Speakers

Thorold Barker

Editor, Heard on the Street, Wall Street Journal

Thorold Barker is the editor of the Heard on the Street section of The Wall Street Journal. He began working at the Journal in July 2008. Prior to joining the Journal, Mr. Barker worked at the Financial Times from 1998 until mid-2008 as a correspondent and an editor. From 2004 to 2008 he was the U.S. Lex editor writing commentary on technology, media, telecoms, macro economy and Wall Street. From 1994 to 1998 Mr. Barker worked for Bain and Company, a global business and strategy consulting firm. Thorold Barker graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University with a degree in Spanish and Italian.

Robert Reich

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley

Robert B, Reich, one of the nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written thirteen books, including his latest best-seller, “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future,” and “The Work of Nations,” which has been translated into 22 languages. His syndicated columns, television appearances, and public radio commentaries reach millions of people each week. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, and Chairman of the citizen’s group Common Cause.

Carl Abrams

Financial Services Sector Business Executive, , IBM

Dr. Abrams is the Financial Services Sector Business Executive for the IBM Research Division. He received his BS in Chemistry from the University of Connecticut, his Masters in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and his Doctorate in Computing from Pace University. Dr. Abrams began his career as a chemist working for Lederle Laboratories. Between 1977 and 1992 he worked for Chase Manhattan Bank. He held the positions of Division Executive (CIO) for the Trading and Treasury department and the International Individual Bank. From 1992 to 1997 he was the Director of Applications Development for Swiss Bank in New York. In 1997, he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (then Coopers&Lybrand) in the Financial Services/Capital Markets practice where he specialized in program management. In January of 2003, Dr. Abrams assumed his current position as Financial Serivces Sector Business Executive within IBM Research.

Rolf Agather

Director of Research and Innovation, Russell Indexes

Rolf Agather is the managing director of research and innovation for Russell Investments’ family of global indexes, which offer an objective and transparent way to accurately measure distinct segments of the global market. Approximately 10,000 companies, or 98 percent of companies globally, find their place in this benchmark. In this role, Rolf is responsible for creating new index concepts and publishing compelling research on capital markets, indexation, and investment management.
Rolf has been involved with the Russell Indexes in a number of roles during his career at Russell. He served as product manager from 1993 to 1995 and was the manager of the Russell index operations group from 1989 to 1991.
In addition to his Russell experience, Rolf was a vice president and director of the portfolio products business at FactSet Research systems in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was responsible for the development of FactSet’s entire suite of portfolio management products, including the portfolio analysis and SPAR (style, performance, and risk) applications.

Ali Al Hashimi

Executive Vice President, Borse Dubai

Mr. Al Hashimi holds an MBA degree from University of Baghdad, he has 17 years of enriched experience in Banking and Capital Markets services, he also had utilized part of his career in delivering University lectures and Seminars in the areas of the Business Administration in two main Universities in Jordan. Later he joined the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, First Gulf Bank and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, where he headed key position as the Head the of Finance Operations and the GM of the brokerage arm of the Bank, he then joined Dubai Bank in 2006 as Chief Operating Officer, in late 2009 he joined Borse Dubai in the capacity of Executive Vice President, Heading the Financial Services Divisions and organization wide strategic projects. Moreover, he was successful in introducing an innovative product to the capital markets with the support of VISA International, establishing a full fledge Registrar department and commercialising Market Data. He played a vital role in setting the business model and execution of the recent acquisition of Dubai Financial Market to NASDAQ DUBAI.

Furthermore, Mr. Al Hashimi contribution to the IPO & Registrar industry is well known in UAE where he was one of the first to establish such business on corporate standard level, he was a project manager for more than 40 IPO’s in the region on a Lead or Co-Lead Manager level. He was also the Project Manager for the successful land mark transaction of converting Dubai Financial Market “DFM” into a Public Joint Stock company. He also managed to establish and sustained a strong business relation with different partners where eventually contributed to the organization profitability.

Rashed Al-Baloushi

Deputy Chief Executive, Director of Operations, Abu Dhabi Securities Market

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.

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.

Peter Appert

Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Piper Jaffray & Co.

Peter Appert is a managing director and senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray specializing in the business and information services sectors. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray in 2009, Appert spent six years at Goldman Sachs covering the publishing and information services sectors. He previously was affiliated with Alex. Brown, where he was among the first analysts to cover the education industry. Appert began his career at C.J. Lawrence as a media analyst, also serving as the firm's director of research for five years. Appert has received wide recognition in the investment and business communities, including 22 designations in the annual Institutional Investor "All-America Research Team" survey. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford, a master's degree from New York University, and a bachelor's degree from Lafayette College. Appert is a member of Media and Entertainment Analysts of New York and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Maher Asham

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.

Werner Bürki

Chief Executive Officer, SIX EXFEED Ltd.

Werner Bürki has been a member of the Management Board of the SIX Swiss Exchange since July 2002 and, since October 2001, has held the position of CEO of SIX Exfeed Ltd, a company he established as a European provider of raw financial data. He has also been a member of the STOXX Supervisory Board since December 2002 and its Chairman since April 2006. He started his career in 1992 as a sales manager with Dow Jones Markets Switzerland AG. By 2001, he had become a member of that company's Executive Committee and Board of Directors, whereas in June 1998 he assumed the position of General Manager Switzerland for Bridge Information Systems. Werner Bürki graduated from business school in Zurich. Earlier in his career, he was a specialist in the field of options and futures trading, and in 1987 completed additional specialized studies at the New York Institute of Finance.

Sara Banerjee

Conference Co-Chair - Director, Global Data Acquisition, SIX Telekurs Ltd.

Sara Banerjee is Director, Global Data Acquisition with SIX Telekurs in Zurich, Switzerland.
Sara joined SIX Telekurs USA in Stamford, CT in 1989, and has held various positions within the company.

In her current position, she is responsible for Data Administration and Data Acquisition Support. In this role, she manages best practices for acquisition and implementation of pricing and reference data from dozens of global exchanges and third party contributors. Sara is additionally responsible for various strategic initiatives and projects.

Sara is actively involved with various industry initiatives, and works with groups such as the X9D (ANSI Standards) committee and ISO standards working groups (WG 1, WG 2 and WG 6). She also serves as co-chair of the vendor committee for the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade (ISITC). She is active in various divisions of the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).

In addition to her other industry activities, Sara has served in a number of leadership roles with the Financial Information Industry Services Division of the SIIA (FISD). She has served on several FISD committees since joining the group in 1994, and was elected chair of the Executive Committee in 2001, 2002 and 2006, and vice-chair in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011. She currently serves on the Executive Committee and is co-chair of the biennial World Financial Information Conference.

Sara was born in Hyderabad, India, where she earned a master’s degree in organizational behavior from Osmania University. After moving to the United States, she earned a masters degree in human resource management from University of Bridgeport, CT.

Recep Bildik

Director of Marketing and Product Development, Istanbul Stock Exchange

Recep Bildik is currently the Director of Market, Product Development and Special Projects Department at the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). Dr. Bildik played a pivotal role in establishing the ISE’s first computerized trading system, making regulations on market microstructure of equity market, managing market operations, and developing new products. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Graduate School of Business, Koc University, Turkey, and a board member of Takasbank Inc. as a member of Statutory Auditors’ Board, the sole clearing and settlement bank of Turkey.

Dr. Bildik was a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago and Finance Department at the DePaul University. Recep Bildik also previously served as senior researcher at the Research Center of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. Dr. Bildik holds PhD and MSc from Istanbul University, and MPA degrees from Harvard University as a Kokkalis Fellow.

Kees Brooimans

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.

