Main Conference Day One

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

7:00 Breakfast, Coffee & Registration

Breakfast, Coffee & Registration

7:45 Chairperson’s Welcome Address: Evolution Or Revolution - Market Structure, Regulation And The Buy Side/Sell Side Relationship

Anthony J. Huck, Managing Director, Head of Equity Execution Services, Americas, RBS Global Banking & Markets

Chairperson’s Welcome Address: Evolution Or Revolution - Market Structure, Regulation And The Buy Side/Sell Side Relationship

Anthony J. Huck

Managing Director, Head of Equity Execution Services, Americas, RBS Global Banking & Markets

8:00 Opening Keynote: Big Data in Financial Markets

David Leinweber, Co-Founder, Center for Innovative Financial Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computational Research Division

David Leinweber, author of "Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets" (Wiley 2009) combines the expertise of an computer scientist from MIT, Harvard and the RAND Corporation with the financial experience of a pioneering practitioner in electronic markets and computer driven investing. David’s professional interests focus on modern information technologies in trading and investing. As the founder of two financial technology companies, in trading and “quantextual” investing . At the RAND Corporation his research on real-time applications of artificial intelligence led to the founding of Integrated Analytics Corporation. IAC was acquired by the Investment Technology Group, its product became QuantEx, an electronic execution system used for millions of institutional equity transactions daily for over a decade. He is known for a practical approach to financial technology innovation honed by eight years successfully managing $6 billion of institutional quantitative global equity portfolios at First Quadrant.

Structured and Unstructured Big Data
Federal Market Monitoring & Buy Side Lessons
Collaborative Intelligence & Research
Alpha hunting skills for human and machine teams

David Leinweber

Co-Founder, Center for Innovative Financial Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computational Research Division

8:40 Panel: Tracking The Evolution Of The Buy Side Trading Desk

James Francis, Senior Portfolio Manager, Geode Capital Management
Nat Evarts, Managing Director, Head of Trading, Americas, State Street Global Advisors
Phil DeFrancesco, Head of U.S. Trading, Millennium Partners
Robert Karofsky, Global Head of Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein

While the trading component wasn't always a priority, today's trading desk is the epicenter of most money management firms. This panel discusses how the buy side has evolved to help you better understand where we are going.

Determining how the global equity market evolution has most heavily impacted the buy side trader
Balancing the management of soft dollars, the technology budget and...oh yeah, trading!
Examining how the trading desk serves as the center of the risk management component
Drawing upon the evolution of the buy side trader to determine what lies ahead

James Francis

Senior Portfolio Manager, Geode Capital Management

Nat Evarts

Managing Director, Head of Trading, Americas, State Street Global Advisors

Phil DeFrancesco

Head of U.S. Trading, Millennium Partners

Robert Karofsky

Global Head of Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein

9:25 Execution Vs. Portfolio Management: Exploring The Divergence Of The Buy Side And What It Means For The Future Of The Trading Desk

Chris Maxmin, Managing Director and Head Trader, Moon Capital Management
Joe Wald, Managing Director, Knight Capital Group
Michael Lindh, Vice President and Head of Trading, HydePark Nuveen Investments

Execution Vs. Portfolio Management: Exploring The Divergence Of The Buy Side And What It Means For The Future Of The Trading Desk

Chris Maxmin

Managing Director and Head Trader, Moon Capital Management

Joe Wald

Managing Director, Knight Capital Group

Joseph Wald is a Managing Director at Knight Execution & Clearing Services, L.P. and is 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 devel [read more]

Michael Lindh

Vice President and Head of Trading, HydePark Nuveen Investments

Mike Lindh has been a senior trader at Nuveen since 2007 and at Richards & Tierney from 2002-7. Prior to this, Mike was a principal and senior quantitative research analyst at Harris Investment Management. During his 20 years of investment research management experience with the Harris Bank, he was involved in the development of quantitative risk models, portfolio construction, por [read more]

10:05 Morning Refreshment & Networking Break Hosted by Direct Edge

Morning Refreshment & Networking Break

10:35 Panel: Examining How Changes In Market Regulation & Market Structure Are Impacting The Trading Desk

Adam Mazur, Managing Director and Co-Head of Business Development, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading
David Margulies, Head of Electronic Products Group, Weeden & Co.
Oliver Sung, Head of Execution Consulting Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Richard Johnson, Head of Quantitative Electronic Services, Americas, Societe Generale

Examining How Changes In Market Regulation & Market Structure Are Impacting The Trading Desk

Adam Mazur

Managing Director and Co-Head of Business Development, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading

Adam co-manages the Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading Business Development Group and is responsible for executing business objectives across platforms, products, asset classes and regions. He has been associated with electronic trading in various capacities since he joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as part of the Equities E-commerce team. Adam was named managing director in 2008.Adam earned a BEng in E [read more]

David Margulies

Head of Electronic Products Group, Weeden & Co.

