Brad Bailey, Senior Analyst, Aite Group Brad Bailey is a senior analyst at Aite Group, LLC, specializing in institutional securities and investments. Mr. Bailey began his Wall Street career covering the European credit markets. He moved into institutional sales trading, where he covered buy side clients on the European futures and options exchanges. He continued sales trading at Salomon Smith Barney, covering hedge funds and proprietary bank trading desks on the US and European markets. Then at Garban, he helped start their credit derivative sales desk. Most recently he developed and ran a short-term long/short equity trading strategy for six years. Mr. Bailey earned a MS from the University of Colorado and a BS in engineering from Rutgers University.
	Philippe Bibi, Senior Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer, Putnam Investments Mr. Bibi joined Putnam in 2001 as Senior Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for all aspects of technology functions at Putnam Investments. He is a member of the Putnam Investments Executive Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Advisory Council. Philippe has over 22 years of combined experience in energy commodities and financial services technology. Before joining Putnam, he held senior executive roles at Enron Corporation including President and Chief Executive Officer, Enron Networks in 2001, Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer from 1998-2001 and Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Wholesale Merchant Unit from 1995-1998. Prior to Enron, Mr. Bibi was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers. He has also held executive positions at Bankers Trust Company and James Capel Bankers both located in London. Mr. Bibi has a Masters of Science degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science as well as a Bachelor of Science degree from Brunel University in London.
	Kevin Chapman, Managing Director and Head of Trading, Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management Kevin Chapman oversees the firm's equity trading operations. As head trader, he has responsibility for advising portfolio managers and analysts on all market information relevant to their holdings. He joined the firm's International trading team in 1998 and has played a key role in non-U.S. trading activities, including managing the firm's trading offices in Amsterdam. Prior to joining the firm, he was an international equity trader with Strong Capital Management, Inc. Kevin earned his M.S. in management-finance analysis and his B.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has sixteen years of investment industry experience.
	Floyd Coleman, Co-Head Trader, AXA Rosenberg Floyd joined AXA Rosenberg as a Trader in 1988 and has been Head Trader since 1999. Prior to joining AXA Rosenberg, Floyd was an Associate at Citicorp Investment Bank in New York, working with the sales and trading teams. From 1982 to 1986, he was a Systems Engineer at New York Telephone. He earned a B.S. from the Northwestern University, an M.S. from Polytechnic Institute in New York and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Floyd has worked in various aspects of AXA Rosenberg including Marketing, Client Service, Portfolio Management and Programming. He currently serves on the advisory panel for a number of trading organizations including Liquidnet, NASDAQ ITAC , ITG's Posit and Pipeline.
	Steve Davenport, Vice President and Head of Equity Risk Management, Wilmington Trust Investment Management Group Steve Davenport is Vice President and Head of Equity Risk Management for Wilmington Trust Investment Management group, the investment management arm of Wilmington Trust's Wealth Advisory organization. He is responsible for developing risk-managed investment strategies for high-net-worth clients. Steve has a strong background in quantitative investment analysis, and a sophisticated approach to asset allocation and the use of derivatives. Prior to Wilmington, he served as Senior Investment Advisor for Columbia Management Investment Advisors. Prior to that, he was a Principal at State Street Global Advisors. Steve earned a Bachelors degree in Mathematics/Computer Science from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. He also earned a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University in New York and a Masters in Finance from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Steve holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation." He is based in our Atlanta office.
	David Easthope, Senior Analyst, Celent David Easthope is a senior analyst in Celent's securities and investments practice and is based in the firm's Boston office. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and member of the Boston Security Analysts Society. Mr. Easthope's expertise lies in securities trading and post-trade systems, including straight-through-processing systems, execution management systems, and corporate actions processing. He also covers emerging trading topics such as commission practices and algorithmic trading. He is the author of Celent's Corporate Actions Automation vendor report and has written widely on straight-through processing issues for broker-dealers. He has also co-written a report with Octavio Marenzi on the impact of Reg NMS on ECNs. His recent consulting work involves advising CIOs and IT planning teams on issues ranging from electronic trading and the effect on post-trade systems to spending trends among ECNs. Mr. Easthope has been widely quoted in the press, including the Financial Times (FT Mandate), Reuters, CNN Money, and CNBC. He has been a presenter at industry conferences in the US and Canada, including those sponsored by Financial Markets World, the Securities Operations Forum, and the UBS Unbundling Conference in Hong Kong. He presented at Omgeo's 2005 STP Partners Conference in New York and SmartStream's Annual User Conference in Boston. Before joining Celent, Mr. Easthope was a strategy consultant at Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton and Graves, an institutional broker-dealer. In this role he led senior management-level strategic projects, including competitive positioning, development of a strategic business plan, and customer profiling. Before joining Detwiler, Mr. Easthope was an associate financial analyst at Friedman Billings, Ramsey Group, where he researched financial technology firms for investment opportunities. He has also served as a senior equity research associate at Raymond James & Associates covering the financial technology sector. Mr. Easthope received his MBA and BA from Vanderbilt University. He is fluent in English and proficient in Spanish.
