Currently: Head of Technology, Prop Group, and Chief Architect for Equities APAC, Nomura

Previously: Head of Technology for Equity Derivatives Trading APAC, Lehman Brothers (4 years)

Head of Technology for Cash and Portfolio Trading Japan/APAC, Dresdner Kleinwort (3.5 years)

Senior Software Engineer, FOX Trading Platform, Fusion Systems Japan (3.5 years)

Martin leads the regional team in this role across a broad spectrum of geographies, markets and solutions.

Previously, Martin was Global Head of Sales for Reuters Trading for Fixed Income, Reuters Product Business Owner for Data Management Solutions, Sales Director for Reuters Financial Markets Group, and the Reuters representative in forming Atriax, a joint venture with DB, JPM and Citibank, which merged with FXAll, in the UK. He has also worked for Syntegra (s/w integration arm British Telecom), Dow Jones Telerate and NCR Corporation in a variety of sales, divisional and marketing roles.

Asia is Martin's first international assignment and he has spent two years in the region. He is based in Singapore.

Martin received a First Class BA Honours Degree from Leicester University (UK) in Business Studies with Finance.

Tomoyoshi URANISHI is Senior Executive Officer of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. and Managing Director of TSE,Inc., where he is in charge of information service business, international matters and CSR. Before he joined TSE in 2003, He had been working in the Ministry of Finance and Financial Services Agency for 29 years. He was deputy director general for Customs Bureau of MOF and deputy director general for Supervisory Bureau of FSA. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1974 and was a visiting fellow for Woodrow Wilson School of the Princeton University in 1992-1993.

Mike is responsible for Thomson Reuters global Enterprise Information business, which consists of both real-time data feeds, pricing and reference data services together with several newer initiatives such as machine readable news, low latency data feeds, hosting and tick history database solutions. Having joined Reuters in 1995, Mike has held a number of positions within different parts of the company, including 7.5 years in Asia where he ran marketing and product management in Japan and latterly established the Asian Business Direct and Customer Service Centre in Sydney. In 2005 Mike returned to London to establish the Enterprise Information real-time business unit to exploit the growing trend in business automation across the capital markets. Previously Mike has worked at Nomura International as part of their Japanese institutional equities business and Bloomberg LP where he was responsible for Nordic business development. Mike has a BSc. Hons. degree in Business Management from Aston University.

James Dow is a highly experienced technology manager with over 20 years of experience in data center strategy and design, compute systems design, IT management, and software development in the Financial Industry Focusing principally on Data Center Strategy development and empirical modeling. He has significant external customer accomplishments including, delivery of CTO services for large scale data center and Headquarters development, Global Financial Systems infrastructures, and wireless commerce systems for such Fortune 500 corporations as AIG, Barclays Group, Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, UBS, and Wachovia.

CS Technology, Inc. operates as a technology strategy and implementation company. It offers technology strategy, architecture, engineering, and implementation services. The company's customers include companies, businesses, and public sector organizations in various industries, such as financial services, professional services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, government, education, and telecommunications. CS Technology, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in New York.

Yu Hauli is Director of Computer Engineering Department and Head of the IT Strategy and Planning Group, Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Her responsibilities include development of the Exchange's IT strategies and short-term IT planning, and R&D of the Exchange's technology systems. She joined the Exchange in 1993, and has more than 17 years of experience in planning and design and development of securities trading systems. Hauli received her MBA from Amoy University in 2003, and she graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990.

Steven Silberstein is the Chief Information Officer for Chi-X Global, where he is responsible for the development and operations of the firm's trading systems and market centers. Previously, Mr. Silberstein was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, serving as the Global Head of its Prime Brokerage product, where he was responsible for the Quantitative Prime Brokerage, Product Management, Clearing, Custody and Servicing aspects of the business. Prior to that was the Chief Information Officer of the firm's Global Equities Division, where he co-lead Lehman Brothers' move into electronic and quantitative execution, as well as the deployment of its LX ATS platform and other internalization products. Before that, Mr. Silberstein ran two venture-backed finance and technology firms: MarketXT, an Electronic Communications Network (ECN), and FAME Information Services, a leading provider decision support solutions serving the needs of energy, financial services, government and commercial clients. Mr. Silberstein is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and serves on the Advisory Council of Rensselaer's Lally School of Management and Technology.

