Speakers | 2012 High Performance Computing Financial Markets Show and Conference, September 19, 2012, Monday, Roosevelt Hotel at Grand Central Station, NY

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2011 Speakers

	Rick Alm Executive Director, High Performance Engineering Morgan Stanley

	Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, Managing Director, Global Risk and Trading Systems Bank of America, New York, NY.

	Steve Bologna Principal Consultant, Global FSI Solutions Group Sybase, an SAP Company Steven Bologna is a Principal Consultant in the Global FSI Solutions Group at Sybase, an SAP Company. He is a data management specialist with 20 years experience, specializing in performance, tuning, architecture and high availability. Steve has been working closely with Platform Computing over the past 18 months to develop solutions for high performing data movement to the grid. In addition he has worked on 2 of the largest OLTP and 3 of the top 10 largest Decision Support Systems in the world. Steve earned his Bachelor Engineering in Computer Science from Michigan State University.

	Henry Chien TABB Group Henry Chien joined TABB Group in March 2010. Previously, he completed internships in the Rhode Island brokerage office of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., and in the Operational Risk Assurance Group at Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong. Henry attended Brown University where he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Ethics and Political Philosophy.

	Rob Cornish IT Strategy and Infrastructure Officer, ISE

	Joseph Curley Director, Technical Computing Marketing Intel Corporation Joseph (Joe) Curley, serves Intel® Corporation as director of marketing for technical computing in the Data Center Group. The technical computing marketing team manages marketing for high-performance computing (HPC) and workstation product lines as well as future Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC) products. Joe joined Intel in 2007 to manage planning activities that lead up to the announcement of the Intel® MIC Architecture in May of 2010. Prior to joining Intel, Joe worked at Dell, Inc. and graphics pioneer Tseng Labs in a series of marketing and engineering leadership roles.

	Aron Dutta Senior Director and Global Head, Financial Markets Strategy Cisco Systems, Inc.

	Thomas Fay Vice President, Global Software Development NASDAQ OMX Mr. Fay is Vice President of Global Software Development at NASDAQ OMX where he is responsible for the design, development, deployment, performance and support of NASDAQ's INET core trading platform application suite. Tom's experience spans over twenty years and he has been employed in senior technology roles in a variety of business organizations in the telecommunications, defense and securities industries. In 2008, Tom joined Virtu Financial as Chief Technology Officer where he was responsible for all aspects of the Firm's trading system including network infrastructure, proprietary software development and back office database systems. Prior to rejoining NASDAQ OMX in 2010, Tom spent several years at INET (a.k.a. the Island ECN), which was merged into NASDAQ in 2005. While at NASDAQ, Tom's efforts enabled the firm to integrate its multiple platform structure of INET, BRUT and SuperMontage into the present single book system. Tom was also credited for leading the development team that engineered BRACE, NASDAQ's back office self-clearing system. Additionally, Tom was responsible for the application suite used by NASDAQ to process quotation data for use in the Core trading platform and the development of a regression test system that enabled NASDAQ to continuously test the functionality of upgrades to the trading platform.

	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.

	Egan Ford IBM Executive IT Specialist IBM Corporation Egan Ford, IBM Executive IT Specialist, Cloud Computing and HPC Team - Egan has worked with Wall Street and other firms on Cloud implementations. Egan is has been involved with technical implementations for High Performance Computing for many years and is considered the Father of xCat.

	Blake Gonzales HPC Computer Scientist Dell, Inc As a Dell HPC Computer Scientist, Blake Gonzales brings a valued end-user perspective to the HPCatDell Team. Having served as a design and installation HPC engineer at ATK, and formerly as a system administrator at Texas Instruments Defense Systems, Blake understands the challenges of architecting computing systems for maximum performance and ROI. One of Blake’s areas of expertise includes designing HPC systems for fault tolerance and reliability. From a systems standpoint, Blake has worked with a variety operating systems, schedulers, cluster management software, file systems, and applications. His application experience includes: Finite Element Analysis (FEA): Abaqus, ANSYS, NASTRAN, Optistruct, LS-DYNA, STAR-CD, STAR-CCM+ Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): Fluent, CFD++, TetrUSS, Cart3D, Overflow Multi-Physics/Shock/Detonation: ALE3D, CTH Numerics: Matlab, R Blake received his Master of Computer Science from Colorado State University, where he concentrated on operating systems, computer architecture, and parallel programming. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University with an emphasis in computer engineering, microprocessor/digital design.

	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.

