DJ Adams is the head trader at Arlington, VA based Sands Capital Management, LLC. Sands Capital is a growth orientated asset manager which manages roughly $15 billion in international and domestic large cap equities. Prior to joining Sands Capital, he was a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and a prop trader with ETG, LLC. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a BS in systems engineering. In November 2009, DJ concluded his role as project manager for Sands' 18 month long implementation of Linedata's LongView trading system.
Mohammad Ayach, joined OrbiMed in 2007 as Information Technology Officer. Mr. Ayach was previously a Manager of Implementation Services at Charles River Development. Prior to employment at Charles River Development, he served as Chief Software Architect at MasterCard International's Global Technology Services division while concurrently attending the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to MasterCard, Mohammad has held senior financial technology appointments at Scottrade Financial Services, GlobeOp Financial Services, and NYFIX. Mr. Ayach completed a B.S. in Mathematics at Stony Brook University.
Andrew Baehr is a Managing Director in Global Equities and Commodity Derivatives at BNP Paribas. Based in New York, Andrew is Head of Long Only Flow Derivatives Sales and Asian Equities Sales for North America.
Chris Bartlett has 10+ years experience of developing and trading automated systems. He has been on the buy and sell side including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Swiss Bank. Mr Bartlett has researched, developed and traded a broad range of automated trading strategies and is currently at Nobilis Capital focused on high frequency US equities trading.
Ben Batory, Head Trader, Brightpoint Capital. As Head Trader for Brightpoint Capital in Miami, FL, Mr. Batory currently trades both international and domestic equities, derivative instruments including futures, swaps and options, and foreign currency. Prior to joining Brightpoint, Mr. Batory spent four years trading international and domestic equities and derivatives for Rockbay Capital, an event-driven hedge fund in New York. Before Rockbay, he was an Equity Trader with Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co., an $8bn investment management firm. Previously, he traded equities for JLF Asset Management, a hedge fund specializing in the retail and financial sectors. Mr. Batory is a former professional athlete, and he holds a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College.
Jeff Brown is senior vice president of Electronic Brokerage Services for Fidelity Capital Markets (FCM), a unit of Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and a leading online brokerage firm. Mr. Brown is responsible for the oversight, design and development of FCM's electronic trading products, including the Model Trade Execution (MTRX®) suite of trading algorithms, CrossStream® ATS, and DarkSweep®, Fidelity's sophisticated trading strategy that aggregates multiple dark pools into a single access point.
Mr. Brown began his career at Fidelity in 1999 as a senior associate in Strategy and Implementation. In this role, he focused on electronic and algorithmic trading initiatives, financial technology and market structure, with responsibility for strategic planning, product design and project management. In 2002, he joined UNX, Inc. as a director of Product Development. In 2005, Mr. Brown returned to Fidelity in his current role. Throughout his career in financial services, he has been an active industry participant on issues related to financial technology, equity market structure and market data.
Mr. Brown is a 1997 graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Donal Byrne is leading Corvil's innovation in mathematical and algorithmic-based solutions for ultra-low latency monitoring and management, and optimization of high frequency electronic trading and market data consumption in the capital markets. Donal joined Corvil in 2000 as non-executive chairman and became CEO in 2002, with a mission to build a successful, multinational software company catering to the global financial services sector.
Michael Caffi is a Vice President and Manager of the Global TCA Services group in the Equity Trading division at State Street Global Advisors in Boston. He is responsible for all facets of Transaction Cost Analysis and centralized TCA reporting services to support Equity Trading, Portfolio Management, and Compliance. Michael joined SSgA in 1995 as VP of Equity Trading Technology in the firm's IT division and spent 5 years overseeing the advancement and globalization of SSgA's electronic trading capabilities. After Y2K he moved to the business side to start SSgA's TCA group in February 2000. Under Michael's direction, SSgA's TCA capabilities have grown to cover equities, futures, and most recently foreign exchange. TCA for fixed income will be developed during 2010.
Prior to SSgA, Michael spent 14 years as a software engineer at the econometrics consulting firm Data Resources and two years at Harvard Management Company developing systems for fixed income portfolio management and trading. Michael has been an active proponent of the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) Protocol and served as SSgA's representative on the FIX U.S. Steering Committee between 1997 and 2002. He was elected co-chair of that committee in 1999 and served on the FIX Board of Directors through 2002.
Michael holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Daniel Webster College and a degree in Engineering Technology from Northeastern University.
Mark brings a successful track record of over 20 years in the communications industry. He has held positions in sales, marketing, finance, business development, and general management for several leading incumbent and competitive communications providers including AT&T, Bell Atlantic, MCI, and e.spire Communications. In 2001 Mark joined Fortune 250 railroad operator CSX to launch CSX Fiber Networks, a transport infrastructure company serving large carriers which he then spun-off into what is now CFN Services. Mark formed CFN Services to provide optimized custom network solutions for Enterprise, Public Sector and Carriers leveraging FiberSource® a global telecom knowledge platform. This experience has given CFN Services the expertise to be able to create and optimize Low Latency Global Exchange Connectivity Solutions. CFN Services is now the Low Latency Leader in the Exchange Global Connectivity Marketplace.
He holds a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from American University.