Jerry Brunton

Marketing Director, BT

Working for BT’s Radianz business which provides connectivity and hosting services to the global financial community. He joined Radianz in the year it was formed, with responsibility for strategic market development in the USA and Asia-Pacific, also contributing to the design of the Radianz business and commercial models, and business plan. Jerry has 20 years of experience in financial technology in areas as diverse as marketing, product management, sales and technical product design and development, with expertise in market data, data distribution networks, financial connectivity, and telecommunications systems. Prior to Radianz, he spent a year at IXnet through its acquisition by Global Crossing. He previously worked in development, sales, and marketing roles at Reuters, selling market data, information systems, and applications services in Chicago, London and New York. Early in his career, Jerry developed electronic hardware and software for market data distribution systems and real-time telecommunications switches. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Benedictine University.

Jeff Clavier

Managing Partner, Softtech VC

Based in Palo Alto, California, Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested in close to 100 consumer internet startups (Fund I, Fund II, Fund III) in areas like social media, monetization, search, gaming or B2B/B2C web services. These investments are typically located in Silicon Valley, New-York and Boulder. With over 20 years of operational, entrepreneurial and venture capital experience, Jeff is able to add relevant perspective and value to his companies as they grow from inception to maturity, and hopefully, success. In 2007, Jeff was recognized as one of the 13 “Web 2.0 King Makers” by (late) Business 2.0. BusinessWeek named him one of "The 25 Most Influential People on the Web" in 2008, and one of the "Top 25 Angels in Tech" in 2010. He was also nominated in the "Best Angel" category at the Crunchies in 2009 and 2010. He is often noted for his investments in categories such as “passion-centric communities” or online gaming, or for having sold a number of his Web 2.0 startups to the likes of Yahoo, AOL, Intuit or more recently Twitter and Groupon. In September 2007, after successfully investing as a business angel, Jeff announced the formation of SoftTech VC II, L.P. – a $15M seed fund backed by a mix of institutional and private investors to invest in 60+ consumer Internet companies over 3 years. Some of Jeff's representative investments include Mint (Intuit), Brightroll, Truveo (AOL), Userplane (AOL), Rapleaf, Ustream, Milo (eBay), Blekko, Eventbrite, Tapulous (Disney), DNANexus, FanBridge, BillFloat,...

When he is not busy working, Jeff likes to spend time with his family and friends, cook, collect wine and wander around Northrend on his hunter. He also skis, hikes, dives and plays golf so poorly it is not even funny.

Ken Comee

President & Chief Executive Officer, Cast Iron Systems

Ken has more than 20 years of executive management experience in both private and public companies. Much of his career has specifically focused on the sales, marketing and channel execution roles vital to the growth and culture of early and late stage companies.
Ken was most recently president and CEO of Cast Iron Systems, the leader in cloud integration. Since Ken took over as CEO of the company, results were dramatic, including a 10-fold increase in revenue, the acquisition of more than 700 new customers and the strategic transformation from a provider of integration appliances to an innovator in cloud computing. Key to Cast Iron's growth and market leader success were the deep technology and channel partnerships with ADP, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, Google, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and many others.
IBM acquired Cast Iron in April 2010 as a critical piece of its cloud strategy. Ken is currently an executive in IBM's software division, working to leverage Cast Iron's integration capabilities across other IBM products and acquisitions.
His prior leadership experience includes serving as the original EVP of sales and services at CollabNet, a pioneer in the collaborative software development space. Ken was instrumental in transforming the company's early strategy from an open source service model to a SaaS application sales model. During his four years at CollabNet, revenue increased over 400 percent and the customer base doubled annually.
Before transitioning into software startup companies, Ken served as senior vice president of North American sales for Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), the leader in product lifecycle management (PLM). Ken led the successful transformation of field sales from a predominately CAD/CAM tool focus to a platform software sales model. Under his leadership, sales grew to over $200 million per year. He also served in various general management positions at Amdahl/Fujitsu Corporation for more than 10 years in both Europe and the United States.
Ken is an independent board member at PowerReviews, a leader in Social Commerce. He holds a BSc degree from Santa Clara University and an MBA from London Business School.

Michael Connor

President & Chief Executive Officer, Market News International, Inc.

Michael Connor is Market News International’s Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for managing the production, delivery and sales of MNI's news and analysis products. Prior to joining MNI, Mr. Connor was the Manager of Planning and Development for the Corporate Bond Department of Moody's Investor Service. Before joining Moody's, Mr. Connor worked at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. Mr. Connor holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Economics from Lehigh University. He is a past President of the Money Marketeers of New York University, President of the Lehigh Wall Street Council and an active member of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA).

Cris Coutinho

Open Symbology Project Manager, Bloomberg L.P.

Cris Coutinho, Project Manager for Open Symbology North America, is responsible for client outreach and system implementation of Bloomberg’s global identifier system. In 2010 Bloomberg made the new security identifier “BBGID” available through Bloomberg’s Open Symbology portal (BSYM). The Symbology initiative provides the marketplace access to Bloomberg identifiers and symbols across asset classes with no limitations on usage. BBGID is a unique global market identifier for exchange-traded securities, including derivatives and other financial products.

Cris joined Bloomberg in 2007, and since then has worked in Bloomberg’s Global Data group focusing on Fixed Income and Derivatives, as well as Bloomberg Enterprise Products & Solutions business. She holds a BA in Politics and International Relations from Oxford Brookes University, UK; a Master’s Degree in Latin American Politics and Development from the University of London, UK; and a Master’s Degree in Management and Finance from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.

Ludwig D'Angelo

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.

Tom Davin, FIA

Managing Director, FISD

Tom Davin is Managing Director, Financial Information Services Division (FISD) for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). FISD is the global, neutral forum for the financial information industry with a diverse membership that includes major market data vendors, exchanges, technology providers, and the financial institutions that utilize financial data products. Tom works closely with FISD members to identify major issues and seek opportunities to bring the financial information industry together to discuss and resolve those issues. FISD conducts regular membership events in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and hosts the biennial World Financial Information Conference – the premiere global industry conference for financial information professionals.

Tristan Dehaan, FIA

Co Chair FISD Constituent Group, Vendor Manager, Robeco

Tristan Dehaan has worked for the dutch asset manager company Robeco since 2001. Initially responsible for custodian & TA outsourced service providers and then head of the dedicated Robeco market data group, beginning 2011 an organisation restructure led to the creation of a central vendor management department. The VM group manages IT, Market Data and Retail content licensing and here his responsibilities continue with focus on strategic planning, contract management including procurement and internal business consultant/external vendor relationship management.
From a market perspective and to bring knowledge inside Robeco, Tristan takes active involvement with various industry groups including FISD where he is currently serving as Executive Committee member, Co-Chair for the CCG, WFIC programme committee member and FIA Curriculum Committee member. Also a founding member of the Dutch market data peer group, the Rabobank synergy group (Robeco's mother company), network member of both Cossiom (Paris based user group) and IPUG (London based user group). On a different note, Tristan is also involved with the Institute of Management Studies (IMS) which via world leading and published industry experts teaches forward thinking and pioneering styles of the modern world and it's impact on organisations. With more than 20 years in the Financial Industry covering Back & Mid office operations he still today has the same commitment and passion for the business, values building relationships and the power of information exchange

Jacqueline DeSimone

Vice President, Sales, RIMES Technologies

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.

