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Confirmed speaker panel includes:

	Event Chairman Bob Giffords Banking and Technology Analyst Bob Giffords, is an independent analyst and consultant for the European banking sector with over 25 years experience in financial technology. This included major engagements for bank outsourcing, business process re-engineering, branch automation, multi-channel architectures, product factories, credit cards, payments, treasury and securities trading, governance, risk management, and IT best practice in several European countries. With degrees in Mathematics from the University of California, and economics from Cambridge niversity, Bob carried out post-graduate studies in Germany and the US. In his early career he developed software in the aerospace and technology sectors, followed by a long career in project management and technology consulting, most of which was as an independent analyst.

	Peter van Kleef, Chief Executive Officer, Lakeview Arbitrage International 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, operational and strategic issues.

	Dr. Steven Posner, Risk Manager, IKOS Asset Management Steven Posner is the risk manager of IKOS AM. Previously, he worked in risk management at Morgan Stanley in London for 5 years and as a derivatives quant at Goldman Sachs for 6 years. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1995.

	Dr. Giles Nelson Chief Technology Officer, EMEA Progress APAMA Dr. Giles Nelson is focused on providing EMEA customers with innovative business solutions using Progress' early-market technologies throughout the region. Prior to joining Progress Software, he was the co-founder of Apama, the pioneering event processing software vendor acquired by Progress Software in April 2005, where he co-invented the core patented technology. Nelson is a regular speaker at leading technology and Capital Markets industry events and is published and quoted widely in the media. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.


	Valerie Bannert-Thurner, Ph.D., European Executive Director FTEN Europe Valerie is Executive Director of FTEN’s European operations. Valerie is responsible for adapting FTEN’s business model to the European trading community, establishing strategic business and technology partnering arrangements, identifying and championing new requirements into product development, and increasing FTEN’s leadership and quality of service across Europe. Prior to joining FTEN, Valerie served as European Managing Director for Skyler Inc. While at Skyler, she was in charge of developing the business model, strategic partnerships, technology licensing, product positioning, and marketing, including public relations, where she established Skyler as an industry thought leader. Prior to Skyler, Valerie authored articles on finance and technology, published a book on strategic acquisition management, lectured at Cambridge University and the University of California, and spoke at several Industry conferences worldwideShe has a B.S.M.E., M.S. and Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich.

	Adam Toms Managing Director, Head of Market Access Group, EMEA Nomura Adam joined Nomura as part of the recent acquisition of Lehman Brothers, he is responsible for the portfolio, electronic and futures sales/trading execution channels that Nomura offers in Europe.

	Andrew Bowley Executive Director Head of Electronic Trading Service Product Management Nomura Andrew is responsible for new product design and implementation and product management primarily for the Electronic Trading Services unit at Nomura. In his current role, this work has extended to include the development of Nomura’s dark pool offering NX, leading the team that created the first investment bank based MTF dark pool. Additionally the role covers smart routing, dark routing, and all MTF access and coordination. Outside of cash equities, Andrew has taken the electronic offering into new asset classes, covering Sector Swaps, Custom Index Swaps, Convertible Bonds and listed derivatives. The team additionally manages all the electronic vendor relationships, covering implementation of Nomura’s product suite on third party vendor platforms. Following the acquisition by Nomura of the European and Asian equities business of Lehman Brothers, Andrew managed the team that lead the electronic product integration. Andrew originally joined Lehman Brothers in 2004 to oversee the implementation of the firm’s new global connectivity system and market side connectivity platforms, focussing on the cash equity DMA and algorithmic trading franchise and related electronic services. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Andrew spent 7 years at Dresdner Kleinwort initially in front office product development and then for 5 years as head of the firm's institutional connectivity and order management activity. Having grown up in Hong Kong, Andrew started working in the sell side in that market 22 years ago in 1987. He has qualified as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG and also worked at JP Morgan.

	Jeff Zorek Managing Director, Electronic and Prime Product Management. Nomura Jeff Zorek is Managing Director, Electronic and Prime Product Management. He joined Nomura in 2009, bringing 25 years of experience in Equity markets at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Jeff holds an MBA from The University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School)

	Alasdair Moore Founder/ Director Fixnetix Alasdair has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry. Before founding Fixnetix, Alasdair was a director of Tullett Liberty Securities & Tullett Liberty Equities. During this period he was instrumental in building the largest network of stock exchange memberships of any independent stockbroker in Europe. Alasdair also has a unique insight into the electronic trading world having built the first independent agency algorithmic execution services team in the Europe.

