Program Director, FISD/Atradia
David Anderson is a well know market data consultant. He has worked in the market data industry since 1984 - including roles with Telerate, Bishopsgate Systems and from 1989 13 years with Reuters culminating in various global marketing roles; in respect of market data systems (e.g. Triarch and RMDS). Since January 2002 David has been operating Atradia (www.atradia.com), a management consultancy practice focused on the market data industry. He has been quoted commenting on the market data industry in major publications. David edited the respected annual ‘IMD Reference’ book between 2003 and 2009. He instigated the SIIA/FISD initiative to create a professional certification program for market data practitioners. David also acts as a Program Director for a variety of other FISD activities including EMEA focussed events; the Exchange Constituent Group (ECG); the FISD Technology Forum; the FISD Buy Side Group; and the FISD Cloud Working Group. David and Atradia operate from the glorious countryside of West Sussex UK.
Head of Business Development, Euronext
Mike has around 20 years’ experience in the market data industry and is currently Head of Business Development for Market Data within the Information Services division at Euronext. He previously spent 10 years at London Stock Exchange managing business development and vendor relationship teams and has also held sales and product management positions at Telekurs, RBS and Ballintrae.
SVP Technical Sales , SR Labs
Following university, Dave started his career as a C++ developer building derivatives pricing engines. Yearning to better understand how this data was used, he moved into Technical Presales building ticker plants for a wide range of financial participants including banks, hedge funds, prop shops and exchanges. Dave then worked for a number of tier 1 banks in roles ranging from building market data platforms, front-office electronic trading support and then overseeing the build-out of next-generation order entry platforms. This exposure to the full electronic execution stack has provided Dave with over-arching experience of the challenges faced by market data administrators, the importance of exchange compliance and the central role that entitlements plays in this process.
EMEA Head of Real Time Technology , Bloomberg
Paul has been Head of Real Time Technology for the EMEA region since April 2014. Prior to that he was Head of Enterprise Technology Account Management at Bloomberg, also for the EMEA region. Before joining Bloomberg Paul held roles at RBC Capital Markets, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse, covering 20 years in the capital markets.
Executive Director, Goldman Sachs
Paola joined Goldman Sachs in March 2019 from JP Morgan, where she worked in multiple areas after joining in February 1997. She has been in Market Data for over 10 years holding multiple global roles focused on Market data Licensing and Vendor Management, Market Data for Applications, Strategy and Planning. She brings a wide experience in the field with special focus on market data licensing and she is an active participant in industry workgroups (AFME, SIFMA) focused on regulators’ approach to market data.
Consultant, Independent
Leigh Crouch is a market data consultant for The Lightbox Group with over 15 years’ experience; he is currently working in a senior business analyst role at a major UK Bank. For the first few years of his career Leigh worked on the infrastructure/desktop side, which gave him a great understanding of the mechanics and delivery of market data sources. He then took on the commercial Market Data Manager position at Schroders allowing him to rapidly develop his knowledge on commercial market data whilst cutting his teeth managing a small Market data team. Following this Leigh moved onto a business admin/analyst role at Citigroup, where in seven years he gained valuable exposure to internal application remediation, exchange reporting, data feeds, policies and compliance. During this time he led the market data business admin team, as well as managing the internal apps and market data audit processes giving him a great insight into all market data processes within the bank and where they could be improved upon. Leigh's specialist subjects would be application remediation and vendor/exchange reporting and compliance ensuring an organisation is getting the very best value from their data sources, whilst ensuring they are compliant.
Managing Director, FISD
Tom Davin is Managing Director, Financial Information Services Association (FISD) of the SIIA. FISD is the global, neutral forum for the financial information industry with a diverse membership that includes major market data vendors, exchanges, technology providers, and the financial institutions that utilize financial data products. Tom works closely with FISD members to identify major issues and seek opportunities to bring the financial information industry together to discuss and resolve those issues. FISD conducts regular membership events in North America, Europe, Asia, Brazil, and Australia and hosts the biennial World Financial Information Conference – the premiere global industry conference for financial information professionals.
Director, Capital Markets Development & Chair, FISD Exec Committee, BT
Yousaf is currently Head of Business Development at BT Financial Technology Services; responsibilities include establishing and maintaining relationships with key trading venues (including Exchanges, MTFs, ECNs, PTSs and dark pools) across asset classes globally. As a result Yousaf has developed strong relationships with a number of CxOs globally and has developed an excellent understanding of their services (trading and market data). Additionally, Yousaf has established strong relationships with both the buy-side and sell-side community. Yousaf has spoken at a number of conferences on subjects ranging from low latency, emerging markets and the search for liquidity, liquidity fragmentation and blockchains applications and trends in capital markets and has written articles and been quoted in various trade publications. He supports the BT Radianz sales team on major opportunities globally and has designed and implemented a number of programs to educate the sales teams on trends and requirements in the financial services community; including topics such as dark pools, FX, FI, emerging markets trends in the market space and different trading strategies. Other experience includes marketing, product marketing and business development in telecom and IT related companies with a finance sector focus.
Head of Unit - Licence Management, Deutsche Börse AG
Head of Research, JWG Group Ltd
Dan Simpson, Head of Research, JWG Group. Dan is responsible for managing JWG’s 12-person regulatory research team. The team is responsible for all regulatory document analysis and for tracking the regulatory reform agenda in order to keep the RegDelta library up to date. They also run JWG’s customer data (CDMG) and MiFID implementation (MIG) special interest groups. Dan’s particular area of expertise is MiFID II and he has worked on numerous such projects over the past 2 years. He works closely with MiFID II implementation teams at top banks on the operational impacts of the new regime and is in charge of delivering JWG’s RegIT MiFID II implementation training sessions for industry stakeholders. He is a frequent author for RegTech and other financial publications who request his input and knowledge on G20 regulatory reform. Prior to joining JWG he worked for The Office for National Statistics, Sega Corporation and Manchester United (commercial team).
Real-time Architect, Thomson Reuters
Thomas works as an Architect in Elektron Real Time which is Thomson Reuters low latency market data distribution network, responsible for feeding client TREPs and the desktop product - Eikon - with real time market data. Thomas has been in this role for two years where his primary focus has been market data entitlements. Thomas has experience on the whole stack from capture and management of Content Rights from data suppliers, such as Exchanges and other contributing sources, through to the association of those rights with the actual content and how those rights or permissions are administered, enforced, reported on and billed for accordingly; with the help of systems such as DACS. He is also leading the technology transformation of how these processes will work in an automated fashion within Thomson Reuters in future. Prior to his current role Thomas worked as an architect building systems that facilitate the fulfilment of client orders for content sets on data feeds.