Tim Decker joined Advent in October 2006 and is now Head of Electronic Trading and Connectivity for Advent's Moxy Order Management System (OMS). In this role, he is responsible for enhancing and extending Advent's relationships with third party vendors in order to bring greater access to the markets through Moxy OMS. Mr. Decker has more than twelve years of experience managing and delivering products and services to the electronic trading community with a focus on the connectivity, execution management systems, order management systems and other tools critical to the buy-side trader's success. Mr. Decker came to Advent from Charles Schwab where he served as Senior Manager, Product Development.
Brian M. Deitelzweig joined Palisade Capital Management in February 2009. Previous to joining Palisade, Brian was a Managing Director and Head Trader for AG Asset Management from 2006-2009. He held the title of Director/Senior Equity Trader at Warburg Pincus/Credit Suisse from 1996-2006. Brian specializes in trading small-cap stocks for Palisade, which has approximately $2.7 billion under management.
Mr. Desjarlais has responsibility for all trading activities including equities, options and FX. Prior to LR Global, he spent 8 years in senior trading positions with Instinet, Columbia Asset Management and Trivium Capital. Mr. Desjarlais received a BS in Marketing from Northeastern University.
Robert E. Diamond, Jr. is President of Barclays PLC and Chief Executive of Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth Management, comprising Barclays Capital, Barclays Corporate and Barclays Wealth. He is an Executive Director of the Boards of Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC and has been a member of the Barclays Group Executive Committee since September 1997. He joined the firm in summer 1996. Mr Diamond is also a Board Member of BlackRock following the integration of Barclays Global Investors.
Mr Diamond was formerly Vice Chairman and Head of Global Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange at CS First Boston. Based in New York, he was a member of the Executive Board and Operating Committee of CS First Boston. Mr Diamond joined CS First Boston in 1992. Based in Tokyo, he was
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CS First Boston Pacific, responsible for Investment Banking, Equity, Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange for the Pacific region. Previously, Mr Diamond was Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income Trading for Morgan Stanley International, spending 13 years with the firm.
Mr Diamond began his career as a lecturer at the School of Business,University of Connecticut from 1976-1977. A native of Concord, Massachusetts, USA, Mr Diamond received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Colby College in Maine (1974) and an MBA from the University of Connecticut, where he ranked first in his class (1977). He was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Connecticut in 2006 and Doctor of Laws from Colby College in 2008.
His external affiliations include:
* Chairman, Board of Trustees of Colby College, Waterville, Maine
* Chairman, Old Vic Productions, Plc
* Trustee, The Mayor's Fund for London
* Member of the Advisory Board, Judge Business School at Cambridge
University
* Board Member, The Diamond Family Foundation
* Member of International Advisory Board, British-American
Business Council
* Life Member of The Council on Foreign Relations
* Member, The Atlantic Council
* Trustee, The American School in London
He is married with three children.
Bob Doll is Vice Chairman and BlackRock's Global Chief Investment Officer for Equities and a member of the BlackRock's Operating and Leadership Committees. Mr. Doll is also the head of the US Large Cap Series equity team and has primary portfolio management responsibility for these products. Mr. Doll's service with the firm dates back to 1999, including his years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. At MLIM, he served as the President and Chief Investment Officer, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Merrill Lynch Large Cap Series Funds. Prior to joining MLIM, Mr. Doll served as the Chief Investment Officer of Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. He received a BS in Accounting and a BA in Economics from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Doll is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst. As of 31 March 2009, BlackRock's assets under management total US$1.28 trillion across equity, fixed income, cash management, alternative investments and real estate strategies.
Ian Domowitz is a Managing Director responsible for networking and analytical and research products at ITG. Prior to joining ITG in 2001, he served as the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Professor of Finance at Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Domowitz has also held positions with Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Columbia University, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Most recently, Mr. Domowitz was named a Fellow of the Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia University. The program is administered jointly by the Columbia Law School and the Columbia Business School.
Gregg Drumma, Vice President, Electronic Trading Product Management at Linedata Services, Inc. is an industry veteran with over ten years experience developing and delivering STP solutions to the investment management community. As Linedata’s chief representative of FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL), Gregg is an active member of several FIX working groups designed to help shape the future of FIX trading. As the VP of Electronic Trading Product Management, Gregg leads the global electronic trading and STP product development for LongView Trading, including, pre-trade analytics and integrated trading solutions. Gregg’s experience and expertise extends globally across all asset-types and trading destinations.
Gregg has been invited to participate on several industry panels, from FPL’s Electronic Trading conferences to Trade Tech USA, as a thought-leader in the OMS/EMS integration topic.
Prior to joining Linedata Services, Inc in 1998 Gregg held development positions at Motorola, Inc Gregg holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Watson School of Engineering at Binghamton University in New York.
Joseph Engelhard is a Senior Vice President at Capital Alpha Partners, an independent policy firm that advises institutional investors on the likely impact of federal legislation or regulation. Mr. Engelhard specializes in financial policy issues affecting the banking, securities and insurance sectors. He is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Treasury, senior counsel of the House Financial Services Committee and General Counsel of the Joint Economic Committee. He most recently worked at the American Insurance Association where he covered federal regulatory issues, including OFC, credit default swaps, rating agency reforms and solvency issues.
