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.’

Seth R. Freeman is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of EM Capital Management, LLC, the independent emerging and frontier markets asset management firm. Headquartered in San Francisco the firm has presence in New Delhi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, New York and Washington, D.C. Seth has over 25 years experience in emerging and frontier markets investment strategies and asset management including listed securities, registered and unregistered funds, private equity and real estate. He is widely recognized as an expert in cross-border emerging markets market-entry, research, analysis, investment implementation, portfolio management and restructuring. His clients include institutional investors, funds of funds, high-net worth and retail investors. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of emerging and frontier markets investing, sharing his strategic and tactical insights at major professional events as well as MBA programs at Harvard, Wharton, UC Berkeley Haas, NYU, Columbia, Chicago Booth and Thunderbird. He appears weekly on CNBC, CNBC Awaaz (India), NDTV-Profit (India), ET NOW (India) and Bloomberg UTV TV and contributes to numerous financial publications. In 2011, Seth was featured by FOFM as one of the “25 Most Influential Thought Leaders on the Future of Financial Markets”; and served on the Board of Advisors of the 2011 FOFM conference. Seth earned his MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, the Global School of Management and serves as Executive in Residence of the Thunderbird Global Financial Services Center.

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.

Peter Hooper is currently Managing Director, Chief Economist for Deutsche Bank Securities in New York, and co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Economics team. He joined Deutsche Bank Securities in the fall of 1999, first as Chief International Economist and shortly thereafter as Chief US Economist. He became Chief Economist and co-head of global economics in 2006. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Hooper enjoyed a distinguished 26-year career at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. While rising to senior levels of the Fed staff, he held numerous positions, including as an economist on the FOMC and as Deputy Director of the Division of International Finance.

Hooper and his team produce weekly and quarterly publications for Deutsche Bank with a focus on US and global economic developments and Fed policy; he also comments on US and global economic and financial developments in the news media. His economics team in New York was ranked No. 1 in the Institutional Investors’ fixed income poll for US economics in 2010 and 2011. Hooper currently serves as a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a founding member of the US Monetary Policy Forum, a member and former chairman of the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association, a member of the Economic Leadership Council for the University of Michigan, and a member of the Forecasters’ Club of New York. Hooper earned a BA in Economics (cum laude) from Princeton University and an MA and Ph.D. in Economics from University of Michigan. He has published numerous books, journal articles, and reviews on economics and policy analysis.

Tom Regent was appointed president of Global Banking and Financial Markets in January 2012 and Global Sales & Marketing in November 2010 within BT Global Services. Reporting directly to CEO Jeff Kelly, Tom leads an international team providing networked IT services to the world's largest banks, insurance companies and other financial services organisations.

BT Global Banking & Financial Markets' customers include brokers, the major global banks, exchanges, clearing houses, securities depositories, payments processors, card processors and retail bank networks. The infrastructure it provides supports the world's top exchanges, top global broker-dealers, top global fixed income securities firms, the world's top investment managers and the world's top hedge funds. The BT Radianz Cloud supports the world's largest secure networked financial community and enables financial market participants globally to exchange market information, trade with each other and clear and settle transactions. More than 68000 traders in over 800 organisations across 60 countries use BT for their mission critical voice trading solutions.

As president of Global Sales & Marketing, Tom is also in charge of worldwide sales operations across 190 countries, bid management and indirect channels and marketing.

Tom came to BT with a wealth of experience in the global marketplace. Prior to his move to BT, he was the vice-president of global marketing at AT&T responsible for all aspects of the company's business outside the USA.

From 2004 to 2006, as vice-president of global accounts, he had been responsible for AT&T's business with customers headquartered in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Earlier, in 2003 and 2004, he had been chief of staff for the president of AT&T's global business.

Tom moved to AT&T from IBM in 1998 as a result of an outsourcing agreement between the companies. A Belgian citizen, he graduated from the University of Leuven with a Bachelor of Applied Economics degree and gained a Master of Business Administration with a major in International Management from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. In 2009, Global Telecoms Business named him one of the 40 top telecoms industry executives under 40 years old.

Paul Donovan joined the UBS in 1992 in the Bond Research department. In 1995 he moved to the economics team, and is a Managing Director and Global Economist. Paul is responsible for formulating and presenting the UBS Investment Research global economic view, drawing on the bank’s world-wide resources.

Paul has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University. He is was a scholar, and is currently a senior member and Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He holds an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of London. He is a member of the Royal Economic Society, the American Economic Association, and the Economic History Society. Paul is also a member of St Anne’s Investment Committee, co-founder of the Peter Culverhouse Memorial Trust (a charitable fund that raises money for cancer research and patient care) and an economic adviser to the East London Business Alliance.

The UBS Investment Bank Global Economics team has repeatedly achieved a top three rank in both the Extel and Institutional Investor surveys.

Lee Hodgkinson is CEO of SmartPool and Head of European Sales and Relationship Management, NYSE Euronext. Lee joined NYSE Euronext in May 2009 to lead SmartPool, the award winning European dark pool created by NYSE Euronext in partnership with HSBC, J .P. Morgan and BNP Paribas. In May 2010, Lee was also appointed Head of European Sales and Relationship Management for the Cash Markets Division of NYSE Euronext, responsible for managing the Cash Market Division's customer relationship Management and sales activity throughout Europe (including all of NYSE Euronext’s European equity markets and the MTF’s NYSE Arca Europe and SmartPool).

Prior to holding these positions, Lee was CEO of SIX Swiss Exchange’s international equity business, SWX Europe (formerly known as virt-x). Lee was also Head of the Client and Product Group of SIX Swiss Exchange, a position he held from December 2006. He was Director of Market Operations in the five years prior to this and a Member of the Management Board of SIX Swiss Exchange from 2003.

Lee began his career with the Markets Division of the London Stock Exchange, where he worked for nine years and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School.

