Speakers

Nicola Millard

Futurist, BT

Dr Nicola Millard is a customer experience futurologist with BT. Despite working for a technology company, Nicola isn't actually a technologist and combines psychology with futurology to try and anticipate what might be lying around the corner for both customers and organisations. Nicola has now worked for BT for 22 years. She has done a number of jobs around the BT business including research, user interface design, customer service and business consulting.
Nicola likes nothing better than to challenge conventional business thinking, from how call centres are managed to the ways in which people work. She has a PhD in the psychology of motivation and technology acceptance, published her first book in 2009 and now spends most of her time doing research and writing blogs, articles and white papers. She has also appeared on TV and is a judge on a number of award panels including the Institute of Customer Service.

Lance Uggla

CEO, Markit

Lance is chief executive officer of Markit. He founded Markit in 2001, together with a team of credit market professionals. Prior to Markit, Lance was vice chair of TD Securities and head of its Europe and Asia divisions, responsible for global credit trading. His responsibilities included investment grade credit trading portfolios with a value in excess of USD 15 billion. Lance joined TD Securities in 1995 from CIBC World Markets where he worked for nine years, most recently as head of global fixed income. He began his banking career in 1986 at Wood Gundy Inc. in Toronto.Lance graduated from the Simon Fraser University in Canada with a BBA and holds a MSc from the London School of Economics.

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.

Sara Banerjee

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

Sara Banerjee is Director, Global Data Acquisition with SIX Financial Information Ltd 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 global data acquisition, management of supplier portfolio and relationship. In this role, she manages best practices for acquisition and implementation of market 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, WG 6 and WG 14). 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, co-chair of the Data Vendor Constituency Group 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.

David Barclay

Chief Operating Officer, Center for Research in Security Prices

David was coaxed out of early retirement in 1998 to lead CRSP’s revitalization of its historical market databases for common stocks, mutual funds, Treasuries, REITs and research indexes. Invigorated by the opportunity to help CRSP successfully bridge the academic and commercial worlds, David not only helped to solidify CRSP’s position as the premier data source for academic research, he also positioned CRSP as an index innovator with the 2012 introduction of CRSP’s investable indexes. Since its inception in 1960, CRSP has underpinned a vast amount of scholarly research in finance and economics, and has served as a trusted source for deep backtesting and investment benchmarking by practitioners. Today, nearly 450 leading academic institutions based in 35 countries rely on CRSP for its renowned research-quality data, including the U.S. historical equity database that spans 88 years of history. While CRSP has been calculating indexes since the days of the UNIVAC, it has only been since October 2012 that the investable “CRSP Indexes” have been on the industry radar. What was conceived as an extension of the core CRSP academic research databases has evolved into an industry-changing event for index providers. CRSP has licensed 16 of its investable indexes to Vanguard as new benchmarks for certain Vanguard ETFs. The transition to the CRSP Indexes by Vanguard was completed in June 2013 at which time the aggregate asset value for the Vanguard ETF’s benchmarked to CRSP Indexes was approximately $360 billion.
In his “spare time” David runs two private agribusiness corporations and enjoys outdoor activities and several antique automobiles. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS from Stanford University.

Nimesh Bharadia

CEO, Kaimian Group

Nimesh Bharadia started in the financial markets in the mid 90's, and has since worked for and had Senior Global roles with leading Market Data Vendors, Global Investment Banks and Software / Solutions providers. In January 2009 he created The Kaimian Group with the aim of providing consulting and business services across all facets of the financial services industry. Started in London, the firm has grown globally and now has presence in the UK, North America, Hong Kong and Singapore. He is currently situated at Citigroup.

Ivo Bieri

Head of Strategic Business Development , SIX Financial Information Ltd

Ivo Bieri is Head Strategic Business Development and member of the management committee at SIX Financial Information Ltd, a division of SIX Group. He is responsible for the advancement of the divisional strategy, product line extensions, strategic partnerships and M&A activities. Before taking up this role in 2011, he worked in a variety of management positions within the data and product management departments at SIX Financial Information, most recently heading Product Management and Marketing. He holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. Prior to joining SIX Group in 1999, he worked as a payments and online banking specialist at UBS (1992-1999).

Steven Birenbaum

Global Head of Market Data Technology & Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Steven Birenbaum is the Global Head of Market Data Technology & Services for the Technology Infrastructure organization. He joined Bank of America from Goldman Sachs, where he was a Technology Fellow and Global Head of Market Data Technology for the Technology Infrastructure organization. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Steven spent 6 years at Teknekron Software Systems (AKA Tibco), where he served as the NY regional Technical support & engineering manager. Steven holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and a Master of Business Administration from Hofstra University.

Ken Brady

Global Head of Market Data, Morgan Stanley

Ken is the Global Head of Market Data responsible for strategic data requirements, procurement and vendor provider strategy for Morgan Stanley Globally. Ken joined Morgan Stanley from Merrill Lynch where he was the Global Market Data Technology manager for the Institutional Business. Prior to Merrill Lynch Ken was with EJV partners in the early start up phase and before EJV Ken managed the Open Systems Group for Reuters. Ken holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science as well as an Masters in Business Administration from the Columbia University Business School. Ken has participated in a number of industry associations including the SIFMA Market Data Committee and the FIF Executive Committee.

