Speakers

Christine Brendle

Publisher, The Wall Street Journal Asia

Christine Brendle is the Managing Director of Dow Jones in Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, she leads the strategic development of Dow Jones throughout the region. In Asia Pacific, Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal Asia, operates Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva and several localized Web sites, including asia.WSJ.com, Chinese-language cn.WSJ.com and Japanese-language jp.WSJ.com.

Ms. Brendle joined Dow Jones in February 2006, following a 17-year career with the Hachette Filipacchi publishing group in Asia, the U.S. and Europe.

From 1995 to 2001, Ms. Brendle served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hachette Filipacchi Asia Pacific and from 1993 to 1995 served as Vice President, Asia Pacific, and Managing Director, Hong Kong and China. Ms. Brendle also served in a number of other roles for Hachette Filipacchi: from 1991 to 1993 for Hachette Filipacchi Japan and Time Hachette Japan; from 1988 to 1991 for ELLE Publishing and Hachette Publications Inc. in New York; and from 1984 to 1988 for Hachette Filipacchi Presse S.A. in France.

Prior to joining the Journal, Ms. Brendle spent several years as a media-industry consultant and publishing entrepreneur. In 2004, she and her partners launched Daily7 and Daily10, two daily English-language newspapers for children.

Ms. Brendle also serves as a foreign trade adviser to the French Trade Commission, a role she has enjoyed since 2000.

Ms. Brendle received an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business Administration of Columbia University in New York, and a diploma from ESSEC (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) in France.

Donald Madura

Global Head of Real-Time Market Data, Citigroup

Don Madura joined Citigroup (CAO office) in August of 2008 as the Global Head of Real Time Market Data. He currently is responsible for market data strategy, optimization, and exchange management and compliance for Citi. Previously Don was the head of Madura Associates, Inc., an international market data consulting firm specializing in the selection and optimization of market data services in open distributed environments, where he worked with extensively with large bulge bracket investment banks. Prior to that Don worked at New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, and Standard & Poors.

James Pak

Chief Strategy & Product Officer, Chi-X Global

As Chief Strategy & Product Officer for Chi-X Global, a leading provider of market infrastructure technologies and trading venues, James leads the organization’s worldwide business strategy for development of new market centers and product innovations. Prior to Chi-X Global, he was Head of Business Development at Instinet.

Before joining Instinet, James served at Citi from 2004-2008 in various executive capacities including Head of Business Development in US Equities, Head of Derivatives DMA and Head of Market Structure Investments. He launched Citi’s first institutional derivatives DMA desk in 2005 and was instrumental in the company’s acquisition of Lava Trading and Knight Trading Group’s Derivatives Markets business in 2004, as well as Citi’s investment in BATS Trading in 2007. During his tenure at Citi, he served as a board member for the Boston Equities Exchange and BATS, as well as a board observer for LeveL ATS.

Earlier in his career, James was Head of Strategic Development at OptiMark, which acquired Ashton Technology Group in 2002 to form Vie Financial Group, where he was appointed Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this, he worked in investment banking at both Merrill Lynch and Lazard, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, debt capital markets and risk management.

Nassar Ahmad

VP Client Operations, GoldenSource Corporation

Nassar Ahmad has more than 20 years experience in Capital Markets. Nassar has worked in Corporate Treasury specializing in foreign exchange hedging and trading and then in implementing financial solutions across different sectors within Capital Markets, latterly specializing in data management solutions. He has undertaken data management projects throughout Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. Nassar is a delivery focussed product specialist with experience of implementing data management solutions across the breadth of Capital Markets including asset management, corporate & investment banking and securities servicing.

Oliver Albers

Senior Managing Director, Market Data Distribution, NASDAQ OMX

Oliver Albers is Head of Global Sales and Account Management for NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products. The Global Data Products team is focused on creating innovative real-time and historical data products that provide unsurpassed market transparency to institutional, retail and individual investors. Mr. Albers and his team are responsible for providing value-added consultative services to all NASDAQ OMX market data vendors and for managing relationships with data subscribers. Prior to this role, Mr. Albers held other sales and product management positions at NASDAQ OMX and was instrumental in the launch and implementation of many new products including the NASDAQ Closing Cross, NASDAQ TotalView, Velocity and Forces, Market Pathfinders, Market Replay and ModelView. Mr. Albers holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from Ohio University and a Masters in Business Administration from The George Washington University.

