Speakers

Louis Eccleston

President, S&P Capital IQ

Lou Eccleston is president of S&P Capital IQ and Chairman of the board of S&P Dow Jones Indices, businesses of The McGraw-Hill Companies. S&P Capital IQ is a leading provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment advisors and wealth managers around the world. S&P Dow Jones Indices is a global leader in providing investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets. To date, we calculate over 830,000 indices in real-time or at the end of day, and is home to some of the world’s most followed and recognized stock market indices. Lou joined Standard & Poor’s in 2008 as executive managing director of Fixed Income Risk Management Services (FIRMS). Before joining Standard & Poor’s, Lou was chairman and chief executive officer of Pivot Inc., a leading provider of communications networks for institutional investors. Previously, he served as president of Global Sales, Marketing and Services for Thomson Financial, leading the integration of separate sales, service and marketing operations around the world into one globally coordinated entity. Lou was also president of the Banking and Brokerage division for Thomson Financial, its largest business operating group at the time, where he led the development and launch of Thomson ONE. Lou also spent 14 years as a managing director with Bloomberg L.P., where he helped build sales and customer service initiatives for the desktop, trading systems, the electronic brokerage business and media operations.

Edwin Yuen

Chief Analytics Officer, Bank of China

Voted Bank Risk Manager of the Year 2011 by Asia Risk for leading Bank of China Hong Kong (BOCHK) Group in the successful IRB accreditation with Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Edwin Yuen was also the Chairman of the Basel Implementation Committee of the Hong Kong Bankers Association in 2011. He heads the Basel Implementation Office in BOCHK Group and is responsible for the development and implementation of the overall Basel Program for retail banking, corporate banking, and IRB regulatory capital calculation for the BOCHK Group consisting of four banks and BOC Credit Card International. He joined BOCHK in May 2007 and completed the IRB development in a short span of 18 months, and after complying with the regulatory requirement for a two-year model use test, secured the HKMA accreditation on January 1, 2011.

Prior to his current position, Edwin was appointed by the UK FSA as senior examiner for Basel accreditation. He was the Head of Risk Analytics for Standard Chartered Bank based in Singapore, responsible for the successful global implementation of its Basel II Program with the UK FSA for the wholesale banking division. He held various senior positions in Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in Toronto, Canada and United Overseas Bank in Singapore.

Edwin is a Basel implementation expert with over 10 years Basel experience and two successful IRB implementations. He has more than 20 years experience in risk analytics and computer system development and implementation experience.

Edwin holds MBA degree, post-graduate Diploma in Management and B.Sc. degree with honours, all from the University of Hong Kong.

Del Abdullah

Head, Electronic Trading, Daiwa Capital Markets

Del Abdullah is the Head of Electronic Trading Technology at Daiwa Capital Markets. In the last decade, Mr Abdullah has worked on building low-latency routing, crossing, TCA, compliance and algorithmic trading systems in California, New York and Hong Kong. Mr. Abdullah is also a member of the FPL technical subcommittee. Prior to joining Daiwa Capital Markets, he has held various positions at Investment Technology Group.

Shihan Abeygunawardana

Product Manager, Morningstar Data

Shihan Abeygunawardana is the Data Product Manager for Morningstar Asia. Based in Morningstar’s Hong Kong office, Shihan is responsible for strategic business development and product management of both reference and market data solutions in Asia.
Shihan has over 6 years of experience at Morningstar and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Computer Science from Grinnell College, USA.

Rob Agnew

Partner, Marlin & Associates

Rob Agnew leads the technology investment banking advisory firm Marlin and Associates’ business in Asia – and is based in Hong Kong. Rob is Irish by birth and has been living in Asia – and advising technology, information and media businesses in Asia for more than 15 years. For the 10 years immediately before joining M&A, Rob led Matrix Services Limited, a strategic advisory firm that he founded and which specialized in advising western and Asian companies looking to exploit the considerable opportunities in Asia. Rob’s clients included major global corporations such as Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data, the London and Australian Stock Exchanges, Haymarket and Dow Jones. Earlier in his career, Rob worked for Reuters Group plc. in various finance and management roles in the US and in Asia where, among other things, Rob led the finance function for Reuters for the Greater China region.