Nick Brooks

EMEA Product Marketing Director, Finance Vertical, Savvis

Nick Brooks joined Savvis in January 2012 as the Product Marketing Director for the Financial Vertical in EUMA. Based in London, his responsibilities include building out a competitive market data, hosting and connectivity offering in Europe, increasing Savvis market share and raising brand awareness. Nick has extensive global experience in the Financial Services market, where he has built many new data and voice products and solutions around the world for key multinational clients. He joined Savvis from Orange Business Services Trading Solutions, where he was the Sales and Operations Director for their networking business in the UK. Prior to that, Nick held consulting positions with Orange and Turk Telekom, and was the global Vice President for product management at BT Radianz before that. Other roles have included global product, sales and marketing roles in BT, GTS Ebone, SITA and Equant (now Orange). Nick holds a bachelor’s degree in geography from the University of Memphis in the US.

Brian Buzzelli

Executive Director, Americas Data Management, Nomura

Mr. Buzzelli is Executive Director and Head of Enterprise Data Management, Americas, for Nomura’s broker dealer operations. He has primary responsibility for new accounts, market and product reference data management for Nomura’s U.S. operations. He is globally responsible for strategic reference and product data, as well as market data commercial vendor management. With more than 18 years of leadership experience in prior roles including Vice President, Americas Head for Thomson Reuters Enterprise Pricing and Reference Data business stewarding approximately $100M+ per annum in revenue. Previously, Mr. Buzzelli held strategic roles as Business Architect for Mellon’s Global Asset Services aligning strategic investments in Mellon’s business operations and technology architecture as well as Cross-Segment Product Manager responsible for Mellon’s Global Asset Servicing Outsourcing Solutions that included trade communications, client statements, client billing, performance measurement, and managed reference data services. He began his financial career at Federated Investors and is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Decision Systems and holds two Master degrees; Management of Information Systems and MBA in Finance from the Katz Business School at the University of Pittsburgh.

John Carter

Global Managing Editor , Market News International

John R. Carter was a founding member of MNI in 1984, starting as Bureau Chief of the Washington office. In that position, he helped develop MNI's coverage of U.S. government financial policies and economic data, which quickly became the industry standard. MNI pioneered detailed financial policy coverage of the Federal Reserve, the US Congress and the White House, as well as develop the first real-time economic data tables and analyses for market professionals. Mr. Carter became Europe Managing Editor in 1994, bringing with him the proven MNI methods to policy and data coverage. MNI again pioneered detailed coverage of central banks (the Bank of England, the Bundesbank and later the European Central Bank), of major European government financial policy moves, and key economic data of major economies. MNI is acknowledged as the market leader in central bank and economic data in Europe. Mr. Carter became Managing Editor for Asia in February in 2006 with the mission of ensuring top quality coverage of financial policy and economic data for global fixed-income and foreign exchange market participants. Mr. Carter was promoted to Global Managing Editor in September 2012 with the goal of continuing to improve MNI’s economic policy coverage and economic data presentations. John Carter is based in Beijing.

Rui Carvalho

Managing Director - Global Data Solutions, Standard & Poor's Corporation

Rui Carvalho is the Managing Director of S&P Capital IQ’s Enterprise Solutions Products & Platforms. Rui reports into the Executive Managing Director of Product & Content (P&C). Our mission in the Product & Content group is to lead S&P Capital IQ towards greater efficiency, accessibility and value creation in its data commercialization efforts. Enterprise Solutions is the data feed, on-demand products and content licensing business for S&P Capital IQ. Global Platforms are the content, services and solutions delivery channels for Enterprise Solutions. Before his career at S&P Capital IQ, Rui Carvalho was vice president and global head of Fundamentals, Corporate Actions and Public Equity Offerings Content. In his eleven years at Reuters, Rui managed both global data operations and regional quality groups. During his tenure Rui led various data operations transformational projects in India, China, Poland and Cyprus. Most recently, Rui was based in Singapore, where he led strategic data operations executions for the Asia Pacific and Emerging regions, including the Reuters Japan, Middle East, India and Vietnam Growth Strategies for the Research and Asset Management Segment. Rui is currently located in New York.

Ed Chidsey

Managing Director, Global Co-Head of Data Services, Markit

Ed Chidsey is a managing director and member of the management committee at Markit. He is co-head of Markit's global pricing and reference data businesses within the Information division. Prior to joining Markit in 2007, Ed spent 14 years at J.P. Morgan Chase where he began his career as part of the fixed income derivatives technology team. In 1999, he moved into private banking to run the Morgan Online client service team before relocating to Switzerland to help manage the merger with Chase. Upon returning to New York in 2002, Ed spent two years in the asset management division before rejoining the investment bank to run fixed income operational client services. Ed holds a BSc in mechanical engineering from Union College and an MBA from Columbia University.

Stuart Clark

Non-Executive Director, StatPro Group Plc

Stuart Clark is a non-executive director of StatPro Group plc, a leading provider of portfolio analytics and data, and chairman of the Board of Ipreo Holdings LLC, a global leader in providing market intelligence, data and technology solutions. Stuart retired in 2009 from his 41-year career with Interactive Data Corporation (and companies that were merged with Interactive Data). He was Interactive Data's president and chief executive officer and a member of the Company's Board of Directors from February 2000-March 2009, and was employed by Interactive Data and its predecessor companies, in the U.S. and in Europe, since 1968. Under Clark's leadership, Interactive Data expanded its offerings through both internal innovation and strategic acquisitions to establish itself as one of the industry's largest providers of financial market data, sophisticated analytics and related solutions. Stuart began his career as an analyst on company data at Extel in 1968 and progressed through a number of work disciplines and positions of increasing responsibility. In 2009 Stuart received the FISD's Market Data Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding service and contribution to the financial information industry. He has more than 40 years of experience in the market data and related industries and has successfully transformed businesses into top-tier performers that were renowned as leaders and trusted as providers of financial information.

