Speakers
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Executive President, BME Market Data Ramón Adarraga is Director of the Information Business Unit and Director of the International Affairs Division of the Group Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME). As Director of the Information Business Unit of BME, Mr. Adarraga holds the positions of Executive Chairman of BME Market Data S.A. -the company in charge of the generation, commercialization and management of all the market information coming from the different trading platforms and systems operated by BME as well as any other value added information coming from external sources-, and CEO and Managing Director of Infobolsa, S.A. -the commercial vendor shared by BME and DBAG.As the Director of the International Affairs Division of BME, he is responsible for managing BME’s relations with international institutions, federations and regulatory bodies. He has held the Chairmanship of the Management Committee of the European Federation of Securities Exchanges (FESE) and has actively participated, representing BME, in the legislative processes conducted by the European institutions in areas related to the capital markets (Investment Services, Market Abuse, Takeover, Prospectus, clearing and settlement, etc.).Mr. Adarraga has also coordinated the Consulting & IT Business Unit of BME from 2003 to 2010, acting as the Managing Director of BME Consulting until 2010 and he is Board member of Visual Trader Systems, S.L, the European Capital Markets Intsitute (ECMI) and the IEAF (Instituto Español de Analistas Financieros).Ramón Adarraga has an Economic and Business Degree from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE, in Madrid. He has served as professor in International Finance at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas International Division has published a number of articles about international financial markets in different specialized media and he regularly participates in conferences in different international fora, Universities and Business Schools. |
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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. |
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Chief Executive Officer, Egypt for Information Dissemination (EGID) Maher Asham Joined EGID in 2003 as the CEO and a board member. EGID is a totally owned subsidiary of CASE working in the fields of financial information and system development for financial markets. Maher is also the IT Supervisor of CASE since 2004. During that period EGID managed to offer a wide range of information services, consultancy and systems in Egypt and the Middle East as well. Before EGID, Maher worked for Reuters since 1993 in several positions, in Cairo as well as in Geneva, ending as the Marketing and Business Development Manager for East Med. and North Africa. During that period he built the exchange data on Reuters platforms for MENA markets as well as developed several products and services. Maher is also a part time faculty in both the Management and Economics Departments at The American University in Cairo. He has been the IT manager of Santa Fe Drilling Co, and developed several educational simulation models about financial markets. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an MBA in International Business, both from the American University in Cairo. |
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Deputy CEO, Amman Stock Exchange Nader Azar is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), a position he has held since the creation of the ASE in March 1999. During this period the ASE has implemented electronic trading system and all of the rules and regulations required to run the ASE. Mr. Azar was the project manager of the Automation of the ASE. Mr. Azar responsibilities include overseeing the (7) Departments of the ASE. |
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Executive Director - Global Head of Vendor Management, J.P. Morgan Sue leads the centralisation of all external vendor related activity across JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) for Market Data. Her responsibilities include evaluating external market data vendor services and driving a value curve model for delivery of their services in line with Industry best practise. She was previously Head T&O for ICICI Bank and headed Operational Risk & Controls for the EMEA region at JP Morgan for the Investment Bank. Prior to that was Chief Administration Officer & Head of EMEA Vendor Management for JP Morgan Asset Management. 25 year + financial service industry experience. | |
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Head of Strategic Business Development , SIX Telekurs Ivo Bieri is Head of Strategic Business Development and member of the management committee at SIX Telekurs Ltd, a division of SIX Group. He is responsible for the business lead in major regulatory and infrastructure projects, development of the data strategy and product line extensions, as well as M&A activities. Before taking up this role in 2011, he worked in a variety of management positions within the data and product management departments at SIX Telekurs, most recently heading Product Management and Marketing. |
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Executive Director, Exchange Data International Ltd. | |
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CEO and Managing Partner, Screen INFOmatch BV A senior business executive with extensive knowledge and experience related information systems, technology, market & reference data and investment related business processes within the Financial Services industry. Kees started his career in 1982 as a trader in Fixed Income products for 4 years after which he was responsible for sales & marketing at Datastream in Europe. In 1990 he was one of the founders of the Screen group of companies, a boutique advisory firm that specializes in Market & Reference data and Inventory Management solutions. |
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Director, Information System Center,, Istanbul Stock Exchange Ertugrul CAGAN is responsible for market data bussiness within ISE and managing a team that is responsible for running contract relationship with the data vendors. In addition to his 10 years experience in this area, he also involved in developing policies for licencing ISE's Indices for financial products and licencing the ISE data for Index Providers. He has recently lead a project of launching ISE's new Information Distribution Agreement. | |