Rob is a graduate of the University College Dublin and has a Masters from University of South Australia and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School. Rob is married with one daughter and is active in the Irish business community in Asia having been Chairman of the Irish Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong and Asia Pacific Ireland Business Forum.

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.

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.

Shaun Ansell

Head of Legal & Compliance, Mizuho Securities

Shaun Ansell is Head of Legal and Compliance for Mizuho Securities Asia. Prior to assuming his current role, Shaun was the Chief Administrative Officer and Head of Legal and Compliance for Nomura Australia. Shaun has also held senior financial services roles with Lehman Brothers Australia and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

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.

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.

John Best

Director, Kendale Systems and Services

John is a well-known market data industry expert with over 25 years of experience. He is renowned for insightful commentary and a deep understanding of market data systems and vendors.
After graduating, John took a post as junior lecturer and research assistant in the computing dept. of King’s College London. John subsequently moved into the financial markets arena; his experience includes a six-year stint at Salomon Brothers, gaining responsibility for networks and dealing rooms across Europe, and six years with Dow Jones Telerate where he undertook presales support and product management for the Trading Room Systems division. He then moved back to the client environment with West LB, developing a range of systems utilising market data including Real-Time Market Risk Management and a Virtual Dealing Room Systems linking multiple offices and functions.
John has been independent consultant for the last 9 years working with banks, brokers, exchanges and vendors getting the best from their investment in market data systems and technology

Deval Bhalja

BVAL Application Specialist of Data SolutionBloomberg , L.P.

Deval Bhalja is a Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL) Application Specialist. Since June 2012, Deval has been based in Hong Kong, overseeing strategic BVAL initiatives in the Asia-Pac region. Deval joined Bloomberg's New York office in May 2010 and has an extensive background in credit derivatives and structured products. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he briefly worked on BGC
Partners's Structured Trading desk. And, prior to that, he worked at Bank of America for over seven years trading credit derivatives and other structured credit products. Deval has a Master of Science in Finance from George Washington University and has lived in the US, UK and Africa.

Philippe Chambadal

Chief Executive Officer, SmartStream Technologies

Philippe Chambadal, CEO of SmartStream, is also the CEO of DClear - a wholly-owned subsidiary of DIFC Investments and SmartStream's parent company. As the CEO of DClear, Philippe led the acquisition of SmartStream in 2007.

Prior to his appointment he served as a SmartStream board member and actively driving the Company’s progress in the marketplace. Philippe has held senior management positions in software and hi-tech firms for the past 15 years. He was the Founder & CEO of MetaMatrix, the leading data services platform purchased by Red Hat. Prior to MetaMatrix, he was EVP at FAME Software, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company - subsequently acquired by Sungard.

Additionally, Philippe co-founded Reuters New Media and was responsible for the successful launch of the Reuters Terminal, the first Windows-based product launched in the financial market. He also created and led the Research & Analytics division at Instinet.

Tanya Cheng

Head of Business Development, North Asia, Tullett Prebon Information

Tanya is Head of Business Development, North Asia for the information business of Tullett Prebon. A global leading inter-dealer broker that provides financial data for Treasury, Risk management, and Financial vendors. Previously she established her sales record for fundamental research and consulting business in the equity and fund management environment acquiring new business throughout Asia, extensively in China. She has gained professional exposure to diversified sectors in US, UK, HK, and China.
Tanya obtained the MSc degree from London School of Economics, and is currently based in Hong Kong.

Tony Cheung

Product Manager, BNPP Electronic & Algorithmic Trading Services (BEATS), Asia & Japan, BNP Paribas

Tony Cheung is Product Manager for BNP Paribas Electronic & Algorithmic
Trading Services (BEATS), Asia Pacific for Global Equities & Commodity
Derivatives. Tony joined BNP Paribas in 2010, where he is responsible for the design of
BNP Paribas’ cutting-edge Algorithms, Order Routing, and Internal Exchange (BIX) in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to BNP Paribas, Tony worked for RBC Capital Markets for four years
in a similar capacity.

