Highlights from the EMEA Trading Conference 2011

Chris Jackson, Citi
Luke Jeffs, Financial News; George Andreadis, Credit Suisse; Andrew Bowley, Nomura

Speakers

Morning keynote speakers:

The Rt Hon Lord Lamont of Lerwick

Norman Lamont was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the last recession, presiding over the withdrawal of sterling from the Exchange Rate Mechanism and what quickly became known as Black Wednesday. He has since been described by the economist Sir Alan Walters as “not only the most effective, but also the bravest Chancellor since the war.” 

Originally an investment banker with NM Rothschild, Lamont spent twenty five years in the Commons, serving in the Cabinet under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. As Chancellor, he appointed the 26 year-old David Cameron as his special advisor.

Since leaving the Commons Lord Lamont has held directorships with RAB Capital, Balli and Phorm. He is Chairman of the British Romanian and British Iranian Chambers of Commerce.

Afternoon keynote speakers:

Sir Ian Botham OBE

Ian Botham is the best all-rounder England has ever produced. He holds the world record of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in just 21 tests, and he remains the greatest wicket taker in 115 years of English test cricket.  

Away from the crease, Botham has played professional football (for Scunthorpe), and raised millions for Leukaemia Research. Since his retirement, he has commentated for Sky Sports and developed a keen interest in the Pro-Am golf circuit. 

Ian Botham has also written a novel, Deep Cover, and the autobiographical Don’t Tell Kath - which became the most successful sports memoir in publishing history. He was awarded an OBE and then knighted for his services to cricket and charity, walking thousands of miles in a series of sponsored walks. He also has the rare distinction of being voted Sports Personality and Pipe Smoker of the Year.

 

Geoff Miller

For his considerable sins, Geoff Miller has been appointed Chairman of Selectors for English cricket. As a player he scored an impressive 14,000 runs and took over 1,000 first class wickets. He captained Derbyshire, played for Essex and vice-captained the national side. He even spent a brief period with Natal in South Africa.

Off the field, Geoff's greatest attribute was his ability to reduce his team-mates to stitches with his dry northern humour. He is now one of the funniest speakers on the circuit, with a stream of hilarious anecdotes. There are wild nights in the West Indies, tales of misadventure in Australia and rivalries nearer home. Geoff also enjoys taking part in TMS theatre shows, with Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting.

What distinguishes Geoff from most sporting after dinner speakers is his ability to reach audiences without an ounce of interest in sport. His timing and self-deprecating turn of phrase mark him out as a classic raconteur.

 

Our speakers include:

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Stuart Adams
EMEA Regional Director, FIX Protocol Ltd

Stuart Adams has been FIX Protocol EMEA Regional Director since March 2009. Working closely with members, exchanges, ECNs and regulators across the region, Mr. Adams is responsible for building stronger relationships with this market sector and generating a greater understanding of how the FIX Protocol may be used to increase market efficiency.

Mr. Adams has worked in the financial technology sector for more than 20 years, most recently as Head of European Operations at Portware, where he was responsible for setting up the firm’s London office and developing senior industry relationships to establish the business in Europe.

Prior to this, Mr. Adams undertook a number of different assignments including the position of Managing Director of AKJ, a technology solutions provider for the hedge fund and asset management community, regulatory principal of Brut ECN Europe and Institutional Sales Director for Instinet Global Services. In addition to his current position at FPL, Mr. Adams continues to work as an independent consultant within the financial services industry.

 

Andrew Allwright
Head of EMEA Market Structure & Compliance Solutions, Thomson Reuters

Andrew Allwright joined Reuters in March 2005 to shape the information vendor's response to the new European MiFiD (Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments) regulation. In this role he represented Reuters externally in discussions about MiFID implementation with clients, regulators and industry associations. Within Reuters, Andrew defined the market requirements driven by MiFID and helped to shape the solutions delivered to meet these and was the author of the firm’s White Paper on Data Consolidation in the EU.

Andrew represented Thomson Reuters in responding to the equities aspects of the MiFID review and represents the company on a number of industry initiatives to provide standards for delivery of consolidated data in Europe. Since December 2011 Andrew’s responsibilities have widened to cover the impact on Thomson Reuters of the broader regulatory changes in Europe including EMIR, MAD, and short selling obligations.

 

Rolf Andersson
Co-Chair FPL Market Data Optimisation Working Group, CEO, Pantor Engineering AB

Rolf Andersson is the CEO of Pantor Engineering. He is one of the architects of the FAST(SM) (FIX Adapted for STreaming) Protocol and is currently serving as a co-chair for the MDOWG (Market Data Optimisation Working Group) within FPL.

Mr. Andersson has more than 25 years of experience designing and building transaction systems for the financial industry.

 

 

Maher Asham
CEO, EGID

Maher Asham joined EGID in 2003 as the CEO and a board member. EGID is a totally owned subsidiary of CASE working in the fields of financial information and system development for financial markets. Maher is also the IT Supervisor of CASE since 2004. During that period EGID managed to offer a wide range of information services, consultancy and systems in Egypt and the Middle East as well.

Before EGID, Maher worked for Reuters since 1993 in several positions, in Cairo as well as in Geneva, ending as the Marketing and Business Development Manager for East Med. and North Africa. During that period he built the exchange data on Reuters platforms for MENA markets as well as developed several products and services.

Maher is also a part time faculty in both the Management and Economics Departments at The American University in Cairo. He has been the IT manager of Santa Fe Drilling Co, and developed several educational simulation models about financial markets.