	Rick Eng, COO, Legg Mason Mr. Eng works as COO of Legg Mason Capital Management (LMCM), one of America's leading equity managers. Legg Mason manages over $70 billion for clients around the globe through separately managed accounts, sub-advised funds, and Legg Mason sponsored mutual funds.
	Brian Fagen, Managing Director and Head of Program Trading and Electronic Trading Sales, Lehman Brothers Brian Fagen joined Lehman Brothers, the global investment bank, on June 13th, 2006, as Managing Director & Head of Electronic Sales. In this position, Mr. Fagen is responsible for leading the Firm's efforts in the electronic brokerage business. He works closely with sales product managers to deliver a platform to the Firm's clients worldwide. Additionally, Mr. Fagen is also the Head of Program Trading Sales. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Fagen spent nineteen years at Morgan Stanley where he was most recently head of Electronic Trading and Portfolio Trading Sales. He held several senior roles at Morgan Stanley, including head of Program Trading and Sales, head of Equity Futures and head of Money Manager Derivative Sales. Mr. Fagen received his B.S in accounting from Rutgers University. He serves on the Firm's Equities Management Committee and its Equities Global Sales Management Committee.
	Rob Hegarty, Managing Director, Securities and Investments, TowerGroup Rob Hegarty is managing director of TowerGroup Securities & Investments Group, the umbrella for three practice areas: Securities & Capital Markets, Investment Management, and Retail Brokerage & Investing. Rob's group focuses on technology trends and strategies in the brokerage, capital markets, investing, and asset management industries. Rob has over 20 years of experience in the financial services technology industry. Before joining TowerGroup in 1999, he was vice president of trading systems at Putnam Investments in Boston. Prior to Putnam, he was with Fidelity Investments in Boston for eight years. As vice president of technology of the institutional broker-dealer arm of Fidelity Investments, Fidelity Capital Markets, he had overall responsibility for technology for this $300 million company. His responsibilities included strategic technology planning, business analysis, project management, trading floor support, market data, and telecommunications. He also had overall technology responsibility for building FCM's 230-position trading floor as well as managing the technology integration for acquisitions FCM was undertaking. Earlier he held positions in product development for electronic trading and in technology consulting to the many internal companies at Fidelity. Previously, he was division vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York and was with the IT management consulting division of Coopers & Lybrand's Boston office. Rob holds an M.B.A. with a finance/marketing concentration from Babson College and a B.S. in computer science from North Adams State College. He is also NASD Series 7 and 63 registered.
	Robert Iati Partner & Director of Research, TABB Group Bob Iati joined TABB Group in December 2004 as a partner in charge of research after spending seven years at TowerGroup, where he was the research director of its Securities & Capital Markets practice. With nearly 20 years of experience in capital markets technology, covering areas of securities operations training, planning and development, and IT strategy and implementation, he has authored and interpreted studies analyzing the impact of changing market structures on global financial markets, interpreted and presented surveys of the futures industry, and examined the critical processing issues faced by brokerage institutions. Bob has authored several of TABB Group's key recent studies, including "Global Equity Trading: The Buy-Side Perspective on Advanced Execution"", "Enterprise Data Management: Is This the Right Time for Outsourcing?" and "DMA: Transitioning from Aggregation to Execution Platform". He held senior systems development positions at Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank Securities. At Lehman Brothers, he managed the implementation of automated trading and clearance systems and led a detailed analysis of the company's global trading systems. At Deutsche Bank, he managed technology for global settlements and stock lending operations, with responsibility for trading-system support for branches in over 20 countries. A frequent presenter at industry forums, he has appeared on ROBTv, CNN and CNBC television and been quoted regularly in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Financial Times and The New York Times, as well as brokerage-industry trade media, including The Trade, Automated Trading, Traders, Wall Street & Technology, Waters and Securities Industry News. He holds an M.B.A. in finance and information systems from Rutgers Graduate School of Management and a B.A. in economics from Rutgers University. He also served on the faculty of the New York Institute of Finance and the Securities Operations Forum and taught at New York University.
