2009 Conference Speakers

Bill Adiletta
President
TekFinancial Solutions

William F. Adiletta is President, TekFinancial Solutions, a division of Tekmark Global Solutions LLC, one of the largest privately held providers of information technology, communications and consulting services to companies worldwide.

TekFinancial Solutions offers specialized consulting to the financial services community including Enterprise Integration, Electronic Trading Systems Development, Wealth Management, SOX Compliance, Managed IT Services, Network Security, and FIX Integration, building on Tekmark Global Solutions strengths.

Mr. Adiletta has over 25 years of experience leading some of the most significant innovations in the Financial and Telecommunications industries; and is a recognized expert in global trading systems and large-scale software development.

In the late 1990 to early 2000s, Mr. Adiletta was the CIO of Global Crossing, at the time, the 5th largest global Telco responsible for consolidating the technology infrastructure of its global acquisitions and centralizing worldwide information systems and controls. Global Crossing acquired IX Net and IPC the leading Financial Services Extranet, in which Mr. Adiletta was CTO of both organizations.

In the mid 90s, Mr. Adiletta was President of the Capital Markets division of OptiMark Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of trade order matching facilities for global securities markets and exchanges. He originally joined OptiMark as the CTO and developed three complete exchange systems at the Pacific Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the Osaka Stock Exchange.

Previously, Mr. Adiletta was President and COO of Market Vision, a leader in Electronic Trading Systems for Equity, Fixed Income, and Foreign Exchange as well as real-time middleware. He sold Market Vision to Bridge Information Systems in the mid- 90s.

Mr. Adiletta is a board member of RMD Networks a leading provider of Clinical Groupware offering communities-of-interest, enhancing collaboration, communication, and workflow.

Bill Adiletta earned a B.A. in Physics from the University of Connecticut, and an M.S. in Physics from DePaul University in Chicago.

Andy Bechtolsheim
Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman Arista Networks
and Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems

Arista Networks is the developer of the award-winning 71xx series, the industry's highest density and lowest latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching solutions. Prior to founding Arista Networks, Andy Bechtolsheim was a Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, a Founder and President of Granite Systems and Kealia, a VP/GM at Cisco and an early investor in Google.

Craig Betts
Founder and CEO
Solace Systems

Solace Systems is the leading provider of hardware-based messaging and middleware solutions for a wide range of industries. Mr Betts is a mathematician and worked in the communications and defense industries prior to founding Solace.

 

Jim Bird
CTO
BIDS Trading

Jim heads up all software development, quality assurance, and technology operations for BIDS Trading. Jim was part of the original AMSL group that created the BIDS concept and system. He was responsible for creating the development, QA, and IT operations teams for the BIDS ATS.

Prior to BIDS, Jim was the CTO of EFA Software, a major supplier of automated trading technology (now owned by NASDAQ OMX), where he managed the managed the development and launch of trading systems for exchanges and global investment banks in more than 30 countries. His customers have included the CBOE, Boston Stock Exchange, Canadian Venture Exchange, Canadian Trading and Quotation System, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Börse, the Australian Stock Exchange, the Saudi Arabian Central Bank, the Korea Exchange, the Dubai Financial Market, and the Cairo and Alexandria Exchanges.

Jim has more than 25 years of experience in IT systems, with the last 15 years managing the development and implementation of trading systems technology. Jim is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a certification in Advanced Project Management from Stanford University.

Jeff Birnbaum
Global Head of Platform Solutions
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch

Jeffrey M. Birnbaum is Managing Director and Chief Technical Architect at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of the core architecture and engineering of the enterprise including compute, network, storage, middleware, database, grid, market data and high availability. Mr. Birnbaum is also heavily involved in emerging parallel application development for low latency messaging and computational finance.

