The 2013 speaking faculty:

TradeTech 2013 Advisory Board

Tracy Caliendo, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Richard Johnson, Head of Quant Trading Services, Soc Gen
Jay Fraser, Head of Autobahn Equity Sales, North America, Deutsche Bank
Scott Wright, Head Trader, Americas, AXA Rosenberg
Lee Morakis, Head of Americas Execution Services Sales, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Ralston Roberts, Senior Managing Director, Capital Markets, SunGard
Bryan Harkins, COO, Direct Edge
Phil DeFrancesco, Head of U.S. Trading, Millennium Partners
Dave Margulies, Head of Electronic Products Group, Weeden & Co.
Randy Cieslak, Chief Technology Officer, Diamondback Capital Management
Scott Kurland, Director, Head of Platform Solutions, ITG
Leo Hmelnitsky, Head of Int'l Markets, Global Portfolio Trading, Mellon Capital Management Corporation
Lloyd Altman , Global Front Office, Lead for Accenture Core Trading and Settlement Services, Accenture
Nitin Gambhir, CEO, Tethys Technology Inc.
Shane Swanson, former General Counsel, Eladian Partners LLC

Ram Ahluwalia

Principal

Winged Foot Capital

David Andre

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Cerebellum Capital

Doug Atkin

Portfolio Manager

Guggenheim Partners

Joseph Bacchi

Executive Director

Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Sonny Baillargeon

Chief Technology Officer

Pico Quantitative Trading

Chris Bartlett

Director

Nobilis Capital

Bill Bell

Head of Equities Electronic Trading Distribution

Barclays Capital

Haim Bodek

Managing Principal

Haim Bodek Consulting, LLC

Dr. Peter Braam

Parallel Scientific

Dr. Peter Braam was a senior faculty member in mathematics and computer science at Oxford and Carnegie Mellon until 1999 and then became an entrepreneur. He founded four startups which all had their assets acquired by public companies. The Lustre File System built by one of these startups powers most of the top supercomputers in the world. When not running startups he held executive and architect positions in companies like Red Hat, Sun and Xyratex. He is currently running Parallel Scientific, which focuses on combining mathematics, computer languages and hardware technologies into high productivity tools for high performance computing and real time data analytics. Peter acts on several advisory panels to governments and academia throughout the world.

William Brodsky

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Chicago Board Options Exchange

Raymond Camacho

Head Trader

Santa Barbara Asset Management

Derrick Chan

Vice President, Product Development

Fidelity Capital Markets

Randy Cieslak

Chief Technology Officer

Diamondback Capital Management

Douglas Cote

Chief Market Strategist

ING Investments Management Americas

Mohammad Darwish

President & CEO

AdvancedIO Systems

John Decker

Chief Technology Officer

Trian Partners

Emanuel Derman

Author and Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department

Columbia University

Bernard Donefer

Adjunct Associate Professor

NYU Stern School of Business

Ed Doyle

Senior Equity Trader

Pioneer Investments

David Easthope

Research Director, Securities & Investments

Celent

Cole Feinberg

Director

Blackrock iShares

Cole B. Feinberg, Director, is a Business Development Officer on the iShares New Markets Team within BlackRock's Global Client Group. Mr. Feinberg's service with the firm dates back to 2004 including his years at Barclays Global Investors (BGI) which merged with BlackRock in 2009. He heads a team responsible for driving assets into a select suite of fixed income, emerging markets equity and commodity-focused iShares products. Prior to this role, Mr. Feinberg was a Director within iShares Capital Markets managing relationships with institutional broker dealers including iShares authorized participants and all agency desks. Before that he led the iShares Capital Markets execution services team. In this role, he worked with BlackRock's largest buy-side clients to achieve best execution trading ETFs. He joined BGI in 2004. Earlier, Mr. Feinberg was an equity program trader at Morgan Stanley from 2001 - 2004. He began his career at Morgan Stanley in 2000 in National Sales Trading.Mr. Feinberg earned BS degrees in History and Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin.

