February 21 - 23, 2011
New York, NY

Main Conference Day One

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Throughout the presentations on February 23, participate in live, anonymous polling – right from your own conference chair - sponsored by RBC Capital Markets. Find out how you really compare to your competitors on everything from broker selection to technology adoption. You’ll see the results on screen in real time. Plus we’ll send you the final full results report following the conference so you can share this invaluable information with the rest of your team to effectively benchmark your firm.

7:00 Registration And Breakfast In The Solutions Zone
Registration And Breakfast In The Solutions Zone
8:00 Welcoming Remarks
Sara Mueller
Executive Director
TradeTech North America
8:05 Chairperson’s Opening Address
Andrew Silverman, Managing Director, Global Co-Head, Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading
Chairperson’s Opening Address
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Andrew Silverman
Managing Director, Global Co-Head, Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading

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.
8:20 PANEL: Gaining A Deeper Understanding Of Broker Algorithm Make-Up To Maximize The Effectiveness Of Your Trading Strategy
Jeff Brown, SVP of Electronic Brokerage Services, Fidelity Capital Markets
David Margulies, Head of Electronic Products Groups, Weeden & Co.
Pankil Patel, Head of AES Strategy, Americas, Credit Suisse AES
Steve Peterson, Equity Trader, Texas Teachers Retirement System
Owain Self, Managing Director, Head of Algorithmic Trading, Americas and EMEA, UBS Investment Bank
  • Uncovering the routing and priority characteristics of various broker
  • algorithms; what are each algos’ preferences to dark pools with IOIs or IOCs?
  • Using TCA, communication with your broker, and other means to
  • evaluate the effectiveness of each algo’s routing capabilities
  • Determining which order routing preferences lead to increased
  • information leakage and risk; adjusting your trading strategy to respond to this information
  • Simplifying algo lingo to determine which front end systems best
  • support algo implementation and integration
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Jeff Brown
SVP of Electronic Brokerage Services, Fidelity Capital Markets

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 [read more]
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David Margulies
Head of Electronic Products Groups, Weeden & Co.

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 sal [read more]
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Pankil Patel
Head of AES Strategy, Americas, Credit Suisse AES

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 Advis [read more]
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Steve Peterson
Equity Trader, Texas Teachers Retirement System

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.
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Owain Self
Managing Director, Head of Algorithmic Trading, Americas and EMEA, UBS Investment Bank

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 marke [read more]
9:05 PANEL: Finding A Single Solution For Global Connectivity
Mohammad Ayach, Information Technology Officer, OrbiMed Advisors
Mark Casey, President, CFN Services Inc.
Roy Saadon, Co-Founder, General Manager Harmony, Traiana
Bob Moitoso, Senior Vice President, NYSE Technologies
  • Identifying the advantages and costs of having a single point of
  • entry to global exchanges and trading venues
  • Uncovering vendors that provide access to all market exchanges;
  • what offerings must you evaluate as you compare vendors solutions?
  • Optimizing your current DMA or OMS systems for greater global
  • connectivity
  • Reviewing global connectivity systems trends among buy side, sell
  • side, and prop trading firms
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Mohammad Ayach
Information Technology Officer, OrbiMed Advisors

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 Washi [read more]
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Mark Casey
President, CFN Services Inc.

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 Net [read more]
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Roy Saadon
Co-Founder, General Manager Harmony, Traiana

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 e [read more]
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Bob Moitoso
Senior Vice President, NYSE Technologies

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 [read more]
9:45 Morning Refreshment Break & Opportunity To Network In The Solutions Zone - Hosted by: Correlix
Morning Refreshment Break & Opportunity To Network In The Solutions Zone - Hosted by: Correlix
10:25 PANEL: Adding Alpha To The Trading Process With Better Pre- And Post-Trade Analytics
Ian Domowitz, CEO, ITG Solutions Network
Merrell Hora, Director, Market Microstructure Analyst, Barclays Capital
Lee Morakis, Managing Director, Head of Execution Services Sales, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Robert Shapiro, Executive Director of Trading and Execution Analysis, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
  • Extracting additional valuable information from post-trade analytics
  • (beyond just measuring due diligence) to determine where trading can add alpha
  • Using post-trade analytics and quantitative evaluation to identify the
  • best performance for each trading strategy; adding this into your pre-trade analytics
  • Analyzing your portfolio manager’s strategy and trader’s trading
  • style to develop a more profitable trading strategy
  • Having enough tools and analytics in place to monitor and evaluate
  • basket trades as well as single names
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Ian Domowitz
CEO, ITG Solutions Network

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 Comm [read more]
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Merrell Hora
Director, Market Microstructure Analyst, Barclays Capital

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Lee Morakis
Managing Director, Head of Execution Services Sales, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

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Robert Shapiro
Executive Director of Trading and Execution Analysis, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

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. [read more]
11:05 The New Dynamic: How The Buy Side And The Sell Side Are Adapting To The Evolving Equity Trading Ecosystem
Brian Fagen, Managing Director, Co-Head of Liquid Market Sales, Barclays Capital
Keynote Presentation
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Brian Fagen
Managing Director, Co-Head of Liquid Market Sales, Barclays Capital

11:45 The Future Of Capital Markets – An Executive Panel Moderated By Charlie Rose
Bob Diamond, President of Barclays PLC and CEO of Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth Management , Barclays Capital
Charlie Rose, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
Mark Standish, President and Co-CEO, RBC Capital Markets
Our executive panelists are confirmed!

It’s been a challenging time for the finance industry, to say the least, and changes in regulation, employment trends, risk assessment, innovation, the use of financial instruments, corporate policy, and more are imminent. During this session, renowned interviewer Charlie Rose will moderate a panel discussion with the chief executives leading the investment banking and asset management industry back to health. This will be a truly remarkable discussion with the top minds in finance, and will paint a picture of the future of global capital markets.
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Bob Diamond
President of Barclays PLC and CEO of Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth Management , Barclays Capital

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 [read more]
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Charlie Rose
Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose

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 bac [read more]
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Mark Standish
President and Co-CEO, RBC Capital Markets

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 Equ [read more]
3:15 Afternoon Refreshment Break & Opportunity To Network In The Solutions Zone - Hosted by: Correlix
Afternoon Refreshment Break & Opportunity To Network In The Solutions Zone - Hosted by: Correlix
5:00 UBS Cocktail Gala Reception
Join us for the most sizzling party in New York!

After a day filled with constructive debate and information sharing, unwind with your new network of colleagues and friends at the UBS Cocktail Gala. Relax, have fun, and bring your business cards! Embrace this opportunity to forge new business partnerships and uncover additional equity trading and technology strategies in an informal atmosphere.
6:30 TradeTech Day One Concludes
TradeTech Day One Concludes