Oliver Sung

Head of Execution Consulting Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Oliver Sung is head of Americas Execution Consulting at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he oversees a team of professionals that delivers customized electronic trading, TCA and algorithmic trading advisory, as well as macro research and market structure perspective. With more than a decade of industry experience, Mr. Sung joined the company in 2008. Before that he was a member of the market [read more]

Richard Johnson

Head of Quantitative Electronic Services, Americas, Societe Generale

Richard Johnson is the Head of Quantitative Electronic Services for the Americas at Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, responsible for sales and product development of Societe Generale’s electronic trading business in the region. Prior to Societe Generale he was at Liquidnet where he was responsible for product management and marketing of electronic trading. He came t [read more]

11:20 Keynote Presentation: Understanding Market Micro- Structure To Improve Your Trade Performance

Matthew Andresen, Co-CEO, Headlands Technologies

Headlands, a global quantitative proprietary trading firm headquartered in San Francisco and Chicago, has a premiere quantitative research team. However, in today's trading world that is not enough; one must also have a deep understanding of market micro-structure. The idiosyncrasies of various markets, asset classes, and geographies have a profound impact on modeling and profitability. In this session, Matt Andresen will discuss the history and development of the world's futures, options, and equity markets. He will then examine the practical impact of the divergent development paths of these markets.

Matthew Andresen

Co-CEO, Headlands Technologies

Matthew Andresen is co-CEO of Headlands, a global quantitative proprietary trading firm headquartered in San Francisco and Chicago.Before joining Headlands, Matt was co-CEO of Citadel Derivatives Group (""CDG""). During his five years running CDG, he helped build the world’s premier market making firm, accounting for almost 10% of US stock volume and over 30% of US option trading volume. Prior to [read more]

11:55 Keynote CEO Panel: Macro Market Overview With Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs, Host, Fox Business News, Lou Dobbs Tonight
John Shrewsberry, John Shrewsberry, President and Head of Wells Fargo Securities, LCC, Wells Fargo & Company
Mark Standish, Co-CEO, RBC Capital Markets

Witness one of the world’s most popular television hosts discuss with top executives in finance how they are planning for the future of our quickly evolving marketplace. Stay tuned to learn which investment banking and asset management Chief Executives will join in this captivating, forward-looking discussion moderated by renowned television host and interviewer Lou Dobbs.

Lou Dobbs

Host, Fox Business News, Lou Dobbs Tonight

Lou Dobbs, currently the host of Fox Business News’ Lou Dobbs Tonight, is a legendary broadcaster, best-selling author and one of the most respected and insightful voices on politics, economics, society and business. For three decades, Dobbs has brought an unwavering American perspective to the most important issues of our day, whether national security, sustainable economic growth and prosperity, [read more]

John Shrewsberry

John Shrewsberry, President and Head of Wells Fargo Securities, LCC, Wells Fargo & Company

John Shrewsberry is President and Head of Wells Fargo Securities, LCC, based in San Francisco, Calif. He is responsible for investment banking, capital markets, institutional fixed income, equity, and derivatives sales and trading, investment research, and a credit-intensive principal investment portfolio of more than $50 billion. Wells Fargo Securities has offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Jo [read more]

Mark Standish

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]

12:55 Lunch

Lunch

Stream 1: TradeTech Architecture

2:15 Chairperson’s Afternoon Remarks

Kevin Lupowitz, CEO, Direct Markets, Inc.

Chairperson’s Afternoon Remarks

Kevin Lupowitz

CEO, Direct Markets, Inc.

Kevin joins DirectMarkets as an industry veteran at bringing innovative and disruptive technologies to the financial services marketplace. Prior to DirectMarkets, Kevin was a founding employee at Liquidnet and served as the Global Head of Technology and Chief Information Officer. He helped the firm grow from its launch in a single market (US) with 37 members, to operating in 39 markets globally wi [read more]

2:30 Panel: Forecasting ROI With Your Next Low Latency Infrastructure Project

Brennan Carley, Global Head of Elektron Platform, Thomson Reuters
Neal Goldstein, Chief Information Officer, Liquidnet
Roji Oommen, Senior Director, Business Development, Financial Services, Savvis

Architecture and Infrastructure: Determining the impact of latency arbitrage, order anticipation strategies and high-frequency activity on data volumes
Measuring the increase of market data of quote volume against the volume of actual traded volume
Selecting proper methods for providing proper network infrastructure estimates and costs
Building flexible cost efficient structures while maintaining cost of ownership
Forecasting data volumes for 2012 and beyond

Brennan Carley

Global Head of Elektron Platform, Thomson Reuters

Neal Goldstein

Chief Information Officer, Liquidnet

Roji Oommen

Senior Director, Business Development, Financial Services, Savvis

Roji Oommen, Senior Director, Business Development, Financial Services, is currently responsible for product strategy, alliances and partnerships within Savvis’ Financial Services business segment, working very closely with the 500+ customers that make up this vertical to deliver purpose-built IT infrastructure and connectivity solutions. Savvis is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hoste [read more]

3:05 Panel: Hardware Acceleration & Analysis - Accelerating Applications And Precision Data Analysis With FPGA's

