuho Securities, and joined BlackRock in June 2008.
Glenn Lesko is CEO of Instinet in Asia, and is responsible for the firm’s business units – Instinet Japan Limited, Instinet Pacific Limited, Instinet Singapore Services Pte. Limited and Instinet Australia Clearing Services Pty Limited – in the region. Mr. Lesko, a CFA charterholder, previously headed Instinet’s U.S.-based International Trading Group. Mr. Lesko joined Instinet in 2006 from CF Global Trading, where he had served as a partner since 2003, and before that, served two years as a managing director at Deutsche Bank, directing the firm’s international trading desk. Prior to that, Mr. Lesko spent 10 years at ABN AMRO and its affiliates, first heading its Asian trading desk in Hong Kong and later its international trading desk in New York.
Senior Engineer Eric Elvambuena has been with Eagle Seven since December 10, 2006. Since Elvambuena has been employed at Eagle Seven he plays an important role in developing software. Eric Elvambuena graduated from Purdue University on May 8, 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
The Panel speaker will be Justin Short, Head of Product Development for Asia. Justin Short is Head of Electronic Product Develepment for BAML in the Asia region. He started his career in London in 1996 and has built nearly a decade of experience in Asian electronic trading since coming to Tokyo in 2000. He manages quantitative research and idea generation for the benchmark, order routing and liquidity engines.
- Ph.D in EE
- More than 10 years of experience in Telecom and IT in Japan
- Broad understanding of network and hosting services in Japan
- Fair understanding of Exchanges operations and requirements in Japan
- Pioneer of proximity services in KVH
- Initiated the proximity for TOCOM, TFX, and OSE.
- Fair understanding of buyside/sell side needs in terms of network and hosting both in Japan and overseas.
- I talk on a daily basis with domestic and overseas traders on their infra needs and entry to Japan market.
Colin is Director of Business Development for the Asia Pacific region. Within this role, Colin is responsible for the coordination of strategic sales and for the fostering of productive business relationships with IPC’s partners throughout APAC. He works closely with the sales and operations teams and covers IPC’s trading systems and network services divisions. Prior to this role Colin served for 2 years in IPC’s HQ in Jersey City as Director of Product Management, focusing on IPC’s desktop productivity solutions. Prior to that, Colin held several roles within IPC in Asia Pacific, including Director of Customer Solutions APAC and Japan Operations Manager. Colin graduated from Hull University in the UK with a degree in computer software engineering. He moved to Japan in order to undertake a research project within KDD’s R&D division and to study Japanese. Prior to joining IPC, Colin served as the Asia Pacific Information Systems Manager for Bloomberg L.P.
- Portfolio manager, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (till Jun 2009), managed > $1 billion hedge fund portfolio
- 25 year experience in institutional investor both in Tokyo and London
- Resona Bank, managed > $2 billion Alternative portfolio
- Hachijuni Bank, managed >$ 500 mil Alternative portfolio
- Kleinwort Benson, Nikko Securities in London
- BA, Keio University
- Visiting professor at Tokyo University
He is a founder and President & CEO of Aino Investment Corporation (“Aino”). Aino is Japan based asset allocation firm that has two major missions that leverages on Mr. Ohwada’s 20 years of hedge fund investment experience while he was with ORIX Group. The first is a construction of global hedgefund managers portfolio. This business model comes from experience and expertise of joint venture between Orix Corporation and Commodities Corporation, reputable and legendary one of the first FoFs in the United States, of which Mr. Ohwada finds the origin of his career. He successes the business model “Pursuit of absolute returns, with long gamma strategies of global multi-manager fund” in Japan. Another is a Japan Hedgefund Managers Development Program, with a belief that there will be Major League players from Japan in the near future like it happened in the US in 70’s and 80’s, and in Europe in 90’s. This project will identify Gifted Hedgefund Managers in Japanese markets and offer them the best investing environment to focus and further development of their strategies.
