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High Performance Computing for Wall Street

2014 SPEAKERS for Conference on High Performance Computing for Wall Street at the Roosevelt Hotel, 22nd September 2014

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While at the SEC since 2010, Mr. Ramsay led the staff’s response to numerous significant market events, its participation in global regulatory initiatives, the development of new analytical tools for equity market oversight, and the proposal for Regulation SCI. He also led SEC efforts to implement significant elements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, including the Volcker Rule and derivatives reform rules. From December 2012 to February 2014, Mr. Ramsay oversaw the Division of Trading and Markets, the group responsible for regulating broker-dealers and self-regulatory organizations, such as securities exchanges and FINRA. Brian Bulkowski, CTO & Founder Aerospike Brian is a founder of Aerospike, CTO & Product, networking whiz, innovator and high performance expert. ‘My family has a long and varied history in science and tech, so I wound up shipping code in high school. One of the great things about software is you can build something with it. You don’t need plywood or welding. Computers are an easy way to start creating stuff. My first taste of networking was in 1989. I knew there was a whole world out there waiting. A computer that’s not connected to a network is kind of dull.’ Brian became a Lead Engineer at Novell, and then Chief Architect of Cable Solutions at Liberate – where he built a high-performance, embedded networking stack, as well as the high scale broadcast server infrastructure. As Director of Performance at Aggregate Knowledge, Brian had direct experience with the scaling limitations of sharded MySQL systems. ‘It wasn’t hard to see that there was a huge need for a new distributed database, because they all sucked. Everyone was struggling with what was available. That led to the idea for Citrusleaf – which then became Aerospike.’ When he’s not busy creating stuff without plywood or a welding torch, Brian plays cello in a band called Rosincoven. He also writes about cuisine for the San Jose Metro. Jeffrey M Birnbaum, Founder & CEO 60East Technologies Jeffrey M. Birnbaum is CEO and co-founder of 60East Technologies, LLC, the company that is developing ‘AMPS' (Advanced Message Processing System). AMPS is a modern, high performance messaging platform designed for the most demanding environments where latency, throughput and scale are critical. The platform offers topic and content based pub/sub with integrated SQL-92 database and real-time aggregation capabilities. Previously, Mr. Birnbaum spent 20 years in the Financial Services industry, first at Morgan Stanley and then Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. At Morgan Stanley, where Mr. Birnbaum was employed from 1991 to 2006, he was Managing Director, Chief Technical Architect and Global Head of Enterprise Computing (2000 to 2006). At Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, where Mr. Birnbaum was employed from 2007 to 2012, Mr. Birnbaum was Managing Director, Chief Architect and Global Head of Architecture and Engineering (2007 to 2010). In this capacity he was responsible for the engineering and development of all core infrastructure encompassing Desktop, Server, Network, Storage, Market Data, and Database technologies. Throughout his career, Mr. Birnbaum has dedicated his talents to applying modern and emerging technical solutions to some of the most demanding computational and latency-sensitive areas of the business, particularly in the Electronic Trading arena. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Birnbaum worked as a systems engineer in the Aerospace Industry and the CIA. He holds a BS in Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara. Cory Isaacson, CEO, Chief Technology Officer CodeFutures Cory Isaacson is CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, maker of AgilData and dbShards. Cory has authored numerous articles in a variety of publications including JAXenter.com, Database Trends and Applications, and recently authored the book Software Pipelines and SOA (Addison Wesley). His latest book, Understanding Big Data Scalability (Prentice Hall) is soon to be released. Cory has more than twenty years experience with advanced software architectures, and has worked with many of the world’s brightest innovators in the field of high-performance computing. Cory has spoken at hundreds of public events and seminars, and assisting numerous organizations address the real-world challenges of Big Data performance and scalability -- effectively applying emerging technologies