Speakers
Xavier Bellouard
Co-Founder/Managing Director
Quartet FS
Xavier Bellouard is Managing Director of Quartet FS and one of its four co-founders. Based in London, Xavier manages the UK operations and oversees the commercial efforts of the company across EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the USA. Before founding Quartet FS, Xavier was a key contributor to the development of Summit Systems (now a subsidiary of Misys), a software vendor providing applications for front-office operations and trading desks. In this role, Xavier relocated to London in 1998, in order to establish the UK branch of Summit Systems and has been living in the UK since.
Xavier is passionate about the contribution that Quartet FS’ technology can make to the bottom-line of companies operating in highly demanding and complex markets, such as financial services. “Our bottom-up, experience-driven approach to innovation is a fundamental component of the company’s DNA. Since the company was created in 2005, we have valued it as a prerequisite to delivering cutting-edge technology to our clients”.
Xavier derives his energy from working in challenging environments, in contact with talented individuals, who aim for excellence. He is an active member of several chamber music choirs in London (Petros Singers) and a keen sailor.
David Berry
Director
Cossiom
In December 2008, David joined UBS AG and is Director in Market Data & Commissions Global Sourcing. He was previously Head of Procurement & Cost Control at Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets Europe from May to Nov 2008. From 2006 to 2008 he was Global Head of Market Data at Barclays Capital. From 2001 to 2006 he was Global Head of Market Data for Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. He first worked there as Head of Supplier Management for Market Data Services. From 1993 to 2001, David worked for Morgan Stanley, first in the Fixed Income, Commodities and FX department, where he held Sales and Trading posts around Europe. He later worked in their Market Data and Technology department in London. He is Executive Committee member at FISD, IPUG and COSSIOM. David earned a “Diplomkaufman” in Berlin and a “Diplome des Grandes Ecoles” degree in Paris.
Selwyn Blair-Ford
Head Of Global Regulatory Policy
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ FRSGlobal
With more than 20 years of experience working in regulatory, finance and risk departments at global financial institutions such as Citibank, Commerzbank, Merrill Lynch and Mizuho International, Selwyn Blair-Ford has an in-depth knowledge of regulatory rules and calculation methodologies and first hand experience of banking and financial business processes.
Rupert Brown
Lead Architect, IB CTO
UBS
Rupert Brown has global architectural design governance and SDLC process coherence responsibilities across UBS Investment Bank.
In his career spanning more than 25 years in Investment Banking he has worked for a number of major US and European Investment Banks and delivered many ground breaking Global Application and Infrastructure Solutions.
He graduated from Imperial College London and is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Gerry Buggy
Managing Director, Enterprise Content
Thomson Reuters
Gerry Buggy is Managing Director for Enterprise Content at Thomson Reuters. In this role, Gerry is responsible for driving the pricing & reference data and legal entity businesses to develop content solutions that power business applications from pre-trade analytics through to post-trade clearing and settlement.
Gerry has over 25 years experience in the financial services industry, with a particular focus on strategic data management and software development. Before joining Thomson Reuters, Gerry founded FundClear Hedge Fund Services, a financial services company providing managed services to hedge funds, prime brokers, and fund administrators, later acquired by Symphony Systems. Prior to FundClear, Gerry held various positions including founder of MSB Consulting, a company later bought by NEON a NASDAQ listed firm, Global Head of Sales & Marketing at TIBCO software, and business development and IT roles at Salomon Brothers, Swiss Bank Corporation/UBS, and Allen Computers.
Scott Campbell
Director of Product Management, Enterprise Analytics
Platform Computing, an IBM Company
Scott Campbell is Director of Product Management, Enterprise Analytics at Platform Computing, an IBM Company. Scott has more than 20 years of experience in product management and sales of enterprise technology, including substantial focus in the field of data analytics. He also has over 10 years of experience specifically with scale-out, clustered file system technologies. In his current role, Scott oversees Platform’s growing line of business analytics products, including the Platform’s solution to support MapReduce programming models. Prior to Platform, Scott held similar roles in companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Intel, PolyServe and more.
Colin Gibson
Head of Data Architecture
RBS Global Banking & Markets
Colin is Head of Data Architecture for the Markets & International Banking (M&IB) division of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
Following an initial career in the defence sector, Colin has held senior infrastructure management and software development positions in several investment banks.
He joined RBS in 2006 and led several initiatives to address key data and architecture challenges facing M&IB. These included a programme to develop and implement a consolidated, authoritative store of all transactions. As Head of Data Architecture, Colin works across M&IB to drive progress towards an agreed target state for how data is sourced, stored and shared.