Keith Chow

VP – Cash Trading Systems Development & Support , HKEX

Ben Collins

Sales & Marketing Director, Real-Time Data, Morningstar

Ben Collins is the Sales and Marketing Director of Morningstar Real-Time Data based in the UK, where he is responsible for sales, marketing, channel sales and all other commercial activity for the real-time data business globally.

Previously, Ben was Sales and Marketing Director of Tenfore Systems Limited, before its acquisition by Morningstar in December 2008. Managing specialist sales teams located in London, Frankfurt, New York and Chicago, Ben acts as a real-time data specialist for all other global Morningstar offices.

Before joining Morningstar, Ben worked in various sales management roles at Thomson Financial, Bloomberg and Informa Global Markets. Prior to these roles Ben spent 10 years as an officer in the British Army.

Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in German Studies from the University of Manchester.

David Davies

Global Head, Market Data Control & Efficiency, Standard Chartered

David is the Head of Control & Efficiency (Commercial Services) at Standard Chartered Bank, responsible for the commoditization and recharge of all global spend. Previously David was Head of Treasury Technology and Finance Projects in Asia for Lehman Brothers, Managed the Enterprise Database project at Nomura and built the global request ticketing system interface for Goldman Sachs.

Donald Day

Cash Equity Trading, Deutsche Bank

Donald works at Deutsche Bank’s Cash Equity Trading Desk where he focuses on arbitrage-, correlation- and basket pricing strategies. He also publishes weekly quantitative factsheets for Asia, Europe and the US. Donald joined Deutsche in January 2010 and for 2 years worked in the Quantitative Strategies team, where he researched both low-and high frequency delta-one equity products, focusing on optimal hedging and market microstructure.
Donald holds a MSc from Munich University and an MBA from London Business School. He worked in the capital markets practice of Accenture on projects in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, China and Japan where he designed, built and delivered exchange trading systems and advised clients.

Frank Desmond

Managing Director, Tullett Prebon Information

Frank Desmond manages Tullett Prebon Information’s global business with operations in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. He has been responsible for spearheading Tullett Prebon Information’s market leading growth over the past four years. Tullett Prebon Information provides the financial community with independent market data from the OTC financial markets including Rates, Money and FX, Fixed Income, Volatility, Commodities and Energy. Prior to joining Tullett Prebon Information, he spent more than a decade at Thomson Reuters in a range of legal and business roles. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and served on the executive committee of the FISD for several years. Frank began his career as a corporate lawyer where he worked for several years at international law firm, Clifford Chance LLP.

He was educated at University College Dublin. Married with two children Frank lives near London.

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.

Martin Finniss

Global Market Data Manager, Macquarie Group

Martin is currently the Market Data Manager at Macquarie Group, headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with 25 years plus Market Data experience. Prior to 2006 Martin held a number of similar roles in Market Data Analysis and Project Management roles with Westpac, Citigroup and Salomon Smith Barney after spending 10 years in Technology with Thomson Reuters. Martin started his career as an Electronics Engineer in the Armed Forces.

Jeremy Green

IPUG Asia and Global Head, Market Data, Standard Chartered Bank

Globally responsible for Market Data Services and low latency infrastructure at Standard Chartered Bank, Jeremy has 15 years of experience managing and engineering market data and order execution infrastructure. Current projects include delivering “Market Data as a Service”: an innovative approach to market data operations and associated costs transforming global management expenses into direct, on-demand pricing; “Data unbundling”, the uncoupling of data components from consolidated data vendors and efficient infrastructure re-engineering .

Previous roles have included Information Security audit, six years as a market data engineering Lead with Goldman Sachs Japan, regional market data management with Lehman Brothers Japan, Head of Prime Services and Electronic Trading infrastructure for Mizuho Securities, Japan.

