TradeTech Liquidity 2009 Speaker Faculty:
Based in London, John Barker heads the EMEA region for Liquidnet—the global institutional marketplace. John is responsible for the growth of Liquidnet throughout the EMEA region, ensuring Liquidnet’s Members enjoy an expanding liquidity pool and achieve best execution. Prior to joining Liquidnet in June 2001, John served as Head of Equity Operations at Tokyo-Mitsubishi International—a Japanese international bank based in London—and as Head of Trade Support for Deutsche Bank (also in London). From 1988 to 1998, John was Director of Operations at Instinet Global Services Limited. In this role, he was responsible for successfully implementing Instinet’s SETS trading capability in London, as well as the introduction of the CREST settlement system throughout the UK and Ireland and the remote membership model used with the Swedish Stock Exchange. Before 1988, John held leadership roles at Yamaichi International (Europe) and Midland Bank/HSBC.
Scott Burrill, CFA, is a managing director and a partner at the firm. At Rosenblatt, Scott has been responsible for the development of the firm’s pre-trade and post-trade analysis tools and more generally Rosenblatt Integrated Transaction Analytics (RITA), a forward thinking framework and toolkit for genuinely integrating TCA into the investment process rather than having it exist separately in the marketing, compliance or trading departments as it does at many firms. Scott also leads the firm's consulting efforts with money managers on topics ranging from portfolio construction, capacity analysis, and rebalancing frequency to strategic operations assessments. In his more than 17 years of experience in the financial services industry prior to joining Rosenblatt in 2005, Scott served in key roles at several large buy-side firms, namely Head of Trading Strategies at $100 billion+ Russell Investment Group, a portfolio manager/trader of both active and indexed assets at behemoth CalPERS, and Director of Trading and Member of both the Investment and Executive Committees at Westpeak Global Advisors, a quantitative equity investment manager which grew to over $10 billion in domestic and international assets during his tenure. Scott is a graduate of UC Davis and UOP McGeorge School of Law.
Matthieu Chardot has been heading the sales effort for Global Execution Service (GES) Europe since March 2009. Prior to this appointment, he had been Head of the DMA Sales for Asia and Japan from 2005 to 2007 before selling GES’ services on foreign markets to US clients.
Matthieu Chardot started his career in 2002 at CA Indosuez Cheuvreux in Paris. In August 2005, he was part of the Cash Equity brokerage operation business from Credit Agricole in Tokyo acquired by BNP Paribas.
Brian Gallagher is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and with the firm since 2003. With over 17 years of industry experience, Brian currently manages the MSET European desk. In this role, he is responsible for all client coverage and distribution of MSET’s algorithmic and direct access offering for equities, options, and futures products .In addition Brian had managed the US coverage desk for MSET in the US from 2005 to 2008, Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Brian spent 5 years with Instinet focusing on electronic trading to hedge funds.
Brian holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and received his MBA from Fordham University.
Joe Gawronski is the President/COO of Rosenblatt Securities. Joe is formerly a securities lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell, a Vice President in the equities division with Salomon Smith Barney and COO of Linx LLC, a block crossing network start-up. He received his B.A. in Public and International Affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is an Allied Member of the NYSE, a member of the NYSE Hearing Board, a member of the Advisory Boards of both The Journal of Trading and Wall Street & Technology, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the author or co-author of several published papers on equity market structure and a leading lecturer, moderator and panelist on the topic.
Jeremy Grant, returned to the FT’s London office in March, 2008 after six years with the FT in the United States. As Senior Corporate Reporter he covers British business news and trends, as well as stock and derivatives exchanges/clearing and emerging trading platforms in Europe.
Most recently (2005-08) he was Washington, DC-based US Financial Correspondent covering financial markets regulation (SEC, CFTC etc), capital markets competitiveness, US corporate governance and the US accounting/auditing sector. Before that he was based in Chicago (2002-05) covering US futures and options exchanges, and held the posts of US Automotive Correspondent, US Consumer Industries Correspondent (including food, obesity, genetically modified crops, agriculture/agribusiness), and handled manufacturing, business and arts stories in Chicago and the region.
