Speaker Biographies

Oliver Albers, Senior Managing Director, Global Data Products, THE NASDAQ OMX GROUP
Oliver Albers is Head of Global Sales and Account Management for NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products. The Global Data Products team is focused on creating innovative real-time and historical data products that provide unsurpassed market transparency to institutional, retail and individual investors. Mr. Albers and his team are responsible for providing value-added consultative services to all NASDAQ OMX market data vendors and for managing relationships with data subscribers. Prior to this role, Mr. Albers held other sales and product management positions at NASDAQ OMX and was instrumental in the launch and implementation of many new products including the NASDAQ Closing Cross, NASDAQ TotalView, Velocity and Forces, Market Pathfinders, Market Replay and ModelView.
Mr. Albers holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from Ohio University and a Masters in Business Administration from The George Washington University.

Betsy Anderson, Head of Centralised Dealing, IGNIS ASSET MANAGEMENT
Investment Experience: 19 years
Betsy graduated in Law in 1987. She joined Scottish Widows Life Assurance Company, in Edinburgh, in the Investment Accounting department. In 1989 she joined Baillie Gifford Investment Managers, in their back office, moving into a dealing role as the centralised dealing desk developed. Betsy's primary responsibility was in Asia and Japan, moving through all regions, globally, over an 8 year period. Betsy left Baillie Gifford in 1997 to trade Asia and Latin America at Martin Currie Investment Managers, being promoted to Head of Dealing in 1998. Betsy joined Ignis Asset Management in October 1999 to set up a Centralised Dealing Desk.

Toby Bayliss, Head of Portfolio and Algorithmic Trading, Europe, SANFORD C. BERNSTEIN
Toby Bayliss is Head of Sanford C. Bernstein's Algorithmic and Portfolio Trading Desk in Europe. Toby began his financial career as a graduate at Nomura London in 1995, and spent 4 years working alongside the Equity Sales force as a Quantitative Analyst. Joining Citigroup in 1999 to be a founding member of the Global Portfolio Trading Strategies Team, Toby worked on all aspects of portfolio construction, risk, execution analysis and trading strategies. In 2002 Toby moved internally to the Alternative Executions Sales team, responsible for sales and sales trading of Portfolio Trading, Algorithmic Trading, DMA and Trading Strategies. In 2007 Toby became head of Citigroup's Electronic Execution Sales team in Europe before assuming his current role at Sanford C. Bernstein in 2008. Toby received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Mathematics from Bristol University and a Master of Engineering in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University.

Scott Bradley, Head of Sales EMEA, Electronic Client Solutions, JPMORGAN
Scott Bradley is Head of Electronic Trading Sales, EMEA at J.P. Morgan. Previously, he was a Managing Director - International Algorithmic Trading at Bear Sterns in London after having joined from Goldman Sachs where he also worked in Electronic & Algorithmic trading roles. He began his career with ITG as a Pan-European Sales Trader specialising in Program trading and portfolio execution cost analysis.
Scott holds an honours degree in Finance from the University of Manchester School of Accounting & Finance and is a member of the FPL EMEA Regional Committee.

Takis Christias, Director, Electronic Execution Sales and Analytics, CITI
Takis Christias is currently responsible for developing algorithmic post-trade analytics, and for Electronic Execution Sales in Greece and Cyprus at Citi. Over his professional career, he has held various positions with bulge-bracket financial firms and smaller hedge funds both in New York and London. These include developing a trading system for interest-rate derivatives, developing trading strategies for equity options, managing and trading index-enhanced international equity portfolios, and quantitative work for program trading.
Takis holds M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics. He also holds an MBA, and he is a CFA charterholder.

Gangadhar Darbha, Product Manager, Algorithmic Trading, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
Dr. Gangadhar Darbha holds a PhD (Economics, IGIDR) and Post-Doc (Finance, Wharton School). He has earlier worked in National Stock Exchange, Mumbai, University of Pretoria, Indian School of Business, Morgan Stanley, London and ABN Amro, London. Currently he is employed with the Royal Bank of Scotland, as Product Manager, Algorithmic Trading for Rates, Credit and FX areas. His responsibilities include development of pricing , hedging and optimal execution algorithms for FI and FX traders, and coordinate the development of trading systems based on the algorithms.

Alex Foster, Head of UK Sales, Global Execution Services, BNP PARIBAS
Alex joined the Equities & Derivatives division of BNP Paribas in 2006 with a specific remit to build and run the Execution and International Prime Brokerage (EIPB) product line within the UK and Europe. EIPB offers world wide cash equity and listed derivatives execution capabilities ranging from vanilla trading, Direct Market Access, Algorithmic and Global portfolio trading & commission management. More recently the team has developed BNP Paribas' smart order routing technology to access liquidity across multiple trading venues. Previously Alex worked as a sales trader initially at Paribas then ING Barings & latterly at Macquarie where she was Divisional Director for Pan Asian sales trading for UK & Europe.