	Steven Joachim Executive Vice President, Transparency Services, FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Steven Joachim is the Executive Vice President of Transparency Services at FINRA. His responsibilities include the Alternative Display Facility, FINRA's listed equity quote and trade reporting vehicle, the Trade Reporting Facilities, FINRA's joint ventures with Nasdaq and other Exchanges for printing listed equity trades, the Over The Counter Equity transparency facilities, including OTC BB and TRACE, the FINRA facility for reporting corporate bond trades. Prior to his arrival at the FINRA, Mr. Joachim was the Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager for Plural from 1997 to 2001. Plural was a custom interactive software development and strategy firm and is now owned by Dell Professional Services. In 1983, he began a nearly 15-year stint with Merrill Lynch. During his career at Merrill Lynch he served as head of Institutional Marketing, First Vice President, Business Architect for Capital Markets and Chief Technology Officer for Global Equity Markets, Director, Floor Brokerage Services and Business Manager, Global Equity Trading. Throughout his career at Merrill, he has managed operations in Asia, Europe and the U.S. From 1981 to 1983, Mr. Joachim worked for Banker Trust Company as Vice President, Area Consultant for Lending and Money Transfer Operations. He also served as a Managing Consultant with Cresap McCormick and Paget, Inc. Mr. Joachim has served as a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Board of Governors, Board of Directors for Merrill Lynch Specialists, Inc. and Board of Directors for Wilco, Inc. He has also been a member of the Nasdaq Industry Advisory Committee and the American Stock Exchange Upstairs Member Advisory Committee. Mr. Joachim has an MA in Political Science from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, and an MS with distinction in Public Management and a BS in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
	Bryan Kievit Head Trader, Accipiter Capital Management Kievit began his career in financial services as a listed block trader for Gerard Klauer Mattison, a listed block trading firm. From there he joined Circle T, a New York City-based hedge fund, where he was a trader and assistant to the general partner, Seth Tobias. He also ran his own portfolio during his last year at Circle T. Subsequent to Circle T, he joined SAC Capital, where he traded U.S. telecom and media and European equities. He is now head trader at New York City hedge fund Accipiter Capital Management.
	Kerry Massaro Editor in Chief, Advanced Trading Kerry has covered Wall Street for over ten years. She began her career covering the real estate market while working for Institutional Investor. She went on to cover back-office operations and technology, while managing editor of Operations Management, and corporate finance, while managing editor of Corporate Financing Week, Institutional Investor's flagship breaking news weekly. The last seven years of her career was as Editor in Chief of Wall Street & Technology, where, in addition to revamping the magazine, she helped launch a successful event business and co-founded Advanced Trading. While editor of Advanced Trading she co-launched the Buy Side Trading Summit, an elite event for head traders and technology execs on the buy side and Advancedtrading.com, a web site that offers a multitude of information and tools to the buy side.
	Mary McDermott-Holland, Senior Vice President, Franklin Portfolio Associates Ms. McDermott-Holland is Senior Vice President of Trading at Franklin Portfolio Associates (a Mellon Financial Company) in Boston, Massachusetts. Mary is Past Chairman of the Security Traders Association (STA). She has also served STA as Co-Chair of the Trading Issues Committee, as Co-Chair of the Institutional Committee, as Chairman of the Conference Committee, Technology Committee and Economic Education Committee. Mary is a former member of NASDAQ's Institutional Traders Advisory Council having been the founding Chairman of the group from 1998-2001 and then a committee member thorough 2003. Mary also serves on the Board of the Boston Stock Exchange (since 2001) and on both the Regulatory Oversight Committee and Fees Committee of the BSE Board. She has served on the New York Stock Exchange Institutional Traders Advisory Committee and on NYSE's Allocation Committee. Mary was a Co-Chair of NASDAQ's Quality of Markets Committee and is a member of Trader Forum's Advisory Committee, a member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals, and a member of the Investment Company Institute's Equity Markets Advisory Committee. Mary served as a member of the Boston Security Traders Association board for 16 years, 11 as Treasurer and as President of that organization in 1993 and serves on Fordham University's Business Advisory Council.
