David is Head of Markets Infrastructure and Policy at the Financial Services Authority, where his responsibilities encompass the supervision of the UK's exchanges, other trading platforms, and clearing and settlement services, and leading the FSA's work on both primary and secondary markets policy issues. The Department also takes responsibility for the FSA's capital markets sector team. Key current challenges include: working on key measures to strengthen the regulation and resilience of markets, including EMIR and the MiFID review; working with European counterparts in the new ESMA; the regulatory consequences of greater global integration and competition in primary and secondary markets; strengthening OTC market functioning; and implementing the new EU regime for the oversight of credit rating agencies. Before joining the FSA in January 2005, David spent nearly 20 years at Her Majesty's Treasury, latterly as Head of Capital Markets and Governance, with responsibility for the Department’s policy towards securities and wholesale financial markets, prudential capital standards, accounting and auditing issues, corporate governance and company law. David is an economist by training, with degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. He is the FSA’s representative on the Financial Markets Law Committee.
Kevin is currently advising and investing in several new startups including locative games, education analytics, luxury retailing, algorithmic sports analysis, visual search, and online video advertising. Kevin’s thinking and ventures have been featured in major business publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, Businessweek and Fast Company. Recent feature profiles include everything from Dwell to the New Scientist, the Design Observer, and the Calcalist in Israel. Slavin and his partner at Area/Code were named to Creativity Magazine’s Creativity 50.
Kevin understands business and technology from the corporate side as well having spent 10 years as an advertising executive for large tech brands like Microsoft and Time Warner.
Kevin understands algorithms as nature — our world is subject to algorithmic optimization, not just on Wall Street, but in our homes, our architecture, and in our cities. Math is shaping our environments, what he calls the ‘physics of culture.’
Stephane joined Aviva Investors in January 2009.
Prior to joining Aviva Investors, Stephane was Global Head of Structured Asset Management where he built a successful team responsible for developing and marketing structured products. He joined Lehmans in 2006 from BNP Paribas Asset Management where he was Global Head of Structured and Index Investments with responsibility for a large team managing structured products totalling in excess of €20bn including the groups “Easy EFT” platform. Stephane joined Paribas Asset Management in 1987 where he held a variety of roles that included Head of French Bonds and Global Money Management, Head of Structured Products, Head of Diversified guaranteed funds and Co-Head of Alternative and Structured Investments following the merger between BNP and Paribas in 1999.
Stephane started his career in Private Banking in 1978 with Banque Vernes and from 1980, he was responsible for bond origination and institutional relationships. In 1983, Stephane joined the French State Treasury office where he launched and was Head of the French Social Security Investment and Treasury department.
Brian Schwieger is head of EMEA Algorithmic Trading for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, managing the Quantitative Engineering, Execution Consulting and Marketing associated with BofA Merrill Lynch’s algorithmic product in Europe. Brian joined Merrill Lynch in 2005 with the initial responsibility to build and manage their Execution Desk for sales-trading of the Algorithmic product. With over 15 years of trading experience, he helps traders and clients understand and identify the algorithmic strategies and tactics which best suit their objectives. His previous trading experience spans Equity Portfolio, Equity Cash and Commodities (Oil & Gas). Brian holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School and a BSc(Econ) from the London School of Economics.
Yogesh (Yogi) is the CEO and Founding Partner of Hassium Asset Management LLP. Yogi has fifteen years of professional investment management experience. Prior to founding Hassium Yogi spent ten years as an Executive Director in the Private Wealth Management division at Goldman Sachs in London. At Goldman Yogi was responsible for building a Pan European business covering over 40 wealthy private families with discretionary assets of approx. $1.5 billion. Yogi's experience spans all asset classes across all markets including strategic asset allocation and risk management. Yogi is also a regular contributor to CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Financial Times, WSJ and more recently the BBC. Yogi has an MBA from the London Business School.
Rick is Global Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of State Street Global Advisors and a member of the firm's Executive Management Group. In his role as Chief Investment Officer Rick has responsibility for all investment management activity at SSgA, including research and trading. Prior to his current role, Rick was Head of Global Active Equities, and previously European CIO. Rick also serves on the European and International Executive Committees and the SSgA Investment Committee. Before joining SSgA in 2000, he held a wide variety of posts in quantitative fund management and research at Gartmore Investment Management, including periods as Head of Quantitative Research and Head of Structured Equities. Rick has a BSc(Hons) in Operational Research from Lancaster University and MSc in Econometrics from London Guildhall University. He is Chairman of the Board of Inquire (UK) a non-profit body devoted to the research and promotion of quantitative techniques in investment management, a member of the FTSE Policy Committee and he sits on the Asset Management Committee of the Investment Management Association. He is a regular writer and broadcaster on investment issues and speaks frequently at industry conferences.
Aaron Brown is risk manager at AQR Capital Management and the author of Red-Blooded Risk (Wiley, October 2011), The Poker Face of Wall Street (Wiley, 2006, selected one of the ten best books of 2006 by Business Week) and A World of Chance (with Reuven and Gabrielle Brenner, Cambridge University Press, 2008). In his 30 year Wall Street career he has been a trader, portfolio manager, head of mortgage securities and risk manager for institutions including Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. He also served a stint as a finance professor and was one of the top professional poker players in the world during the 1970s and 80s. He holds degrees in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and Finance and Statistics from the University of Chicago.
Rainer Riess is Member of the Management Board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Managing Director XETRA Market Development at Deutsche Börse. He is responsible for sales and business development of all cash market activities of Deutsche Börse AG, comprising of the electronic trading system Xetra® and the floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Currently, more than 250 member institutions from 19 countries as well as 5 exchanges use the Xetra system. Altogether, the cash market of Deutsche Börse comprises of more than 800,000 stocks, bonds, ETFs, ETNs, ETPs, actively managed funds, certificates and warrants. He is a Board Member of the Scoach Group, a Board Member of the FESE and a Board Member of the eFinance-Lab.
Rainer Riess holds a Masters of Arts in Economics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Miami. He is a former Fulbright scholar.
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.