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).

Michael Cooper

CTO, BT Radianz, Global Banking and Financial Markets, BT

Michael is a business technologist with considerable experience of the capital markets and a background in finance industry networking. He combines a particular interest in the evolution of the capital markets with the exploitation and integration of technology in capital markets business. As CTO for BT Radianz, Michael is responsible for architecture and the technical strategies that underpin BT’s Financial Market propositions. These products and services include: the BT Radianz Cloud — the world’s largest secure networked financial services community, BT Radianz Messaging, BT Radianz Hosting and Venue Interconnect. Previously, Michael was the Head of GB&FM Product Technology. During this time he created a business technology group responsible for the development and evolution of products and propositions together with leadership of innovation. Prior to this he ran the Radianz Customer Solutions team that provided early adopter solutions for key clients and new technologies. In 2012, Michael was named a ‘CTO of the Year’ finalist in the Financial News awards for Excellence in Trading and Technology. And in 2013 he made the final shortlist in the Here is the City CTO/CIO of the Year Poll. Michael has an MSc in Telecommunications Business Management from the University College of London.

Juan Corchete-Canavan

Global Head Market Data & Exchange Fees Sourcing, UBS Investment Bank

Juan Corchete-Canavan is an Executive Director at UBS AG, where he joined in 2002. Juan is the Global Head of Market Data and Exchange Fees Sourcing for all UBS AG business units and has over 18 years' experience in the market data industry. At UBS, he manages all the commercial relationships with our Market Data and Direct Execution vendors as well as the Exchanges. Prior to joining UBS AG, he was at Thomson Financial where he was a Data Acquisition Regional Manager - Asia and a Product Manager/Content. Juan has an M.B.A. from the V.U.B. in Brussels, Belgium. He is also an Executive Committee member at FISD.

Andrea Danese

Global Head of Enterprise Content and Distribution, Bloomberg

Andrea Danese leads the enterprise reference data, real-time data,distribution, and pricing services groups within Bloomberg’s Enterprise Solutions business. Mr. Danese joined Bloomberg in August 2009 to run Bloomberg's Data Solutions business, and since then has played an instrumental role restructuring Bloomberg's data solutions business by enhancing its content, building its product portfolio and redesigning its commercial models. Mr. Danese is also responsible for the development of Bloomberg Valuation Services, or BVAL, an evaluated pricing service for corporate and government credit products and derivatives. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr. Danese spent 16 years in the financial services industry. He started his career in London structuring credit products (CDOs and CLOs) for JP Morgan, and also served as chief operating officer of Deutsche Bank's Global Credit Derivatives business. He moved to New York in 2000 to be President and Chief Operating Officer of Creditex, Inc., a credit derivatives electronic trading platform. After Creditex, he joined Tullet Prebon Information as its chief executive officer and then served as managing partner and co-founder of Fusion Advisory Partners, Inc., before coming to Bloomberg. Mr. Danese earned a Juris Doctorate (JD) degree from the University of Rome and a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Business Law from Queen Mary and Westfield College at the University of London.

Anja de Jager

Director, Content and Technical Solutions Sales, FactSet

Anja is the Director of Content and Technology Solutions for Europe and Asia. She joined FactSet Europe Limited in 1996 and has held a number of different positions, most recently as Director of Product Strategy for Europe and Asia and worked on the enhancement and development of FactSet Estimates. Anja read Econometrics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and is a CFA charterholder.

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.

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.

Steve Ellenberg

Senior Consultant, MDSL

Steve is a senior consultant on the MDX Consulting team at MDSL. Prior to joining MDSL, Steve was a vice-president on the market data sourcing team at Credit Suisse, focused on negotiating non-real time market data licensing agreements and managing the global relationships with those suppliers. He also coordinated a multi-year project - the global consolidation/centralization of the sourcing and business management responsibilities for the firm’s index licensing agreements, and created an on-going index licensing coordinator role. This position was later transitioned to CS offices in Pune, India. Prior to CS, Steve held a variety of market data business management roles at Citigroup Asset Management, Morgan Stanley, and CS First Boston. Supplier experience includes tenures at Tudor Software, Telekurs (SIX Financial Information), Indepth Data, and Integrated Analytics (ITG). A graduate of New York University, with concentrations in Economics and Information Technology, Steve covered tuition via simultaneously working as a programming analyst at Haver Analytics. Formerly a competitive swimmer, Steve’s favorite sport is mogul skiing.

Martin Finniss

Global Head of Market Data, Macquarie Group

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

Edmund Flynn

Vice President, Morgan Stanley

Ed is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley and has the responsibility of managing global exchange relationships and sourcing for exchange data use across the Morgan Stanley enterprise. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he founded The Flynndex Company in 2011 to provide market data training and consulting services. Ed developed training classes to support the FISD Financial Information Associate Professional Certification program and collaborated with the eLearning firm “Finance Modules” to produce online market data training for the FISD FIA Certification. Ed began his career with Interactive Data and Moody’s Investors Service, then joined Fidelity Investments managing market data and investment research for the Fidelity Funds and the Fidelity enterprise. Ed has an MBA from Babson College, a BS from the University of Vermont, is a FISD FIA Market Data Professional and additionally holds a Master Captain’s sailing license.