JJ Lim joined Bursa Malaysia in June 2008 as Head, Exchanges Operations of Market Operations before he was appointed as CIO, heading Technology & Systems Group on 15 September 2008. JJ brings with him over 20 years experience in the securities industry, having held many roles ranging from developing businesses, securities operations, managing critical projects, advisory and consultancy. Prior to joining Bursa Malaysia, JJ had been with the Association of Stockbroking Companies Malaysia (ASCM) since 2004, his last position there being Executive Director.

Hani Shalabi joined Credit Suisse Hong Kong in June 2008. He currently heads the electronic trading team, AES, for Asia Pacific in charge of electronic equities, multi-asset and high frequency trading. Previously, Hani managed the Electronic Trading team for UBS in Hong Kong, covering non-Japan Asia. Before that, Hani worked for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, Japan and New York. Hani holds a degree in Physics from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters in Computer Science from NYU.

Prior to his role at Lakeview, Peter managed significant hedge fund type investment portfolios and quantitative trading departments for among others Cooper Neff, Salomon Brothers, HypoVereinsbank and Credit Lyonnais. He has over ten years of experience in the development and running of sophisticated automated trading operations. He holds a MBA degree from the Owen Graduate School at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. He is a frequent speaker on complex arbitrage strategies with a focus on volatility arbitrage and high frequency algorithmic trading. He is also a well known consultant to the investment community with regards to trading, risk management, operational and strategic issues. Lakeview provides a large range of trading and risk management related services.

Kerr received his PhD in Mathematical Biology from University College London. He has worked both in the risk management and pricing of credit derivatives (Dresdner Bank, Lehman Brothers), and as quanititative strategist for both Goldmans and Deutsche, where his research spanned both high and low frequency delta-one products. He has constructed and managed equity portfolios in excess of $100M, and his software has won numerous external awards for Deutsche Bank. He joined Quantitative Products in March 2007 and heads Quantitative Products One, focused on delta-one assets, in Asia.

Current role: Head of Pacific Rim Electronic Trading Technology from 2007 until present.Department Description: IT group responsible for Electronic Trading Technology for Pacific Rim.Previous roles:

* Global Head of Portfolio Sales Trading Technology. Merrill Lynch 2006 - 2007

* COO Global Execution Services Deutsche Bank 2003 - 2006

* Head of Equity Cash IT EMEA Deutsche Bank 2000-2003

* Head of Equity Cash IT Australia Deutsche Bank 1999-2000

* Head of Portfolio/Cash Trading IT Japan Deutsche Bank 1996 - 1999

* Head of Portfolio Trading IT Japan Morgan Stanley 1994 - 1996

* Senior Developer Portfolio Trading IT Japan Morgan Stanley 1992 - 1994

* Senior Developer Chicago Research and Trading NY 1990 - 1992

* Developer RMJ Securities NY 1986 – 1990

Education: BS in Computer Science, Columbia University School of Engineering & Applied Science

Born in Frankfurt/Germany in 1977, Matthias started his professional career with Deutsche Boerse AG in 1998, first as a trainee and then served in various roles within the group. Matthias left Deutsche Boerse AG in 2003 for a short half year stint with Monex Securities Inc. in Tokyo, one of the leading Japanese online brokers. After returning to Europe, Matthias joined the Global Markets team at Deutsche Bank, covering Euro-bonds and Autobahn trades for the London desk before taking up a role as ECB watcher for the Japanese Ministry of Finance in Frankfurt.

Matthias joined Osaka Securities Exchange in 2006 to facilitate the international business development of the exchange. Since then he actively engages in promoting and marketing OSE's derivatives market as well as the Co-location and remote membership initiatives to traditional and non traditional end users globally.