Joined Resona Bank in 1999. Responsible for the trading in equities, bonds, foreign exchange and money market in Asset Management Div. Started the career as a buy side trader at Daiwa Asset Management in 1998. Joined Barclays as a new graduate in 1988. Traded Euro dollar warrants and Nikkei 225 future & options as the property trader and traded Japanese equities as a property and an execution trader. Master of Economics. Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan. 1999年りそな銀行入社。アセットマネジメント部において株式、債券、外国為替、短期資金のトレーディング業務を統括。
1998年大和投信入社。日本株式、外国株式のトレーディング業務に従事。
1988年バークレイズ証券会社入社。ユーロドル建てワラントの自己売買、日経225先物・オプションの自己売買、日本株式の自己売買、執行業務に従事。
経済学修士
日本証券アナリスト協会検定会員
Hiroshi Ishiguro (M’) received a D.Eng. in systems engineering from the Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He is currently Professor of Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University (2009-). He is also Visiting Group Leader (2002-) of the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, where he previously worked as Visiting Researcher (1999-2002). He was previously Research Associate (1992-1994) in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University and Associate Professor (1998-2000) in the Department of Social Informatics at Kyoto University. He was also Visiting Scholar (1998-1999) at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He was Associate Professor (2000-2001) and Professor (2001-2002) in the Department of Computer and Communication Sciences at Wakayama University. He then moved to Department of Adaptive Machine Systems in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University as a Professor (2002-2009). His research interests include distributed sensor systems, interactive robotics, and android science.
Babak Hodjat is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Sandwalk Capital, a systematic trading advisory firm that applies a proprietary evolutionary algorithm approach to the problem of pattern recognition in financial markets. Babak's experience stems from the Silicon Valley, where, as an entrepreneur, he successfully developed, patented and implemented a number of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions. Babak was Senior Director of Engineering at Sybase iAnywhere from 2004 to 2008 where he led Mobile Solutions Engineering including the AvantGo Platform and the mBusiness Anywhere and Answers Anywhere product suites. Starting in 1998, Babak was the co-founder, CTO and Board member of Dejima Inc., which was acquired by Sybase in April 2004. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima's patented agent-oriented Distributed AI technology applied to intelligent interfaces for enterprise and mobile computing. Dejima was one of only four private firms enrolled in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)-funded Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Observes (CALO) Project, managed by SRI International and one of the largest AI projects ever funded. Babak also led several large computer networking and machine learning projects at Neda, Inc. Babak is a published scholar in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence. He received his PhD in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan.
Giovanni is Managing Partner at FGS Capital LLP, where he is the CEO and is responsible for portfolio management. Previously he was Associate Director of hedge funds at First Quadrant Ltd, where he set up and was the portfolio manager of its Pan European long/short equity market neutral portfolios, and was responsible for UK-based hedge fund business. He has extensive experience of managing equity market neutral portfolios since 1995, when he joined the firm. Prior to that he was a tenured Research Fellow with the Economics Department of the University of Bologna in Italy, and he has held appointments with Barra International and Eastern Group Plc. He co-founded the Real Options Group to look at research and applications of Real Options to corporate finance and investments. He is an active member of AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association) and a Research Committee member of Inquire UK. He is a Board member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). He is the European Chair of the Steering Group of the Investor Risk Committee (IRC) of IAFE working on guidelines for disclosure and transparency for hedge funds. Giovanni is a CFA Charterholder.
Mr. O’Friel is the Managing Partner of MOF Capital, an alternative investment fund focused on investments in Japan and China. Prior to starting MOF Capital, Mark O’Friel was with Steel Partners Japan G.K. as Managing Director and head of the Tokyo office in 2008 and 2009. Previously, Mr. O’Friel jointly led Morgan Stanley’s U.S. proprietary trading business in North America from 2002 to 2005. There he directed a multi-strategy long short group with two quantitative market neutral portfolios and six sector long short portfolios. Mr. O’Friel formerly directed Morgan Stanley’s Equity Division in Japan, acting as both senior equity risk manager and as a member of the firm’s Global Equity Operating Committee from 1996 to 2002. Under his leadership, Morgan Stanley achieved leading market share in the Japanese equity market and received Institutional Investor’s top ranking for equity research in Japan. Mr. O’Friel served on the committees of the Tokyo Stock Exchange that wrote the regulations and guidelines for program trading, options trading and new technologies. He also represented Morgan Stanley on the board of the Osaka Stock Exchange. He began his Morgan Stanley career as an equity derivatives and program trader, introducing some of the first quantitative trading strategies in the Japanese market. Mr. O’Friel began his career in Japan as a market strategist for Sanyo Securities. Mr. O’Friel serves on the board of the Kennedy Child Study Center in New York City. He is active with the Harvard School of Public Health China Initiative which partners with the Chinese Ministry of Health to advance health and social development in China, Room to Read, Math for America and Harvard College. He is a graduate of Harvard College.