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, RBS Global Markets

Stuart is currently the Asia Pacific Head of Global Trading Technology for RBS, with responsibilty for providing a full spectrum of investment banking related infrastructure technologies, covering 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.

Nicholas Hamilton

Reporter, Inside Reference Data

Nicholas Hamilton is a reporter for Inside Reference Data. He is based in the publication’s London office and has a particular focus on the financial data management industry in Europe.

Mark Hartley

Director for Market Access, Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange

William Heng

Vice President – Sales & Client, Singapore Exchange

William Heng is Vice President of Sales & Clients at Singapore Exchange (SGX), responsible for Colocation Sales. Prior to joining SGX in 2010, Mr Heng had a 10-year stint at SingTel, a leading Asia telecommunications company. While at SingTel, he focused on data centre product offerings such as proximity hosting and managed services. He also worked at Equinix, a global data centre provider actively involved in the financial ecosystem.

Denny Honess

Head of Global Banking and Markets Dedicated Products , Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Japan Securities

Denny Honess is the head of Global Banking and Markets Dedicated Products for Bank of America Merrill Lynch; ‘Dedicated Products’ encompasses Market Data Services, Low Latency Infrastructure and Trader Voice. He has over 12 years industry experience in Europe and Asia and now calls Tokyo home. Denny started his technology career working for Paribas Capital Markets in London. Following the BNP Paribas merger he relocated to Tokyo where he was involved in the migration of legacy platforms such as Teknekron and MKI to Tibco and later RMDS. During his 6 years with Bank of America Merrill Lynch he has spent time between Tokyo and Hong Kong with Asia Pacific responsibility for vendor platforms, Exchange Connectivity, Low Latency Market Data, Middleware services and vendor commercials.

Chris Johnson

Head of Product Management, Market Data Services, HSBC Securities Services

Chris joined HSBC Securities Services in August 2006 and is the Head of Product Management, Market Data Services. Chris was previously at Threadneedle Investments where he was Head of Investment Information Services. Before then he was a Director at UBS managing the business content aspects of their data management programme. Chris started work in the city with Laurie, Milbank stockbrokers, in their futures and options operations team, continuing with Chase Manhattan for a further ten years, culminating in three years as head of the equity derivatives middle office. He was also manager of OTC derivative client valuations at Bankers Trust. Chris is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment

David Lecompte

Strategic Business Development, SIX Financial Information

David Lecompte joined SIX Financial Information’s UK office in 2000 as team leader for the Eurobonds desk, before moving on to Training and Quality Manager for the UK market. He relocated to Paris in 2003, where he held the positions of Head of Business Development and Sales Director for France, Monaco and Andorra. He worked to establish SIX Financial Information as a key player in the French market, contributing to various industry working groups such as MiFID. Since the beginning of 2008, David has joined SIX Financial Information’s global Strategic Business Development team. In his role, David is focusing on Market Development, from market research and intelligence to the analysis of market and customer requirements, with a view to contribute to product and business development strategies. David recently relocated to Singapore to support APAC Strategic Business Development initiatives.
Previously, David Lecompte worked for Thomson Reuters in London as a Data Consultant for Datastream. David Lecompte holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with Honors, and an MSc. in Management from BEM Management School Bordeaux.

Chris Lee

Global Head of Market Access & Electronic Brokerage, ABN Amro Clearing

Chris is currently Global Head of Market Access and Electronic Brokerage for ABN AMRO Clearing. Chris is located in Hong Kong from where he runs ABN’s Market Access providing ABN’s clients around the globe infrastructure access to trade the worlds electronic equity, derivative and commodity exchanges. Chris has built this business up for ABN AMRO Clearing over the last 12 years. Chris has had previous trading roles with Barclays Capital and Natwest Markets, and has also been managing Director for of a large independent electronic trading software vendor.

