About Us

A-Team Group ‘gets' the business of financial information technology. It's what we do and what we are passionate about.

Since 2001 we have delivered news and analysis, in-depth research, and events for financial institutions, technology and data suppliers, regulatory bodies and more. So whether you are into reference data, looking for low latency, want to manage your risk technology, or thinking big data, we’ve got the information you need! Find out more about What We Do here.

And if you are a technology or data vendor on a quest to demonstrate your thought leadership, generate quality sales leads and measure the success of your marketing campaign, we have creative ways to help you achieve your goals. Find out about Smart Marketing, The A-Team Way.

Latest News

April 26, 2013: A-Team Group announces that the forthcoming Low-Latency Summit in New York City on May 1st 2013 will be focusing on how key low latency, cloud and big data technologies are converging to form the IT platform that will underpin automated trading in the financial markets, as they move beyond HFT. Major sponsors will add to A-Team's own thought leadership at the event, including Tibco Software, Dell, Intel and Altera.

14th March 2013: S&P Capital IQ’s Valuations service has been ranked best vendor for high yield bonds and US municipals in A-Team Group’s 2012 Valuations Performance Benchmarking report. A-Team Group surveyed valuations managers across 36 Europe-based financial institutions – a mix of asset managers and the securities firms that support them – about what is driving the need for better valuations and how they manage valuations data. As part of the study, respondents were also asked to drill down into the performance of the ten key vendors that supply pricing and valuation data across fixed income asset classes. The respondents ranked S&P Capital IQ’s Valuations service the top scoring vendor for high yield corporate bonds and US municipals, number two for investment grade corporate bonds, and in the top four for government/agency debt.

26th February 2013: A-Team Group is thrilled to release its noteworthy line-up of speakers and panelists at its third annual Data Management Summit being held in London on 12th March 2013. The event focuses on financial institutions’ approaches to the challenge of gathering pertinent risk and performance data and analytics from their complex businesses in response to competitive pressures and heightened regulatory scrutiny.

The Team

Angela Wilbraham

Angela Wilbraham is the founder and CEO of A-Team Group, which she started in 2001. She has driven growth in the business over the past 10 years with a hands-on approach of continually adapting to the changing media landscape.
 
Back in the day, she started with consulting and a revolutionary PDF-based newsletter, but things change and she has since helped steer A-Team Group through various stages to our now market leading provision of online communities, marketing services for vendors, and industry events across the financial technology industry.
 
Angela has spent years analysing trends and business developments and has a real passion for the financial information technology industry. She has been looked to as a source of analysis on the industry by top international publications, including The New York Times, The Independent, Forbes Magazine, and Crain’s Business News, as well as trade publications.
 
Before forming A-Team Group, she was a senior editor at Waters Information Services (now Incisive Media) based in New York and then London.
 
In her spare time, Angela is on the board of trustees for Hampshire-based Valley Leisure, as well as numerous local committees. She has recently channelled her passion for the media business and all things local into new community site Inspired Community www.inspiredcommunity.co.uk

Andrew Delaney

Andrew Delaney is A-Team’s president & editor-in-chief, based in London and New York. He has been involved in information gathering and dissemination around financial markets IT since 1987. He joined A-Team in 2002 to spearhead the company’s publishing activities and today runs A-Team’s offerings in the reference data and risk technology areas.
 
Before joining A-Team, Andrew spent three years launching a financial information distribution platform aimed at the off-trading-floor marketplace. Prior to that he spent 11 years at Waters Information Services in a variety of senior roles including editor-in-chief, senior vice president of global sales, and general manager of North American operations. He also spent time with Banking Technology magazine in London and The Wall Street Journal in Brussels.
 
Andrew likes motorbikes, hockey, France and fishing, in no particular order.

Pete Harris

Pete Harris is President, Americas and Editor of Low-Latency.com and BigDataForFinance.com.
 
Before joining A-Team, Pete worked as an independent consultant, advising technology innovators on how to best position their products and services to serve Wall Street and the financial markets.
 
Prior to working as a technology consultant, Pete held a number of editorial, publishing and management positions – including Editor-in-Chief and President – at Waters Information Services (now Incisive Media). There, he spearheaded the company’s move into events and online services.
 
Earlier in his career, Pete specialised 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, Pete 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 Fidessa), Knight-Ridder Unicom (since merged into Thomson Reuters) and the Financial Times.
 
Pete happily resides in Austin, TX - one of the most happening cities in the U.S.

Martyn Hodges

Martyn Hodges is our Sales Director based in London. He is an experienced international sales and marketing professional. Prior to joining A-Team Group he worked over 17 years in a variety of sales and management roles within the Metal Bulletin plc publishing group, working in data analysis areas for several MB subsidiary companies offering statistical services into the Energy, Agricultural Machinery and Futures & Options sectors. He was responsible for the creation and launch of a reference data product covering global exchange traded derivatives – ‘FOW Trade Data’ now widely used in the investment banking sector.
 
Martyn started his career in the agricultural machinery business with Massey Ferguson after reading Economics at Nottingham University.
 
Martyn is learning to sail on the Blackwater estuary

Ron Wilbraham

Ron Wilbraham, Client Services Manager, joined A-Team back in 2003 and focuses to meeting our clients’ needs in a friendly and professional manner. In his day-to-day job he speaks to our clients about access to our community sites, our research and our events. Ron is known internally as "The Mounty" for the way he is able to achieve closure where invoices have exceeded the payment terms. Ron also fields many of the enquiries both by email and phone and directs them to the right party. Ron may be beyond retirement age but thoroughly enjoys working for A-Team and is keen to carry on servicing our clients and working within our friendly close-knit team.

 

Prior to joining A-Team Ron spent over 22 years in the Army serving around the world and over the years took a particular liking to challenging sports including abseiling, bungee jumping, paragliding and sky-diving, the latter being his most favoured. 

George Bailey-Kirby

George Bailey-Kirby is A-Team’s Community Manager and Research Specialist. In this role, George works on our online community websites, investigates material for research reports, client surveys and white papers, and supports our events. George initially joined A-Team Group in 2007 to help spearhead their Algorithmic Trading and Automated Trading Systems Directories, and has since moved to the US to help boost further A-Team’s business.

Before working at A-Team, George worked at NYFIX (now NYSE Euronext) in helping with research and marketing to launch their European dark pool. Prior to that, he also worked at Accenture in their Capital Market’s division before going on to completing a BA in Philosophy from King’s College London (University of London).

Since moving to the US, George has lived in the Midwest. Outside of Financial Services, George works as a fiction writer and takes an active interest in both politics and philosophy.

Jeri-Anne McKeon

Jeri-Anne McKeon is the Marketing Coordinator at A-Team Group. Based in New York, she is responsible for the organization of A-Team’s Summit events in both New York and London. She also maintains the media marketing agreements with other event organisers and manages the details of our marketing on behalf of clients.
 
Outside of A-Team Jeri-Anne is a graphic designer who also runs a small wedding design business and online stationery store. Prior to joining A-Team she worked in marketing for Knovel, an online reference library engineers where she also handled event management.

Sharon Wilbraham

Sharon is A-Team’s Production Manager. In this role, she compiles and manages our marketing output, updates our online news portals and creates our research reports and whitepapers. Sharon initially joined A-Team Group in 2006 as an Editorial Assistant.
 
She currently resides in Sheffield and has a keen interest in hiking and photography.