Speakers

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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FINANCIAL MARKETS Show and Conference, September 20, 2010


Featured Speaker Mats Andersson CTO, NASDAQ OMX New York, NY

Featured Speaker Jeffrey M. Birnbaum Managing Director, Chief Technology Architect & Global Head Architecture, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch

Featured Speaker Falke Bruinsma Chief Architect, WebSphere Front Office and Low Latency Messaging IBM Falke Bruinsma is IBM Chief Architect on WebSphere Front Office and Low Latency Messaging projects. Prior to this, Falke was VP Research and Development for Infodyne.

Featured Speaker Donal Byrne CEO, Corvil New York, NY Donal Byrne is the CEO of Corvil, and has over twenty five years experience working in the field of computer systems, networking and telecommunications. His most recent interest is in mathematical and algorithmic-based solutions for high performance trading and low-latency technologies. Donal joined Corvil in 2000 as the non-executive Chairman and in 2002 took on the role of CEO, with a view to building a successful multinational company for the financial technology sector.

Featured Speaker Uri Cummings CTO, Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc. Calabasas, CA Uri is the Chief Technology Officer at networking semiconductor company, Fulcrum Microsystems. As CTO, he defined Fulcrum’s FocalPoint family of Ethernet switch chips, which has led to many industry innovations, including first fully-integrated 24-port 10G Ethernet switch, only low-latency Ethernet switch, and the first to offer the new IEEE data center bridging features. Since arriving on the scene, the FocalPoint product family has enjoyed widespread market adoption. Uri co-founded Fulcrum to commercialize research in high-performance VLSI design, becoming the founding president and CEO. After recruiting the company’s permanent CEO in 2001, Uri stepped into the CTO role and led the engineering team through Fulcrum’s transition from technology pioneer to product leader. Uri conducted advanced research in both the areas of high performance VLSI design and optical component design at Caltech from which he received BS (’94), MS (’95), and Ph.D. (’05) degrees in Electrical Engineering. He currently holds 7 US patents, with several in process.

Featured Speaker Bryan Doerr CTO Savvis

Featured Speaker Lee Fisher HP Worldwide FSI-HPC Business Development, Boston, MA Lee is Worldwide Business Development manager for HP’s scalable, high performance solutions in Financial Services. He is focused on developing and communicating HP’s turnkey solutions in the areas of low latency market data as well as compute-intensive quantitative analytics. He works with HP partners who offer hardware, middleware, and application components employed in these solutions to ensure production-worthy deployable systems. He helps HP regional teams and customers understand these value-added systems, optimized for FSI-HPC performance. Lee previously served as HP’s Business and Alliances manager for the Computer-Aided Engineering industry for over a decade. Lee has an Sc.B. in Engineering from Brown University, an Sc.M. in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and over 25 years of industrial experience in manufacturing, software engineering, product marketing, alliance management, and technical sales.

Featured Speaker Douglas Gourlay Vice President of Marketing Arista Networks As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer.

Featured Speaker Patrick Guay President, US Operations Voltaire Patrick Guay brings more than 20 years of industry experience to his role as President, U.S. Operations at Voltaire. Mr. Guay is responsible for directing the sales and support of Voltaire’s solutions worldwide and managing OEM sales and reseller channels. Previously at Voltaire, Mr. Guay served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and was responsible for developing and successfully executing the company’s marketing, product and partnership strategies which are aligned with Voltaire’s leadership and growth objectives. Prior to Voltaire, Mr. Guay was Vice President of Marketing at netForensics, an enterprise security management software start-up company with worldwide operations. Before that, Mr. Guay held several key positions at networking firm 3Com Corporation, including Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Vice President and General Manager, LAN Infrastructure Division. There, he managed the company’s largest business unit, and was responsible for marketing, product management and engineering of data switching, security and wireless solutions. Mr. Guay led the business unit through a strategic turn-around, and successfully broadened the product portfolio to include higher performance gigabit Ethernet switching and routing offerings. Other experience includes successful sales and business development roles at 3Com and Control Data Corporation.