Jon Ross is the head of GETCO Execution Services (GES) in Europe. In this role, he oversees order management, execution and technology solutions for European clients. Jon led the creation of GES’ European offering in 2010 after successfully launching the U.S. business in 2007.

GES provides trade execution services for market participants in the U.S. and Europe and is uniquely able to leverage the liquidity and technology of GETCO, a leading global market maker. GES Europe is a crossing network that matches orders from brokers seeking liquidity with passive orders posted by GETCO Europe Limited traders. GES is an appointed representative of GETCO Europe Limited, an authorized and regulated FSA entity.

Prior to joining GETCO, Jon was the Chief Technology Officer of the NASDAQ Stock Market after it acquired Inet ATS, Inc. in 2005. While at NASDAQ, Jon led the “Single Book” integration of Inet ATS, Brut and NASDAQ’s SuperMontage into a single platform and oversaw NASDAQ’s initial RegNMS implementation.

Prior to his position at NASDAQ, Jon was the CTO of Inet ATS, Inc. Jon previously had served as first vice president of technology in charge of development and maintenance of Inet ATS’ core trading platform. He held the same position at Island ECN, which was acquired by Instinet in 2002.

Jon has worked in the software and technology industries for more than 15 years. His experience includes development for MarketXT’s ECN offering; writing video games for Microsoft’s operation systems division, Maxis, Inc.; and developing inertial guidance sensors for military applications at Systron Donner.

lexander Fleiss serves as Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Rebellion Research Partners LP, a Global Macro hedge fund powered by Artificial Intelligence and based in New York. Mr. Fleiss has spoken about Artificial Intelligence investing in the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Geo Magazine and Institutional Investor.

Prior to co-founding Rebellion Research in 2007, Mr. Fleiss served as a Principal at KMF Partners LP, a long-short US equity fund. While at KMF, he was primarily responsible for investments in the financial service and technology industries. Mr. Fleiss began his investment career as an analyst for the Strong Value Fund, where he developed investment algorithms with the firm's Managing Partner, Laura Sloate. Mr. Fleiss received a BA Degree from Amherst College.

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.

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.

Philip Coggan is the Buttonwood columnist of The Economist. Previously, he worked for the Financial Times for 20 years, most recently as Investment Editor. In that post, he founded the "Short View" column and wrote the "Long View" and "Last Word" columns. In 2009, he was voted Senior Financial Journalist of the Year in the Wincott awards and best communicator in the business journalist of the year awards. Among his books are "The Money Machine", a guide to the city that is still in print after 25 years and "The Economist Guide to Hedge Funds". His latest book, "Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order", was published by Penguin in 2011.

Dr. Pinar Emirdag is responsible for managing London Stock Exchange’s Business Development team with a specific focus on sales and marketing to institutional brokers, liquidity providers and new clients for the Group's cash and derivatives markets.

Pinar joined London Stock Exchange Group from ICAP where she was a Managing Director, responsible for Equities Business Development. She previously held a similar role at Liquidnet and prior to that was at Citigroup, where she was Director of Global Business Development at Citi's Electronic Trading business. Pinar was a founding member of The Board of Directors on platforms, Turquoise and BOAT. Prior to moving to London in June 2006, Pinar was Head of Strategy at Lava Trading, a subsidiary of Citi since August 2004, where she had responsibility for corporate, product and sales strategies. Pinar started her business career at specialist financial services management consultancy, Oliver Wyman. Pinar holds a Ph.D in Physics and a M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.

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

Joseph Wald is a Managing Director at Knight and is head of its institutional electronic trade execution services. In this role, Mr. Wald oversees strategy, development and implementation of the firm’s sophisticated electronic products and services. Mr. Wald joined Knight in 2008 following the firm’s acquisition of EdgeTrade, a leading developer of agency-only algorithmic trading strategies and direct market access software, which he co-founded and led as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to EdgeTrade, he held various positions at Datek Securities. Additionally, Mr. Wald serves as a speaker and panelist for numerous high profile industry events and conferences. Mr. Wald has a bachelor of science in business management and finance from Brooklyn College.

Mark Hemsley was appointed chief executive officer for BATS Chi-X Europe in 2011 following the acquisition of Chi-X Europe by BATS Global Markets. Mr. Hemsley was previously chief executive of BATS Europe taking a pioneering role as one of its first employees during its formation in 2008. Under Mr. Hemsley's leadership, BATS Europe became a dominant player amongst pan-European trading venues and a recognised leader in market structure, technology and innovation.

Mr. Hemsley was previously managing director and chief information officer at LIFFE, running its market solutions group. A LIFFE board member, he was also heavily involved in the sale of LIFFE to Euronext, the predecessor company to NYSE Euronext. Mr. Hemsley also previously held executive roles at Deutsche Bank GCI and Credit Suisse First Boston.

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.

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.

Sudhakar Mekathotti, Chief Technology Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald Europe and Asia based in London. He joined Cantors London office in 2005 and has been involved in defining and implementing their global equities trading architecture. Prior to that, he worked at M&G as a Senior Designer/Developer implementing data integration services. He has about 20 years of experience working in IT industry, with most of the time working in financial institutions in London city including Deutsche Bank, HSBC, BT Alex Brown, Natwest Markets in various roles ranging from development to IT management. Sudhakar obtained a B.Eng (Hons) from Osmania University, Hyderabad and a post-graduate Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

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.

Neil has over ten years experience with JPMorgan. Having graduated with First Class Honours in Business Computing, he initially worked within Investment Banking Technology, and moved to JPMorgan Asset Management in 2003. Having worked closely with the Trading Desk on its technology strategy and managing its Business Analysis and Project Management team, he subsequently started trading on the program trading desk. This includes Algorithmic, Automated and Program Trading in European equities.

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.