Matthias studied economics and Japanese studies at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. In 2003 he received a CDG-fellowship grant by the German parliament. Matthias is married with a son.

Alex Connors is the Head of International Product Management for Cable&Wireless Worldwide. His primary objective in this role is to ensure the continued development of C&W Worldwide's product capability outside the UK and to drive growth in new markets through the extension of C&W Worldwide's services into new geographic regions. Prior to this, Alex ran the Contact Centre product line for Cable&Wireless Worldwide, focusing on the development and growth of C&W Worldwide's market-leading IP Contact Centre services as well as driving C&W Worldwide's inbound non-geographic portfolio in the UK.

Alex has also been responsible for managing a range of product lines, including IP telephony and TDM telephony services both at Cable&Wireless Worldwide and with his former company, Energis. Before moving into product management at Energis, Alex was responsible for running product marketing and marketing services teams for the organisation. Alex has worked in the telecoms industry for more than 13 years.Alex holds an MBA from City University Business School in London, and a post graduate diploma in Marketing and Honours degree from the University of Manchester.

Max heads up technology efforts at Nomura's APAC Equities business, with special focus on high frequency and ultra low latency solutions as well as derivatives trading and risk management. His prior roles included heading up Fixed Income technology at JPMorgan and FX algorithmic trading at Deutsche Bank in London.

Carrie Cheung is the regional head of electronic sales and service team for professional trading clients at BofA Merrill Lynch Pacrim. She also leads the market access product to all exchanges and alternate execution platforms in the region. Carrie joined Merrill Lynch Equity Technology in 2000, where she build up strong knowledge of electronic trading. She then moved into Equities Trading in 2005 and she now manages the electronic sales team to market the products to Merrill Lynch's client base. Before joining Merrill Lynch, Carrie worked at Fidelity Investment Japan, ING Baring, UBS and Salomon Brothers.

Lee is Worldwide Business Development manager for HP's scalable, high performance solutions in Financial Services. He is focused on developing and communicating HP's solutions in the areas of low latency market data/HFT/exchanges, compute-intensive quantitative analytics, and scale-out enterprise datacenters for FSI.

He helps HP regional teams and customers understand HP's value-added systems, optimized for performance and often integrated with hardware, middleware, and application components from HP partners for production-worthy deployable solutions. He brings demanding customer requirements back to HP product engineering divisions to ensure future products meet evolving needs. Lee joined HP in 1996 and served as HP's Business and Alliances manager for the Computer-Aided Engineering industry for over a decade before turning his focus to FSI.

Lee has a Sc.B. in Engineering from Brown University, an Sc.M. in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and over 25 years of industrial experience in manufacturing, software engineering, product marketing, alliance management, and technical sales.

Edward W. Scheckler is currently Global Head of IT Infrastructure at CLSA, Ltd., Asia's leading independent brokerage and investment group. CLSA provides investment banking, capital markets, equity broking, and asset management services to global corporate and institutional clients. Headquartered in Hong Kong, CLSA has 1350 dedicated professionals in 15 Asian cities, plus London, Boston, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.

Mr. Scheckler has 19 years experience in the Asia Pacific region having held senior IT Infrastructure roles including Asia Pacific head of Technology Infrastructure at Credit Suisse, and Japan Region head of Technology Infrastructure at Citigroup. Mr. Scheckler has also been a consultant to the financial services and life sciences sectors with clients including the Japan National Institutes of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Pfizer, Inc. He first came to Japan as a visiting researcher in semiconductor manufacturing and micro-fabrication at Hitachi's Central Research Laboratory.

Mr. Scheckler holds M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and B.S.E.E. and B.A. degrees from the University of Notre Dame.

Ralph van Put is the CEO of All Options Asia and Adjunct Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Being an entrepreneur, he also encourages his colleagues to be one. Affiliated with several foundations, he was the Chairman of The Derivatives Technology Foundation and was a Board Member of The Association of Proprietary Traders in Amsterdam before relocating with his family to Hong Kong.

