Jeff Sprecher
Founder and CEO, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE)

Jeff Sprecher is the founder of IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), serving as the company's Chief Executive Officer since its inception in May 2000 and as Chairman of the Board since November 2002. As CEO, he is responsible for the firm's strategic direction, operation and financial performance. Widely recognized for his vision, leadership and entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. Sprecher was selected by MarketWatch as one of five finalists for the prestigious MarketWatch CEO of the Year for 2006. He was also chosen in 2002 by Business Week magazine as one of seven Top Entrepreneurs of the Year. In addition, he was a finalist in Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year® Program. Mr. Sprecher purchased Continental Power Exchange, Inc., ICE's predecessor company, in 1997. In June 2001, he negotiated the acquisition of IPE Holdings Plc, owner of the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) in London. In September 2006, Mr. Sprecher negotiated the acquisition of the New York Board of Trade, the world's leading soft commodity exchange with a wholly-owned clearing subsidiary. The transaction closed in January 2007, with NYBOT becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of ICE. Prior to joining Continental Power Exchange, Inc., Mr. Sprecher held a number of positions, including President, over a fourteen-year period with Western Power Group, Inc., a developer, owner and operator of large central-station power plants. Mr. Sprecher holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Rick Lazio
Executive Vice President, Global Government Affairs and Public Policy, JPMorgan Chase

Rick Lazio is Executive Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy of JPMorgan Chase and a member of the Executive Committee. His team provides strategic advice and intelligence to senior management on the impact of public policy on the firm's businesses and clients. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase in late 2004, Lazio served for three years as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Services Forum. The economic policy organization is comprised of CEOs of 20 of the largest financial institutions doing business in the United States. Lazio was elected to Congress in 1992 and served four terms representing New York's 2nd District. He became Deputy Majority Whip in 1995 and was later Assistant Majority Leader. Lazio served on both the House Commerce and Banking committees during the drafting and passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 and chaired the Banking Committee's Subcommittee on Housing.

Michael is a Managing Partner of Expand Consulting LLP and the CEO of Expand Consulting Inc. He is one of the original founders of the firm. Michael was integral in establishing Expand as a leading provider of business intelligence across the Tier 1 financial markets. He championed the practice of conducting primary research and developing Expand's own proprietary knowledge base to provide actionable insight into market dynamics. Currently Michael has specific responsibility for establishing and expanding the US operation and driving participation and value in the Expand Streaming Intelligence programme. Prior to founding Expand, Michael gained experience as a senior level practitioner within organisations such as UBS, LCH and Constellar Corporation. He began his career as a programmer with Lloyds Register of Shipping.

David is very well known in the market data community on both sides of the Atlantic, travelling frequently between London and New York City. With 23 years of experience in the industry David brings a wealth of knowledge and a diverse set of experiences to play, including nearly 14 years working with Reuters and before that over 3 with Telerate. For the last 6 years David has been running Atradia Consulting, a specialist consultancy offering a wide range of international clients detailed insight into the peculiarities and opportunities of the market data industry, David also edits under contract the annual and influential 'Inside Market Data Reference' publication. David is frequently quoted in the press commenting on the market data industry and is a regular speaker or moderator at many industry events. Most recently David has written an authoritative and widely acclaimed research report on “Exchange Data”, published by ScreenMarkets.

Maher Asham Joined EGID in 2003 as the CEO and a board member. EGID is a totally owned subsidiary of CASE working in the fields of financial information and system development for financial markets. Maher is also the IT Supervisor of CASE since 2004. During that period EGID managed to offer a wide range of information services and systems in Egypt and the Middle East as well. Before EGID, Maher worked for Reuters since 1993 in several positions, in Cairo as well as in Geneva, ending as the Marketing and Business Development Manager for East Med. and North Africa. During that period he built the exchange data on Reuters platforms for MENA markets as well as developed several products and services.

Nader Azar is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), a position he has held since the creation of the ASE in March 1999. During this period the ASE has implemented electronic trading system and all of the rules and regulations required to run the ASE. Mr. Azar was the project manager of the Automation of the ASE. Mr. Azar responsibilities include overseeing all Departments of the ASE: Listing and Operations, Research and International Relations, Administrative & Financial, Information & Communications Technology, Legal, Surveillance & Inspection, and Awareness and Public Relations. Deputize and take the role of the CEO when absent.

Sara Banerjee is Vice President of Data Operations and Procurement at Telekurs (USA) Inc, the American subsidiary of Telekurs Financial. Sara joined Telekurs (USA) Inc, Stamford, CT in 1989, and has held several roles with the company since then. In her current position, she is responsible for managing Telekurs Financial's data collection and procurement activities throughout North and South America. Sara is very active in financial industry groups, working tirelessly to promote best practices and standards within the industry by facilitating dialogue between and among consumers, vendors, exchanges and other suppliers.

Ken Barnes manages corporate development and is co-principal of the Middleware business unit for Wombat, the high performance algorithmic trading and market data platform company. He joins Wombat with over a dozen years professional experience in strategic marketing and business planning roles at Reuters, Bridge and NextSet Software. Barnes began his career on the equity trading floor at Salomon Brothers Private Investments Group. He earned a Bachelors degree in international marketing from the University of Vermont, attended the University of Grenoble, France and holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Jennifer Bartashus has been at Bloomberg since 1996. Her first 3 years as a Fixed Income specialist focused on the European markets, specifically Germany, Austria and Switzerland followed by running their Data Quality Assurance department, which included software testing of our trading applications. For the past 4 years she has been focused on Latin America and new product development and coverage for that region.