Featured Speaker Rajeeb Hazra General Manager High Performance Computing Intel Corporation Rajeeb Hazra is the general manager for the High Performance Computing (HPC) organization. Prior to this role Raj served as Director of Supercomputing Architecture and Planning for eighteen months in DEG Architecture and Planning. Leading a new organization responsible for the planning and architecture for all platforms/ingredients for Peta- (1015 FLOPS) and Exa- (1018 FLOPS) scale computing. Raj holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. He joined Intel in 1995 and has held several different engineering and management positions in the corporate research labs since that time. Raj has been a key contributor to the development of Intel’s streaming video technology, receiving the prestigious Intel Achievement Award for his contributions. Subsequently, Raj led research efforts in the area novel human-computer interaction technologies including video segmentation, gesture recognition, object tracking, some of which were deployed in Intel’s camera pack products. Prior to Intel, Raj was a member of the technical staff at Lockheed Corporation and spent five years at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He has 15 patents and several refereed technical articles.

Featured Speaker Bill Hilf General Manager, Technical Computing Microsoft Corp. Bill Hilf is the general manager of the Technical Computing business for Microsoft Corp. In this role, Bill oversees world-wide business and marketing for Technical Computing, one of Microsoft’s newest initiatives, which focuses on solutions for a broad range of scientific and engineering challenges. The Technical Computing division specializes in research and product development ranging from desktop applications to servers & clusters, to developer tools, to cloud computing. Previously, Bill was general manager of Windows Server Marketing and Platform Strategy, where he was responsible for global marketing of Microsoft’s Windows Server products and leading Microsoft’s platform strategy and Open Source interoperability efforts. Before joining Microsoft, Hilf led IBM Corp.’s Linux/Open Source Software technical strategy at a worldwide level. Prior to IBM, Hilf held a variety of senior technical management and software architect positions for multiple Silicon Valley-based software companies. Hilf holds over ten patents in the distributed computing domain and is a graduate of Chapman University Graduate School

Featured Speaker Jarod Jenson Chief Technology Architect Oracle-Sun Practice Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc. As Chief Technology Architect, Oracle-Sun Practice at Forsythe, Jarod Jenson is focused on driving technical solutions to complex problems that affect businesses. Specifically, Jenson is one of the foremost experts in performance optimization for Solaris 10, using DTrace. He has provided effective service engagements to hundreds of enterprise companies. Jenson has over 15 years of experience in IT. He has helped numerous companies in their adoption of the advanced features of Solaris 10, served as a primary resource during Take Back Wall Street campaign, led the Oracle-Sun launch of its Solaris 10 operating system to the financial sector. Prior to joining Forsythe, Jenson was the Chief Systems Architect at Aeysis, a technology consulting company that he founded and ran. He designed and implemented business critical applications, focusing on systems performance, reliability, and security. Prior to founding Aeysis he worked at several major energy companies. Jenson is a sought after speaker for industry conferences, symposiums, and user groups. He was the first DTrace user outside of Oracle-Sun. He has spoken at numerous Java One conferences, Sun Networks and other industry event. Jenson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

Featured Speaker Greg Keller Technical Principal R Systems

Featured Speaker Dave Malik Director, Solutions Architecture Cisco Systems Dave Malik is a Director of Solutions Architecture in Cisco’s Advanced Services organization responsible for data center architecture strategies for Financial Services firms. He is involved in delivering solutions to support market data and trading applications. Lately his focus has been developing cloud computing and virtualization strategies with exchanges, service providers and institutions. Dave is also active in industry forums and is an author of several publications. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Information Systems.