Mr. Fatica has managed the ITG Post-trade Transaction Cost Analysis product suite (ITG TCA, ITG Peer Universe, and ITG Alpha Capture Service) since 2002. These services are delivered globally to more than 350 clients by a staff of approximately 50 consultants, analysts, client support and technology professionals.
Prior to joining ITG, Mr. Fatica managed consulting engagements in financial services industry. His career includes stints at JP Morgan, First Boston, Bankers Trust, Lazard Asset Management, in risk management, portfolio management and fixed income trading.
Mr. Fatica earned a B.A in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton Graduate School.
Kevin Foley, Aqua's President and CEO, is an innovator and industry leader in financial markets trading technology. During fifteen years at Bloomberg LP he held various senior management roles, playing a key role in Bloomberg's development into a financial information powerhouse and a household name. During this time he oversaw the introduction globally of electronic trading in asset classes ranging from bonds to energy to foreign exchange to equities.
Aqua is not the first company Foley has founded in the institutional equity trading space. While at Bloomberg he founded Bloomberg Tradebook, a global institutional agency brokerage and one of the four original "ECNs" regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like Aqua today, Tradebook's innovations introduced creative new ways for institutions to find liquidity for their large orders.
With Tradebook's launch in 1996, Foley was responsible for introducing institutions for the first time to a surge of small orders coming primarily from the internet. Using new technology traders could slice their large orders and access this liquidity directly, reducing trading costs. Today the market has come full circle, with traders who routinely access small order liquidity having a hard time finding other large orders.
With the introduction of Aqua in 2007, Foley's career has now come full circle as well. Aqua's simple, intuitive solution brings elusive block orders directly and conveniently to the institutional trader's desktop. What Tradebook first did for small order liquidity, Aqua does for large.
Foley began his Wall Street career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York, where he traded U.S. government securities. Prior to founding Aqua in 2007 he spent three years as President of eSpeed, the pioneer in electronic bond trading.
A graduate of Haverford College and Columbia Business School, he is married to Donna Silbert, a clinical psychiatrist in private practice. They have two children, Bennett (11) and Claire (8) and reside in New York City.
Nitin Gambhir is the CEO and founder of Tethys Technology, Inc. Tethys has two areas of business focus: High performance portfolio management & trading systems and optimal-execution driven market-microstructure research. Tethys' Execta Platform is the most powerful and flexible broker-neutral electronic trading and portfolio management solution available today. Tethys also has a team devoted to market microstructure research and offers consulting services to clients looking to develop customized trade-execution strategies and improve their trade execution.
Mr. Gambhir worked at JP Morgan and Bear Stearns in their respective proprietary trading groups during the early part of his career. Thereafter, he was a quantitative portfolio manager at SAC Capital in Connecticut and Altus Asset Management, LLC in New York.
Spiros Giannaros drives the adoption of Charles River's technology and services in North America, South America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Since joining the firm in 1999, Spiros has helped deliver Charles River's fully-integrated order management (OMS), FIX electronic trading, and execution management (EMS) solution to diverse investment management markets. Spiros has expanded Charles River's global sales, and helped establish the sales engineering team. Previously, Spiros served in product specialist and sales roles at Thomson Financial. Spiros holds a BS in Finance and Marketing from Boston College.
In 2005, Jon Greene joined Ceros as Head Trader for Ceros Financial Services (CFS) and was later named Director of Trading in 2009. He is charged with trading mutual funds, bonds, futures, ETFs and stocks as well as acting as a spokesperson for CFS. Jon has more than 13 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Rydex, Jon was a Hedge Fund Trader with JFB Planning. Jon has also worked as Financial Advisor at Washington Mutual and a Trading Supervisor at E*Trade. Jon received his bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Fairfield University and currently holds his 3, 4, 7, 24, 55, 63, and 65 licenses.
Matt Gray graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a B.A. in Finance. Prior to co-founding Simplex, he excelled in floor trading as a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and in electronic trading for various proprietary trading firms. Gray uses his extensive industry experience to lead Simplex in identifying trading opportunities and developing the strategies to capitalize on them.
Maury is a Managing Director and Chief U.S. Economist at UBS Investment Bank. He has been named to the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team on 18 separate occasions. In the latest Institutional Investor fixed-income survey, his team was ranked #1 for the third time in the past four years. Prior to joining UBS, Dr. Harris was the chief economist for PaineWebber. Before that Dr. Harris worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank for International Settlements. Maury holds both an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and a B.A. in economics from University of Texas, where he graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors. Maury is married with two children.
Adam Honore is a research director at Aite Group, LLC, specializing in financial services technology. Mr. Honore focuses on strategic technology initiatives associated with broker productivity, online brokerage, correspondent clearing, enterprise data management (EDM), complex event processing (CEP), straight-through processing (STP), and risk management issues.
Craig Jensen is Co- Head of Trading with Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc., located in New Canaan, Connecticut. In addition to overseeing the firms trading operations, he also concentrates on managing compliance, strategic development, and technology. Mr. Jensen joined the firm as a senior trader in 1999 and became Co- Head of Trading in 2004. Prior to joining Armstrong Shaw, Mr. Jensen worked at Ark Asset Management in New York. He is an affiliate member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and earned a B.S. in Pre-Law from Western Connecticut State University.