Scott Stickler is Global Head of Low Latency Trading at UBS, the firm’s business servicing statistical arbitrage and “high frequency-type” or systematic traders. He is responsible for the overall operations and growth of that team, including oversight of global sales and technology initiatives.

With over twenty years in the securities industry, Scott has extensive experience in sales, trading and technology. Prior to joining UBS, Scott spent four years as COO, first at Nexus Trading then at Saxis Group, where he led their prime brokerage and electronic trading businesses. Before that he was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley for seven years where he was responsible for their Electronic Execution business and distribution in the Americas. Scott has also held a variety of positions across JP Morgan and Bankers Trust.

Scott holds a B.S. in MIS and an M.B.A. with concentrations in MIS and Marketing, both from the State University of New York at Albany.

Simon Jones is responsible for Product Marketing within IPC’s EMEA region. Simon‘s experience has been gained through the product development and marketing of emerging communications technologies within both enterprise and consumer market sectors.

Prior to joining IPC, Simon has worked within organisations such as Nokia, Siemens and O2. Most recently Simon was responsible for the development and marketing of mobile applications for the UK’s emergency services market.

Marcus Hooper runs Market Acumen, a financial markets consulting practice. The practice focuses on trading and market structure issues, especially in the fields of process management, regulatory affairs, trading systems and trade management.

Prior to this Marcus ran the European division of Aritas Financial, which was both an MTF and an investment firm offering algorithmic trading capability. He spent over 26 years in financial services including 17 years in senior asset management trading roles. He was the manager in charge of trading operations for the Investment Management divisions of HBOS, Dresdner and AXA. Throughout his career he has worked in the fields of market microstructure and the deployment of electronic trading.

Having been actively involved in financial services industry working and advisory groups Marcus has made contributions in the areas of electronic trading, financial markets regulation, market structure, transaction cost analysis and the development and application of trading technology. He has worked on financial markets projects undertaken by The European Commission, The UK Treasury, The FSA, The Investment Managers’ Association, The British Banking Association, The London Investment Banking Association and The London Stock Exchange.

He has published papers on Financial Markets behaviour including studies on the subjects of best execution, electronic and alternative trading systems and transaction cost analysis. He co-authored papers with Professor Schwartz, the Distinguished Professor of Finance and Economics at the City University of New York. Marcus has been published in the book “The Equity Trader Course” and the somewhat more sensational “A Million a Minute: Inside the Mega-money, Hi-tech World of Traders”.

As a regular contributor at industry conferences he is a firm believer in improved education in the area of market microstructure. Marcus is proud to have lectured executive MBA programs in the UK and USA, and was a nominated speaker for the USA’s Association of Investment Management and Research education program.

Director of Technology Partnership

Background in telecom, medical instrumentation and development of algorithmic trading systems. Speciality - system optimisations and reliability improvement.

Frederic Ponzo focuses on providing leadership, direction and vision to the company and ensures that its clients receive best-in-class services. Prior to founding GreySpark Partners, Ponzo joined the international consultancy NET2S in 1998 as a consultant in the firm’s Paris office. He moved to London in early 2000 to open the firm’s UK office and took on a wide range of consulting and operational roles. Ponzo became managing director of the firm in 2004 and assumed overall responsibility of NET2S UK business. Over the past 13 years, Ponzo personally advised over 50 financial institutions, including 19 of the top 20 investment banks, building an unparalleled insight in the industry.

Bob Giffords is an independent analyst and consultant for the European banking sector with over 30 years experience in financial technology, mostly as an independent consultant. Bob speaks publicly on the rise of cyber cities, the challenges facing traders in the global robotic markets and banking regulation. He frequently chairs banking conferences and writes for several leading financial journals, including Automated Trader, Swift Dialogue, The Trade, and Financial World. In 2009 he co-authored an analysis of the financial crisis that was published by the CSFI, sponsored by the City of London Corporation and recently cited by the Bank of England. Since then he has analysed 2 annual global surveys of automated trading. Previously, he was Director, EMEA Research and Consulting, for Financial Insights, an IDC Company where he built up a pan-European consulting practice. Before that he was Chief Technology Officer with EuroMTS Ltd., the leading European electronic bond-trading platform, at the end of a long career of systems development and operations mostly in the financial sector.

Victor Lebreton manages the strategies and the electronic trading platform for the prop-trading company QUANT HEDGE. Before that, he was an IT consultant for trading and operations for major Banks and Consulting companies. In 2008 he moved to electronic trading to develop trading strategies based on cutting edge approach. Today, he is also a teacher for electronic markets for a major engineer school in Paris.
His investment research is based on Equity and FX systematic trading and algorithmic trading.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nitin Gambhir is the founder and CEO of Tethys Technology, Inc., an industry-leading provider of broker-neutral execution management systems, algorithmic trading analytics and transaction cost analysis solutions.

Before founding Tethys in 2001, Mr. Gambhir worked at JP Morgan and Bear Stearns in their respective proprietary trading groups during the early part of his career. Thereafter, he was a quantitative portfolio manager at SAC Capital in Connecticut and Altus Asset Management, LLC in New York.

Mr. Gambhir obtained a Masters from Yale University and an undergraduate degree, in Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Gavin Little-Gill joined Linedata in 2007 and is the Global Head of Asset Management Product Strategy for Linedata. In this role he is responsible for global product management and strategy for all of Linedata’s Asset Management Solutions.

Before his tenure with Linedata, Gavin was employed at Tower Group where for six years he held the role of Group Research Director, overseeing the Securities and Investments practices. During that time, his research concentration was technology trends on the buy-side with a focus on trading technology. Prior to joining Tower Group, in 2001 Gavin spent 12 years in various capacities working in the financial industry. Two of these years’ where spent at a US subsidiary of CDC-IXIS as Vice President. Prior to CDC, Gavin was with Scudder for nine years, most recently as Vice President.