Robin Doyle

Senior Vice President, JP Morgan Chase

Robin Doyle is a Senior Vice President at J.P. Morgan Chase (JPMC). Ms. Doyle has worked at JPMC for 18 years as a Risk and Finance professional and is currently the CFO for Corporate Risk reporting to the firm’s Chief Risk Officer. In this role she manages a global team of over 90 people responsible for providing timely and pertinent global risk management information and analysis to firm’s Board, senior leadership, regulators and external investors. Ms. Doyle is actively involved in the Firm’s risk governance processes and committees as well as in managing evolving issues relating to systemic risk management requirements from regulators. Prior to Corporate Risk, Ms. Doyle worked in JPMC’s Chase Home Finance business unit and managed the Firm’s Accounting Policies Group for several years.

Prior to joining JPMC, Robin worked for Midlantic National Bank, KPMG Peat Marwick, and Prudential Insurance Company.

Ms. Doyle has served on the Board of Easter Seals New Jersey for 6 years including creating and chairing their Audit and Finance Committees, and is President of the Education Council for the Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Wayne, NJ. She is a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the New York Clearing House (NYCH), and the Risk Management Association (RMA).

Ms. Doyle has an MBA in Finance from The Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University; a BS in Accounting from Rutgers, The State University; and is certified as a CPA in the State of NJ.

Stephane Dubois

CEO, Xignite

Stephane Dubois was among the first entrepreneurs to monetize packaged financial web services products in 2003, and has grown his completely web-driven business organically to attract 200 customers in only three years. Dubois is a visionary who has held senior product management positions at Advent Software, Walker Interactive Systems, and Oracle Corporation. Dubois holds an M.S. from M.I.T. Sloan and both M.S./B.S. degrees from the MBA Institute in Paris.

John Farris

Executive Vice President, RIMES Technologies

John Farris is an Executive Vice President, Head of Sales for North America. John joined RIMES in September of 2009. Prior to joining RIMES, John was a Senior Vice President with Brandywine Global Investment in Philadelphia, PA, where he was head of Business Development for the Quantitative Equity Group. Prior to Brandywine, John spent 13 years with Standard & Poor’s in a variety of leadership roles, most recently as Vice President of Business and Market Development with the Index and Portfolio services division. During John’s tenure at Standard & Poor’s, he worked closely with RIMES while he was leading S&P’s Third Party partnership group. John holds an MBA in Finance and a BS in Computer Science from La Salle University.

Lucas Garland

Global Head of Product, Thomson Reuters

Lucas oversees the product development of Thomson Reuters Indices. He is responsible for distributing proprietary index content throughout the Thomson Reuters family of products and vetting proposed relationships with third party index providers.

Prior to his current role, Lucas was Global Product Manager for Lipper Indices (a Thomson Reuters business). He helped lead the exploration of the new index businesses for Reuters in such areas as the development of passive benchmarks, investable actively managed indices, and the expansion of its calculation services.

Lucas has written for and been cited in several top publications including the FTFM, Investment Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Fund Strategy, Funds Europe, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and Ignites.

Lucas holds an MS in Finance from the University of Colorado.

Christopher Gilkerson

SVP General Counsel, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Christopher is Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Charles Schwab & Co. in San Francisco. At Schwab he heads the Institutional and Retail Legal Group responsible for counseling Advisor Services, Investor Services, and Corporate and Retirement Services. This includes Schwab’s custody, trading and related programs for independent RIAs; retail branch network and call centers, advice programs, international initiatives, e-business and schwab.com; and retirement plan services business. He has been at Schwab for 12 years.

Christopher has served as Chair of the SIFMA Technology & Regulation Committee and its Market Data Subcommittee, and is a member of the Private Client Legal Committee. He was the recipient of the SIA Distinguished Leadership Award in 2006. Christopher also serves on several Investment Adviser Association committees. Before coming to Schwab he was Assistant General Counsel for Market Regulation at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of General Counsel’s Office of Legal Policy in Washington, D.C. He is also a former adjunct faculty member at the Washington College of Law, American University, where he taught “Securities Markets, Policy, and Regulatory Challenges,” and has written and spoken on a wide range of securities industry topics. Christopher received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science graduating summa cum laude from The Ohio State University and earned his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Ottavio Gisler

Head of Market Data Services, SIX EXFEED Ltd.

Ottavio Gisler joined SIX Swiss Exchange in the Information Products & Indices department in January 1998, as Head of Market Feeds. During that time he also served as responsible project manager in order to set-up and establish STOXX Ltd. as the leading European index provider. In 2001 he was a founding member of SIX Exfeed Ltd., the European provider of raw financial data. Here he holds the position of deputy CEO and Market Data Services Manager on the Management Board of the company. Since the company's foundation he has been responsible for spearheading SIX Exfeed's market data business side, which has been showing sustainable and profitable growth in recent years. Ottavio Gisler started his career in 1987, as a registered floor trader at the Basel Stock Exchange with Swiss Volksbank, Basel. Prior to joining SIX Group, he spent more than a decade in the financial industry in New York, London, Basel and Zurich in a range of business roles such as portfolio manager, pension fund investment advisor and as a registered trader. He graduated from business school in Basel and acquired in-depth specialist knowledge at the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Institute of Finance in the field of advisory services for pension funds, financial analytics and trading.

Susan Gogus

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.

After graduate school she worked in consulting for 5 years both in the US and Abroad in the areas of telecommunications and finance. In the time between undergrad and graduate school she worked for the Peace Corps in Botswana aimed at small business development.

Susan Gogus earned her “B.Sc.” degree in Accounting and International Business from Wake Forest University, and an “MSIA” degree in Strategy, Economics and Production from Carnegie Mellon Tepper Business School.

Hartmut Graf

Chief Executive Officer, STOXX Ltd.

As Chief Executive Officer, Hartmut Graf identifies and executes strategic business initiatives; and oversees the activities of STOXX Limited.

Prior to joining STOXX Ltd., Hartmut spent more than 5 years at Deutsche Börse Group, where he most recently held the position of Head of Issuer Data & Analytics. In this role he was responsible for the index business of Deutsche Börse, overseeing the development, maintenance and marketing of their global index series.

Previously, Hartmut spent four years with the management consultancy Roland Berger, serving clients from the financial services industry. He started his career in product management and research in the fixed income department in the investment banking division of Commerzbank.

Hartmut Graf holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics.

Francis Gross

Head, Division - External Statistics Division, Directorate General Statistics, European Central Bank

Francis' Division, located within the Directorate General Statistics of the ECB, is responsible for the external statistics of the euro area (balance of payments, international investment position, foreign direct investment, etc.) and coordinates their harmonisation across the EU. It also runs and further develops the Centralised Securities Database (CSDB), which holds reference and price data for individual securities used for producing euro area statistics. The Division also manages the provision of all market data services for the ECB.

Before joining the ECB in 2001, Francis worked for 15 years in the automotive industry. He joined Mercedes-Benz in 1986, and later moved to Mannesmann-VDO as Head of Strategic Planning. His roles ranged from materials research to globalisation, with a focus on Asia. He subsequently worked at Rieter AG, focussing on post-merger integration and process development. Francis joined the ECB as Head of the Organisational Planning Division; he moved to his current position in 2006.

An engineering graduate of Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, Francis also holds an MBA from Henley Management College, UK.

Georg Gross

Director, Head of Front Office Data & Analytics, Deutsche Boerse AG

Georg Gross is Head of Front Office Data & Analytics at Deutsche Boerse in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to being responsible for the Group’s real-time data dissemination business, the department provides real-time financial news via its subsidiary Market News International and develops specialized products, such as machine-readable news feeds, for the algorithmic trading community. After studying Business Administration at the University of Mannheim, Georg Gross worked at DTB Deutsche Terminboerse from 1990 to 1994. He joined Deutsche Börse AG in 1994 and was appointed Head Front Office Data & Analytics in 1997.

Thomas Gross

Chief Executive Officer, SIX Telekurs Ltd.