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.

Mark Benfield

Regional Director, Asia Pacific, ICAP

Mark Benfield is the Regional Director responsible for the overall Market Data businesses in the Asia Pacific region for ICAP*. His senior role encompasses overall management of our regional commercial business initiatives, product development, global strategic marketing and overall vendor and distributor engagements for the ICAP Information Group. He is based in the ICAP operations in Sydney, Australia and reports directly to Mark Yallop, Chief Operating Officer for the ICAP Group, based in London.
Prior to joining ICAP in 2004, Mark held a number of senior management positions in the Market Data Industry over the previous 10 years located in Asia. These included, Dow Jones Telerate, BRIDGE Information Systems and Moneyline Telerate where he was Director of Business Development - Asia. Mark Benfield was also an International Private Banker in the London market, and is an accredited FSA and ACI Member.

David Berry

FISD IPUG and COSSIOM Executive Committee Member & Market Data Global Sourcing, UBS AG

In December 2008, David Berry joined UBS in the Market Data Global Sourcing department He was Head of Procurement and Cost Control Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets Europe from May to Nov 2008. From 2006 to 2008 he was Global Head of Market Data at Barclays Capital, the Investment Banking arm of Barclays Bank PLC. From 2001 to 2006 he worked for SGCIB, the Corporate & Investment Banking arm of Société Générale Group. He first worked as Head of Supplier Management for Market Data Services and held a number of managerial positions within SGCIB’s Information Technology department. He was appointed Global Head of Market Data Commercial in 2004. From 1993 to 2001, David worked for Morgan Stanley, first in the Fixed Income, Commodities and Foreign Exchange department, where he held Sales and Trading posts in Frankfurt and Paris. Later, he worked in their Market Data and Technology department in London. He is Vice-President of COSSIOM in charge of relations with IPUG, Member of the Executive Committee at IPUG and Co-Chair of the Consumer Constituent Group at FISD. A French national, David was educated in Germany where he holds a “Diplomkaufman.” He also earned a “Diplome des Grandes Ecoles” degree in Paris. Married with three children, David is a keen rugby and ice-hockey player.

David Blitzer

Managing Director & Chairman of the Index Committee, S&P Indices

David M. Blitzer is managing director and chairman of Standard & Poor’s Index Committee with overall responsibility for index security selection, as well as index analysis and management.

Prior to becoming Chairman of the Index Committee, Dr. Blitzer was Standard & Poor’s Chief Economist. Before joining Standard & Poor's, he was Corporate Economist at The McGraw-Hill Companies, S&P's parent corporation. Prior to that, he was a Senior Economic Analyst with National Economic Research Associates, Inc. and did consulting work for various government and private sector agencies including the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the National Commission on Materials Policy, and Natural Resources Defense Council.

Dr. Blitzer is the author of Outpacing the Pros: Using Indices to Beat Wall Street’s Savviest Money Managers, (McGraw-Hill, 2001) and What’s the Economy Trying to Tell You? Everyone’s Guide to Understanding and Profiting from the Economy, (McGraw-Hill, 1997). In the year 2000, Dr. Blitzer was named to SmartMoney magazine’s distinguished list of the 30 most influential people in the world of investing, which ranked him seventh, and in the year 1998, Dr. Blitzer was named the nation’s top economist, receiving the Blue Chip Economic Forecasting Award for most accurately predicting the country’s leading economic indicators for four years in a row. A well known speaker at investing and indexing conferences, Dr. Blitzer is often quoted in the national business press, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Financial Times, and various other financial and industry publications. He is frequently heard on local and national television and radio.

A graduate of Cornell University with a B.S. in engineering, Dr. Blitzer received his M.A. in economics from the George Washington University and his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

Rupert Bull

Managing Partner, Expand Consulting

Rupert is a Managing Partner and one of the founding partners of Expand Consulting (Expand). Expand delivers timely, actionable intelligence to its global clients on evolving trends across their complete spectrum of investment banking and wealth management activities. “Through decision-support and research services, Expand has been systematically transforming the way the world's financial markets make business and technology decisions. These unique decision-support services enable the development, validation and execution of better business and technology strategies, enabling organizations to grow, compete and operate with increased effectiveness.” Rupert conceived and launched the Market Data Forum in London in 2005 as a platform for senior market data executives to share insight and experience in a collaborative environment. “It is our belief that nothing that happens in market data or the business is completely unprecedented, and with a strong peer group to aid in the setting of best practice and decision-making, everyone benefits.”