to a variety of fields including social networking, mobile applications, gaming and high volume transaction systems. In his prior position as president of Rogue Wave Software, he actively led the company back to a position of profitable growth, culminating in a successful acquisition by a leading private equity firm. Dino Vitale (invited), Director Morgan Stanley Quality Assurance & Production Management Phil Albinus, Editor Traders Magazine SourceMedia Olivier Baetz, COO NovaSparks Olivier Baetz joined NovaSparks in April 2011, as VP Sales and Operations for the North American region, bringing with him over ten years of experience selling and implementing low latency technology solutions for the financial industry. In 2000, Olivier was part of the original team at Radianz, the first global Extranet for the financial industry. At Radianz, Olivier successfully designed the solution for the original “proof of concept” customer which established the value of the Radianz community model. He also ran the North American Sales Engineering team for five years and was instrumental in the creation of ULTRA service which provides ultra-low latency exchange connectivity to electronic trading firms. In 2009 and 2010, Olivier built and led the global technical convergence project team to integrate the Radianz platform into the global BT Network. Olivier started his career in telecoms designing and selling managed network solutions for large multinational firms. Olivier holds a MS in Telecom Engineering from ENST Paris and an MBA from Wharton with a major in Finance. When he is not working, Olivier enjoys sailing, surfing, skiing and every good wine from around the world. Jeffrey Kutler, Editor-in-Chief GARP Risk Professional Jeffrey Kutler has worked more than 30 years as a financial journalist, with concentrations including banking and payments, corporate finance, capital markets and financial technology and operations. He has been editor-in-chief at the Global Association of Risk Professionals (www.garp.org), responsible for its Risk Professional magazine and online content covering the field of risk management, since December 2008. He was previously at Institutional Investor magazine, of which he remains a senior contributing editor and columnist. At II between 2000 and 2008, he served as assistant managing editor, focusing on banking and capital markets technology, as well as U.S. editor. He has also been editor of the weekly Securities Industry News and worked for about 20 years for the daily newspaper American Banker and some of its affiliates, rising to the position of executive editor. Paul Jameson, Sr Director, Global Financial Services Cisco Harvey Stein, Head of Credit Risk Modeling Bloomberg Harvey Stein is Head of Credit Risk Modeling at Bloomberg, responsible for Basel compliant regulatory risk models, default modeling, and specific risk and incremental risk charge calculations. Dr. Stein graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1982 with a Bachelor's degree in mathematics. After working at Bolt, Beranek and Newman for three years on developing and designing the precursor to the Internet, Dr. Stein went to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied arithmetical geometry while working at Wells Fargo Investment Advisors. He received his PhD in mathematics from Berkeley in 1991. Dr. Stein has worked at Bloomberg for the last nineteen years, building one of the top quantitative finance research and development groups in the industry, supplying derivative valuation models for interest rate derivatives, mortgage backed securities, foreign exchange, credit, equities, and commodities, and built Linux clusters to supply these valuations to Bloomberg's customers. Dr. Stein is well known in the industry, having published on mortgage backed security valuation, CVA calculations, interest rate modeling, equity derivative models, and other subjects. Dr. Stein built Bloomberg's business in the area of counterparty credit risk modeling and is currently focusing on default modeling and Basel risk models. Dave Malik, Sr Director, Solutions Architecture Cisco Dave Malik is a Senior Director of Solutions Architecture in Cisco's Advanced Services organization responsible for developing high performance architecture strategies for Financial Services firms. Dave's focus is in designing global Data Centers, supporting market data and trading floor applications, High Frequency Trading infrastructures, co-location designs, next-gen Exchange environments and virtualized platforms that enable cloud computing. Frank Greco, Director of Technology Kaazing Corporation Tyler Hannan, Director of Technical Marketing Basho Technologies Inc. Nick Ciarleglio, Distinguished Systems