Thomas Gross was appointed CEO of the Financial Information Division of SIX Group in April 2009. Before this, he held managerial positions at Credit Suisse, first as Head of the Inhouse Consulting Department, and from 2004-2009 as Head of Securities Operations. After the completion of his law studies in Neuchâtel, Thomas Gross began his career as the manager of different projects in the fields of finance and industry. He then worked for one and a half years in Sales for Hilti Germany GmbH, based in Leipzig. Having completed an MBA at the Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, USA, he continued his career at McKinsey & Company, for whom he worked for seven years on various strategic projects in Switzerland and in Brazil.

Rob Haddad

Director, Interactive Data Corporation

Rob Haddad, a Director of Evaluated Services at Interactive Data, has been with the company for nearly 10 years. He currently leads the Company’s Fair Value Information Service team, which focuses on providing market participants with intraday evaluated pricing for international equities, options, and futures. As part of this role, he has directed the creation of new valuation services designed to support a number of business needs. Most recently, the Company has introduced a Real-Time Fair Value Information Service, which can be used by investment professionals to assist in informing trading strategies and decisions in the global equity ETF marketplace. In addition, he remains active in the area of industry research, and has authored a number of white papers related to valuation topics. Rob also plays a leadership role in representing the Company as a speaker during industry events such as conferences, webcasts, and clients’ board meetings.

Rob has a Masters in Quantitative Finance from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University.

Terrence Hendershott

Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley

Terrence Hendershott is currently an associate professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He completed his Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Terry's current research interests include information technology's impact and role in financial markets, the structure and regulation of financial markets, and the interaction between trading and asset price dynamics. His writing has appeared in the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal and his research has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News, USA Today, and other national newspapers. His academic work has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and other scholarly journals. He edited Elsevier's Handbook of Economics and Information System. He has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research on electronic trading in financial markets. He was the visiting economist at the New York Stock Exchange in 2006 to 2007. He was a member of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board from 2004 to 2007 and the Chair in 2007

Mark Hepsworth

President, Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Corporation

Mark Hepsworth is President of Interactive Data's Institutional Business. He is responsible for leading the strategy, product development and business management across groups that provide key institutionally-oriented products and services. These offerings include evaluations, reference data, and fixed income analytics.

Mr. Hepsworth became president of Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data in September 2007 and was named president of Real-Time Services in October 2005. Hepsworth successfully directed the global expansion of Interactive Data’s real-time datafeed services business and oversaw the acquisition, integration and growth of the Interactive Data Managed Solutions business (formerly IS.Teledata AG).

His experience includes a decade as managing director for Interactive Data Real-Time Services (formerly known as ComStock) in Europe. Mr. Hepsworth joined ComStock in Europe as General Manager in 1995.

Jarod Hillman

Head of Real Time Data, London Stock Exchange

Michael Hodgson

Head of Global Exchanges, Data Acquisition, Thomson Reuters

Mike Hodgson has worked in the market data industry for 23 years as a senior product manager and a market data sourcing manager at Thomson Reuters, UBS and London Stock Exchange.
He spent 3 years as Global Head of Exchange Data Sourcing for Thomson Reuters and prior to that he was the UBS Exchange Global Sourcing lead to the key business areas. Both roles included negotiating and implementing global, strategic enterprise deals, handling compliance issues and building strategic relationships with Exchanges. In addition, Mike led UBS’s market data interest in BOAT and Turquoise and chaired a London Investment Bank Association committee focussed on exchange market data policy and pricing issues. He started his career at London Stock Exchange where he spent 14 years in information services managing major products and services. His main focus was the strategic development of the Exchange’s real-time, historic and reference data services including product development, pricing and usage policies.

Adam Honore

Research Director, Aite Group

Research Director of the institutional securities practice specializing in financial services technology, focusing on strategic technology initiatives associated with high performance trading, market data, machine-readable content, smart order routing, technology services, complex event processing (CEP), straight-through processing (STP), and risk management issues. Quoted in media publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Financial Times and many more Mr. Honoré has conducted consulting engagements for global exchanges, Fortune 500 technology and brokerage companies, as well as routine work in trading technology advising on partnerships, M&A, competitive positioning, product roadmaps, market entrance, marketing, and thought leadership.

Prior to joining Aite Group, Mr. Honoré was the Product Director responsible for front office solutions at Comprehensive Software Systems, Inc. Prior to CSS, Mr. Honoré was responsible for development at Tucker Anthony Sutro Capital Markets, designing and creating applications for investment banking & research. Before Tucker Anthony, Mr. Honoré was a software engineer at Strong Capital Management. Mr. Honoré received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee with a double major in Public Relations and History. He is a four year veteran of the U.S. Army, including tours in Korea and Desert Storm.

Matt Hougan

Global Head of Editorial, IndexUniverse

Matt Hougan is president of ETF Analytics and the global head of editorial for Index Universe LLC. In this position, he oversees the company’s editorial efforts, including serving as editor-in-chief of the Exchange-Traded Funds Report and senior editor of the Journal of Indexes. He also spearheads the development of the ETF Analytics project. Hougan is quoted regularly in the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Investor’s Business Daily, Fortune, Forbes, TheStreet.com, MarketWatch.com and the Associated Press, and was recently named one of the 25 most influential people in the ETF industry. He is a regular guest on CNBC, and was recently named to Registered Rep's "Ten to Watch in 2012" list.

Prior to Index Universe LLC, Hougan ran his own strategic communications firm providing PR and speechwriting services to Fortune 500 companies, U.S. and foreign government agencies, and select nonprofits. Earlier, he was the lead biotech analyst for MetaMarkets.com, which ran the world’s first transparent mutual fund. Hougan is a 1998 graduate of Bowdoin College.

Brian Hyndman

Senior Vice President, NASDAQ OMX

Brian Hyndman is Senior Vice President, of Global Data Products for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., the world’s largest exchange company. He is responsible for the creation and dissemination of valuable information from the quoting and trading in NASDAQ OMX’s trading systems worldwide. Hyndman oversees various internal teams, including Sales, Product Management, Content Administration & Policy, and New Business Development.

He previously headed the Sales Department of Transaction Services in the US where he was responsible for managing operations of U.S. equities trading platforms including The NASDAQ Stock Market, NASDAQ OMX BX and NASDAQ OMX PSX.

Prior to joining NASDAQ in 2004, Mr. Hyndman was the President of the BRUT which was an Electronic Communications Network (ECN) that competed with the various equity markets in the US. He presided over the company’s merger with Strike, the sale BRUT to Sungard Data Systems and the eventual sale of BRUT to NASDAQ in 2004.

Prior to joining BRUT, Mr. Hyndman served as Vice President of Execution Services for the National Discount Brokers Group, managing 120 employees. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Oswego. He also holds numerous licenses from the National Association of Securities Dealers, including the 4, 7, 24, 27, 53 and 63.

Issei Iwata

Manager, Information Services, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.

Mr. Issei Iwata is a manager in Information Services Division at Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE). TSE is one of the leading global exchanges and the largest securities market in the Asia-Pacific region. It is best known for its equities market but it also operates one of the largest Japanese securities derivatives market such as JGB and TOPIX futures. It provides variety of market data services directly to information vendors and investors, and calculates and disseminates Japan’s most comprehensive family of indices including TOPIX.
Mr. Iwata joined TSE in 2002 and has a strong background on legal and compliance function of the exchange. Currently, his roles within the division include; revising market data policy, planning fee structure and assisting contract negotiation. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Keio University in Tokyo and a master’s degree (LL.M.) from Columbia Law School in New York and is a licensed attorney at law admitted in the state of N.Y.