Magnus Cattan

Director - Business Development (Asia), Interactive Data Corporation

Magnus Cattan is business development director, Interactive Data (Asia). Based in Hong Kong, he is focused on sales development and strategy for fixed income and structured products, as well as Interactive Data’s pricing and reference data services in Asia.

From 1999, Mr Cattan worked with Interactive Data’s fixed income descriptive data team and in 2000 he was asked to set up an evaluations support team. From 2001 to 2004, Mr Cattan was manager of the European bond support team, working on several long-term projects including the implementation of evaluations for the European and Asian Lehman Indices, European asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS).

From April 2005, Magnus Cattan was manager, Fixed Income and Derivatives, responsible for Interactive Data's valuation business in Europe. During this time he helped to build, promote and market several specialist offerings such as a risk and analytical datafeed, pre-payment sensitive European ABS and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) evaluations, credit default swap valuations, interest rate swap valuations and, most recently, valuations for highly complex structured products.

Mr Cattan has also worked as a sales and marketing associate for Gartmore Asset Management's Institutional Fixed Income and Currency Overlay Funds.

Bryan Chan

Senior Vice President, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

Bryan joined the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) in August 2000 as the Senior Vice President responsible for Group Risk Management. Bryan was appointed Deputy Head of the Clearing Division of HKEx responsible for the operation and business development of the clearing and settlement of exchange trades in April 2001. Since 1 August 2005, Bryan has been the Head of Information Services Department of HKEx. The Department was recently renamed as the Market Data Department.

Before joining HKEx, Bryan had worked in the Administrative Officer grade for the Hong Kong Government for over 12 years. His postings in the government included Trade Department, HK Government’s delegation to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva and Financial Services Bureau.

Bryan graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering major in Computer Engineering.

Deborah Ciervo

Senior Director, International Products, Dow Jones Indexes (A CME Group Company)

Victor Ekong

Senior Vice President, Head of Market Data Technology and Infastructure, Citigroup

Victor Ekong is the Asia Pacific Head of Market Data Services, managing platform solutions for real-time financial data in a complex environment. He has more than 16 years experience in the financial industry, having worked as a vendor before joining Citi. He was based in the US prior to assuming his current role in Asia.

Steve Ellenberg

Americas Lead, MDX Consulting, MDSL

Steve joined MDSL in 2012 as the Americas Lead on the MDX Consulting Team. Steve has over 20 years’ experience in a wide range of market data management activities at Tier 1 investment banks and their asset management divisions, as well as at several vendor organizations. This experience on both sides of the negotiating table has honed his ability to provide spend reduction solutions and expert market data management guidance to consumer organizations. In 2011 Steve consulted at BNY Mellon, and was also a Co-Chair for the Consumer Constituency Group at FISD. From 2005 to early 2011, Steve was a Vice President on the Market Data Sourcing Team at Credit Suisse, primarily focused on negotiating reference data licensing agreements. While at Credit Suisse Steve later managed the global consolidation and centralization of all index licensing agreements, implemented structured index licensing negotiations, and provisioned Expense Management with index licensing spend metrics. Prior, Steve was a Vice President on Citigroup Asset Management’s Vendor Management Team, until CAM was acquired in August 2005. In early 2004 Steve consulted to the Vendor Management Team at Lehman Brothers. Prior, Steve was a Reference Data Licensing Analyst on the Vendor Management team at Morgan Stanley from 1997 through 2003, and previously was on the Fixed Income Trading Technology Team at CS First Boston. Prior to 1997 Steve assisted in business development at Tudor Software, and was a Senior Analyst on Data Support teams at Telekurs, Indepth Data, and Integrated Analytics (ITG). A graduate of New York University and residing in Manhattan, Steve enjoys travel, reading, music and alpine skiing.

Rick Enfield

Product Business Owner, Asset Control Systems, Inc.

