Speakers | 2012 High Performance Computing Financial Markets Show and Conference, September 9, 2013, Monday, Roosevelt Hotel at Grand Central Station, NY

Paul Perez
Chief Technology Officer
Data Center Group, Cisco Systems Inc

Paul Perez is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cisco’s Data Center Group, responsible for leading the overall technology strategy for products and solutions associated with server access virtualization, Cisco Catalyst and Cisco Nexus switching solutions, Cisco MDS storage switches, and Cisco ACE load-balancing software. He is also an executive sponsor for innovation and works broadly with his peers across Cisco to grow technical leaders, cross-pollinate technologies, and keep Cisco differentiated in cloud computing for 21st century workloads.

Perez came to Cisco from Hewlett-Packard, where he was most recently Chief Technology Officer for HP’s ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure. Previously he held the same title for HP’s enterprise storage business, where he led an aggressive acquisition effort. While at HP he spent 27 years in various technical and management leadership positions in enterprise storage, servers, and networking.

Perez holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He also holds seven patents in integrated circuit and computer design, and was a founding member of The Green Grid.

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.

Antonio Hallak
Head GLL Electronic Trading Engineering
Credit Suisse Securities (USA)

Dino Vitale (invited)
Director
Morgan Stanley Cross Technology Svcs.

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.

Joseph Curley
Dir Technical Computing Mktg
Intel
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.

Nan Boden
CEO
Myricom

Raymond Russell
Chief Technology Officer and 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.

Thomas Isakovich
CEO
Nimbus Data

Thomas Isakovich is CEO and founder of Nimbus Data Systems, Inc., where he oversees product strategy and development, sales, marketing, and manufacturing operations. Prior to Nimbus, Thomas was CEO and founder of TrueSAN Networks, where he raised over $34 million and led the development of storage virtualization and multi-vendor SAN management software. At Oracle spin-off Network Computer (now Liberate Technologies), Thomas oversaw product marketing for the company’s line of thin-client workstations and server software. At IBM’s Almaden Research Center, Thomas developed new technologies for simplifying and enhancing human-computer interaction. A frequent speaker on technology and entrepreneurship at universities and industry events, Thomas earned a B.A. with Honors in political science from Stanford University.

Geoffrey Noer
Sr Director Product Mktg
Panasas

Geoffrey Noer is Senior Director of Product Marketing at Panasas. In this position, he is responsible for all outbound and inbound product marketing and product management, including determining product positioning, go-to-market strategies and market requirements for future products. Previously he led the product management team at SGI for its server product lines, especially focusing on products designed for the High Performance Computing and Internet markets. Geoffrey joined SGI through its acquisition by Rackable Systems where he was VP of Product Management for all products and sat on the Green Grid board of directors. Before joining Rackable Systems in 2003, he headed technical marketing and systems engineering at Zambeel, a scalable network attached storage start-up. Earlier, he was director of field applications engineering at Red Hat and Cygnus Solutions, leaders in Linux and open source software development tools. Geoffrey holds a BA in Computer Science from Swarthmore College.

Nikita Ivanov
CEO, GridGain Systems
Nikita Ivanov is founder and CEO of GridGain Systems, started in 2005 and funded by RTP Ventures. Nikita has led GridGain to develop advanced and distributed in-memory data and computational grid technologies – the top Java HPC (high performance computing) platform in the world today.

Nikita has over 20 years of experience in software application development, building HPC and middleware platforms, contributing to the efforts of other startups and notable companies including Adaptec, Visa and BEA Systems. Nikita was one of the pioneers in using Java technology for server side middleware development while working for one of Europe's largest system integrators in 1996.

He is an active member of Java middleware community, contributor to the Java specification, and holds a Master's degree in Electro Mechanics from Baltic State Technical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Vikram Mehta
Vice President, IBM System Networking
IBM Corp.

Vikram Mehta is Vice President of IBM System Networking which provides Smarter Computing for Smarter Data Center by providing intelligent, virtual and interoperable fabric for cloud, big data/analytics and HPC. As President and CEO of BLADE Network Technologies (BNT), Vikram spearheaded the company’s acquisition by IBM in 2010. Vikram was the driving force behind BNT’s growth and rapid global expansion, making BNT one of the fastest growing companies in enterprise data center networking. He brokered the spin out of Nortel’s Blade Server Switch Business Unit (BSSBU), establishing BNT as an independent company in February 2006. Vikram came to Nortel in 2000 through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems laying 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 is 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.

Emile Werr
VP & Head of Enterprise Architecture
NYSE Euronext

Emile has computer science, software engineering, mathematics and business background. He is currently the global head of Enterprise Data Architecture and Identity Access Management for NYSE Euronext. His chief responsibilities include: federated information architecture, data services, enterprise data integration, data management, data access, high-performance grid computing, and architecture council. Emile is leading the development of commercial solutions for "Big Data" management at NYSE.

Emile has worked within the Financial Securities industry for nearly 20 years with top firms including FINRA, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers, Citi, Credit Suisse, Susquehanna, and Solomon Brothers.

Emile has hands-on experience with startup businesses. He is Founder of Xpheria, a niche middleware and data warehousing engineering company with business vertical expertise in Capital Markets, Financial Services, and Regulation.

