As CTO of 8 Securities, Cedric brings 14 years of experience in building technical solutions for the financial industry. He has worked for online retail brokerages as well as institutional trading firms. He has provided technology on the trading floors in Europe before they went electronic. This is where he first witnessed in action the social nature of trading. He likes innovation with a goal of creating simple solutions to complex problems. Before joining 8 Securities, Cedric co-founded ORbyte Solutions, a software and consultancy company which specializes in cost effective and innovative trading products. Cedric also held senior management positions at City Index, E*TRADE, Zebank and Cargill.
Ray is Head of Information Technology, Hong Kong for Allianz Global Investors Asia Pacific, a leading global active asset manager. In this position, Ray is responsible for all regional business applications, from front to back office. Before relocated back to Hong Kong in 2008, Ray was based in North America where he held IT management positions in Citigroup, JP Morgan, and various financial technology consulting firms.
Mr York is a Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Alt224 group of companies a specialist advisor in the Pure Alpha space. Mr York is also a founding Director and Chairman of the eTrading Association, a professional advocacy group focused improving communication and consensus with the finance industry and its regulators. Mr York has been involved in the quantitative trading of derivatives and equity for over 25 years. In 1992, Mr York commenced trading Managed Accounts. In 1996 Mr York formed his first hedge fund and in 2004 sold this business. Through the 90’s he also set up a financial software business building, amongst other things, electronic exchange interfaces. Through to 2007 Mr York formed and oversaw the operations of an FX cash and derivatives business (which included automated market-making). In 2008 Mr York reacquired his funds management business to move back to his speciality of fully automated quantitative trading of the global markets.
Federico M. (Fred) Pucci looks after compliance for ANZ's global Institutional business, the Global Markets business, and the regional business in Asia Pacific. He is based in Hong Kong. Among other internal responsibilities he co-chairs the OTC Derivatives Reform Program for the Bank. He joined ANZ in 2010.
Mr. Pucci previously held senior roles in Markets businesses including Nomura. Prior to that he was a partner at the law firm Blake Dawson (Ashurst). He has also worked at the Australian regulator ASIC.
He has a LL.M. (Securities Regulation) degree from Georgetown University, Washington DC, and Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Sydney.
Anshul Sadana has over a decade of experience in engineering management, design & software development in the networking industry. Anshul joined 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 Business.
Iosif Ziman is BFAM Partners (HK) Ltd. CTO since 2012. Prior to this he has been Nomura Principal Investments Hong Kong’s head of technology since 2008. BFAM Partners resulted from externalizing as a hedge fund Nomura Principal Investments. He has spent the past 18 years in Asia as a technology professional with a wide range of expertise across trading systems areas including order execution, risk management, operations and control areas across equities and fixed income. Mr. Ziman joined Lehman Brothers Japan in 2004 where he lead equity derivatives trading technology teams most notably implementing the suite of the company’s next generation’s equity derivatives structured products risk management systems. From 2000 he joined Dresdner Kleinwort Japan where he has been responsible for cash and portfolio trading technology and implemented the firm’s warrant market making platform for Japan. Before 2000 he spent 3.5 years with Fusion Systems where he has been the lead for the FOX (Fusion Order eXecution) system which has been implemented by more than 15 major investment banks in Japan and Asia region (including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and others) to the extent that in the early 2000’s about 30% of the Tokyo Stock Exchange volumes went through the system’s various implementations. Mr. Ziman holds a B.S. (1994) and a M.Sc. (1995) in Computer Science from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Over 30 years experience in the area of Application Systems/ IT Infrastructure development and management, managing all aspects of IT operations in Financial Services, Capital markets and manufacturing companies. Have provided technical leadership & architectural vision in implementation of Mission Critical Applications across the organisation including IT Infrastructure, Web portals, web based and non-web based customised solutions. Skills in setting up WAN Networks and Network Security Systems.
Amongst the Pioneers to implement single-window Multi-Exchange online trading systems to facilitate trading across multiple asset classes.