Grant started his career at the FT as the paper’s first Vietnam Correspondent based in Hanoi (1994-98), followed by reporting in the London-based Capital Markets team and over three years as editor i/c European corporate/business coverage.
He graduated with a B.A. (Joint Hons.) in German & Politics from Bristol University in 1986.
Steve is responsible for Fidessa’s strategic development across new markets worldwide. He also heads up the firm’s strategy in response to the new post-MiFID trading landscape. As part of Fidessa’s Intelligent Liquidity Access strategy, Steve manages the firm’s initiatives in conjunction with both the established exchanges and the new and emerging alternative liquidity venues and dark pools.
Steve has also played a significant part in bringing the Fidessa Fragmentation Index (FFI) to the wider trading community. He provides a regular commentary on the issues surrounding fragmentation of the markets on the newly created community forum launched recently in conjunction with the FFI.
On joining Fidessa in 2004 Steve led the development of the company’s multi-asset trading capabilities. For four years, he worked to extend the core strengths of the Fidessa platform and ensure that all enhancements support an asset agnostic architecture to deliver multi- and cross-asset trading across its product lines globally.
Prior to joining Fidessa Steve was the founder and CEO of specialist derivatives software house Future Dynamics which was one of the companies at the vanguard of the shift from open outcry to screen based trading in world derivatives markets. This business grew to be one of the major facilitators of workflow based derivatives trading and was eventually sold in 2004.
Eric Karpman has over 17 years of a broad financial industry experience and is currently a Business Manager at Bloomberg responsible for trading analytics and strategy consulting. His specific current initiatives at Bloomberg are centered on the improvements to the Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) and Indications of Interest (IOI) products. Prior to his current position, Eric was a Head of Trading Technology for Renaissance Capital. Eric also managed various trading initiatives at BNY Mellon Asset Management, Bear Stearns, JJKennyDrake division of Standard & Poor’s and Fuji Bank. Throughout his career, Eric and his teams have successfully implemented electronic trading systems with direct interfaces to the Street as well as the algorithmic, program and direct market access trading platforms for instant market analysis, decision-making capabilities and straight-through processing as well as post-trade analysis. Eric has also held a number of senior positions at FIX Protocol Limited where he was involved with the direction and strategy of this messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions. Eric holds an M.B.A. degree in Finance from the New York University Stern School of Business.
Robert 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, Robert was head of E-Commerce and Electronic Trading at Robertson Stephens. Throughout his 14 year career on Wall Street, he has been involved in the design, implementation, and marketing of numerous electronic and portfolio trading systems.
He graduated with a B.A. (Joint Hons.) in German & Politics from Bristol University in 1986.
Miranda Mizen is a principal at TABB Group, a research and advisory group that focuses on the capital markets. Before joining TABB Group, Miranda was senior vice president of transaction services at the American Stock Exchange, where she was responsible for the functional development of the Exchange’s hybrid trading platform for equities and Exchange Traded Funds. Prior to the Amex, she held senior positions at SBC Warburg (now UBS), Instinet Corporation and TowerGroup. At SG Warburg (incorporated into SBC Warburg), she was head of French equity trading and ran the equity risk positions for the group from the Paris office. She went on to implement strategic trading initiatives designed to create transparency and efficiency at both SBC Warburg and later at Instinet in London and New York. She served as a senior analyst at TowerGroup, focusing on technologies used by institutional brokers. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from University College Cardiff, Wales
Nick joined Marshall Wace LLP in 2008 and is Head of Quantitative Trading in London. Prior to this, he was at Citadel Investment Group in London and Chicago. He started his career in high frequency trading at Goldman Sach's Hull Group in the US. Nick has a BS in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Johnathan is Head of Centralised Dealing at Artemis, responsible for the secondary execution of all financial instruments. His further responsibilities include coordinating front office I.T implementation and being a key member of the Counterparty Risk Committee. Before joining Artemis in 2003, Johnathan was a sales trader with Cazenove & Co and held various positions within Cazenove since 1998.