Des Gallacher

Director, Product Management

Charles River Development

Gordon Gary

Head Trader

Philadelphia International Advisors, LP

Joe Gawronski

President & Chief Operating Officer

Rosenblatt Securities

Anthony Godonis

Senior Equity Trader

Aberdeen Asset Management

Neal Goldstein

Chief Information Officer

Liquidnet

David Hagen

VP and Global Trading Product Manager

Linedata

Dave Hagen, VP and Global Trading Product Manager Linedata, has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry. His responsibilities include managing key accounts at the strategic level as well as articulating the vision and steering development of the award-winning Linedata trading systems. Prior to joining Linedata in 2006, Dave spent over 14 years on the Exchange floor as a trader. Starting as a junior clerk, Dave worked his way up to manage a specialist book for various firms including Fidelity Capital Markets and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, and was eventually named the Head Trader at Moors & Cabot. While on the trading floor, Dave was instrumental in developing the Bank of New York’s Direct Market Access Platform and the current intraday charting package from Bloomberg L.P. After leaving the trading floor in 2003, Dave was a Founder and Managing Partner at Pure Trading as well as a Private Wealth Manager at Morgan Stanley. Dave has been an active member of the Security Traders Association since 1989 and has held Series 7, 6, 55, 63 and 31 designations. Dave holds a B.S. in Economics from Gordon College in Massachusetts.

Antonio Hallak

Head of GLL Electronic Trading Engineering

Credit Suisse

Frank Hatheway

Chief Economist

NASDAQ OMX

Mark D. Herman

Partner, Equity Trader

TAMRO Capital Partners

Richard Huddleston

Executive Director of High Performance Engineering

Morgan Stanley

Craig Jensen

Principal & Co-Head of Trading

Armstrong Shaw Associates

Richard Johnson

Head of Quantitative Electronic Services, Americas

Société Générale

Richard Kang

Chief Investment Officer

Emerging Global Advisors, LLC

Dan Keegan

Options Instructor and Head Options Mentor

The Chicago School of Trading

Nigel Kneafsey

Chief Executive Officer

Options IT

Ryan Larson

Head of U.S. Equity Trading

RBC

Michael Lindh

Vice President and Head of Options Trading

Nuveen

David Margulies

Head of Electronic Products Group

Weeden & Co.

Chris Maxmin

Managing Director

Moon Capital Management

Brendan McCarthy

Head of Sales and Trading

Knight Capital Group

Andrew Menaker

Clinical Psychologist, Founder

Andrew Menaker, LLC

Vijai Mohan

Portfolio Manager

Hyphen Fund Management LLC

Michael Mollemans

Head of Sales Trading APAC

Pavilion Global Markets

Michael Mollemans heads up Pavilion’s Asia Pacific trading and sales desk, seeking out market opportunities and trading channels for clients. He has worked in the algorithmic trading space for 12 years. Previously, Mr. Mollemans was at Credit Suisse Securities Japan as Head of Electronic Trading. Prior to that, he worked at Daiwa Capital Markets America in New York as Head of Electronic Trading Sales, and at Credit Lyonnais Securities in Tokyo in Electronic Trading Sales. Mr. Mollemans has a Ph.D. in Econometrics from Macquarie University, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT)

Lee Morakis

Managing Director

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Manoj Narang

Chief Executive Officer

Tradeworx

C. Andrew Nelson

Lead Trader, Equities

TIAA-CREF

Garrett Nenner

Managing Director

Rosenblatt Securities

Garrett Nenner is a trading infrastructure and market structure specialist with a deep focus on improving execution for institutions. He offers unique expertise within quantitative portfolio management, trading and trading technology from his combined experiences in buy-side fund management and institutional brokerage. Mr. Nenner has worked in the industry for more than 20 years with roles spanning portfolio management, trading, operations, technology and management. Prior to joining Rosenblatt Securities, Garrett served as MD of Global Markets & Market Structure at Momentum Trading Partners, and built the original trading desk and then managed a large high-volume quantitative stat-arb portfolio at Millennium Partners LP, the multi-billion-dollar global hedge fund. Later, he was recruited by Lehman Brothers to work on further commercializing the RealTick trading/order management platform for high-volume fundamental and quantitative clients across the U.S., Europe, Asia and Brazil. Mr. Nenner is also a visiting instructor at the New York Institute of Finance, and built his own company, TTC LLC, which designed superior quantitative systematic capable prime brokerage offerings. He is a recognized expert commentator, presenter, keynote speaker and moderator at significant industry conferences worldwide, at renowned graduate programs focused on market structure, trading and trading technology, and the effects of regulation on the industry.