Simon Hazlitt, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, MAJEDIE ASSET MANAGEMENT
In 2003, Simon became the Client Director of Majedie Asset Management; founder/client relationship manager. Previously, in 2002, he was a Director of MLIM; IT Strategist for MLIM Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Alpha team client relationship manager responsible for 25 clients with assets of £0.9bn. In 1997, he joined Mercury Asset Management as Business Manager of Alpha team. In 1988, Simon joined the British Army, specialising in communications and airmobile infantry operations.

Lee Hodgkinson, Chief Executive Officer, SMARTPOOL TRADING
Lee Hodgkinson became CEO of SmartPool on 1 May 2009. Previously, he was CEO of SWX Europe and a Member of the Management Board of SIX Swiss Exchange, a position he held since December 2006. He was Director of Market Operations in the five years prior to this. Lee began his career in the Markets Division of the London Stock Exchange where he worked for nine years and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School.

Rishi Karir, Director AES Sales, CREDIT SUISSE
Rishi Karir is a Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking Division, based in London. He is Head of Advanced Execution Services (AES) UK hedge fund sales.
Prior to this role, Mr. Karir was a member of the AES sales team in London covering UK hedge funds and institutions as well as clients in the Middle East and South Africa. Mr. Karir joined Credit Suisse in 2006 from Bloomberg L.P. where he was a UK based salesman to a variety of clients from the buy and sell side.
Mr. Karir holds a B.S.c degree in Economics and Finance from Brunel University.

Gulamabbas Lakha, CEO and Chief Information Officer, PROVIDENTIA CAPITAL
Gulamabbas founded Providentia Capital in 2004 and built a team of experienced investment professionals to develop Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) investment techniques. The investment process he has created offers an original perspective on economics and returns from bond, equity, currency and commodity markets across the world. Gulamabbas’ approach innovatively integrates the art of GTAA based portfolio construction with the mathematics of asymmetry. In response to investor requests, he has also launched a specialist GTAA advisory service.
Prior to founding Providentia Capital, Gulamabbas practiced as a global strategist at Baring Asset Management in London, working in a team with global portfolios worth $3 billion, investing across all major currency, bond and equity markets. He had responsibilities for macroeconomics, econometric modelling and quantitative portfolio construction, as well as providing a global strategy perspective to managing a fund of hedge funds.
Gulamabbas graduated as a Windsor Fellow with a degree in Economics and Econometrics from Nottingham University, where he obtained a Distinction.

Stephane Loiseau, Managing Director, Head of Execution Services, SOCIETE GENERALE
Stephane Loiseau was named in July of 2008 as the Deputy Global Head of Execution Services, which comprises Global Program Trading, Electronic Services and Sales Trading.
Stephane began his career with Societe Generale in New York in 1996 as a trader on international equities. He then joined the Program Trading team in London for 3 years where he contributed to the creation of a global execution platform. Stephane returned to New York in 2000 as Head of the New York Program Trading desk, then Deputy Head of Global Program Trading, becoming Global Head of Program Trading in 2004.
In mid 2006, Electronic Services and Program Trading activities were brought together and Stephane became co-Head of Global Program Trading & Electronic Services.
In mid 2007, Single-stock Sales-trading was integrated into this activity as well in order to regroup all Equity Execution Services from Societe Generale under one umbrella.
In July 2008, Stephane relocated to London to become Deputy Global Head of Execution Services, as well as head of Execution for London. Stephane graduated from EM Lyon Business School.

Simon Maisey, Global Head of Rates e-Commerce, JPMORGAN
Mr. Maisey is responsible for the strategy, development, implementation and marketing of all electronic trading across JPMorgan's Global Rates business. Before this, in his 11 years at JPMorgan, he has held a variety of COO positions across Fixed Income and Currencies businesses within the firm. He has served on the boards of TradeWeb, SwapsWire and LiquidityHub and for several years as a founding member on the SwapClear Default Management Group for the London Clearing House.
Before joining JPMorgan Mr Maisey worked as a Civil Engineer for the consulting engineers Ove Arup and Partners. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford.

Tom Middleton, Head of European Algorithmic Trading, CITI
Tom Middleton has worked in Electronic Trading at Citigroup in London for seven years, and has held roles encompassing client execution, proprietary trading and automated market making. Since 2004, Tom has been Head of EMEA Algorithmic Trading Products. This role includes the design, development and delivery of all aspects of electronic execution for Citi's internal trading desks and its clients: with particular focus recently on internalization and development of optimal Smart Order Routing Strategies to deal with the changing trading landscape in Europe. Tom holds a PhD in Chemical Physics from Cambridge University.