Leong Chai Kin, aged 45, a Malaysian, graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering from Arkansas State University, USA. Leong joined Bursa Malaysia in November 2008 as Head, Technical Operations of Technology & Systems before he was appointed as Acting Chief Information Officer, heading Technology & Systems on 15 September 2011. On 1st December 2012, Leong was promoted as the Chief Information Officer. He is responsible for driving systems, Information and technology and enterprise architectures for business value. He brings with him over 20 years experience in the securities industry, having held many roles ranging from securities operations, application development, asset management, research and managing IT.
Patrick was appointed CTO at Caplin Systems in 2009 having originally joined as a junior developer. He is now responsible for defining, planning and delivering Caplin's leading-edge web software products as well as the management of a 70-strong development team. He also acts as technology evangelist both within the company and in the technical community. The systems that he has developed are used by over 100,000 traders in Europe, North America and Asia to trade billions of dollar-worth of transactions every day. During Patrick's tenure Caplin has become recognized as a global leader in web trading technology and software development practices.
In September 2012 Patrick was recognized by "Financial News" as one of the "40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Trading and Technology".
Kevin returned to Hong Kong in June 2011. In his current role as Head of Wholesale Execution Services Asia, he looks after the markets business for other broker dealers, banks and stock exchanges. From the markets perspective he leads Citi’s powerful initiative to combine global execution with clearing, settlement and custody to provide customers with one stop shopping for global trading. Prior to this Kevin was the Global Head of Market Infrastructures and HFT Clearing Group at Citi. Kevin was based in London and was responsible for managing Citi’s global relationships with market infrastructures and developing mutually beneficial business opportunities. Kevin also led Citi’s sales and relationship management group targeting key HFT players.
Prior to joining Citi, Kevin spent 10 years at Thomson Reuters. Kevin worked across various divisions of Thomson Reuters including market data, market research and M&A data. Finally he focused on Omgeo. Omgeo is a joint venture between DTCC and Thomson Reuters providing post trade transaction services to broker dealers, banks and fund managers. He held several positions including Regional Manager Hong Kong, Regional Director Japan and Korea, Managing Director Asia based in Singapore and his last post was Managing Director, Global Head of Relationship Management and Sales based in London, Whilst at Omgeo, Kevin helped launch “Autex” in Asia and was one of the early pioneers in bringing FIX connectivity and IOIs to the region. In addition Kevin has worked as an underwriter for Prudential Assurance Company and Price Waterhouse Coopers in an audit capacity.
Kevin was born in Cornwall, UK and graduated from the University of Hertfordshire UK, Bsc (Hons) Environmental Chemistry. He gained an EMBA from Babson College in Boston US / INSEAD Singapore. In 2009 Kevin was voted by the industry as one of Europe’s top 100 financial market professionals by a leading Dow Jones financial publication and is well known in the media and on the conference circuits.
Aloysius Cheang is Managing Director APAC of Cloud Security Alliance. He also heads up the Standards Secretariat. Aloysius brings to the Alliance extensive experience gained from running business units and multi-million enterprise security and technology programs for Global 500 organizations worldwide in his previous roles as a CSO for a Telco and APAC practice leader with leading management consulting firms. He is an active community leader, having founded and mentored various information security projects, forums, groups and associations in Singapore and many parts in APAC. He is also active in standardization and was most recently a co-editor for ISO/IEC 27032 “Guidelines for Cybersecurity”, having contributed towards many other security standards such as ISO/IEC 24762 et al in the past. Aloysius holds a B. Sc (Hons) and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore and is currently a doctorate candidate. His professional certifications include CISA, CISSP and GCIH. His views are valued by global media such as Times, Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine as a trusted independent source of specialist opinion over the last decade.