Zameer Syed is a Trading Technology Architect Expert, based in Mumbai, India. He is also Chief Technology Officer with the Reliance Securities Ltd. (Reliance Money) in Mumbai. He has around 18 years of experience working in Banking and Financial Services domain, providing IT Strategic and Operations leadership in uniquely challenging situations. Prior to joining the Reliance Securities, Zameer was Head of IT and Business Solutions Group with HDFC Securities, and also managing technology and projects for Private Banking Group of HDFC Bank and HDB Financials (a subsidiary of HDFC Bank). Prior to joining with RSL, he served with Peregrine Capital, Rabo India, GE Money, ICICI Prudential and Mahindras, where he was responsible for IT management and Business Solutions functions, with teams across Asia, and involved in large enterprise-wide responsibilities. He holds a MCA from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, and Executive Masters from the Indian Institute of Management.

Viral Mody has a rich experience of working across the value chain of technologies used in the Indian Capital Markets. He has had the chance to work with & lead a team of senior practitioners at India's largest stock exchange and also in leading technology teams at large software firms in building cutting-edge STP order management systems for some of the most demanding sell-side firms. This dual experience gives him a rich perspective on the underlying dynamics driving the technology and business imperatives of some of the most demanding market participants in the Indian Capital Markets. In his present role, he is leading a strategic Trading Architecture Group which is architecting, designing and building the next generation trading system which will be robust enough to handle the burgeoning trading volumes at one of Asia's fastest growing stock exchanges(NSE). Prior to this assignment, he has held a number of techno-managerial positions at NSE's subsidiary firm where he steered the development of India's leading web-based order routing product for retail and institutional brokerage clients.

Niguel Brooks joined the Singapore Exchange (SGX) in January 2009 as a Senior Vice President and Head of Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure. His responsibilities include identifying and implementing transformational initiatives and management responsibility for the exchange IT and telecommunications infrastructure.

Prior to the SGX, Niguel was the trading support and development manager for the Australian Securities Exchange's (ASX) and was responsible for the technical development of the exchange technology during his 11 year tenure. Prior to joining the ASX, Niguel held various technical specialist roles during his 11 years with Digital Equipment Corporation.

Chris is responsible for Kx technical and corporate support throughout AsiaPac. Prior to joining Kx he was owner and principal consultant at Strand Software, providing consultancy and development to financial clients worldwide, working on treasury, compliance reporting, risk management and budgeting systems. He is also a partner in Jsoftware and one of the developers of the Jsoftware programming system.

Glenn Lesko is CEO of Instinet in Asia, and is responsible for the firm's business units – Instinet Japan Limited, Instinet Pacific Limited, Instinet Singapore Services Private Limited and Instinet Australia Pty Limited – in the region.

Mr. Lesko, a CFA charterholder, previously headed Instinet's U.S.-based International Trading Group. Mr. Lesko joined Instinet in 2006 from CF Global Trading, where he had served as a partner since 2003, and before that, served two years as a managing director at Deutsche Bank, directing the firm's international trading desk. Prior to that, Mr. Lesko spent 10 years at ABN AMRO and its affiliates, first heading its Asian trading desk in Hong Kong and later its international trading desk in New York.

Paul is a Partner at Citihub, a leading specialist consultancy focused on technology for the financial services industry, notably IT Strategy, Programme Delivery, Architecture and Sourcing.

Paul has over 14 years experience of delivering change in the most technically complex and business critical environments of top tier financial services institutions where his unique combination of business acumen, technology infrastructure knowledge, large-scale systems integration experience, pragmatism and energy quickly delivers results; 6 years of his consulting experience was with Accenture.

Today, Paul is helping clients across the globe from his base in Singapore having previously lived in both London and New York.