Ana Forssman

Director - Market Data, JSE Limited

Ana Forssman heads up Market Data Division at the JSE, and is a member of the exchange’s Executive Committee. She is responsible for leading the strategic direction of the division in growing exposure for JSE market information in South Africa and around the world, spanning information products across equities, equities and commodities derivatives, interest rate and indices markets. Responsible for direction on legal, market data policies, commercial policies and best practices in relation to market data for JSE. Ana, is the founder of the Market data industry in South Africa for the JSE, and is responsible for ensuring that the JSE remains abreast of all international practices in this industry, in remaining locally relevant and globally competitive. Under Ana’s direction the JSE has initiated discussions, built local and international strategic relationships and entered into agreements with all the major global data distributors, consumers and other providers of services which require market data as a source. Involvement with all major global players continues and in ensuring that global market data best practices are considered and adopted to ensure that the JSE is a facilitator of this process within SA and globally in adopting international norms. She was instrumental in the roll out of the FTSE/JSE Indices from 2002, in terms of introducing the FTSE/JSE family of indices to the South African market. She remains the executive responsible for the FTSE/JSE relationship. The role that the JSE plays in expanding global access to trading information around the world and accessibility by South African investors to the JSE – thus creating greater market transparency and also attracting international investors to South Africa’s shores, remains a key focus.

Alexandra Foster

Head of Global Strategy & Business Development, Financial Technology Services, Global Banking & Financial Markets, BT

Alex Foster is responsible for the planning, development and implementation of the strategy and vision for key components of BT’s dedicated financial services portfolio. She was appointed to this role in November 2012 and manages a team that steers business development decisions for BT Unified Trading, BT Radianz and payments. She is driven by the goals, needs and aspirations of BT’s financial services customers. Alex joined BT’s Global Banking & Financial Markets division in 2011. Here she led the global sales and business development team focused on the BT Radianz portfolio, covering market connectivity, managed network services for low-latency electronic trading, hosting and secure messaging. Prior to joining BT, Alex held a position at Instinet from 2009 where she revamped the firm’s sales efforts. There she established and managed a new sales team while overseeing new product development & managing initiatives that tapped new revenue streams. In 2006 she joined the Equities & Derivatives division of BNP Paribas with a specific remit to build and run the Global Execution Services (GES) product line within the UK and Europe & represented the bank’s shareholdings on exchanges and MTFs, some at board level. Previously Alex worked as a sales trader initially at Paribas then ING Barings & at Macquarie where she was Divisional Director for Pan Asian sales trading for UK & Europe.

Deborah Fuhr

Partner, ETFGI

Deborah Fuhr is a partner and co-founder of ETFGI, an independent research and consultancy firm established in 2012 covering the global ETF and ETP industry. The firm is focused on providing thought leadership, producing independent research on the global ETF and ETP industry including monthly ETF and ETP asset flows, manager rankings, product updates, index providers rankings, exchanges rankings, banks and brokerage firms ETF and ETP trading rankings, providing education and assistance to investors on product comparison, asset allocation implementation as well as offering customised research. ETFGI’s annual paid subscription service provides 1) a monthly global report which includes over 200 pages of charts and analysis on the global ETF and ETP industry covering fund flows, provider, index provider, exchange and broker rankings basis, 2) a monthly directory of ETFs and ETPs and 3) access to the ETFGI database on a country, regional or global basis to allow investors to find and compare ETFs and ETPs across various characteristics in order to build a single or multi-faceted analysis in line with their investment or research requirements. Previously she was the Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy and a Managing Director at BlackRock/BGI from Sept 2008 – Oct 2011 managing a team which won a number of awards. Ms Fuhr worked at Morgan Stanley in London from 1997 – 2008 as a Managing Director and head of the Investment Strategy team. Prior to this she was an Associate at Greenwich Associates the strategic consulting and research source for providers and users of financial services worldwide. Ms Fuhr was named as one of The Ten to Watch 2014 by Rep. Magazine/ wealth management.com. ETFGI won Best ETF research Europe(statistical) in the exchangetradedfunds.com 2012 awards and Best ETF Research award in 2012 in the ETF Express awards. In 2012, 2009, 2008 and 2007, Ms Fuhr was named as one of the Top 100 women in Finance, a distinguished list of the most influential women in European Finance, by Financial News. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Indexes (USA) and Journal of Indexes Europe, the Advisory Board for The Journal of Index Investing, investment panel of experts for Portfolio Adviser, FTSE ICB Advisory Committee, and the International Advisory Committee (IAC) for the Egyptian Stock Exchange, as well as the University Of Connecticut School Of Business International Advisory Board. She has an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Connecticut.

Dave Gedeon

Managing Director, NASDAQ OMX

Dave Gedeon, Managing Director, NASDAQ OMX Global Information Services is responsible for the product development at NASDAQ OMX’s index and data business and previously led the research and development team of NASDAQ OMX’s index business. Under his direction, NASDAQ OMX has launched thousands of indexes resulting in both innovative benchmarks and index-tracking products. Notable launches include the NASDAQ Multi-Asset Income indexes, the NASDAQ Global Index family, the NASDAQ OMX Axioma Equity-Commodity family and the NASDAQ Commodity Index family. He also played an integral role in the 2011 NASDAQ-100 index special rebalance. Dave joined NASDAQ OMX in 2005. He is a graduate of Denison University with a BA in economics.