Eugen Sarbu, Executive Director, Nomura Securities International
Mohammad Darwish, President and CEO, AdvancedIO Systems
Nick Ciarleglio, Systems Engineer, Arista Networks

Panel: Hardware Acceleration & Analysis - Accelerating Applications And Precision Data Analysis With FPGA's

Eugen Sarbu

Executive Director, Nomura Securities International

Mohammad Darwish

President and CEO, AdvancedIO Systems

A 20-year veteran of business and technology innovation, Mohammad Darwish is the Founder and CEO leading AdvancedIO Systems, a company providing programmable Ethernet cards built for real-time performance in the financial and defense markets. In 2004, he launched AdvancedIO focused on leveraging 10GE and FPGA technologies, a prescient innovation that beat the general market by five years. Mohammad [read more]

Nick Ciarleglio

Systems Engineer, Arista Networks

Nick Ciarleglio is currently a Senior Systems Engineer and Financial Services Product Manager at Arista Networks. Nick arrived at Arista Networks in 2008 as the company’s first Systems Engineer. In his current role, Nick is responsible for network architecture consulting in the financial services vertical, and has specifically focused on low-latency network and application architectures. Nick also [read more]

3:40 Refreshment & Networking Break Hosted by Direct Edge

Refreshment & Networking Break

4:10 How to Design and Deploy an FPGA: An Overview For Technologists and Decisions Makers

Patrick Flannery, Financial Technology Consultant, Independent

Overall design and components of the system. Device, host, interconnects, clocks
How to map logic that exists in a structural programing language to Verilog or VHDL
Integration and how to get the logic working with other systems
Understanding the importance of parametrization so that decisions can be made entirely on the FPGA

Patrick Flannery

Financial Technology Consultant, Independent

Patrick focuses and directs the product vision of MayStreet using key insight gained from years of experience with the financial markets and its customers. He creates and strengthens strategic partnerships with clients to help keep MayStreet a vital contributor in today’s market ecosystem. His extensive experience comes from over a decade of building advanced trading technology and developing high [read more]

4:45 Complex Event Processing Not So Complex After All

Adam Honoré, Research Director, Aite Group

Five years ago CEP was an emerging technology with a large and diverse vendor set. Today, CEP is mature, arguably more commoditized, and taking on more challenges. Adam Honore will discuss the current CEP landscape and how capital markets firms can exploit the maturation to do more than run an algo strategy

Understand the market
Explore commercial enablement
Discuss the vendor landscape
Highlight interesting use cases and future directions

Adam Honoré

Research Director, Aite Group

Adam Honoré is the research director of the institutional securities practice at Aite Group. He specializes in financial services technology, focusing on strategic technology initiatives associated with high performance trading, market data, machine-readable content, smart order routing, technology services, complex event processing (CEP), straight-through processing (STP), and risk management iss [read more]

Stream 2: Trading Strategies & Technology

2:15 Chairperson’s Afternoon Remarks

Bernard Donefer, Adjunct Associate, Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

Chairperson’s Afternoon Remarks

Bernard Donefer

Adjunct Associate, Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

Bernard Donefer enjoyed a 35-year career in the international financial services industry, working with banks, exchanges and securities firms in the US, Europe and Asia, before beginning his teaching career in 2003. He is currently Distinguished Lecturer and Associate Director of the Subotnick Financial Services Center at the Zicklin School at Baruch College, CUNY and Adjunct Associate Professor a [read more]

2:30 Aligning Smart Order And Dark Pool Aggregation Technologies With Trading Strategies

Edward Doyle, Senior Equity Trader, Pioneer Investments
Georgios Petropoulos, Vice President, Equities Algorithmic Trading Product, Barclays Capital
Jatin Suryawanshi, Head of Global Quantitative Strategies, Jefferies
Joel Steinmetz, Managing Director, Citadel Securities
Simo Puhakka, Head of Trading, Pohjola Asset Management

Understanding the distinction of execution venues (i.e. block/retail/ broker dominated)
Identifying risks of using a singular dark pool trading strategy
Utilizing venue-specific behavior in designing algorithmic trading strategies

Edward Doyle

Senior Equity Trader, Pioneer Investments

Edward Doyle is a senior equity trader at Pioneer Investments in Boston. Ed has been involved in equity trading since 1993, when he took a job at the Boston Stock Exchange in compliance. Shortly thereafter, he joined Pershing Trading Co. at the BSE and was promoted to specialist, where he made markets from 1996 until 2005. After a one-year stint as a sales trader, Ed joined Pioneer Investments in [read more]

Georgios Petropoulos

Vice President, Equities Algorithmic Trading Product, Barclays Capital

Georgios Petropoulos is a Vice President at Barclays Capital. Based in New York, he works on liquidity seeking strategies and smart order routing products for the firm. Mr. Petropoulos joined Barclays Capital in August 2010. He received a PhD in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jatin Suryawanshi

