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Sydney

	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.
	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.
	Nigel D'Souza Market Data Manager, Deutsche Bank
	Belinda Gibson Deputy Chairman , ASIC
	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.
	Mike Meaney Managing Director, Asia, Cadis
	Richard Murphy General Manager, Capital Markets, Australian Securities Exchange Richard Murphy, General Manager Capital Markets.
	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.
	Michael Shashoua Editor, Inside Reference Data, Incisive Media
	Michael Shashoua Editor, Inside Reference Data, Incisive Media
	Jake Sweeney Sales Manager, Australia & New Zealand, SmartStream Technologies Limited Jake Sweeney is Sales Manager Australia and New Zealand for SmartStream Technologies. SmartStream is a global software and managed services provider operating in the financial markets sector. Jake has more than 15 years’ experience working in the banking and finance industry with solution vendors including CheckFree, SunGard and Mercator. His breadth of real world experience is supported by having worked in many countries and many functions including support, professional services and presales. Coupling his business knowledge with a solid technical understanding of the challenges faced in the financial services industry today, Jake has a strong focus on the importance of reference data and how it is fundamental in risk mitigation and improved straight through processing.

Tokyo

	David Anderson, FIA Program Director, FISD/Atradia David Anderson is a well know market data consultant on both sides of the Atlantic. He has worked in the market data industry since 1984 - including roles with Telerate, Bishopsgate Systems and he spent nearly 13 years with Reuters culminating in various global marketing roles; predominantly working on market data systems (e.g. Triarch and RMDS). Since 2002 David has been operating Atradia (www.atradia.com), a management consultancy practice focused on the market data industry. He has been quoted commenting on the market data industry in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Business Week and many others. David speaks on the subject of market data at conferences and has moderated a wide variety of industry panel sessions. He edited the respected annual ‘IMD Reference’ book between 2003 and 2009 and most recently he has been very closely involved with the new SIIA/FISD initiative to create a professional certification program for market and reference data practitioners. David also acts as a Program Director for a variety of other FISD activities.
	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.
	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.
	Sally Huxtable Director, Exchange Audits Having completed over 10 years of audits Sally works with over 40 major global exchanges/third party data providers. Sally has over 25 years of experience in the industry. Starting in Merchant Banking sales and trading, moving to project management positions at 3 major data vendors, and Global Data Vendor Manager at Nasdaq Europe. Sally has spent the last 11 years auditing and is now Director of Asia Pacific headquartered ‘Exchange Audits’. Sally has specific audit experience not only in the Global vendor/end user data environment but also in the rapidly growing Market in Asia. Based in Sydney Australia, Sally enjoys any sports you can mention.
	Yasunori Kasai Head of Exchange Traded Instuments, Japan, Thomson Reuters
	Yumiko Ono Managing Editor, WSJ.com Japan, The Wall Street Journal
	Yoshihiko Suzuki Director, Information Services, Tokyo Stock Exchange
	Akifumi Takahashi Director Sales - Japan, Asset Control Japan

Singapore

	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.
	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.
	Frederic Demesy Business Development Manager, Enterprise Content, South East Asia & Japan, Thomson Reuters Frederic has worked for more than 18 years in the financial information business when joining Reuters in 1994. Currently Business Development Manager Enterprise Content for Thomson Reuters, Frederic has worked more than 18 years in the financial information sector. Based in Singapore since 2007 he is responsible for building the Pricing and Reference Data proposition in South East Asia, South Asia and Japan, one of the fastest growing businesses for Thomson Reuters in the region. From 2001 to 2005, Frederic was part of the decision making team in Reuters that developed the original strategic plan that makes Thomson Reuters one of the most respected vendors in the pricing and reference data business today.
	Philip Enness Global Solutions Manager, Banking and Financial Markets , IBM Singapore PTE Ltd Philip has extensive Financial Markets knowledge, gained in a 30-year career in the industry. Philip is currently a key member of the Financial Markets global Industry solutions team at IBM where he has been focusing on the real time and reference data arenas. Philip has worked for IBM in EMEA, North America, Asia Pacific, and China. His experience has been gained in IBM and Logica across a range of roles combined with a 17 year Investment Banking career with Midland Bank (Midland Montagu) and Nikko Europe (Nikko Gilts) where Philip held senior positions in both organizations as Assistant Director and Associate Director respectively. He is also a regular contributor to IBM’s strategic thinking on its Financial Market strategy.
	Nels Friets Senior Vice President, Head of Securities, Singapore Exchange Mr Nels Friets joined SGX as Senior Vice President and Head of Securities on 15 June 2011.His responsibilities include development and management of new products and ensuring the securities business grows in breadth and depth. Mr Friets has a strong track record in the securities industry in Singapore and Southeast Asia since 1994, with key roles in equity research, capital markets and institutional sales. He was previously Managing Director and Head of Equities (ASEAN) for Citigroup Global Markets, Managing Director of CLSA Emerging Markets and Director of Consulting Operations at SRI International. Mr Friets has also held multiple advisory roles including chairing the SGX Securities Advisory Committee, providing strategic advice to Chi-X Singapore, and as a member of the Investment Committee of Singapore Tote Board. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Yale University.
	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.
	Stuart Gurr Head of Global Trading Technology, Asia Pacific , Royal Bank of Scotland Group Stuart is currently the Asia Pacific Head of Global Trading Technology for RBS. His team's responsibilities include the full spectrum of investment banking related infrastructure technologies, comprising electronic trading, market data, eCommerce, grid computing and execution/market connectivity services. The division's product coverage is cross asset-class and extends from front through to back office operations, from client research through to settlement and confirmation. Stuart has previously worked at JP Morgan in various capacities and prior to that spent many years travelling the world with PwC and Accenture advising Financial Services firms on internet-based wealth management and dealing propositions. Originally from the UK, Stuart graduated from university with entirely unfulfilled specialism's in predictive speech algorithms and microprocessor design.
	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.
	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.
	Srini Venkataramani Global Head of Reference Data Strategy, Credit Suisse Srini Venkataramani heads the Asia/Pacific Reference Data Service at Credit Suisse Investment Bank. He is also the global head of Reference Data Control & Governance. Srini has over 20 years of experience in various roles across IT, Strategic Change and Reference Data Management.
	Ben Williams Director of Cloud Services, Asia, Savvis As Director of Cloud Services of Savvis in Asia, Ben Williams leads the cloud business unit for Asia and provides expertise and strategic guidance on how cloud is changing the way companies can do business. Ben works throughout the region building Savvis’ business to provide customers with the agility to meet evolving business demands. With more than 12 years of experience with multinational organizations around the world, Ben has helped shape the company’s international presence and significantly increase its market share. Ben came to Savvis from Microsoft, where his experience was in delivering architectural consultancy in a number of international markets throughout Europe. Ben held a variety of positions acting as a Design Authority and advisor to many government organizations in the UK. Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with Mathematics from the University of Liverpool, UK.