Gavin holds an M.S. in Finance from Boston College and a B.A. from Bates College, Maine. In addition, he has a Certificate in Pensions and Benefits from Bentley College, in Massachusetts, and has successfully passed the first exam of the C.F.A. Gavin has held Series 6, 7, 63, 24, and 26 registrations.

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.

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

Rebecca joined TABB Group in March 2011, bringing more than 15 years’ experience in e-trading and financial services. Rebecca has held various sales and trading positions with Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs, and most recently Credit Suisse, where as Vice President she was instrumental in launching the successful AES product to hedge funds from its inception in 2002 until 2008. Prior to this 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 then Europe between 1997 and 2000. More recently, Rebecca was based in the Middle East from 2008 to 2010. There she 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, which remains a key source of information for the UK Government today, especially in relation to Islamic finance. Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish & Latin American History & Politics from the University of London. At TABB Group, Rebecca has authored Market Surveillance in Europe: Under Starter’s Orders, European Equity Trading 2011/12: Looking for Allies in the Face of Adversity, European Algorithms: The Evolution and Trading in the Middle East: Looking for Mecca.

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.

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.

Carl James, Global Head of Dealing is responsible for the trading globally of all assets within Fortis Investments. This amounts to EUR250B of assets being actively managed by over 40 investment centres globally. He manages multiple desks in 8 locations, that cover trading in all assets including equities, convertibles, money markets, rates, FX, credit and structured credit. he is also responsible for the securities lending program. Before Fortis, he was global head of trading (for all assets) at Henderson for 5 years, and before that he was at UBS for 20 years. 10 years on the buy-side, 5 of which were in Asia, and the other 10 years on the sell-side.

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

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

Matthias joined Osaka Securities Exchange in 2006 to facilitate the international business development of the exchange. Since then he actively engages in facilitating OSE’s derivatives and cash equities as well as FX markets, in addition he is actively involved in the planning and implementation of OSE’s Co-location and remote membership and new product initiatives.

In April 2009 Matthias was appointed Executive Advisor to the board, in this function he consults the OSE management board on all strategic business development issues.

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

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."

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.

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

Dave Cliff has worked at the University of Sussex, at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, at Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol, at Deutsche Bank's London Foreign-Exchange Complex Risk Group, at the University of Southampton, and from July 2007 at the University of Bristol where he is Professor of Computer Science. He is also a founder of Syritta Algorithmics Ltd, a technology development and consultancy company. In October 2005 Cliff was appointed Director of a £14m five-year UK research consortium, addressing issues in the science and engineering of Large-Scale Complex IT Systems. He is author or co-author on over 70 academic publications, inventor or co-inventor on 15 patents; and he has undertaken advisory and consultancy work for a number of major companies and for the UK Government. He's given well over 100 invited keynote lectures and seminars; and he and his work have frequently been featured both in the press and on TV and radio.

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

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.

William White is a Managing Director and Head of Equities Electronic Trading, based in New York.

Mr. White joined Barclays Capital in 2008 from Lehman Brothers where he was a Managing Director and Head of Lehman Brothers Market Makers, a Designated Market Maker on the New York Stock Exchange, now Barclays Capital Market Makers (BCMM). Under Mr. White’s leadership, BCMM became the largest Market Maker at the NYSE and established itself as the premier market maker in the US.

Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. White was a Managing Partner at Van Der Moolen, responsible for the DPM and market making business at the NYSE. He was instrumental in shaping the development of the NYSE business model and in the execution of the NYSE Hybrid Market model.

Mr. White began his career as an independent trader on the CBOE, where he built an option trading platform.

Mr. White is a board member at the Chicago Board Stock Exchange (CBSX) and sits on various exchange advisory committees.

Mark is the President and CEO of CFN Services. He has delivered results for clients in the global communications markets with companies including AT&T, Verizon, and CSX for more than 20 years. Since 2001, he has led CFN Services in developing high-performance, network and application-delivery solutions for real-time, mission-critical applications. Mark has also pioneered the design and optimization of solutions that accelerate market data delivery and trade execution for the most sophisticated financial market participants worldwide. Under his leadership, CFN Services developed and operates the ultra-low-latency Alpha Platform™, a global, high-performance private cloud for automated trading across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets.

Prior to CFN Services, Mark was Vice President of Business Development and Channel Management at e.spire Communications (now tw telecom). In this position, Mark was responsible for identifying and developing the company’s top growth opportunities, while maximizing revenue production across the company's direct and indirect sales channels. Mark was also a key driver in the company’s revenue growth from $154 million in 1998 to more than $300 million in 2000.

Prior to e.spire, Mark held key management positions in several successful corporate ventures, first as a member of the launch team for Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions  Bell Atlantic’s Internet subsidiary, which grew from ground zero to over $50 million in revenues in its first year. Mark also served as General Manager of CampusMCI, where he led the growth and development of the early stage MCI business unit, doubling revenues to $35 million and increasing profits four-fold over two years. Mark also established Campus MCI’s Internet brand as one of the ten largest national ISPs before its subsequent sale to Cable & Wireless.
Mark holds a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from American University.

Sam Tyfield has significant expertise and experience in acting for high frequency trading, algorithmic, grey/black box trading businesses in all aspects of their operations. He is a leading member of Katten's dedicated proprietary practice. His practice focuses in addition on all aspects of other types of financial services firms’ business, including alternative investment funds and managers, and on acting for firms on the sellside in that sector. He has significant experience also in acting in European and international mergers and acquisitions (with a particular emphasis on financial services, private equity and venture capital transactions).

Mr. Tyfield formerly served as chief operating officer and general counsel for a high frequency proprietary trader based in London, with operations in Southeast Asia.

Claes-Henrik has over ten years of experience from business strategy and business development tasks working for the Swedish bank SEB. His last position at SEB was as Head of FX Prime Brokerage. Claes-Henrik has a law degree (juris kandidat) from the University of Uppsala and Master of Law and Economics from the University of Utrecht.