Daniel Lee has 14 years of experience in stock broking. He is responsible for the Electronic Trading (DMA), Securities Lending, ETF and Commission Sharing Arrangement business. Prior to joining DBS Vickers, Daniel worked in equity sales, sales trading and research with WI Carr.? Before that he was doing research at the University of Cambridge. Daniel holds an first class honours degree from the Queen’s University of Belfast. He also holds an MBA and a LL.M
Haim Bodek is a Managing Principal of Decimus Capital Markets, LLC, an early stage company providing services and solutions for institutional equity traders. Mr. Bodek was a founder and formerly Chief Executive Officer of Trading Machines LLC, an independent high speed options trading firm. Prior to TM, he was a Managing Director and Joint Global Head of Electronic Volatility Trading at UBS Investment Bank. He is an electronic trading executive and algorithmic trading strategist with 15 years experience in the automated trading space. Mr. Bodek's career experiences, as well as his advocacy for and involvement in US stock market regulatory reform, are described extensively in Dark Pools by Scott Patterson, best selling author and staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Bodek earned a B.A. in Mathematics and Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester.
Sandeep Tyagi has recently founded his second venture, an Investment Management and Advisory firm–Estee Advisors. Estee Advisors is an alternative investment management company which aims to deliver maximized returns for the level of risk undertaken using advanced analytical algorithms. He is responsible for setting the firm’s direction, sustaining a winning culture and developing innovative financial products.
Prior to Estee Advisors, Mr. Tyagi was the Founder and CEO of Inductis, a consulting and analytics outsourcing firm that he founded in 2000. Its unique mix of world-class business consulting and state-of-the-science analytical capabilities & infrastructure has been helping diversified financial services companies in the areas of investment optimization, target marketing and risk management. The firm served several of the largest financial services companies of the world including the asset management, credit card, insurance and lending companies. Inductis was more the 250 consultant strong when it was merged with EXL Service in 2006.
Prior to founding Inductis, he was a partner at the Mitchell Madison Group (MMG), an eminent global strategy consulting firm. He was the leader of MMG’s Pricing and Product Design Practice and co-leader of the eCommerce Practice. While at MMG, Sandeep led strategy engagements in the areas of investment optimization, risk analytics, reengineering and new product development.
Prior to MMG, Mr Tyagi was a Senior Field Engineer with Schlumberger and worked in South East Asia to test and develop oil fields.
Mr. Tyagi has published articles in publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy and Directorship. He is a board member of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Excellence Foundation, a non-profit alumni organization that supports the development of IIT, Delhi into a world-class institution and a Charter Member of TiE. He is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).
He was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Service Award at the 2007 convocation by IIT Delhi. He also received the 40 Under 40 Award in New Jersey in 2006. Mr. Tyagi holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BTech in Computer Science from IIT, Delhi. He lives in New Delhi with his wife and two children.
Mr Hartley oversees the Exchange’s Market Access Division, tasked with on-boarding new market participants and the introduction of new products onto the trading platform. With over 20 years' experience in information technology, he processes extensive knowledge in the design and operation of electronic trading platforms and infrastructure. Prior to joining HKMEx, Mr Hartley was regional services manager at Patsystems based in Sydney, where he specialised in exchange implementations across Asia. He was instrumental in the successful establishment of Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET), Tokyo Grain Exchange (TGE) and National Commodities Exchange Limited (NCEL) in Pakistan. He also managed technical support and project teams within Patsystems' Asia regional offices. Until 2001, Mr Hartley held the position of executive, precious metals systems support in HSBC Precious Metals, where he managed a team supporting the company's technology platforms.
Mr Lannoy, responsible for all aspects of the Exchange’s technology function, leads the Operations & Technology department and oversees the day-to-day management and strategic development of HKMEx’s state-of-the-art trading platform.
Prior to joining HKMEx, Mr Lannoy was most recently Executive Director and co-owner for a Singapore-based firm focused on facilitating access to derivative markets in Asia. He also has served at RTS Realtime as Asia Pacific Managing Director and at Fimat / Newedge as Chief Information Officer first for the Americas and then Asia.
He began his career at Societe Generale in Paris, in various telecommunications project management roles. Mr Lannoy holds a master's degree in telecommunications and computer science from the University of Paris XIII in France.