Stuart Grant
EMEA Business Development Manager - Financial Services
SAP
Stuart Grant has over 15 years experience within the Data, Analytics and Technology industry working in Product Management and Business Development to provide complex, Enterprise level data and analytics management solutions to buy-side and sell-side organisations for the support of business critical investment processes across Front and Middle Office Trading, Risk and Performance oriented business functions. Having previously worked at Thomson Reuters his focus is on enabling Capital Markets organisations to understand the opportunities that can be realised through adoption of SAP’s advanced data and analytical solutions including IQ, RAP, Event Stream Processing and SAP HANA which facilitate advanced and continuous analytics and business processing of the ever increasing volumes of multi-frequency data that organisations have to deal with.
Amir Halfon
Chief Technologist, Global Financial Services
Oracle
Amir Halfon is Chief Technologist for Financial Services at Oracle, where he oversees the development of industry-specific solutions and strategy, addressing challenges such as Bid Data analytics, on-demand risk management and deep customer insight.
Amir possesses a wealth of technical and industry experience, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and contributed to several publications. He joined Oracle from Sun Microsystems, where he was the CTO for Global Financial Services.
Mike Hepburn
Independent
Mike has seventeen years experience in the financial markets in both investment banking and financial technology software start-ups. Most recently, Mike was Managing Director of Hyper Rig, the London-based real-time enterprise risk software company. Prior to Hyper Rig Mike was Director of Strategy and Business Development at GL Trade. His other start-ups include Trayport where was he was Director of Business Development and Sales for the first four years of the company. From 1995 to 1999, Mike worked for Salomon Brothers and Bear Stearns in institutional sales. He holds an MA in International Peace and Security (Distinction) from Kings College, an MSc in Political Economy from the London School of Economics and an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University, Canada
Emmanuel Lecerf
Senior Solution Architect, Financial Services Industry
Platform Computing, an IBM Company
Emmanuel Lecerf is Senior Client Architect for the financial services industry at Platform Computing, an IBM Company. Emmanuel has been in this role since 2005 and has been working actively with customers and strategic software partners. Prior to Platform, Emmanuel spent more than 9 years at Sungard (previously known as GLTrade), where he acquired in depth knowledge in derivatives software as software engineer, project manager and Senior Pre-sale. Emmanuel has been in the technology industry for over 16 years focusing on providing realistic solutions to address the financial services industry challenges.
Tony Moulange
Independent
Tony has more than 30 years’ experience in the global financial markets, working both in investment banks and the financial technology vendors that serve them. In that time he has covered every aspect of their market data systems and platforms.
A former chair of the European Information Providers User Group (IPUG) and European market data manager for a US Tier 1 brokerage, he has more recently been working with specialist vendors and telcos on the likely impact of new global regulation on the securities trading industry.
Benjamin Stopford
Specialist in HPC Technologies
RBS Global Banking & Markets
Ben Stopford is a specialist in HPC technologies with experience at several investment banks and at Thoughtworks. He has a number of publications and speaking engagements to his name covering Software Process, Mock-Driven Development, Oracle Coherence and Distributed Data Management. He currently leads development of ODC; a distributed data technology that sits at the core of RBS’s data architecture. You can find more about him at http://www.benstopford.com.
Raj Subramani
Vice President
JP Morgan Chase
Bio to come.
Ken Tune
Senior Consultant
MarkLogic
Ken has had a long and varied career in Financial Services and information technology, not necessarily at the same time. After reading Mathematics at Cambridge he joined blue blooded British merchant bank Hambros as a bond salesman before moving on to the more cerebral pastures of risk management at HSBC, where amongst other things he built the company’s first Value at Risk and Stress Testing systems. He took a year out to take an MSc in Computer Science at Imperial College, London, before returning to work in Cambridge for successful startup telephony billing startup Geneva Techology.
Always interested in probability, he spent a year with SportingBet.com, before returning to Finance with boutique pricing experts, Totem, later acquired by credit default swap specialists Markit.
His projects have ranged from large scale enterprise integration to innovative mashups of news and quantitative data.
Excited by the possibilities offered by MarkLogic, he joined six months ago, and has enjoyed working with a variety of media and finance companies.
Although much of his time is taken up with his young daughter, he enjoys squash and running, a wide range of reading and occasionally playing with his Arduino board and LEGO Mindstorms kit.
Peter Van Kleef
Managing Director
Lakeview Capital Market Services
Prior to his role at Lakeview, Peter managed significant hedge fund type investment portfolios and quantitative trading departments for among others Cooper Neff, Salomon Brothers, HypoVereinsbank and Credit Lyonnais. He has over ten years of experience in the development and running of sophisticated automated trading operations. He holds a MBA degree from the Owen Graduate School at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. He is a frequent speaker on complex arbitrage strategies with a focus on volatility arbitrage and high frequency algorithmic trading. He is also a well known consultant to the investment community with regards to trading, risk management, IT operational and strategic issues. Lakeview provides a large range of trading and risk management related services.