John is responsible for Deutsche Bank’s low-latency equity trading business in New York. He has over 10 years of experience in sales and trading, specializing in algorithmic trading, transaction cost analytics, market microstructure and risk management. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank’s electronic trading desk in 2007, John was responsible for managing portfolio transition trades for pension funds at Merrill Lynch in New York and Deutsche Bank in London.
 
John holds a BA in Law & Business Studies from Warwick University in England.

Ann Neidenbach is Senior Vice President of Global Technology Products and Services for The NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ). Ann is responsible for managing the strategic planning and development of the Global Technology products and services for NASDAQ OMX markets and commercial offerings. Ann is additionally responsible for the delivery team serving NASDAQ OMX Market Technology customers across the globe.

Ann rejoined NASDAQ OMX from Citi, where she served as Managing Director, responsible for the technology, infrastructure and support for Citi’s Electronic Trading Group in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Prior to this, Ann was Global Head of Operations for Lava Trading Inc, managing all aspects of Lava’s operations of its equities and F/X platforms, overseeing 24/7 datacenter and network operations, customer support, market data development, and business services support.

Ann previously spent nearly 20 years at NASDAQ OMX and held positions as COO/CIO of NASDAQ Europe and NASDAQ Deutschland. She was responsible for defining the market structure and technology solution for NASDAQ’s European markets. Ann also served as VP of Trading Application Services, where she was responsible for overseeing the application development efforts for the NASDAQ Trading Systems.

Alex Foster joined BT’s Global Banking & Financial Markets division in 2011. Here she leads the global sales and business development team focused on the BT Radianz portfolio, covering market connectivity, managed network services for low-latency electronic trading, hosting and secure messaging.

Prior to joining BT, Alex held a position at Instinet from 2009 where she revamped the firm’s sales efforts. There she established and managed a new sales team while overseeing new product development & managing initiatives that tapped new revenue streams.
In 2006 she joined the Equities & Derivatives division of BNP Paribas with a specific remit to build and run the Global Execution Services (GES) product line within the UK and Europe & represented the bank’s shareholdings on exchanges and MTFs, some at board level.

Previously Alex worked as a sales trader initially at Paribas then ING Barings & at Macquarie where she was Divisional Director for Pan Asian sales trading for UK & Europe.

Tony Mackay has been at the forefront of electronic trading in Asia and Europe over the past 20 years. Whilst at Instinet in Asia he led the roll out of their electronic trading EMS and ‘upstairs’ trading products. In 2006 he was the founding CEO and then Chairman of Chi-X Europe. In 2007 he started the global expansion of the Chi-X product into Canada, Japan, Australia, Singapore and Brazil.

Tony is currently working on a global ‘FaceBourse’ product which is a financial multi asset market which uses the social networking principles of choosing who you interact with. Long term investors should be able to trade bigger blocks by choosing not to expose flow to particular segments of the market. The new market will include periodic crossing, real time continuous trading as well as a quote/request for quote market.

Over 1,000 global companies have benefitted from Terry Keene’s industry expertise and insight over the past 30 years. Some of those companies include: Bose, Deutsche Bank, The London Stock Exchange, Fixnetix, London Metal Exchange (LME), Winton Capital, and Bluecrest.
Terry is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at WestPoint, has an MSEE from Georgia Institute of Technology and is a contributing author of the book, Secrets of SOA.

Phil joined the London Stock Exchange Group in Jan 2009 initially working on Baikal, then Turquoise (where he managed the migration to Millennium IT), and finally extended his role to include the LSE Equity market. He has a degree in ‘Computer and Communication Systems’ and 25 years experience working with and managing Information Technology projects, primarily development, most of which has been within tier 1 investment banks. Today, as ‘Head of Equity IT Product’ for the LSE Group in the UK he has responsibility for development and deployment of the technology used by the London Stock Exchange Group for their UK Equity Market and Turquoise Equities (both now running on Millennium Exchange). He manages vendor relationships (primarily with Millennium IT) as well as the internal teams comprising project managers, business analysts, developers, and quality assurance, and works alongside the operational and support teams that manage the live services and perform the physical deployments. The two Equity markets (LSE and Turquoise) cover 20% of total European Equity trading (and growing) and are the fastest equity trading platforms in Europe today.

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

Mohammad excels in design and innovation in the field of real-time systems with focus on FPGA technologies. He has developed real-time software defined radio products at Spectrum Signal Processing and digital image quality processors at Ward Labs. He took his real-time expertise into the classroom teaching senior classes at the University of British Columbia and he has been published in prestigious conferences on VLSI and parallel systems.

Mohammad followed his BSc degree in Computer Engineering with a MASc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, specializing in high-speed digital design.

Tony is an Investment Director, Head of Derivatives and Equity Dealing and a member of the Equity Management Group.

Tony joined Scottish Widows in 1989 from Citicorp Scrimgeour-Vickers, where he was a Director of Derivative Products. Prior to that, he gained experience of derivative markets with a number of City firms.

Tony holds a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a Non Executive Director of BATs Europe and member of the IMA and London Stock Exchange institutional advisory groups.

Kevin has over 20 years financial services industry experience and has initiated and implemented and managed electronic trading technologies first at Robert Fleming Asset Management and then at Solomon Brothers, now Citi Group, HSBC and Thomson Reuters.

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 specialises in product innovation in the FIX marketplace, offers a range of 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, hedge funds, traditional buy-side and sell-side firms using in FIX and other financial messaging protocols.

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 15 years.

At present, Kevin also serves as a member of the Lead Expert Group, on the UK Treasury sponsored, Foresight Committee looking at the future of computer based trading. http://www.bis.gov.uk/foresight/our-work/projects/current-projects/computer-trading

Economics degree from University of San Diego, California. Co-head Commodities Desk at Link Investimentos - Brazil from 2001 till 2008, becoming a partner in 2007. Head of High Frequency Trading Desk since 2008.