Mr Bryan Chan (“Mr Chan”), who was Head of Market Data assumes the role of Co-head of the Equities and FIC Business effective 7 Jan 2013. Mr Chan is principally responsible for cash trading, market data and the joint venture company, China Exchanges Services Company Limited and oversee issuer and client services.
Mr Chan, worked in HKEx’s Group Risk Management and Clearing Division before acting as Head of Market Data. He has also been serving as the Head of the RMB Products Task Force since early 2011. Mr Chan is a member of the Senior Management Committee of the HKEx and is a director of HKEx Information Services Limited and Ganghui Financial Information Services (Shanghai) Limited, both are wholly owned subsidiaries of HKEx. Since 26 September 2012, Mr. Chan has been appointed as Chief Executive of China Exchanges Services Company Limited, a joint venture of HKEx, Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Prior to joining HKEx, Mr Chan worked as an Administrative Officer for the Hong Kong Government for over 12 years. He was posted at the Trade Department, the Hong Kong Government’s delegation to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, and the Financial Services Bureau.
Mr Chan is also currently serving as a director of the board of the Hong Kong Securities Institute, a member of its Professional Events Committee and Examinations Committee, a member of the Financial Services Advisory Committee of the Trade Development Council and a member of HKMA Tracker Fund Supervisory Committee.
Mr Chan holds a Bachelor Degree in Engineering from the University of Hong Kong.
Martin Abbott was appointed chief executive of the London Metal Exchange on 2 October 2006.
With over 27 years experience in the metals business, Martin was previously Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Metal Bulletin/American Metal Market.
He graduated from Leicester University with a Law Degree LLB in 1981, and then held positions as non-ferrous editor at Metal Bulletin and European editor at Metals Week.
During the 1990s, Martin was associate director/president for Sogemin and president for AMT Inc, both LME Ring-dealing members, and spent three years with the LME as marketing director.
Arjen is MD Hong Kong of the Korea founded Ingensoma Trading Group, a HFT and algorithmic proprietary trading firm mainly active in the Asia Pacific region. Arjen is currently involved in the firm's Management and Market development after having traded Cash equity algorithms and Derivatives for over three years. After obtaining a masters degree in Financial Economics in the Netherlands he has subsequently been a marketmaker in Equity Derivatives with Optiver Europe and APAC for four years as well as Senior Risk manager with ABN Amro Clearing APAC for two years. Arjen moved to Hong Kong four years ago to set-up Ingensoma's HK office and started to trade Equity Derivatives. Two years later he took the initiative to start high- and medium frequency Algo-trading in the Cash equity market, an activity which has become an important pillar for the recent growth of the firm.
Liam Madden is a Managing Director with Instinet Pacific Limited where he is the Head of Legal and Compliance for Asia Pacific. He has nearly 20 years of experience in legal practice. He is a lawyer with a background of private practice and in-house experience. In private practice he was a litigator who specialised in complicated and contentious matters. Since moving in-house, he has applied that same commercial focus to ensuring that the businesses he has worked with are able to operate successfully in highly regulated environments across the different jurisdictions in Asia.
Prior to joining Instinet, he was Chief Legal Counsel for CMC Markets Asia Pacific and was based in Sydney. He was responsible for protecting the legal interests of the company across its operations in the Asian region. Prior to joining CMC, Liam was a partner in a Sydney-based law firm.
Technologically literate, he is able to understand the ever increasing role of technology in the financial services sphere and manage the legal and compliance challenges that this creates. His work with Instinet gives him good exposure to the challenges of dealing with electronic trading technology in the face of ever increasing regulatory scrutiny. Liam is admitted to legal practice in New South Wales, Australia and Hong Kong.
Hao Sun, Chief Operating Officer of Ketchum Trading, a subsidiary of Hull Investments, is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Ketchum's research, development and trading operations. Ketchum Trading provides liquidity and makes markets in futures, ETFs, equities and options. Before taking this role Hao served as senior Financial Engineer at Matlock Capital, focusing on market making and volatility forecasting for equity options trading. Hao holds a master’s degree in business administration with honors distinction from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a master’s degree in computer science from Loyola University of Chicago. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation
Ms. Latika S Kundu comes with over 15 years of professional experience in the Capital Markets. She has been instrumental in conceptualizing and implementing models for creating healthier market practices for market participants in the spot and derivatives segments of the Equity & Currency Markets.