Jeremy Green

Global Head of Market Data , Standard Chartered Bank

Jeremy is currently the Global Head of Market Data at the Standard Chartered Bank. He has global responsibility for the firm's market data function including engineering, service and support, financial and contract management, regulatory support, real-time data delivery, referential and historical data delivery. Jeremy is an experienced market data service manager and has a track record in areas of department structure realignment and off-shoring, market data cost efficiency and reduction, data vendor management and change management, low latency middleware, direct feed architecture and engineering etc. Prior to Standard Chartered, Jeremy worked for Mizuho Securities in Japan as a Global Prime Services & Electronic Trading Infrastructure Manager.

Steve Hansen

Vice President, Market Data Sourcing, Morgan Stanley

Steve is a market data professional with over 20 years of relevant experience in the industry. He has been an active member of the MD community including the FISD, consumer constituency, vendors and exchanges. Sourcing professional with many years experience negotiating commercials. Market data manager role including supervising administrative activities such as business analysis, inventory management, entitlements, invoicing, process flow, etc.

Keiren Harris

Director, DataContent, Hong Kong

Keiren has been advising institutional clients and exchanges on their market data and trading platform strategies, policies, and requirements for over 20 years. In 2011 Keiren with Rafah Hanna launched DataContent a new strategic consulting practice to advise profit-driven financial market participants on how to resource and leverage information and market data to directly benefit their business’ bottom line. Providing specialised advice and exclusive research to clients, Keiren’s consulting is based on proven best practice principles to review and analyse information requirements and data flow into the business, across the business, and from the business to the marketplace. The result has been DataContent is successfully expanding its client base and global footprint. Keiren is based in Hong Kong.

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.

Michael Hodgson

Head of Licensing - Global Market Data, NYSE Euronext

Mike Hodgson has worked in the market data industry for 25 years currently as head of licensing for global market data at NYSE Euronext and previously 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.

Chris Johnson

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

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

Heidi Johnson

Global Head of Hub and Collaboration Services, Markit

Heidi is the global product head for Markit Hub and Collaboration, and a managing director at Markit. She drives strategy, development and production for products and services focused on identity management, collaboration and social data for the financial services industry. Prior to Markit, Heidi was the global manager of digital strategy and development at a global investment bank. She brings nearly 20 years’ experience in digital media strategy, having held a variety of senior roles in the technology sector and as a digital media, strategy and marketing consultant. Heidi started her career as a management consultant with Deloitte, and received both her Masters and Bachelor degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark Johnson

Vice President, Global Sales, Asset Control

Mark Johnson is the Vice President of Global Sales at Asset Control. Johnson is tasked with developing and leading business initiatives in key growth markets such as Central and Eastern Europe, Asia-Pac and the Americas as well as strengthening the company’s existing relationships with top global banks, asset management firms and insurers.

Johnson is a financial technology veteran, with over 20 years of experience in developing and deploying financial data governance frameworks. His areas of expertise include data quality and effective data governance, and their real-world application in credit and other financial market operations.

Xiaowei Kang

Senior Director, S&P Dow Jones Indices

Xiaowei Kang is senior director, index research and design at S&P Indices, leading the quantitative index research and design and thought leadership efforts in the EMEA region. Xiaowei is also responsible for the development of index products and strategies across asset classes. Prior to joining S&P Dow Jones Indices, Xiaowei worked for MSCI Barra in the equity and applied research group. Before MSCI Barra, Xiaowei was vice president of credit indices at Markit.
Xiaowei is a CFA charter holder and holds a masters degree in economics and management science from the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has published several papers in leading industry journals, and has been frequently quoted in the financial media.

Bill Lee

Vice President, Sourcing and Procurement Services, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bill has been in the Securities Industry for 42 years, and recently joined JPMorgan Chase Bank after 12 years with Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. to manage Exchange and Index Relations for Market Data. His continuing goal is to expand the uses of information while reducing or eliminating administrative burdens. Prior to New York Investment Banks 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.

Robert Leitner

President, The Roberts Group

Robert is founder and President of The Roberts Group, a global market data consulting firm and provider of FITS, the Financial Information Tracking System, for inventory and cost management. Robert has over 25 years of financial industry experience, primarily within the market data space (both technology and administration). A programmer by education, Robert performed trading systems development for FD Consulting before joining the UBS market data team. As a Market Data Manager, Head of Development, and active member of several industry trade groups, he has acquired a rare blend of business and technical expertise that has been the foundation for significant advancements in market data administration.

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

Gary Lui

Head of Index Development, China Exchanges Services Company Limited

Gary Lui is the Head of Index Development of the China Exchanges Services Company Limited (CESC) and is responsible for developing new indices and monitoring index operation. He was involved in the development of the first CES Cross-border Index Series launched by CESC. Gary has over 10 years of experience in the index industry. Prior to joining CESC, he was working in the Product and Index Development Department in Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. and in Index Licensing in Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited. He graduated from the University of Wollongong with Bachelor of Commerce in Finance.

Donald Madura

Founder and Managing Director, Madura Associates

Don Madura is the founder and Managing Director of Madura Associates, Inc. (MAI), a New York-based international consulting firm, established in 1990, and specializing in market data content and technology strategies and market data optimization services. Don brings over thirty years of specialized financial services expertise to the consulting practice and is a leading expert in direct to source strategies, distributed architectures, enterprise data solutions, and international market information. His efforts have provided clients with increased productivity from market data / ECN sources and dramatically lower incremental cost structures. Don has worked in a variety of upper level management functions in both the corporate and consulting environments. His prior corporate affiliations include Citigroup, the New York Stock Exchange, Standard & Poors/Telekurs, and Reuters Information Services. He has provided consulting services to many leading buy and sell side oganizations. In 2008, Don took a hiatus from his consulting practice to lead the market data efforts at Citigroup. As Managing Director and member of Expense Management operating committee, Don was directly responsible for its global market data and enterprise strategies including its innovative direct to source and administrative optimization efforts.