Tommi is one of the founding members of Valo Research and Trading, a new automated trading company based in Helsinki, Finland. After joining Reaktor, a well-known Finnish IT-company, in late 2011, Tommi was instrumental in launching the Valo subsidiary in 2012. At Valo, Tommi leads research and trading strategy development using his expertise in financial econometrics. Tommi received his Doctorate in Economics in 2008, studying at top ranked Finnish and American universities. His Doctoral Dissertation called “Elements of Volatility at High Frequency” was granted the annual OP-Pohjola Bank Award for the best Finnish thesis in the field of finance.

Igor Lobanov is the Enterprise Architect at Legal & General Investment Management, one of Europe’s largest institutional asset managers with £371bn assets. He is responsible for defining technology strategy for the Front Office and Central Dealing functions. Igor has 12 years experience in developing mission-critical enterprise applications predominantly for financial sector and telecommunications both in the UK and Russia, with a background in high-volume transaction processing systems. Igor is a member of International Association of IT Architects (IASA).

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.

Stuart has been Head of Architecture since July 2011.A newly formed function set-up as a result of the IT department re-structure. The function provides provide strategic technology direction and enterprise governance across the company. The team is formed of 5 direct reports with ~20 matrix reports across the enterprise.

Prior to this, Stuart was Core Systems Development Manager and had the responsibility for the delivery of development and support of the application suite supporting the core of LGIM’s business encompassing Front/Middle/Back Office and Property. Responsible for a team of ~35 staff comprising of a support manager, solutions architect's, developers, business analysts and project managers with matrix management of additional resources dependent on assignments. Architectural responsibility for all solutions within the assigned business domains.

Currently I am Head of Sales Trading at Bloxham and have previously held senior management roles at NCB and Bear Stearns. Having spent 15 years in the US, my wife and I returned to Ireland in 2004 to raise our three children.
Over twenty years I have built teams, developed systems and been a producer in the Institutional Equity Sales and Trading business, focussing primarily in Equities. I am passionate about customer service and believe that the only way to build a valuable business is to put your client's needs first, your firm's second and then your own needs will be taken care of.

Richard has been with Eastspring investments (formerly known as Prudential Asset Management (Singapore) as Director, Head of Dealing, since 2006. Previously he worked for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and, before that, with Scottish Widows Investment Partnership in Edinburgh. Eastspring Investments runs a team of eight dealers covering all asset classes, focusing mainly on Asian assets.

Rakesh Shah is the founder of an Advisory Fund Manager, Kingly Capital, based at 106 New Bond St, London. www.kinglycapital.com which is the advisor for a Luxembourg Sicav Fund and advises institutions and hedge funds on quant and mechanical trading models.

He is an algo forex and derivatives trader and has been investing in the financial markets for over 18 years using systematic, fundamental and momentum analysis techniques.

Duncan Higgins is Head of Electronic Sales at Investment Technology Group (ITG). Duncan joined ITG in January 2010 is responsible for the sales of algorithmic execution, electronic liquidity access products and Triton EMS to European clients. Prior to ITG, Duncan spent two years at Turquoise and nine years at UBS. At Turquoise Duncan led the sales and marketing teams from inception of the company through to the sale to London Stock Exchange. During his time at UBS Duncan held a variety of roles in the Equities division finishing his tenure as an Executive Director within European Client Trading & Execution. Duncan represented UBS on the board of BOAT and executive committee of Turquoise. Duncan has a Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree from the University of Southampton.

Robert Shapiro joined Bloomberg Tradebook in 2010 as the Global Head of Trading and Execution Consulting.

Prior to joining Bloomberg Tradebook, Rob was COO of global trading for Morgan Stanley Investment Management (2007–2010) where he was responsible for factors related to trade optimization including trading technology, trade analytics, execution strategy, and performance measurement. Rob joined Morgan Stanley Investment Management from Abel Noser, Inc., where he served as SVP of advanced trading strategies (2005–2007). Earlier, he had been head trader of Iridian Asset Management (1999–2004). Rob began his Wall Street career as an international equity proprietary trader and sales trader at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Inc. (1986–1997); he also served as an institutional research salesperson at Kempen & Co USA (1998) and SEB Enskilda Securities, Inc. (1999).

Rob received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He proudly serves on the Board of GOAL (Giving Open Access to Learning).

Ulrich Staudinger graduated with a computer science diploma from the University of Applied Sciences in Furtwangen, Germany in 2001. In 2002, he became a certified Eurex Trader by passing the Eurex Full Exam. After postgraduate courses in Financial Market Theory at the Swiss Banking Institute, he now finishes his MBA about a topic related to the Securities Trading Value Chain. In 2002, he started the open source trading framework ActiveQuant, which has received warm feedback in the industry. After working for two major telecommunication players, GMX and Lycos, for 4 years, he moved into the financial sector for a small hedge fund. Thereafter he spent 4 years with IMC in Zug as a software engineer on their trading systems. Recently he left IMC and has moved into a cooperation with LakeView Systems to further pursue top-notch trading automation.

Simon Gallagher is Chief of Staff in NYSE Euronext’s European Cash and Listing business unit. He joined the group in 2001 and has occupied a wide range of positions in client management, IT projects, finance and strategy. In his current role he oversees regulatory, strategic and planning activity for the business unit, with a particular focus on MiFID and most recently market data. He is a CFA charterholder and holds an MBA.

Began career with Abbey National Asset Managers (formerly Scottish Mutual) in 1996 working in Investment Admin before progressing to US Equity Dealer in 1999. Took additional responsibility for Far East and Asian regions in 2002, before joining Invesco in July 2004. Currently Senior Equity Dealer for The Americas and Eastern Europe.