Head of Global Quantitative Strategies, Jefferies

Joel Steinmetz

Managing Director, Citadel Securities

Joel Steinmetz is Head of Electronic Equity Sales for Citadel Securities. He is responsible for leading the electronic trading efforts and Citadel’s delivery of algorithms and dark pool solutions to the institutional community. Prior to joining Citadel in 2010, Joel was Head of US Sales and Trading at Liquidnet Holdings. Previously, he was Head of Electronic Trading at Citigroup Inc. and Senior Vi [read more]

Simo Puhakka

Head of Trading, Pohjola Asset Management

3:05 Panel: Multi-Asset Trading Strategies

Lloyd Altman, Global Front Office, Lead for Accenture Core Trading and Settlement Services, Accenture
Nitin Gambhir, Founder and CEO, Tethys Technology, Inc.
Todd Schoenberger, Managing Director, The BlackBay Group

Panel: Multi-Asset Trading StrategiesHow many trade order management systems do you really need?What technologies are appropriate for integration and migration?How are buy side desks reacting to pending legislation that will change the way that they trade OTC Derivatives?How tightly coupled is trading with cash and collateral management?

Lloyd Altman

Global Front Office, Lead for Accenture Core Trading and Settlement Services, Accenture

Lloyd Altman is the Global Front Office Lead for Accenture Core Trading and Settlement Services. Lloyd has more than 20 years of experience in the Capital Markets industry, the first 10 of which were spent on Wall Street as a department head, project manager, and developer. Starting in 1999, Lloyd became head of Consulting and Sales for Random Walk Computing, which was acquired by Accenture in 200 [read more]

Nitin Gambhir

Founder and CEO, Tethys Technology, Inc.

Nitin Gambhir is the founder and CEO of Tethys Technology, Inc., an industry-leading provider of broker-neutral execution management systems, algorithmic trading analytics and transaction cost analysis solutions. Before founding Tethys in 2001, 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 q [read more]

Todd Schoenberger

Managing Director, The BlackBay Group

3:40 Refreshment & Networking Break Hosted by Direct Edge

Refreshment & Networking Break

4:10 FactSet for Traders: Discover Superior Portfolio Performance Tools, Trade Analytics, and Market Data

Michael A. Medvinsky, Vice President, Wealth Management & Trading – Americas, FactSet

FactSet for Traders: Discover Superior Portfolio Performance Tools, Trade Analytics, and Market Data

Michael A. Medvinsky

Vice President, Wealth Management & Trading – Americas, FactSet

4:45 Elusive Liquidity: Perceptions, Myths & Realities

Christopher Willox, Director of Trading, Fenimore Asset Management
Owain Self, Global Head of Algorithmic Trading, UBS

This panel brings together a diverse array of buy side participants to discuss and debate the current state of market liquidity, optimal ways to access it, and ways to distinguish between real information leakage risks and paranoia. Issues include: To cross or not to cross, what is the right goal? How should you rethink order management logic for discontinuous liquidity? What are the right strategies for getting a block done in dark liquidity? Why should the market expand trade advertisements? When is HFT the buy side’s friend? When do flickering quotes and short term liquidity begin and end? What is the biggest misperception about market liquidity today?
This panel brings together a diverse array of buy side participants to discuss and debate the current state of market liquidity, optimal ways to access it, and ways to distinguish between real information leakage risks and paranoia. Issues include: To cross or not to cross, what is the right goal? How should you rethink order management logic for discontinuous liquidity? What are the right strategies for getting a block done in dark liquidity? Why should the market expand trade advertisements? When is HFT the buy side’s friend? When do flickering quotes and short term liquidity begin and end? What is the biggest misperception about market liquidity today?

Christopher Willox

Director of Trading, Fenimore Asset Management

Christopher Willox is the Director of Trading at Fenimore Asset Management, a value-oriented equity manager with $1.5 billion in assets under management. He handles all the trading for the two mutual funds, FAM Value and FAM Equity Income as well as the 500+ client accounts. For the past 14 years, while at Fenimore, Christopher has overseen the transition of the trading desk there from a tradition [read more]

Owain Self

Global Head of Algorithmic Trading, UBS

5:20 Panel: OMS Comparative Analysis: Different Approaches For Out-Of-The-Box And Proprietary Systems

Chuck Garcia, Global Head of Sales, TradingScreen
Tim Decker, Head of Electronic Trading and Connectivity, Advent
Mike Earlywine, Head Trader, North America, Ecofin Inc

Panel: OMS Comparative Analysis: Different Approaches For Out-Of- The-Box And Proprietary Systems

Chuck Garcia

Global Head of Sales, TradingScreen

Chuck Garcia is Global Head of Sales for TradingScreen’s traditional asset management business. An accomplished industry veteran with more than 25 years experience in financial services, he was previously Director of Business Development at BlackRock Solutions and spearheaded the Order Management System product and sales strategy for TradeWeb. He also spent 14 years at Bloomberg F [read more]