Brian R Brown is a Wall Street veteran in quantitative trading, and author of Chasing the Same Signals. He is a former executive from Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, where he was influential to Asian reforms that enhanced market efficiency and attracted global investors. Mr. Brown previously managed statistical arbitrage portfolios for Trout Trading Management, a pioneer in high frequency trading. He has advised top-tier hedge funds on adapting their models across Asia markets. Mr. Brown presently is Managing Director of the Shogi Group, a hybrid trading and private equity firm.

Walter has recently joined Financial Markets Advisory having previously been MD with ABR Financial and before that, Managing Consultant with Capgemini Global Financial Services. Walter has 15 years experience in sellside financial markets focusing on algorithmic/quantified trading strategies. He is an algo trading risk management specialist with a strong understanding of the IT trading infrastructure and networking requirements for high speed trading. He is also an expert on trading regulations including the Financial Services Act re MiFID & Market Abuse Directive (he was the co-Author of the ‘2007 European Asset Management Report published by Capgemini Global Financial Services).

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.

Randall is an adjunct associate professor at the Singapore Management University teaching courses on financial markets solutions and architecture. He is also the CEO of Catena Technologies Pte Ltd, an Asia-based technology consulting firm that focuses on financial services. Prior to founding Catena Technologies, Randall was the Asia-Pacific Vice President of Enterprise Solutions for Reuters PLC, a major financial markets information and technology provider. He also spent eight years working in the Silicon Valley and London with TIBCO Finance Technology Inc., an innovator of high-performance middleware messaging technology. Randall received his B.S. and M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in computer science.

Henry Young is a founder and CEO of Trading Systems Associates plc (TS-Associates), a firm that specialises in monitoring and analysis of networks and real time financial middleware products. TS-Associates' “TipOff” middleware analysis appliance leverages both FPGA and ASIC based hardware acceleration techniques in order to achieve real time capture, decode and analysis of 1GE and 10GE data flows. With a built in high resolution hardware based time stamping capability, TipOff is leading the charge into high resolution passive latency monitoring of direct exchange feed and transaction infrastructures.

Prior to founding TS-Associates in 1999, Henry was a roving industry consultant splitting his time between London and New York with engagements for a variety of banks and exchanges. Henry led the team at MSB Consultants that, in the mid 90s, developed the RT Emulator – a product that delivered Reuters Terminal functionality integrated with six of the then available market data platforms. Henry holds an MSc in Computing from Imperial College and a BSc in Physics & Electronics from Edinburgh University.

David leads Cable&Wireless Worldwide's enterprise sales team in Asia Pacific. His team of client directors - spread across Australia, China, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore - serve the telecommunication needs of large corporations based in the region.

David and his team are focused on growing Cable&Wireless Worldwide's portfolio of Asian and multinational customers through new client acquisition. David has worked in telecommunications for over 11 years. Over the last decade, David has worked with some of the biggest global corporations across a broad array of industry verticals including financial services, manufacturing, logistics and high-technology. David has an Undergraduate degree and Master's degree in business, with a specialisation in marketing, from the University of Western Sydney.

Colin is the Country Manager of IPC Japan and Director of Business Development for the Asia Pacific region. Within this role, Colin is responsible for IPC's business activities within Japan and the coordination of strategic sales and for the fostering of productive business relationships with IPC's partners throughout APAC. He works closely with the sales and operations teams and spans IPC's trading systems and network services divisions. Prior to this role Colin served for 2 years in IPC's HQ in Jersey City as Director of Product Management, focusing on IPC's desktop productivity solutions. Prior to that, Colin held several roles within IPC in Asia Pacific, including Director of Customer Solutions APAC and Japan Operations Manager.

Colin graduated from Hull University in the UK with a degree in computer software engineering. He moved to Japan in order to undertake a research project within KDD's R&D division and to study Japanese. Prior to joining IPC, Colin served as the Asia Pacific Information Systems Manager for Bloomberg L.P.

Del Abdullah is the Head of Electronic Trading Technology at Daiwa Capital Markets. In the last decade, Mr Abdullah has worked on building low-latency routing, crossing, TCA, compliance and algorithmic trading systems in California, New York and Hong Kong. Mr. Abdullah is also a member of the FPL technical subcommittee. Prior to joining Daiwa Capital Markets, he has held various positions at Investment Technology Group.