In 2006, Birnbaum founded 60East Technologies which developed "AMPS" (Advanced Message Processing System) which is a highly parallel low latency content based publish/subscribe engine that delivers unprecedented levels of performance on commodity computers and 10GbE networking. Birnbaum's previous experience includes Managing Director, Chief Technology Architect and Global Head of Enterprise Computing at Morgan Stanley (1991-2006). Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr Birnbaum worked as a systems engineer in the aerospace industry and for the CIA. He holds a BS is Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Tony Bishop
CEO & Founder
Adaptivity

Tony is the Founder and CEO of Adaptivity. As Chairman and CEO, Tony leads the team and provides hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for our key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations. He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure.

Tony and our team have been recognized by the industry with awards from InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Waters, and Wall Street & Technology, among others, for their efforts in building world-class technology to differentiate their business. He has 20 years working as a user and as a supplier in various design, strategy, and architecture roles across multiple industries.

Tony is the recipient of 40 under 40 Most Innovative IT Leaders, Premier 100 IT Leaders as selected by ComputerWorld in 2007, and a member of Wall Street Gold Book 2007.

Ed Briggs
Industry Technology Strategist
Capital Markets Industry Solutions
U.S. Financial Services Group
Microsoft

Ed Briggs, focuses on the technology strategy needed to satisfy the needs of the Capital Markets industry. Ed works closely with customers, ISVs, and Hardware OEMs around the world bringing to bring industry leading solutions to market. With a total of 27 years of technology experience, including product development engineering, strategic planning, ISV and OEM relations, and consulting, Ed has spent 15 of those years focused on the needs of the Financial Services Industry.

Ed is a 16 year veteran at Microsoft Corporation, and prior to that spent 7 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has also worked at Citibank NA, Morgan Guaranty Trust, and RACAL Electronics PLC. He is a member of the ACM.  Ed has also served on various standards organizations, including ASNI X3J11 C Language Standardization, PICMG PCI Bus Standardization, and in the past, in telecommunications signaling protocol standardization.

Ed Bugnion
Vice President & Chief Technical Officer, Server Access Virtualization
Cisco Systems

Ed Bugnion is the Vice President and Chief Technical Officer at Cisco for the Server Access Virtualization Business Unit. Bugnion joined Cisco with the acquisition of Nuova Systems, a company that he co-founded in 2005.

Prior to Nuova Systems, Bugnion was the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of VMware, where he served from 1998 until 2005. Prior to VMware, Bugnion did graduate work at Stanford University in the areas of virtualization, simulation, and computer architecture, and worked at DEC’s Western Research Laboratory.

He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from ETH Zurich and an master's degree from Stanford University both in Computer Science.

Don Clegg
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
Super Micro Computer

Heading up Supermicro's Marketing & Business Development groups, Don brings more than 20 years of direct experience in Sales, Marketing and Computer Design. Focused on long term growth opportunities, Don and his team are responsible for working with key partners to develop new business initiatives. Prior to Supermicro, Don was vice president of marketing for Netcell Corporation, a VC backed storage semiconductor start-up as well as vice president of marketing and strategic sales at Tyan Computer Corporation.

Don has also held design and marketing positions at Opti, Inc., Chips and Technologies, Wyse Technologies and Northstar Computers. Don graduated with High Honors from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Joe DeSantis
Vice President, Software Development
InterSystems

Joe DeSantis directs object technology development at InterSystems. He previously worked with Liant Software Corporation as vice president of research & development, where he was responsible for product vision, architecture, and development of object-oriented development tools.

DeSantis co-founded Oakland Group, Inc., where he served as vice president of research & development and oversaw the architecture, design and development of the C-scape Interface Management System. DeSantis got his start at Zoom Telephonics, Inc. as a senior engineer responsible for designing consumer telecommunications devices.

He studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dave Durkee
CEO
PrimaCloud

Dave Durkee has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology infrastructure, networking, business applications development, and executive corporate management. He has held several senior management positions in Information Technology, including CIO of the successful hosted ERP application service provider, Netsuite.com. At NetSuite, Dave designed and managed the build-out of an award-winning million-customer data center based on multitier redundant arrays of servers and network-attached storage. He also has extensive experience with applications development and deployment on Microsoft and Linux platforms for large and small enterprises, including large Oracle database applications.