Mehmet Batman has been doing consulting for the past one year in the area of Market Risk Management. Mehmet has 14 years of experience in the industry, including 9 years with Bear Stearns Prime Brokerage and 4 years with Bloomberg Financial Markets. Mehmet has assumed different responsibilities including hedge fund risk management, implementation of risk and data management systems, and design and development of requirement assessment platforms.

Sunil Benimadhu has been in office as Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) since May 1998 after having held various positions in the Securities Industry. He has played an instrumental role in uplifting the operational, technical and regulatory infrastructure of the SEM and these changes have contributed to the SEM's emergence as one of the leading Exchanges in Africa. Sunil has also spearheaded the project to enable the SEM join the World Federation of Exchanges, a key standard-setter in the stock exchange industry. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE), which comprises twelve Stock Exchanges of the South Asian region, from 2002-2004. From 2001 to 2003, Sunil was the Chairman of the SADC Committee of Stock Exchanges (COSSE), an association of stock exchanges which includes ten Exchanges of the Southern African region. Sunil is also a regular speaker on emerging markets and on African markets in international stock exchange conferences.

Dr. Nariman Behravesh is Chief Economist and Executive Vice President for Global Insight (formerly DRI-WEFA). Directing Global Insight's entire forecasting process, he is responsible for developing the economic outlook and risk analysis for the United States, Europe, Japan, and emerging markets. He oversees the work of over 200 professionals, located in North America and Europe, who cover economic, financial, and political developments in over 180 countries. Behravesh and his team were designated #1 in USA Today's 2004 ranking of top economic forecasters, and in Reuters' 2004 survey of major currency exchange rate forecasters. In The Wall Street Journal's annual ranking of US forecasters, Behravesh was ranked #3 (out of 56) for 2006, and was the only forecaster to place in the top six for 2003, 2004 and 2006.

John Bottega is the Chief Data Officer for Citi Markets & Banking. This is a new role for Citi, and a new role for the financial industry, Citi being the first to appoint such a role, a c-level executive position focused on Data Management. In this role, John is responsible for planning and managing the CIB's data strategy, policies, line functions and data investments and working closely with the Citi Global Infrastructure Conversion and Alignment Program (GICAP), CIB Technology and the CIB Data Council. Bottega has over 20 years experience managing and transforming reference data functions. Prior to joining Citi in March 2006, John held the position of Global Head of Product & Price Reference Data at Credit Suisse; held the position of Product Manager at Merrill Lynch for Merrill's Product Master Environment; and held the position of Head of Data Quality at Lehman Brothers for their front office Security Master Database systems. An active industry participant, Mr. Bottega served as executive committee chairman of the Financial Information Services Division/Software and Information Industry Association. He is currently an executive committee member of the EDM (Enterprise Data Management) Council. He has been a member of the SIA Standards and Protocols Committee, the Market Data Definition Language Committee and the ISO Data Standards Committee.

Mike has worked in the market data industry for over 15 years, the last 8 of which have been at the London Stock Exchange, where he heads the Real-Time Data Sales and Vendor Alliances Team. He is responsible for growing the Exchange's market data business through both direct sales and the development of strong relationships with the Market Data and Software Vendor community. Prior to joining the Exchange he held a range of sales and product management roles at Telekurs, Telesphere and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Prior to working at Reuters, Mr. Cheetham was the Chief Technology Officer of Prime Advisors, Inc. a company specializing in the management of fixed income investment portfolios for the insurance industry. Prior to working at Prime, Mr. Cheetham was the Senior Vice President of Technology at Sungard Energy Systems and Chief Technology Officer of Caminus Software Corporation, where he focused on the development of Sungard's next generation of n-tier, JAVA based, enterprise risk and commodities trading applications. Prior to joining Sungard, Mr. Cheetham was the President his own financial services software consulting practice specializing in custom systems development and integration to the financial services industry. A sixteen year veteran of creating systems and solutions financial services companies; he was the Director of Technical Consulting for SS&C Technologies, Inc. and a Product Manager at Data Access Corporation. He is now responsible for determining strategic direction of Reuters' newest Trade and Risk management platform JRisk.

Cherian has been General Manager at the BSE since 2004. In that time, he has set up BSE IndoNext, the platform for small Cap companies, presented the concept to National trade bodies and marketed the BSE Information Products globally. He tripled the income from the segment in three years. Before coming to BSE, Cherian was Executive Director – Cochin Stock Brokers Ltd and Managing Director -MSE Financial Services Ltd. He also acted as the member of ‘Inter-Exchange Co-ordination Group’ set up by the Indian stock market regulator SEBI.

Catalina Clavé joined BMV in 2002. She is responsible for Market Data and Analytic/statistic distribution at the exchange. Catalina's teem is focused on building an image of BMV products such as Index, Real time terminals and daily bulletins. Her department is in charge of market data products, relationship with vendors, local brokerage houses and end users. Catalina's background is on Sales.

Janet Crowley is president of SunGard's data management solutions, FAME and referencePoint. She has more than 18 years of operational, technical and data management experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining SunGard through an acquisition in February 2002, she held numerous positions including chief operating officer at Tradeline.com, and senior vice president of product operations and director of data services at IDD Enterprises, L.P. Ms. Crowley has a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and an MBA with a concentration in Management Information Systems from Bentley College.