In her present role, she heads the Market Operations of MCX Stock Exchange, wherein her focus is across the Trading platform, Surveillance, Risk Management and Investigations. She has been involved in setting up of the exchange and mentoring the team since inception and is known for her pro-activeness and deep rooted knowledge and understanding of the Securities Market.
She has been nominated as the Expert Committee Member of the Capital Market Committee of the Bombay Chambers of Commerce & Industry (BCCI). She has participated in various elite forums, seminars and groups and also represented for work related to government, regulator and global alliances. She has represented the Exchange on various panels such as in FIX Global events on Exchange Business & Technology; and in Trade Tech India 2010 for ‘Exchange Panel discussion - Innovation, Transparency & Co-operation. How can Exchanges facilitate more efficient trading in India?’. She has contributed to the handbook on ‘Indian Financial Market Reforms’ published by the Futures of Financial Markets (FOFM) forum, in which she has been recognized as a ‘Thought Leader’. She is the editor of MCX-SX quarterly journal ‘Market Update’, which brings out a smooth connect between the macro & micro view of the financial markets. Prior to Ms. Kundu’s association with MCX Stock Exchange, she worked with National Stock Exchange India Ltd. for 11 years and was also the Head of Equity Compliance at Lehman Brothers.
Ms. Kundu takes avid interest in the functioning of exchanges and regulators all over the world. She incorporates the best practices observed by her during her visits to various stock exchanges and regulators across the US and Europe, such as US SEC, NYSE, NASDAQ, Euronext (Paris and Amsterdam), MEFF and AMF, in the Indian Capital Market. Ms. Kundu is a commerce graduate with Masters in Business Administration. She is also an Associate Computer Professional (ICCP-USA) from BITS and a Six Sigma - Green Belt holder.
Shaun Ansell is Head of Legal and Compliance for Mizuho Securities Asia. Prior to assuming his current role, Shaun was the Chief Administrative Officer and Head of Legal and Compliance for Nomura Australia. Shaun has also held senior financial services roles with Lehman Brothers Australia and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Umesh is Head of Technology at National Stock Exchange. In this role he is responsible for IT Infrastructure, IT Operations, Strategy, Governance, Risk, Architecture, Business Technology Relationship management, Project Management, Budgets and Innovation. Till recently he was Sr. President and CIO at YES Bank where he was responsible for end to end Technology as well as Business Solutions Group. Prior to this, he was with Citi for 13 years in various leadership roles.
He is recipient of Information-week global 50 CIO award and has spoken at prestigious forums like Gartner Global Symposium.
Umesh is an engineering graduate from IIT-Delhi.
David GodfreyHead of IT
David and his team look after all things technology across NZX.
Responsible for all NZX real time market systems and infrastructure, covering the Securities market (NZ Stock market, NZ Alternative market and NZ Debt market), derivatives, data products, Clearing house infrastructure through to providing the systems and infrastructure that run 4 of the 6 service provider roles in the 24*7 New Zealand Electricity market.
Prior to joining NZX in 2009 from M-co, David had more than 20 years' IT management experience in development (product based, enterprise level business critical in house and consumer based) and 24*7 operations for a FTSE100 Property company, a major UK newspaper, and in telecommunications, IT Consulting and software houses. David holds an MSc with Distinction in Software Systems and a BA in Economics and Politics.
Charles is the Chief Technology Officer of Newedge and is based in Hong Kong, the regional headquarter of the firm. He oversees Asia including strategic planning, development, implementation and management of infrastructure systems to provide business solutions.
Newedge is a 50/50 joint venture between Société Générale and Credit Agricole CIB, and is a new leader in global multi-asset brokerage business, with a world-leading position in the execution and clearing of listed derivative products.