Ganesh Iyer

Senior Manager, Product Marketing, IPC Systems, Inc.

Senior Product Marketing Manager for Network Services at IPC Systems, a leading provider of trading communications and network services for the financial services industry. At IPC, Ganesh is responsible for spearheading global product marketing initiatives, building brand awareness and growing the business. He has been widely quoted in the press regarding various aspects of the financial markets and has been featured in a number of publications and media outlets including Automated Trader, Profit & Loss Magazine, Waters Technology, Markets Media and A-Team Group. He has also spoken at key industry events including TradeTech Europe. Prior to joining IPC, Ganesh was responsible for marketing and product management at Syncsort, a leading provider of high-performance data integration software. Ganesh has nearly 15 years of experience in the technology industry spanning product marketing, market research and strategic planning.

Ganesh holds an MBA (Finance & Strategic Marketing) from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and a BS in Engineering from the Delhi Institute of Technology in India. He is Pragmatic Marketing Certified and an FISD Financial Information Associate.

Ron Jordan

Chief Data Officer, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Ronald Jordan was named Chief Data Officer, for The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation in January 2011. Mr. Jordan is responsible for guiding DTCC’s strategy on matters related to DTCC's commercial and regulatory data business activities. Given DTCC’s unique position in the cash equity and fixed income markets, as well as the over-the-counter derivatives data DTCC keeps in its Trade Information Warehouse, DTCC expects to have a role to play in aggregating data for regulators to support their oversight of the industry and achieve this goal in a cost-effective manner for DTCC’s customers. Mr. Jordan is responsible for overseeing this activity in conjunction with the business line managers to ensure coordination across the enterprise. He is also focussing on the needs of the U.S. Treasury Department's new Office of Financial Research, created under the Dodd Frank Act.

Mr. Jordan joined DTCC after spending the past 26 years at NYSE Euronext, where he held a number of key roles. Most recently, he was Executive Vice President, Global Market Data Administration, and his responsibilities included global market data administration for the NYSE, Arca, Amex, Euronext, NYSE Liffe and NYSE Liffe U.S. markets. Prior to his service with NYSE Euronext, he held positions with the American Stock Exchange and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

William Kennedy

Vice President, Index Services, Standard & Poor's Corporation

Will Kennedy is Global Head of Data Products at S&P Indices. His responsibilities include commercial strategy and execution, product packaging, delivery, and managing relationships with data vendors, distributors, and exchanges.

Will is an industry veteran with over 25 years of global experience in financial information services. Prior to S&P Will was in charge of Research and Analytic product sales at ITG Inc. Prior to ITG Will ran his own consulting practice assisting companies in information technology with their commercial strategy. Will also worked with Thomson Reuters for several years and held a series of leadership positions both domestically and internationally.

Tony Kroell

Vice President, Product Marketing, SAVVIS

Ted Lambrinos

Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Ted Lambrinos is an Executive Director and manages ECN and Datafeed Services globally in Trading Technology for JPMorgan Chase. Ted has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including 15 years at JPMorgan. Ted is primarily focused on exchange connectivity, and the content and distribution of market data used on trading floors and in electronic trading applications. He partners with application development teams, trading desks, stock exchanges, technology groups, and vendors to deliver innovative solutions in the trading technology space. Ted is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and actively participates in recruiting and mentoring students as part of the collaboration between JPMorgan Chase and Syracuse University. He speaks regularly at industry events on the subject of technology used in financial services.

Craig Lazzara

Vice President, U.S. Equities, Standard & Poor's

Craig Lazzara serves as product manager for S&P's U.S. equity and real estate indices. These include the S&P 500 and the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, two of the most widely tracked benchmarks in the world.

Prior to joining S&P Indices in 2009, Craig was a managing director of Abacus Analytics, a quantitative consulting firm serving the brokerage and investment management communities. He previously directed marketing and client service for ETF Advisors and Salomon Smith Barney's Global Equity Index Group, as well as for the Equity Portfolio Analysis group at Salomon Brothers. Earlier, Craig served as chief investment officer of Centurion Capital Management and Vantage Global Advisors, as a managing director of TSA Capital Management, and as a vice president and portfolio manager for Mellon Bank and T. Rowe Price Associates.

A Chartered Financial Analyst, Craig is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

Bill Lee

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.

Tim Lind

Global Head of Strategy, Enterprise Content , Thomson Reuters

Tim Lind is Global Head of Strategy and Business Development, Enterprise Content at Thomson Reuters. In this role, he is responsible for driving the strategy to develop content solutions that power business applications from pre-trade analytics through to post-trade clearing and settlement.

Tim has over twenty years of domestic and international experience in the securities industry with a particular focus on the strategic deployment of technology to manage data, transaction processing, and risk management. His expertise comprises strategy and business development within the market data industry, post-trade operations, and the workflow processes between asset managers, broker/dealers, custodian banks, and market infrastructure providers.

Before joining Thomson Reuters, Tim was Managing Director at Omgeo, where he led global strategy and marketing for the firm. Prior to Omgeo, Tim held various positions, including Senior Vice President, product management and strategy at GoldenSource Corporation, Director of Securities and Investments Research at TowerGroup, and product management and strategy roles at SWIFT, Brown Brothers Harriman and Dean Witter Reynolds.
Tim received a BA from University of Puget Sound

Steve Listhaus

Market Data Services Manager, Wells Fargo

Steve Listhaus manages the Market Data function for Wells Fargo. In this role Steve is responsible for all technical, operational and commercials aspects related to market data. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Steve worked at Thomson Reuters where he lead the Technical Account Management team. Prior to Thomson Reuters, Steve held a number of positions related to trading technologies

Dara Lyne

Divisional Director, The Macquarie Group

Dara Lyne is a Divisional Director with Macquarie Group with responsibility for market data as well as sourcing and vendor management responsibilities for IT services. He has over 20 years experience in banking solutions, banking and market data primarily in Asia. He has worked for Macquarie Group for 12 years, the past 6 years with global responsibility for the market and reference data function. He is very active member and participant of the market data community in Asia with a strong focus on bringing consistency and transparency to the data industry in the region.

Originally from Ireland and educated in Dublin, he now lives in Australia on Sydney’s north shore and has worked for Macquarie Group for 12 years.

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.

Richard Man

Head, Business Development, BT

Global sales and business development roles in the Financial Services sector has spanned over 25 years working in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Boston, New York and San Francisco. In the last 17 years, it has focussed on front office technology in market data systems, voice, and data networks. Leaving London in 1993, Richard joined Dow Jones Telerate in Hong Kong to begin this international career. He joined Radianz from SAVVIS in 2002 and as VP of Sales, helped to build the communities in the US and Asia Pacific that are now critical regions for BT Radianz. Between 2003-2009, was responsible for sales in the Asia Pacific region for BT Radianz (overseeing operations in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Korea and Taiwan). Was also responsible for the financial markets sector in Japan for BT between 2007-9 across all products including voice turrets, and the BT Global Services portfolio. In July 2009 relocated to San Francisco to run Enterprise Business Development for Ribbit, a Silicon Valley (programmable digital voice) start-up acquired by BT before moving back to BT Radianz in August 2010 to be responsible for Global Business Development. The current Business Development team that Richard is responsible for is spread across New York, London, and Frankfurt. Richard, when not travelling, lives in the city of San Francisco with his wife and 2 young boys, aged 4 and 9

John Mason

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.
Prior to joining Netik, John held the position of CEO of DClear Utilities at Smartstream where he was responsible for running the division’s drive toward utility based industry solutions, having previously been UK Managing Director responsible for sales and services for Smartstream’s range of financial solutions.
Previously John worked for Capco Reference Data Services (CRDS) as the Managing Director responsible for the EMEA region providing managed services and utility based offerings to the financial services industry. Prior to that, he held senior management positions with software solutions providers including BCS Plc, Aleri and GoldenSource (formerly FTI).