Mr. Kershner has been a trader since 1994. Prior to founding Kershner Trading Group, he was a shareholder in Protrader Securities which accounted for about 1% of the NASDAQ volume when it was sold to Instinet in 2001. KTG has offices in Austin, Texas and Shanghai, China. KTG invests a great amount in their own execution and analysis platforms which their internal traders leverage.
Joe is a Senior Managing Director at State Street Global Advisors and serves as Head of Equity Investment, Risk and Data Systems where he manages application development teams for Asset Allocation, Currency, Equity Portfolio Construction, and Enterprise Data which encompass data warehousing, client, portfolio, market reference, and pricing data.
Joe joined SSGA in 1997 as a senior developer in the Fixed Income group where he implemented Interfaces for trading, accounting and document management. In 1999 he assumed responsibility as project lead for IMAD (Investment Management and Application Development) and six months later became manager of Equity Investment Systems. Two years later, Joe assumed additional responsibility for Market Data Services. In 2007 Joe was made head of SSGA Architecture where he led the development of a new enterprise data reference architecture.
Prior to SSGA, Joe worked for Eastman Kodak Corporation as a senior engineer/evangelist in the marketing organization for digital imaging, for Polaroid Corporation as a principal engineer and manager of service engineering for the Medical Imaging Laser Division, and Megascan Corporation as a senior engineering manager developing imaging hardware and software solutions for scientific applications, remote sensing and medical imaging.
Joe has a BS degree from University of Massachusetts Lowell where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Kevin D. Mahn is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Parsippany, NJ based Hennion & Walsh Asset Management. Mr. Mahn serves as the Portfolio Manager for the SmartGrowth® Mutual Funds, a family of target-risk mutual funds comprised of ETFs and ETNs, and directs the creation and supervision of the various portfolios within the SmartTrust® series of Unit Investment Trusts("UITs"). Mr. Mahn is the author of the quarterly "ETF Insights" newsletter as well as a co-author of the book, Exchange Traded Funds: Conceptual and Practical Investment Approaches, © 2009 Riskbooks. Mr. Mahn was the recipient of the 2009 Institutional Investor Rising Stars of Mutual Fund Award and has appeared on/in CBS News, CNBC, Fox Business News, The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Fortune, Business Week, MarketWatch, Investment News and The New York Times.
David has been in the financial industry for over 15 years. For almost his entire career, David has been involved with electronic trading and execution. David has had roles at several industry leaders in the electronic space such as Merrin Financial which is now known as MacGregor and is part of ITG, Knight Securities and Susquehanna Financial. In David's current role he is responsible for the sales and marketing of Pragma's suite of electronic trading tools which include a liquidity aggregator, adaptive trading strategies, anti-gaming and order protection logic, portfolio trading tools and trading analytics.
Jason McLean is the Director of Trading at Iridian Asset Management, LLC in Westport, CT. McLean joined Iridian in late 2004. He previously worked at AIM Investments where he spent six years on the equity trading desk. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Texas A&M University.
Dr. Noma is the founder of Garrett Asset Management, a systematic trading firm that uses technical systems to invest in futures, ETFs, and currencies. Dr. Noma is also a Senior Risk Consultant with Asset alliance. He consults on a variety of financial issues involving portfolio management, hedge fund due diligence, trading systems, risk management, fund of hedge funds, and operational due diligence. Dr. Noma is a member of the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) examination committee within the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). He is also a member of the editorial board for The Investment Professional, published by the New York Society of Security Analysts.
Prior to founding Garrett Asset Management, Dr. Noma was the portfolio manager for the BTOP50 fund, a diversified portfolio of global macro, commodity, and managed futures programs. He was a member of the Asset Alliance Investment Committee that oversees all fund of funds investments for Asset Alliance. Dr. Noma was also the Chief Risk Officer at Asset Alliance. In that role he was responsible for the risk oversight of Asset Alliance's single- and multi-manager product offerings.
Prior to joining Asset Alliance, Dr. Noma was Senior Risk Analyst, Fixed Income Products, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (2000-2003). Earlier in his career, Dr. Noma was Director of Corporate Risk Management overseeing derivative and fixed income products within Deutsche Bank, Americas (1995-1999), and developed fixed income market strategies at, J.P. Morgan Securities (1993-1995). Dr. Noma also spent four years in the psychology faculty at Rutgers University (1983 1986) and his research has been published in numerous industry journals and scholarly periodicals.
Dr. Noma graduated from Dartmouth College in 1972 with a BA in Mathematics. He received M.A's in Mathematics and Psychology in 1979 and a Ph.D in Mathematical Psychology in 1982 from The University of Michigan. In 1990, Dr. Noma received an Advanced Professional Certificate in Finance from New York University.