Combie is responsible for a range of NZX's 'high growth' business units, including market data and information, indices, corporate communications and investor relations services, FundSource (NZ's leading managed funds analysis provider), Agri-Fax (NZ's leading agricultural market analysis providers), the Newsroom news agency as a well as Smartshares, Australasia's largest provider of Exchange Traded Fund investment products. Combie has spent his career in the global capital markets - as a fixed income funding analyst at Goldman Sachs International in London plus a variety of positions at Cantor Fitzgerald in London, ABN Amro Futures in Sydney and for many years at the London Stock Exchange. This background, including the invaluable experience of running his own fledgling businesses, has enabled Combie to develop a strong appreciation of the needs of NZX's varied customers. Combie is a fellow of the Securities Institute in London. He attained an MSc in Finance from the Queen's University Belfast and a BComm in Banking and Finance from University College Dublin. Outside work, and when not backpacking the world, Combie focuses on helping small businesses grow and dreams of, one day, opening a NZ-style boutique brewery in his native Ireland.

Mr. Kiang Dalaroy is the CIO of SSE Infonet Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shanghai Stock Exchange. SSE Infonet is responsible for commercializing SSE's information asset and operating the SSE public website. He has worked for Reuters Ltd. for 15 years in a number of regions and disciplines, which includes Manager, Treasury Solutions, China and Hong Kong region; Marketing Manager, China, Mongolia and North Korea region; Business Manager, Philippines; Technical Manager, Taiwan; Customer Services Engineering Supervisor, Taiwan and Trading Room Systems Engineer, Toronto, Canada. Mr. Dalaroy holds a Degree in Electronics Engineering and an EMBA qualification.

Ludwig D'Angelo is the North American Regional Head of Trading Technology for JP Morgan. He has over 25 years of experience in financial services including front office, risk management, operations, technology and marketing. He has previously held senior positions at Swiss Bank Corp, Bankers Trust, Reuters as well as KPMG Consulting where he was a practice leader in trading technology. Early in his career, he was a professional options trader for Oppenheimer & Company.

As president of Interactive Data Corporation’s Sales, Marketing and Institutional Business Development, Raymond D’Arcy leads the Company’s sales, marketing, key account management, business development and other service oriented functions focused on institutional clients. Mr. D’Arcy is also focused on refining and building a unified image and strategy across Interactive Data Corporation’s institutional services segment. D’Arcy was named to this position in September 2005. Before his current role, Mr. D’Arcy served as president of Data Delivery Products for Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc., where he was responsible for leading the organization’s over $300 million data content business. In this position, he oversaw the North American and European sales, marketing and customer service divisions, as well as key product development, strategy and acquisition activities.

Tom Davin is managing director, Financial Information Services Division (FISD) for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). SIIA is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. In this role, Davin works closely with FISD members identifying major issues and seeking opportunities to bring the financial information industry together to discuss those issues. Davin came to SIIA after eighteen years at The Nasdaq Stock Market, where he was most recently Senior Vice President for Market Data Distribution. In that role, he managed the products and distributor relationships that supported Nasdaq's real-time market data business. While at Nasdaq, he served as the Chair of the FISD Executive Committee.

Chris Dearie is the Global Head of Tullett Prebon Information's Direct Feeds business. The Direct Feeds product offering was developed to address the growing appetite in the financial community for directly-provided, high-quality, independent OTC information, from a leading interdealer broker. A key aspect of this role is to provide a service that understands and accommodates the flexible usage and commercial rights required by institutions in utilising information. Prior to joining Tullett Prebon Plc, Chris was responsible for global strategy in exchange market data contracts for Reuters, working in the Content Acquisition team. In addition, Chris negotiated content contracts covering all asset classes with responsibility for commercial negotiation, customer consultancy on third party data compliance and data product compliance. Chris also sits on various industry discussion groups and speaks regularly on panels about policies and strategy in market data.

Don was formerly President and CEO of YOUcentric, a leading provider of enterprise Customer Relationship Management software, until November 2001 when YOUcentric was acquired by J.D. Edwards. During his tenure, YOUcentric raised significant venture capital and substantially grew their revenue and customer base. Prior to YOUcentric, Don spent five years at Sybase, a provider of database, middleware, and development tools, most recently as the Vice President for North American Geographic Sales, Telesales, Channel Sales, and Marketing. Prior to Sybase, Don held various management and sales positions with Prime Computer, Bull Information Systems, and Hitachi Data Systems. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Mr. Duffy is Vice President and Global Head of Production at Lipper, a Reuters company. In this capacity, he is responsible for Lipper's content operations worldwide. Prior to his current role, Mr. Duffy was a sales manager at Lipper responsible for a line of fixed income products in North America and Europe. Mr. Duffy joined Lipper from Capital Access International, a fixed income research firm, where he was Executive Vice President of Global Markets and a board member. Over the course of a decade with Capital Access, Mr. Duffy held a variety of senior positions in the United States and Europe. Mr. Duffy started his career in sales at Davidson and Associates, a software publisher which became part of Cendant Corporation.