He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an MBA in International Business, both from the American University in Cairo.

 

 

Stuart Baden Powell
Co-Chair FPL EMEA Regional Committee, FIX Protocol Ltd

Stuart Baden Powell is Head of European Electronic Trading Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. A member of FPL Board of Governance for several years he is also the co-chairman of the EMEA Committee and will be speaking in his FPL capacity at the conference. He sits on the Securities Trading Committee for AFME and is an associate editor of the Journal of Trading. He holds a BSc (Hons) from Southampton University, an MA from Durham University and an MSc from The London School of Economics.

 

Valerie Bannert-Thurner
Managing Director, FTEN, a NASDAQ OMX Company

 

 

Dr. Robert Barnes
CEO of UBS MTF, Managing Director, Equities,
UBS

BA Harvard, PhD Cambridge. Recognized in FTSE Global Markets 20-20 most influential market leaders of 2011. Joined the proprietary trading team at Swiss Bank Corporation in 1994, gained experience 'downstairs' on the Liffe derivatives floor as a yellow jacket and 'upstairs' trading special situations via brokers. Currently, Managing Director, Equities responsible for Market Structures at UBS Investment Bank and Chief Executive of UBS MTF. Chairman 2004-2009 of the Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association / AFME, a member of user advisory groups for a number of Stock Exchanges and pro-competitive initiatives world-wide, the FSA's Capital Markets Senior Practitioner Committee, Euroclear's UK MAC, European Commission's CESAME + CESAME2, FTSE's Country Classification Committee and Policy Group, and a Chartered Fellow and Non-Executive Director of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

 

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Adeolu Bajomo,
Executive Director, The Nigerian Stock Exchange

Mr. Ade Bajomo, Executive Director of The Nigerian Stock Exchange for Market Operations and Technology, leads the operations and technology transformation of the leading sub-Saharan Africa exchange as it repositions for growth and global leadership through effective exploitation of technology and efficient business and market operations processes. With a wealth of experience and solid track record in the global financial services sector spanning banking, capital markets, asset management and insurance, Mr. Bajomo has led major transformation and service improvement programmes, participated in business growth initiatives and technology and operations integration of acquired entities in the sector. Prior to joining The Exchange, he worked at Barclays Bank PLC. as Head of Replatforming Programmes for Africa and Indian Ocean region, driving significant technology and business operations changes in the region.

Mr. Bajomo has also held several director level/leadership positions in the UK financial services sector, including Technology Director at Fortis Bank UK, Head of IT Systems and Strategy at Pearl Insurance UK and management roles at Deutsche Bank and Morgan Grenfell Asset Management.

He has over 23 years of professional experience and is a chartered member of the British Computer Society.

 

Richard Balarkas
CEO and President, Instinet

 

 

Daemon Bear
Co-Chair FPL EMEA Regional Committee, MD, Head of BlockCross, ICAP Securities Ltd.

Daemon Bear is head of ICAP’s dark pool offering, BlockCross. He took up this position after his previous role at JPMorgan Asset Management where he was head of the Equity Dealing Team since 1998. Prior to this Daemon spent two years as head of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange Trading at Worldinvest Investment Management and before that he worked as a senior FI/FX Trader at Invesco GT for eight years.

 

 

 

 

Niki Beattie
Managing Director, Market Structure Partners

Niki Beattie is Managing Director of Market Structure Partners, a strategic advisory firm specialising in financial markets infrastructure.  She began her career in financial markets in securities technology at Security Pacific/Bank of America and went on to work at Merrill Lynch for 14 years where she became Managing Director and Head of EMEA Market Structure.

In her role at Merrill Lynch, Niki handled the relationships with the EMEA stock exchanges and alternative venues and was instrumental in creating competition in the European Exchange environment: spearheading the development of BOAT, acting as a key founder of a number of trading platforms such as Virt-x and Turquoise and assessing the impact of changing regulation for Merrill Lynch and their clients.  She sat on the Boards of Virt-x, Turquoise, Trade Ideas and BOAT.

Since the establishment of Market Structure Partners, clients have included some of the world’s leading investment banks, trading platforms, clearing houses, proprietary trading firms, asset managers and hedge funds.  Niki is a Non Executive Director of Credit Agricole Cheuvreux International Limited and also a member of a member of the Consultative Working Group that assists CESR/ESMA’s Secondary Markets Standing Committee on the structure, transparency and efficiency of secondary markets for financial instruments.

 

Roland Bellegarde
Group Executive Vice-President & Head of European Cash & Listings, NYSE Euronext

Roland BELLEGARDE (50) is head of European cash trading and listing for NYSE Euronext, one of the world’s largest and most diversified exchange groups.  In this role, he oversees primary and secondary market activity for equities, bonds, ETFs, funds, warrants and certificates.

Roland has been at the forefront of the transformation of the stock exchange industry.  He led the automation of the Bourse de Paris and played a leading role in merging the French derivatives and cash markets.  By spearheading the implementation of a single platform and rule book, he was central to the development of Europe’s first pan-European market, Euronext, created through the merger with the Dutch, Belgian and Portuguese stock exchanges.  Following the merger between NYSE and Euronext in 2007, he was appointed to the Management Committee and named Group EVP.

He is chairman of Secfinex and Smartpool, as well as member of the board of the Qatar Exchange.  He was recently appointed to ESMA’s Securities Markets Stakeholder Group.  Roland holds an advanced studies degree in Economics, Finance and Banking from the Sorbonne, University in Paris.