	Stephane Leroy Head of Global Sales & Marketing Quanthouse In this role, Mr. Leroy is responsible for developing and executing the company sales and marketing strategies. Before joining QuantHouse, Leroy was Area Manager for BT Radianz where he established and developed the BT Radianz activity since its formation in 2000 throughout Continental Europe. Mr. Leroy began his career in 1992 at Borland, where he held several marketing positions. He then joined AT&T Global Information Solutions France as a marketing and sales manager. He moved later on to NCR Global Services (formerly called AT&T Global Information Solutions) to become the Head of Global Account Sales for Europe. Leroy divides his time between the U.K., the US and Continental Europe. Mr Leroy holds a Master of Computer Science Engineering and Mathematics from ESME/SUDRIA of Paris. He holds also a Master of Strategic Marketing from HEC Paris.

	Bill Ruvo Vice President and Business Manager, Reuters Datafeeds Thomson Reuters Bill Ruvo has over 20 years experience in financial services and market data. He is currently Global Business Manager for Reuters Real Time Datafeeds where he is responsible for overall strategy and execution. Prior to his current role, Bill headed up Reuters direct feeds strategy in North America. Before joining Reuters, Bill was with the Interactive Data Corporation where he was Vice President, Business Development with responsibility for Interactive Data’s real-time non-organic growth strategy with specific emphasis on direct exchange initiatives. During Ruvo’s tenure with Interactive Data he also held the position of Vice President of Strategic Account Sales. Before Interactive Data, Bill was Vice President of Sales for Moneyline Telerate and prior to that, he held sales management positions with Bang Networks, 4Cast and Dow Jones Telerate. Ruvo began his career with Prudential Financial in its institutional asset management organization. He holds a BS in Finance from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

	Axel Pierron Senior Vice President Celent Axel Pierron, is a Senior Vice President for Celent's India research group. Mr. Pierron's expertise lies in electronic bond trading, derivatives and FX markets, market infrastructure, trade finance, and claim management automation. Mr. Pierron is quoted regularly in the media, including the Financial Times, Reuters, Les Echos, Le Monde, CNBC, BBC, Financial News, France 2, Daily Telegraph, and European Banker. He is a frequent speaker on technology’s impact on strategy and market organization. Mr. Pierron was a member of the Mission Ecoter within the French Senate and of the Association pour le commerce et les services en ligne (ACSEL).Before joining Celent, Mr. Pierron was an Internet research analyst for BNP Paribas, where he conducted a variety of market research and projects in fields such as e-finance, global B2B operations, knowledge management, and CRM. He was a member of several strategic Internet units within BNP Paribas, including those focused on financial markets.Previously, Mr. Pierron was an internal auditor for Leclerc, the second largest supermarket chain in France. His duties there included management of an EDI implementation project.Mr. Pierron holds an MA in financial markets from the CERAM business school in Nice, France. He is fluent in English and French and proficient in German.

	Kee-Meng Tan Head of the Electronic Trading Group (ETG) Europe Knight Equity Markets, L.P. Mr. Tan heads the Electronic Trading Group (ETG) in Europe and is responsible for the introduction of Knight Link, the firm’s highly successful off-exchange liquidity source, to the European marketplace. Prior to joining Knight in November of 2008, Kee-Meng was a derivatives trader at CQS, a London-based multi-strategy hedge fund. Before joining CQS, Kee-Meng was the European Head of Global Execution Services at JP Morgan in London, managing 30 people in front-office positions in Europe and South Africa. Prior to that, he was the Head of Delta One Trading at ABN Amro Bank NV in Hong Kong. He was also Head of Asian Portfolio Trading at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Securities and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Tan started his career as a Financial Analyst at Commercial Union Capital Corp. for leveraged leasing in New York in 1984. Kee-Meng received his M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and his B.A. in Economics and Computer Science from Vassar College.