Chip Fauver oversees the purchase of market data and resources for the Equity and Credit analysts and Economists at JPMorgan Securities. In addition, Chip manages the distribution and licensing of research through 3rd Party platforms. He is one of the founders and leaders of the Research Entitlement Consortium. Chip started in Research in 2000 as Associate Director of U.S. Equity Research managing the associate analysts and Research Review committee. Prior to joining the Research division, Chip was a trader, also at JPMorgan, for seventeen years initially of Treasuries and Agencies, followed by High Yield, and lastly Equities and derivatives. Chip started the proprietary Risk Arbitrage desk at JPMorgan in 1993. In Chip's 24 year career at JPMorgan, he has been a broad consumer and purchaser of market data for the firm. He earned a bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College and an MBA at the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Kevin Formby is Head of Provider Development for British Telecoms Global Financial Services Division where he is responsible for the development of long term business development relationships with Exchanges and market data providers around the world. He has had a variety of marketing, product management and sales roles in the telecommunications and financial services technology industries over 17 years, including the Head of Sales for Radianz in both the USA and Europe. Prior to these roles he was a weapon systems Engineer in the defense industry and specialized in the shooting down of aircraft. He has a degree in Electrical and Communications Engineering and lives in Atlanta, Georgia, but spends most of his working time in New York and London.

Ana Forssman is the Senior General Manager - Information Products at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE Limited) in South Africa. Ana is also a member of the JSE Executive Committee which is responsible for the JSE strategy execution and implementation. Since 1997, Ana has been responsible in setting up the information distribution division for the JSE, and developing the information revenue from a base of US$100 000 to around US$13 Million in 2007, as well as growing the terminal population from being purely domestic to global reach. Ana has been instrumental is setting up and is responsible for all information commercial models, contractual obligations and compliance, information client account management, information sales, information revenue strategies and information policies. Her division performs all these functions for the Equities, Indices, Equities Derivatives, Agricultural Derivatives and Interest Rate Markets.

Supervise the Financial Markets and International Banking and Finance sections. These sections cover daily developments in foreign exchange and money markets around the world, as well as issues in cross-border banking. Previously supervised the International Financial Transactions and the Trade and Quantitative Studies sections, covering the U.S. external accounts (trade, income, and financial flows) and was chief of the Advanced Foreign Economies section.

Mr. Glauber is a Lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NASD (now FINRA), the private-sector regulator of the U.S. securities markets, from September 2001 to September 2006, after becoming NASD's CEO and President in November 2000 and a member of NASD's board in 1996. Prior to becoming an officer at NASD, he was a Lecturer at the Kennedy School from 1992 until 2000, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Finance from 1989 to 1992 and previous to that, was a Professor of Finance at the Harvard Business School. Mr. Glauber served as Executive Director of the Task Force ("Brady Commission") appointed by President Reagan to report on the 1987 stock market crash. He has served on the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a number of Dreyfus mutual funds, the Investment Company Institute, and as president of the Boston Economic Club. Mr. Glauber presently is a director of Moody's Corporation, Freddie Mac Corporation, XL Capital Ltd., and Quadra Realty Trust. He has been a Senior Advisor at Peter J. Solomon Co., an investment bank, since November 2006.

heads the section Front Office Data & Analytics, the real-time data business of Deutsche Börse. With its real-time data feed family CEF®, Deutsche Börse runs one of the most efficient and fastest data feed systems of all international stock exchanges. Georg started with DTB Deutsche Terminbörse (the predecessor of Eurex) in 1990. After filling several positions in Product Development, Strategic Marketing and Sales he has been heading the Front Office Data department (formerly known as Information Services Streaming Data) of Deutsche Börse AG since 1997. Born in 1964 in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Georg holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Mannheim.

Mr. Hafeez is responsible for the Exchange Strategy for BT Global Financial Services. He has significant experience of working with Exchanges globally and developing strategies to raise awareness of Exchange services in regions the where the Exchange does not have a presence. In this role he also developed a number of low latency services aimed at the European market place and has particular interest in emerging markets. Mr. Hafeez has presented at various conferences globally and has been featured in publications such as, FOW, Securities Industry News, Inside Market Data, amongst others. He holds a degree in Accounting & Finance and an MBA.

Amy G. Harkins is a Senior Vice President at Mellon Financial Corporation. Her direct responsibilities are for Asset Servicing functions worldwide, including corporate action notification and response, income processing, securities pricing, security reference data, tax reclaims, proxy and class action processing. Ms. Harkins serves on the ADP and DTC Advisory Boards, WFIC Program Committee, Mellon Security Trust Company Board of Directors, FISD Member and the Association of Global Custodians and Securities Industry Association in various capacities, relating to corporate actions, proxy and/or income processing. In addition to these organizations, Amy is also serving on the EDM Council, specifically focusing two separate areas of interest through her contributions to the Business Metrics and Supply Chain Working Groups. She is also a member of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Mass Mutual Financial Group Women's Advisory Board.

Markus Heer is responsible Director in Deutsche Börse Group for Backoffice Data & Analytics including Reference Data and Data Services. Before joining Deutsche Börse Group he was head of securities and payments processing in DZ BANK. Before that he was Skill Group Manager in Cap Gemini group and Managing Principal in Capco, helping financial institutions to develop and improve their transaction banking operational strategy. Before becoming a consultant, Markus worked for Deutsche Bank in the Investment Banking division.

Mark Hepsworth is president of Interactive Data Real Time Services. This includes global responsibility for the Interactive Data's real time data feed business and Interactive Data Managed Solutions which was created from the acquisition of IS Teledata, Europe's largest financial market data platform ASP in 2005. Prior to becoming president, Mark was managing director of the European division of this business. Mark joined Interactive Data from Standard & Poor's following the acquisition of ComStock by Interactive Data from Standard & Poor's. Prior to joining Standard & Poor's, Mark was responsible for market data platforms at ACT Financial Systems Limited (now MISYS), a large UK based financial software company. Overall Mark has more than 20 years of experience working in the technology and financial services sector.