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Head of Industry and Regulatory Affairs, Interactive Data Corporation Bob is European business lines director, Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data. In this role, Bob focuses on executing product development plans, product reliability, product infrastructure, future business opportunities and the product development process. Bob Cumberbatch joined Interactive Data in June 1998 as production director to run the company's IT operations. He was responsible for the mission critical IT infrastructure with a 24 x 7 data centre, a 24 x 6 help desk, technical support group, network support and project planning. From January 2003, Bob led an international real-time integration programme aimed at integrating the then newly-acquired ComStock's infrastructure into that of Interactive Data. Bob also led Interactive Data's cross-organisation MiFID project team. Prior to his work at Interactive Data, Bob worked for Telerate / Dow Jones Markets for 10 years where he helped to establish an exchange-traded securities service more commonly known as TIQ. Bob held senior management positions as IT strategic planning and IT operations manager for the EMEA region. He has also worked for Mercury Communications (Cable & Wireless) and British Telecom.Bob has an MSc in Networked Information Engineering. |
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Executive Director Worldwide Securities Services, JPMorgan Chase Ludwig D’Angelo manages the Global Instrument Reference Data Utility within Worldwide Securities Services Operations for JP Morgan. He has over 28 years of experience in financial services including front office, risk management, operations, technology and marketing. He has previously held senior positions at Swiss Bank Corp, Bankers Trust, Reuters as well as KPMG Consulting where he was a practice leader in trading technology. He is a frequent lecturer on Securities and Derivatives topics in industry and academia. Early in his career, he was a professional options trader for Oppenheimer & Company. |
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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. |
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Deputy Secretary General, Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchange (FEAS) Susan has worked over the past seven years in the role of Deputy Secretary General within the FEAS region to help develop and promote the member stock exchanges through her work in finance, statistics, report preparation and publication, conferences, advertising and strategic partnerships. FEAS currently has 34 member exchanges covering 30 countries in the Middle East, Asia and South East Europe. |
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Head of Global Market Data Strategy , BNP Paribas André’s role, within BNP Paribas, is to analyse the market data landscape and all factors such as regulations, mergers, IT innovations … that can impact it. His topics of interest are both the offer side (vendors, exchanges, brokers, new ventures) and the demand side (BNP Paribas business lines). Since 2005, he focused on the MiFID directive and its impacts on Market Data and Market structure for the different BNP Paribas business lines. He is very invested in the collaborative approach in different user groups (Cossiom, IPUG, FISD…). Previously Head of BNP Paribas Market Data projects from 2002 to 2006, he has been working in the Capital Market area for 20+ years. He was hired by Paribas in 1990 as a project manager to lead the development of the trading system for Fixed Income and Derivatives. He was then appointed head of IT for trading rooms in Paris where he oversaw support, production, engineering and administration of Market Data and trading systems worldwide. He was part of the Euro and Y2K projects within BNP Paribas. Previously, he worked for two years at Alcatel as a researcher in quantum optics and three years at the financial direction of Ciments Francais, a French cement company, in charge of developing models and simulations for the acquisition department. He holds two MS in Physics and Electrical Engineering. |
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Vice President, Exchange Relations, Morgan Stanley Bill has been in the Securities Industry for 37 years. The last seven years have been with Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. managing Exchange Relations for Market Data. His mission is to expand the uses of exchange information while reducing or eliminating administrative burdens. Immediately prior to his current role, Bill spent 18 months in Egypt working with Chemonics International consulting for the Egyptian Capital Markets Authority and the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange. Bill was a Senior Vice President at the Boston Stock Exchange where he served in many capacities including managing the Trading Floor, Corporate Communications and as the representative to the Consolidated Tape Association. In his early years, Bill worked for Merrill Lynch while putting himself through both under Graduate and Graduate degree programs at Suffolk University in Boston. |
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Chief Operating Officer, Rapid Addition Ltd. Simon has worked extensively within investment banking and has extensive experience of the front office both from a business and IT perspective. |
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Sales Manager Solutions - Italy, Spain and Portugal, Thomson Reuters José Luis Martin is Sales Manager for Enterprise Solutions at Thomson Reuters based in Madrid. Through Enterprise Solutions, Thomson Reuters provides business agility, trust & community connectivity, based on the two pillars that drive the enterprise business strategy - Content and Technology. José Luis has been working for the company since 1995 in different sales positions, from information management systems specialist to real-time and reference data sales manager. José Luis is a member of the Thomson Reuters EMEA-West Solutions management team where he leads Italy, Spain and Portugal business. Prior to his current position, José Luis worked for Hewlett Packard as open systems consultant and ATOS Origin where he started up the TIBCO, a leading enterprise process management software company, business in Spain and Portugal in 1993. During the last eighteen years, José Luis has been in a privileged position to participate in the evolution of the dramatic changes experienced in the financial market data and technology business: from simple real-time data solutions to extraordinary complex solutions mixing ultra low latency data, reference and historical information, under different proprietary and standard technologies. José Luis got his Computer Science Engineering from Polytechnic University of Madrid. |