As a product business owner, Rick Enfield is responsible for developing and implementing overall solution strategies based on industry trends and customer needs, defining growth opportunities, and influencing sales and channel strategy for Asset Control’s AC Plus products. Mr. Enfield has more than 25 years of industry and product management experience in financial services and technology. Prior to Asset Control, he was chief operating officer at Citadel Associates and led the product management team at Charles River Development.

Tom Etheridge

Managing Director, Market Data Services, Jordan & Jordan

Tom Etheridge is Managing Director of Market Data Services for Jordan & Jordan. Tom joined Jordan & Jordan in 2003. In his current role, Tom is responsible for managing client engagements as well as assisting customers with data compliance, cost rationalization and managed services. Tom is also responsible for service delivery for DART Data Management, offered by NYSE Technologies in partnership with J&J. Prior to joining J&J, Tom served as Director at the Chicago Board Options Exchange and Senior Vice President at Citadel Investment Group. Tom holds a Bachelor of the Arts in Computer Sciences from Kalamazoo College.

Bradley Firminger

Sales Director, North America, MDSL

Bradley Firminger leads MDSL’s North America market data operation from the New York City offices. He joined MDSL in 1999 after implementing MDM (Market Data Manager) at Morgan Stanley. Prior to that he was a market data analyst working on the trading floor with Swiss Bank (now UBS) and started up the market data team in New York for CIBC. Living in Manhattan, Bradley is a Canadian, married to a working New York actress.

Kathleen Grey

Associate Director, Advanced Execution Sales, Asia & Japan, BNP Paribas

Tinku Gupta

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

Ms Gupta is responsible for business development of exchange market data that includes Straits Times Index and its index series, price feeds and listed company information. She also manages trading access into SGX. As part of SGX’s Reach initiative announced in June this year, she leads the set-up of local connectivity hubs in key liquidity venues around the world like Tokyo, London, New York and Chicago and the co-location service to provide unparalleled speed of access to the trading community. Ms Gupta joined SGX in 1996 through SIMEX (Singapore International Monetary Exchange) prior to its merger with Stock Exchange of Singapore. In the last 14 years, she has played several key roles in technology-centric initiatives. Under her program management leadership, SGX has successfully deployed the Securities Trading Engine in 2008 and Derivatives Clearing Engine in 2009. Prior to joining SGX, Ms Gupta was with Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai, India where she had led a number of solutions development and IT project management assignments. Ms Gupta holds a Master’s Degree (First Class Honours) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.

James Hammond

EVP, ISI Emerging Markets (A Euromoney Institutional Investor Company)

James Hammond is Executive Vice President of ISI Emerging Markets, and responsible for Marketing and Product Development. He started with ISI in May of 1997.
Prior to his current position, James was the company's Regional Director for Latin America, Country Manager for Chile, and Country Manager for Mexico.
Before joining ISI, he was Associate Publisher for Latin America with World Times, Inc. James holds an MSM from the Arthur D. Little School of Management in Cambridge, and a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University in New York.

Keiren Harris

Principal, Pacific Information Services

Keiren successfully advises financial institutions and corporations on Business Development Strategies, Market Data and e-trading requirements, opening doors across the Asia-Pacific region since 1990. Hong Kong based, Keiren has a wealth of experience with projects focused on leveraging information as a business resource and providing original research analysis. Clients include Jardine Fleming, Dow Jones, Queensland Government, Calyon, Mizuho, and Tullett Prebon Information.

Kerr Hatrick

Director, Quantitative Products, Global Markets Equity, Deutsche Bank AG

Kerr received his PhD in Mathematical Biology from University College London. He has worked both in the risk management and pricing of credit derivatives (Dresdner Bank, Lehman Brothers), and as quanititative strategist for both Goldmans and Deutsche, where his research spanned both high and low frequency delta-one products. He has constructed and managed equity portfolios in excess of $100M, and his software has won numerous industry awards for Deutsche Bank. He currently heads Quantitative Products One in Asia.

Sally Huxtable

Director, Sales and Marketing, MicroRose Limited

Having completed around 1,200 audits MicroRose is the leading global audit firm working 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 10 years auditing and is now Global Sales Manager with MicroRose.
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.