Randall Hopkins is Vice President of Market Data Distribution for the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. He is responsible for the creation and dissemination of valuable information from the quoting and trading of securities. Mr. Hopkins oversees NASDAQ's real-time and historical market data feed products, including business development and bringing new data products to market. Additionally, Mr. Hopkins works with NASDAQ Technology Services to create new data products to serve the industry's information needs. He also serves on the Unlisted trading Privileges Plan's Operating Committee as NASDAQ's senior representative. Mr. Hopkins has been instrumental in increasing the distribution of NASDAQ's premier data products, including TotalView. Since TotalView's inception in 2003, Mr. Hopkins has worked with the Market Data Distribution team to improve the product and increase its distribution.

Andy Hunt's career in investment banking technology spans 20 years, the lat 15 at JPMorgan. For the past decade, Andy has focussed on market data, trading venue, exchange connectivity and trader voice technologies. He manages JPMorgan's Trading Technology team globally.

Jeromee Johnson is President of 3-D Markets, where he is responsible for sales, strategy and product development. Before joining 3D Markets, Jeromee was at the TABB Group where he advised capital market participants, and their providers, on technology and strategy issues. While there, he authored a number of research reports on a wide range of topics including equity research, non-displayed liquidity and low latency infrastructure, among others. Prior to his time at TABB Group, Jeromee ran product development and professional services at agency broker UNX and has spent most of the last decade in senior technology roles at capital markets technology companies.

Michele Kelsey has over 20 years experience in fixed income, financial services and information technology. She is currently Product Business Owner for Reuters DataScope Fund Admin, Valuation & Back Office for Reuters America, LLC. Michele joined Loan Pricing Corporation, a wholly owned Reuters Subsidiary, in 1992 as a Regional Manager for Sales and Marketing. She was appointed Vice President and Group Head for the Midwest/South in 1994, and Senior Vice President and Head of Sales in 1998. She has held several product development and management roles at Reuters, including managing the Global Loan Pricing Service for three years.

Patrick Kerr joined Deutsche Bank in 2004 as Global Head of Market Data Strategy for Global Markets. In that role, Patrick led a cost rationalization effort that successfully reduced net year over year recurring costs to Global Markets by more than 11 million euros, with total savings in excess of 20 million euros. Patrick's responsibilities included setting various internal policies for Global Markets and its vendors, while implementing new procedures for the procurement and management of all market data for traders, sales staff, and research analysts. Currently, Patrick is overseeing several transformational projects, including the implementation of internal single price conformity, as well as process reengineering for both collateral management and client valuations. Previously, Patrick joined Salomon Brothers in 1996, and was a Senior Analyst with the Equity Index Group (EIG). Patrick has been a featured speaker at quantitative research conferences around the world, and his work has been featured in EuroMoney Books' Guide to the World Equity Markets and in Investment Week Magazine in Europe. When Citigroup sold EIG to Standard & Poor's in 2003, Patrick remained with the group for about 6 months before moving to Deutsche Bank in an administrative capacity, described above.

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.

Hernando is in charge of the development of Latin American financial market data services for Tullett Prebon Information based in Jersey City, NJ. He has 25 years of experience in building and marketing financial information and transactional products. He worked for Reuters from 1983 to 1991 in the Andean region as Sales and Marketing Manager and in Mexico as regional manager. In 1991 he moved to New York to spearhead Reuters emerging markets data and transactional initiatives for the Americas. Hernando is a pioneer in introducing emerging markets financial information services, transactional platforms in Latin America as well as in North America.

Prior to joining Tullett Prebon Information Hernando provided consulting services to financial media and financial institutions active in emerging markets.

Lazaridis has studied in the Department of Economics at the University of Athens and continued his studies by acquiring an MSc from Queen Mary College in London, specializing in Econometrics. He returned in Greece in 1987, when he became the co-founder of the company "EFFECT Ltd. - Financial Service and Development". In 1989, he entered the Financial Market sector, with the creation and promotion of the product "FINANCE" originated by the company mentioned above. In 1994, he started working for "Hellenic Exchanges Group", as the Director of Financial Affairs, in the "Central Securities Depository". In 1995, he undertook the foundation of "ASYK S.A." (Systems Development and Support of Capital Market), a subsidiary company of "Athens Exchange S.A.", in which he was the General Director since May 1998, when he resigned to take the position of the General Director in the "Athens Exchange S.A.", where he stayed until 2006. From January 2007, he is the General Director of the "Clearing, Settlement and Registration Directorate" in "Hellenic Exchanges Group".

Bill has been in the Securities Industry for 35 years. The last five years have been with Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. managing Exchange Relations for Market Data. His mission is to expand the uses of exchange information while reducing or eliminating administrative burdens. Immediately prior to his current role, Bill spent 18 months in Egypt working with Chemonics International consulting for the Egyptian Capital Markets Authority and the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange. Bill was a Senior Vice President at the Boston Stock Exchange where he served in many capacities including managing the Trading Floor, Corporate Communications and as the representative to the Consolidated Tape Association. In his early years, Bill worked for Merrill Lynch while putting himself through both under Graduate and Graduate degree programs at Suffolk University in Boston.