With a presence in 25 locations in 17 countries, Newedge offers a full range of clearing and execution services covering options and futures contracts for financial products and commodities, as well as for money market instruments, bonds, FX, equities, and commodities on OTC markets.
Charles has been in the IT industry for more than 15 years. Prior to joining Newedge in 2005 (i.e. ex-Fimat at that time), Charles worked for Orange Business Services, a total solutions services provider, as a Lead Consultant. He gained extensive experiences in handling large scale and mission critical IT projects which includes IT infrastructure Setup, Service Integration & Migration and Consulting.
Charles holds a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from The University of New South Wales, Australia and received his MBA from The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) in 2005.
M. Piardon co-founded Noho Capital in 2010, a managed futures trading program specializing in Asian equity indices, with low volatility (4-5%) and margin-to-equity ratio (2-3%). The algorithms used are based on his experience as senior equity derivatives trader: deterministic, trend following, contrarian and intraday. M. Piardon ran the equity derivatives desk for Dresdner in Hong Kong from 2007 to 2009. Previously, he managed different portfolios for the equity derivatives trading desk at Calyon in Hong Kong, London, Paris and Zurich, since 1999. M. Piardon graduated from the Master in Money, Banking and Finance at the University of Birmingham.
Garbo Cheung is an Executive Director and Regional Head of Global Markets Compliance, Asia ex Japan at Nomura. Prior to joining Nomura, Miss Cheung was Head of Equities Compliance at Citigroup and ABN AMRO in Hong Kong, and had also worked at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited in market and product development. Miss Cheung holds an LLB from the Manchester Metropolitan University, an MBA from the University of Bath and an MSc in Investment Management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Ashok Kalyanswamy is currently CIO of Asia Ex-Japan and Head of APAC Equities and Prime Services Technology. He currently manages a $91 MM AeJ technology budget with about 330 people and an APAC EQ IT budget of $76 MM and 325 people.
Ashok has a graduate degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in New York. He started his career working for Verizon Research and Development in the Speech Technology group building applications using speech technology in the telecommunications industry. After numerous publications, 2 US patents and an award for Technology Excellence, Ashok joined Merrill Lynch in 1996 to work on automating middle office processes using Documentum. He then joined Greenwich Capital Markets developing Market Risk systems for Fixed Income and Fixed Income Derivatives products before moving on to Lehman Brothers Equities in September 1999. Ashok held many roles at Lehman starting from being the head of US Exchange Connectivity, head of US Client Connectivity and Quant PB, Global Head of Futures and then Global Head of Connectivity, Futures and Quant PB technology. Ashok built strong self-sufficient global teams while driving innovation in the low latency connectivity space where the products were consistently the best broker built platforms on Wall Street. Ashok held the same role at Barclays Capital after the bankruptcy from where he was recruited to join Nomura as the Global Head of Prime Services IT. Ashok moved to London in July 2009 to build the foundation of the Prime Services technology offering at Nomura, which at that time included Futures and Quant PB. Ashok moved to Asia in October 2010 to run Asia Equities technology, where he went on to deliver a massive change programme which saved $16 MM and wrote off $40 MM in the balance sheet. Ashok took on the role of AeJ CIO in October 2011 where he continues to drive massive change programmes to reduce cost, drive innovation and provide transparency onto IT operations to the business and regulators.
Mr. Hans Brinker Makasiar Sicat has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Philippine Stock Exchange Inc. since January 12, 2011. Prior to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Mr. Sicat was an Investment Banker for 22 years. He was with the predecessor firms of Citigroup-Salomon Brothers, Salomon Smith Barney and CitiCorp. Investment Bank-based in New York, Hong Kong and Manila. He was involved in a wide range of capital markets and M&A transactions in OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and emerging markets. Mr. Sicat served as the Chairman of the Board of Philippine Stock Exchange Inc. from May 2009 to January 12, 2011. He has been a Director of Philippine Stock Exchange Inc. since May 2009. He served as an Independent Director of Export & Industry Bank Inc. from December 2008 to January 14, 2011. He holds a Phd in Economics from University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sicat obtained Master of Arts in Economic and Bachelor of Science in Mathamatics from University of Philippines
Stuart is currently the Asia Pacific Head of Global Trading Technology for RBS. His team's responsibilities include the full spectrum of investment banking related infrastructure technologies, comprising electronic trading, market data, eCommerce, grid computing and execution/market connectivity services. The division's product coverage is cross asset-class and extends from front through to back office operations, from client research through to settlement and confirmation. Stuart has previously worked at JP Morgan in various capacities and prior to that spent many years travelling the world with PwC and Accenture advising Financial Services firms on internet-based wealth management and dealing propositions. Originally from the UK, Stuart graduated from university with entirely unfulfilled specialism's in predictive speech algorithms and microprocessor design.