Chris was a founding trustee of the charitable London foundation; Futures For Kids, aimed at helping less fortunate kids around the world. www.futuresforkids.org.uk

Endre Markos

Director and Regional Head of Execution to Custody, Citigroup

Endre Markos is the Director and Asia Pacific Regional Head of Citi
Execution to Custody, within the Securities & Funds Services Division for
Citi Transaction Services.
Based out of Citi’s Hong Kong office and appointed to this role in August
2010, Endre was initially tasked with leading Citi's Electronic Markets
development in Asia-Pacific, including the CitiDirect® suite of products,
Order Trade Manager (CitiConnect), Execution-to-Custody (E2C) as well
as a variety of other connectivity solutions. E2C quickly became his
primary focus as the industry participants demanded and recognized the
value of this unique and innovative solution.
Endre is additionally in charge of working with the bank's Intermediaries
group to expand Citi's on-exchange clearing platform in Asia-Pacific, with
a focus on the changing roles of local exchanges, clearing and securities
depositories, as well as deploying E2C for Citi’s Investor clients in
cooperation with Open Investor.
An electronic markets specialist and one of Citi’s main spokespersons,
he speaks at conferences regularly throughout the Asia-Pacific region
discussing industry trends, product updates and highlighting his views on
the future of the electronic trading market in Asia.
Prior to joining Citi, Endre was with Bloomberg LP for nearly 15 years

Thomas Monaco

Managing Director, Mizuho Securities

Thomas J. Monaco has been following global financial institutions for the better part of twenty years in various capacities - as a Senior Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as a ranked analyst on the sell-side in Asia and the United States, and as a Co-Portfolio Manager for a financial services dedicated hedge fund. Over that timeframe, Mr. Monaco has been involved with 19 banking crises and has become a specialist in distressed financial institutions. Mr. Monaco has a BS and MBA from Fordham University in New York.

Azhar Muhammad-Saul

Head Of South-East Asia Sales, Bloomberg L.P.

Azhar Muhammad-Saul leads the Asia Pacific team for Bloomberg’s Enterprise Products & Services (EPS) business. Based in Singapore, Mr Muhammad-Saul has nurtured Bloomberg's relationship with industry thought-leaders and client organizations to foster a user community that shares insights, requirements and best practices with EPS leadership, product managers and the network at large.
During his 12 years at Bloomberg, Mr. Muhammad-Saul held various leadership positions in Europe and Asia. As head of EPS sales for London, Mr Muhammad-Saul was part of defining the Bloomberg Value Solutions(BVS) initiative, a consultancy service which helps customers be more productive on the Bloomberg platform. Most recently, he was Head of ASEAN sales for the Bloomberg Professional service where he led the development of a price discovery platform for structured products. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr Muhammad-Saul was an investment advisor and partner at J. Rothschild Partners.

Michael Neff

Market Data Services, Deutsche Bank AG

Michael Neff joined Deutsche Bank’s Market Data Contracts Team back in 2007. He took on the role of heading up the newly created Global Index Team, tasked with putting in place the structure to source, license and manage all of DB’s Index Market Data and Derivative product licensing. Mike has over 25 years of experience in financial services, including having held senior positions at a Technical Analysis Software provider (Aspen Research Group) and heading up the Market Data Services for a Commodities Exchange (New York Board of Trade).

Mike has a degree in Electronic Engineering (and a Master at Fatherhood, having raised 6 kids!).

Miguel Ortega

Market Data Manager, Deutsche Securities Inc

Started my career in Reuters Mexico in 1995 as an installations, field support and open systems manager in charge of technical operations for the country. Transferred to Reuters NY in 1999 where I worked until 2002 as a senior systems engineer in charge of Reuters and Tibco product integration. From 2002 to 2007 I worked for Barclays Capital in NY as a regional Market Data Technical Services manager in charge of all Market Data infrastructure and distribution platforms. In 2007 and until 2008 I joined STAC research, a performance benchmarking company that specializes in low latency benchmarking for capital markets workloads as a Managing Consultant. From 2008 to now I have been working as a Market Data Manager in Deutsche Bank Japan and Regional Head of Market Data Engineering; designing, implementing and supporting Market Data infrastructure as well as Market Data commercial management.