 

Rob Boardman
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer EMEA, Investment Technology Group, Inc.

Since 2010 Rob Boardman has been CEO EMEA for Investment Technology Group. His teams provide execution tools, services and analytics for institutional clients trading Equity Securities. Prior to his current role Boardman was Head of Electronic Trading and Head of Algorithmic Trading Sales for ITG in Europe.

Investment Technology Group, Inc., is an independent agency research broker that partners with asset managers globally to provide innovative solutions spanning the investment continuum. A leader in electronic trading since launching POSIT® in 1987, ITG's integrated approach now includes a range of products from portfolio management and pre-trade analysis to trade execution and post-trade evaluation. Asset managers rely on ITG's independence, experience, and agility to help mitigate risk, improve performance and navigate increasingly complex markets.

Before joining ITG in April 2006, Boardman spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs where he held various positions, including executive director in the electronic transaction services sales team. He also led a team in implementing direct market access, algorithmic trading and arbitrage strategies for institutional investors and hedge funds

Robert Boardman was educated at Oxford University where he gained undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in particle physics.

 

Andrew Bowley
Andrew Bowley
Managing Director, Nomura

Andrew is responsible for new product design and implementation and product management for the Electronic Trading unit at Nomura. The role includes Nomura’s range of high frequency market access products, smart routing, dark routing, electronic algorithmic trading access, and venue access and coordination. This work includes the operation of Nomura’s dark pool offering NX, the leading investment bank based MTF dark pool.

 

 

Scott Bradley
Executive Director, Electronic Trading EMEA, Nomura International

Scott Bradley is an Executive Director and senior sales trader within the Electronic Trading, EMEA business at Nomura. Prior to this he has held the positions of Head of Electronic Trading Sales, EMEA at J.P. Morgan and Managing Director within International Algorithmic Trading at Bear Sterns having joined from Goldman Sachs in London where he also worked in Electronic & Algorithmic trading roles.
He began his career with ITG as a Pan-European Sales Trader specialising in Program trading and portfolio execution trade analysis.

Scott holds an honours degree in Finance from the University of Manchester School of Accounting & Finance and is a member of the FPL EMEA Regional Committee.

 

Hugh Brown
Director of UK Markets, EMCF N.V

Hugh is responsible for all UK based customers, trading platforms, industry bodies and regulators for EMCF, Europe’s largest equity CCP, where he has been since November 2011.  Previously, he spent 17 years with the London Stock Exchange Group, where he held a variety of senior strategic and development roles in trading, post trade and regulation.


 

 

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John Cameron
Director, FIX Protocol, Principal, Cameron Edge

John was a member of the team (of 6) that wrote one of the world's first fully automated trading systems (SEATS) for the Australian Stock Exchange (replacing the trading floor). It went live in 1987 and ran continuously for almost 20 years (it was finally replaced in 2006).

John also was head of the team that wrote one of the world's first fully automated options trading systems (OATS) - which went live in 1989.

On the broker side, John wrote a pioneering market data distribution system (1991) which was used to distribute real time price data to virtually the entire broking community in Australia.

In Europe John wrote one of the first (1994) fully automated straight through processing (STP) trading systems for brokers. Shortly after (1995) he wrote a real time bond and strip pricing and Reuters contribution system which is still in use (and dominant in its space) at a major bank in London, Canary Wharf.

In 1997 John entered the world of FIX and over subsequent years saw his product CameronFIX become the world's number one FIX solution. He sold his company, Cameron Systems, to Orc Software in 2006, who now sell CameronFIX under their subsidiary, CameronTec. John stayed on at Orc as CTO for 3 years.

John created FIXwiki in 2009 which he subsequently donated to FPL. In February 2012 he launched FIXinsight - a service for processing FIX logs.

In 2010 he was elected to the board of FPL by members of the international FIX community. He is also on the board of directors of IRESS (www.iress.com).

 

Philippe Carré
Global Head of Connectivity, SunGard

Philippe Carré is global head of connectivity for SunGard’s capital markerts business; he is responsible for the delivery of hosted services and solutions to trading clients globally. Philippe joined SunGard with the acquisition of GL Trade in January 2009, and has in-depth expertise in the area of trading and connectivity for both buy- and sell-side communities, drawn from extensive experience gained since he first joined GL Trade in 1997.

At GL Trade, Philippe launched the group’s buy-side trading solutions business, and was previously global head of client services. He also managed GL Net’s operational and business development, and driven the expansion of the institutional business. Philippe is a regular speaker and contributor at financial network industry events and in the specialist press.


 

 

 

 

Diana Chan
Chief Executive Officer, EuroCCP

Diana Chan joined EuroCCP in 2007 as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to her role at EuroCCP, Diana was Citi's head of Market Strategy and Market Policy in Securities and Fund Services.

Diana has over twenty years' experience in the global securities markets during which time she has worked in Brussels, Paris, London, New York and Singapore. She had regional and global responsibilities for post-trade services at Citi, JP Morgan, The Bank of New York and Euroclear, including strategy, product management, network management, financial control and management information. Since 2003, Diana has been an active member of advisory groups on clearing and settlement organized by the European Central Bank and the European Commission. Most recently, she has been appointed to the ESMA Post-Trade Standing Committee's Consultative Group.

Diana was born in The People's Republic of China and is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong and Harvard Business School.

 

Andrew Bowley

Matthew Coupe,
Co-Chair FPL EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, Redkite Financial Markets

Matthew Coupe is sales director of Redkite Financial Markets, & Co Chair of the FPL EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee.