Lee Fisher
Worldwide FSI-HPC Business Development
Hewlett-Packard

Lee is Worldwide Business Development manager for HP’s scalable, high performance solutions in Financial Services. He is focused on developing and communicating HP’s turnkey solutions in the areas of low latency market data and exchanges, compute-intensive quantitative analytics, and virtualized data centers. He works with HP partners who offer hardware, middleware, and application components employed in these solutions to ensure production-worthy deployable systems. He helps HP regional teams and customers understand these value-added systems, optimized for FSI-HPC performance. Lee previously served as HP’s Business and Alliances manager for the Computer-Aided Engineering industry for over a decade.

Will Forrest
Principal, Business Technology Office
McKinsey & Company

William Forrest is a Partner with McKinsey & Company’s Business Technology Office in Chicago, Illinois. He joined the Firm in July, 2004.

Will serves McKinsey as one of its experts on IT strategy development and implementation. Will also leads McKinsey's global data center capabilities including the Firms's research on cloud computing. He works with CIOs to develop innovative strategies and to manage complex change programs such as transformational outsourcing/off-shoring , major systems development and creation of cloud based infrastructure architectures for captial markets and financial services institutions.

Additional areas of specialty include design and build of carbon and energy efficient IT systems where he is one of the leaders of McKinsey's Climate Change Special Initiative.

Nagui Halim
IBM Director and Research Scientist, IBM InfoSphere Streams
IBM

Mr. Nagui Halim is the director of IBM’s high performance stream computing program, and is responsible for the System S prototype and research program which has recently been in the news. System S is among the most sophisticated systems projects ever undertaken at Watson, and has been active since 2003 with some 220 contributors from a wide range of computer science and mathematical disciplines. System S is the basis for IBM’s recent announcement of the InfoSphere Streams product.

Gerald A. Hanweck, Jr., PhD
Principal
Hanweck Associates

Gerald Hanweck, Jr., is founder and principal partner of Hanweck Associates.

Previously, Mr. Hanweck served as JPMorgan's Chief Equity Derivatives Strategist from 2000 to 2003, and led the bank's U.S. Fixed-Income Derivatives Strategy team. He has taught master's-level business courses at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, in addition to dozens of seminars on financial derivatives.

Before joining JPMorgan in 1993, he worked as a derivatives researcher at Discount Corporation of New York Futures, and as a software developer at Microsoft.

Mr. Hanweck holds the following degrees:

  • PhD, Managerial Economics and Decision Science, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

  • AB, Mathematics, Princeton University

Paul Jameson
Global Director, Financial Services
Cisco Systems

Paul currently serves as Cisco’s global marketing and solution development director for financial services; covering financial markets, retail banking and insurance. Paul is a veteran business leader and information technology professional with more than 26 years of success in executive management, business development, marketing, sales, and delivery of business solutions covering software, services, outsourcing, and consulting. Paul joins Cisco from Getronics/KPN, a $3.1 billion global IT software and services company, where he was senior vice president of global Financial Business solutions. Paul also served as vice president of sales and marketing for Getronics North America, where he was responsible for all elements of sales, marketing and strategy within the North American theatre.

Prior to Getronics, Paul was President and CEO of e-Bank™, a leader in multi-channel information integration and customer relationship management solutions for the financial services industry. Prior to e-Bank, Paul was the vice president of North American Banking for Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, served as President of Fiserv’s information management business unit, as well as senior vice president of Fiserv’s bank outsourcing business. He began his career at Mellon Bank where he held both product management and consulting positions within their outsourcing division.

A native of Flint, Michigan, Paul holds a bachelor’s degree in business management and finance from Franklin and Marshall College. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife Tami and four children.

Jarod Jenson
Chief Technology Architect, Sun Solutions
Forsythe

As chief technology architect, Sun solutions, Jarod Jenson is focused on driving technical solutions to complex problems that affect businesses. Specifically, Jenson is one of the foremost experts in performance optimization for Solaris 10, using DTrace. He has provided effective service engagements to hundreds of enterprise companies.