Andy Miller is Juniper Network's vice president for enterprise sales in Asia Pacific. He is responsible for leading Juniper's enterprise strategy and execution in the theatre, managing the company's regional direct-touch sales force to develop growth in the enterprise, government, and academic sectors.

Prior to this role, Andy headed up the company's APAC service provider team as its vice president and was formerly also the company's APAC director of marketing for Asia Pacific. Andy brings to Juniper almost 20 years of experience working with carriers around the world, having held a number of senior international roles including sales, product design, product management, software development and marketing, working in New Zealand, Australia, England and the USA. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Andy was the director, strategic business development for Asia Pacific at Unisphere Networks. The company was acquired by Juniper Networks in July 2002.

Prior to Unisphere, Andy spent more than four years with Telecom New Zealand (TNZ), initially heading up the access group of the country's largest ISP, XTRA. With XTRA, he managed the deployment of New Zealand's largest Virtual Private Network, and developed and launched numerous business and residential access solutions. Andy later headed up TNZ's IP Centre of Excellence, responsible for the design, build, operation and support of all customer and Internet-facing networks. He also consulted on product positioning, pricing and creation for ADSL market offerings, ethernet deployment, IP-VPN services, large corporate offerings, Voice over IP offerings, and international managed services.

Mark Holt is Head of Implementation for the systematic trading group at BlueCrest Capital Management (UK) LLP. He has spent the last 15 years automating trading within and between major financial institutions. Joined BlueCrest after 5 years at UBS where he was responsible for the architecture and development of their European algorithmic trading platform. Before that he spent 7 years at Morgan Stanley and was involved in the development of their global electronic trading platform as well as the implementation of a number of automated trading strategies for cash and derivatives markets. After qualifying as a production engineer he obtained a Masters researching the application of the innovation process by individuals and companies. This research has formed the basis of his subsequent career.

E. John Fildes is Director of Strategic Development for GETCO Asia, where he is responsible for relationships with exchanges, regulators and market participants across the region as well as driving the company's high-frequency trading and market-making strategies in Asian markets.

Previously he was Managing Director and COO, Asia, of Instinet Pacific, responsible for all the operations of Instinet in Asia including Japan. Prior to joining Instinet in 2006 he was with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong for 10 years where he held positions as the Head of Equity Marketing and Head of Electronic and Program Trading for Asia-Pacific. Before that he was the Head of MSCI for Asia Pacific and was actively involved in the launch of MSCI futures contracts for Taiwan and Singapore on SIMEX. He is the Co-Chair of the FIX Protocol Global Steering Committee and a Director of FIX Protocol Limited, and former Board Member of the Stockbrokers Association of Australia.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley Mr. Fildes held various positions in Europe with the Financial Times, Standard and Poor¹s and Reuters.Mr. Fildes studied Law at the University of Liverpool.

T-Kiang Tan is Head of High Frequency Trading at Mizuho Securities, where he leads the team on Ultra High Frequency (UHF) trading and product development. T-Kiang has more than 13 years of experience working in the finance industry and is an expert in UHF low latency trading implementation. He started his career working on the buyside of the business at UBS O'Connor developing trading models and developing tick databases for backtesting. To gain a better understanding of corporate risk management, T-Kiang worked within Corporate Risk Management Systems for 3 years at JP Morgan Chase, after which he returned to the trading desk on the sell-side.

Prior to joining Mizuho Securities, T-Kiang was a Vice President of Capital Markets Prime Services at Lehman Brothers in Japan. T-Kiang earned his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Eugen Tjong is Head of Enterprise Solutions Real-Time, Asia Pacific for Thomson Reuters. In this role Mr. Tjong has responsibility for all Real-Time solutions within the Asia Pacific region which includes all the Real-Time Feeds, Low Latency Feeds and Hosting solutions.