Andrew Morgan, Head of Autobahn Equity Europe, DEUTSCHE BANK
Andrew Morgan is European Head of Autobahn Equity, Deutsche Bank’s electronic trading platform for equities. Andrew joined Deutsche Bank in 2004 from the Equities Division of Goldman Sachs. He began his career at PWC and is an ACA.

Lincoln Osunkoya, Account Director, STREAMBASE
Lincoln Osunkoya is an associate in the London capital markets team of StreamBase. He works with leading financial institutions, investment banks, broker-dealers and hedge funds advising on solutions for real-time risk, liquidity discovery, best execution and algorithmic-trading. Lincoln has over 20 years operations, consulting and management experience in deploying mission critical systems to a variety of capital markets and other industry sectors.

Patrik Ristner, Head of UK Sales, NEONET
Patrik Ristner is the Head of UK Sales for Neonet, a global agency brokerage firm and technology provider. Patrik comes from an equity trading background having started and managed the Hong Kong trading desk for Pan Capital, an international investment company, and previously he was Head of Trading at Swedish brokerage firm JP Nordiska, running the proprietary trading desk there. Patrik also has a background in trading technology, having started and managed the Chicago office of Orc Software, a trading technology provider.

Brian Schwieger, Head of EMEA Algorithmic Execution, MERRILL LYNCH
Brian Schwieger is head of EMEA Algorithmic Execution for Merrill Lynch, managing the Quantitative Engineering, Execution Desk and Execution Consulting associated with Merrill Lynch’s algorithmic product in Europe. In this capacity, he leverages 15 years of trading experience to help traders and clients understand and identify the algorithmic strategies and tactics which best suit their objectives. His previous trading experience spans Equity Portfolio, Equity Cash and Commodities (Oil & Gas). Brian joined Merrill Lynch in 2005.
Brian holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School and a BSc(Econ) from the London School of Economics.

Michael Seigne, Head of European Algorithmic Trading Sales, GOLDMAN SACHS
Michael is head of European Algorithmic Sales. Previously, he co-managed the European Program Trading business in London, where he worked since 2002. Michael joined oldman Sachs in 1994 as a foreign exchange trader in Hong Kong. He moved to the Equities Division in 1996 and worked in Hong Kong and Australia as an equities
sales trader until 2002. He was named managing director in 2007.
Prior to joining the firm, Michael was a civil engineer in Hong Kong.
He was educated in Ireland and England nd received a BA in Civil Engineering and Maths from Trinity College, Dublin.

Richard Semark, Managing Director, European Client Trading and Execution, UBS
Richard Semark joined UBS London in June 2004 as a Managing Director responsible for UK to UK Sales Trading. He previously worked at AXA Investment Managers and UBS Asset Management for 15 years. This experience meant that he was a key part of the UBS unbundling team responsible both for strategy formulation and marketing to clients.In 2007 Richard became COO for UBS Client Trading and Execution within European Equities with responsibility for Execution Client Relationships, strategy and marketing.

Michael Simmonds, Head of Liquid Markets’ Analytics, NOMURA INTERNATIONAL
Michael Simmonds heads the European Liquid Market Analytics team at Nomura. He has worked at Nomura (and formerly Lehman Brothers) since August 2003 starting as a quant studying Trading Analytics. He is the product manager for Nomura's market leading analytical suite, TradeSpex and is heavily involved in the development of Nomura's Electronic product. Michael holds a Bachelors and PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Edward Strauss, Head of Sales and Electronic Trading, BAADER BANK
Edward Strauss has been with Baader Bank for over 5 years, and has been responsible for setting up and building out Baader’s electronic agency trading business. He is an American that has been living in Germany for over 15 years, and has had a wide array of experiences in dealing with continental European banks and brokers. Prior to Baader, Edward worked for Knight Trading Group in sales and business development, as well as at HVB as a trader and sales trader.

Martin Toyer, CTO, NYLON CAPITAL
Martin Toyer is CTO of the global macro hedge fund Nylon Capital. In his role at Nylon, Martin has build numerous trading, execution and risk analytics to support extensive fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity trading strategies. Previous to joining Nylon in 2005, Martin ran a substantial risk and analytics technology group into Barclays Capital. Martin holds a Mathematics degree from Brasenose College, Oxford University.

Tim Wildenberg, Head of Direct Execution, Europe, UBS
Tim Wildenberg is the Managing Director running the Direct Execution business in Europe for UBS Investment Bank. He is responsible for the product development, marketing and day to day operations of UBS's award winning DMA and DSA (Direct Strategy Access) services. In previous roles Tim was a market maker in European Equities and one of the founding Director's of FIX Protocol Ltd.