Tim Decker

Head of Electronic Trading and Connectivity, Advent

Tim has over 14 years creating and providing cutting edge and effective electronic trading solutions to traders. Additionally, Tim has experience as an equity and options trader which has aided in the creation, development and management of customer driven trading platforms. Tim currently works directly with Moxy clients to determine their needs for trading connectivity. As a Product Manager for A [read more]

Mike Earlywine

Head Trader, North America, Ecofin Inc

Stream 3: International Trading

2:15 Chairperson’s Afternoon Remarks

Chairperson’s Afternoon Remarks

2:30 Improving The Performance Of Your European Trading Desk By Taking A Closer Look At Evolving Market Structure

Gordon Gary, Head Trader, Philadelphia International Advisors, LP
Gregory Treacy, Director, Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Joanna Horowitz, Head Trader, Sierra Global Management

Examining the impact of high frequency trading on the European markets
Gaining a better understanding of how MiFID 2 is impacting financial institutions
Comparing and contrasting the US and European algo trading markets and strategies
Forecasting what lies ahead for the European trading community

Gordon Gary

Head Trader, Philadelphia International Advisors, LP

Gordon Gary, Head Trader, has ten years of investment industry experience. Gordon is also a Partner of Philadelphia International Partners, the entity that, along with The Glenmede Trust Company, owns Philadelphia International Advisors, LP. Gordon oversees PIA’s 24-hour global trading desk. His team consists of two traders and one desk assistant who divide their market responsibilities by region. [read more]

Gregory Treacy

Director, Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Gregory Treacy is a Director in the Global Execution Services business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In this role, he manages the electronic trading of U.S. based accounts in international markets. He has over twelve years of account management, trading and equity operations experience. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in June 2010, Treacy was Director of Sales at NeoNet, a global agency brokera [read more]

Joanna Horowitz

Head Trader, Sierra Global Management

3:05 Adjusting Your Strategy To Capitalize Off Of Increased Competition In Emerging And Frontier Markets

Alison Graham, Chief Investment Officer, Voltan Capital Management
Anthony Godonis, Senior Equity Trader, Aberdeen Asset Management
Eylem Senyuz, Head Trader, Ashmore EMM
Tim Bevan, Director, Global Electronic Trading Services , Otkritie Securities

Adjusting Your Strategy To Capitalize Off Of Increased Competition In Emerging And Frontier Markets

Alison Graham

Chief Investment Officer, Voltan Capital Management

Alison Graham is Chief Investment Officer of Voltan Capital Management and portfolio manager of Voltan Frontier Markets Fund. Alison has over seventeen years’ experience in emerging and frontier markets finance. Until 1998, she was a partner and senior analyst for Latin American equities at the investment bank Caspian Securities. In 1998, she moved to Moscow to join United Financial Group where sh [read more]

Anthony Godonis

Senior Equity Trader, Aberdeen Asset Management

Anthony is a Senior Equity Trader with Aberdeen Asset Management. Mr. Godonis is responsible for trading in the Americas, located in Philadelphia. He joined Aberdeen in 2007 through the acquisition of NWD Investments/Gartmore, where he was a senior trader responsible for Small Cap and Program trading. Prior to joining Gartmore, Mr. Godonis was a Senior Trader and Vice President with Glenmede Trust [read more]

Eylem Senyuz

Head Trader, Ashmore EMM

Tim Bevan

Director, Global Electronic Trading Services , Otkritie Securities

Tim Bevan worked at the London Stock Exchange for 8 years where he managed the Exchange Traded Fund, Exchange Traded Commodity and Securitised Derivatives segments on the LSE. Tim was also heavily involved in the launch of Russian DR derivatives on EDX. He then worked at RenCap, initially in delta-1 structuring and later in equity sales. Tim joined Otkritie in 2009 as DMA sales and is now a Direct [read more]

3:40 Refreshment & Networking Break Hosted by Direct Edge

Refreshment & Networking Break

4:10 Identifying Viable Strategies To Improve Performance While Managing Risk In Frontier And Emerging Markets

Seth Freeman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, EM Capital Management, LLC

Square One: What does it take to get started in emerging and frontier markets?
Identifying best practices for managing liquidity risk in emerging markets
Navigating the regulatory environments and staying ahead of rapidly developing markets
Red Flags: Recognizing the warning signs of political, capital and liquidity risks

Seth Freeman

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, EM Capital Management, LLC

4:45 Panel: Optimizing Trade Performance In Latin And South American Markets

Mauricio Trigueros Ramirez, Head of Equity Trading, GBM

Clarifying nuances and misconceptions around in the LatAm and South American markets
Examining opportunities and challenges surrounding the regulatory environments and market structure in these markets
Cost of Entry: What are the hidden costs of trading in LatAm and South American markets?