Sal Arnuk is partner, co-founder and co-head of equity trading of Themis Trading LLC. Mr. Arnuk has extensive experience in equities trading and is an expert in electronic trading and market structure. Prior to Themis, Mr. Arnuk established an equity agency trading business (OTC and Listed equities) at Smith Jacobs & Company in 2000. Prior to Smith Jacobs, Mr. Arnuk worked for more than 10 years at Instinet Corporation, where he headed the team responsible for equity sales and trading for major institutional money managers. He has provided expert commentary for media outlets such as the Associated Press, BBC Radio, Bloomberg Television & Radio, BNN, CNBC, Fox Business, NPR, Barron’s, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg News, Pensions & Investments and Advanced Trading.
Mr. Arnuk graduated from New York University’s Stern School of Business with an MBA in Finance and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from SUNY Binghamton University.
Michael Williams is the Founder and Managing Partner of Genesis Asset Management. Today he also co-manages one of the top-performing actively managed mutual funds in Europe.
Before founding Genesis Asset Management, Mr. Williams was the Managing Director for Genesis Partners, a research and advisory firm he directed from 1982 to 2003. His daily and weekly market insights are read by thousands of advisors, institutions and clients from over 40 countries around the globe. The documented, dated research that provided our excellent record of major trend calls over the last decade is readily available for review.
From 1983 to 2003, Mr. Williams ran his own financial planning firm based in Atlanta with offices in New York City. In 1983, after a year on Wall Street at the trading floor level, Mike started Genesis Partners as a private financial planning practice under FSC Securities, in Atlanta, Georgia. Within 6 months, the unit had offices in Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles. Over the next four years, Mike and his team developed a client roster of wealthy individuals, reaching a peak of 53 clients with over $450 million in assets.
The SectorFlow process was created over the 1982 to 1990 period to track the institutional capital flow into and out of equity stock sectors, correlated within commodity and currency channels. That research led to his first BARRONS article in 1998, which can be viewed here. Later in 1999, Mike was the cover article in one of Welling@Weeden’s first issues sent to over 7,000 institutional clients, which can be viewed here.
After that first article, Dr. Ed Yardeni, then the Chief Global Strategist for Deutsche Bank, reached out to Mike and made him the only outside research partner to place insights on www.yardeni.com, a top financial website. Over the next 4 years, Mike and Dr. Ed shared common views with his clients all over the globe, calling a significant number of market trend changes and becoming one of the most visited sections of the website. Dr. Ed’s views of Mike’s work can be seen here.
Dr. Tobias Preis is the CEO of the Artemis Capital Asset Management.
His academic research at ETH Zurich and Boston University is driven by a deep interest in understanding the complex behaviour of financial systems. He was awarded a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Recently, he headed a research team which provided evidence that search engine query data and stock market fluctuations are correlated.
Ms Valérie Ledure is a senior policy officer and works in the field of securities markets for the European Commission, Directorate-General Internal Market and Services. She has played a key role in the review of Mifid and the package of policy documents recently adopted by the Commission.
Prior to joining the Commission, Ms Ledure worked at ING Bank in Corporate Finance and Securitisation where she acquired sound experience and valuable knowledge of the financial sector and associated institutions. She has also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as a financial auditor, specialising in the audit of financial services companies.
By profession, Ms Ledure is a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA – IFRS stream) and she holds a master's degree in Business Engineering from the Solvay Business School, University of Brussels.
Nick joined Marshall Wace LLP in 2008 and is a Partner and 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.
Kristian West, managing director, is head of Equity Trading for London. An employee since 2008, he was previously head of Trading Strategy. Prior to that, he was head of Equity Execution Services at Barclays Capital, building global electronic and voice execution services for the hedge fund community. Prior to that, he worked at Goldman Sachs and was responsible for trading within their Electronic Transaction Services (ETS) department. Before that, he was a US Sales Trader at Spear Leeds & Kellogg, and worked at Ford Motor Company's research and development centre. Kristian obtained a BSc (Hons.) in Management & Design in Engineering at London City University, School of Engineering and also holds and MBA from Cambridge University.
Niki Beattie began her financial markets career in Information Technology at Security Pacific. She went on to work at Merrill Lynch for 14 years and became Managing Director and Head of EMEA Market Structure. Niki left Merrill Lynch in 2008 to set up The Market Structure Practice, a strategic consulting firm specializing in financial market structure.
In her role at Merrill Lynch, Niki handled the relationships with the Exchanges and trading platforms and was instrumental in creating competition in the European Exchange environment; spearheading the development BOAT, acting as a key founder of Turquoise and working on the impact of new European regulation. She sat on the Boards of Virt-x, BOAT, Turquoise and Trade Ideas.
The Market Structure Practice focuses on trading and clearing issues and developments and clients have included some of the world’s leading investment banks, trading platforms and clearing houses, as well as high frequency trading firms, asset managers and hedge funds.
Jogi Narain is a Partner and the CTO of FGS Capital LLP whom he joined just over a year ago. He has extensive experience in Investment Banking IT. In past roles Jogi has been a Global Architect at UBS, Head of Client Connectivity at Lehman Brothers and Technology Co-Head of the European HFT at Goldman Sachs. He remains hands on and has a pragmatic approach to most technology challenges faced in today’s ever changing business environment.
Nik is head of Trading Technology Group at GLG Partners having joined in 2004. He has over 20 years of experience in system development, with more than 16 year in the financial services industry. Prior to GLG, Nik was regional sales manager at Energy Brokers NZ before joining Deutsche Bank London, where he spent 8 years developing market risk management systems. Nik started his career as a system engineer with IBM NZ with a bachelor of Technology(Hons) from Massey University.
Susannah Wood co-runs the Autobahn Equity Client Coverage desk in Europe for Deutsche Bank. Autobahn Equity provides algorithms and low-latency services to a broad client-base. Susannah joined Deutsche Bank in 2006, prior to this she was the Pan-Asian Product Manager for Citigroup's algorithmic platform in Asia and ETS Sales & Marketing for Goldman Sachs in London and New York. Susannah has a First Class Hons. BSc Information Management from University College London.