Regulatory specialist, he is an expert in High Frequency Trading, market surveillance, in the post-MiFID landscape, and their implications for trading desks and compliance departments, along with continually providing industry insight for what is to come in regulatory changes.

 

Matthew Cousens,
Director and CO-Head of AES Sales EMEA, Credit Suisse

Matthew Cousens is a Director and Co-Head of Sales EMEA for the Advanced Execution Services Group (AES) of Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Division, responsible for sales, marketing, and distribution of AES products and services across the region.

Prior to this, Matthew managed sales for the Broker Dealer client base and was responsible for HFT (High Frequency Trading) sales within EMEA. Matthew joined Credit Suisse in March 2007 and in 2008, was mandated with the responsibility of running the European Broker Dealer business for AES which saw compound growth rate of over 400% from this area.

Before joining Credit Suisse, Matthew was Head of DMA Sales at AKJ Ltd. (a global electronic broker dealer specialising in DMA solutions). Previous to this, he was a Director and General Manager at EBI Ltd where he was responsible for overseeing electronic brokerage operations and the day-to-day running of the firm.

 

Sassan Danesh
Co-Chair FPL Global Fixed Income Committee, Managing Partner, Etrading Software

Sassan Danesh is a Managing Partner at Etrading Software, a London-based technology services company with a mission to assist the capital markets community in the design and implementation of trading solutions within electronic markets. Prior to co-founding Etrading Software in 2004, Sassan worked at JP Morgan’s fixed income division, designing and implementing sales and trading technology solutions.

Sassan’s focus and mission is to facilitate change across the industry, by enabling collaboration amongst different stakeholders, primarily working with broker-dealers but also with execution venues, large asset managers and quant-based hedge funds.

More recently, Sassan has been involved in bringing greater transparency and efficiency into the fixed income OTC markets by facilitating collaboration between the broker-dealer community and the expected Swap Execution Facilities to define industry best practices using the FIX Protocol for trading OTC swaps.

 

Courtney Doyle McGuinn
Operations Director, FIX Protocol Ltd.

Courtney Doyle McGuinn, Operations Director of FIX Protocol Ltd., is responsible for meeting the operational and strategic needs of the FPL organization and the FIX Protocol. Courtney manages the global resources of FPL including staff and service providers in London, New York, and Asia.

Prior to this role, Courtney was involved in various engagements for Jordan & Jordan which have included conducting comprehensive market research to uncover opportunities in the financial marketplace and assisting in the selection of suitable technology solutions. She was also a lead trainer during a nationwide rollout of a branch office account executive workstation, demonstrating and assisting new users on the system. Courtney holds a BA degree from Rutgers College.

 

Alfred Eskandar
Chief Executive Officer, Portware

Backed by 18 years of financial services and technology experience, Alfred brings a fresh approach to Portware as its new chief executive officer. Whether launching a financial newspaper or a disruptive new marketplace, Alfred is passionate about creating innovative ways to create value for clients. Formerly, he ran the US trading business for Liquidnet, where he was a founding employee. Alfred was a member of the firm’s executive management team and held many leadership roles including global head of strategy, where he led all strategic initiatives, alliances and investments.

While at Liquidnet, Alfred led the acquisition of Miletus Trading, LLC, a leading quantitative and program trading broker-dealer, serving as president and chief executive officer during its integration.

 

Angela Fenwick

Co-Head of Retail Hub in Banca IMI and Board Member, EuroTLX SIM S.p.A.


Angela Fenwick is co-Head of Retail Hub at Banca IMI since January 2012 and is a member of the Board of Directors of EuroTLX SIM S.p.A

Angela was Chief Executive Officer of EuroTLX SIM S.p.A. between June 2009 and December 2011.  She joined EuroTLX after 9 years in Goldman Sachs, responsible for the Electronic Trading Sales for Southern Europe. Previously, she had been responsible for the International Sales Trader Desk in the Equity Division of Banca Caboto from 1994 to 2000. Angela began her stock broking career in Banca Commerciale Italiana.

 

Dhavarajh Frank
Chief Operating Officer, Selftrade

Dhavarajh Frank is Chief Operating Officer of Selftrade, one of the leading UK execution only brokers.  His background is one of stock broking and technology, with qualifications in accountancy, economics and finance.  He believes strongly in a fair,  low cost service for the ‘self directed’ retail community and continues to research how firms and the industry might offer cheaper, better and faster execution services.

 

 

 

Brian Gallagher, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

 

 

Susan Gay
Senior Associate, Financial Services Authority (FSA)

Susan began her career at the London Stock Exchange in the Strategy team and after several years moved to Tullet Prebon. She then re-located to Dubai and worked in various regulatory financial services roles. After a few years, Susan launched her own compliance consultancy and won contracts with major banks and private equity companies in the middle east region such as National Bank of Abu Dhabi, SHUAA Capital and Julius Bär.

 

 

Ben Gunnee

Ben Gunnee
European Director, Mercer

Ben is the European Director of the Mercer Sentinel Group, based in London. The Mercer Sentinel Group is a specialist global group within Mercer Investment Consulting advising clients in the fields of investment operations and investment execution including custodian reviews, investment manager operational due diligence, transition manager operations and transaction cost analysis.

Ben is responsible for the groups overall business strategy within Europe and is part of the Mercer Sentinel Global Management Committee. In addition Ben's specialist areas are asset transitions and operational due diligence. Prior to founding the Sentinel Group in Europe Ben spent three years advising clients on investment strategy and asset manager selection.  