Emerging Markets Speakers

Seth R. Freeman is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of EM Capital Management, LLC, the independent emerging and frontier markets asset management firm. Headquartered in San Francisco the firm has presence in New Delhi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, New York and Washington, D.C. Seth has over 25 years experience in emerging and frontier markets investment strategies and asset management including listed securities, registered and unregistered funds, private equity and real estate. He is widely recognized as an expert in cross-border emerging markets market-entry, research, analysis, investment implementation, portfolio management and restructuring. His clients include institutional investors, funds of funds, high-net worth and retail investors. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of emerging and frontier markets investing, sharing his strategic and tactical insights at major professional events as well as MBA programs at Harvard, Wharton, UC Berkeley Haas, NYU, Columbia, Chicago Booth and Thunderbird. He appears weekly on CNBC, CNBC Awaaz (India), NDTV-Profit (India), ET NOW (India) and Bloomberg UTV TV and contributes to numerous financial publications. In 2011, Seth was featured by FOFM as one of the “25 Most Influential Thought Leaders on the Future of Financial Markets”; and served on the Board of Advisors of the 2011 FOFM conference. Seth earned his MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, the Global School of Management and serves as Executive in Residence of the Thunderbird Global Financial Services Center.

Hendrik Klein is an expert in Investment Strategies like Relative Value, Event Driven and Global Macro Strategies, alternative investments and the Head Portfolio Manager since 2004 at Da Vinci Invest AG, an independent asset manager, based in Zurich, Switzerland, which runs their own successful Event Driven hedge fund as well.

He started his career as a derivatives trader at MTH Midas Trading House from 1996 to 1997, which became the largest trader on the DTB at that time. He subsequently held trading and brokerage positions at Fimat International Banque S.A. (1997) and Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (1998 to 2000), before becoming the Head of Trading and a director and partner of Frohne & Klein Wertpapierhandelshaus GmbH in 2000. He held this position until 2004, during which time he specialised in listed options trading on EUREX.

Mr Klein holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Mittweida.

Denis Svechnikov joined URALSIB Capital Financial Services as head of Client Relations and DMA sales team in March 2011.

Before joining URALSIB, Svechnikov was in charge of the MICEX’s Client Center’s sales and marketing, where he was responsible for expanding and strengthening relationships with existing customers and promoting new products and services.

Prior to this, Svechnikov worked as a senior sales representative for Russia, the CIS, Singapore, and Hong Kong at CQG’s sales and marketing department. In 1995–98, Svechnikov worked as a clearing-house sales representative at a Russian exchange, where he was responsible for developing new derivatives and equities business.

Svechnikov graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Management.

Adam is Head of Dealing for global order execution on equities in BZWBK Asset Management SA. He joined the company in 2004. BZWBK Asset Management SA one of the largest asset management companies in Poland. It manages assets of mutual funds and individual portfolios. BZWBK AM mainly invests in CEE equities. Adam is also responsible for development of trading process (trading tools, counterparties, venues).

Alvaro Augusto F. Vidigal, graduated in business administration in Seton hall University of New York. Working in the Brazilian financial market since 1992 , Mr. Vidigal is partner of Banco Paulista and managing director of its broker dealer SOCOPA. Mr. Vidigal has been the pioneer of the stock loaning industry in Brazil since its opening in 1996, participating actively of its regulatory issues. Mr. Vidigal has spent most of his career ,taking care of foreign investors accounts and has been the first to place an electronic order in Bovespa in 1997.

Alvaro Vidigal is also the founder and chairman of the board of TRADEWIRE SECURITIES, an United States broker dealer specialized in the whole Latin America region. Tradewire headquarter in Miami today is one of the most active broker in its niche, the Latin market such as Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia ,Venezuela among other countries.

Alex Gracian is Head of Equity Portfolios at Gulf International Bank. He has over seventeen years experience in financial markets with a focus on quantitative portfolio management. Prior to joining GIB Alex spent five years at TRW Pension Fund as Head of Quantitative and Index Trading. Alex has also worked at Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers and Yamachi International.

Bartosz Świdziński is Chief Specialist in Market Development Department, Business Network Development at the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

He is responsible for on-boarding new exchange members, developing and maintaining relations with WSE’s business partners including exchange members, ISVs and widely understood buy side, both domestic and foreign.

Bartosz works on many business initiatives and projects aiming product and infrastructural exchange development.

Before joining WSE, he was an equity trader and Investment Advisor for High Net Worth Individuals at CDM Pekao S.A. Securities (Unicredit Group) where he performed in domestic equity capacities.

He holds a Master's degree in Finance and Banking from the Koźmiński Academy and specializes in Investment Simulations, Corporate Finance and Accounting.

Marcin Truchanowicz has several years of experience in the capital market. A representative of Polish CCP in working groups of the European Association of Clearing Houses (EACH) and the international organization of clearing houses CCP12.

Following his graduation from the Novosibirsk State University Vladimir started working in the Technical Directorate of the Siberian Interbank Currency Exchange. Soon he was a leading software developer and later became the head of the Software Department. Working at the Exchange Vladimir acquired a vast experience of creating trading platforms for various assets - currencies, bonds, futures and stocks.

In 2000 Vladimir became one of the founders of ARQA Technologies in his new position of Business Development Director. ARQA Technologies develops "front to back" solutions for banks, investment and management companies. Today the company is a leader in Russia and Ukraine in the field of DMA systems. It offers financial institutions a full range of products and services for front to back offices. In the last few years the company's focus has been solutions for fast access to trading systems with pre-trade control.

In the last 7 years Vladimir has been a member of the MICEX' Technical Committee.