Emmanuel Doe is President of Interactive Data's Trading Solutions businesses. He is responsible for leading the strategy, business development and business management of the Real Time Services, 7Ticks, eSignal, and FutureSource businesses serving the spectrum of clients ranging from retail to institutional electronic trading. Prior to joining Interactive Data, Mr. Doe was the Global Business Manager for Thomson Reuters' High Frequency Research and Trading Business from 2006 to 2011. In this capacity he ran the high frequency application, services and content businesses. He was instrumental in starting and growing the global penetration of this business and often spoke at industry events providing thought leadership in this rapidly evolving market.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Mr. Doe assisted in running a global e-Banking enterprise software business for Sybase, had extensive experience in building a proprietary equity research franchise, and advised high tech companies on mergers and acquisitions.
Vivake Gupta serves as Chief Executive Officer of Lab49. Vivake holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he is Chairman of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) London Chapter; sits on the board of Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs; and represents Lab49 at the World Economic Forum (of which Lab49 is a Global Growth Company).
Robert Passarella has spent over 18 years on Wall Street in the gray zone between business and technology. Rob has always focused on leveraging technology and innovative information sources to empower Equity Research and serve clients. A veteran of Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and Bear Stearns; he has seen the transformational challenges first hand, up close, and personal. Always intrigued by the consumption and use of information for investment analysis, Rob is passionate about leveraging alternative data and news for investment analysis. Robert holds a BBA in Finance from Baruch College and an MBA from the Columbia Business School. He currently works for Dow Jones as Vice President of Dow Jones Financial Markets Group.
Roy Saadon, co-founder and General Manager EMEA, is responsible for Traiana’s EMEA business with specific focus on FX, CFD equity swaps and exchange-traded derivatives.
Prior to assuming the role of General Manager EMEA, Roy was General Manager for Harmony, responsible for the overall market and technical direction of the Harmony product and was instrumental in the initial design and rollout of its TRM product. Prior to joining Traiana, Roy was involved in R&D as in-house entrepreneur at an Israeli VC, and in the IDF
Anthony Belchambers is a barrister and currently Chief Executive of the Futures and Options Association (FOA), which is a London-based European industry association. He is also a member of the Court of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers, Chairman of UK Trade & Investment’s US Strategy Group and Vice-Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum (EPFSF). Anthony initiated the establishment of the UK’s Associate Parliamentary Group on Wholesale Financial Markets and Services; and, in 2005, founded and is the principal spokesman for the EU-US Coalition on Financial Regulation, which now comprises twelve transatlantic trade bodies.
Previously he served as General Counsel for the UK Joint Exchanges Committee (JEC) where his responsibilities included co-ordinating exchange activities and lobbying on behalf of the London-based derivatives markets in relation to international, EU and UK regulation and taxation issues. Prior to joining the JEC, he held the position of Company Secretary and General Counsel to the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers (AFBD), one of the original five self-regulatory organisations set up under the 1986 Financial Services Act.
Murray Steel is Global Head of Trade Execution for AHL. Prior to joining AHL in 1999 as a senior FX trader, Mr Steel spent five years working for UBS in Zurich and London as an FX options trader in the Global Exchange Derivatives group. Mr Steel gained a BSc in Information Technology from the University of Salford in 1993, an MSc in Investment Analysis from the University of Stirling in 1994 and an MBA from the CASS
Since 2003: RSJ, a.s.
Current position: Head of Trading
Since 2/2009 member of the supervisory board of RSJ Invest, a.s.
Julius de Kempenaer is the creator of Relative Rotation Graphs which are available on Bloomberg since January 2011 under the mnemonic RRG. Within RRG Ltd. Julius will continue the further development of this revolutionary way of visualizing market rotation and share his findings and ideas through various research (related) products.
Graduated from the Dutch Royal Military Academy (KMA) in 1986. In 1990 he left the air force as a captain and entered the financial industry as a portfolio manager for Equity & Law (now part of AXA investment managers). In 1992 Julius moved to IRIS/Robeco as a buy-side quant/technical analyst until 1997 when RABObank acquired Robeco. He then moved to RABObank International as head of technical analysis on the trading floor in Utrecht. Until June 2007 he served in a similar role on the trading floor of Kempen & Co. in Amsterdam. Since June 2007 Julius is director of quantitative strategy at Taler Asset Management Ltd. where he works on development and maintenance of various asset allocation models that are used in the management of Taler funds and managed accounts.
Marco is Managing Partner, co-Founder and co-CIO of TITIAN, a technology and trading firm that develops and utilizes artificial intelligence, machine learning based technologies designed to recognize price patterns and predict short-term market movements across bonds, equities, currencies and commodities. These technologies consist of self-learning, adaptive, market specific trading systems able to self-generate daily their own settings (parameters, data inputs, predictive algorithms) as a function of evolving market dynamics. Marco is responsible for the design, development, testing and integration of TITIAN’s software and systems, and for the creation, testing and implementation of live operational trading strategies. His primary research interests are in advanced machine learning methods for time series analysis. Previously, over a period of 17 years he was a Managing Director of Jefferies (global investment banking firm), a Managing Director and Partner of Broadview (global technology investment banking firm), a Director and Partner of Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett (global econometric consultancy), and a Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton (global technology consultancy). Marco holds PhD, MA and BA degrees in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, UK. Marco's PhD was sponsored by the UK Science and Engineering Research Council and his PhD thesis resulted in the publication of several papers in leading scientific journals, including the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Jason started trading on the London International Financial Futures Exchange in 1987, trading interest-rate options for the LSE options market-maker, Amsterdam Options Traders. He became an independent trader shortly after and then founding partner of a large independent options trading group. During this time he also part-founded LDOS Ltd, a software firm that produced one of the first commercially available option pricing models in London. His partner in LDOS went on to set up and float the international company FFastfill PLC. Jason’s work on option-pricing and trade-execution algorithms for electronic trading introduced him to the field of systematic models where he has concentrated since 2005.
Alex McDonald Prior to joining WMBA, Alex has spent his career in Banking and Fund Management. He has over twenty years of experience as a macro trader and portfolio manager, most recently he was a senior portfolio manager at BSAM Global Alpha Fund and prior to that a portfolio manager in global macro, at OLEA Capital Partners and at BlueCrest Capital focusing on commodities, fixed-income and currencies worldwide. Additionally, he was a Director, in charge of Emerging Markets and currency trading at CSFB for eight years, and prior to that he was Executive Director at Goldman Sachs on their fixed-income proprietary trading desk. He joined JP Morgan in 1988 and subsequently traded with and managed their futures, fixed income arbitrage and FX teams. He holds an MA from Cambridge University in Geophysics/Geochemistry.