Simon Leighton-Porter joined Citigroup's Global Custody sales and account management team in 1998. In 2000 he transferred to the equities division of Citigroup Global Markets Limited where, as a Vice President within the global middle office, he was responsible for a number of STP initiatives designed to improve the firm's cross-border securities processing. He still works part-time for Citigroup and is also a director of the software company Rapid Addition. He serves on a number of industry committees and is co-chairman of the JWG Standard Protocols subject group within the MiFID Joint Working Group. He is also a member of the FIX Global Technical Committee and the FIX Business Practices Committee. Prior to his current role, Simon worked mainly in the exchange traded derivatives field. Before this, he spent 16 years as an officer in the Royal Air Force.

Carl Lennartson has formed many opinions in the course of accumulating ten years of systems development experience in the trading arena. With regard to the present context (although not admitting to the conceit of bio tailoring), he has integrated market data with various trading, accounting, compliance and risk management systems. At Halcyon Asset Management, such activities have exposed Carl to the hedge fund perspective on an intimate level. Prior to joining Halcyon, Carl did a stint as a market data consultant, including almost two years working on the Bloomberg data feed. He began life in the financial industry building systems to satiate a day-trading firm's ever growing appetite for reference and pricing information.

Marc has worked in the financial services industry for over 24 years, the last 15 at Fidelity. In his current role, Marc leads a group that develops analytics and applications to support Pyramis' global research and investment management efforts. Among the group's responsibilities are the continued enhancement and support of a complex daily production environment for generating global quantitative equity ratings and optimized portfolios, 500+ daily reports, numerous web pages, custom applications and a half-terabyte data warehouse. For these tasks, data from dozens of proprietary and commercial sources is collected, mapped and normalized into Oracle, FAME and other databases. Prior to his current role at Fidelity, Marc was a senior analyst in the Quantitative Research group.

Phil is an accomplished Chief Executive with significant experience strategically assessing, transforming and growing financial services, information services and media businesses. He is a customer-focused leader with a passion for generating organizational energy, commitment, and results around identifying and satisfying market needs. In his various roles, Phil has demonstrated an outstanding ability to build strong teams which exceed growth, cost, and customer satisfaction targets. Most recently, Phil was Chief Executive of Reuters Americas, where he led a 5-year effort to strategically re-assess and transform the firm's business in North and South America from a niche player into a customer-focused, broad-based financial services information and transaction services player. Under his leadership, the region doubled revenue and contribution over 5 years, an achievement he credits to his focus on developing a strong management team, driving increased levels of customer satisfaction, and building through acquisition and internal growth a broad-based financial services platform across all asset classes and customer segments.

Andrew McLean (42) is currently Vice President, Third Party Content at Interactive Data Corporation. In that role Andrew is responsible for developing and leading IDC's global data procurement and vendor/exchange relationship function. This includes understanding the operational drivers of IDC's business and acting as a key facilitator in ensuring that they are furnished with the data sets that can best support their business goals. McLean has more than 16 years of experience in the financial data industry. Previously, he was global head, third party content at Reuters. In this position, McLean was responsible for the global data procurement function of Reuters. Previous to that, McLean was Deputy General Counsel of Reuters America LLC.

Nick joined FISD in May 2007 and focuses on management of a variety of FISD working groups, including Service Levels & Communications and Billing & Invoicing. He also develops program content for FISD events. Prior to joining FISD he was with the American Bankers Association from 2002-2007 where he served as Manager Service Membership providing products and services to more than 700 non-bank members of the ABA. Nick also worked with The Nasdaq Stock Market from 1987 - 2001 and served as Senior Director Issuer Services. He has a BA from The University of Mississippi and an MBA from The George Washington University.

Edgar Minihan, MiFID Specialist, Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd Edgar Minihan is a product specialist within Interactive Data's European business lines organisation. Edgar has been heavily involved in the Interactive Data (Europe) MiFID project since its inception in spring 2005. In April 2007, Interactive Data announced its range of data and services to assist market participants in meeting their MiFID compliance obligations. Whilst still active in researching aspects of MiFID, Edgar is now focused on working with customers to introduce and implement Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data's MiFID offerings. Edgar has over 19 years' experience in the financial information industry and has spent much of this time working with corporate actions, coding, reference and pricing data.

Bill is Program Director for Securities Processing Automation for FISD. In this role, he concentrates on the intersections between technology and business practice. Special emphasis is in the areas of Standards, where he manages the Standards Steering Committee, Shadow Groups to track Standards developments, represents FISD members on several ISO Committees and is responsible for maintaining MDDL. Nichols was Co-founder/CEO of a research firm acquired by Thomson in 1995, after which he spent 7 years at Thomson Financial. He has an extensive background in Internet architecture and business models, and was retained as an expert witness regarding online traffic and advertising models in Homestore vs. AOL. Much of the past few years have been spent consolidating portfolio companies for venture-backed entities. Most recently, he was consulting on compliance-related product development for Anti-Money Laundering offerings.

Mr. Pears is a Senior Vice President at NYFIX Transaction Services. He serves as the lead transactions sales specialist at the firm, helping to introduce buyside clients to the benefits of direct access to NYFIX Millennium, the industry's leading real-time, continuous non-displayed pool of liquidity. Mr. Pears is also helps shape NYFIX strategic positioning within the equity transactions business. Prior to joining NYFIX, Mr. Pears was the managing director of equity trading at Victory Capital Management in Cleveland, OH, from 2001 to 2005. In 1991 he joined Wells Capital Management in San Francisco as an equity trader, and was promoted to head of the trading desk in 1996. He has served on the Institutional Traders Advisory and Market Performance Committees at the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ's Quality of Market Committee. Mr. Pears graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in business and government. He is a member of the board of the National Organization of Investment Professionals, and has been a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg radio.

