Speakers

Mark Bands

Head of Global Customer Reference Data, ANZ Institutional Bank

Mark has crafted a comprehensive career in the reference data space over the last 12 years, being one of the few people in the industry who has gained reference data experience from the Data Vendor (Reuters), Information Technology architecture and delivery (Macquarie Securities), strategic change and governance (Credit Suisse) and BAU Operations (ANZ) contexts. Mark is equally at home engaging all levels of discussion on the subject matter; from granular aspects such as data field mapping to broader industry-wide strategic challenges like LEI. Mark is currently the data management lead for the ANZ Institutional and International Bank’s OTC Reform programme and is a member of the G7 LEI Private Sector Preparatory Group.

Tim Chamberlain

Vice President (Asia-Pacific), Data Strategy & Operations, Standard & Poor's

Data Strategy & Operations (DSO)

Tim Chamberlain

Vice President (Asia-Pacific), Data Strategy & Operations, Standard & Poor's

Data Strategy & Operations (DSO)

Tom Davin, FIA

Managing Director, FISD

Tom Davin is Managing Director, Financial Information Services Division (FISD) for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). FISD is the global, neutral forum for the financial information industry with a diverse membership that includes major market data vendors, exchanges, technology providers, and the financial institutions that utilize financial data products. Tom works closely with FISD members to identify major issues and seek opportunities to bring the financial information industry together to discuss and resolve those issues. FISD conducts regular membership events in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and hosts the biennial World Financial Information Conference – the premiere global industry conference for financial information professionals.

David Kenny

Market Data Manager, National Australia Bank

David has been in the Financial markets market data industry for over 20 years, across UK & Australia working with Thomson Reuters, Macquarie Bank, Deutsche Bank & now as Market Data manager for Wholesale Banking at National Australia Bank in Sydney.

Dara Lyne

Divisional Director, The Macquarie Group

Dara Lyne is a Divisional Director with Macquarie Group with responsibility for market data as well as sourcing and vendor management responsibilities for IT services. He has over 20 years experience in banking solutions, banking and market data primarily in Asia. He has worked for Macquarie Group for 12 years, the past 6 years with global responsibility for the market and reference data function. He is very active member and participant of the market data community in Asia with a strong focus on bringing consistency and transparency to the data industry in the region.

Originally from Ireland and educated in Dublin, he now lives in Australia on Sydney’s north shore and has worked for Macquarie Group for 12 years.

Carla Mangado

Staff Writer, Inside Reference Data, Incisive Media

Carla Mangado is currently the Staff Writer in the Editorial team at Inside Reference Data, a monthly publication providing in-depth news and analysis from all areas of the reference data industry. Carla joined Inside Reference Data in 2007 as a Reporter. She has prior experience at The Sustainable Energy Institute, a Washington DC public policy organization and is fluent in 4 languages. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature from King’s College, London where she also gained her Master’s Degree in European Studies.

Carla Mangado

Staff Writer, Inside Reference Data, Incisive Media

Carla Mangado is currently the Staff Writer in the Editorial team at Inside Reference Data, a monthly publication providing in-depth news and analysis from all areas of the reference data industry. Carla joined Inside Reference Data in 2007 as a Reporter. She has prior experience at The Sustainable Energy Institute, a Washington DC public policy organization and is fluent in 4 languages. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature from King’s College, London where she also gained her Master’s Degree in European Studies.

Kees Middendorp

Senior Presales Consultant, SmartStream Technologies Limited

David Raper

General Manager, Electronic Trading Services, Australian Securities Exchange

David has business and product development responsible for market information, access and trade execution at ASX. This includes policy and development of services covering all market data, the colocation facility and trading functionality. David previously had responsibility for operations and real-time market management at ASX and the Sydney Futures Exchange. Prior to working in Australia David was a trader on the floor of LIFFE.

David Raper

General Manager, Electronic Trading Services, Australian Securities Exchange

David has business and product development responsible for market information, access and trade execution at ASX. This includes policy and development of services covering all market data, the colocation facility and trading functionality. David previously had responsibility for operations and real-time market management at ASX and the Sydney Futures Exchange. Prior to working in Australia David was a trader on the floor of LIFFE.