Vikas graduated from the Mumbai University in May 1994 with a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering. Following graduation, he worked on multiple assignments providing IT solutions to clients in the insurance and finance industry. In Jan 2003, he joined GE as an IT Project Manager responsible for managing Alternative Assets successfully implementing end-to-end solution for the Real Estate and Private Equity finance and portfolio management teams. He then took over the additional responsibility of implementing the general ledger system for GE Asset Management and delivered the solution within 7 months moving from a legacy mainframe driven general ledger system to state-of-the-art Oracle Financials. In March 2006, Vikas got promoted to Global Head, IT Equity Trade Operations where he drove simplification and automation including drive to more electronic trading and implemented an EMS. In March 2009 he was appointed as the IT Director, Trading Operations & VMO, now responsible for Trading Operations across the Equity, Fixed Income & Derivatives. Since Dec 2003, Vikas is also responsible for the IT vendor management program at GE Asset Management. Vikas received an MBA from North Carolina State University in MIS and eCommerce in May 2001 and an Advanced Business Certificate in Real Estate from the University of Connecticut in Dec 2006. He is also a certified Project Management Professional since June 2000.
Mr. Patel is the Head of Trading for Advanced Execution Services Americas at Credit Suisse. He is one of the original members of the AES team, having joined in 2003. AES has since grown to be a full-service suite of algorithmic strategies, tools, and analytics for trading securities throughout the world.
He is on the Board of Directors for Level ATS and is a member of the Nasdaq Best Markets Advisory Committee. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Patel worked in Equity Derivatives Trading at Robertson Stephens. He began his career in Credit Risk Management at JP Morgan. He graduated from Rutgers College of Engineering, where he studied Electrical Engineering.
John Person is a thirty-two year veteran of the Futures and Options trading industry. He is an independent trader, a trading system designer and the author of three nationally and internationally popular trading books published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He is also the co-author of the Commodity Traders Almanac series. John helps teach investors how to trade and invest in stocks, futures, options and forex markets. He is the Founder of Nationalfutures.com, an investment advisory service.
Steve Peterson is a US Domestic Equity Trader at the Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS). He works closely with transaction cost analysis to help develop execution strategies that will improve the trading desk's performance. Steve joined TRS in January of 2008 and prior to that he spent 12 years as an equity trader on the sell side.
Timothy Reilly is a sixteen year veteran of the electronic trading arena. Tim is a Managing Director at Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. where he manages the Electronic Execution Sales team. His current focus is on delivering Citi's algorithmic trading, crossing network, and smart order routing technology to institutional clients. Tim's previous roles at Citi include Head of US Portfolio Sales Trading and Co-Head of the Citi's US Alternative Execution Group. Tim is a 1993 graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Ph.D. in CS from California Institute of Technology, dissertation on concurrent particle simulations for aerospace and semiconductor manufacturing applications. Worked at Paracel, acquired by Celera Genomics, from 1998-2004 on hardware and software products for searching large DNA, protein, and textual databases. Worked in finance since 2005, with WorldQuant since its inception in 2007.
Charlie Rose is executive editor and anchor of Charlie Rose, the nightly one-hour interview program that engages in one-on-one in-depth conversation and round table discussions about important issues and ideas of our time. He is also a contributing correspondent to the CBS news program 60 Minutes.
Rose and his guests define the global conversation. The program's round oak table and simple black backdrop provide an intimate atmosphere for intelligent conversation attracting leaders from around the world including Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy, Lula da Silva, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Recep Erdogan, Bashar al-Assad, Pervez Musharraf, Hosni Mubarak, Lee Kuan Yew and Manmohan Singh. Since 1991, Rose has done more in-depth hours with Nobel Laureates, and extraordinary men and women of science, politics, art, business, sports, technology, literature and entertainment than any other program in the world. These conversations have made Rose the cultural and intellectual custodian of our time, providing accessible profiles of the people who have influenced our world.
Each weeknight Rose creates programs that introduce new people, explore fresh ideas and illuminate difficult issues. Special series on science, education and the rise of India have probed even deeper. Dr. Eric Kandel, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine, said, "[Charlie Rose] is not simply a talented interviewer but he has emerged as the major cultural and intellectual historian of recent times and he has done so by causing a paradigm shift in how we learn—of how we acquire new knowledge of what is happening in the world around us."
Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina and graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in History and a J.D. from the School of Law. He has received numerous journalistic awards and honorary degrees. Rose is a frequent principal interviewer and moderator at global forums around the world.
Jim Ross is vice president of NYSE MatchPoint and oversees the development and operations of the equity crossing facility for NYSE Euronext. He is also responsible for organizing the company's broader alternative trading system (ATS) strategy.
Prior to joining NYSE in July of 2006, Mr. Ross was CEO of MatchPoint Trading, a firm dedicated to the business of electronic call market trading. From 1989-2003, he spearheaded Instinet's Global Crossing business. During that period, Mr. Ross built daily U.S. crossing volume to 17 million shares a day, established Instinet's international crossing business, launched JapanCross—the first Japanese equity crossing service (with Nikko Salomon Smith Barney), as well as multi-currency, UK, VWAP and FX crosses.
Mr. Ross received a Bachelors Degree from Bates College with Honors in English Literature.
Roy Saadon co-founded Traiana in April 2000 and was responsible for the initial design and roll out of its TRM product. He also formed Traiana's Professional Services group, setting up the New York office. As General Manager for Harmony, Roy is responsible for the overall market and technical direction of the Harmony product line. Prior to joining Traiana, Roy was involved in R&D as in-house entrepreneur at an Israeli VC, and in the IDF.