Alexander Fleiss serves as Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Rebellion Research Partners LP, a Global Macro hedge fund and financial advisory that invests across all asset classes and is based in New York. Mr. Fleiss also oversees the firm's institutional research division, Rebellion Economics, which offers coverage of 44 countries. Mr. Fleiss has spoken about Artificial Intelligence investing at conferences, colleges, the book Dark Pools, Fox News, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg News, Geo Magazine, Institutional Investor and the Wall Street Journal.
Prior to co-founding Rebellion Research in 2007, Mr. Fleiss served as a Principal at KMF Partners LP, a long-short US equity fund. While at KMF, he was primarily responsible for investments in the financial service, technology and consumer industries. Mr. Fleiss began his investment career as an analyst for Sloate, Weisman, Murray & Co which was acquired by Neuberger Berman. Mr. Fleiss developed investment algorithms with the firm's CEO, Laura Sloate who is now a partner at Neuberger Berman and was featured in the book Investment Gurus. Mr. Fleiss received a BA Degree from Amherst College
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.
Susan Thomas holds degrees in civil engineering and economics from IIT, Bombay and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, respectively. She is presently faculty at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Bombay. Her research is in financial econometrics, specifically modelling volatility of prices, and analysing aspects of market microstructure in Indian financial markets. She has worked on projects with the World Bank, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the U.K. Government, the National Stock Exchange of India, the Forwards Markets Commission and the Ministry of Finance. She presently serves on the board of directors at IFMR Capital, SBI Pension FMC and the Trustee Board of India Value Fund Associates. She is a co-author of ``India's Financial Markets: An insider's guide to how market's work''. Her work can be accessed at http://www.igidr.ac.in/FSRR.
Mr. Wan is based in Hong Kong. His primary focus is on OTC derivatives, with particular emphasis on equity derivatives, cash equities as well as financial services regulations. He routinely works on a broad range of legal matters related to derivatives and structured products (in particular equity and fixed-income derivatives), cash equities and advises on regulatory law issues relating to financial products, financial markets, financial services and OTC derivatives regulation. He is actively involved in various industry initiatives and ISDA and ASIFMA working groups in the Asian market.
Mr. Wan joined Société Générale in November 2008. Prior to joining Société Générale, Mr. Wan worked at Baker and McKenzie where he was involved in a wide range of OTC derivate transactions, structured products and debt capital markets transactions as well as advised on broad range of complex financial services regulatory issues.
Mike Mudd is the Managing Partner of Asia Policy Partners LLC (APP,) a consulting firm for technology strategy and trade policy, which he founded in 2009. He is also the Chief Representative of the OCA (www.opencomputingalliance.org) in the region.
Prior to this he spent six years as Director of Public Policy, Asia - Pacific for an influential IT industry business association, CompTIA and opened the A-P office in Hong Kong in late 2003. He has held a senior commercial position with Riverbed Technology of California and was a Senior Manager with Standard Chartered Bank PLC, in the wholesale banks e-commerce group for Asia. Previously he was the head of business and COO at the eCommerce division of Noble Group a global producer and trader of physical commodities. He brings 35 years of APAC business experience to the partnership, from the IT, Media, Banking and Commerce sectors.