Clint Rhea

COO - Need to Know News, Deutsche Boerse - Market Data & Analytics

Clint Rhea is Chief Operating Officer at Need to Know News, LLC (NTKN), a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse AG. In this role, Mr. Rhea oversees the development of AlphaFlash, Deutsche Börse’s global machine readable news feed offering. He works closely with clients and product development teams to ensure its dominant competitive position in the field of machine readable macroeconomic and corporate news data.
Mr. Rhea joined Need to Know News in 2007 to help create Lightning Bolt, which was optimized and rebranded “AlphaFlash” when NTKN was acquired by Deutsche Börse subsidiary Market News International in November 2009.
Prior to NTKN, Mr. Rhea was at Great Point Capital, LLC (GPC), an equities trading firm, where he helped manage day-to-day operations. Mr. Rhea trained incoming traders on firm strategy, software and managed the risk department while actively supervising more than 300 traders. During his tenure at GPC, he helped open a successful trading operation in India, where he was responsible for training the traders and implementing management operations.

Stuart Roberts

VP, Head of Market Data Services, DBS Bank

Stuart is the head of Market Data for DBS Bank with responsibility for both the commercial and technical aspects of market data as well as trade floor infrastructure including voice systems. Joining the organization in 2012 Stuart has implemented a centralized market data management structure for the organization. Stuart has over 20 years market data and trade floor technology experience and previously worked for a number of different firms including Citigroup and Schroders.

Robert Utter

Commercial Manager Asia Pacific, Interactive Data Corporation

Chandra Dass

Business Development Manager, Arcontech Group PLC

Chandra has worked with real-time systems and Front Office solutions since 2001. Currently responsible for Business Development in Asia, Europe and the USA, he works with some of the largest banks in those regions and as a result, he understands the business drivers and technology challenges for market data reception, contribution and re-distribution. Arcontech is a real-time technology company, independent of any market data vendor. Arcontech’s CityVision product suite includes a market data distribution platform, Last-Value Cache, Multi Vendor Contribution System and adapters to bridge between Thomson Reuters RMDS (SSL, SASS2/3, etc), Bloomberg Platform and CityVision for cross-platform connectivity and internal data distribution. Excelerator, an Excel add-in enables real-time publication, subscription and display of data. It supports RMDS, Bloomberg and other sources with configurable pop-up pages and full colour IDB displays.

Tom Davin, FIA

Managing Director, FISD

Tom Davin is Managing Director, Financial Information Services Division (FISD) for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). FISD is the global, neutral forum for the financial information industry with a diverse membership that includes major market data vendors, exchanges, technology providers, and the financial institutions that utilize financial data products. Tom works closely with FISD members to identify major issues and seek opportunities to bring the financial information industry together to discuss and resolve those issues. FISD conducts regular membership events in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and hosts the biennial World Financial Information Conference – the premiere global industry conference for financial information professionals.

Nizar Grira, Ph.D.

-, Thomson Reuters

Georg Gross

Director, Head of Front Office Data & Analytics, Deutsche Boerse AG

Georg Gross is Head of Front Office Data & Analytics at Deutsche Boerse in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to being responsible for the Group’s real-time data dissemination business, the department provides real-time financial news via its subsidiary Market News International and develops specialized products, such as machine-readable news feeds, for the algorithmic trading community. After studying Business Administration at the University of Mannheim, Georg Gross worked at DTB Deutsche Terminboerse from 1990 to 1994. He joined Deutsche Börse AG in 1994 and was appointed Head Front Office Data & Analytics in 1997.

Masaru Hashimoto, Ph.D.

-, Thomson Reuters

Hugh Kawakami

Head-Sales, Real-Time Services (Japan), Interactive Data Corporation

Kevin Ng

Director, Enterprise Solutions, McGraw Hill Financial, a Standard & Poor's company

Kevin Ng is the Director of Global Data Solutions in Asia Pacific and is responsible for developing the enterprise data business and operations strategy in this region. Specifically he oversees the strategic planning and implementation of projects to provide business solutions to clients. Previously Kevin led CUSIP Global Services in Asia Pacific and developed coverage across all major asset classes.