Engineer Arista Networks Ramakrishna Karedla, Performance Architect, HPC/Financial Services Intel Moiz Kohari (invited) Vice President - Advanced Platform Engineering London Stock Exchange Moiz Kohari currently serves as the Vice President of Advance Platforms Engineering for the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Mr Kohari's team is responsible for low-latency specific developments for the exchange platform (leveraged in London, Milan, Oslo and elsewhere), and advance research for post-trade components for clearing and settlement purposes. Prior to joining LSEG, Mr. Kohari served as the Chief Technology Officer and VP of Engineering for Novell, Inc. (NASD: NOVL), responsible for the Cloud Computing and Real-Time Computing initiatives. Mr. Kohari was also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mission Critical Linux Inc., a company that was a pioneer in introducing enterprise computing capabilities into the Linux operating system. Mr. Kohari received his BS in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology. Ed Turkel Manager, WW HPC Marketing Hewlett-Packard Dave Weber IBM Global Prog Exec Wall St Ctr for Excellence Dave Weber is the IBM Program Director, Global Financial Markets and Wall Street Center of Excellence. Dave is focused on server and low latency and high performance technologies. He created and has been leading the IBM Wall Street Center of Excellence in New York City since 2007 and has expanded the initiative globally. The Center has a particular focus on Financial Markets clients and their need for ultra low latency computing, with technologies spanning flash/solid state, hardware accelerators and acceleration techniques, network adapters and switches, as well as collaborating with partners to create and expand the ecosystem, and influence future IBM products. Dave also leads the IBM relationship with STAC®, the Securities Technology Analysis Center, which works with clients and vendors to create industry standard benchmarks for high-performance capital markets technologies. Dan Lynn Technical Strategist CodeFutures Dan Lynn is the Technology Strategist at CodeFutures Corporation, maker of AgilData and dbShards. Dan is an entrepreneur, technologist, teacher, and technical leader with 14 years of experience in the software industry. He was previously the founding CTO at FullContact, a contact management startup focusing on fuzzy match and record linkage problems. Dan is an accomplished speaker and is actively involved in the Colorado software community, serving as an organizer for the Denver Storm users group and the Boulder/Denver Big Data meetup group. He is currently writing a book on the Apache Storm real-time data processing engine. D. John Shakshober Sr Consulting Engineer Red Hat D. John Shakshober (Shak) is a Senior Consulting Engineer in Westford Ma working in the CTO office focusing on kernel, virtualization and Messaging/Realtime performance. For the past 10 years, Shak has worked with a team to ensure Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers the peak performance on benchmarks and real customer applications like highend databases, webserver, and FSI markets. Responsibilities include feedback to the core LINIX kernel, Server and IO design groups and partnering with OEMs and customers on key applications. John has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. Will Ochandarena Director of Product Management at MapR Will Ochandarena is Director of Product Management at MapR, responsible for user experience and cloud. Prior to MapR, Will spent some time in the SeaMicro group at AMD, responsible for networking and cloud strategy, and before that was a product manager for the Nexus family of data center switches at Cisco. Will has an engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and and MBA from Santa Clara University. Vamsi Chemitiganti Chief Architect Red Hat As a Chief Architect, Vamsi Chemitiganti is responsible for helping Red Hat customers achieve their key business transformation initiatives through open source architectures and technologies. He regularly advises a range of Fortune 100 companies in financial services, healthcare, retail and transportation verticals on such topics as cloud computing, big data, high performance computing and enterprise middleware. Trusted advisor to the top 20 banks, Chemitiganti has deep knowledge and experience in financial services IT, with specialties in capital markets, core banking, wealth management and IT operations. He is also a regular contributor to Wall Street & Technology. An expert in healthcare IT, Chemitiganti was previously software architect for Siemens Healthcare in Malvern, PA, leading teams that developed enterprise software