Matt Samelson is a Principal at Woodbine Associates, LLC, specializing in equity market structure, trading venues, electronic trading, and transaction cost analysis. He brings to the firm a wealth of experience in U.S. and international equity sales and trading, quantitative analysis, consulting, and research. He has in-depth knowledge of trade strategy formulation, algorithmic trading, market structure, transaction cost analysis, and trading technology.
Mr. Samelson has been quoted extensively in the media, including the Financial Times, Business Week, and CBS MarketWatch. He has also been quoted in various trade publications, including Institutional Investor, Trader Magazine, Wall Street & Technology, Wall Street Letter, Trading Technology Week, and Securities Industry News.
Prior to founding Woodbine Associates, Mr. Samelson was a senior analyst at Aite Group focusing on equity-related topics. He has also served as Director of Product Management at Liquidnet, Inc. where he took part in enhancing the service offering. Previously, Mr. Samelson served as Vice President of Global Portfolio Sales and Trading at Investment Technology Group, where he developed portfolio and single-stock trading business and managed trading relationships with investment management, mutual fund and hedge fund clients. He also worked in portfolio trading at Lehman Brothers and as a financial risk management consultant at Price Waterhouse. Mr. Samelson also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.
Mr. Samelson received an M.B.A. in Finance and Business Policy from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Economics from Columbia College of Columbia University. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63, 55 and 24 licenses.
Owain Self, as the Head of UBS Algorithmic Trading for the Americas and EMEA, is responsible for the ongoing evolution of the firm’s award-winning algorithmic trading suite of products. Managing cross-regional teams of traders, quantitative analysts, and technologists, he oversees the design, development and implementation of UBS’s innovative automated execution strategies across these major markets. He is also a member of the Global Direct Execution Steering Committee.
This role culminates nearly a decade of quantitative experience and electronic trading expertise. Owain was previously Co-Head of UBS European Automated Trading since 2007, where he managed Risk, Delta 1 and Quantitative Trading, also serving as the Head of European Algorithmic Trading – a role he’s held since 2004. During the last five years he’s been responsible for the architecture and development of many marquee products, as well as the firm’s state of the art algorithmic trading infrastructure. Having joined UBS in 2000, Owain held a variety of increasingly senior roles on European Cash and Derivatives Trading Desks.
Prior to joining UBS, he spent several years on sell side trading desks for firms such as Daiwa Europe. Owain is a frequent industry speaker on topics relating to trading execution and market structure, and has published several articles and white papers on a range of Equities Industry topics, including innovations in algorithmic trading and the optimization of access to liquidity.
Robert Shapiro is Executive Director of trading and execution analysis at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM). Shapiro reports directly to Ray Tierney, Global Head of equity trading.
Rob works closely with Tierney on matters that help optimize MSIM's global trading infrastructure, such as trade analytics, technology, execution strategy, relationship development and transaction measurement. Shapiro's mandate is to develop MSIM's global trading best practices and procedures, an integral component of Tierney's strategic initiative to revamp MSIM's global trading platform.
Shapiro joined MSIM from Abel Noser, where he served as SVP of advanced trading strategies. Prior to that, Rob was head trader at Iridian Asset Management from 1999-2004.
Andrew Silverman is a Wall Street veteran with over 27 years of experience in cash, algorithmic and electronic trading. He is currently Managing Director and Global Co-head of Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET). In this role, Andrew oversees sales and distribution for MSET globally, as well as distribution for Morgan Stanley Program Trading domestically.
Mark Standish is President and Co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets; Co-Group Head, Capital Markets Division and is a member of the Group Executive of RBC. As President and Co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets, Mr. Standish is responsible for sales and trading, financing and balance sheet management. Mr. Standish's tenure with RBC began in 1995 as head of proprietary and structured trading within the Global Equity Derivatives group of RBC Dominion Securities. From 1993 until 1995, Mr. Standish was a managing director at Kidder Peabody & Company. Preceding Kidder Peabody, Mr. Standish was with Lehman Brothers in New York responsible for equity derivatives, commodity derivatives and commodity financing. During the 1980's, he was with Bankers Trust in London involved with fixed income derivatives and proprietary arbitrage trading. He started his career in retail banking with National Westminster Bank in 1977. He studied banking and finance at Croydon College in England, being an Associate member, Chartered Institute of Bankers (1983). He is also actively involved with numerous charities in both New York and New Jersey, including being on the board of The Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia and Parkinson Foundation, Inc.
Mark, along with his partners, also had the fortunate or not-so fortunate role of navigating RBC Capital Markets’ businesses through the recent unprecedented period of turbulence in capital markets during the financial crisis – a job that I am pleased to say, he has executed with a very high degree of success.
Nassim N. Taleb is combination of a scholar of risk and model error, literary essayist, and derivatives trader. He is known for a multidisciplinary approach to the role of the high-impact rare event across economics, philosophy, finance, engineering, and history. He is also known for putting his ideas in practice with his "Black Swan" investment strategy. His current program is to design ways to live in a world we don't quite understand and help "robustify" the world against the Black Swan.