Michael McCrea

Director, Global Business Operations, TMX Datalinx

Michael McCrea is a seasoned market data industry professional with over 25 years experience across Consumer, Vendor, and Exchange constituents. Currently responsible all contract negotiation and management, customer invoicing, market data administration, contractual compliance and auditing for TMX Datalinx. His other responsibilities include setting of data usage policies, pricing models, and revenue forecasting, covering all TMX Group market data products and properties, including Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montreal Exchange and Alpha market data. Additionally, Michael's team supports other TMX Datalinx market data and delivery technology products such as co-location, TMX Atrium, TMX Information Processor, and CDS Innovations. Michael is Vice-Chair of the FISD Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the Exchange Constituency Group.

Tony McManus

Global Head of Enterprise Distribution Technology , Bloomberg L.P.

Tony McManus is the Global Head of Enterprise Distribution Technology within the Enterprise Solutions division at Bloomberg LP. Mr. McManus joined Bloomberg in 2012, bringing with him more than 15 years of experience in software engineering, solutions delivery and technology business management within the financial markets sector. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr McManus was the Global Head of Enterprise Software at NYSE Technologies where he was responsible for the enterprise market data platform, the OpenMAMA initiative, low-latency order routing and market access gateways, FIX software products, the tick database and CEP platform as well as for the professional services and consulting businesses. He also had general management and operational responsibility for the NYSE Euronext Technology Centre of Excellence in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In early 2007 Mr. McManus joined Wombat Financial Software to run the Electronic Trading Solutions business which continued until March 2008 when the company was acquired by NYSE Euronext. Before that Mr. McManus spent eight years developing and architecting electronic trading systems for UBS Investment Bank in London where he worked across a diverse range of business lines including repo. trading, stock lending, equities order management, pre and post trade analytics, and position and risk management. Mr. McManus is a graduate of Queens University Belfast and has a Masters in Information Systems from the University of Portsmouth.

Andrew Miller, FIA

Senior Consultant, NuPont LLC

Andrew has over 25 years experience in the market data industry, having worked and managed consulting projects across the industry, from vendors and large sell-side banks to smaller technology firms and retail on-line trading shops.
Whilst at Arcontech he conceived and brought to market the CityVision real-time market data platform which is now deployed world-wide in mission critical applications from central banking and national treasury through to investment banking, broking and derivatives trading.
Andrew is an active participant in industry working groups and a vocal advocate of internetworking communities, cross-platform integration and vendor independent technologies to facilitate choice, reduce costs and increase quality of real-time market data and systems.

Ken Napolitano

Enterprise Content and Distribution Strategy, 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.

Joe Nardulli

Vice President, Product Manager, Investment Risk and Analytical Services, Northern Trust

Joe is responsible for overseeing the index data operations for the custody business and navigating commercial policies and contract negotiations. His current focus is on strategic education initiatives around the use of index data and client engagement. Joe has been with the Northern Trust Company for over 15 years and previously worked in accounting operations for ERISA clients and product development for the Investment Risk & Analytical Services group. Joe holds a B.A. in Economics from Northern Illinois University.

Kiou Nayer Nouri

Global Head of Market Data Commercial Management, Director , Barclays Bank

Currently the Global Head of Market Data Commercial Management at Barclays Bank and with over 21 years experience in the Financial Market Data industry across The Toronto Stock Exchange, Reuters, Citigroup, HSBC and Barclays Bank. Kiou manages a global team of Market Data Vendor Managers and Index Licensing Managers centralising the commercial and contractual negotiations and derivative product licensing across the bank. Kiou also manages all external vendor and exchange audits.

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!).

Jonathan Nutter

Vice President, State Street

Jonathan is the Head of the Vendor Management team in the Market Data Services department. He is responsible for global relationships with market data vendors and supports the Global Services and Global Markets divisions of State Street. Prior to this role he worked at State Street Global Advisors and MFS Investment Management. He has over 24 years of experience managing the market data function and supporting data users in the front, middle, and back office. He is on the FISD Executive Committee representing market data consumer firms and serves on the CUSIP Board of Trustees.

Gareth Parker

Director, Index Research, Design & Development (EMEA), Russell Indexes

Gareth Parker is director of index research, design and development for Russell Investments’ European indexes. Gareth works closely with index users to understand their index requirements and to develop Russell indices that match their exact needs
Prior to joining Russell in 2011, Gareth was with FTSE and S&P. At FTSE he undertook roles encompassing the calculation and management of indices, the operation of data services, the provision of consultancy services for FTSE’s clients, and the design of indices: he designed the pan-European FTSEurofirst Index Series, the FTSE techMARK indices and the FTSE / ATHEX Greek domestic market indices, amongst others. At S&P he was responsible for the creation of a new series of Asian Thematic Indices, work on corporate group and high-liquidity indices for various markets, and the publication of research papers on the creation and potential investment usage of volatility indices. At FTSE he also designed and oversaw the implementation of a new equity classification system, the International Classification Benchmark (ICB). He has particular interest in include the indexation of non-linear payoffs, less correlated markets, and of complex strategies.
Gareth is a regular speaker on the finance conference circuit and acts as a media spokesperson for the company, and is a regular speaker on the international conference circuit and in the media.