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Chief Operating Officer, Netik LLC John Mason is Chief Operating Officer, Netik with responsibility for the direct management of the company’s global operations, as well as the strategic and operational leadership of Netik’s sales department. |
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EMEA Market Structure, Deutsche Bank AG Graduated from Edinburgh University with a joint honours LLb (Law and Accounting). Staying in Edinburgh he entered finance in 1990 as an analyst in NatWest's Equity Quants team working on indices then derivative and portfolio risk. Spent 1992-99 as a derivatives broker with responsibility for developing and selling the technology platform. Moved to eCommerce in 1999 then into equity market connectivity and algorithms before taking on current responsibility for European market infrastructure in 2006. Having been involved in multiple equity market structure initiatives (he was on the Board of both BOAT and Turquoise) Stephen's motivation, and remit, is to improve market efficiency to increase trading volumes. Greatest career achievement is finding a job he loves in The City of London while avoiding having to relocate from Edinburgh where he lives with wife, three children and a puppy called Frankie. |
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Managing Director, Arcontech Limited Andrew has over 20 years experience in the market data industry. He joined Arcontech Limited in 1992 from Thomson Financial becoming Managing Director in 2000. He conceived and brought to market Arcontech's CityVision real time market data platform which is now deployed worldwide in mission critical applications from |
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Head of Industry Initiatives, BT Global Banking and Financial Markets, BT Chris Pickles is Head of Industry Initiatives, BT Global Banking and Financial Markets. His responsibilities include interpreting the impact of industry and technology changes and new regulations on BT's customers across the financial services sector globally. With over thirty-five years experience in the financial technology sector, Chris has previously worked as secretary-general of the European Association of Securities Dealers in Brussels, as Head of Exchange Products for Deutsche Boerse in Frankfurt, and as a marketing manager with Reuters internationally. He is a member of the Executive Committee of SIIA/FISD, the global association for the financial information sector, and of the Global Steering Committee of FIX Protocol Ltd. |
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SVP Head of Global Data Products , NYSE Euronext Mark Schaedel is Senior Vice President and Head of Global Data Products for NYSE Euronext and part of the NYSE Technologies division. Mark oversees the Global Data Products business which is responsible for the development and management of information products and services in support of NYSE Euronext global markets. Global Data Products also develops electronic trading and exchange data solutions which provide NYSE Euronext and third-party content through integrated services which are powered by NYSE Euronext’s high-performance software and global SFTI network infrastructure. Mark joined NYSE Euronext in 1999 to lead the effort of launching and developing the Proprietary Data Products group at NYSE. Mark has spent his entire professional career in financial services and was previously COO of StreetServe Inc., a financial services and management consulting organization he helped create. Mark has also held senior roles at ICI/ADP, Inc., a fixed income trading system provider and earlier junior roles in trading & operations with Cowen & co. in NY. Mark earned bachelors degrees in both Marketing and Management from University of South Carolina. |
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Head of Market Data, Mubasher/DirectFN Kevin Swann manages Mubasher / Direct FN's Market Data business globally. Prior to joining Mubasher/Direct FN, Kevin worked for Tradeweb Europe managing their market data business. Kevin has many years experience in the industry having worked at Bloomberg from 1992 to 2003 where his responsibilities included content acquisition, development of analytical applications for different markets and managing the specialist sales teams for EMEA. Prior to joining Bloomberg Kevin worked in the fixed income markets. He has a degree from Leeds University in the UK and is a resident of Dubai. |
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Head of Global Market Data, Nordea Bank AB Claus Thorball is Head of Global Market Data in Nordea Bank. Nordea has recently strengthened the market data area to meet the need for a consolidated and strategically approach to managing market data within the Bank. Managing quality, quantity and service levels across regions, business areas and user groups are in the process of being centralized in Global Market Data in order to maximize the total value of data and minimize the costs. Nordea is a leading North European Bank with around 10 million customers, approximately 1,400 branch offices and a leading netbanking position with 6.1 million e-customers. Nordea was awarded 'Bank of The Year 2010' in Sweden Denmark and Norway by The FT magazine 'The Banker'. Claus joined Nordea in May 2010 after two years heading the Vendor & Sourcing Management department in Saxo Bank. Prior to joining Saxo Bank Claus had a successful career with Nasdaq OMX heading the Global Data Sales department. |
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Managing Director, Global Data Sales, Nasdaq OMX | |
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President, BME Group |