Featured Speaker Shawn McAllister CTO, Solace Systems Mr. McAllister is responsible for deepening Solace’s understanding of requirements and use cases across industries and organizations, evangelizing our unique approach and solutions, and working closely with our customers to identify ways of improving our technology and value proposition. Prior to joining Solace, Mr. McAllister led software, hardware, and test engineering teams at Newbridge Networks (later Alcatel Canada), where he was responsible for carrier-oriented network testing and was a regular attendee and contributor to the ATM Forum. Mr. McAllister holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, with majors in both Computer Science and Combinatorics/Optimization.

Featured Speaker Vikram Mehta President and CEO BLADE Network Technologies Vikram Mehta, president and CEO of BLADE Network Technologies, is the driving force behind the company’s growth and rapid global expansion, making BLADE one of the fastest growing companies in enterprise data center networking. Under his leadership, the company has attracted partners such as HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, NEC, Netezza and SGI, and closed a Series B financing for a valuation of $240M. Vikram brings over 23 years technology industry experience, and has been at the helm of the company since its inception. He brokered the spin out of Nortel’s Blade Server Switch Business Unit (BSSBU), establishing BLADE as an independent company in February 2006. Vikram came to Nortel in 2000 through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems and there he laid the foundation for what became Nortel’s BSSBU. Prior to this, he spent 12 years at Hewlett-Packard in various management and executive positions in several countries across the Asia Pacific region and the US. His last position at HP was General Manager Enterprise Servers, Americas Region, a $1B+ business. In 2009, Vikram won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® award in the “Emerging” category for Northern California, and was subsequently honored as a National Finalist Winner and inducted into the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame. Vikram has been a frequent speaker at industry events and is often quoted by media and analysts. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology. Read his blog

Featured Speaker John Morar Research Scientist, InfoSphere Streams IBM

Featured Speaker Feargal O'Sullivan Head of Enterprise Software Americas, NYSE Technologies Feargal O’Sullivan is the Head of Trading Solutions, Americas for NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext the world’s leading provider of end-to-end electronic trading solutions. Mr. O’Sullivan also manages NYSE Technologies’ high performance messaging offering, including the industry standard Middleware Agnostic Messaging API, MAMA^TM and shared-memory based middleware, Data Fabric^TM.

Featured Speaker Patrick L Osborne NAS Business Development X9000/IBRIX Hewlett-Packard Patrick Osborne serves as Worldwide NAS Business Development Manager at HP, responsible for channel development, industry partnerships and technology solution development. Prior to HP, Patrick served as Senior Director of Business Development at IBRIX and held senior leadership positions in the sales organization at Sun Microsystems as a Principal Architect and Sales Manager in the Americas and EMEA with responsibility for data management solutions in the Higher Education and Research, Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Financial Services, and Federal Government verticals. Patrick has an extensive technical background in scale-out systems, networking, and data management.

Featured Speaker Tony Pizi Head of Next Generation Infrastructure Deutsche Bank Tony Pizi is the Managing Director of Platform Engineering (GTCM) overseeing the delivery of virtual compute services, data services, orchestration and frameworks supporting a seamless user experience. Based in New Jersey, Tony has in-depth expertise in technology and innovation. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he ran a start-up company which specialized in providing integration software to Fortune 500 companies. Formerly, he was CTO for Merrill Lynch's Private Client division. In this role, he led all facets of technology development and innovation for this division, including efforts related to Merrill Lynch's broker workstation, supporting over 40,000 users. While at Merrill Lynch, Tony led a team of technology professionals that transformed the Merrill Lynch Private Client branch and client direct business environment. He holds technology patents for a seamless application interface manager and distributed adaptive computing. Tony received a BS in Engineering from West Virginia University.