Ruben Perera is the Information Products Assistant Director with experience of 10 years at The Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) within the information products division, his main roles are the vendor relations, content development, product sales, index trademarks licensing, business continuity plans, business intelligence officer and he is also responsible for BMV´s website management, he has a bachelor degree in business administration and is currently in the masters program at IPADE Business School in Mexico City.

Chris has worked for over 30 years in the financial technology industry. His previous jobs have included being secretary-general of the European Association of Securities Dealers in Brussels, Head of Exchange Products at Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt, and marketing with Reuters in London, Paris and Frankfurt. Chris is Co-Chair of the Global Education & Marketing Committee of FIX Protocol Ltd, a member of the Executive Committee of SIIA/FISD, and is Chair of the MiFID Joint Working Group.

Barry S. Raskin is President of Telekurs (USA) Inc., the American subsidiary of Zurich-based Telekurs Financial, a premier supplier of pricing, descriptive and corporate actions information on securities traded around the world. Barry helped establish TKUSA in 1987, serving as CFO and Secretary prior to his promotion to President in 1995. Under his stewardship, TKUSA has focused on customers' needs and improved data accessibility, resulting in significantly increased revenue and profitability, as well as enhanced reputation for quality, reliability, and comprehensive global coverage.

Ferdy Rusdiyono is the Assistant Vice President for Data Services division of the Singapore Exchange. ("SGX"). Prior to his current appointment at the SGX, Ferdy was a Data Analyst with Bloomberg LP. A position he held for over 6 years involved in fixed income and foreign exchange pricing contributions, equity related data products development and system/product integrations for South East Asian exchanges data feeds. In the past ten years, Ferdy has worked in a capacity as a Business Analyst for ANZ Banking Group Limited and Mercantile Mutual Funds Management Ltd. (ING Group) both in Australia.

Bill Ruvo has over 20 years experience in financial services and market data. He is currently Vice President and Business Manager for Reuters Datafeeds where he is responsible for the overall datafeeds strategy and execution. Prior to his current role, Bill headed up Reuters direct feeds strategy in North America. Before joining Reuters, Bill was with the ComStock division of Interactive Data Corporation where he was Vice President, Business Development with responsibility for ComStock's non-organic growth strategy with specific emphasis on direct exchange initiatives. During Ruvo's tenure with ComStock he also held the position of Vice President of Strategic Account Sales. Before ComStock, Bill was Vice President of Sales for Moneyline Telerate and prior to that, he held sales management positions with Bang Networks, 4Cast and Dow Jones Telerate. Ruvo began his career with Prudential in its institutional asset management organization. He holds a BS in Finance from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

Terry is responsible for Sales and Client Services in the Americas for multiple Standard & Poor's business units including Fixed Income Ratings and Research, Risk Solutions, Securities Evaluations and Classifications, and Equity Research. The goal of the sales and client services group is to understand client needs and communicate the value of Standard and Poor's in meeting those needs with superior service and support. Terry joined S&P in 1988 and since that time has held several senior roles involving sales, client service and product management across multiple S&P business units. He also held various sales and management positions prior to S&P with W.R. Grace and United Laboratories. Terry has a BA degree in Pre-Law from Penn State and has received two Corporate Achievement awards from S&P for Your Financial Future, an educational investment newsletter and RatingsDirect, the online source for S&P ratings and research.

Rich Shriver, Managing Director, Technology, has 20 years of experience in technology for financial services and high tech manufacturing. Rich has assisted investment managers, broker/dealers, banks, exchanges and vendors with financial industry technology assignments for most of his career. In recent engagements, Rich has provided hands on leadership and support for the development of real-time data feeds (consolidated and direct exchange feeds), a new data distribution platform, and real-time data entitlement and access control systems. Prior to joining Jordan & Jordan, Rich was Senior Vice President Trading Technology at ABN AMRO bank and has held positions with Price Waterhouse, IPC and other high tech manufacturing firms. Rich graduated from Susquehanna University with a BA in Computer Science and Business.

Entrepreneur and innovator, Mr. Thompson brings more than 19 years experience to Tervela Inc, a company he co-founded in 2004. Mr. Thompson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and board member. Mr. Thompson began his career as a consultant, designing solutions from embedded robotics and imaging to traditional enterprise systems. Some of his clients included MCI, American Mobile Satellite and The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 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 finally as Head of North American Architecture at UBS. In 2002, Mr. Thompson began to pursue his passion for emerging technologies by incubating research projects in materials manufacturing and carbon nanotube growth, virtual reality, and gaming infrastructure. He currently serves on the board of trustees and the executive committee of the X-Prize Foundation. Mr. Thompson is a 2001 graduate of the International Space University SSP.

Claus Thorball is heading the OMX Market Data department. OMX Market Data is responsible for all Information products from all OMX exchanges in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland, Stockholm, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. OMX data is available in Nordic and Baltic packages to match the regional needs of investors. OMX data is available world wide via a number of global networks including the networks of the more the 100 real-time data vendors. Claus jumped into the Market Data business in 2004 as Head of Market Data at the Copenhagen Stock Exchange which soon after in 2005 became a part of OMX. Prior to his market data career Claus has 4 years of customer and market experience from his position as Head of Member Relations at the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. OMX is a member of the FISD.