Before moving to Hong Kong, Mr Tjong was based in London where his roles among others included, Business Manager Enterprise Information, Head of Sales EMEA Low Latency Feeds, Head of Integration and Head of Sales Northern Europe.

Mr. Tjong was both educated in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and has a degree in business and a PhD in Engineering.

Abhishek joined UBS London in the Client Facing Technology (CFT) team and in 2008 became the UBS Head of Client Connectivity APAC. In this capacity, he managed several key DMA/Algo initiatives including new market coverage, cross-product projects and the launch of UBS' in-house Ultra-Low Latency HVDMA product for Asia Pacific markets. He has also played a pivotal role in engineering and delivering several client and exchange specific solutions, to strengthen our DE product. With over 8 years experience in DMA technology, Abhishek brings new Technical expertise into his current Direct Execution and HFT Sales role.

Ian Jack is the Business Development Director, European & Asian Connectivity for NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology business of NYSE Euronext. Mr. Jack is responsible for further developing the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI ®) platform in Europe and Asia and continued migration of legacy networks. The SFTI business unit has two core functions, providing low-latency market access for exchange members and also connecting customers to co-location, value added services and content applications. In addition Mr. Jack is responsible for growing the SFTI business in Europe and Asia not only in support of the existing NYSE Euronext members and customers but by seeking new opportunities to connect non-NYSE market centres and their members. Mr. Jack has a strong background in telecommunications and financial communities, having held positions at COLT Telecommunications, BT Radianz and Logica Plc.

Howard Weiss is responsible for the APAC region for Voltaire, a leading provider of ultra-low latency and high performance InfiniBand and 10 Gbe networking products. Howard has more than 20 years in the high tech industry and in the past he held senior management positions at Phoenix Technologies and BakBone Software. Fluent in Japanese, Howard is based in Tokyo Japan and has a BA from the University of Michigan.

Ned is the new CEO of Chi-East, a joint venture between Chi-X GLobal and the SGX. Previously he was the CEO of BlocSec, an Asia-based crossing network. In the 18 years that he has lived and worked in Asia, he has focused on agency and electronic equity trading – in particular, on growing the alternative crossing network community.

Ned graduated with an honours degree in Economics from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh in 1990, and moved to Asia in early 1991, working in Australia and Hong Kong. He began his career in the financial industry in 1994 when he joined Edinburgh Financial Publishing in Hong Kong.

In 1999, he joined E*TRADE to work in its agency equity division, specalising in the Asian equity markets. Four years later, Ned joined Investment Technology Group (ITG) as Head of Sales and established its Singapore office. He then returned to E*TRADE in 2006 to be its Asian and Japan Managing Director, responsible for its entire regional institutional equity business.

Bob Van Valzah left TIBCO in 2004 to be one of the four founders of 29West, which defined a new market for ultra-low-latency messaging and pioneered the daemonless, serverless design that now sets all the performance standards. Now that all of 29West is a part of Informatica, their leadership is expected to grow even stronger.

Bob was in on the ground floor of microprocessors in 1975, C in 1977, Unix and the ARPAnet in 1979, TCP/IP and the Internet in 1985, the World Wide Web in 1992, and reliable multicast in 1998, all culminating in the birth of low-latency messaging. Bob has a pair of Computer Science degrees from the University of Illinois, but he tries hard not to let those get in the way of communicating with people who have business problems to solve. Bob gives technical seminars to those in the financial market industry seeking to better understand the trade-offs involved in performance, latency, and reliability. Bob's knowledge of networks is among the most extensive in the industry.

Sandeep Mehta is a Managing Director and Head of Technology Infrastructure for Asia-Pacific at UBS. Before joining UBS, he was a Managing Director in Technology at Goldman Sachs where he held senior management roles in New York, India, the Middle-East and Asia. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Sandeep has held senior technology roles at Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers. His background in computer science includes research and publications while at Philips Research Laboratories, NYNEX Science and Technology and the University of Rochester.