for hospital systems, and holds three healthcare IT patents. Chemitiganti holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering and an MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is a regular speaker at industry events. David Rukshin Chief Technology Officer WorldQuant, LLC Nick Papadonis Sr Software Performance Engineer Oracle Nick Papadonis, is a senior software performance engineer based here in New York City. Nick's key responsibility is to improve performance, scalability and functionality of Oracle products at customer sites enabling continued customer satisfaction. These engineering improvements involve Solaris OS internals, device drivers, hardware configuration and product features. Nick interfaces directly with customer R&D teams and Oracle Engineering. Mike Beller CTO Tradeworx Mike Beller is the CTO of Tradeworx, Inc., and managing partner of it’s technology subsidiary, Thesys Technologies, LLC. He is responsible for the firm’s technology -- including low-latency electronic trading systems, big data analytics, and high performance networking systems. Mr. Beller has 25+ years’ experience in finance, telecom and information technology industries, with 15+ years’ experience in the financial industry. Prior to Tradeworx, he co-founded PenVision, a mobile field force automation company. Before this, he was a research engineer in the areas of wireless communications and cryptography at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore, now Telcordia Technolgies). Mr. Beller received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University ('86), and his MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University ('88). Mark Connolly Financial Services Head Tresata Mark Connolly is Financial Services Head for Tresata. Tresata is pioneering next-generation enterprise intelligence software that enables companies to monetize their existing and growing data assets. Tresata specializes in extracting customer intelligence that is inherently resident in financial data through its entity intelligence, marketing intelligence and risk intelligence offerings. Before joining Tresata, Mark Connolly has held senior executive positions at a number of leading global financial institutions. Most recently, Mark was Managing Director and Head of Banking Products for the Morgan Stanley Private Bank. At Morgan Stanley, Mark was responsible for all aspects of the mortgage, banking and fiduciary services businesses within their wealth management division. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2010, Mark served in a number of senior executive and product management roles at Citi and Bank of America. At Citi, Mark was Co-CEO and Chief Operating Officer of the US Private Bank and was responsible for lending, mortgage, banking and trust services activities associated with clients of the Citi Private Bank and Smith Barney. At Bank of America, Mark spent a number of years in Finance and Business Development with a focus on the Corporate and Investment Bank. Mark has an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors degree from the University of Notre Dame.

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///////////Speakers at the High Performance Computing Conference at the Roosevelt Hotl in New York on September 22, 2014 John Ramsay, Chief Market Policy & Regulatory Officer IEX Group Brian Bulkowski, CTO & Founder Aerospike Jeffrey M Birnbaum, Founder & CEO 60East Technologies Cory Isaacson, CEO, Chief Technology Officer CodeFutures Dino Vitale (invited), Director Morgan Stanley Quality Assurance & Production Management Phil Albinus, Editor Traders Magazine SourceMedia Olivier Baetz, COO NovaSparks Jeffrey Kutler, Editor-in-Chief GARP Risk Professional Paul Jameson, Sr Director, Global Financial Services Cisco Harvey Stein, Head of Credit Risk Modeling Bloomberg Dave Malik, Sr Director, Solutions Architecture Cisco Frank Greco, Director of Technology Kaazing Corporation Tyler Hannan, Director of Technical Marketing Basho Technologies Inc. Nick Ciarleglio, Distinguished Systems Engineer Arista Networks Ramakrishna Karedla, Performance Architect, HPC/Financial Services Intel Moiz Kohari (invited) Vice President - Advanced Platform Engineering London Stock Exchange Ed Turkel Manager, WW HPC Marketing Hewlett-Packard Dave Weber IBM Global Prog Exec Wall St Ctr for Excellence Dan Lynn Technical Strategist CodeFutures D. John Shakshober Sr Consulting Engineer Red Hat Will Ochandarena Director of Product Management at MapR Vamsi Chemitiganti Chief Architect Red Hat David Rukshin Chief Technology Officer WorldQuant, LLC Nick Papadonis Sr Software Performance Engineer Oracle Mike Beller CTO Tradeworx Mark Connolly Financial Services Head Tresata