	Cristina McEachern, Executive Editor, Advanced Trading Cristina McEachern began her career at Wall Street & Technology where she covered market data and risk management for more than three years. After leaving to assume a position in internal communications at JPMorgan Chase followed by a stint at CMP's VARBusiness Magazine, she returns to the financial technology arena with Advanced Trading. As Executive Editor, she will cover algorithmic trading, data & infrastructure and electronic marketplaces for the publication.
	Jason McLean, Head Trader, Iridian Asset Management JASON B. McLEAN, Vice President and Director of Trading, is responsible for equity trading for both large- and mid-capitalization value equity portfolios, as well as hedge fund products. Prior to joining Iridian in December 2004, he previously worked six years as an equity trader, as well as almost three years in financial services at AIM Investments. Mr. McLean holds a B.S. in Economics from Texas A&M University (1992).
	Greg MacSweeney, Editor-in-Chief, Wall Street & Technology Greg MacSweeney has covered technology for the past nine years, mostly in financial services. A frequent moderator and speaker at industry events, Mr. MacSweeney is currently editor-in-Chief of Wall Street & Technology Magazine, a CMP Media publication. Prior to joining Wall Street & Technology magazine, Mr. MacSweeney also worked for Insurance & Technology Magazine and Bank Systems & Technology Magazine, both CMP publications. In addition, Mr. MacSweeney covered technology for buy-side institutional investment organizations at Global Investment Technology, a biweekly news magazine. During his career Mr. MacSweeney also covered automation technology and enterprise applications for the manufacturing industry while he was managing editor for Managing Automation Magazine, a Thomas Publishing Co. publication.
	Timothy M. Olsen, Sr. Vice President/Head Trader, ICM Asset Management, Inc. Tim Olsen is Senior Vice President and Head Equity Trader with ICM Asset Management. His nearly two decades of industry experience include his trading experience with ICM since 1998 and prior to that as an account executive with Jefferies & Company for nearly 10 years. As a leader at ICM he co-manages the Investment Services Team which includes Operations, Client Services, Corporate Communications and Trading. In addition, he is part of the firm's senior management team, providing solutions while executing ICM's strategic and tactical decisions. Tim is a member of the Pacific Northwest Securities Traders Association.
	Richard A. Rosenblatt CEO, Rosenblatt Securities Richard Rosenblatt is the CEO of Rosenblatt Securities, an agency-only institutional equities execution firm founded in 1979. The firm represents customers in the listed and over-the-counter markets through its trading desk, automated trading systems, and via direct access to the NYSE floor. Mr. Rosenblatt has thirty-seven years of Wall Street experience, is an Executive Governor of the NYSE and has served as an official of the Exchange in various capacities for nearly 20 years. He also serves on a number of NYSE committees, including the NYSE Hearing Board, NYSE Point of Sale Committee, Broker Technology Committee, and the eBroker Design Committee. Mr. Rosenblatt is also the Founder and first Chairman of the Board of the NYSE Floor Members Emergency Fund and the Founder and first President of the Organization of Independent Floor Brokers. In addition to his professional associations, Mr. Rosenblatt is very involved in a number of charities, including positions as Founder and President of the Floor Members Outreach Program, Founder and Director of the NYSE Fallen Heroes Fund, Director of the NYSE Foundation, and Trustee Emeritus of Mercy College.
	Ivy Schmerken Editor-at-Large, Advanced Trading Ivy Schmerken is Editor at Large of Advanced Trading and Wall Street &Technology Magazine. Ivy currently covers electronic trading and exchanges, market data and has written extensively about algorithmic trading. She also writes ibig picturei cover and feature stories on market-structure and topics such as compliance with Reg NMS. In 2006, Ivy won a regional award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) for her column At the Close in Advanced Trading. Ivy was Editor-in-Chief of WST from 1993 through the end of 2000 and named Editorial Director in 1999. Ivy joined WS&T in 1985 as an associate editor when the publication was called Wall Street Computer Review. Over the past 19 years, Ivy has reported on and authored countless numbers of articles on the automation of the securities and investment industries, spanning such topics as direct-access and algorithmic trading, order management systems, market-data delivery, fixed income systems, wealth management technology, offshore outsourcing, wireless technology and compliance. Ivy was also the founding editor of Financial Trader, a monthly magazine for the institutional trading community. Ivy speaks at industry conferences and has been interviewed by CNN and TechTV. Previously, Ivy was a reporter at Pensions & Investments covering institutional investing. She has also freelanced for publications including Investment Dealers' Digest, The Daily News and American Banker. She graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., majoring in English and American literature.
