Find out more about A-Team’s key executives below.
- Angela Wilbraham, Chief Executive Officer
- Andrew Delaney, President & Editor-in-Chief
- Peter Harris, President of Americas & Editor-at-Large
- Maryann Houglet, Vice President, Consulting
- James Hartley, Vice President, Research
- James Willis, Vice President of Marketing
Angela Wilbraham, chief executive officer based in London, founded A-Team Group in 2000. She has spent years analysing trends and business developments and has a real passion for the financial information technology industry.
Angela has a distinguished track record of conducting in-depth market research studies of strategies, market positioning and user requirements on behalf of financial information and technology providers, and consumers. She expanded on A-Team’s core consulting services in 2001 to launch a range of publications and research reports dedicated to the specialist sectors within the industry.
Her straight-forward, bottom-line approach has attracted CEOs, business-line managers, and market executives alike - facing issues impacting the success of new product launches and their firms’ growth. As a result, A-Team’s unique value is anchored in delivering “independent market insight directly relevant to clients’ strategic priorities.
Angela has been looked to as a source of analysis on the industry of financial information by top international publications, including The New York Times, The Independent, Forbes Magazine, and Crain’s Business News, as well as trade publications including STP Magazine, Operations Management, and Financial News. She is also a source of trusted analysis for many financial institutions’ research departments.
Before forming A-Team Group, she was a senior editor at Waters Information Services based in New York.
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 is responsible for A-Team’s offerings in the pre-trade information and electronic transactions 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.
Pete Harris is president, Americas and Editor-at-Large at A-Team Group. Mr Harris is also the conference chair and producer of a number of financial markets technology events, including Web Services on Wall Street, Linux on Wall Street and High Performance on Wall Street.
Before joining A-Team, Mr. Harris 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.
Earlier in his career, 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 Fidessa), Knight-Ridder Unicom (since merged into Reuters) and the Financial Times.
Away from financial technology, Mr. Harris is active in the NYC independent music scene, running an Internet radio station at www.harrisradio.com, publishing the monthly Indie Sounds NY (www.indiesoundsny.com) and operating an online gig search website, at www.gigapple.com.
Maryann Houglet is senior vice president of A-Team’s strategic consulting team and has over 25 years in servicing the securities industry worldwide leading businesses, marketing, and corporate development at financial information services firms. Most recently, both as part of a high-level team at Marlin & Associates, a New York-based, specialty investment banking firm and her own consulting practice, she has acted as an advisor to CEOs on business strategy in industries benefiting from her expertise in financial information services and digital information.
Ms. Houglet’s experience has concentrated on developing and implementing gap-closing strategies; formulating and overseeing marketing strategies, including tactical plans for capturing market share and brand development; identifying and realizing strategic alliances; facilitating mergers, divestitures, and the post-merger integration processes. Interactive Data Corporation, Thomson Financial and Telekurs were among her clients.
With long-term responsibility for delivering global, data-driven solutions, M Houglet is well versed in securities management workflow and needs of portfolio managers, securities administrators/operations, institutional traders, risk managers, and research analysts. Through responsibility for pioneering financial information businesses to take advantage of current trends, she consistently worked with fellow senior managers to identify, prioritize, and act on strategic and financial issues vital to the firm’s long-term success. Her academic background has provided a systematic paradigm for research backing strategic positioning and business planning.
Prior to her strategic consulting venture, Ms. Houglet was part of the senior management team at Telesphere Corporation and a partner in its management buyout where she headed strategic marketing and product strategy activities. Earlier in her career, Ms. Houglet was a long-term senior manager at Interactive Data Corporation, where she was also responsible for accelerating revenue growth through acquisitions and strategic alliances, particularly in the area of quantitative investment analysis.
James Hartley, vice president, research, joined A-Team Group to produce specialized research products and analysis on technology trends in the industry including algorithmic trading, reference data, and market data evolution. Mr. Hartley has been a key leader in furthering new capabilities and products in the global financial IT industry.
Prior to joining A-Team, Mr. Hartley spent five years as Chief Technologist at SIIA/FISD (Software Information Industry Association/Financial Information Services Division). While there, he developed and supported MDDL – the Market Data Definition Language. He also facilitated the global conversation on Securities Processing Automation (SPA), including topics on Reference Data and Straight-Through Processing. Previously, Mr. Hartley was employed by Reuters Group (aka Bridge Information Systems) as Catalyst, Office of the Chief Scientist, and then as Senior Architect for the Chief Architecture Office. At Bridge, Mr. Hartley concentrated on the development of leading edge technologies, including delivery mechanisms and user interface platforms for the dissemination and representation of quotes, news, charts, and other financial information.
Mr. Hartley has spent more than 10 years focusing on the development of leading edge technologies, including delivery mechanisms and user interface platforms, for the dissemination and representation of quotes, news, charts, and other financial information with global involvement in furthering new capabilities and products through training and technical leadership and more than 20 years experience as a computer, software, and systems engineer developing solutions for real-world problems.
James A. Willis is vice president of marketing at A-Team Group. Jim joined A-Team in November 2006 with over 18 years of experience in the publishing industry.
Prior to joining A-Team, Jim was Director of E-Marketing for Knovel Corporation, a scientific and technical online reference service. In that role, Jim was responsible for electronic lead generation, search engine marketing and publicity. He also wrote and edited a biweekly electronic newsletter with a circulation of 120,000 readers. Before Knovel, Jim was web and electronic marketing manager for Waters Information Services (now part of Incisive Media). Working at Waters for more than 12 years, Jim created and launched Waters’ first Web site and their first online content management system. Jim also created the first Web site for the Securities Industry Association’s (now SIFMA) Annual Technology Management Conference.
Early in Jim’s career, he worked as a staff member at The White House during the Ronald Reagan administration, and later as a staff member in the U.S. Congress.