Brian McElligott

Managing Director - Information Products, CME Group

Brian McElligott is responsible for leading CME Group's global market data business, including growing revenue generated from the sale and redistribution of CME Group market data assets. He also is responsible for leading third-party licensing requirements and the use of CME Group's intellectual property in the creation of indices or structured products. Prior to joining the company in 2001, McElligott worked as a technology consultant developing e-commerce sites and Internet strategies for large financial institutions, including CME. He also held a variety of positions at Northern Trust. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA in finance and e-business from DePaul University.

Kevin McGilloway

Head of Business Development for Bloomberg, Enterprise Products & Solutions (EPS), Bloomberg LP

Head of Business Development for Bloomberg, Enterprise Products & Solutions (EPS). Twice voted ‘Top 3 US CIO’ by Wall Street & Technology, Kevin has 35 years of line, consulting, and entrepreneurial experience in leading large scale IT initiatives , including roles as CIO of Lehman Brothers and as the CIO at Equitable Insurance. Mr. McGilloway holds a MS – Computer Science from NYU’s Courant Institute, an MBA – Finance from Long Island University, and a BS – Mathematics/Physics from CUNY/Queens College.

Neil McGovern

Director, Product Strategy, Sybase

Neil McGovern has over 25 years experience in the software industry. Neil is responsible for product marketing and strategy for Sybase’s financial services group. Currently Neil is focused on Sybase CEP and Sybase's RAP - The Trading Edition product, which combine to deliver a real-time analytics platform for Capital Markets. Neil has also worked in the mobility and infrastructure groups for Sybase. Prior to Sybase, Neil was VP Engineering at New Era of Networks, and CTO of Convoy Corporation, where he was a pioneer in the Enterprise Application Integration market. Neil has a degree in Computer Science and an MBA.

Jeannie Merritt

Vice President, NASDAQ OMX

Jeannie Merritt is Head of Global Market Data Administration for NASDAQ OMX. Her team is responsible for the administration of the NASDAQ OMX and UTP market data products, including TotalView, NASDAQ OMX’s premier data entitlement as well as NASDAQ OMX PHLX, NordPool, NASDAQ OMX BX, Nordic and Baltic market data. The Market Data Distribution team conducts market data audits, processes datafeed applications and collects usage reporting. Jeannie has been with NASDAQ since 1996. Prior to 1996, she worked for the National Association of Securities Dealers as a regulatory analyst. Jeannie has an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She currently serves as the NASDAQ OMX representative on the FISD Executive Committee and co-chairs the Business Issues Advisory Committee.

Andrew Miller, FIA

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
central banking and national treasury through to investment banking, broking and derivatives trading.
In December 2007 he took Arcontech onto the London Stock Exchange and became CEO of Arcontech Group plc. Andrew is an active participant in industry working groups and a vocal advocate of internetworking communities, crossplatform integration and vendor independent technologies to facilitate choice; reduce costs and increase quality of realtime market data and systems.

Oliver Muhr

Senior Vice President, MarketMap, SunGard

Oliver Muhr is senior vice president of SunGard’s MarketMap financial market data solutions. He is responsible for product management, strategy, technology and marketing. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for launching the MarketMap product in the US, served as director of strategic initiatives focused on value creation, acquisitions and post-merger integration, and worked as an analyst in the office of SunGard’s president and CEO. Prior to SunGard, Oliver worked for KPMG Consulting, where he managed consulting and client engagements in the high technology sector.

Ken Napolitano

Global Head, Data Solutions Sales, Bloomberg L.P.

Ken Napolitano is the Global Head of Sales for Bloomberg Data Solutions. Data Solutions is responsible for the sale of the Bloomberg Data License products and BVAL, Bloomberg’s evaluated pricing offering. Data License provides the financial markets with the highest quality reference, pricing and corporate action data. BVAL represents a new standard for data transparency and quality in valuation. The service combines a unique market insight, sophisticated quantitative models and data from over 4,000 contributing sources to produce credible and defendable valuations.

Ken joined Bloomberg in 1998 and has held positions in Bloomberg Tradebook as Global Head of Sales as well as holding several positions within the Bloomberg Terminal sales division including Sales Manager. Before joining Bloomberg, Ken worked as a Registered Representative servicing high net worth individuals. He holds a Bachelors of Business Administration degree from Adelphi University and an MBA from Cornell University.

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!).

Daniel Parke

Managing Director, AGENCIA ESTADO LTDA

Daniel (Dan) Parke is the Managing Director of Agência Estado (AE) based in São Paulo, Brazil. AE is Latin America’s largest real-time news agency providing 15,000+ AE Broadcast terminals to finance professionals.

Dan is the AE business unit head reporting to The Estado de São Paulo Media Group’s CEO.

The Estado de São Paulo Media Group is one of Brazil’s largest on-line & print media companies publishing the largest Brazilian daily broadsheet newspaper, Estadão.

Dan manages sales, marketing, service, development, I.T., product and P&L for AE and is responsible for BRL$170 million in revenue. He is AE’s authorized agent and a member of Estado’s Executive Committee.

Prior to running AE, Dan was the Managing Director for Thomson Financial Latin America from 2004-2008. Before joining Thomson, Dan worked at Bloomberg for 13 years where he was responsible for initiating and running Bloomberg’s Latin American business.

Chris Pickles

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.

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.

David Putnam

VP of Product Management, Stocktwits

David Putnam joined StockTwits in April 2011. As a product leader, David has over 15 years experience delivering Internet and software applications to consumers and enterprises. Most recently David served as Senior Director of Product Management at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for setting and executing the company’s product strategy for the dominate global financial franchise - Yahoo! Finance.

Under four years of David’s leadership and customer focus, Yahoo! Finance grew from 11M users/246M minutes to over 50M UUs and 852M minutes per month, while rapidly expanding its global platform into 15 countries. David is a two time recipient of the Yahoo! “You Rock” award, given to employees who have made extraordinary contributions to the company. Before Yahoo!, David built and led high performance and customer oriented product teams at Siemens, Microsoft, and ActivIdentity. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from California State University Fullerton, and an MBA from Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business. To relax and give back, David pedals the mountains of Los Gatos on his Specialized Stumpjumper 29er, enjoys mentoring rising product superstars, and coaches youth basketball.

David Raper

General Manager, Electronic Trading Services, Australian Securities Exchange

David has business and product development responsible for market information, access and trade execution at ASX. This includes policy and development of services covering all market data, the colocation facility and trading functionality. David previously had responsibility for operations and real-time market management at ASX and the Sydney Futures Exchange. Prior to working in Australia David was a trader on the floor of LIFFE.

Barry Raskin, FIA

President, SIX Financial USA Inc.

Barry S. Raskin is President of SIX Financial USA Inc., the American subsidiary of Zurich-based SIX Telekurs Ltd, a premier supplier of global securities pricing, descriptive and corporate actions information on securities traded around the world.

Barry helped establish SIX Telekurs USA in 1987, serving as CFO and Secretary prior to his promotion to Managing Director in 1995. Under his stewardship, SIX Telekurs USA has focused on customers’ needs and improved data accessibility, resulting in significantly increased market penetration, revenue and profitability, as well as enhanced reputation for quality, reliability, and comprehensive global coverage. During his tenure, SIX Telekurs has answered the needs of the American markets and enhanced its position by developing products geared for local requirements. Among the many examples are low latency real-time data feed solutions, multiple formats for the company’s award winning global corporate actions and reference data and historical tick-by-tick data for best execution and/or algo trading. Like many of his fellow SIX Telekurs executives around the world, Barry is an active participant in industry forums and conferences, and is often called upon to speak on topics ranging from reference data to securities pricing to improvements in market data operations.