Jenson has over 15 years of experience in IT. He has helped numerous companies in their adoption of the advanced features of Solaris 10, and served as a primary resource during Take Back Wall Street campaign, Sun Microsystems’ launch of its Solaris 10 operating system to the financial sector.

Prior to joining Forsythe, Jenson was the Chief Systems Architect at Aeysis, a technology consulting company that he founded and ran. He designed and implemented business critical applications, focusing on systems performance, reliability, and security. Prior to founding Aeysis he worked at several major energy companies.

Jenson is a sought after speaker for industry conferences, symposiums, and user groups. He was the first DTrace user outside of Sun. He has spoken at numerous Java One conferences, Sun Networks and other industry event. Jenson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

Duncan Johnston-Watt
Founder & CEO
Cloudsoft

Duncan is Founder & CEO of Cloudsoft, a venture backed startup providing software and services that help firms realize the benefits of cloud computing. Cloudsoft's first product Cloudsoft® Distributed Mediation (CDM) is a standards-based application platform that simplifies the implementation of electronic exchanges and market places in the Cloud.

Duncan has over twenty years experience developing technology for the financial services industry specialising in the development of large-scale distributed systems. A Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate for his pioneering work introducing Java Enterprise to financial services, Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University. Duncan is actively looking for firms interested in participating in Cloudsoft's CDM private beta later in the year. For more information email beta@cloudsoftcorp.com.

Peter Lankford
Founder and Director
STAC

Peter Lankford is Director of the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC). STAC conducts private and public hands-on research into the latest technology stacks for capital markets firms and their vendors. Public STAC Reports, available for free at www.STACresearch.com, document the capability of specific software and hardware to handle key trading workloads such as real-time market data, analytics, and order execution. STAC provides optimization expertise, benchmarking standards, advanced tools, and simulated trading environments in STAC Labs.

Prior to STAC, Peter was Senior Vice President of Information Management Solutions at Reuters, where he led the $240M market data systems business for 3 years. Peter’s team led Reuters into the business of low-latency direct exchange feeds and catalyzed the widespread adoption of Linux on Wall Street by making RMDS the first major product for the securities industry on that platform. During his 8 years with Reuters, Peter also oversaw strategic marketing for realtime datafeeds and TIBCO-based enterprise integration solutions. Prior to Reuters, Peter held management positions at Citibank, First Chicago, and operating-system maker IGC.

Dave Malik
Director, Solutions Architecture
Cisco Systems

Dave Malik is a Director of Solutions Architecture in Cisco’s Advanced Services organization responsible for data center architecture strategies for Financial Services firms. For the past 10 years, he has been involved in developing solutions to support market data and trading floor applications. Dave is active in industry forums and is an author of several publications. He has been focusing lately on cloud computing and virtualization strategies as they pertain to the Financial Services vertical.

Dave has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Information Systems.

Manuel Martull
Senior Director Product Marketing
Fujitsu America

Manuel Martull is the Senior Director of the Server Product Marketing group. Manuel manages a team of marketing professionals with product marketing responsibilities for all Fujitsu Server product lines in the Americas. Previously to that role, Manuel was the worldwide Marketing Section Manager for HP’s Business Critical Systems organization managing a team of product managers with Worldwide Product Marketing responsibilities such as product life cycle management from initial concept to on-going sales to obsolescence, sales training, customer briefings, product launch management, strategic product planning and marketing programs.

Manuel relocated from Europe in 2000 and has been living in the US since then. Manuel holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from the Universidad Pontificia of Spain.

Kevin McPartland
Senior Analyst
TABB Group

Kevin McPartland, a senior analyst at TABB Group, has 10 years of industry experience with deep expertise in both financial technology and the complete derivatives trading lifecycle. Most recently, he authored “Low Latency Options Trading: The True Meaning of Speed”; “Credit Default Swaps: The Risk of Inefficient Market”; “OTC Derivatives Processing: Blazing a Trail to Automation”; and “Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The New Low Latency Messaging”; and co-authored “Equity Options 2008: Rising Out of Obscurity.”