Joseph Pickel

VP Product Management, IPC

Joseph Pickel is the Vice President of Product Management for Network Services at IPC Systems, a leading provider of trading communications and network services for the financial services industry. At IPC, Joe is responsible for introducing new network products and service and growing the managed network business. Joe joins IPC most recently from Telwares, a leading provider of next-gen network and technology advisory and strategic sourcing solutions to global enterprises, where he was SVP of Operations and ran the day to day management of the provisioning, pricing, and customer service organizations. Prior to Telwares, Joe was SVP of Corporate Operations and Product Management at Westcom, Joe was a key member of the executive team that facilitated the sale of Westcom to IPC.

Joe has also held the position of Chief Operating Officer at HyperFeed, a company offering consolidated ultra-low latency direct exchange market data feeds, as well as various senior positions at Telerate, Global Crossing and IXNet, Joe was also the Founder and President of Applied Data Solutions a 40 million dollar system integrator.

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.

Claire Pons

Manager–EMEA Exchanges, Content Acquisition and Rights Management , Thomson Reuters

Claire Pons manages EMEA exchanges within Content Acquisition and Rights Management (CARM) at Thomson Reuters. CARM is responsible for commercial and contractual relationships with exchanges and other third party content providers globally as well as facilitating Thomson Reuters’ compliance with its third party content providers agreements. Claire Pons joined Thomson Reuters in 1996 and holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations as well as a Degree in Translation (University of Strasbourg, France)

Mike Powell

Managing Director, Hosting & Managed Services, Thomson Reuters

Mike is responsible for Thomson Reuters hosting and managed services business, providing co-location hosting and real-time data access for customer applications, managed market data infrastructure solutions and cloud based services in key financial market data centres around the world. Mike joined Thomson Reuters in 1995 and has worked in various different parts of the Company including nearly eight years abroad in Japan, Singapore and Australia. In 2005 Mike returned to London to establish the Enterprise Information real-time business unit to support the growing trend in business automation across the capital markets, launching multiple initiatives including low-latency data feeds, machine readable news, tick history archive solutions and more recently proximity hosting and managed services. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters Mike worked at Nomura International as part of their Japanese institutional equities business in London, and Bloomberg. Mike has a BSc Hons degree in Business Management.

Barry Raskin, FIA

Managing Director, SIX Financial Information

Barry S. Raskin is Managing Director of the American subsidiary of Zurich-based SIX Financial Information, a premier supplier of global securities pricing, descriptive and corporate actions information on securities traded around the world. Barry helped establish SIX in the US in 1987, serving as CFO and Secretary prior to his promotion to Managing Director in 1995. Under his stewardship, SIX 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 Financial Information 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 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.

Professor George Roland

Head of Research, Financial Technology Institute

William Ruvo

Head of Elektron Hosting, Enterprise Solutions, Thomson Reuters

In his role, Bill is responsible for overall strategy and execution of hosting solutions which provide high-performance infrastructure and applications to support trading operations and high-quality global content to drive investment decisions. Bill has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry. Prior to his current role, Bill ran the real-time feeds business in North America. Before joining Reuters, Bill was Vice President of Business Development at Interactive Data Corporation where he was responsible for their real-time non-organic growth strategy with a specific emphasis on direct exchange initiatives. During his tenure with Interactive Data, Bill also held the position of Vice President of Strategic Account Sales. Before Interactive Data, Bill held several senior positions with the financial services sector such as Vice President of Sales for MoneyLine Telerate and sales management positions with Bang Networks, 4Cast, and Dow Jones Telerate. Bill began his career with Prudential Financial in its institutional asset management organization. He holds a BS in Finance from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia

Roger Sargeant

Managing Director, Europe, Interactive Data Corporation

Roger Sargeant is responsible for leading the Company's institutional business in EMEA. Mr Sargeant brings extensive international experience in the financial industry to this role. Mr Sargeant was previously managing director of Interactive Data, International from 2010 – 2012 based in Singapore. During this time, he was responsible for growing the business and sales operation in Asia Pacific as well as overseeing the EMEA region. Prior to this Mr Sargeant, led the institutional European business from 2005, during this period he led the business through strong organic growth, extending the Company's leadership position in the UK and selected continental European markets, particularly in the areas of fixed income and real-time data. Mr Sargeant joined the Company in 1990 and has held several senior business development positions, including a two-year period in Asia and seven years in North America.

Axel Schorn

Director, Head of Indicators, Deutsche Boerse AG

Axel is responsible for MNI Indicators, a provider of macro-economic data and intelligence to businesses and the investment community. This new section of Deutsche Boerse Market Data + Services is the home of a new team of economists and marketeers who solely focus on proprietary macro-economic indicators, such as the Chicago Business Barometer TM.
MNI Indicators is delighted to formally launch its brand new BRIC indicators at WFIC 2013. The MNI BRIC indicators explore business and consumer confidence in Brazil, Russia, India and China. They are designed to provide unbiased, pertinent and timely insight into these four growing economies. Please make sure to visit the Deutsche Boerse / MNI stand for more information and complimentary report samples.
Since joining Deutsche Boerse Group in 1999, Axel held various positions in sales and product development, with stations in Frankfurt and New York, as well as frequent stays in London. He studied in the Netherlands and the United States, and holds a degree in International Business from Hogeschool Zuyd.