Kevin B. Iwanaga

Director, Head of Market Data Strategy, Asia Pacific, Citigroup

Mr. Iwanaga has 20 years experience in the financial information industry and is the Asia Pacific Regional Head of Market Data Strategy & Business Management for Citigroup. As Regional Head of MDS Strategy for Citi Mr. Iwanaga is responsible for executing one of the industries largest global market data restructuring & reengineering efforts across the region in addition to managing one of the regions largest market data budgets. Mr. Iwanaga started his career with Moody's Investors Service in the US then moving to Dow Jones Telerate in Japan before joining UBS (Swiss Bank Corp. at the time) and transferring to Zurich, Switzerland to manage market data in Europe. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr.. Iwanaga also held the position of Vice President and Regional Market Data Manager for both Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers in Asia as well as being retained on a number of electronic trading consulting roles for various banks and vendors in Asia.

Vincent Kwan

Director and General Manager, Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited

Vincent Kwan is Director and General Manager of Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hang Seng Bank and a leading index compiler that provides a comprehensive range of indexes for the Hong Kong and mainland China markets.

Vincent has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry. He joined Hang Seng Bank in 1998 as Chief Economist and continued to work in that capacity until October 2007. In March 1999, he was appointed Director and General Manager of Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited. Prior to joining Hang Seng, Vincent worked as a sell-side analyst with responsibility for analysing listed companies and various industries as well as for economic forecasting.

Kenny Lam

Vice President & Head of Investment Operations, AIG Asset Management Asia Ltd.

Kenny Lam is Vice President, Head of Investment Operations with AIG Asset Management Asia. He joined the firm in 2006 and is responsible for investment operations services to insurance affiliates in the Asia Pacific region (ex Japan) within AIG and oversees investment operation teams in SE Asia, China, Taiwan and Korea. Prior to joining AIG, Kenny worked with Allianz Global Investors for 19 years in various operations functions. He was Head of Operations for Asia Pacific ex Japan and COO of their Singapore entity before departing.

Rob Lane

Markets Manager, Electronic Trading, Interactive Data, Interactive Data Corporation

Rob Lane is markets manager, Electronic Trading, providing direction for Interactive Data’s sales, marketing, products, operations and technology in Europe. Rob works alongside the management team of Interactive Data 7ticks, a market leader in providing electronic trading infrastructure services. He also works closely with Interactive Data’s teams in Asia to build a sales pipeline focused on providing datafeeds, desktop solutions and web-based solutions to the electronic trading marketplace.

Prior to his current role , Rob Lane was regional sales director for Interactive Data's Real-Time Services and Managed Solutions businesses covering the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. He has worked for Interactive Data for 14 years within the Real-Time Services business.

Grace Lau

, Bloomberg L.P.

Matthew Lempriere

Head of Sales, Asia/Pacific, BT

Wayne Lim

Vice President, Global Reference Data - Strategy & Change, Barclay's Capital

Wayne Lim has recently joined Barclays Capital in Singapore and heads the Global Reference Data (GRD) Strategy and Change team for Barclays Capital in Asia Pacific. The team is responsible for initiating, delivering and supporting all strategy and change projects in Asia Pacific for GRD. Wayne has had over 12 years experience working in financial institutions and consulting firms, where he has delivered a broad range of projects, including process reengineering, process improvement and performance management projects. Prior to joining Barclays, he was working in UBS Investment Bank for 4 years driving a Process Excellence programme in Asia Pacific and covering the Emerging Markets branches as a business manager.

Donald Madura

Global Head of Real-Time Market Data, Citigroup

Don Madura joined Citigroup (CAO office) in August of 2008 as the Global Head of Real Time Market Data. He currently is responsible for market data strategy, optimization, and exchange management and compliance for Citi. Previously Don was the head of Madura Associates, Inc., an international market data consulting firm specializing in the selection and optimization of market data services in open distributed environments, where he worked with extensively with large bulge bracket investment banks. Prior to that Don worked at New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, and Standard & Poors.

Akiyoshi Maruyama

Director of Information Services Department, Tokyo Stock Exchange

Mr. Akiyoshi Maruyama is Director of the Information Services Department at Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. (TSE), which is in charge of the TSE’s diversified information product line-up. He oversees the provision of TSE market data, such as stock prices, timely disclosure of company news and reference data (corporate actions and securities codes) and index products.

Mr. Maruyama joined the TSE in 1984 and built his career by gaining experience over many years in various business areas such as TSE IT planning development, listing examination and market regulation & planning.

