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
• Martyn Hodges, Sales Director
• James Willis, Vice President of Marketing
• Virginie O’Shea, Editor

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, a publishing, research and events company focused on the deployment of information technologies in the global financial markets.

Pete is a regular contributor to A-Team’s coverage of the financial markets IT space, focusing on front-office, low-latency, cloud and infrastructure technologies.

As conference chair for A-Team Insight Exchange, Pete brings some 25 years of experience of creating thought provoking and innovative financial markets IT events. In the 1980s, Pete created the DWT event in London, and followed that up with several Waters-branded events in New York City, including the Advanced Technology Conference. He then created and led content for the ‘on Wall Street’ series, which ran for nearly a decade up until 2009.

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 Reuters) and the Financial Times.

A board member of GenomeWeb, Pete is also active in the independent music scenes in NYC and Austin, Texas, producing a blog and a podcast showcasing emerging talent.

Martyn Hodges, Sales Director, based in London 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.

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.

Virginie O’Shea is editor at A-Team Group. Prior to her appointment at A-Team, Virginie was group editor of Investor Services Journal and Alternatives magazine and before that, she was editor of STP Magazine and online service stpzone.com.

Virginie was also editor of several international newsletters in the banking space for Informa, including International Payments and Back Office Focus. Prior to that, she was editor of Pensions International and Financial Regulation International. Virginie began her career as a journalist writing for Informa’s insurance division on titles including World Insurance Report and Liability Risk and Insurance.