	Stuart Theakston, Head of HFT GLC Ltd Stuart joined GLC in 2008 and is responsible for the high frequency trading programme. Stuart has extensive experience of developing and managing high-frequency algorithmic trading strategies and high performance Direct Market Access (DMA) infrastructure at Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. He started his finance career in 1994 at Goldman Sachs in Prime Brokerage. He took time out to co-found an Internet venture capital start-up in 2000, before returning to investment banking in 2002. Stuart has a honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and Masters degree in Finance from the London Business School.

	Theodoros Tsagaris Senior Strategist GSA Capital Theodoros is a Senior Strategist at GSA Capital, responsible for research and deployment of systematic futures trading strategies. Prior to this role, he worked 4 years on the modelling side of Bluetrend Fund initiative of Bluecrest Capital. He has over 7 years of experience developing statistical arbitrage strategies, including trend following and relative value strategies across various time frames and asset classes. He has co-authored a number of articles from machine learning and adaptive filtering to financial mathematics. He is known for his research in online asset allocation techniques and regularly speaks about his latest developments at conferences. Theodoros holds an MSc in Statistics from UCL and conducted his PhD research at Imperial College.

	Mark Holt, Head of Systematic Implementation, BlueCrest Capital Mark Holt is Head of Implementation for the systematic trading group at Bluecrest Capital Management Ltd. He has spent the last 15 years automating trading within and between major financial institutions. Joined Bluecrest after 5 years at UBS where he was responsible for the architecture and development of their European algorithmic trading platform. Before that he spent 7 years at Morgan Stanley and was involved in the development of their global electronic trading platform as well as the implementation of a number of automated trading strategies for cash and derivatives markets. After qualifying as a production engineer he obtained a Masters researching the application of the innovation process by individuals and companies. This research has formed the basis of his subsequent career.

	Lilia Severina Proximity Hosting Director Interxion Lilia Severina is Proximity Hosting Director at Interxion and spearheads the development of Interxion Financial Hubs across 11 European countries. Interxion proximity hubs allow financial services firms to colocate their trading platforms in close proximity to the financial markets and facilitate high frequency and low latency trading. Lilia has over 10 years experience in technology sector, having worked as an analyst at Gartner, product manager at France Telecom and Account Manager at Verizon Business. Lilia is qualified and experienced as equities and futures day trader. Her technical, business and direct trading experience allows Lilia to closely tailor Interxion’s solutions to its clients’ requirements. Lilia is currently working on Masters in Finance at Westminster University of London. She has studied linguistics, business, philosophy and psychoanalysis at London School of Economics and Donetsk University.

	Rafael Molinero CEO & Founder, Molinero Capital Management LPP Rafael Molinero is the CEO and Founder of Molinero Capital Management, a quantitative CTA based in London. Rafael has more than 10 years of experience in the hedge fund and financial industry. He was previously a Proprietary Portfolio Manager as well as the Risk Manager for five years at Rotella Capital Management, a CTA with up to $1.5 billion under management. He traded $15 million of proprietary capital using quantitative models he developed. He also managed a team of researchers as well as created the Risk Department. Prior to his role at Rotella, he launched the Structured Products & Alternative Asset Management Group at Newedge and designed hedge funds structured products for clients. He was also in charge of managing one of the Fund of Funds portfolio. Rafael Molinero holds an MBA with High Honors (top 1%) from the University of Chicago and has a Masters in Applied Mathematics from ENSIMAG, one of France’s top universities.

	Antonio Reyes Miras Managing Director J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd. Antonio Reyes is the global head of Electronic Trading Products for J.P. Morgan’s Prime Services business, which includes Prime Brokerage, Futures & Options and OTC Clearing and Broker Dealer Services. In this role Antonio is responsible for the firm's client-facing electronic trading platforms, third party EMS connectivity, algorithmic trading products, client and exchange connectivity and the group’s High Frequency Trading Platform. Antonio joined J.P. Morgan in July 1999 and has held various eTrading roles prior to accepting his current position in October 2009. Previous to J.P. Morgan, Antonio held junior positions at Gesmosa Brokers and Banco Central Hispano, both in Madrid. Antonio has an MSc in International Securities, Investments and Banking (ICMA Centre, Reading), an MSc in Financial Markets (INESE, Madrid) and a BSc (Hons) in Business Administration (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid).