Has extensive expertise in the business and technology of electronic trading platforms and algorithmic trading. Natan spent 12 years with Instinet, managing the firm's algorithmic trading, dark pool equity crossing, portfolio trading, execution management and transaction analytics products and services. He joined Baikal at the London Stock Exchange Group in January 2009, and was appointed Commercial Director at Turquoise after its transaction with LSEG closed in February 2010.
Will started trading with GHCO in 2002, concentrating on German government bond spreads as the futures market moved from the floor to screen based execution. In 2009 Will started Amplify Trading with long term desk colleague Piers Curran. Amplify now has a team of thirty trading across asset classes from their trading floor in Canary Wharf. Amplify Trading has become a respected voice in the Industry with three core competencies of proprietary trading, trader development and daily market research reports, www.amplifytrading.com. From an academic view Will studied Economics at the University of Leeds and recently completed a MSc in Environmental Finance in London, he currently takes an MBA part time. Will also lectures at BPP and Hult Business Schools in Finance and Economics leading BPP's flagship module in Trading and Technical Analysis.
Peter van Kleef, Managing Director Lakeview Capital Market Services GmbH
Prior to his role at Lakeview, Peter managed significant hedge fund type investment portfolios and quantitative trading departments for among others Cooper Neff, Salomon Brothers, HypoVereinsbank and Credit Lyonnais. He has over ten years of experience in the development and running of sophisticated automated trading operations. He holds a MBA degree from the Owen Graduate School at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. He is a frequent speaker on complex arbitrage strategies with a focus on volatility arbitrage and high frequency algorithmic trading. He is also a well known consultant to the investment community with regards to trading, risk management, operational and strategic issues. Lakeview provides a large range of trading and risk management related services.
Will Rhode joined TABB Group as an analyst in March 2010 and is based in London. He brings fourteen years experience as a financial journalist specialising in the risk management and derivatives industry, principally for Risk Magazine and its associated publications. Previously, he was Editor Americas for Risk in New York and Editor of AsiaRisk Magazine in Hong Kong. In addition to journalism, Will has also worked as a novelist and has had three thrillers published and translated into five languages by major international publishing houses. He hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
John Greenan is a commercially aware, creative business facing change manager and technologist. He has broad experience of buy and sell sides in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. He has specialisations in: strategy for trading systems and processes, connectivity, project management, business analysis, real-time system architecture and design and vendor relationship management.
He manages electronic trading relationships with >100 brokers and many vendors and suppliers within the e-trading ecosystem. He also consults to VC firms around investment opportunities in the e-trading space. John has worked with many firms including JPMorgan, ABN Amro, Fidessa, BNP Paribas and UBS. John is known for consistently delivering projects on-time, on-budget and on-scope. He has indepth knowledge of the issues around FIX and the changes needed for firms to gain the full benefit of electronic trading. He applies the rigour of his academic grounding in Economics to every day business and outside the office retains a keen interest in fast cars.
Hans-Ole Jochumsen is Executive Vice President of Transaction Services Nordics. Transaction Services Nordics is an integrated marketplace of seven independent Nordic and Baltic exchanges. These Nordic exchanges offer trading of Nordic and Baltic securities shares, derivatives and fixed income products, all traded on highly efficient trading systems enabling easy cross border trading. Jochumsen is also responsible for NASDAQ OMX Commodities, the global commodities business unit within the company, encompassing among other things the clearing of financial products traded on the world’s largest power exchange, Nord Pool. Furthermore, Hans-Ole Jochumsen oversees Broker Services, NASDAQ OMX's offering of back office and custody solutions to Nordic clients.
As President Transaction Services Nordics, Jochumsen's responsibility is to successfully lead the Nordic and Baltic markets to maintain and further develop the strong strategic position in the Northern European securities markets. In addition, Hans-Ole Jochumsen’s EVP responsibilities also covers the Global Data Products unit. The business unit is focused on creating innovative real-time and historical data products and on providing unsurpassed market transparency to institutional, retail and individual investors. GDP products and services offer traders strategic advantages, including superior speed, depth and flexibility of data management and delivery.
Previously, Jochumsen served as President and CEO of Copenhagen Stock Exchange and FUTOP Clearingcentralen Ltd. He was at the helm of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange during its exceptional turnaround from 1998-2006. He also spearheaded the merger of the Copenhagen and Stockholm exchanges.
From 1990 to 1998 Jochumsen served as member of the Manangement Board of the following Danish financial institutions; BRFkredit, GiroBank and BG Bank. The latter being the third largest bank in Denmark.
Mr. Enneking maintains his full-time residence in Moscow and has lived and worked in Russia since 1994. Prior to founding Altima and Tera, he was a director of two diversified private equity (PE) funds, one founded in 1996, and the second created in 2005 by splitting the original fund into two funds, with approx. $50 million under management.
As Vice President for Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) of a major European company, Mr. Enneking has conducted analyses of approximately 1,000 companies located throughout Europe and was the principal on transactions totaling over $8 billion over the past 12 years.
Mr. Enneking holds an undergraduate and three graduate degrees in international business (MBA) and law (JD), including one post-doctoral degree (LLM). He also holds a graduate degree in International Security Studies. He has taught in English, Russian and French in various undergraduate and graduate business schools in the US, France and Russia.
Giovanni is Managing Partner at FGS Capital LLP, where he is the CEO and is responsible for portfolio management. Previously he was Associate Director of hedge funds at First Quadrant Ltd, where he set up and was the portfolio manager of its Pan European long/short equity market neutral portfolios, and was responsible for UK-based hedge fund business. He has extensive experience of managing equity market neutral portfolios since 1995, when he joined the firm. Prior to that he was a tenured Research Fellow with the Economics Department of the University of Bologna in Italy, and he has held appointments with Barra International and Eastern Group Plc. He co-founded the Real Options Group to look at research and applications of Real Options to corporate finance and investments. He is an active member of AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association) and a Board and Research Committee member of Inquire UK and Europe. He is a Board member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). He is the European Chair of the Steering Group of the Investor Risk Committee (IRC) of IAFE working on guidelines for disclosure and transparency for hedge funds. Giovanni is a CFA Charterholder.