Mauricio Trigueros Ramirez

Head of Equity Trading, GBM

5:20 Overcoming Technological Obstacles To Investing In Brazil

Understanding why most trading technologies operate very differently in Brazilian markets
Evaluating DMA technologies in the Brazilian market to increasing trading capabilities
Differentiating algo strategies between the US and Brazilian markets

Stream 4: Hedge Fund Technology

2:15 Chairperson’s Afternoon Remarks

Garrett Nenner, Managing Director, Global Markets, Momentum Trading Partners, LLC

Chairperson’s Afternoon Remarks

Garrett Nenner

Managing Director, Global Markets, Momentum Trading Partners, LLC

As Managing Director, Garrett is responsible for the firm’s “super” high-touch trading division, a successful, specialty niche of their global operations. He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in portfolio management and trading, corporate, operative, and management experience, and has been deeply involved in trading-execution infrastructure and technology as well as overall market str [read more]

2:30 CTO Panel: The Evolution Of Hedge Fund Technologies & Automation Of The Trading Desk

Ary Khatchikian, Founder and Co-Chairman, Portware
Marc Rieffel, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer, WorldQuant, LLC
Randy Cieslak, Chief Technology Officer, Diamondback Capital Management

CTO Panel: The Evolution Of Hedge Fund Technologies & Automation Of The Trading Desk

Ary Khatchikian

Founder and Co-Chairman, Portware

Throughout his 15-year career in financial technology, Ary Khatchikian has been at the forefront of the electronic trading movement. In 1995, Ary founded Indigo-Solutions, where he developed and marketed NeuronXT, an order management system targeting small and mid-size investment firms. In January 2000, after founding Portware with Eric Goldberg, Ary transformed NeuronXT into Portware Enterprise, [read more]

Marc Rieffel

Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer, WorldQuant, LLC

Marc Rieffel has a Ph.D. in CS from California Institute of Technology, where he wrote his dissertation on concurrent particle simulations for aerospace and semiconductor manufacturing applications. From 1998-2004, he worked At Paracel Inc. on hardware and software products for searching large DNA, protein, and text databases. In 2005 Marc shifted his focus to the investment field - to apply his s [read more]

Randy Cieslak

Chief Technology Officer, Diamondback Capital Management

3:40 Refreshment & Networking Break Hosted by Direct Edge

Refreshment & Networking Break

4:10 Examining Market Making Technologies & Sell Side Infrastructure To Position Your Hedge Fund Ahead Of The Curve

Garrett Nenner, Managing Director, Global Markets, Momentum Trading Partners, LLC
Scott Stickler, Managing Director, Global Head of High Frequency Trading, UBS

Syncing your IT development staff with your trading desk to build advanced applications and analytics
Transitioning your hedge fund’s trading systems to evolve with its new investing strategy

Garrett Nenner

Managing Director, Global Markets, Momentum Trading Partners, LLC

Scott Stickler

Managing Director, Global Head of High Frequency Trading, UBS

4:45 Stock Market Misconceptions Held Even By Professionals

Spencer Greenberg, CEO, Rebellion Research

Not all common knowledge is actually true. In this talk, Spencer Greenberg will discuss some beliefs held even by professional stock market investors that is challenged by empirical evidence. Commonly used concepts like beta, standard deviation and the riskreturn tradeoff will be discussed.Do stock betas truly have predictive power?Does greater reward really come with greater risk?Is standard deviation a suitable measure of risk?Where do investment returns come from?

Spencer Greenberg

CEO, Rebellion Research

A Wall Street Journal profile has called him a "computer whiz", and the New York Post has referred to him as a "math guru". Spencer Greenberg is a mathematician with an education in applied mathematics and computer science from Columbia University's School of Engineering and NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Seth is the Chief Executive Officer of Rebellion Research, the quantitativ [read more]

5:20 Panel: Best Practices For Data Management And Designing Your Data Room By Professionals

Carlos Capellan, Director of IT, J. Goldman & Co.
John Decker, Chief Technology Officer, Trian Partners

Panel: Best Practices For Data Management And Designing Your Data Room

Carlos Capellan

Director of IT, J. Goldman & Co.

John Decker

Chief Technology Officer, Trian Partners

Stream 5: Invitational Buy Side Head Trader Think Tank (2 hours)

2:15 BAML Buy Side Head Trader Think Tank

Chris Rice, Global Head of Trading, State Street Global Advisors
Edward Adrion, Head Equity Trader, WP Stewart & Company
Frank Loughlin, Senior Vice President, Americas Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein
Jason McLean, Director of Trading, Iridian Asset Management
Jonathan Clark, Head of Fundamental Equity Trading, Americas, BlackRock
Michael O'Reilly, Strategic Trading Analyst, Select Equity Group

Cited as most head traders’ favorite part of TradeTech, the BAML Think Tank provides you an opportunity to take part in shockingly candid debate with your fellow head buy side traders in an environment free of vendors or media. This private event is only open to 35 head traders. You MUST be invited and you MUST RSVP to reserve a seat.How to get invited: To request your invitation to this select event, please contact Rob Golen at 416- 597-4771 or robert.golen@wbresearch.com.What it’s all about: If you are right for this exclusive session, we’ll fill you in on the details.