Kevin joined TABB Group in September 2007 from Detica (formerly m.a.partners), where he was a senior manager in the Global Financial Markets division, responsible for strategic and implementation projects across equities, derivatives and fixed income for the firm’s top tier investment banking clients. Prior to joining Detica, he held positions at JPMorgan Chase in both the equities and futures & options divisions, where he managed the development and implementation of electronic trading systems, as well as project management and business analysis of major business and technology initiatives, strategic architecture design and business process definition.

Married and recently the father of a new baby girl, Kevin earned his Bachelor's degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Vikram Mehta
President & CEO
BLADE Network Technologies

As the president and CEO of BLADE Network Technologies, Vikram Mehta leads one of the Silicon Valley’s fastest growing companies. In 2009, Vikram was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® for Northern California. Vikram brings to BLADE over 20 years of global experience in the technology industry and has been at the helm of the company since its inception in 2006. Under his leadership, BLADE Network Technologies has become the industry’s number-one provider of blade server networking solutions and a leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches for next-generation data centers and cloud-ready networks.

In July 2005, Vikram joined Garnett & Helfrich Capital as CEO-in-Residence and brokered the alliance between Nortel and Garnett & Helfrich Capital to establish BLADE as an independent company. Prior to that, Vikram spearheaded the founding of Nortel’s Blade Server Switch Business Unit (BSSBU). Vikram came to Nortel in 2000 through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems, the leading provider of Web and application switches. At Alteon, he led the company’s strategic alliances and laid the foundation for what would later become BSSBU. Prior to Alteon, he served as Vice President of Marketing at Ensim, a leading supplier of service enablement and automation software for hosted IP and application services. Before Ensim, Vikram spent 12 years at HP in various leadership and executive positions across the company’s diverse operations in India, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and the US. His last position at HP was General Manager, Enterprise Servers, North America Region.

Vikram is an Electrical Engineer from the Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India. Read his blog at: www.bladenetwork.net/CEO-Blog.html.

Madge M. Meyer
Executive Vice President and Head of Global Infrastructure Services
State Street Corporation

Madge M. Meyer is executive vice president and head of global infrastructure services at State Street Corporation. In this role, Ms. Meyer is responsible for State Street’s technology infrastructure solutions and services across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

Prior to joining State Street in 2001, Ms. Meyer served as first vice president for Merrill Lynch’s Enterprise Technology Services. Earlier in her career, she held several executive positions at IBM with responsibilities for global technology infrastructure strategy and implementation, application development, outsourcing service delivery, and worldwide network services.

In 2004, Ms. Meyer was named to Computerworld's Premier 100 list, which honors individuals who have had a positive impact on their organization through technology, and in 2007 she was named to the YWCA Boston’s Academy of Women Achievers. In 2008, she received the Visionary Award from Symantec in recognition of her innovative use of technology to meet business needs. The Computerworld Honors Program celebrated her technological leadership by naming her as a Laureate in 2008 and 2009, and in 2008 also honored her team with its 21st Century Achievement Award. In addition, Ms. Meyer was awarded the Urban Empowerment Award for her dedication to and support of the Year Up program, which provides intensive education and training to urban young adults on their path to economic self-sufficiency. In 2008, under her leadership, Ms. Meyer’s organization was also honored with the Best Infrastructure Award by the American Financial Technology Awards, hosted by Waters Magazine. Ms. Meyer has also driven State Street’s environmental sustainability technology initiatives, helping to secure the Company’s position as one of Computerworld’s Top Green IT Organizations and inclusion on the Uptime Institute’s Global Green 100 list.

Ms. Meyer received her Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and chemistry from the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor. She is currently a member of the board for the Wall Street Technology Association, a member of Simmons College’s School of Management Business Advisory Council and an advisory board member of the Asian American Civic Association.

Stephen Neal
Director, Middleware
Barclays Capital

Stephen Neal is a Director and Head of Middleware at Barclays Capital, based in New York. Mr. Neal has global responsibility for a team that delivers high performance information technology solutions across all asset classes for the firm.