Phillip is the Head of Trading at Karara Capital and is responsible for equities and derivatives trading in Australia. He joined Karara in 2008, having spent 4 years working as a foreign exchange options trader for National Australia Bank. Phillip is a member of the Australian Financial Markets Association and has been a regular attendee and panellist at Trade Tech events. He holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Business (Banking & Finance) from Monash University and a Diploma of Financial Services (Financial Markets).
Simo, Head of Trading of Pohjola Asset Management is broadly experienced in the financial industry as a Trader, Portfolio Manager and Hedge Fund Manager.
He has headed the Pohjola Asset Mangements multi asset class trading desk since 2008 with ongoing responsibility for the team´s contribution to the investment process.
He is also Chief Executive Officer of Pohjola Asset Management Execution Services Ltd. He joined OP-Pohjola Group May 2000.
Spencer Greenberg is a mathematician with an education in applied mathematics and computer science from Columbia University's School of Engineering and NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Spencer is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rebellion Research, a quantitative fund that applies machine learning technology to investing. He has spoken about artificial intelligence and investing on Fox News, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Radio, CNBC, Canada's Business News Network, China's Phoenix TV, in the Wall Street Journal, at Columbia Business School and at the Stern School of Business. Prior to founding Rebellion Research, Spencer was a computer programmer for Neuberger Berman, LLC, and developed software for a leading counter terrorism think tank.
Terence is experienced in delivering derivatives solutions across UK and continental Europe. He works closely with both internal and external clients to deliver innovative solutions that result in an improved risk-return trade-off of assets vs. liabilities.
He joins SWIP from Royal London Asset Management where he was Head of Derivatives with responsibility for driving the company’s derivatives strategy. Before this, Terence was at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Co. Terence holds a Cum Laude masters degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Ian Domowitz Ian Domowitz is the CEO of ITG Solutions Network, Inc. and a Managing Director at ITG, Inc. Prior to joining the company in 2001, he served as the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Professor of Finance at Pennsylvania State University and previously was the Household International Research Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. A former member of the NASD’s Bond Market Transparency Committee, he also served as chair of the Economic Advisory Board of the NASD. Mr. Domowitz has held positions with Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Columbia University, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He is currently a Fellow of the Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia University.
Jon Fatica is Head of Analytics at TradingScreen.
Jon comes from Investment Technology Group (ITG), where he developed that firm’s Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) unit since 2002. He has provided thought leadership and expertise to the buy-side marketplace for more than 300 institutions, leading a staff of consultants, analysts, client-support and technology professionals.
Prior to joining ITG, Jon managed consulting engagements in the financial services practice for KPMG. His career also included stints at JP Morgan, First Boston, Bankers Trust, Lazard Asset Management, in positions including risk management, portfolio management and fixed income trading.
Dale is a Managing Director and the Head of the European Trading team with responsibility for Equity, Fixed Income, Currency and Futures execution for SSgA in London. Dale started his career trading Fixed Income and equities at ANZ Grindlay's Bank, and then global equities and derivatives at Sarasin. Prior to joining SSgA, Dale was with Legal and General Investment Management where he was trading UK / European equities, LDI instruments and Macro Hedge fund strategies. He covers active equity strategies in London.
He has a BA with Distinction in Applied Economics from the University of Hertfordshire. He completed the Advanced Derivative Certificate from the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 2001 and has the IMC qualification also. He is a member of the IMA Dealing Committee in London, a member of the London Operational Risk, Valuation committees & the Trade Management Oversight Committee. Dale joined SSgA in 2006 and has almost 14 years financial markets experience.
Currently Head of Quantitative Research at CA Cheuvreux, Charles-Albert Lehalle is an international expert in optimal trading. He published papers in international journals about the use of stochastic control and stochastic algorithms to optimise a trading flow with respect to flexible constraints. He also authored papers on post trade analysis, market impact estimates and modelling the dynamics of limit order books and co-organised the first international conference on market microstructure held in Paris in December 2010.
Charles-Albert Lehalle lectures at "Paris 6 (El Karoui) Master of Finance" (Ecole Polytechnique, ESSEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure) and MASEF/ENSAE one and gives master classes in the Certificate in Quantitative Finance in London. Charles-Albert's core fields are stochastic processes, information theory and nonlinear control
Jatin Suryawanshi is the Head of Global Quantitative Strategies at Jefferies. He has been with Jefferies for over two years and is responsible for their global automated trading efforts. Prior to Jefferies, Jatin was the US Head of Algorithmic Trading at UBS for two years and before that the Head Strategist within the Goldman Sachs' algorithmic trading group (GSAT) where he worked for a period of six years. His combined experience in the Equity Algorithmic Trading space exceeds 10 years. Additionally, Jatin has also worked as an FX trader at BNP Paribas for five years
Growing up in South Africa, Greg completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town. He holds an MPhil in Economics and a PhD in Behavioural Decision Theory, both from Cambridge University. His PhD dissertation combined research into the psychology of decision making with finance theory to examine financial behaviour and the psychology of risk.
Between his Master’s and Doctorate’s degrees he worked at financial services strategy consultants Oliver, Wyman & Co., and throughout his PhD he was a Director of Decision Technology, a consultancy originating in the cognitive psychology of Warwick University, which specialises in developing commercial applications from academic decision sciences and behavioural economics. Today he leads a global team of behavioural and quantitative finance specialists, and is responsible for design and global implementation of the Barclays Wealth Investment Philosophy.
His first book, Behavioural Investment Strategy, was published by McGraw-Hill in December. He has authored papers in multiple academic disciplines; holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at UCL and lectures at Oxford’s Saïd Business School; presents regularly at academic and industry conferences; and is a frequent media commentator on behavioural finance.
In earlier days he sang with the World Youth Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, and BBC Symphony Chorus, and is now a member of one of London’s top chamber choirs. He also trained as a foot guide for dangerous game areas in South Africa – which has not yet been terribly useful in finance.
Since joining Allston in early 2004, Peter has had experiences in all technical aspects of the company. In his first two years he started the automation of back office processes and built a state of the art real-time operations desk that supported trading activities across all asset classes on 50+ endpoints. After being the Technical Lead on the Money Market, Fixed Income and Energy desks, Peter became the CTO of Allston Trading in September of 2008. In January of 2011, he was named Executive Vice President of Allston. While he still stays close to the technical side of trading he is now involved in everything ranging from regulatory concerns to business development to strategic decisions.