Chris Rice

Global Head of Trading, State Street Global Advisors

Edward Adrion

Head Equity Trader, WP Stewart & Company

Frank Loughlin

Senior Vice President, Americas Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein

Jason McLean

Director of Trading, Iridian Asset Management

Jason B. McLean, Vice President and Director of Trading, is responsible for equity trading for both large- and mid-capitalization value equity portfolios, as well as hedge fund products. Prior to joining Iridian in December 2004, he previously worked six years as an equity trader, as well as almost three years in financial services at AIM Investments.

Jonathan Clark

Head of Fundamental Equity Trading, Americas, BlackRock

Michael O'Reilly

Strategic Trading Analyst, Select Equity Group

Cocktail Reception

5:55 - 7:30 UBS 2012 Cocktail Reception

Join your colleagues for one of the most sizzling parties in New York! Unwind with your drink of choice, great food and music as you strengthen your industry contacts. The much-talked about UBS Cocktail Gala never disappoints, so bring your colleagues and be ready to kickstart a terrific night!






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Main Conference Day One

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Anthony J. Huck Managing Director, Head of Equity Execution Services, Americas, RBS Global Banking & Markets

David Leinweber Co-Founder, Center for Innovative Financial Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computational Research Division

James Francis Senior Portfolio Manager, Geode Capital Management

Nat Evarts Managing Director, Head of Trading, Americas, State Street Global Advisors

Phil DeFrancesco Head of U.S. Trading, Millennium Partners

Robert Karofsky Global Head of Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein

Chris Maxmin Managing Director and Head Trader, Moon Capital Management

Joe Wald Managing Director, Knight Capital Group

Michael Lindh Vice President and Head of Trading, HydePark Nuveen Investments

Adam Mazur Managing Director and Co-Head of Business Development, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading

David Margulies Head of Electronic Products Group, Weeden & Co.

Oliver Sung Head of Execution Consulting Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Richard Johnson Head of Quantitative Electronic Services, Americas, Societe Generale

Matthew Andresen Co-CEO, Headlands Technologies

Lou Dobbs Host, Fox Business News, Lou Dobbs Tonight

John Shrewsberry John Shrewsberry, President and Head of Wells Fargo Securities, LCC, Wells Fargo & Company

Mark Standish Co-CEO, RBC Capital Markets

Kevin Lupowitz CEO, Direct Markets, Inc.

Brennan Carley Global Head of Elektron Platform, Thomson Reuters

Neal Goldstein Chief Information Officer, Liquidnet

Roji Oommen Senior Director, Business Development, Financial Services, Savvis

Eugen Sarbu Executive Director, Nomura Securities International

Mohammad Darwish President and CEO, AdvancedIO Systems

Nick Ciarleglio Systems Engineer, Arista Networks

Patrick Flannery Financial Technology Consultant, Independent

Adam Honoré Research Director, Aite Group

Bernard Donefer Adjunct Associate, Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

Edward Doyle Senior Equity Trader, Pioneer Investments

Georgios Petropoulos Vice President, Equities Algorithmic Trading Product, Barclays Capital

Jatin Suryawanshi Head of Global Quantitative Strategies, Jefferies

Joel Steinmetz Managing Director, Citadel Securities

Simo Puhakka Head of Trading, Pohjola Asset Management

Lloyd Altman Global Front Office, Lead for Accenture Core Trading and Settlement Services, Accenture

Nitin Gambhir Founder and CEO, Tethys Technology, Inc.

Todd Schoenberger Managing Director, The BlackBay Group

Michael A. Medvinsky Vice President, Wealth Management & Trading – Americas, FactSet

Christopher Willox Director of Trading, Fenimore Asset Management

Owain Self Global Head of Algorithmic Trading, UBS

Chuck Garcia Global Head of Sales, TradingScreen

Tim Decker Head of Electronic Trading and Connectivity, Advent

Mike Earlywine Head Trader, North America, Ecofin Inc

Gordon Gary Head Trader, Philadelphia International Advisors, LP

Gregory Treacy Director, Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Joanna Horowitz Head Trader, Sierra Global Management

Alison Graham Chief Investment Officer, Voltan Capital Management

Anthony Godonis Senior Equity Trader, Aberdeen Asset Management

Eylem Senyuz Head Trader, Ashmore EMM

Tim Bevan Director, Global Electronic Trading Services , Otkritie Securities

Seth Freeman Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, EM Capital Management, LLC

Mauricio Trigueros Ramirez Head of Equity Trading, GBM

Garrett Nenner Managing Director, Global Markets, Momentum Trading Partners, LLC

Ary Khatchikian Founder and Co-Chairman, Portware

Marc Rieffel Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer, WorldQuant, LLC

Randy Cieslak Chief Technology Officer, Diamondback Capital Management

Garrett Nenner Managing Director, Global Markets, Momentum Trading Partners, LLC

Scott Stickler Managing Director, Global Head of High Frequency Trading, UBS

Spencer Greenberg CEO, Rebellion Research

Carlos Capellan Director of IT, J. Goldman & Co.