Aya Nishizawa

,, Thomson Reuters

Hideki Ochi

Head of Customer Support, Information Services, Tokyo Stock Exchange

David Wilkinson

Managing Director, Equinix

Marc Anthonisen

Regional Market Leader, Product & Content, S&P Capital IQ

Marc Anthonisen leads S&P’s data operations and delivery in Asia-Pacific, including entity and security reference data, fixed income terms and conditions, credit ratings and asset performance data. Based in Hong Kong, Marc has worked across the region for the past 15 years, with postings with Standard & Poor’s in Tokyo and Taipei. He has a degree in economics from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. and speaks Mandarin and Japanese.

Virginie Barbot

Head, Business Development South Asia, Deutsche Boerse AG

Scott Cooper

Product Marketing, Asia, BT Global Banking & Financial Markets

Chandra Dass

Business Development Manager, Arcontech Group PLC

Chandra has worked with real-time systems and Front Office solutions since 2001. Currently responsible for Business Development in Asia, Europe and the USA, he works with some of the largest banks in those regions and as a result, he understands the business drivers and technology challenges for market data reception, contribution and re-distribution. Arcontech is a real-time technology company, independent of any market data vendor. Arcontech’s CityVision product suite includes a market data distribution platform, Last-Value Cache, Multi Vendor Contribution System and adapters to bridge between Thomson Reuters RMDS (SSL, SASS2/3, etc), Bloomberg Platform and CityVision for cross-platform connectivity and internal data distribution. Excelerator, an Excel add-in enables real-time publication, subscription and display of data. It supports RMDS, Bloomberg and other sources with configurable pop-up pages and full colour IDB displays.

Tom Davin, FIA

Managing Director, FISD

Tom Davin is Managing Director, Financial Information Services Division (FISD) for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). FISD is the global, neutral forum for the financial information industry with a diverse membership that includes major market data vendors, exchanges, technology providers, and the financial institutions that utilize financial data products. Tom works closely with FISD members to identify major issues and seek opportunities to bring the financial information industry together to discuss and resolve those issues. FISD conducts regular membership events in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and hosts the biennial World Financial Information Conference – the premiere global industry conference for financial information professionals.

Tinku Gupta

Senior Vice President, Head of Market Data & Access, Singapore Exchange

Ms Gupta is Senior Vice President and Head of Market Data & Access in Singapore Exchange (SGX). She is responsible for business development of market data, trading access and establishing co-location service and points of presence in key liquidity venues around the world like Tokyo, London, New York and Chicago. Ms Gupta joined SGX in 1996 through SIMEX (Singapore International Monetary Exchange) prior to its merger with the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) on 1 December 1999. Over these past 15 years, she has played a number of key roles in areas of solutions delivery and Programme Management. Under her programme management leadership, SGX successfully deployed major business solutions such as the Securities Trading Engine in 2008 and the Derivatives Clearing Engine in 2009. Prior to joining SGX, Ms Gupta was with Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai, where she worked in various software development and IT project management assignments.

Martin Haines

Head of Solutions Asia, Thomson Reuters

Martin Haines

Head of Solutions Asia, Thomson Reuters

Dominic Lim

V.P. Head of Market Access, Singapore Exchange

Mr Lim currently leads the Market Access team at Singapore Exchange (SGX). His primary responsibility is the development of Trading Access services for SGX’s securities and derivatives markets. This includes the early 2011 introduction of SGX Co-Location Service to cater to SGX’s diverse community of latency-sensitive participants. Previously, Mr Lim also held positions in Membership Development and Business Management at SGX. Prior to joining SGX in 2003, Mr Lim was a Business Consultant at Reuters Asia, responsible for Business Development in the Financial Services sector. He also worked at Morgan Grenfell where he held roles in securities dealing, institutional sales, and technology between 1993 and 1997. Mr Lim holds a Bachelor of Computer Science, a Master of Professional Accounting, a Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Management Research.

Wayne Lim

Vice President, Global Reference Data - Strategy & Change, Barclays Capital

Carla Mangado

Staff Writer, Inside Reference Data, Incisive Media

Carla Mangado is currently the Staff Writer in the Editorial team at Inside Reference Data, a monthly publication providing in-depth news and analysis from all areas of the reference data industry. Carla joined Inside Reference Data in 2007 as a Reporter. She has prior experience at The Sustainable Energy Institute, a Washington DC public policy organization and is fluent in 4 languages. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature from King’s College, London where she also gained her Master’s Degree in European Studies.