Mehrez is a specialist in Telecoms and IT infrastructure in Japan with a strong background in network and hosting services. He has worked extensively in the area of Exchange operations and trading requirements in Japan and has pioneered the proximity services for KVH initiating proximity services for both TOCOM and OSE – Japan's leading Exchanges. He has a good working knowledge of buyside and sell side needs in terms of networking and hosting requirements – both in Japan and overseas, and is closely connected with domestic and overseas traders in terms of perfecting their proximity arrangements. Mehrez has a PH.D in Electrical Engineering.

Rob Wilkie joined UBS in 2003. He is responsible for APAC High Volume Direct Market Access – focusing on UBS's high frequency product offering. He possesses detailed knowledge of low latent execution systems, market data, network design, as well as co-location & proximity hosting. Rob has worked in a number of areas, ranging from IT Security, to network design and Equities IT infrastructure management. Prior to joining UBS, Rob worked for the Sydney Futures Exchange, where he was involved in a number of key initiatives for SFE, ASX & RBA

Mr. Chuck Chon joined SBI Japannext PTS (Japan's largest Alternative Venue) in 2006 as Chief Technology Officer to spearhead the setup of exchange systems from scratch as well as spearheading the business development efforts. Before, joining SBI Japannext, he was responsible for building a profitable HFT trading desk at BNPP from scratch which he spent 10 years in various positions including the trading. Mr. Chuck Chon holds BS in Electrical and Electrics Engineering from California State University, Sacramento. He also has extensive academic training in computer science courses and various professional training courses.

Dr. Leonid Frants is the president and founder of OneMarketData, LLC. Before founding OneMarketData in 2004, Dr. Frants accumulated more than 15 years of financial software and data management experience building key analytical infrastructures for the proprietary Quantitative Trading and Program Trading businesses of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 and joined Goldman's Equities Statistical Arbitrage group in 1998, where he contributed to developing trading strategies and implemented backtesting frameworks. Dealing with the stringent historical data quality needs of quantitative strategy research led him to conceive and build a dedicated team to build the comprehensive equities data management and data analytics solution which ultimately grew to serve the global needs for the entire equities division. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Dr. Frants developed scalable client portfolio analytics solutions at Morgan Stanley. Dr. Frants received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Robert joined UBS in Hong Kong in 2006. He is responsible for Exchange Traded Derivatives Sales in Hong Kong for UBS, focussing on clients executing electronically across all Asian markets. Part of the role includes marketing listed futures and options clearing capabilities and providing Front to Back solutions for our strategic partners. Prior to joining UBS, Robert worked at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.

Dr. Mwansa's current role as Regional Head of Trading Infrastructure Services oversees the teams that design, implement and operate the infrastructure technology that underpins the trade life cycle in Investment Banking Institutions. The technology supported by these teams includes Market Data, Exchange connectivity, eCommerce distribution infrastructure, Middleware Messaging and Payment gateway infrastructure. Dr. Mwansa has spent the last 12 years doing various technology infrastructure roles in the Investment Banking industry. Prior to his work in the Banking industry, Dennis worked for a European defence contractor as a Computer Aided Design (CAD) applications consultant. Dr Mwansa has a PhD in Computer Science and his speciality is Pattern recognition.

Anshul Sadana has over a decade of experience in engineering management, design & software development in the networking industry. Anshul joined Arista in 2007 and is responsible for product definition and development priorities of Arista's next generation products. He also leads all systems engineering and customer advocacy functions. Previously at Cisco, Anshul led the development of the Catalyst 4500 and 4900 product lines and also managed strategic customer relations. Anshul has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.

Perry Pritchard is Managing Director, Head of Electronic Trading Sales for Daiwa Capital Markets located in Hong Kong. Perry joined Daiwa in February of this year to spearhead the electronic trading business into the Asian markets. Prior to joining Daiwa he spent 4 years with ITG Hong Kong Ltd as Director, Head of Sales & Business Development for Asia Pacific. Perry has a career spanning over 20 years in the financial sector and has spent the last 10 years based in Hong Kong covering the Asian markets.