Vinay Pampapathi

Head of Equity Technology, Daiwa Capital Markets

Vinay is Head of Equity Technology at Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong Ltd, managing Equity-related technology systems and projects across the APAC region. Before moving to Hong Kong in 2011, Vinay spent 15 years in various positions in London designing, developing and integrating front, middle and back office systems covering Equities, Derivatives, Risk and Settlements. He has several years of experience in building reference data systems and data warehouses as well as implementing workflow and process management systems.
Vinay holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and a PhD in the field of Medical Electronics.

Chris Pittaway

Director, Cost Optics

Stuart Plane

CEO, CADIS

Stuart is a founder of Cadis and has worked in many capacities within Cadis to expand and develop the business. Stuart combines an in-depth knowledge of the investment world with a solid understanding of IT systems enabling him to provide the right solution for a given client’s need. He has been successfully involved in selling and implementing systems in financial institutions globally. Prior to starting Cadis Stuart was Regional Manager for Charles River Development in the Asia Pacific region responsible for sales, implementation and support.

Winnie Poon

Assistant Vice President, Market Data Department, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Limited

Winnie is an Assistant Vice President of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx). She has been with HKEx for more than 18 years and has held various positions in the market data department - including vendor licensing, marketing and customer support. She was appointed as the Head of Business Development of Market Data Department in 2008 and is responsible for exploring new business for market data. She is focusing on the implementation of the HKEx Orion Market Data Platform (OMD) which will be rolled out by Q2 2013 for the securities market and then by Q1 2014 for the derivatives market. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Geography from the University of Hong Kong and a Master’s degree in Financial Management from the University of London.

Peter Raftell

Head of MDIS Asia, SunGard

Peter Raftell is Head of Market Data and Information Services for SunGard in Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Peter is responsible for implementing SunGard’s MarketMap strategy in Asia including the management of regional operations and sales. Peter has a deep interest in understanding client engagement in Asia and sharing his expertise on the global market data industry.
Peter’s previous role at SunGard was as Sales Manager for SunGard FAME in Asia-Pacific, now consolidated under the MarketMap brand suite of market data solutions. Prior to working for SunGard, Peter held positions at FactSet both in Asia and Europe. Peter holds two Master degrees, in Mechanical Engineering and Economics and Business Administration

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.

Stuart Roberts

VP, Head of Market Data Services, DBS Bank

Stuart is the head of Market Data for DBS Bank having joined the organisation in 2012 and is charged with implementing a centralised market data management structure within the DBS group. Stuart has over 20 years market data and tradefloor technology experience and previously worked for a number of different firms including Citigroup and Schroders.

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.

Timothy St. George (EXCHANGE CG)

Executive Director, Information Products Management, CME Group

Timothy St. George has served as Executive Director, Information Products Management of CME Group since February 2010. He is responsible for creating and executing the sales strategy for CME Group’s market data products and the company’s outbound licensing of its market data intellectual property. St. George recently moved to London with a focus on expanding the company’s market data business into Europe. He represents CME Group as a member of the Executive Committee of the Financial Information Services Division of The Software & Information Industry Association. Prior to assuming his current role, St. George served as Associate Director, Information Products.
Prior to joining the company in 2004, St. George gained 10 years of market data industry experience and was a member of CBOT and CBOE. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).

Douglas B. Taylor

Managing Partner, Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC

Douglas B Taylor is founder and Managing Partner of Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a business consulting organization created in 2006, which has become the industry reference.

Burton-Taylor clients command an estimated 80% share of global revenue in the market data space and include the world’s leading information companies, the largest exchange groups, key government organizations and regulatory bodies on multiple continents, five of the six largest advisory firms serving the industry, and dozens of the most active private equity and investment companies…all of which using Burton-Taylor data as their benchmark.

Mr. Taylor entered the information & news space at Reuters in 1987, where he spent 15 years in North America, South America and Europe, the last 5 of which heading Reuters news marketing and product management globally.