Prior to his current role, he spent 3 years on dispatch to the Accounting Standards Board of Japan as a Technical Manager, developing accounting standards and various other practices pertinent to business finance systems.

Dennis Mwansa

Senior Infrastructure Manager, Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd

Dennis Mwansa is a Senior Manager at Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. Mr. Mwansa has spent the last 12 years doing various technology infrastructure roles in the Investment Banking industry. Most recently, Mr. Mwansa's roles have been in managing trading technology infrastructure such as Market Data, Exchange connectivity platforms, eCommerce & electronic trading infrastructure and Middleware Messaging platforms. Prior to working in the Banking industry, he worked for a Software subsidiary of a major European aerospace and defence contractor firm as a Computer Aided Design (CAD) application consultant. Mr. Mwansa has a PhD in Computer Science specializing in Pattern recognition

Sanker Narayan

Director, Equity IT APAC, Credit Suisse

Sanker Narayan heads Client Trading and Execution IT for Credit Suisse in AsiaPAcific, covering Electronic trading and Cash Equities Technology across the region. With Credit Suisse for 10 years, and with an overall experience of more than 20 years in FInancial Services IT, Sanker has previously worked with Bank of America and Citicorp in technology functions across Investment Banking and Corporate and Retail Banking.

Barnaby Nelson

Head of Business Development, BNP Paribas

Barnaby Nelson is Head of Business Development for Asia at BNP Paribas Securities Services, based in Hong Kong. Having grown up in the territory, Barnaby previously launched and managed Thomson Reuters' reference data business in Asia-Pacific, focusing on core issues such as asset valuation and back office processing. Prior to that, he has worked in the financial services industry in London, Luxembourg and New York.

Tony O'Donnell

Regional Head, Data Services Group, Operations, UBS Investment Bank

Tony spent the first part of his career in manufacturing industry working for Xerox and then Ford. However, his experience in Operations, Finance, Audit and Treasury provided the bridge in moving over to Investment Banking Operations. He has spent the last 6 six years working primarily in Cash Equities and Equity Derivatives, both in Operations management and project roles. He moved into the Data space earlier this year.
Tony is a graduate of Imperial College London, has an MBA, and has spent 10 years working in various locations around Asia.

Daniel Poon

Vice President, Market Data Department, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

Daniel is the Vice President of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx). He joined HKEx in April 2001 as the Head of Derivatives Clearing Operations responsible for managing the two derivatives clearing houses. Since May 2009, Daniel has been appointed the Head of Sales and Marketing Team of the Market Data Department to lead the promotion of HKEx's information services.

Before joining HKEx, Daniel was the Deputy Managing Director of TD Waterhouse, Hong Kong and Deputy Branch Manager of the Toronto Dominion Bank, Hong Kong.

Andrew Reeve

Head of Sales, Asia Pacific and Middle East, Tullett Prebon Information

Andrew is responsible for building on Tullett Prebon Information’s success in Asia Pacific and for continuing to grow the business across the regions financial markets. Before joining, Andrew worked at Thomson Reuters for 11 years in support, product and commercial roles in Sydney, Singapore and most recently Japan, where he was responsible for the management of some of the company’s largest global clients in Asia Pacific. Andrew was educated at Macquarie University in Sydney, and is based in Singapore.

Olivier Rose

Head, Projects & International MD, Societe Generale Securities Services

He began his career in 1987 at JP MORGAN in Paris as Head of back-offices then spent a few years as Head of Operations - including Services for Institutional in Europe, US and Middle-East area - within major financial players (NOMURA INTERNATIONAL, CREDIT LYONNAIS AM, ROBECO GROEP) and, finally, he worked for the asset management company of a large Insurance Group. He had a long experience in various subjects regarding Market and Insurance activities and specifically Trading, Operations, Fund Administration, Accounting and IT developments also in 2004 he joined SGSS to participate to the ALFAS Project, taking in charge the Data Market matters in Europe. Olivier is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside after a master in management at La Sorbonne in PARIS.
He is also, since 1988, lecturer in various educational financial and market programs (AFG-HEC, University PARIS X etc..). He had participated, and still participate, in various influential bodies to sponsor securities services and market participants point of view.