Featured Speaker Eric Pulier Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO ServiceMesh Mr. Pulier is recognized as among the leading and most successful entrepreneurs in government and enterprise technology. The best-known venture capital groups in the world have financed companies that Mr. Pulier has founded or co-founded. These include media management (IVT), Enterprise Professional Services (US Interactive), virtual desktops (Desktone), open source (Gluecode), and service oriented infrastructure (SOA Software). Named one of 30 e-Visionaries by VAR Business, Mr. Pulier is a popular public speaker at premier technology conferences around the globe. Pulier is member of Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative, and the board of directors of US Doctors for Africa, and the Center for Telecommunications Management.

Featured Speaker Jim Sauer Vice President Network & Systems Consulting North America ADVA Optical Networking Jim is with ADVA Optical Networking and is Vice President in charge of the Systems and Network Consulting team in North America. His team of consulting engineers is responsible for the planning and implementation of all ADVA optical infrastructures in North America, including Ultra Low Latency metropolitan and long distance networks. Prior to joining ADVA Optical Networking, Jim was at Cisco as Director of the Optical Product Line. Jim received a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, and Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.

Featured Speaker Richard T. Sharp Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP Richard Sharp is a partner at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP. He joined the firm in 2003, and was formerly a name partner in the firm of Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer & Sharp. Mr. Sharp is one of the leading practitioners in representing major U.S. and foreign broker-dealers, investment advisers, and investment partnerships in connection with a broad range of regulatory matters, SEC and self-regulatory organization enforcement investigations and proceedings, and corporate transactions. He has played a major role in developing and implementing regulatory models for client-side and back-office cloud computing, SaaS, and IT/BPO outsourcing solutions. Mr. Sharp is a frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad and author of numerous publications on issues relating to the regulation of broker-dealers and investment advisers, the structure and operation of the securities markets, cross-border cloud computing and outsourcing by financial service organizations, and evolving concepts of best execution and supervision. In 2008 and 2009, Chambers USA recognized Mr. Sharp as one of the leading lawyers in America for Financial Services Regulation in the areas of both Banking Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations and Broker Dealer Regulation. Euromoney's 2008 edition of Benchmark: America's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys also recognized his expertise in representing US and foreign broker-dealers. During more than 25 years in private practice, Mr. Sharp has represented almost all of the major securities firms in the United States and many foreign broker-dealers, with a particular focus on trading issues under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and other self-regulatory organizations. From 1978 to 1980, Mr. Sharp served as Head of the Office of Trading Practices and Assistant Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Market Regulation. He previously served as Branch Chief and Trial Attorney in the SEC's Division of Enforcement. Mr. Sharp is a member of the Corporate Law Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Sharp received his B.A. degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 1970. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. Mr. Sharp also studied jurisprudence at Oxford University and international law at the Hague Academy of International Law.

Featured Speaker Mike Stolz Chief Field Architect Gemstone Systems division of VMware

Featured Speaker Carl Trieloff Technical Director, CTO for Cloud Red Hat Carl Trieloff serves as Technical Director of Cloud for Red Hat, heading up Red Hat's cloud strategy and product architecture. He also covers the visualization, management, and security products in addition to providing ongoing input to Red Hat Enterprise MRG at Red Hat. Trieloff has over 18 years of enterprise engineering experience in Trading Exchanges, middleware, messaging technologies, and distributed systems (SOA), including work on mission-critical control systems. Previously he drove strategy and headed engineering for Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, Grid) since joining Red Hat in 2006. Trieloff is also the chair of Apache Qpid, an open source messaging project, and was one of the founding members of the AMQP Working Group. Has sponsored the setup of Deltacloud, a project in Apache incubator. Prior to joining Red Hat, he served as Director of Open Source at IONA Technologies, driving the creation of commercial, open source ESB's, Eclipse tooling, and other open source software projects. Trieloff also served as CTO and Vice President at Development of Exchange America, where he was responsible for technical strategy, the development team, and service operations. His experience spans designing and implementing control systems and large, distributed, highly available command and control networks.