Born and raised in New York, Barry earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell, and an M.B.A. with honors from SUNY at Buffalo. He resides in Connecticut.

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.

Jonathan Reeve

Executive Managing Director, S&P Capital IQ

Jonathan Reeve is Executive Managing Director, S&P Enterprise Solutions. In this role he oversees a global team of over 4000 content experts delivering standard and customized suites of equity, debt and risk data and research from S&P Capital IQ to brokers, insurers, asset managers and academics around the world. These data sets include security and entity reference data; security terms and conditions and corporate actions; counterparty linkage and exposure data; corporate financial performance data; structured finance performance data; credit ratings, evaluated pricing for illiquid securities, and other proprietary analytics.

Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s, Jonathan was Senior Vice President for Reuters Global Data Operations. Jonathan was at Reuters for 9 years where he performed a series of roles including global head of equities data operations. In his nine years at Reuters Jonathan managed a number of large-scale transformation projects, both technical and operational. These included a technical integration from fragmented data architecture onto a single data platform with improved user tools and capabilities. Also the integration of several operational data groups in Asia, Europe and the Americas realized through acquisition into a unified data management structure as well as a large operational migration to India.

Jonathan is based in New York and holds a BA in Economics from Concordia University in Montreal.

Jon Robson

President, Enterprise Solutions , Thomson Reuters

Jon Robson is President of the Enterprise business at Thomson Reuters. The Enterprise business delivers leading-edge technology and world-class content solutions for the financial markets. Our solutions enable firms to efficiently extend their reach and obtain critical real time and static data to support improved business decisions and meet regulatory requirements with less risk. Previously Mr. Robson was President, Reuters America and Global Head of Focus Group Accounts, responsible for Reuters business with the world’s largest financial institutions. During his tenure, Mr. Robson led the Americas through its most significant period of profitable growth and substantially improved margins for the business across the region. He also transformed the global Focus Group Accounts program, delivering strong double-digit revenue growth each year and creating innovative value-generating partnerships with the firm’s largest clients. Before joining Reuters, Mr. Robson managed financial technology businesses for BIS Banking Systems (now Misys) in Europe and Asia and for Telerate in the Asia Pacific region, and he served as an Executive Vice President for Dow Jones Markets based in New York. In 1997, he became a Non-Executive Director of ICAP plc and founded financial services firm MoneyLine, specializing in electronic Fixed Income transaction systems, analytics, real-time internet messaging and financial content delivery. As CEO and President of MoneyLine, he led the acquisition of global market data provider Telerate in 2001 to form MoneyLine Telerate, which was subsequently acquired by Reuters in 2005. Mr. Robson is based in London and married with three children.

Patricia Sachs

Global Head of Exchange Management, Citigroup

Patti Sachs has been the Global Head of Exchange Management for Citi since 2010, responsible for exchange management and market data compliance across the firm’s businesses globally. She has extensive experience handling exchange issues, technology, and intellectual property and specializes in commercial and market data contract negotiations. Prior to her work in the financial services industry, Patti was an intellectual property and technology attorney, protecting the rights of companies such as ABC and CBS as well as legendary authors and recording artists. Patti received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University Law School. She is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Copyright Society of the USA, and has served as a mediation coach for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Mike Salk

Director, Senior Product Strategist, Moody's Analytics

Michael Salk is Senior Product Strategist, Content Licensing and Data Feed Products for Moody’s Analytics. Mr. Salk is responsible for product and strategic management for a global portfolio of rating, research and analytic content services which are delivered direct and via business partners to financial institutions. Mr. Salk has more than 20 years information industry experience developing and marketing financial products. Prior to Moody’s, Mr. Salk oversaw management of financial news and market data products at the Associated Press. Mr. Salk has also worked for Reuters, as Global Head of Text and Online products for Reuters Media, and was Global News Manager for the Investment Banking & Brokerage segment. Earlier in his career, Mr. Salk was Vice President Strategy for BridgeNews, where he provided strategic, product and financial oversight for the news division. He also held a number of marketing positions with IDD Information Services. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Tricia San Cristobal

Global Head of Product Development for Bloomberg Enterprise Products & Solutions (EPS), Bloomberg L.P.

Tricia San Cristobal is the Global Head of Product Development for Bloomberg Enterprise Products & Solutions (EPS). Bloomberg EPS is a complete package of enterprise-class services, applications and data that enables firms to leverage the same data and technology that supports the Bloomberg Professional® service for their internal applications and processes. EPS provides real-time data and reference data, analytics, news and other premium Bloomberg content, as well as distribution technology and integration services that create strategic workflow-based solutions.

Tricia joined Bloomberg in 1994 and has held positions various positions in Bloomberg Sales, Trading Systems, Product Strategy, and Data Solutions. In Data Solutions, Tricia was responsible for Bloomberg’s real-time data feeds business.

Mark Schaedel

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.

Timothy St. George

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).

Julia Sutton

Director, Customer Data, Deutsche Bank

Julia has been involved in the Financial Services area for 36 years and the last 27 in reference data. She has held several global roles predominantly heading up customer reference data for 4 major banks and joined Deutsche in October 2011 to set up a unique identification system and drive it, together with core customer data throughout the infrastructure.

Larry Tabb

Founder & CEO, TABB Group

Larry Tabb is founder and CEO of TABB Group, the financial markets’ strategic advisory and research firm focused exclusively on capital markets. Before founding TABB Group, he was vice president of TowerGroup’s Securities & Investments practice where he managed research across the capital markets, investment management, retail brokerage and wealth management segments and grew the research and consulting business into a global brand representing over 150 clients worldwide.

Prior to joining TowerGroup, he managed business analysis for Lehman Brothers’ Trading Services Division, was responsible for overseeing the specification, testing and implementation of dozens of major systems and led capital markets technology planning. He began his financial markets career managing various operations for the North American Investment Bank of Citibank.

Quoted extensively and in virtually all industry and general news publications, he has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Associated Press, The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, Dow Jones News, Barron’s, Forbes, Business Week and all major trade media. He continues to be a featured speaker at major industry and business conferences throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Canada.

Alex Tait

Director, Head-Market & Reference Data, RBC Capital Markets

Alex Tait is Director and Global Head, Market & Reference Data for RBC. He is responsible for the commercial and administrative functions of Market Data as well as activities in support of Reference Data for RBC business lines globally. Alex first joined RBC in 1996, with progressively senior roles in retail Banking, Wealth Management and Capital Markets technology and operations. Alex holds a B.B.A. (Finance/Economics) degree from Bishop’s University and an M.B.A. from Heriot-Watt University, as well as being a certified FISD Financial Information Associate (FIA). Based in Toronto, he is fluent in both English and French.

Douglas 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 and focused on helping information, news, software and financial services companies improve performance.

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, Dow Jones Newswires, Agence France-Presse and in the biography "Mike Bloomberg; Money, Power, Politics", by Joyce Purnick. He currently serves on the Board of First State Financial Inc.

Sallianne Taylor

Global Manager, Exchange Business, Bloomberg L.P.

Sallianne Taylor is the Global Head of Exchange Business Management for Bloomberg Data Acquisitions

Exchange Business Management manages relationships with global exchanges, real time trading venues and News wires. Accurate, timely data is key to the success of Bloomberg’s business, driving its unique suite of analytics and feeds and providing its journalists with premium data on which to base their reporting. By leveraging the relationships Bloomberg has with these sources the Exchange Business Management team negotiates contracts, drives market data policies, develops real time feeds and spearheads the development of new functionality to ensure the successful integration of real time content into all of Bloomberg’s products.