	Scott Hall Managing Director, Americas Sales ActivFinancial

	Robert Hegarty Managing Director, Global Head of Market Structure Thomson Reuters

	Matt Hicks A Founding Member Red Hat OpenShift Team Matt Hicks is one of the founding members of the Red Hat OpenShift team. He has spent over a decade in software engineering with a variety of roles in development, operations, architecture and management. His real expertise is in bridging the gap between developing code and actually running it in production. An expert in IT and cloud-based architectures, he spends his time these days evolving OpenShift to harness the power of cloud and make developers more productive.

	Michael Jackson President, Adaptive Computing Michael Jackson is the co-founder of Adaptive Computing and helped to drive the first nine years of profitable growth. Michael drives Adaptive Computing’s strategic planning and cross company coordination, with an added focus on business and partner development. Prior to joining Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Michael was product manager of Internet and security products at Novell Inc.—the current developer of SUSE Linux. He also served as Novell’s channel business development manager. Prior to Novell, Michael was with Dorian International, the second largest import–export management company in the United States

	Paul Jameson Global Senior Director, Financial Services Cisco Systems, Inc.

	Larry Jones DataDirect Networks

	Dave Malik Director, Solutions Architecture Cisco's Advanced Services Organization Matt Hicks is one of the founding members of the Red Hat OpenShift team. He has spent over a decade in software engineering with a variety of roles in development, operations, architecture and management. His real expertise is in bridging the gap between developing code and actually running it in production. An expert in IT and cloud-based architectures, he spends his time these days evolving OpenShift to harness the power of cloud and make developers more productive.

	Jay Muelhoefer Vice President, Platform Computing At Platform Computing, Jay is responsible for global solutions, product and corporate marketing for both HPC and Enterprise offerings. Prior to Platform, Jay served as CMO of Lumigent, a database monitoring venture. At Parametric Technology (PTC), he was General Manager of SaaS Solutions, VP of Channel Business Development and VP of Product Marketing. Jay has also worked as a product manager at Bowstreet Software and was a Financial Services consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton. Jay holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Masters and Bachelors in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

	Chad Mynhier Master consultant, Forsythe Technology, Inc Chad Mynhier is master consultant at Forsythe Technology, Inc., concentrating on performance troubleshooting. In this role, he has achieved some significant performance gains including one 1000x performance improvement. Mr. Mynhier has contributed several patches to OpenSolaris that have been integrated into the production version of Solaris. He was the first external contributor to DTrace, and he has Core Contributor status in the OpenSolaris DTrace community. He was a speaker and de facto host at dtrace.conf(08), the first DTrace-focused conference. He was a speaker at the 2008 OpenSolaris Developers Conference in Prague. He also contributed the process contract support in OpenSSH, which was necessary to allow OpenSSH to be integrated into the Service Management Facility in Solaris 10. Chad worked with engineer/author Jim Mauro contributing to DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, MAC OS X and FreeBSD. He has contributed to improving the Unix infrastructure at his previous employers, including an infrastructure that allowed a 100-to-1 server-to-administrator ratio. When not immersed in DTrace code, he likes to spend time with his wife, son, and identical twin daughters.

	Don Newell Vice President, Server Chief Technology Officer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Donald Newell is vice president and Server Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Don is responsible for the concept and definition of AMD's long-term server roadmap based on current conditions, expected demand and long-term server trends. He is leading multiple worldwide teams and working alongside other AMD design and development teams to ensure successful transition of programs from design to market availability. Don is a distinguished engineer with more than 20 patents filed. Prior to joining AMD, Newell worked for Intel. During his 16-year career at Intel, Newell led development of both SoC and server platform architecture innovations for areas ranging from cloud computing to hand-held devices. Newell also initiated and drove the I/O Acceleration Technologies (IOAT) from initial research to product intercept, developed a detailed architecture for heterogeneous computing and was responsible for delivering the PC industry's first Digital TV receiver. Newell led his team to publish seminal papers on areas such as Cache QoS and network protocol processing. Newell has been published in more than 60 peer-reviewed research journals and publications and is a co-author of the IETF RFC2429 that specifies how video is transported over the Internet. Prior to joining Intel, Newell was a software engineer for first Datanex Software and later Sequent Computers. Newell received his Bachelors of Science from the University of Oregon.

	Feargal O'Sullivan Vice President of Platform Development NYSE Technologies, New York, NY 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.

