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Conference
Hosts for 2003
The concept and the program for the 2003
Wall Street on Java Technology conference was created by Peter
Harris, president of Lighthouse Partners, Inc. Mr. Harris is the
conference chair.
Peter
Harris
President
Lighthouse Partners, Inc.
Peter
Harris is founder and president of Lighthouse Partners, a
marketing strategy consulting company focused on the intersection of
advanced technologies and the financial trading and investment markets.
Prior to forming Lighthouse, Mr. Harris was president and
editor-in-chief at Waters Information Services (now Risk Waters
Group), a leading business intelligence service for the financial IT
markets.
Before
entering the publishing world, Mr. Harris specialized in software
development. In the mid
1980s, he was a project manager and software architect, working in the
Advanced Systems Group of the London Stock Exchange. At the LSE,
Mr. Harris built one of the world’s first digital market data
distribution systems, dubbed Radix. He has also held a variety of
software management and development roles at Intercom Data Systems (now
Royalblue Technologies), Knight-Ridder Unicom and the Financial Times.
Lighthouse
Partners is the creator of the Wall Street on Java Technology (www.javaonwallstreet.com)
and Wall Street IT-The Next Generation (www.wallstreet-tng.com)
events. It is also the
owner of the www.xmlonwallstreet.com
online resource.
Mr. Harris
is a member of the advisory board of Enigmatec Corp., a
London-based developer of advanced infrastructure technology.
He is also an investor in, and advisor to It’s the Content,
Inc. and GenomeWeb LLC.
As a hobby,
Mr. Harris started Harris Radio – www.harrisradio.com
– an Internet radio station, and he also pursues various activities in
the music business to promote emerging artists.
Mr. Harris
can be contacted at pete@lighthouse-partners.com. More information on Lighthouse is available at www.lighthouse-partners.com.
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The conference program was created in
conjunction with Sun Microsystems, Elite Sponsor of 2003 Wall Street on
Java Technology.
Nigel
Woodward
Worldwide Manager, Capital Markets &
Securities
Sun Microsystems
 Nigel
Woodward started his career in 1979 in the international division
of Midland Bank, working in a number of areas including
correspondent banking, trade and corporate finance.
In the mid 1980s, having developed the introduction of new
technology based techniques in correspondent banking, Nigel moved
into the IT industry where he has held business development roles
for a number of the leading technology vendors, including GE,
Reuters, Digital Equipment, Informix and now Sun Microsystems.
Nigel works extensively across the community of technology
companies providing solutions to the Financial Sector and looks to
make the vital translation link between what the business needs
and what the IT market can deliver.
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