Featured Speaker Lew Tucker Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Computing Cisco Systems Lew Tucker is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco, where he is responsible for helping to shape the future of cloud and enterprise software strategies. Tucker has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence to software development and systems architecture. Prior to joining Cisco, he was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering and the development of Sun Cloud. Other accomplishments in his career include Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine. Tucker’s interest in distributed systems stems from his tenure at Thinking Machines, an early leader in supercomputing technology, where large-scale problems could only be addressed by using thousands of individual processors. Today, as the Internet evolves, companies are following a similar trajectory and building out large-scale cloud computing platforms. Transformation of systems into scalable platforms remains a long-term interest. Tucker holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Cornell University, a master’s degree in computer science with a specialization in artificial intelligence from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and a doctorate in computer science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

Moderator Steve Campbell Contributing Editor, Tabor Communications, HPCwire Steve Campbell contributing editor for HPCwire and HPC in the Cloud, is an HPC Industry Consultant and HPC/Cloud Evangelist. Campbell is co-founder and Managing Partner with Orion Marketing a full service marketing consulting company focused on information technology industry Campbell brings a unique blend of expertise to this industry. He has held senior VP positions in Product Management and Product Marketing responsible for all company marketing for HPC and Enterprise vendors. Steve was most recently Vice President of Marketing and Solutions of the Hitachi Server Group. Previously, Steve served as Vice President of Marketing at Sun Microsystems Enterprise Systems Products Group responsible for the mid-range and high-end Sun Fire and Sun Enterprise servers. He was executive sponsor for several high profile customers in Asia and was also responsible for Sun's High-Performance Computing initiatives and the Data Center Insight Programs leading solution programs for data center consolidation and mainframe migration. Before joining Sun, Steve was a founding partner in a technology consulting company working with early stage technology and Internet start-ups helping to raise over $300M for clients. He also served on the boards of and as interim CEO/CMO of several early-stage technology companies. Steve was Vice President of Marketing at FPS Computing and held executive positions at Convex Computer Corporation and Scientific Computer Systems.

Moderator Aron Dutta Director Cisco Systems

Moderator Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Editor-in-Chief, Securities Technology Monitor Tom Steinert-Threlkeld is editor-in-chief of Securities Industry News. He is responsible for day-to-day operations and long-term editorial strategy of the leading publication devoted to explaining how Wall Street operates. The Web site and print publication deliver original, time-critical news and analysis to senior decision makers in charge of operations, technology, processing services and compliance in global securities and financial markets. Total audience: 66,000 institutional trading professionals, via print, Web site and e-letters. He was vice president of the Enterprise Group of Ziff Davis Media, where he founded Baseline magazine, which conducted in-depth case studies of information system deployments; and was part of the launch team for Inter@ctive Week, the first news publication about the Internet. Baseline was a finalist for General Excellence in the Pulitzer Prizes of the magazine world, the National Magazine Awards presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Baseline also won, among other honors, the Grand Neal Award, the most prestigious that can be given to a business publication. This was for an investigation that uncovered a series of deaths in Panama that related to a faulty piece of software developed by a St. Louis, Mo., company. He also has extensive background in metropolitan daily news at The Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas; and owned a series of weekly newspapers in the Fort Worth area in the mid-1980s. He experimented with online news delivery a quarter century ago, with a text-only online service called StarText at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas – and made it profitable. More recently, he served as editorial director of Broadcasting and Cable as well as Multichannel News magazines for Reed Business Information.

Moderator Dave Weber IBM Wall Street Center of Excellence Dave Weber's career has spanned numerous roles at IBM, from programming to business strategy and development, and worldwide leadership for several advanced technology initiatives. Dave's current focus is on the IBM Wall Street Center of Excellence, which is a briefing center and lab that brings together in New York City the IBM team across Servers, Storage, Software, Services and Research to innovate with our clients and partners, with a special focus on the Financial Markets challenges relating to low latency trading and scale-out computing to build a smarter planet. We sponsor events, briefings, pilots and client councils to enable the advancement of technology-driven solutions.