Huw Gronow is Director, Head of European Equities Trading for Principal Global Investors. He provides oversight for the London trading desk while dealing in developed and emerging markets equities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He joined the firm in 2004. Before joining Principal, Huw was a trader at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers where he specialized in U.K. equities. Previously, he was a trader at TT International Investment Management specializing in global equities. Huw has also worked at Morgan Stanley and Lloyds Banking Group in various management roles. He received a master's degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1996, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (MCSI).
Vincent Mooijer joined PGGM Vermogensbeheer B.V. (PGGM) in February 2009 to become responsible for equity trading in the new centralized multi-asset trading and execution department Prior to PGGM, Vincent Mooijer was head of dealing at AbnAmro Asset Management in Amsterdam. After studying Information Technology, Vincent Mooijer, started in 1996 on the investment banking part of AbnAmro working on various risk control projects, and switched to the asset management dealing desk in 2000. PGGM currently supports five pension funds in the Netherlands with approx. €100 billion of assets under management
David Miller was a market maker at Smith New Court from 1982 to 1995, and then Market Controller for Tradepoint, the first order driven exchange in the UK, until 2000. Following that David resumed trading with Knight Securities then returned to Tradepoint, after it had become Virt-x, as a consultant. David joined Invesco Perpetual in 2001 and currently heads a small team of specialist pan-european equity dealers trading for the Henley based funds of Invesco.
Prior to joining Dexia Asset Management in Brussels, Fabien was at Cheuvreux in Paris where he co-founded the Program Trading desk in 2000. He is a specialist of PT that has become a mix of algorithmic trading and sales-trading over time. Synchronized execution and monitoring of information leakage have been some of his top concerns. Today, he manages an experienced Buy-side trading desk centralizing orders from different business units and various locations in Europe, reinforcing commitment to direct execution and transaction cost analysis across various global asset classes: fixed-Income, equities, foreign-exchange and derivatives. The top priorities of his team are to find liquidity, trade orders in size, reduce trading costs, minimize execution issues, intensify dialogue with core brokers to provide more services to fund managers and add performance
Ruben Lee is the CEO and Founder of Oxford Finance Group, a consulting firm which concentrates on business, economic, legal, political, regulatory and strategic aspects of financial markets. His clients include international finance organisations, governments, regulators, exchanges, clearing and settlement organisations, broker-dealers, data vendors, custodians, fund managers, commercial and investment banks, and strategy consultants. From 1989 to 1992, Dr. Lee was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, where he specialised in financial economics and law. He worked from 1980 to 1984 in the capital markets in New York and London for Salomon Brothers International. Ruben has published widely on many topics concerning financial markets, including on exchanges, clearing and settlement, market data, regional integration, and securities regulation. He has written widely on many topics, and his most recent book is “Running the World’s Markets: The Governance of Financial Infrastructure” (Princeton University Press). Ruben has spoken throughout the world on many issues related to financial markets, and provided a range of official testimony in the UK, US, EU and Canada. He is a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers in France, and was previously on the Advisory Panel of Financial Services Experts, established by the Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee, European Parliament.
Larry Tabb is the founder and CEO of TABB Group, the global financial markets’ strategic advisory and research firm focused exclusively on capital markets. TABB Group helps senior leaders throughout the industry make critical decisions about their business by accurately assessing their customer base, competition, and evaluating key market opportunities.
Founded in 2003 and based on an interview-based research methodology, TABB Group interviews over 700 key senior financial markets leaders on a number of topics such as equity and derivatives trading, hedge fund and prime brokerage services, market structure, market data, and various technologies that enable the global financial markets participants to gain competitive advantage. TABB Group client base is comprised of the top investment banks, exchanges, depositories, asset managers, hedge funds, proprietary trading houses, technology vendors and service providers
Christian Katz is the Chief Executive Officer of SIX Group's Cash Markets Division. The Division encompasses SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed, a leading supplier of raw financial data. SIX Swiss Exchange also operates several joint ventures including Scoach, which is Europe's first exchange to specialize solely in structured financial products, Swiss Fund Data and STOXX, a European leader in financial market indices.
Before joining SIX Group in early 2009, Christian Katz headed the representative office of Goldman Sachs International in Switzerland, where he focused on the firm's institutional equity and derivatives business. Before that, he spent eight years with JP Morgan Chase in London, where he was initially responsible for institutional equity sales to Swiss clients and later the Head of Research Marketing for Europe. He was also actively involved in international banking as a result of his previous positions at London Forfaiting Company and SBC Warburg in Zurich, London and Hong Kong. Christian Katz holds a Masters in Business and Finance and a PhD in Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Adam Bennett (Global CEO Hatstand) has over 25 years’ experience within the financial markets industry, specializing in front office trading technology - from design to development to implementation through to support. Specific strengths include market data management, high performance trading systems and market & client connectivity. Formerly Global head of Market Data, Exchange Connectivity and high performance trading systems at two leading Investment Banks, Adam has been with Hatstand since its inception in 1999.
David is IPUG Executive Committee Member, COSSIOM Vice-President in charge of relations with Market Data Associations, and FISD Executive Committee member as well as Co-Chair of the FISD Consumer Constituent Group. He is director in Market Data Global Sourcing at UBS since 2008. He was Head of Procurement and Cost Control at RBC Capital Markets Europe during 2008. He was Global Head of Market Data at Barclays Capital from 2006 to 2008 and also Global Head of Market Data from 2001 to 2006 at Societe Generale. From 1993 to 2001, David worked for Morgan Stanley, first in the Fixed Income, Commodities and Foreign Exchange department, where he held Sales and Trading posts in Europe. He later joined Morgan Stanley Market Data and Technology department in London.
Jan Booij (54) is CEO of Europe’s largest cash equities clearing counterparty, EMCF. Jan, whose career spans more than 30 years within the clearing and settlement industry, is responsible for leading the growth of EMCF from a start-up unit of Fortis in March 2007 to the major player it is today.
