FISD LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
FISD has established a Lifetime Achievement Award in order to recognize the people who have contributed to the major developments and accomplishments of the financial information industry over the past 25 years. The 2009 Award will be presented on Monday, October 5 at the World Financial Information Conference in Athens. Candidates must have been in the industry for more than 15 years and have provided a notable contribution to the market data industry.
Nominees for the Award are vetted by committee and FISD members select the winner via electronic ballot.
2009 Market Data Lifetime Achievement Award Nominees:
2009 Market Data Lifetime Achievement Award Committee:
Frank Desmond, Tullett Prebon Information
Bill Lee, Morgan Stanley
Jarod Hillman, London Stock Exchange
Mike Powell, Thomson Reuters
Reg Pritchard, Rights Management Associates
Barry Raskin, SIXTelekurs
Bernie Weinstein, BGCantor
2005 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Bernie Weinstein
Mr. Weinstein founded ILX Systems in 1988 and as its president and chief executive officer, built it over fourteen years from a start-up to be one of the major market data vendors with over 160,000 users globally at firms including Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and A.G. Edwards. He also managed a major division of Thomson Financial as president of its Sales and Trading Group, which included Beta Systems and Autex. Since joining Cantor Fitzgerald in 2002, he has been responsible for Cantor Market Data, a provider of fixed income market data and commentary, and has overseen its rapid growth. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Kleos Managed Services, a subsidiary of eSpeed, an affiliate of Cantor and a major electronic marketplace and trading technology provider for the capital markets. Kleos provides end-to-end managed technology services to the financial industry, including hosting, communications, network management and support, trading solutions and technology licensing. Prior to founding ILX, Mr. Weinstein was the Chief Information Officer of EF Hutton with responsibility for global information systems (including market data) and telecommunications. Under his direction, EF Hutton introduced in the 1980s a then-revolutionary market data system, AWE (Advanced Workstation for the Executive), which supported market data, information retrieval and office automation functions such as eMail, word processing, and spreadsheets. He was also founder and chief executive of International Brokerage Information Systems, Inc. (IBIS), a subsidiary of the EF Hutton Group,that provided information systems and service to the financial industry globally.
2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Leo McBlain
Mr. McBlain has been Chairman of the Financial Information Forum in NY since 1995. The Financial Information Forum is an industry organization that brings together business and technology executives from exchanges, broker-dealers, vendors and other organizations to address issues related to brokerage industry information and processing systems. FIF with other industry associations have cooperated on industry-wide projects such as Year 2000 testing, decimalization, business continuity planning, market data traffic capacity planning and the recent implementation planning for the SEC’s Regulation NMS. He was chair of FISD from 1990-1995. He spent thirty-five years at ADP Brokerage Services Group, under various incarnations. First, as VP Marketing where he led sales and marketing efforts which gained competitive wins at 15 major brokerage firms including Merrill Lynch and Shearson (now CitiCorp). He introduced the industry's first PC-based terminal system for professional brokers. In 1987, he moved to VP, Industry Relations where he worked closely with client firms regarding the use of real-time market data and brokerage processing services in conformance to exchange and regulatory policies. Previously, Mr. McBlain spent twelve years at GTE Information Systems’ Financial Services Division in marketing. Even earlier, he did sales in various engineering and technology companies including Ultronic, Computest and Honeywell.