Lilia Severina is Proximity Hosting Director at Interxion and spearheads the development of Interxion Financial Hubs across 11 European countries. Interxion proximity hubs allow financial services firms to colocate their trading platforms in close proximity to the financial markets and facilitate high frequency and low latency trading. Lilia has over 10 years experience in technology sector, having worked as an analyst at Gartner Group, product manager at France Telecom and Account Manager at Verizon Business. Lilia is qualified and experienced as equities and futures day trader. Her technical, business and direct trading experience allows Lilia to closely tailor Interxion’s solutions to its clients’ requirements. Lilia is currently working on Masters in Finance at Westminster University of London. She has studied linguistics, business, philosophy and psychoanalysis at London School of Economics and Donetsk University.
Andrew Sharpe. Andrew has 20 years experience of the industry. After serving in the Royal Hong Kong Police he started his broking career in Hong Kong with Cresvale before moving to Smith New Court. Before returning to London 9 years ago with Morgan Stanley Andrew worked in Tokyo and New York. He has broked and/or traded most of the major markets during that time. In London he worked as a sales trader at UBS after leaving Morgan Stanley and is now a Partner at Redburn Partners, sales trading European equities to US institutions.
Michael Sparkes heads the team of consultants servicing European clients with ITG’s analytical products and services. Michael has more than 25 years experience in the City, including several years as Head of International Equities at Morley Fund Management. He was a Director of Morley’s asset management operations in Japan and Singapore, and also spent two years as Managing Director of a stockbroking company based in Amsterdam and Antwerp. He started his career at British Airways Pension Fund. Michael is a graduate of Cambridge University.
Natan has extensive expertise in the business and technology of electronic trading platforms and algorithmic trading. Natan spent 12 years with Instinet, managing the firm's global algorithmic trading, dark pool equity and FX crossing, portfolio trading and transition management and transaction cost analytics services. He directed the development of Newport, the broker-neutral electronic trading platform deployed globally within Instinet and to customers to deliver and support these services. Managing teams in the US, Europe and Asia, Natan was responsible for servicing asset managers as well as quantitative and high-frequency trading firms.
Maria Velentza is the head of unit of the Securities Markets of the European Commission. She was born in Athens, Greece and has the Greek nationality. She's a graduate of the German School of Athens and studied law at the University of Athens. She continued her post-university studies (DEA en Droit Communautaire) in European Law in Paris, Sorbonne (Paris II). She qualified as a lawyer in Greece in 1990. She has been working in the Commission since 1991 as a legal advisor in various sectors:
- enterprise policy (focussing small and medium sized enterprises)
- freedom of establishment and free movement of professionals and services
- banking, insurance and payment systems
- better regulation, contract law, precautionary principle, late payments directive
- pharmaceuticals
She has been working in her current unit since October 2002. At present, her main responsibility are institutional and legal aspects of the securities markets, regulatory policy (for instance in the context of the "MIFID", Market Abuse and Prospectus directives), Credit Rating Agencies, international discussions in the field of securities (e.g. on mutual recognition) and supervisory convergence.
She is fluent in Greek, German, French, English and Spanish and she understands Italian and Portuguese. She has acquired some basic knowledge in Dutch and Swedish.
Tim Wildenberg is the Managing Director running the Equity Direct Execution business in Europe, Middle East, and Africa for UBS Investment Bank. As such he is responsible for the product development, sales, marketing and day to day operations of UBS's award winning DMA and Algorithmic Trading services, our analytics platform: UBS Fusion, and our client execution management system, UBS Pinpoint. He has also recently taken responsibility for coordination of the Direct Execution sales and account management teams around the world.
Tim was one of the founding Director's of FIX Protocol Ltd. In prior roles Tim was a market maker in European Equities at BZW and a “Blue Button” on the London Stock Exchange prior to “Big Bang”.