Taleb is, among other books and research papers, the author of the NYT Bestseller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable which was voted by The Times as one of the 12 most influential books since WW-II. His books have more than two and a half million copies in print in 31 languages, making him one the most read and most translated essayists.
Taleb is currently Distinguished Professor in Risk Engineering at New York University Polytechnic Institute and Principal at Universa Investments. He has an MBA from Wharton and a PhD from the University of Paris.
"A giant of Mediterranean thought ... Now the hottest thinker in the world", London Times.
Extra: Taleb is currently on the King of Sweden advisory committee for climate matters. The British Tory opposition is using Black Swan thinking as part of their platform.
Emil has more than 20 years of experience in the futures industry in the United States and Canada. Additionally, he has been a registered Commodity Trading Advisor since 1997. Previous executive positions held by Emil include Director of Quantitative Futures Analysis at REFCO Global Ltd. LLC, Chicago, and the first Director of Managed Futures for the Bank of Montreal, where he also established the bank's first systematic proprietary trading group. Emil manages over $100 million as a CTA and is actively involved in designing and implementing proprietary trading models and leading edge technology for automated high frequency trading and arbitrage.
Joseph Wald is a Managing Director at Knight Equity Markets, L.P. and is co-head of Knight's institutional electronic trade execution services. In this role, Mr. Wald oversees strategy, development and implementation of the firm's sophisticated electronic products and services. Mr. Wald joined Knight in 2008 following the firm's acquisition of EdgeTrade, a leading developer of agency-only algorithmic trading strategies and direct market access software, which he co-founded and led as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to EdgeTrade, he held various positions at Datek Securities. Additionally, Mr. Wald serves as a speaker and panelist for numerous high profile industry events and conferences. Mr. Wald has a bachelor of science in business management and finance from Brooklyn College.
Arnold S. Wood is a Partner, President and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Management Committee. Arnie, in addition to his role with the Investment Team, is an important participant in business management activities, marketing, and client relations. A leader in the investment management profession for over two decades, Arnie is well known for his pioneering educational work, particularly in behavioral finance and investment practices. Prior to founding Martingale, he was a Trustee and Senior Vice President of Batterymarch Financial Management where he was a global investment strategist and portfolio manager for ten years. Prior to joining Batterymarch, Arnie headed the Pension Asset Department and the Investment Strategy Committee at State Street Bank and Trust Company, now SSgA.
Arnie is a Trustee of the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute. He was a Governor of the CFA Institute, Chairman of the former Financial Analysts Federation, Chair of the Financial Analysts Journal Committee, and a founding member of the International Society of Financial Analysts. He has received prestigious awards from the CFA Institute, including the Daniel J. Forrestal Leadership Award for Professional Ethics and Standards of Practice and the Leadership Award in Global Investing. He has written Fatal Attractions for Money Managers (FAJ); Manager vs. Client: What's the Difference (JPM); and co-authored Individual Decisions Making and Group Decision Processes (JBF). Recent research is in the area of Committee Investment Judgment and Decision Dynamics. Arnie is an advisor for and presenter at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government study on Behavioral Finance and Decision Making. He is a graduate of Trinity College.
Ephraim (Effi) Zakry is currently an algorithmic strategist at HAP Capital, a high frequency shop and an options market maker. Prior to joining HAP, Effi was director of execution at WorldQuant. He also spent several years developing trading strategies at Tykhe Capital, where he served as head trader of statistical arbitrage. Effi started his trading career as an options market maker on the floor of the American Stock Exchange. He earned a BA in mathematics and computer science from Columbia University and a graduate degree in mathematical finance from NYU’s Courant Institute, where he researched how practitioners can combine market microstructure theory and empirical tick data to improve trade execution. Effi is a member of the Security Traders Association and serves on its Trading Issues Committee. Additionally, Effi is on TradeTech’s advisory board.
Michel Finzi is responsible for global sales, marketing and product management of RealTick®, the electronic trading industry's premier global, broker neutral, multi-asset Execution Management System (EMS).
Mr. Finzi joined Townsend Analytics in 2006, bringing more than 21 years of experience in the electronic trading and global brokerage industry to his role. He started his career in 1988 at Instinet, where he held numerous senior management positions in the United States and in Europe until 2003. Responsibilities included the development of crossing technologies and the development of a wide variety of electronic trading functionalities for both the buy-side and sell-side.
Prior to joining Townsend, Mr. Finzi managed a number of private investments and consulted to both the buy side and sell side. He is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University.
Bob Moitoso is a Senior Vice President at NYSE Technologies, where he has successfully integrated its business with the recently acquired NYFIX business. At NYSE Technologies, Bob is managing the FIX Marketplace, which includes order routing, liquidity discovery, and software products. Before the acquisition, Bob was part of NYFIX where he served as Global Head of the FIX Division and managed the FIX Marketplace and Trading Technology businesses. He led those businesses' global expansion, reached the 10,000 order channel milestone for the Order Routing community, and helped make Appia the world's most widely-used FIX engine. Bob recently helped introduce ioinet v2, an innovative new solution for liquidity discovery.