Prior to joining Mercer's in 2002 Ben worked for the Financial Services Authority and a major Life Assurance Company. Overall, he has over 13 years experience in the investment and pensions sector.

Ben holds a Masters Degree in Accounting and Finance and an Honours degree in Accounting and Financial Management. Ben is also a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

 

Marc Gratacos
Senior Technical Architect, ISDA & Consultant, TradeHeader

Marc's main area of expertise is OTC Derivatives and FpML, the industry-standard XML vocabulary for complex financial products. He has been involved with the OTC derivatives industry since 2003 as an FpML business analyst, consultant and trainer.

As a consultant, Marc has been involved in a variety of projects in derivatives operations and IT for organizations implementing FpML, including the development of a new Swap Data Repository. He also serves as a technical architect for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) in the actual development of the FpML standard, participating in all the working groups, putting together proposals, giving technical support, editing the specifications, and chairing the FpML Coordination Committee.

 

George Handjinicolaou
Deputy CEO, International Swaps And Derivatives Association (ISDA)

George Handjinicolaou is Deputy CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), and also Regional Head of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).  He has rejoined ISDA after spending the last couple of years in Greece serving as CEO at TBANK and as Vice Chairman at the Greek Capital Markets Commission.

His extensive involvement with all aspects of derivatives markets dates back to the early eighties. Before joining ISDA in 2007, Mr. Handjinicolaou was the founding member and managing partner of Etolian Capital, a market-neutral biased, relative value hedge fund specializing in credit and capital structure arbitrage.  

Prior to forming Etolian Capital, Mr. Handjinicolaou was managing director at Merrill Lynch with responsibility for the Global Fixed Income Emerging Markets business (2000-2002), while from 1998 to 2000, he was executive vice president and head of fixed income for the Americas at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson with responsibility for all of the firm's fixed income activities in the Americas. From 1986 to 1998, Mr. Handjinicolaou was involved with the fixed income derivatives trading in a variety of functions, including head of global swaps group at Security Pacific/Bank of America, and head of fixed income derivatives for the Americas at UBS.   In the early eighties (1983 to 1986), and for a brief period in the nineties (1994-1995), he was with the World Bank Group, including serving as the Treasurer of the IFC.

Over the years, Mr. Handjinicolaou has been an active member of the financial community, has served on the Board of Directors of ISDA and Brokertek, and on the Advisory Boards of Polytechnic University, and the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE).  He has also taught at N.Y.U. and Baruch College and has published several articles.  He holds a BA in economics from Athens University, and MBA and Ph.D degrees from NYU.

 

Alasdair Haynes

Rebecca Healey
Senior Analyst, TABB Group

Rebecca joined TABB Group in March 2011, bringing more than 15 years’ experience in e-trading and financial services.  She has held various positions in sales and trading positions with Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs and, most recently, Credit Suisse, where as vice president she was instrumental in launching the AES product to hedge funds from its inception in 2002 until 2008.  Prior to the AES launch, she was the first electronic trader at Credit Suisse to be registered for all electronic European Cash Equity Markets and covered sales trading into Asia and Europe from 1997 to 2000. 

More recently, based in the Middle East from 2008 to 2010, Rebecca was employed by the British Embassy in Bahrain where she successfully launched the UK Government’s Financial Services strategy and set up the Bahrain Financial Services roundtable that remains a key source of information for the UK Government today, especially in relation to Islamic Finance. 

Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from University College London, majoring in Spanish and Latin American history and politics.

 

Kevin Houstoun
Co-Chair FPL Global Technical Committee, Lead Expert Group Member, UK Government Foresight Committee on “The future of computer based trading in financial markets”, Chairman and Founder, Rapid Addition

Kevin has over 20 years financial services industry experience and has initiated and implemented electronic trading technologies first at Robert Fleming Asset Management and then at Solomon Brothers.

Utilising his unique understanding and knowledge, Kevin has co-authored one of the world’s most performant FIX engines with his company Rapid Addition Limited, Rapid Addition specialise in product innovation in the FIX marketplace, offering high performance FIX engines and tools which are used to advance the trading capabilities of firms globally. RA's clients currently include leading Stock Exchanges, buy-side and sell-side firms specialising in FIX. He is also a retained consultant for Thomson Reuters.

Kevin is also currently Co-Chair of the FPL Global Technical committee and has been intimately involved in the technical development of FIX for over 10 years. Last September Kevin was asked to join the UK Governments Foresight Committee on “The future of computer based trading in financial markets”. http://www.bis.gov.uk/foresight/our-work/projects/current-projects/computer-trading

 

Denzil Jenkins
Head of Compliance and Regulation, London Stock Exchange

 

Peter Jessup
Vice President X-Stream Development Organization, NASDAQ OMX

Peter has 31 years of IT experience, mainly in Financial Services, including banking, trading and settlement.
Peter joined NASDAQ OMX as the head of the MTech team, a business which was acquired from Computershare Ltd in 2006.
Peter continues in this role, managing the MTech business unit, the team which is responsible for NASDAQ OMX’s X-stream Trading product. The MTech team provides development and support services to over 22 markets worldwide.

 

Peter Johnston
EMEA Head Bloomberg EMSX Solutions, Bloomberg

Bloomberg 'EMSX' is a broker neutral, multi-asset Execution Management System that supports the largest buyside dealer community in the world, providing connectivity to 2000+ broker destinations.