Richard Urian is the head of market data for TD AMERITRADE, and has over 15 years of industry experience. In his current role, Mr. Urian's responsibilities include oversight of vendor and exchange relations, and ensuring that TD AMERITRADE's market data systems deliver quality service/performance to its clients. In addition, Mr. Urian provides TD AMERITRADE direction on industry and regulatory issues related to market data and market structure while identifying corresponding opportunities for the firm. Immediately prior to joining TD AMERITRADE two years ago, Mr. Urian was a Director with the NASDAQ Stock Market within its Market Data Distribution department, where he worked for over seven years. In this capacity, he was responsible for account management, market data sales initiatives, policy formation and compliance-related activities. He currently serves as TD AMERITRADE's market data representative with the SIA, FIF and FISD associations and is a member of the UTP Advisory Committee.

Robert Wallos is an established financial technology leader focusing on implementing solutions that enable business strategies. He is currently the Global Head of Market Data Architecture at Citi. His team is responsible for global platform design, development support, application on-boarding and reporting, research and development. In recent years he has concentrated on low latency, distributed market data platforms in support of program and algorithmic trading systems.

Bernard A. Weinstein is a senior managing director at leading financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald. In this role he is responsible for Cantor Market Data, a division of Cantor Fitzgerald and provider of real-time fixed income pricing and data. He is also responsible for the expansion and development of software solutions for Cantor Fitzgerald's subsidiary company, eSpeed, an electronic marketplace and trading technology provider for the world's non-equity capital markets. As such, he develops strategies to leverage eSpeed's massive global infrastructure, portfolio of intellectual property, and electronic trading expertise to allow customers to build electronic marketplaces and exchanges, enable real-time auctions, enhance debt issuance, and customize trading interfaces. Before joining Cantor Fitzgerald, he was the founder, president and chief executive officer of ILX Systems, a subsidiary of the Thomson Corporation. He also managed a major division of Thomson Financial as president of the Sales and Trading Group. Mr. Weinstein received his bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Columbia University in New York and his master's in business administration in finance from New York University's Stern Graduate School of Business Administration where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, the graduate business school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa.

Jeff Wells, vice president of product management for Exegy, Inc., has more than 20 years experience in the financial services industry, most recently at Reuters as senior vice president of product development. Before Reuters, Mr. Wells held several senior management positions at Bridge Information Systems, including head of quality assurance and software release. Mr. Wells has also been a trader at Scandinavian Bank Group in London in the proprietary trading department and a desk officer at the UK’s Defense Intelligence Staff. He is the current chair of the Financial Information Forum’s Market Data Capacity Working Group. Mr. Wells has a B.A. in History from the University of London and an MSc (Econ) in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

David Wessel, 53, is deputy bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau and writes the "Capital” column, a weekly look at the economy and forces shaping living standards around the world. He also appears frequently on CNBC and National Public Radio. David joined The Wall Street Journal in 1984 in Boston, and moved to Washington in 1987. In 1999 and 2000, he served as the newspaper’s Berlin bureau chief. He previously worked for the Boston Globe, the Hartford (Conn.) Courant and Middletown (Conn.) Press. A 1975 graduate of Haverford College, he was Knight Bagehot (pronounced BADGE-IT) Fellow in Business & Economics Journalism at Columbia University in 1980-81. David has shared two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Boston Globe stories in 1983 on the persistence of racism in Boston and the other for stories in The Wall Street Journal in 2002 on corporate wrong-doing. He is the co-author, with Wall Street Journal reporter Bob Davis, of Prosperity, a 1998 book that argues that the next 20 years will be better for the American middle class than the previous 20.

John White manages the Investment Management Data Services group for State Street Global Advisors, which is responsible for investment data vendor relationships worldwide. In addition, his team provides business analysis and investment content expertise for SSgA's multi-sourced security reference data platform known as MDF (Market Data Framework). John has over 20 years of experience in the investment data field. Prior to joining State Street Global Advisors, John was manager of Columbia Management Company's Data Management Group and before this he managed the Data Integrity Group at Wellington Management Company. Before his tenure within investment management, John spent over 11 years on the investment data vendor side in various roles from directing real-time and end of day pricing integrity, to product management. His experience includes spearheading innovative data integrity techniques and standards to be used by the buy-side and sell-side of the investment industry.

Ian Williams is Global Head of Market Information Business Management within the COO Division of Credit Suisse, based in London. Market Information Business Management is responsible for the acquisition and delivery of Market Information globally across all three divisions of Credit Suisse. There are in excess of 450 vendors supplying market information to the Bank and global expenditure is in excess of US$ 300 million. Ian joined Credit Suisse in 1999 as the Head of Global IT Supply Management for the Asset Management Division. His responsibility was subsequently expanded as he was made IT Chief Operating Officer for the Asset Management Division. Ian was given responsibility for the global team Market Information Business Management department in January 2006.

R. "Tee" Williams is a well-known consultant and Principal of Tee Williams Associates. Tee has built industry recognition as an expert on market data operations and strategy, and is constantly engaged in helping major vendors and financial institutions come to terms with the information technology challenges. Tee also is author of Death of 1000 cuts: Strategic Peril and Potential in the New Market Data Industry.

Holger Wohlenberg became Managing Director of Deutsche Boerse in July 2004. He is responsible for the exchanges Market Data & Analytics 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. Holger Wohlenberg holds board seats in STOXX, International Index Company Ltd., Infobolsa S.A. and Avox Ltd.