A 23-year veteran of financial market information products and technology industry, Bob previously led Thomson Financial's AutEx Division. He was responsible for the development and launch of several initiatives, including BlockOnline, and expanding the businesses into Europe and Asia. Bob received his BS and MBA from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Dave has 25 years of experience in the financial industry. Prior to Pipeline, Dave was the founder of 3D Markets, Inc. which created the first crossing system for block options trading. 3D also invented the Gamma Weighted Average Price Benchmark (GWAP), to address the need for transaction cost analysis tools in the options markets.
Prior to launching 3D Markets, Dave was engaged as a consultant to Institutional Clients on trading systems and execution implementation. While working with these clients, Dave saw firsthand the need for new liquidity and more frequent match rates for their block trades.
At Piper Jaffray he headed the algorithmic and portfolio trading group (APT). He was responsible for all product concept, design and development including Fusion, Piper's first-to-market ATS aggregation technology.
As President of Vie Financial, Dave's vision redirected Vie's business model to the then-nascent algorithmic trading business and facilitated Vie's placement among the top algorithm providers in the Tabb Group's 2005 Equity Trading in America report. Vie was subsequently acquired by Piper Jaffray.
Dave is a member of the Securities Traders Association's (STA) Trading Issues Committee and serves as Chairman of the STA Options Subcommittee.
Greg Treacy is Vice Senior President, Head of Sales for the Americas at Neonet Securities, an agency broker providing global execution services and technology solutions. He is responsible for business development, new client acquisition and account management in the U.S. Prior to his move into sales in 2005, Greg was the Head of U.S. Trading for Neonet where he managed the U.S. equity desk, with global account management responsibilities for all Neonet clients trading in the U.S. markets. Prior to joining Neonet Securities, Greg was the Head of U.K. Trading and Client Support for Lexit Capital, a start up electronic brokerage firm which was acquired by Neonet AB in 2003. Previous to his move to London, Greg ran Lexit’s proprietary trading group in the U.S. in 2000. He brings over 10 years of operational, global trading and business development experience to Neonet. Greg holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Rutgers College.
Mr. Actman has served as Chief Strategy Officer since joining Lightspeed in 2006 as a result of its acquisition of Schonfeld & Company. He currently focuses on the growth and expansion of Lightspeed’s Algorithmic Trading and Trading Group business lines. Previously, Mr. Actman served as CEO for Schonfeld & Company. He joined Schonfeld & Company in August of 2002 and was responsible for managing the activities of the overall operation of Schonfeld & Company and the supervision of all operational personnel. In addition, Mr. Actman managed the customer service, relationship management and retail branches of the firm. Mr. Actman joined Schonfeld & Company upon its acquisition of Broadway Trading, LLC.
Leland Clemons, Director, is a member of the iShares Group within Global Client Group, focused on iShares Capital Markets.
Mr. Clemons's service with the firm dates back to 2005, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. He is responsible for broker-dealer, market-maker and institutional buy-side trader relationships in the iShares' Capital Markets group. Prior to joining BGI, Mr. Clemons worked as a Director of business development and trading strategy at VDM Specialists, an NYSE market making firm.
Mr. Clemons earned a BS degree in business administration from Washington & Lee University and an MBA from Columbia University.
As General Manager of Microsoft’s Financial Services Group, Colleen Healy is responsible for the national strategy and execution of the company’s $1 billion business in the financial services industry. Healy is dedicated to positioning Microsoft’s customers and partners in the financial services industry for success through the use of technology and innovation.
Healy’s previous role was head of Microsoft’s Investor Relations team, where she managed Microsoft’s relationships and communications with financial analysts, shareholders and the investment community. During her tenure, Healy led Microsoft to rank consistently among the leading investor relations programs recognized by Institutional Investor Magazine. Barron’s and IR Magazine named Healy the “Best Investor Relations Officer” in 2006.
Healy joined Microsoft in 1995 as part of its Corporate Development department, executing Microsoft’s investment strategy and acquisition activity. Her experience also includes developing and executing plans for licensing and acquiring intellectual property. While Senior Director of Microsoft’s Capital Markets Group, she managed the company’s more than $10 billion strategic equity portfolio.
Before joining Microsoft, she was in the Investment Banking Group at CS First Boston, working on public capital underwritings and mergers and acquisitions. Healy began her work experience at State Farm Insurance selling auto, home and life insurance policies. Healy has been recognized by Treasury & Risk Magazine as a Top 40 Finance Professional under 40 years old. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
In her free time, Healy enjoys coaching children in athletics. She is an avid hiker and has recently summited Mt. Rainier, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Kosciuszko, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Adams.
As Founder and President, Shawn Melamed is responsible for the strategic vision, overall management and business leadership of Correlix. Executing Correlix’s aggressive vision includes continual innovation ensuring customer success and providing stakeholder return on investment. With over 10 years of experience in working on enterprise distributed transaction performance problems by monitoring raw network traffic, Shawn combined it with extensive research in unrelated bioinformatics to create the unique message correlation technology underlying the Correlix Latency Intelligence solutions. Before founding Correlix in 2005, Shawn was partner and CTO of Strauss Strategy and held senior technical positions at Navicula, PrimeNet, and IDF. Shawn holds a BSc in Computer Science and Biology from Tel Aviv University.