Vahan Vardanian graduated from the Faculty of Computer Science of the Armenian State Engineering University and completed the AMP program at Harvard Business School. He holds an MBA, which he received at Bentley University (Boston, USA).
From 2004 to 2011, Vahan Vardanian worked for Renaissance Capital. Since 2005, he headed Renaissance Capital’s IT organization, holding the position of Managing Director. Mr. Vardanian supervised such areas as launching trading in new markets and implementing state-of-the-art platforms for derivatives trading. He was also engaged in the implementation of trading systems, risk management systems and the client relationship system.
Prior to joining Renaissance Capital, Mr. Vardanian worked in the USA for BearingPoint Inc. (Formerly KPMG Consulting).
In 2011, Vahan Vardanian was appointed Managing IT Director of MICEX-RTS after integration of the major Russian stock exchanges. He is responsible for the functioning of departments and centers of corporate, analytical and settlement & depository systems, centers of maintenance and technical & engineering support, division of information security and business continuity as well as the technological architecture and standards division.

Sam Atkins, Director, Head of Electronic Trading Product Development at Renaissance Capital, based in London.
Mr. Atkins joined Renaissance Capital in 2011 and has been focusing on building and implementing a low-latency trading infrastructure for our systematic trading clients in Russia and worldwide. Prior to this he worked at Goldman Sachs, where he held various positions in London and Frankfurt during his eight years with the firm, most recently he spent time as CAO of SIGMA X MTF and Head of Emerging Market Product Development. He led a team in implementing emerging markets direct market access and algorithmic trading for internal traders and institutional investors.

Miranda is a principal at TABB Group, the research and strategic advisory company focused on capital markets. She joined TABB Group in March 2008, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in the equity trading, product management, and product strategy arenas. Prior to TABB Group, she held senior positions at the American Stock Exchange, TowerGroup, Instinet and S.G. Warburg (now UBS), which she joined as head of French equity trading. Over the course of her career in Europe and the US, she has implemented a variety of products and led strategic trading initiatives internationally, designed to create transparency and efficiency. Miranda holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University College Cardiff, Wales.

Andrea is Partner, Co-owner and member of Board of Directors. She joined WOOD & Co in 1995 and headed the Equities business over 11 years. Under her guidance, WOOD & Co became the largest independent brokerage and research house in CEE, raising its market share of the Czech Equity market from 5 % to a market-leading 25 . Instrumental in WOOD & Co’s expansion, with membership of 11 regional exchanges currently, Andrea also established the first Direct Market Access system in the region, enabling direct access to exchanges in Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna, Bucharest, Istanbul, Dubai etc.

Simon Quijano-Evans has been working in the area of EM since the mid-1990s. He worked for the Thai Ministry of Industry in FDI promotion, at UniCredit as Director, EEMEA Economics & FI/FX Strategy, and headed the EMEA Economics & Strategy at Credit Agricole Cheuvreux until April 2011, when he moved to ING where he is now EMEA Chief Economist and Head of Research. Simon holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of Vienna.

Rebecca joined TABB Group in March 2011, bringing more than 15 years’ experience in e-trading and financial services. Rebecca has held various sales and trading positions with Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs, and most recently Credit Suisse, where as Vice President she was instrumental in launching the successful AES product to hedge funds from its inception in 2002 until 2008. Prior to this 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 then Europe between 1997 and 2000. More recently, Rebecca was based in the Middle East from 2008 to 2010. There she 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, which remains a key source of information for the UK Government today, especially in relation to Islamic finance. Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish & Latin American History & Politics from the University of London. At TABB Group, Rebecca has authored Market Surveillance in Europe: Under Starter’s Orders, European Equity Trading 2011/12: Looking for Allies in the Face of Adversity, European Algorithms: The Evolution and Trading in the Middle East: Looking for Mecca.

Javier Artigas, graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM). He has over 25 years of experience in the financial sector, during which he has held several positions in the areas of Capital Markets, Analysis and Promotion. He worked for eight years between London and New York in the promotion of the Capital Market. Mr. Artigas also served as Managing Director of UBS Casa de Bolsa and for two years was a member of the Board of Bolsa Mexicana de Valores. He currently works as Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning in the BMV Group.

Carlos Quevedo has worked for more than a decade with the National Banking and Securities Commission, where he has held different positions, including advisor to the Vice President, under director and director of issuers, and General Director of Market Supervision. Mr. Quevedo has served as Vice-president for Securities Market Supervision since November 2007, having the responsibilities of the authorization of public offerings and mutual funds, and the supervision of capital, debt and derivatives markets, including their participants, such as exchanges, clearing houses, brokers and credit rating agencies. Mr. Quevedo received a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science by the “Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México” (ITAM), where he has also been a professor in finance, and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Yale.

Paul Bowes is currently Head of Exchange Traded Instruments in EMEA for Thomson Reuters. Paul and his team are responsible for the Thomson Reuters business activities targeting equity and equity derivative sales and trading professionals. Paul has lived and worked in Toronto, New York and London. Paul was previously responsible for the company’s strategic relationships with the world’s largest exchanges and co-ordinated joint initiatives with London Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. As Vice President of Equity Markets at the Toronto Stock Exchange reporting to that Exchange's Board, Paul and was part of the management team that converted that market into a commercially focused leader in electronic trading, and oversaw the closing of the trading floor. He gained experience in wealth management at Ansbacher Bank and in technology marketing at Cicada and IP Sharp Associates. Paul has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computing and Informational Science and a Masters in Business Administration. A national of Canada and the European Union, Paul is married with two children and currently lives in Sevenoaks, Kent, UK.

Stas Surikov is Head of Prime Brokerage & Electronic Trading, BCS Financial Group
Born on 25 April 1979 in Moscow. A graduate of the Moscow State Academy of Instrument Engineering and Computer Science.

Before joining BCS team, Stas worked for 14 years for Renaissance Capital, which gave him wide experience in Russian and European financial markets. During that time he rose from junior staff to Head of Global Operations.

He was in charge of operational support for businesses located in nine countries, including UK, the US, Nigeria, Kenya, etc.

Since mid-2008 - Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Brokerage in Renaissance Capital. Was the first in Russia to establish institutional electronic trading according to international standards.