	Paul Rowady Senior Analyst TABB Group Paul Rowady, a senior analyst at TABB Group, has 20 years of capital markets experience with a background in research, risk management, trading technology, software development and hedge fund operations. He also has specific expertise in derivatives, highly automated trading systems, and enterprise data management initiatives. Paul joined TABB Group in 2009 from Alphacution LLC, where he was managing director from 2004 to 2009, focusing on the design, development, strategy and research for market intelligence and data management systems. He also holds a patent for an automated event-risk management/research focusing on the design, development, strategy and research for market intelligence and data management systems. He also holds a patent for an automated event-risk management/research platform and data model for global capital market participants. From 2001 to 2004, he served as managing director, research and knowledge management, for Ritchie Capital Management, LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund manager, where, in additional to leading the research team and various business development initiatives, he designed and managed the development of a centralized trading intelligence system. At Ritchie, he also directed the development of a customized investor relationship management (IRM) system, which was incremental in achieving peak assets of $3 billion, and developed real-time risk management dashboards and other transparency tools for senior management, investors and counterparties. From 1996 to 2004, he served as chief investment officer and director at Quantlab Financial, LLC, where he co-managed $6.5 million venture capital fundraising to develop quantitative trading systems for global equity and futures markets, and directed a team of 20 for highly-automated trading strategy development and full-workflow system integration. He also led a high-frequency, market-neutral statistical arbitrage fund and designed a real-time portfolio monitoring and risk management system. Prior to Quantlab, he spent five years as a research analyst and portfolio manager at leading global derivatives shop, O'Connor & Associates, LP. Paul earned a Master of Management from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelors of Science in business administration from Valparaiso University. At TABB, Paul has authored "OTC Interest Rate Swaps and Beyond: The Path to Electronic Markets" and "US Futures Markets: In the Crosshairs of the Algorithmic Revolution"; and co-authored "(Hedge) Fund Administration: The Selection Criteria for a New Market Reality"; "The Investment Assembly Line: Alpha Discovery and the Illusion of Automation"; and "Risk Analysis On-the-Fly: Fast Markets, Complex Portfolios".

	David Rubio Forsythe Technology, Inc. David Rubio developed Sun Microsystems' 3-day DTrace course in 2004 and taught the class for 3 years (including to the other instructors that currently teach it) before joining Forsythe Technology, Inc. His career began as a software kernel engineer at AT&T Bell Labs. In 1983, David was asked to teach one of the first Unix seminars and he has developed and taught computer science courses ever since. David has a Masters in Computer Science from UCLA and has been involved throughout his career as an application developer, kernel developer, trainer and consultant. He lives in Boulder, CO with his wife and two daughters.

	Raymond Russell CTO & Co-Founder Corvil Raymond is a founder of Corvil and co-inventor of its core technology. Since 2000, Raymond has played an instrumental role in building a strong company and product suite around the core Corvil technology, covering many areas such as network science, product management, technical sales, and field engineering. As Chief Technology Officer, Raymond is focused on driving continued advancement and fulfilment of Corvil's innovations with a focus on applications and infrastructure in capital markets. Recently, Raymond has led intensive investigations into latency issues impacting proprietary trading firm applications and utilised this experience to improve Corvil's product offering.

	Jos Schmitt CEO, Alpha Group

	Paul Skoog PTP Product Marketing Manager Symmetricom, Inc.

	J. Barry Thompson Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tervela Entrepreneur and visionary Barry Thompson founded Tervela in 2004 and serves as Chief Technology Officer and board member. With close to 20 years experience, Thompson is a self-taught technologist and began his career designing solutions ranging from embedded robotics and imaging to traditional enterprise systems. His clients included MCI, American Mobile Satellite, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other government and private organizations. In 1995 he moved to Wall Street, leading the adoption of new transformative technologies in the financial services industry for companies including AIG, NatWest and UBS. At UBS he served as Head of North American Architecture. Thompson then continued to pursue his passion for emerging technologies through incubating research projects in materials manufacturing and carbon nanotube growth, virtual reality and gaming infrastructure. Thompson serves on the board of trustees and executive committee for the X-Prize Foundation. He is a graduate of the International Space University SSP.

	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.

	Nancy Turbe Capital Markets Practice Lead, EMC Consulting Nancy has over 20 years of experience providing IT leadership and innovation at Financial Services firms. Nancy’s deep experience with cross-asset class financial products and systems enables her to work efficiently with business leaders and IT to transform organizations, and to build, deploy, and run mission critical systems. Nancy has recently joined EMC from Accenture, leading engagements in the Capital Markets and Risk Practices. At Bear Stearns, Nancy served in director roles in Portfolio Trading and Prime Brokerage Technology. Nancy began her Wall Street career working as a Systems Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

	Jens von der Heide Director Barclays Capital is responsible for High Frequency Infrastructure Engineering in Barclays Capital

	J.D. Zeeman WW Sales Executive, HPC Financial Markets & Cloud Computing, IBM