Mr. Neal joined Barclays Capital in 2004. He has more than 10 years of experience working with investment banks, exchanges and other financial institutions in the US and throughout Europe, defining and developing new technology requirements for the financial services market. Mr. Neal previously worked at Progress Software, TIBCO Software, Talarian, Edgewater Technology and Logica.

Scott Parsons
Chief Scientist and Chief Architect
Exegy

Mr. Parsons comes to Exegy from Reuters, where as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Platform Development, he was responsible for the development of Reuters’ premier market data system platform and their next generation media platform. Before Reuters, Mr. Parsons held senior engineering management positions, including Chief Scientist at Bridge Information Systems, where he was responsible for overall systems architecture and new product development.

Michael Payne
Vice President, Investment Bank Global Network Services
JPMorgan Chase


 

Bio to come.

 

Paul Prince
CTO, Enterprise Products Group
Dell

As Director and CTO for the Enterprise Product Group at Dell, Paul Prince is responsible for Dell’s technology strategy and planning. Paul and his team lead technology development and integration across Dell’s Enterprise solutions portfolio, including servers, storage, networking and software products. Paul's extensive experience in the planning and development of enterprise systems architectures has been integral to Dell’s continuing focus on building and delivering effective and efficient customer solutions. Paul also leads the technology investigations for processing and memory silicon ingredients used across all of Dell’s compute platforms, with a strong emphasis on enabling Dell to deliver cost effective and power efficient performance.

Prior to joining Dell in 2004, he spent a significant part of his 20 year career at Intel Corporation where he was responsible for the architecture of Intel's server platforms.

Dave Shacochis
VP of Research & Development
Savvis

Mr. Shacochis is currently the Vice President of Research & Development at Savvis, where he is responsible for strategic innovation around emerging targeted markets. He helps guide strategic decision-making with regards to technology strategy, solution development, business process, financial modeling, and technical marketing activities for the SAVVIS' global IT Outsourcing business.

Mr. Shacochis has been with SAVVIS, Inc. for nine years, with experience in many of the major divisions of the company including global operations, customer service, software integration and program management. Over the past three years Mr. Shacochis has been focused on the global product lifecycle at SAVVIS where he took responsibility for the Utility Computing platform and helped lead its evolution to the current Cloud Computing service line that exist today.

His professional background includes a B.S. in Civil Engineering from George Mason University, several years of civil engineering practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and various elements of IT systems administration. Since graduating first in his MBA class from the GMU School of Management in 2000, Mr. Shacochis has worked exclusively in the IT Services industry. His background with firms such as UUNET, Exodus Communications, Digital Island and Cable & Wireless has built a wealth of IT infrastructure experience for a variety of clients in diverse industries.

Mark Skalabrin
CEO
Redline Trading Solutions

Mark Skalabrin is the founder and CEO of Redline Trading Solutions, a leading provider of accelerated market data solutions. He is a 20 year veteran of the high performance computing space most recently serving 8 Years as General Manager and Corporate Officer at Mercury Computer Systems. Throughout his career Mark has built engineering centered businesses that combine leading-edge technology with application acceleration expertise to the solve some of the most challenging computing problems across multiple markets. Mark has a BS degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from Washington State University.

Gregory Smith
CEO
Chi-Tech

Greg is a highly experienced senior executive and innovator in the financial technology industry. As Chief Executive Officer for Chi-Tech, Greg leads the company’s strategic direction and executive management team.

Chi-Tech (Chi-X Global Technology), which provides a range of trading infrastructure technologies and services, was created through the acquisition of Cicada by Chi-X Global in November 2008. Mr. Smith had founded Cicada, a leading supplier of market data management and dissemination technologies for exchanges, in May 1998 and served as the company’s President and CEO.

Prior to founding Cicada, he served as Senior Vice President for Content at Dow Jones Markets, where he was responsible for the development and management of all content created, licensed, contributed to, or distributed by the business.