Paolo Sivillica

Chair, FISD Exec Committee / Head, Strategic Partners & Alliances, SIX Financial Information

Paolo Sivillica is Head Strategic Partners and Alliances of SIX Financial Information Ltd, a premier supplier of global securities pricing, descriptive and corporate actions information on securities traded around the world. Paolo joined SIX Financial Information (former Telekurs AG) back in 1988 and has held various positions within the company. Prior to this, Paolo was Global Head of Data Acquisition focused on negotiating agreements for market + reference data, news, third parties contributors content and managing the global relationships with those suppliers. Currently he represents SIX Financial Information as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Financial Information Services Division of The Software & Information Industry Association and is member in various other industry organizations.

Herbie Skeete

Managing Director, Mondo Visione Ltd.

Herbie Skeete is the founder and managing director of Mondo Visione, the leading source of insight and knowledge about the world’s exchanges and trading venues. He is a widely experienced information industry specialist and well-connected expert on exchanges and trading venues worldwide, who combines technical knowledge with entrepreneurial flair. Formerly a senior Reuters executive, Skeete was a main board member of Multex pre and post IPO. Skeete is an advisor to exchanges, trading venues, information vendors, regulators and companies operating in the financial information space.

Jeff Styles

Principal, Styles Associates

Jim Sudol

Market Data Director, Jordan & Jordan

Jim Sudol is a Director in Jordan & Jordan’s Market Data Practice with over 25 years of practical project management experience including the last nine years at Jordan & Jordan. Focusing on supporting clients and positioning them to confront the challenges of market data management, Jim has lead or participated in numerous critical initiatives such as market and reference data compliance assessments, exchange market data commercial model development, contract review and interpretation, and end-to-end market data administration and expense control guidance. Jim works with a broad range of industry participants to help them understand and resolve dynamic market data related issues that confront them. Clients include index developers, global and regional investment banks, security exchanges, and data vendors. Jim also manages J&J’s Exchange Market Data Advisory Service, advising clients of relevant exchange market data policy developments and day-to-day enquiries. Jim has served/co-served on the FISD Executive Committee since 2009 and holds a BS degree in Business Management from the Pennsylvania State University.

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.

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)

Philip Uglow

Chief Economist, MNI Indicators, MNI

Philip heads up the economist team at MNI Indicators and is responsible for the production and analysis of a wide range of indicators focused on business and consumer sentiment. As well as producing the widely known and market moving Chicago Report, the economics team have been busy preparing a suite of brand new indicators for the BRIC economies to be launched formally at WFIC 2013.
Philip has worked with MNI for thirteen years and was previously employed as part of the editorial team as Chief UK Economics Correspondent. Prior to joining MNI, he worked as a UK economist at Union plc and Chief Economist at Sakura Bank. Philip holds a degree in economics with econometrics from the University of Bath and an MSc in Economics from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Christian Voigt

Business Solutions Architect, Fidessa

Christian is a Business Solutions Architect at Fidessa plc. He focuses on the growing regulatory and functional requirements for multi-asset automated trading systems and supports large scale Fidessa enterprise clients across Europe in meeting those new challenges. Christian is a frequent commentator in the press and at industry events on the changing regulatory landscape and its implications for financial market participants. He also provides regular written commentary and analysis on Fidessa's dedicated website, Regulation Matters. Prior to joining Fidessa, Christian was Vice President at Deutsche Börse AG concentrating on business development for institutional equity markets. Christian began his career as a scholar at the European Business School in Germany, where he obtained his doctorate degree and published in peer reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Trading, on empirical issues in Market Microstructure.

Richard Weston

Director and Head of Data, BMO Financial Group

Rich Weston is Director and Head of Data at BMO Financial Group. He is globally responsible for strategy, sourcing, expense management and technology operations for both Capital Markets and Wealth Management. Prior to joining BMO, he was an Associate Partner with consulting firm Citihub leading Market Data efficiency programs at two tier one financial institutions and has held previous Marked Data management roles with KBC Group in Brussels, Merrill Lynch and Invesco Asset Management in London and Macquarie Bank in Sydney. Rich has over 20 years experience in the financial information industry having first started his career as an equity research analyst at Charterhouse Securities in the early nineties.

John Willock

Managing Director, Global Data Sales, Nasdaq OMX

Holger Wohlenberg

Managing Director, Market Data + Services, Deutsche Boerse AG

Holger Wohlenberg became Managing Director of Deutsche Boerse in July 2004. He is responsible for the Group’s Market Data + Services business. Holger joined from Deutsche Bank where he headed Technology Investment Banking. He began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he was focused on advising technology, network and media clients. He was elected Partner in 1997. Holger received a PhD degree in Business Administration, major in Information and Communication Economics, from the University of Munich. He is chairman of Stoxx Ltd., Market News International Inc., Infobolsa S.A. and a member of Bertelsmann’s Information Solutions Advisory Board.

Nourredine Yous

ANNA Consultant, Intermediaction

Nourredine Yous acts partly as a Standards Expert with SIX Financial Information and chairs the "Securities and Financial Instruments" committee of ISO and acts as a consultant for the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA). He counts more than 30 years experience in reference data matters, including leading the reference data operations, data quality, process and project management as well as training.
Over the last couple of years he more and more concentrated on communication and achieved a comprehensive education in this science. As he is especially interested in intercultural problems, he continued with trainings as a mediator. Indeed, he feels supporting people and teams in really understanding conflicts they are involved in and paving the way towards a win-win solution is a fascinating process. With his Intermediaction partners he offers communication seminars and consulting in general and more specifically relating to project management and organizations

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 entity centric data architecture.