Sallianne joined Bloomberg in 1989 and has held various positions within Sales, Trading systems and Product Development. Prior to joining the Exchange Business Management team she was Global Head of Bloomberg’s Analytics desk. Sallianne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Italian from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London)

Neil Vendeiro

General Manager, Information Product Sales, JSE Limited

Peter Warms

Head of Business Development, Data License and Symbology, Bloomberg L.P.

Peter Warms is the head of Product Development for Bloomberg Data License and Symbology. Data License provides the financial markets with the highest quality reference, pricing and corporate action data. The Symbology initiative provides the marketplace access to Bloomberg identifiers and symbols across all asset classes with no commercial terms or restrictions on usage.

Mr. Warms is responsible for overseeing all respects of Bloomberg Data License, which combines the resources of the Bloomberg Professional Service – the world’s most trusted source of information, analytics, data and news – with end of data and intraday reference, pricing and corporate action data services.

Peter joined Bloomberg in 1993 and has worked in the Global Data division primarily focusing on Fixed Income, while also managing Mutual Funds for a few years.

Ken Wasch

President, SIIA

Wasch's involvement in SIIA is based on both personal and professional interests. His long-standing interest in computers and software, coupled with the industry's need for a central trade association, led him to establish the Software Publishers Association (SPA) in 1984 with an initial group of 25 software firms. Wasch has led the association from its infancy to its merger with the Information Industry Association in January 1999, resulting in the formation of SIIA.

Jeff Wells

VP, Product Management, Exegy Inc.

Jeff Wells is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Exegy, the world's leading supplier of hardware accelerated ticker plant technology. Jeff has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including ten years as chair for the Financial Information Forum's Market Data Capacity Working Group. Jeff also serves the community as a member of the TMX Information Processor Advisory Committee.

Prior to joining Exegy, he was Senior Vice President of Product Development for Reuters, with responsibility for Analytics and Index Services. Before joining Reuters, Jeff held several senior management positions at Bridge Information Systems, including head of Quality Assurance and Software Release. In addition, he has been a bonds, equities and commodities trader on the proprietary trading desk at Scandinavian Bank Group, and from 1985-1986, served as a research officer at the UK's Defence Intelligence Staff. Jeff holds a BA in History (First Class) from the University of London and MSc (Econ) in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

John White

Managing Director, Content Services, FTSE Group

John is Managing Director, Content Services at FTSE Group. Located in New York, John works closely with the world’s leading distributors and vendors displaying FTSE data.

John’s key areas of focus include content and packaging of FTSE data globally, as well as overseeing FTSE’s long term distribution and data acquisition strategies.

Alongside these responsibilities, the Content Services team also leads on strategic initiatives, such as the creation and launch of the FTSE App for iPhone; with over 15,000 downloads in less than 6 months from launch it is the first app providing users with Real-Time Index data, launched by an index provider.

With over 25 years experience in the financial data services industry, John possesses unique skills and extensive knowledge of the data services market, which prove to be a valuable asset in developing FTSE’s distribution strategy.

Having joined the company in 2010, John was previously Vice President, Global Head Market & Vended Data Services Group at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) in Boston, where he managed a data system pertaining to over 450,000 financial instruments serving the investment management community. Prior to SSGA, John has also held significant roles at companies including the Columbia Management Company and Wellington Management Company, in Boston.

John is also an Executive Committee Member of SIIA’s FISD - a worldwide industry group dedicated on promoting standards and quality of investment and market data. A keen speaker, John is often seen on the conference circuit including; SIFMA, FISD, FIMA, ABA and Inside Market Data.

Jim Wiandt

Founder & CEO, IndexUniverse

Company founder and Publisher of IndexUniverse.com, the Exchange-Traded Funds Report (ETFR) and the Journal of Indexes (JoI). Jim also oversees the ETF Analytics group of Index Publications LLC.

In addition to overseeing the transition of JoI from a Dow Jones Indexes publication to an independent publication with support from across the index industry, Jim also oversaw the purchase of ETFR in 2003. Jim subsequently joined forces with Steven Schoenfeld to work on Schoenfeld’s landmark Wiley Finance book Active Index Investing, the two developed IndexUniverse.com into a broadly focused, independent website.

Previously, Jim was publisher of IndexFunds.com and is the author of Exchange Traded Funds, a book that was published by John Wiley & Sons. , Jim has also served as an editor and writer for Compton's Encyclopedia, and worked as a contract journalist in West Africa, after serving in the Peace Corps in Niger. He is a 1991 graduate of Tufts University.

Cort Williams

Executive Vice President, SIX Telekurs Ltd.

Cort J. Williams is Executive Vice President, Sales & Business Development with SIX Telekurs USA. In this role, he is responsible for helping the company realize it’s strategic vision for the Americas, and oversees all sales, third-party channel relationships and account management functions. Mr. Williams has over 25 years experience in financial and information services including sales, marketing and business development management roles. Prior to joining SIX Telekurs in 2011, he led Interactive Data Corporation’s institutional sales and relationship management organization, a role that followed previous initiatives to build and lead the company’s third party channel business and global major accounts organization. Mr. Williams has also held sales and marketing management positions at Data Resources Inc.(DRI) and at a subsidiary of US Trust Company of New York. He earned his undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University with a dual major in Finance and International Business, and completed an international business program at the Université of Nantes in France.

Tee Williams

Principal, Tee Williams Associates

Melinda Wilson

Product Strategy - Cap Markets, Sybase, an SAP company

Joel York

Popular Cloud Author at Cloud Ave and Chaotic Flow, Chaotic Flow

Joel York is an Internet software executive and popular SaaS / Cloud blogger at Chaotic Flow, Cloud Ave and Cloud Bulls.He is well known for his work in SaaS / cloud business models, sales and marketing strategy, and financial metrics. Professionally, he has managed global sales and marketing organizations serving over 50 countries, including local offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and India. He holds degrees in physics from Caltech and Cornell and received his MBA from the University of Chicago.

Christina Young

Vice President, Morgan Stanley

Tina Young joined Morgan Stanley's Market Data Sourcing Team back in 2007. In addition to managing many other data vendors, Tina has been recently charged with organizing and managing Morgan Stanley's relationships with Index providers. This task has led her to participate in both FISD's Index Forum and many informal discussions with providers and users of this type of data. Prior to her joining Morgan Stanley, Tina was with JP Morgan for several years, primarily covering real-time market data vendors and exchanges. This was her second time at the firm, as year's earlier, she had completed The Chase Manhattan Bank's Credit Training program and worked as an analyst in their Investment Bank's ESOP Financing Group . Tina left the bank to pursue a career in market data working for Reuters America. There, she spent a few years on their National Account Sales team and was a project manager for the then newly formed Global Accounts Management program. Her experience has been invaluable in assisting the creation of the process Morgan Stanley uses to negotiate and contract with vendors.

Tina is a graduate of Villanova University's College of Commerce and Finance, (now known as Villanova Business School) with a BSBA. Together with her husband, she has a second full time career raising their two children.

Ken Zockoll

Senior VP & Director, Content Development, FactSet Research Systems, Inc.

Ken Zockoll is Senior Vice President and Director of Content Development at FactSet Research Systems, Inc. Ken has worked in the financial content business for over 25 years. Ken was a founder of the LionShares database of global ownership content. Since FactSet acquired LionShares in 2001, Ken has been involved in the development and deployment of FactSet's enterprise content solutions , which assist clients in the integration of their internal and third party content via an issuer centric data architecture.