Before joining Dow Jones Markets, Greg was President of Indepth Data Inc., which he founded in 1985, until June 1997, when Indepth was sold to Dow Jones & Company. Indepth Data produced and distributed comprehensive coverage of the taxable fixed income markets in the United States and the major markets in Europe. Indepth's real-time content was delivered to customers through a full-featured Java-based Internet interface and via customized market data feeds, and its customers included most major buy- and sell-side fixed income market participants. Indepth was also the primary source for all corporate bond prices and terms and conditions for Reuters 3000 until the sale to Dow Jones.

Prior to establishing Indepth Data in 1985, Greg was an investment banker at Thomson McKinnon, where he was a Vice President covering the financial services and technology sectors. His financial markets career began in 1980, when he joined E. F. Hutton’s investment banking organization, focusing on telecommunications and venture capital investments.

Jason Stowe
Founder and CEO
Cycle Computing

Jason Stowe is the founder and CEO of Cycle Computing, a leading provider of High Performance Computing (HPC) and open source technology in the cloud. Leveraging its unparalleled expertise with large compute environments, Cycle helps clients provision large-scale, secure HPC clusters in the cloud on demand. Cycle uses open source Condor to provide more innovative grid functionality and reduce costs, helping clients manage small clusters to grids of more than 20,000 CPUs.

As an employee-owned company, Jason and the Cycle team can focus solely on customers’ needs and execution. They help enterprises of all shapes and sizes execute computation flexibly on internal grids and external clouds using Condor, and provide mountable aggregated storage solutions using Hadoop. Starting with three Fortune 100 clients in financial services, insurance and defense, Cycle has grown to deploy HPC solutions at Fortune 500s, SMBs, government research and academic institutions across a variety of industries and applications.

A seasoned entrepreneur and experienced technologist, Jason attended Carnegie Mellon and Cornell Universities, and has guest lectured at Cornell's Johnson Business School.

Guy Tagliavia
Director, IBM Software Group, Low Latency Messaging
IBM

Guy Tagliavia has been an innovative business, management, and engineering leader in the financial markets for over 25 years. Mr.Tagliavia founded InfoDyne in 1992 and pioneered ultra low latency technology solutions for the financial front office market including high performance middleware, low latency market data, and high volume transaction systems, InfoDyne was acquired by IBM in 2008, and Mr.Tagliavia now runs the Websphere Front Office and Low Latency Messaging business globally within IBM.

Prior to founding InfoDyne, Mr.Tagliavia held development and management positions for 8 years at Reuters, where, among other activities, he oversaw the development of all Triarch datafeed terminating products for Reuters Integrated Data Network (IDN).  Prior to Reuters, Mr.Tagliavia also performed Research and Development activities at Rich Inc, conceiving and developing Rich’s Triarch system – the first digital market information system for the financial trading industry.

Guy holds both a Master’s and Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.

David Teszler
Global HPC Technology Director
Sun Microsystems

Bio to come.

Barry Thompson
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Tervela

An entrepreneur and innovator, Barry Thompson brings almost 20 years experience to Tervela, a company he founded in 2004 where he currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and board member. A self-taught technologist, he began his career as a consultant, designing solutions ranging from embedded robotics and imaging to traditional enterprise systems. His clients included MCI, American Mobile Satellite, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other government and private organizations. In 1995 he moved to Wall Street, leading the adoption of new transformative technologies in the financial services industry while working for firms such as AIG, NatWest and UBS where he was Head of North American Architecture. In 2002, Thompson began to pursue his passion for emerging technologies through incubating research projects in materials manufacturing and carbon nanotube growth, virtual reality and gaming infrastructure. Thompson also joined the X-Prize Foundation where he currently serves on the board of trustees and the executive committee. He is a 2001 graduate of the International Space University SSP.

Carl Trieloff
Senior Consulting Software Engineer
Red Hat

Carl Trieloff serves as Senior Consulting Software Engineer and Director of Red Hat Enterprise MRG at Red Hat. Trieloff has over 18 years of enterprise engineering experience in Trading Exchanges, middleware, messaging technologies, and distributed systems (SOA), including work on mission-critical control systems.