Peter is responsible for sales, support and strategy for electronic trading, trade analytics and connectivity.
He joined the electronic trading division of Bloomberg in August 2008 having managed a variety of the firm's regional sales teams and strategic products since joining the company from Credit Suisse in 1996.

Jim Kaye
Co-Chair FPL Global Steering Committee, Director, Product Development, European Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Jim Kaye is the Product Development Manager for the European Execution Services business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Jim spent eight years at Goldman Sachs as the European product manager for the REDIPlus EMS. Before that, he worked at UBS firstly as a project manager in equity operations, then as product development manager for the electronic execution business.

Jim has been involved in FIX since 2001. He chaired the Allocations Working Group during the FIX 4.4 design phase, resulting in a comprehensive extension of and update to the post-trade capabilities of the FIX protocol. He is currently co-chair of the EMEA Business Practices Subcommittee and Trade Data Standardisation Working Group, working on best practice business and data standards for various aspects of FIX usage, risk management and the European consolidated tape.

 

Hanno Klein
Co-Chair FPL Global Global Technical Committee,Senior Vice President, Deutsche Börse

Hanno Klein is Senior Project Manager at Deutsche Börse Systems, a Deutsche Börse Group Company which also provides the technology for Eurex, its main derivatives exchange. He joined the company in 1997 and worked in various positions and projects of strategic and operational nature in Germany and the USA. From 2001 to 2005, he served as Vice President of Deutsche Boerse Systems Inc. in Chicago.

In June 2006, he helped to re-establish the FPL Exchanges/ECN Working Group
(EEWG) which was elevated to the FPL Global Exchanges and Markets Committee (GExMC) in September 2007 and co-chaired by him since then. He is co-chair of the FPL Global Technical Committee (GTC) since July 2010 and a member of the FPL Global Steering Committee (GSC).

The GExMC seeks to enable and promote the harmonized usage of FIX by exchanges and other marketplaces. An increased adoption of FIX by this group of users requires a focus on performance together with a true standardization.

 

Daniel Marcus
Managing Director of Strategy and Business Development in EMEA, Tradition

Daniel Marcus is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic initiatives on a global basis, including planning for global regulatory change.  Most recently he was responsible for the development and roll-out of Tradition’s hybrid OTC trading platform Trad-X. 

He is a qualified lawyer and joined Tradition in 2007 as General Counsel.  Prior to joining Tradition, Daniel Marcus was Senior Counsel at the London Stock Exchange where he was responsible for regulatory, IT, corporate and commercial legal work. In particular he worked on the LSE’s successful defences against hostile bids from Deutsche Bourse, Nasdaq and Macquarie, as well as the acquisitions of Proquote, EDX and Borsa Italiana. 

 

 

 

Marie-Ange Marx
COO, Keytrade Bank (Brussels-Luxembourg- Geneva), part of the group Crédit Agricole

Marie-Ange joined Keytrade early 1999 as General Manager of Keytrade Luxembourg, a subsidiary of the first Belgian pioneer in online Broker. In 2003 she was appointed Group Compliance Officer (Brussels). She joined the management team and became member of the Executive Board in 2007.  

 

 

 

Stephen McGoldrick
Co-Chair FPL EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, Deutsche Bank AG

Grew up in Scotland. Went from school on a scholarship to study at University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business then graduated from Edinburgh University with a joint honours LLb (Law and Accounting). Staying in Edinburgh he entered finance in 1990 as an analyst in NatWest's Equity Quants team working on indices then derivative and portfolio risk.

Spent 1992-99 as a derivatives broker with responsibility for developing and selling clearing and the technology platform, transferring with the team to Deutsche Bank. Moved to eCommerce in 1999 then into equity market connectivity and responsible for algorithms before taking on current responsibility for European market structure in 2006.

This role has led to being involved in several equity market structure initiatives, consultative groups and becoming a Board member on the Turquoise MTF, chairing AFME’s Securities Trading Committee and Cochairing FPL’s Regulatory Subcommittee.  Stephen's motivation, and remit, is to improve, or increasingly, to avoid  a decline in,  market efficiency. Greatest career achievement is finding a job he loves in The City of London while avoiding having to relocate from Edinburgh where he lives with his wife, three children and a whippet called Frankie.

 

Franck Mikulecz
Managing Director, Baxter Financial Services Ltd and Baxter Technologies Ltd.

Franck began his career in Derivatives in 1988 in Sales and Trading. After a succesful career working for Tuffier-Ravier, STAFF (Tradition Group) and Banca di Roma setting up, building and running 'end to end'international Futures & Options businesses in Paris, Milan and London, Franck saw an opportunity in the FX market and established Baxter Financial Services Ltd in Dublin in 1995.  Recoginising the increasing importance technology was to play in the industry Franck established Baxter Techologies Ltd in 1999. 

Franck's passion for innovation and improved efficiency in the market has seen Baxter launching  a number of technology and business products and services, which are leveraged by the industry as a whole.  He has worked closely with the FIX Protocol Committee since its inception and has co-chaired the FIX Protocol's G-FX Technical Committee.