Cynthia Sachs

Head of Pricing Valuation Service, Bloomberg

Cynthia Sachs is Head of BVAL's GSAC Division focusing on its expansion into illiquid asset classes. Ms. Sachs recently joined Bloomberg from Morgan Stanley where she was the Head of High Yield Corporate Credit within its Global Proprietary Credit Group in New York and London. Ms. Sachs was Senior Portfolio Manager, Senior Trader and Investment Committee Chairperson of Morgan Stanley's multi-strategy credit business, managing $5 billion in long/short assets (cash and CDS) for both structured product issuance (CLOs) and relative value proprietary trading portfolios. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Ms. Sachs was a Managing Director at NATIXIS where she built and ran the Media, Entertainment, Telecommunications & Technology
Group within the U.S. Leverage Finance Group. In that capacity, she worked closely with various private equity sponsors in connection with their leveraged buyouts transactions as well as advising NATIXIS' Private Equity Sponsor Group on their limited partnership stakes. Ms. Sachs started her career as a sell side banker at Bank of America where she worked directly with both large corporate and middle market issuers in structuring and underwriting debt deals. Ms. Sachs has held various board of director seats and holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business and a BS from the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business.

Christine Sheeka

Product Manager, MTS

Christine joined MTS in 2004 and is responsible for product development for MTS Data. In her role, she has led development on several MTS Data products and policies, and works closely with both internal and external teams to create and deliver client driven products and services using the benchmark data from the MTS platform. Christine is also MTS’ representative with the FISD, the Exchange Constituency Group and Executive Committee.

Paolo Sivillica

Chair, FISD Exec Committee / Head, Global Data Acquisition, SIX Telekurs Ltd.

Daisuke Tanaka

Head, Information Services Department, Tokyo Stock Exchange

Mr. Daisuke Tanaka is Head of Market Data Provision of Information Services Department at Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. (TSE). The Market Data Provision Team is responsible for real-time data feed service, which is mainly provided to vendors and security firms. With the launch of Arrowhead, which started in January, 2010, TSE has expanded quote depth and lowered latency.

He joined the TSE in 1997 and has experienced working in key areas of the exchange such as market surveillance and listed company relations. Mr. Tanaka holds a Masters in Business Administration from Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Fran Thompson

Business Development Director, SunGard

Hong Kong local since 1995 Fran has held leading regional management roles in financial services at Thomson, FTSE and currently SunGard Global Trading where as Business Development Director is responsible for growing the business in a challenging environment. Graduating in French and Spanish from the University of Wales, Cardiff, Fran holds an Executive MBA from Kellogg-HKUST and is involved in helping mentor new young management talent.

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.

Giuseppe Trimarchi

Head of Business Development, Data Solutions, Bloomberg

Giuseppe Trimarchiis the Head of Business Development for the Data Solution Business at Bloomberg LP. He oversees new initiatives in the area of reference data and valuation services (BVAL). Previously, Mr. Trimarchi was Head of Product Development – Americas for the OTC pricing and Market data division at Tullett Prebon in New York. Tullett Prebon is one of the leading global interdealer-broker and a primary provider of market data information to vendors, market makers and asset managers in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Before joining Tullett Prebon, Mr. Trimarchi served as a Credit Derivatives Analyst at CDR, an independent credit research provider and as a Credit Analyst at the New York branch of Unicredit, one of the top Italian banks. Mr. Trimarchi earned his MBA from Columbia Business School and his MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico of Milan.

Robert Utter

Commercial Manager Asia Pacific, Interactive Data

Robert Utter is commercial manager, Asia Pacific, Interactive Data. He is responsible for the commercial management of data content acquisition and client contracting for the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, Robert had roles managing data content, product development, and online services.
Robert joined the business 26 years ago and has been responsible for a diverse range of business functions over the years, including the roles of data content manager and electronic publishing manager. This experience has given Robert a broad perspective on the market data industry, as well as detailed insight into the uses of market data by institutional clients and third party partners.

Robert has a Bachelors degree in English Literature from Harvard University.

Liansheng Xie

Executive Vice President, SSE Infonet

Xie Liansheng is Executive Vice President of SSE InfoNet Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Shanghai Stock Exchange(SSE) and responsible for disseminating SSE’s market data, including real-time quotation, statistics and disclosure of company news.
Xie Liansheng joined SSE in 1996 and started with SSE InfoNet Ltd in 2004.
Xie holds an Ph.D in Economics from School of Economics in Fudan University.