He has been driving strategy and heading engineering for Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, Grid) since joining Red Hat in 2006. Trieloff is also the chair of Apache Qpid, an open source messaging project, and was one of the founding members of the AMQP Working Group. Prior to joining Red Hat, he served as Director of Open Source at IONA Technologies, driving the creation of commercial, open source ESB's, Eclipse tooling, and other open source software projects. Trieloff also served as CTO and Vice President at Development of Exchange America, where he was responsible for technical strategy, the development team, and service operations. His experience spans designing and implementing control systems and large, distributed, highly available command and control networks.

Erik Troan
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
rPath

Prior to founding rPath, Erik served in multiple roles at Red Hat including Vice President of Product Engineering for several years as well as the Senior Director of Marketing and chief developer for Red Hat Software. During his tenure with the company Erik was responsible for leading development for Red Hat Linux, RPM, and Anaconda. He managed a multimillion-dollar budget, participated in two public stock offerings and assisted in acquiring and integrating nine other companies. Erik has co-authored two editions of Linux Application Development. At rPath he is responsible for all aspects of product design and implementation and for the company's IT infrastructure. He holds BS degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Virginia. Since May 2007, Erik also serves on the Board of Directors for Digium, Inc.

Stanley Young
 CEO, NYSE Technologies and Co-Global CIO
NYSE Euronext

Stanley Young is Chief Executive Officer for NYSE Technologies and co-global Chief Information Officer of NYSE Euronext. NYSE Euronext (NYSE/New York and Euronext/Paris: NYX) operates the world's largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext, which brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges, is a world leader for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds and the distribution of market data.

Mr. Young is CEO for NYSE Technologies, the world’s leading provider of end-to-end electronic trading solutions. NYSE Technologies’ flexible and scalable products deliver robust and integrated solutions, from single trading positions to complete exchange platforms. Mr. Young is also Co-Global CIO of NYSE Euronext and works with Steve Rubinow (Co-Global CIO) to combine and leverage NYSE Euronext’s technology across North America and Europe as a result of the recent insourcing of Atos Euronext Market Solutions (AEMS). Mr. Young and Mr. Rubinow are jointly responsible for delivering the group’s strategies to implement the universal trading platform (UTP) and managing the technology unit of NYSE Euronext.

From 11th June 2007, Mr. Young was the Chief Executive of AEMS, the leading global provider of technology solutions for exchanges, clearing houses, banks, brokers, and intermediaries, until its incorporation into NYSE Euronext on 6th August 2008. As a result of this transaction, NYSE Euronext acquired ownership of the NSC cash trading and LIFFE CONNECT® derivatives trading platform technology and all of the management and development services surrounding these platforms as well as AEMS’s third-party exchange technology business. Mr. Young joined AEMS from Hewlett-Packard where he was Head of the FSI Consulting & Integration business in North America. Prior to this he was Worldwide Director of Financial Markets.

Mr. Young has held senior partner positions in Capco and Accenture with accountability for the Global Capital Markets and Market Infrastructure businesses. He also spent more than 11 years at the London Stock Exchange as Director for New Strategy Development responsible for the implementation of the Exchange's trading and trade management systems.

Bob Zak
Senior Platform Architect, Digital Enterprise Group
Intel

Bob Zak is a Senior Platform Architect in Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group where his works focuses on virtualization of IO and networking, memory system design, and interconnect technology. Since 2007, Bob has worked with members of the FSI community to identify and assess impacts of these leading edge analytic and market data workloads on Intel platform architecture.

Dmitry Zaslavsky
Director
Credit Suisse

Dmitry Zaslavsky is a Director in the Investment Banking IT division of Credit Suisse where he manages core order management systems development. Dmitry successfully implemented Global Order Entry/Trade Capture system and is currently leading the effort to develop the next generation order management system. In 2007 Dmitry and his team received American Financial Technology Award for the 'Best Global Deployment'.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse Dmitry Zaslavsky developed several high performance applications for Financial, Insurance, and Telecommunications industries.