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.
Business Development Manager, Capital Markets, Colt
Terence works as Business Development Manager at Colt Capital Markets, on-boarding providers and members to the Colt PrizmNet financial extranet, including relationship management of exchanges, venues, content providers, ISV’s and strategic partners. Terence’s role also encompasses identifying Cloud and Colt IQ opportunities alongside a focus on Industry trends such as AI, regulation, risk modelling, blockchain and new geographical markets. Terence joined Colt from ICE Data Services (formerly Interactive Data) where he worked as a Senior Sales Specialist specialised in information, analytics and connectivity solutions, with a range of proprietary data and tools for global markets across fixed income, equities, commodities, FX and options. At Thomson Reuters, Terence joined as a Financial Application Specialist before moving swiftly into Sales and Account Management. Having worked closely with a variety of clients including Investment Banks, Investment Management, Commodity and Energy firms, as well as London-based Representative Banks, Terence moved into managing a portfolio of Hedge Fund clients. Prior to Thomson Reuters, Terence worked as Sales Manager at Odyssey Logic, a company developing bespoke algorithmic trading software based on technical analysis. Odyssey Logic was the second company to write Bloomberg's API.
MD and Co Founder, ENYX
Laurent has worked in Ultra Low Latency Technology for close to 10 years and co-founded Enyx in 2011 at the age of 23. As Managing Director of Enyx’s trading solutions, Laurent leads the development and commercialization of the next generation FPGA-enabled market access technology. A hardware engineer by training, Laurent is passionate about high performance computing and bringing cutting-edge technology to market. Prior to co-founding Enyx, he worked on critical hardware components for the aeronautical and military industries.
Founder and CEO, Xignite
Named twice to the Institutional Investor's Tech 50 list of financial visionaries and innovators, Stephane Dubois is a recognized financial data industry executive who founded Xignite to Make Market Data Easy. Stephane Dubois is a well-known fintech thought leader and is frequently quoted in publications, including Forbes, MarketsMedia, WallStreet & Technology, Financial News, Bob's Guide, Inside Reference Data, and Venture Capital Journal. He has spoken at numerous fintech events around the world, including Finovate, FinDEVr, Bank Innovation, Next Money, World Exchange Conf., World Finance Information Conf. and The Money Conference. Prior to founding Xignite, Stephane was Vice President of Product Management at Advent Software, the leading provider of software solutions for the investment management industry. Prior to Advent, Stephane held senior product and marketing management positions at Walker Interactive Systems and Oracle Corporation. Stephane holds an MS in Management from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and MS and BS degrees in international management from the MBA Institute in Paris.
Systems Architect, Solace
Tom started his career as a silicon designer, first building ASICs for network switches, then low power CPU designs for mobile devices such as the iPhone and the Nintendo DS series. After moving to Singapore, he changed career and became involved in IT architecture work for Financial services organisations, including a year spent creating a low latency FPGA High Frequency Trading platform. Now back in the UK, Tom works as a Systems Architect for Solace, helping customers with challenging integration, distributed computing, cloud and digital transformation projects, as well as speaking at developer conferences and trade shows.
Compute FSI Sales Manager , Nvidia
Alastair has been responsible for Nvidia’s business into the EMEA Financial Services market over the past 8 years , and has overseen the uptake by many Investment Banks of GPUs to accelerate their monte carlo risk analytics for market and counterparty risk . Recently , with the market acceptance of GPU as the default processor choice for deep learning training , he is now helping Banking customers to embrace/exploit the technology and to target fruitful areas for investigation in such fields as time series prediction, fraud analytics , optimal trade execution and ecomms surveillance . He worked previously at Sun Microsystems and IBM.
Head of Data Compliance & Licensing, 3d innovations
John is a veteran of some 16 years in Market Data, with the majority of that time as an industry recognized subject matter expert for market data compliance & audit. John was the first person to be awarded the FISD Data Licensing Specialist (DLS) accreditation, which is a specialist qualification from FISD that focuses on the licensing and related compliance aspects of financial markets information usage at all levels from original source to ultimate consumer, including derived data. Prior to 3di John was Global Head of Market Data Compliance & Audit for BNP Paribas. During his 7 years with the bank he was globally responsible for market data compliance across the firm; managing market data usage by internal systems and end-users across the bank; and managing of both internal and third-party external market data audits from initiation to settlement. He advised internal clients on the data usage rules affecting operational processes and contract negotiations, and mentored / trained the internal market data teams on the same. He was additionally responsible for 2 years for the global commercial market data relationship with the Exchanges, five inter-dealer brokers (BGC Partners, ICAP, TradeWeb, Tradition, and Tullett Prebon), and fixings & bank rate providers; this covered not just global markets but also retail banking too. Before BNP Paribas, John worked in a similar, lower-level capacity at Commerzbank and Credit Suisse; and is personally accountable for actual P&L impacting savings of over €10m in the past 10 years of market data audits with much more avoided through market data compliance risk avoidance.
Executive Director, JP Morgan
Alistair Kerr is an experienced financial services technology executive, working in various areas of market data for almost 20 years. In his current role as Global Head of Market Data Services at JPMorgan, he is responsible for the provision of end to end market data solutions, including engineering and development, connectivity, control, and production support. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Science in Information Technology Systems from the University of Strathclyde.
VP of Technical Marketing, Metamako
After studying Computer Science at university, Matthew joined the Treasury Department of a large Geneva bank. A few years later, he moved on to Reuters where he specialized on delivering internal training on Market Data System and Web-delivered products. He remained in internal training for nine years eventually becoming the Director of Training for Europe, the Middle East and Africa with global ownership of Sales and Technology Training. He then spent two years working on independent business projects including designing an early VOIP service and launching a Performance Car Club before joining STAC Research in 2007. At STAC, he worked on low-latency benchmarking as well as developing testing methodologies and tools to for the benchmarks. He gained immense exposure to the latest high-performance server and networking technologies as well as high-precision timing hardware/software. From 2009, Matt has worked as Head of Labs at DRW Holdings, pushing the limits of low-latency as applied to electronic trading systems, President of Accensus LLC and Technical Marketing Director, Financial Services at Solarflare Communications.
CIB Cloud Lead, JP Morgan
Founder, Inkblue
CEO, West Highland
As founder and CEO of West Highland Support Services, Steven Roe has been a pioneer in the managed services industry providing cloud based managed services to financial firms for over 20 years. Mr. Roe is responsible for developing innovative solutions that increase visibility and operational efficiency while maximizing ROI. He also leads a professional services team which advises and executes on enterprise audit, transformation, optimization, and development initiatives.
Vice President of Membership and Programs, FISD
Tracey Shumpert is Vice President of Membership and Progams at FISD, where she seeks to constantly improve the FISD member experience and to broaden the FISD community. She is the program manger for the World Financial Information Conference, the Alternative Data Council, Lunch & Learn and Women's Group activities.
Prior to FISD Tracey was senior events manager at FIX Trading Community and before that, she held various roles at Bloomberg. Tracey holds a BA in Comparative Literature at Smith College and an MA in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.