	Christopher D. Clack, Director of Financial Computing, UCL CEO, The Centre for Financial Computing Christopher D. Clack is Director of Financial Computing at UCL. He founded UCL's Virtual Trading Floor and MSc in Financial Computing, and has secured funds exceeding 4 million pounds in the last three years. He is Head of Financial Computing and Quantitative Finance research at UCL and has recently been awarded the Doctor of Science (ScD) by the University of Cambridge (their highest award for science). He is CEO and Founding Principal of the Centre for Financial Computing and Director of the new Financial Services Knowledge Transfer Network. Christopher regularly chairs and presents at both industry and academic international conferences. He is an expert on Intelligent Systems and their application in Finance, with particular interest in genetic computation and agent-based modelling. He has 20 years experience as a consultant to blue-chip clients such as Accenture, Clearstream, CrestCo, LloydsTSB, Morgan Stanley and Reuters, at all levels of Investment Banking Technology from payment and settlement systems to non-linear factor models for portfolio optimisation.

	John Lowrey Chief Executive Officer Chi-X Global John Lowrey is Chief Executive Officer of Chi-X Global. Mr. Lowrey was previously a Managing Director of Nomura International plc, where he had global responsibility for electronic trading and liquidity strategy. Prior to Nomura, Mr. Lowrey served as Lehman Brothers’ Head of Electronic Trading in Europe, as well as Global co-head of Prime Services Product Management and Quantitative Prime Services – which provided services to high frequency trading firms. He joined Lehman in 2002. After starting his career in the early 1980’s with Goldman Sachs, where he ran equities trading in London for four years, he then was a co-founding partner of Weiss International Management, a global hedge fund based in the United States, and managed this and a successor hedge fund business for over 10 years. A graduate of Georgetown University, Mr. Lowrey is married with four children, and is based in London.

	Neil Puri CEO Statistical Research Laboratory (SRL) Neil co-founded SRL in January 2007 as a joint venture with Man Group Plc, whose initial activities were as a Hedge fund Manager with specialization in systematic trading & Statistical Arbitrage, developing alpha trading strategies and industrial front, middle and back-office technology infrastructure. Previously he was at Millennium Capital Partners where he was Portfolio Manager with an investment mandate for the European Equity Long / Short strategy. At Merrill Lynch (2002-2006) Neil was one of the founding members of the equity strategy desk which grew from 3 to 97 strong by his departure. Also at Merrill Lynch, Neil coordinated the industrial scale build-out of the European business which included managing and trading all Statistical and Quantitative strategies and wrote the business plan & helped set up ML's first European Equity Arbitrage desk which drove ML's Market share in deal stocks to top three across all exchanges in Europe. Neil has Trader Registration on all major Euro-Stock and Futures Exchanges and is a member of the Institute of Investment Management and Research. Neil holds a First Class Honours degree in Mathematics & Actuarial studies and obtained an MSc in Applied Statistics and an MBA (with concentration in Finance) from the University of Oxford.

	Timothy Binning Policy Officer Securities Markets,EU Commission Tim Binning is a policy officer in Unit G3 "Securities Markets", Directorate for Internal Markets and Services, European Commission. He is on secondment to the Commission from the UK Financial Services Authority where he is a lawyer and manager in the General Counsel's Division and has advised on a wide variety of market and intermediary issues and also on the implementation of directives such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the Market Abuse Directive and the Prospectus Directive. Before joining the FSA, he worked in the financial services area in Melbourne, Australia and also as a prosecutor and legislative draftsman in Perth, Western Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Jurisprudence from the University of Western Australia.

	Walter Hendriks Managing Director ABR Financial Walters's background and specialities include:15 years Financial Market experience (sell side) Algorithimic/Quantified Trading Strategies Risk Management Equity Derivatives (Europe & N-America) Financial Services Act (MiFID & Market Abuse Directive) in general well in check with all that concerns Legal & Compliance Asset Management (co-Author of the ‘2007 European Asset Management Report published by Capgemini Global Financial Services) Impact on the Financial Markets environment from regulatory influences and Multilateral Trading Facilities (several publications) IT (trading infrastructure and networking requirements)