After leaving Reuters, and before founding Burton-Taylor, Mr. Taylor headed the marketing and product development divisions, as well as the Investment Management, Investment Banking & Research, Institutional Equities and Wealth Management business units for Thomson Financial in Asia. He has also served as Chief Marketing Officer at software developer Insurance Technologies and as Manager, Partner Engagement at software giant Microsoft Corporation.

Mr. Taylor has been quoted as a financial information industry expert by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The London Times, The Economist, Dow Jones Newswires, Agence France-Presse and in the biography "Mike Bloomberg; Money, Power, Politics", by Joyce Purnick.

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.

Arjan van Veen

Head of Asian Diversified Financials Equity Research, Credit Suisse

Arjan van Veen is a Director at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong and Head of Asian Diversified Financials and Insurance Equity Research (with specific coverage responsibility for China, HK and South East Asia). His coverage responsibility includes (or has included): HKEx, SGX, Bursa Malaysia, ASX, Iress and Computershare as well as the listed Asian insurers. Before joining the securities industry in 2001, Arjan held various roles (actuarial/strategy) in the insurance/financial services industry. Arjan holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Statistics/Economics from University College London and a postgraduate degree in Actuarial Science from City University, London.

David Weisner

US Tax Counsel for Asia Pacific, Citigroup

David Weisner is based in Hong Kong and is US Tax Counsel for Asia Pacific for Citigroup. He handles the tax issues for variety of businesses through out Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Citigroup in 2003, David worked at Fidelity Investments in Boston as international tax counsel. Prior to Fidelity Investments, David worked for White & Case, a New York based law firm, and Deloitte & Touché. He is a member of the Illinois Bar.

David is President of the Asia Chapter of the Tax Executive Institute (TEI), on the executive committee of the Capital Market Tax Committee (CMTC), on the tax committee for the Hong Kong chapter of Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and leads the FATCA subcommittee for the Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB).

Norimitsu Yasukawa

Information Services, Japan Exchange Group

Norimitsu Yasukawa was Head of Market Data Provision of the Information Services Department at Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), responsible for real-time market data feed service. He joined TSE in 1994, and has experience working in key areas of the exchange such as market surveillance and listing examination. He has been in his current position since 2010.

Philip York

CEO, Alt 224 Group

Mr York is a Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Alt224 group of companies a specialist advisor in the Pure Alpha space. Mr York has been involved in derivatives and equity trading for over 20 years. In 1992, Mr York commenced trading Managed Accounts. In 1996 Mr York formed his first hedge fund and in 2004 sold this business. Through the 90’s he also set up a financial software business building, amongst other things, electronic exchange interfaces. Through to 2007 Mr York formed and oversaw the operations of an FX cash and derivatives business (which included automated market-making). In 2008 Mr York acquired his old funds management business to move back to his speciality of fully automated quantitative trading of the global markets.

Johnnie Yung

Director, Equity ETF, BlackRock, Inc.

Johnnie Yung, Director, is the Head of Index Equity Portfolio Management Group of Asia Ex-Japan region at BlackRock. He is responsible for managing both Equity ETFs and Index Equity institutional mandates in the region. Prior to joining BlackRock in June 2010, Mr. Yung worked as a Portfolio Manager for Dacheng Fund Management Company in China as well as set up its ETF business and platform in Hong Kong. Before that, he was a Senior Director at Royal Bank of Scotland Plc; and was a Vice President for DBS Bank in Hong Kong covering various capital markets initiatives. Previously, Mr. Yung was a portfolio manager for Ontario Teachers' Pension Board in Canada where he was responsible for both active and passive equity portfolio management for over 9 years. He had also been involved in Fixed Income Analytics development for Manulife and managed fixed income portfolios for Crown Life, both in Canada. Mr. Yung earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree from University of Manitoba and a Master of Mathematics degree from University of Waterloo in Canada. He is a fully qualified Actuary and has been accredited Fellow of the Society of Actuary (FSA). He holds the CFA charter.