Jan has been able to lead EMCF to where it is today thanks to major and early success in bringing key Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) on board with EMCF. Jan is respected at EMCF and throughout the industry for his vision of delivering the lowest prices and the most transparency for market participants trading in the rapidly-growing MTF market.
Jan has worked within Fortis and its predecessor companies since 1975, including Fortis Bank Global Clearing (FBGC). In fact, Jan was a co-founder of the predecessor company to FBGC, which was then called Pierson Option Clearing. At FBGC, Jan was operations manager and held major positions in Amsterdam and Frankfurt. He was also integral to setting up clearing offices in the UK, Germany and Hong Kong.
A Dutch citizen, Jan speaks fluent English, Dutch and German.
Stewart Macbeth is a President and Chief Executive Officer of the DTCC Deriv/SERV LLC subsidiary and related subsidiaries supporting DTCC’s over-the-counter derivatives business. Based in London, he is responsible for all operations of DTCC’s global trade repositories.
Prior to joining DTCC in 2009, Macbeth was a Managing Director at UBS, most recently serving as the head of Operations Risk and Business Architecture globally. Prior positions include the global head of OTC Derivatives Operations from 2002 to 2005. He previously ran UBS’s fixed income derivatives operations globally from 1996 through 2002. During that time, he established credit derivatives support activities along with the design and implementation of settlement and confirmation applications.
Prior to UBS, Macbeth worked at Swiss Bank Corporation in the Derivatives Product Control area where he was responsible for establishing a joint function with Operations covering exotic rates derivatives operations and P&L. Previously, Macbeth qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) at KPMG working in their Financial Services practice. Macbeth has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Nottingham University and a Master’s degree from the University of London.
Diego Valiante, Ph.D. (1982) is a Research Fellow, since March 2009, at the Brussels-based think-tank the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), where he is the Head of Research of the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), the unit that coordinates the economic research on capital markets policies and regulation. He holds a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Law and Economics from LUISS University in Rome, both degrees summa cum laude. He also earned a joint LL.M. Master in Law and Economics (EMLE) from Hamburg and Bologna University, and in 2010 a Ph.D. in Law and Economics from LUISS University.
As a result of his interdisciplinary background, Diego’s specialties are financial and securities regulation, capital markets, competition and economic policy, and corporate governance. He has published extensively on economic and regulatory aspects of financial markets and services. He regularly advises European institutions and is involved in working groups of experts on capital markets economics and regulation. Diego frequently speaks at international conferences and provides lectures on capital markets matters. In 2011, he has been included by the Financial News (Dow Jones) in the list of the “Top 40 Rising Stars in Trading and Technology” under the age of 40 in the EMEA.
Guillaume Lemarchand joined BNP Paribas in 2005 to build and develop BNP Paribas' Global Execution Services platform (GES), which he has been heading since 2008. GES leverages the cutting-edge technology of BNP Paribas' Equities & Derivatives division to help execute trades for over 1,000 institutional clients on more than 80 trading venues globally.
After a couple of years in conventional Corporate Banking, Guillaume Lemarchand started his career in the brokerage industry in 1997, first with Indosuez WI Carr, then with Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux and Carr Futures (now Newedge).
Guillaume holds an MBA degree from ESSEC School of Management
Tim Rowe is the manager of the Trading Platforms and Settlement Policy team at the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA). The team is responsible for policy regarding exchanges, multilateral trading facilities and settlement, as well as elements of OTC trading (including the MiFID regimes for post-trade transparency and systematic internalisers). The team is involved currently in European discussions on the MiFID Review as well as a range of other regulatory initiatives in the trading, settlement and post-settlement spaces.
Tim worked for a number of years at the London Stock Exchange managing the team responsible for the LSE’s secondary market trading rules. He was also the compliance officer for EuroMTS, a bond trading platform within the London Stock Exchange Group. Prior to that, Tim undertook a number of regulatory roles with the FSA and the Bank of England."
Rafael Molinero is the CEO and Founder of Molinero Capital Management, a quantitative CTA based in London. Rafael has more than 15 years of experience in the hedge fund and financial industry. He was previously a Proprietary Portfolio Manager as well as the Risk Manager for five years at Rotella Capital Management, a CTA with up to $1.5 billion under management. He traded $15 million of proprietary capital using quantitative models he developed. He also managed a team of researchers as well as created the Risk Department. Prior to his role at Rotella, he launched the Structured Products & Alternative Asset Management Group at Carr Futures and designed hedge funds structured products for clients. He was also in charge of managing one of the Fund of Funds portfolio.
Rafael Molinero holds an MBA with High Honors (top 1%) from the University of Chicago and has a Masters in Applied Mathematics from ENSIMAG, one of France’s top universities.
NTGI has some $662bn of assets under management (as at March 2011) and Martin heads the international equity trading effort from London for the passive equity business as well as the transition management and active equity groups.
Prior to joining NTGI in 2005, Martin’s buy side career had been as Head of Equity Dealing at Morley Fund Management (now Aviva Investors Ltd). Prior to that, on the sell side, he was Director of European Trading at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup), and Director and Head of European Trading and Risk for S.G. Warburg (now UBS).
Martin has lectured on European Market Practice at the London Business School and sat on several industry committees and advisory boards as a senior member, including the London Stock Exchange Rules Advisory Group, NYSE Euronext Institutional Advisory Group, Deutsche Borse Institutional Advisory Group and Liquidnet Advisory Board
Mark Goodman joined Société Générale as Head of Electronic Services - Europe in February 2010.
Previously Mark was Head of Sales for the European Electronic business at UBS.
Partha has a passion for solving complex business problems using quantitative methods, data mining and pattern recognition. For a period of about 12 years from 1995 to 2007, Partha pursued this passion as a hobby and developed about 100 algorithms and over 700 quantitative models. These algorithms and models are the basis for the solutions being implemented by Fuzzy Logix today.
Before founding Fuzzy Logix, Partha worked at Bank of America where he held senior management positions in the commercial and investment bank and in the portfolio strategies group. In the commercial and investment bank, Partha led the initiative to build a quantitative model driven credit rating methodology for the entire commercial loan portfolio. The methodology is used by the bank for allocating reserves against potential losses from loans. In the portfolio strategies group, Partha led a team to devise various strategies for effectively hedging the credit risk for the bank’s commercial loan portfolio and for minimizing the impact of mark-to-market volatility of the portfolio of hedging instruments (Credit Default Swaps, Credit Default Swaptions, and CDS Indexes).