He is also an appointed expert to JTC-1 of the ISO in Geneva working on several standards sub groups He is an active member of the IT, IP and Telecom committees at a number of AmCham’s in the region, including Hong Kong Malaysia, China, the Philippines and Vietnam, where he has been the Chair of the IT, IP and Telecom Committee at Amcham Hanoi since 2007. He also is an active member of the Policy Committee and Cloud Computing SIG of the Hong Kong Computer Society and is the Asia-Pacific Ambassador for the Cloud Credential Council. He has been on the Steering Committee of OSAC, the US public-private security advisory organisation, for the past three years in Hong Kong
Mike is active in regional IT fora, including speaking and moderating at commercial/corporate, OECD, ADBI and APEC events for IT, IP and Telecoms and its impact on trade. In Vietnam, he is head of the Business Advisory Group in the US - Vietnam Telecom Dialogue.
Mike regularly contributes to regional media on the IT industry on lowering barriers to regional trade and the positive impact to development that ICT brings.
Richard is a trader, technology entrepreneur and business builder with 20 years’ experience in Financial Markets. Richard started as a trader on FX Options at Bankers Trust in London, and was most recently at Barclays Capital in London and then Singapore where he ran the Global EM Options Trading businesses. Richard also set up and ran a finance-technology company in Tokyo for 5 years. Richard holds an M.A. & P.C.D.M.M. from Cambridge University where he read Natural Sciences and Engineering.
Henry Young is founder and CEO of TS-Associates, a firm that specialises in monitoring and analysis of networks, financial middleware products and electronic trading systems. With the TipOff network monitoring appliance and the Application Tap software instrumentation card, TS-Associates provides a complete range of precision instrumentation solutions capable of providing nanometric transparency into the latency dynamics of trading systems. Prior to setting up TS-Associates in 1999, Henry worked as an independent consultant with investment banks and exchanges across Europe, USA and more recently Asia, specialising in high performance front office and electronic trading technologies. Henry holds an MSc in Computing from Imperial College and a BSc in Physics & Electronics from Edinburgh University.
Eric Tachibana leads strategic projects across Asia. Currently, Eric works for UBS as the Asia Pacific COO for the Investment Banking, Wealth Management, and Asset Management Chief Technology Office where he is responsible for the management of Innovation, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy, and Enterprise Social Networks. Previous to UBS, Eric was with Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he served as APAC Technology and Operations COO.
Minerva has led innovations ranging from business applications of artificial intelligence, desktop publishing, e-commerce, mobile, and wireless, and is currently responsible for the regional strategy for client facing technology for APAC. Minerva holds two US patents on intelligent workflow and is a speaker and author on enterprise mobile topics.
Dr Swinburne was elected as Conservative MEP for Wales in July 2009. Her academic qualifications include a degree in Biochemistry and Microbiology followed by a Ph.D. in medical research and an MBA. A successful career in investment banking has given her in-depth knowledge of the global financial markets, specialising in advisory work for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including M& A, venture capital investments, mezzanine financing and IPOs.
This, combined with her experience advising businesses in Europe and the US, led to her appointment as Coordinator of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. Other responsibilities include being a member of the European Economic Area delegation, member of the EuroMed delegation and a substitute member on the Palestinian delegation. Dr Swinburne also serves as a Welsh Conservative Party Board Member.
Dr Swinburne has followed closely all of the financial market reform legislation in the EU since being elected and is shadow Rapporteur on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II)
Dr Swinburne was elected as Conservative MEP for Wales in July 2009. Her academic qualifications include a degree in Biochemistry and Microbiology followed by a Ph.D. in medical research and an MBA. A successful career in investment banking has given her in-depth knowledge of the global financial markets, specialising in advisory work for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including M& A, venture capital investments, mezzanine financing and IPOs.
This, combined with her experience advising businesses in Europe and the US, led to her appointment as Coordinator of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. Other responsibilities include being a member of the European Economic Area delegation, member of the EuroMed delegation and a substitute member on the Palestinian delegation. Dr Swinburne also serves as a Welsh Conservative Party Board Member.
Dr Swinburne has followed closely all of the financial market reform legislation in the EU since being elected and is shadow Rapporteur on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II)