 

 

Valentin Nehls
Product Manager - Access Products, Deutsche Börse AG


Valentin Nehls is part of a Product Development team managing and developing Deutsche Börse's ExServes product line, providing turn-key, managed network and trading infrastructure solutions for all types of financial services firms to connect with electronic markets. Previously at Deutsche Börse, Valentin was a Technical Key Account Manager, acting as a single point of contact for a number of key exchange members, and especially market data vendors and ISVs. Valentin holds a degree in Information and Knowledge Management from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

Maria Netley
Director, FIX Protocol Ltd, RBS Global Banking

 

 

 

Nick Nielsen
Head of Trading, Marshall Wace Asset Management

Nick joined Marshall Wace LLP in 2008 and is Head of Trading in London.  Prior to this, he was at Citadel Investment Group in London and Chicago. He started his career in high frequency trading at Goldman Sach's Hull Group in the US.  Nick has a BS in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

Mark Hemsley

Jim Northey
Co-Chair FPL Americas Regional Committee, Co-Founder, The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC

Jim Northey has over twenty years experience as a manager, consultant, and implementer in the financial markets. He is currently a partner in The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC, a Houghton, Michigan based engineering and products company focused on providing connectivity solutions for the financial markets.

Jim has been a very active leader and innovator in creating and promoting financial messaging standards by regularly contributing to the FIX and ISO 20022 standardisation efforts. He served as co-chair of the FIX Global Derivatives Committee from 2003 to 2005. Currently, he serves as the co-chair of the FIX America's Regional Committee and is the Industry Standards Liaison for FIX Protocol Ltd. representing FPL on the ISO 20022 Requirements Management Group and Technical Support Group.

Jim holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Indianapolis and an M.S. in Financial Markets and Trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology with an emphasis in Computational Finance. He periodically serves as an adjunct lecturer at Michigan Technological University - School of Business and Economics.

 

Andrew Parry
Co-Chair FPL Global Derivatives Committee, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Andrew Parry is a Senior Architect at Bank of American Merrill Lynch, based in London, working on Equity Linked Derivative Technology.

His career has involved hands on technical development, management of diverse teams working on multiple projects, and employing expertise and influence across global organisations

Much of his work is focused on balancing strategic and tactical objectives, managing software assets, and organisational change. A particular current focus is the changing Business and Regulatory environment in the Derivatives Market, and the consequences of those changes for Trading, Risk, and Operations

He is the Chair of the ISDA/FpML Equity Derivative Working Group, and Co-Chair of the FIX GDC, and GSC member

Previously Andrew Parry has worked in various Technology and Management Positions at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and Instinet. He holds an MSc in Computer Science, and a BA Hons in Economics

 

Michelle Price
Trading and Technology Editor, Financial News, Dow Jones

Michelle was appointed editor of the Financial News Trading and Technology section in October 2010.

Prior to joining Financial News, Michelle was Business Editor at the FT’s The Banker magazine, where she took responsibility for technology, trading, retail banking, and all Asia-Pacific coverage. Before her stint on The Banker magazine, Michelle worked on two business and technology publications.  

Michelle is an award-winning journalist with a BA (Hons) in history from the University of Cambridge.

 

 

 

Oriol Pujol
European Business Development Manager, Winterflood Securities

Oriol Pujol was appointed in January 2011 to lead the development of Winterflood’s electronic trading initiatives across Europe. Winterflood is a leading provider of liquidity to retail and institutional investors in the UK.

Oriol has over 14 years experience in the financial services industry, holding senior roles at some of the firms that have shaped the electronic trading landscape en Europe and the US in the last decade.

Prior to joining Winterflood, Oriol was Co-head of Sales and responsible of Product at Turquoise MTF, where he pioneered the development Dark Pools and “Pool of Pools”.Prior to that he was Senior Manager EMEA at Charles River Development (CRD) where he led the deployment of multi-asset class portfolio management systems at leading asset managers across Europe.

Before that, he spent 5 years as Senior Trading Systems Analyst at Knight Capital in the US, where he was involved in a number of key initiatives for the firm such as the introduction automated trading algorithms, the integration of Edge ECN, and ensuring systems compliance with all major regulatory changes.

 

Nigel Rafferty
EMEA BA and PM Lead for Electronic Trading, J.P. Morgan

Nigel has focused on Exchange Connectivity and Electronic Trading for the the last 12 from development, infrastructure and integration within the Investment Banking sector.

Roles have included EMEA Cash and Derivatives connectivity management, Client Connectivity Management, participant of the BOAT Technical Advisory committee through to his current role at JP Morgan as part of the team delivering the new Global Electronic Trading Stack, their industry leading low latency, high through-put offering.

 

 

Mark Reece
Co-Chair FPL High Performance Interfaces Working Group, Director, Hawkhurst Consultancy Services

 

 

 

 

Salvador Rodriguez
Head of Electronic Sales Trading EMEA, Citi

Sal Rodriguez joined Citi's London Electronic Trading Team in November 2010.  He is head of EMEA Electronic Sales Trading, with responsibility for managing the team of sales traders that manage electronic flow from the firm's Institutional, Hedge Fund and Wholesale clients. 

Prior to joining Citi, Sal spent time with UBS and Goldman Sachs in London as an electronic sales trader.  He started his career at Morgan Stanley in London where he spent 10 years as a pan European cash sales trader.

 

Mark Schaedel
Managing Partner, The COBA Project

Mark Schaedel is Managing Partner with The COBA Project a start-up organization which he co-founded which focuses on data mining and management innovations. Mr. Schaedel was formerly the Global Head of Market Data for NYSE Euronext where he was responsible for the global exchange operators market data business which included the traditional exchange business as well as the development of commercial data solutions which underpinned the organization’s technology services strategy. Mr. Schaedel joined NYSE Euronext in 1999 to develop NYSE’s Proprietary Data business and in 2009 became Global Head of Market Data based in Amsterdam. Mr. Schaedel chaired FESE’s Market Data Committee as well as the MMT Industry Working Group which was created to support the creation and adoption of market data standards as a means of enhancing European
Market transparency.