	Robert Shapiro, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Investment Management Robert Shapiro is Executive Director of trading and execution analysis at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM). Shapiro reports directly to Ray Tierney, Global Head of equity trading. Rob works closely with Tierney on matters that help optimize MSIM's global trading infrastructure, such as trade analytics, technology, execution strategy, relationship development and transaction measurement. Shapiro's mandate is to develop MSIM's global trading best practices and procedures, an integral component of Tierney's strategic initiative to revamp MSIM's global trading platform. Shapiro joined MSIM from Abel Noser, where he served as SVP of advanced trading strategies. Prior to that, Rob was head trader at Iridian Asset Management from 1999-2004.
	Joan Stack, Trading Manager, Ohio Public Employees Retirement System Education: BA Economics, Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA and MBA Finance, Fordham University NY, NY Experience: 1998-2002 SVP, Head of Equity Trading ING Funds, NY NY. Managed desk of 8 traders responsible for trading domestic and international equities, convertible bonds, and WRAP business for both institutional and mutual fund accounts. Served on Brokerage and Best practices committees. 1996-1998 Senior Equity Trader Strong Funds Milwaukee, WI. Sole trader for $1B pool small/mid cap equities of both growth and value styles. 1978-1996 Vice President Equity Trading Bankers Trust Co. NY, NY. Joined BT as portfolio assistant in Institutional Equities. Joined Bond Desk in 1979 as trader for Personal Trust Department, and in 1980 moved to Equity desk. Promoted 3 times; Desk of 11 traded all equity and derivative vehicles for all Institutional, Personal Trust and Mutual Fund accounts, both active and structured, managed by the Bank. Other: Member National Organization of Investment Professionals and President, Mount Holyoke Club of Central Ohio.
	Victor P. Torchia, Jr., Senior Vice President - Head of International Equity Trading, ING Investment Management Americas Victor Torchia has over 25 years as a Global Equity Trader. His Investment career spans 25 plus years of trading & managing experience in a wide array of securities including International & Domestic Large-, Mid- and small-cap stocks. Mr. Torchia joined the organization pre-merger in July 1993. It was previously known as Lexington Management Corporation. Before 1993, he had been with Wellington Management, Axe-Houghton Management, Nomura Securities & Asiel & Co. His positions spanned from being a Senior Global Trader to U.S. Domestic Trader including Large, Mid & small-cap stocks. The job entails interfacing with individuals of various levels from the CIO and Portfolio Managers, to outside consultants, advisors and clients. Over his career, he has supervised from 2 to 10 people, traveled to branch offices to discuss products and make presentations.
	Lisa Utasi, Senior Equity Trader, Clearbridge Advisors Lisa Utasi is a Director and Senior Equity Trader at ClearBridge Advisors, a unit of the global asset management firm Legg Mason Inc. ClearBridge Advisors is a new asset management company introduced by Legg Mason, Inc. in early 2006, several months after Legg Mason acquired Citigroup Asset Management. Lisa joined ClearBridge Advisors through a predecessor in 1986. Lisa is currently the Chairman of the Security Traders Association. Over the past 3 years Lisa has served as the Chair or Co-Chair of the Trading Issues, Affiliate Liaison and Institutional Committees. In 2004, Lisa was elected to become the President of the Security Traders Association of NY (STANY). STANY represents the shared interests of over 1,500 individual traders from over 250 firms and is the largest affiliate of the STA. On April 19, 2004, while in office, Lisa was the first STANY President to open the NYSE on behalf of the organization and as an honor to its members. Lisa serves on the NASDAQ Quality of Markets Committee. She also participates as a member of the NYSE Institutional Traders Advisory Committee. Lisa was inducted into the National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP) in 2004. Lisa is a member of Inst. Investor's Trader's Forum and the Investment Company Institute's Equity Markets Committee. She is a Past Chairperson of the Institutional Traders Advisory Committee. Lisa holds a B.A. in Political Science and a B.B.A. in Finance from Southern Methodist University. Lisa is extremely active in the NYC charity community. Having co-chaired MDA's Wings Over Wall Street Fund Raising Committee for the past two years, Lisa is the 2007 Michael P. Beier Award recipient for her dedication to raising awareness and funding in the fight against ALS. She is a member of the Eden Institute and St. Christopher-Ottilie Charity Golf Committees. Lisa has completed nine marathons including two of which she dedicated to fundraising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training.

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