Partha was also responsible for managing the Quantitative Management Associate Program at Bank of America. This is a two-year associate development program which has groomed over 75 quantitative managers within the enterprise. Prior to working at Bank of America, Partha held managerial positions at Ernst and Young and Tata Consultancy Services. He has a Bachelor of Engineering, with a major in computer science and a minor in mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology. He also has an MBA from Wake Forest University.
Responsible for the integrity, efficiency and development of the Irish Stock Exchange’s markets for traded securities, and a member of the ISE Executive Committee. He oversees overall operations, business development, management of relationships with strategic partners and is also responsible for the Exchange’s IT strategy. He is Chairman of the cross-industry Irish Market Advisory Committee and is also a non-executive director of the Irish Investor Compensation Company. He has been an active participant on behalf of Ireland’s capital markets in the development of securities law in the European Union, including as a member of the CESR Consultative Panel on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. Brian’s graduate and postgraduate studies were in the areas of Economics and Finance. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment and is an Accredited Mediator.
Don Brook is SVP and Global Head of Infrastructure for NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology business of NYSE Euronext.
Brook leads NYSE Technologies’ global infrastructure business which has two core functions of providing low-latency market centre access and connectivity through the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI®) and offering colocation, value added services and content applications. Brook is also leads the Global Liquidity Center network capability with new data center solutions now available in Europe, the Americas, and in Asia.
Brook is responsible for running SFTI® globally and ensuring that communications solutions are delivered on time, within budget and with industry leading customer service levels. Brook has overall responsibility for the P&L and product management of SFTI and this includes a wider remit for legacy networks that demand close alignment and synergies with SFTI and the migration plans.
In addition Brook is responsible for growing the SFTI business not only in support of the existing NYSE Euronext members and customers but by seeking new opportunities by connecting new non-NYSE market centres and their members.
Brook has a strong background in telecommunications and financial communities with a focus towards infrastructure, customer service and operations. He has an in-depth understanding of running, building and migrating global networks having held senior and executive positions at NYFIX, Radianz/Reuters, BT and Equant
Richard Semark joined UBS London in June 2004 as a Managing Director responsible for UK to UK Sales Trading. He previously worked at AXA Investment Managers and UBS Asset Management for 15 years. This experience meant that he was a key part of the UBS unbundling team responsible both for strategy formulation and marketing to clients. In 2007 Richard became COO for UBS Client Trading and Execution within European Equities with responsibility for Execution Client Relationships, strategy and marketing.
Robin Manicom has over 20 years’ experience working in the Financial Services sector, providing high-performance solutions within the quantitative and algorithmic electronically traded markets. Robin joined Equinix in 2009 to manage the EMEA Financial Services business strategy for Platform Equinix: a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks for the world’s leading financial market participants.
Before Equinix Robin spent three years at Markit, as Head of Business Strategy, Sales and Marketing, where he developed the Solutions business (Real-time feeds). Prior to this he held various management and sales positions at IBM’s Straight through Processing (STP) business and Sybase, responsible for middle and back-office functions as well as new financial products, including real-time quantitative trading systems.
Robin holds a B.Eng from Bath University and received his MBA from Surrey University.
Richard Hills joined Societe Generale in 2001 and established the electronic business in 2005. He has worked in equities and equity derivatives trading for 23 years, mostly in Exchanges and Investment Banking.
Gert Raeves is a Research Director at TowerGroup in the Capital Markets practice who is based in London. With over 15 years of experience in financial services, he covers strategic issues facing buy-side and sell-side firms globally and advises clients on strategy, regulation, technology, and product development in the area of post-trade business and technology trends for institutional capital markets.
Gert is a recognized industry domain expert in data management and straight-through processing for financial services. His specific areas of expertise include trade life-cycle management, financial messaging, corporate actions, reconciliation, and data management.
He joined CEB FS/TowerGroup after five years at GoldenSource, a data management technology provider in the securities industry, where his most recent position was senior vice president of strategic business development and marketing. Previously, he spent 10 years in the industry with CheckFree/Heliograph, SWIFT, and JP Morgan/Bank of New York, acquiring in-depth experience in strategy, product management, marketing, relationship management, sales, and partnership development across different industry segments (banks, market utility, and software houses).
An active participant in industry debate, he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has been actively involved in associations such as the Enterprise Data Management Council and ISITC Europe, in which he served as an executive member in 2003–05. He is a regular contributor to Inside Reference Data, Finextra, Risk Professional, Reference Data Review, and many other trade and business publications. Gert earned a master’s degree (magna cum laude) in English linguistics and literature from University of Leuven in Belgium. He is fluent in Dutch, French, and English
CEO at Egham Capital. After receiving PhD in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from the Royal Holloway University of London, continued the research and developed a super-computer capable of analysing and learning vast amounts of financial data. For the last six years has been developing automated trading strategies based on the proprietary super-computer technology, and supervising the execution of such strategies. Before establishing Egham Capital as an independent firm, David worked with one of Europe's largest CTA.
Rupert is Head of Portfolio Management at Fat Prophets in London and has responsibility for all discretionary client accounts. He works closely with the team in Sydney, providing market intelligence from the northern hemisphere. He is also actively involved in advising high new worth clients, macroeconomic research, and is a member of the senior management committee.
His market experience in a variety of roles spans over thirty years and covers most major asset classes, notably: equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, derivatives and private equity. During his long career, he has worked in several countries for firms such as Potter Warburg, BZW, Ord Minnett, BNP Paribas and Dow Jones. Rupert also provides regular market commentary to major international financial media outlets including the BBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, and BNN Canada.
Mark Holt is Head of Implementation for the systematic trading group at BlueCrest Capital Management LLP. He has spent the last 15 years automating trading within and between major financial institutions. Joined BlueCrest after 5 years at UBS where he was responsible for the architecture and development of their European algorithmic trading platform. Before that he spent 7 years at Morgan Stanley and was involved in the development of their global electronic trading platform as well as the implementation of a number of automated trading strategies for cash and derivatives markets. After qualifying as a production engineer he obtained a Masters researching the application of the innovation process by individuals and companies. This research has formed the basis of his subsequent career.