Prior to NYSE, Mark was Chief Operating Officer of StreetServe Inc., a financial services and management consulting organization he helped create. Mark has also held senior positions with trading systems vendors and previously front and middle office roles. Mark began his carrier with Cowen & Co. in NY.



Guy Sears
Director, Investment Management Association (IMA)

Guy Sears is Director, Wholesale at the Investment Management Association, the trade association of the UK’s £4 trillion investment management industry. His area is responsible for wholesale and institutional issues, equity market trading, non-retail FSA regulation, prudential regulation, financial crime, operational risk and legal.

Mr. Sears is a member of the Banking Liaison Panel appointed under the Banking Act 2009 and a director of the UK’s Joint Money Laundering Steering Group.

 

 

Chris Sims
Co-Chair FPL EMEA Business Practices Subcommittee, Consultant, Ignis Asset Management

 

Philip Stafford
Deputy Editor of FT Trading Room, Financial Times

Philip Stafford is deputy editor of FT Trading Room, the Financial Times's microsite devoted to market structures, exchanges, clearing and high frequency trading.

He has held this role for 18 months as part of a 10-year career at the FT, where he been UK stock markets editor, small cap columnist and UK technology correspondent, when he won an award for his coverage of alleged frauds at software companies. He has also worked for the FT in Tokyo. He started at Bloomberg as a commodities reporter in 1999 and was a key part of the team that developed online financial website FTMarketwatch during the technology boom in 2000. Prior to starting a career in journalism, was a teacher in Japan

 

Justin Stephan
Co-Chair FPL Global Steering Committee, Director, Trading Applications, Wellington Management Company

 

 

Ben Stephens
Vice President, Electronic Trading & Quantitative Prime Brokerage Origination, Nomura

Ben Stephens is responsible for originating new business for Nomura’s industry leading NXT product suite providing high frequency trading clients with ultra-low latency market connectivity, co-location, market data and quantitative prime brokerage services. Prior to joining Nomura’s electronic trading and prime brokerage origination team in 2010, Ben worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a similar position and has an MBA from London Business School.

 

Robin Strong
Co-Chair FPL Membership Services Committee, Director, Buy-side Market Strategy, Fidessa

Robin is responsible for the market positioning of Fidessa's buy-side solutions. He has led the market strategy for the buy-side operation since 2008, playing a key role in driving the business through a period of considerable investment in its products and services globally.

Robin has also played a significant part in highlighting the value of Fidessa's fragmentation analysis tools to the wider buy-side community, in particular the Tradalyzer™ which analyses the performance of a specific trade against the consolidated view of the market.

With nearly 20 years' experience in financial markets, Robin has held both commercial and technical positions with leading organisations, including Credit Suisse and Salomon Brothers. Prior to joining Fidessa, Robin co-founded Concise, a London-based specialist consulting firm to investment banks.

Robin is a frequent contributor to the buy-side press and features regularly as a speaker at industry events.

 

Kee-Meng Tan
Managing Director and Head of Electronic Trading Group (ETG) in Europe, Knight Equity Markets International Ltd.

Kee-Meng Tan, Managing Director at Knight, oversees the Electronic Trading Group (ETG) in Europe. Highly experienced in managing equity execution businesses in Europe and Asia, Kee-Meng joined Knight in March 2008 to lead the European expansion of ETG. ETG incorporates Knight’s retail and institutional electronic market-making business as well as Knight Link, the firm’s highly successful off-exchange liquidity source. He is also responsible for Knight’s relationship with Equiduct, a leading destination for retail best execution in Europe. Prior to joining Knight, Kee-Meng was a derivatives trader at CQS, a London-based multi-strategy hedge fund.

Before CQS, Kee-Meng was the European Head of Global Execution Services at JP Morgan in London, a business which included single stock and portfolio execution, algorithmic trading products and ETFs. Previous to that, he was the Head of Delta One Trading at ABN Amro Bank NV in Hong Kong as well as Head of Asian Portfolio Trading at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Securities and Morgan Stanley. Kee-Meng is currently on the boards of Easdaq, Equiduct’s parent company and Knight Capital Europe. He holds a BA from Vassar College and an MBA from New York University.

 

Stuart Taylor
Global Head of FICC Electronic Trading, UBS
Fergal Toomey
Chief Scientist & Co-Founder, Corvil
Mark Vogel
Associate Director, Global Account Management EMEA, CME Group

Carl Weir
Head of Cross Asset FIX Connectivity (EMEA), HSBC

Carl Weir works as Head Of Cross asset FIX Connectivity (EMEA) for HSBC Global Banking and Markets in London. In his role he covers the management of EMEA on-boarding for Cross Asset FIX clients, Vendor Management of 60+ Vendors, as well as maintaining tactical and strategic client relationships for electronic trading via FIX in unison with the Trading Desks. Carl is also involved in new platforms, standard and practices for bleeding-edge products utilizing the FIX Protocol within HSBC.

Carl also sits on the FPL Fixed Income Steering Committee, and FPL Fixed Income Technical Stream Working Group. He was also published in FIX Global magazine recently commenting on the US Minority Broker Dealer Market. Carl has over 12 years experience in the FIX domain, and has previously worked for ABN AMRO, CSFB, Deutsche Bank, and Barclays.

   

Henry Young
Co-Chair FPL Inter-Party Latency Working Group, CEO, TS-Associates plc

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.


Richard Young
Head of Regulatory Affairs, SWIFT