Nick Nielsen

Head of Quantitative Trading

Marshall Wace

Sean Owens

Director of Fixed Income

Woodbine Associates

Anthony Pallone

Head of Electronic Trading Distribution, Americas

Barclays Capital

Alan Polo

Managing Director

ITG

Alan Polo is a Managing Director in the Global Electronic Sales Team at ITG. His responsibilities include the promotion of ITG’s products and services throughout existing and prospective clients of the firm. He covers over 30 active trading accounts of which a number of them are core relationships. Alan has been with ITG since October 2008 and previously from early 2003 through 2006. In the two year stint away from ITG Alan served as a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers in their Electronic Trading group. He held multiple roles at Lehman which included account coverage and sales but was closely involved with product development for their suite of algorithms and the LX crossing system. He served on the product management team for the RealTick EMS system to help tailor it to better service institutional clients. He started his career at Fidelity as a settlements analyst for their equity trading desk in 1995. Alan received a BA in Finance and International Business from Northeastern University's College of Business Administration.

Yvonne Pytlik

Senior Compliance Advisor

Clear Alternatives

Joe Ratterman

President & CEO

BATS Global Markets

Joe Ratterman is president and chief executive officer of BATS Global Markets, Inc. (BATS), one of the world’s largest securities market operators and the parent company of the BATS Exchanges, BATS Options and BATS Chi-X Europe. A market structure practitioner, he is a frequent panellist and presenter at industry conferences, and also opines on key topics, regulatory issues and other pertinent events via newsletters to the industry.

Under Mr. Ratterman’s direction, BATS is focused on market quality, reliability, transparency and fairness while delivering a high standard of customer service. Since he was named CEO in June 2007, BATS has become the third-largest stock exchange operator in the U.S., and BATS Chi-X Europe has become the largest pan-European stock market. In 2012, the latter was recognized as “Best Stock Exchange” in Europe by Financial News.

Since 2008, Mr. Ratterman has been continuously ranked by Institutional Investor as an industry leader on the magazine’s “Tech 50” and “Online Finance 40” lists. In 2010, he was one of the four national finalists in the Financial Services category for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year^® award, celebrating the most influential and innovative entrepreneurs from around the globe. Also, BATS has repeatedly been recognized by the Kansas City Business Journal through the “Champions of Business” and “Best Places to Work” awards programs. In addition to its Kansas City headquarters, the company also has offices in London and New York.

One of 13 individuals who founded BATS in 2005, his previous industry experience includes time as chief technology officer at Bridge Information Systems and Reuters, where he was employed from 1990 to 2002.

An accomplished water skier, rock climber, professional photographer, and instrument-rated commercial pilot, Mr. Ratterman holds a degree in mathematics and computer science from Central Missouri State University, as well as Series 7, 24, 27, 55 and 66 licenses. He is also a member of the Angel Flight Central Board of Directors.

Ralston Roberts

Senior Managing Director

Sungard

Chris Ross

Managing Director

ITG

David Rukshin

Senior Vice President

D.E. Shaw & Co.

Joseph Saluzzi

Co-Head of Equity Trading

Themis Trading

Eugen Sarbu

Executive Director

Nomura Securities

Robin Strong

Director, Buy-side Market Strategy

Fidessa

Robin is responsible for the market positioning of Fidessa's buy-side solutions. He has led the market strategy for the buy-side operation since 2008, playing a key role in driving the business through a period of considerable investment in its products and services globally. Robin has also played a significant part in highlighting the value of Fidessa's fragmentation analysis tools to the wider buy-side community, in particular the Tradalyzer™ which analyses the performance of a specific trade against the consolidated view of the market.With nearly 20 years' experience in financial markets, Robin has held both commercial and technical positions with leading organisations, including Credit Suisse and Salomon Brothers. Prior to joining Fidessa, Robin co-founded Concise, a London-based specialist consulting firm to investment banks.Robin is the Co-Chair of the FPL Membership Services Committee and a frequent contributor to the buy-side press, featuring regularly as a speaker at industry events.

Tom Whelan

Head of U.S. Product Sales

Instinet

Christopher Willox

Director of Trading

Fenimore Asset Management

Walter Zebrowski

Senior Managing Director, Chairman

Hedgemony Partners, Regulatory Compliance Association






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