John Decker Chief Technology Officer, Trian Partners

Chris Rice Global Head of Trading, State Street Global Advisors

Edward Adrion Head Equity Trader, WP Stewart & Company

Frank Loughlin Senior Vice President, Americas Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein

Jason McLean Director of Trading, Iridian Asset Management

Jonathan Clark Head of Fundamental Equity Trading, Americas, BlackRock

Michael O'Reilly Strategic Trading Analyst, Select Equity Group

Anthony J. Huck

Managing Director, Head of Equity Execution Services, Americas, RBS Global Banking & Markets

David Leinweber

Co-Founder, Center for Innovative Financial Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computational Research Division

James Francis

Senior Portfolio Manager, Geode Capital Management

Nat Evarts

Managing Director, Head of Trading, Americas, State Street Global Advisors

Phil DeFrancesco

Head of U.S. Trading, Millennium Partners

Robert Karofsky

Global Head of Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein

Chris Maxmin

Managing Director and Head Trader, Moon Capital Management

Joe Wald

Managing Director, Knight Capital Group

Michael Lindh

Vice President and Head of Trading, HydePark Nuveen Investments

Adam Mazur

Managing Director and Co-Head of Business Development, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading

David Margulies

Head of Electronic Products Group, Weeden & Co.

Oliver Sung

Head of Execution Consulting Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Richard Johnson

Head of Quantitative Electronic Services, Americas, Societe Generale

Matthew Andresen

Co-CEO, Headlands Technologies

Lou Dobbs

Host, Fox Business News, Lou Dobbs Tonight

John Shrewsberry

John Shrewsberry, President and Head of Wells Fargo Securities, LCC, Wells Fargo & Company

Mark Standish

Co-CEO, RBC Capital Markets

Kevin Lupowitz

CEO, Direct Markets, Inc.

Brennan Carley

Global Head of Elektron Platform, Thomson Reuters

Neal Goldstein

Chief Information Officer, Liquidnet

Roji Oommen

Senior Director, Business Development, Financial Services, Savvis

Eugen Sarbu

Executive Director, Nomura Securities International

Mohammad Darwish

President and CEO, AdvancedIO Systems

Nick Ciarleglio

Systems Engineer, Arista Networks

Patrick Flannery

Financial Technology Consultant, Independent

Adam Honoré

Research Director, Aite Group

Bernard Donefer

Adjunct Associate, Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

Edward Doyle

Senior Equity Trader, Pioneer Investments

Georgios Petropoulos

Vice President, Equities Algorithmic Trading Product, Barclays Capital

Jatin Suryawanshi

Head of Global Quantitative Strategies, Jefferies

Joel Steinmetz

Managing Director, Citadel Securities

Simo Puhakka

Head of Trading, Pohjola Asset Management

Lloyd Altman

Global Front Office, Lead for Accenture Core Trading and Settlement Services, Accenture

Nitin Gambhir

Founder and CEO, Tethys Technology, Inc.

Todd Schoenberger

Managing Director, The BlackBay Group

Michael A. Medvinsky

Vice President, Wealth Management & Trading – Americas, FactSet

Christopher Willox

Director of Trading, Fenimore Asset Management

Owain Self

Global Head of Algorithmic Trading, UBS

Chuck Garcia

Global Head of Sales, TradingScreen

Tim Decker

Head of Electronic Trading and Connectivity, Advent

Mike Earlywine

Head Trader, North America, Ecofin Inc

Gordon Gary

Head Trader, Philadelphia International Advisors, LP

Gregory Treacy

Director, Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Joanna Horowitz

Head Trader, Sierra Global Management

Alison Graham

Chief Investment Officer, Voltan Capital Management

Anthony Godonis

Senior Equity Trader, Aberdeen Asset Management

Eylem Senyuz

Head Trader, Ashmore EMM

Tim Bevan

Director, Global Electronic Trading Services , Otkritie Securities

Seth Freeman

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, EM Capital Management, LLC

Mauricio Trigueros Ramirez

Head of Equity Trading, GBM

Garrett Nenner

Managing Director, Global Markets, Momentum Trading Partners, LLC

Ary Khatchikian

Founder and Co-Chairman, Portware

Marc Rieffel

Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer, WorldQuant, LLC

Randy Cieslak

Chief Technology Officer, Diamondback Capital Management

Garrett Nenner

Managing Director, Global Markets, Momentum Trading Partners, LLC

Scott Stickler

Managing Director, Global Head of High Frequency Trading, UBS

Spencer Greenberg

CEO, Rebellion Research

Carlos Capellan

Director of IT, J. Goldman & Co.

John Decker

Chief Technology Officer, Trian Partners

Chris Rice

Global Head of Trading, State Street Global Advisors

Edward Adrion

Head Equity Trader, WP Stewart & Company

Frank Loughlin

Senior Vice President, Americas Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein

Jason McLean

Director of Trading, Iridian Asset Management

Jonathan Clark

Head of Fundamental Equity Trading, Americas, BlackRock

Michael O'Reilly

Strategic Trading Analyst, Select Equity Group