Carla Mangado

Staff Writer, Inside Reference Data, Incisive Media

Carla Mangado is currently the Staff Writer in the Editorial team at Inside Reference Data, a monthly publication providing in-depth news and analysis from all areas of the reference data industry. Carla joined Inside Reference Data in 2007 as a Reporter. She has prior experience at The Sustainable Energy Institute, a Washington DC public policy organization and is fluent in 4 languages. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature from King’s College, London where she also gained her Master’s Degree in European Studies.

Jonathan Reeve

Executive Managing Director, S&P Capital IQ

Jonathan Reeve is Executive Managing Director, S&P Enterprise Solutions. In this role he oversees a global team of over 4000 content experts delivering standard and customized suites of equity, debt and risk data and research from S&P Capital IQ to brokers, insurers, asset managers and academics around the world. These data sets include security and entity reference data; security terms and conditions and corporate actions; counterparty linkage and exposure data; corporate financial performance data; structured finance performance data; credit ratings, evaluated pricing for illiquid securities, and other proprietary analytics.

Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s, Jonathan was Senior Vice President for Reuters Global Data Operations. Jonathan was at Reuters for 9 years where he performed a series of roles including global head of equities data operations. In his nine years at Reuters Jonathan managed a number of large-scale transformation projects, both technical and operational. These included a technical integration from fragmented data architecture onto a single data platform with improved user tools and capabilities. Also the integration of several operational data groups in Asia, Europe and the Americas realized through acquisition into a unified data management structure as well as a large operational migration to India.

Jonathan is based in New York and holds a BA in Economics from Concordia University in Montreal.

Madalene Soon

Business Manager - Reference Data, Interactive Data Corporation

Madalene Soon is business manager, reference data, Interactive Data (Asia Pacific). Based in Singapore, Ms Soon is focused on the reference data market and product development strategy for the Asia Pacific region.

Ms Soon joined Interactive Data in 2010. Prior to this Ms Soon worked at Thomson Reuters both in New York and Singapore where she spent over 12 years in various reference data related roles. Most recently Madalene was the Enterprise Product & Content Manager for Thomson Reuters’ Pricing and Reference Data business in Asia Pacific. In this role she was responsible for the conversion of key clients into strategic partners by building up long term relationships and identifying market and/or up-sell opportunities. Additionally she played a pivotal role in bringing new reference data offerings, such as intraday corporate actions into the market place by providing product management from an Asia Pacific Pricing and Reference Data perspective.

Mark Taylor

Strategic Accounts Director - Asia Pacific, SmartStream Technologies Limited

Mark Taylor works as Strategic Accounts Director Asia Pacific at SmartStream and is responsible for working with customers across the region to improve their transaction processing efficiencies. Mark has been with the company for five years and prior to this role has been responsible for presales and business development. Mark has 15 years industry experience in architecting and implementing STP solutions, especially in Reconciliations and Trade Process Management across different business sectors and around the world. Before joining SmartStream, Mark has worked at Braid, Mercator and Singularity.

Peter Tierney

Principal, Saquish Partners

Peter Tierney is a principal of Saquish Partners and an Advisor at AsisEx markets and specializes in market access and financial technology solutions in the Asia region.

Originally from Ireland Peter has worked in senior financial technology roles in the UK, US and Asia. Peter draws on deep subject matter expertise in both the pre- and post-trade environments, telcomms, trading architecture and data management and has a demonstrated specialty in developing platform services that bring together communities within the financial space. He joined Thomson Financial ESG (now Omgeo) in 1991 as part of the founding team and worked in London, Singapore and the company’s headquarters in Boston. Peter was part of the executive team that defined and executed the merger with the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) creating Omgeo. Peter then joined the financial extranet provider Radianz (now BT Radianz) where he led global strategic business development. Among other things, Peter and his team was instrumental in developing their low-latency proximity hosting offering in NY, London and Tokyo. Most recently Peter led the successful development of the NYSE Technologies business in Asia. Under his leadership, the business established a strong enterprise software and services revenue flow in the areas of order routing, market data and exchange technology. Peter was instrumental in the acquisition of Japan-based Metabit in 2011 and the definition of NYSE Technologies’ global Liquidity Hub strategy. Peter has established deep and successful relationships around the region with exchanges, brokers and buy-sides.

Peter guest lectures on financial technology as part of Singapore Management University’s (SMU) Masters in IT (Finance) program. He is married with 2 children and is an active member of the Irish community in Singapore.