Anshul Sadana
SVP of Customer Engineering
Arista Networks

Anshul Sadana has over a decade of experience in engineering management, design & software development in the networking industry. Anshul joined Arista in 2007 and is responsible for product definition and development priorities of Arista's next generation products. He also leads all systems engineering and customer advocacy functions.

Previously at Cisco, Anshul led the development of the Catalyst 4500 and 4900 product lines and also managed strategic customer relations.

Anshul has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.

Jason Stowe
CEO
Cycle Computing

Jason Stowe is a seasoned entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Cycle Computing, a leader in Utility Supercomputing Software. Cycle delivers proven, secure and flexible high performance computing (HPC) and data solutions since 2005. Cycle helps clients maximize existing infrastructure and speed computations on servers, VMs, and on-demand in the cloud. Our products help clients maximize internal infrastructure and increase power as research demands, like the 10000-core cluster for Genentech and the 30000+ core cluster for a Top 5 Pharma that were covered in Wired, TheRegister, BusinessWeek, Bio-IT World, and Forbes. Starting with three initial Fortune 100 clients, Cycle has grown to deploy proven implementations at Fortune 500s, SMBs andgovernment and academic institutions including JP Morgan Chase, Purdue University, Pfizer and Lockheed Martin. Jason attended Carnegie Mellon and Cornell Universities, and volunteered/guest lectured for the Entrepreneurship program at Cornell's Johnson Business School.

Alex Tabb
Partner
TABB Group

Alexander C. Tabb is the practice leader and managing director for The TABB Group's Crisis and Continuity Services practice.

An expert in the field of international affairs, with specialization in the developing world, crisis management, international security, supply chain security and travel safety and security, he joined The TABB Group in October 2004 from Kroll Inc., the international risk consulting company, where he was the associate managing director of their Security Services Group.

Prior to joining Kroll in 2001, he had a successful 12-year career in the United States Foreign Service. As a Foreign Service officer and a diplomat in the United States Department of State, Alex served in Lusaka, Zambia, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tuzla and Bosnia-Herzegovina and in New York, where he served with distinction.

At State, Alex gained invaluable security, crisis management and project management experience as an official representative of the United States Government serving as both an economics and commercial officer in Eastern and Southern Africa.

During his first assignment in Lusaka Zambia, he served as the commercial officer and assisted numerous firms interested in investing in Zambia, dealing closely with the Zambian Ministry of Trade, and the Zambian government as a whole, where he routinely assisted foreign investors in dealing with the oftentimes-confusing local government bureaucracy.

Following his tour in Lusaka, Alex volunteered to serve in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he was assigned as the senior economics and commercial officer. In Tanzania, Alex gained first-hand experience dealing with complicated trade issues involving multilateral organizations, multinational corporations and the developing world. He also assisted both the Tanzania Government and the U.S. Government in gaining a better understanding of the institutional obstacles involved with rationalizing, overhauling and improving the services available within the Tanzanian port system.

During his foreign service career, he was involved with crises throughout the region: the sub-Saharan draught, 1991-93; the Zambian transition of government, 1991-1992; the start of the Zairian Civil War and evacuation of Shaba Province, 1993; the Rwandan/Burundian Genocide, 1994-1995; the Rwanda/Burundian Refugee crisis, 1994-1996; the capture and rendition of indicted war criminals from the Yugoslav Civil war, 1998-1999; and the United Nations, 1999-2001.

Since leaving government service, Alex has proven to be instrumental in providing critical consulting and project management services to clients located throughout the nation. As a leading member of Kroll's security services practice, Alex managed security and risk-assessment projects, as well as crisis management and business continuity assignments.

Alex earned a BS in history from American University. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, where he studied economics, security and international affairs.

Jeff Denworth
VP of Marketing & Business Development
Data Direct Networks

Jeff Denworth has over a decade of experience with advanced computation and massively scalable big data storage technologies. Before joining DDN in 2006, Mr. Denworth ran worldwide sales and marketing at Cluster File Systems, Inc. - where he managed all aspects of sales & business development associated with the Lustre® file system. Previously at Dataram Corporation, he specialized in business development for HPC and enterprise server memory designs.

Robert Brinkman
Infrastructure Architect for Banking and Financial Markets
IBM Banking Center of Excellence

Robert has spent his 25+ years with IBM working with clients to envision and architect their infrastructure based on business and application requirements. In many cases the results of this work is embedded in our technologies. He has worked with numerous clients globally to enable them to deploy their infrastructure quickly and effectively while gaining competitive advantage. Robert is competent in systems, networking and storage and how these technologies can be optimized. Robert has primarily supported financial firms, but also has worked across many industries. Robert has in depth knowledge of major applications such as low latency trading, core banking, high performance computing, Web services, and client server and the impact of these applications on the underlying infrastructure. Robert holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University and MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

Nick Werstiuk
Product Management
Platform Computing

Nick Werstiuk heads up the Product Management function for the Platform Computing products within IBM Systems and Technology Group. He and his team are responsible for the product strategy, direction and roadmap across the portfolio of Platform’s distributed computing software. Since joining Platform Computing in 2004 he has worked on a wide range of new product and business development initiatives, identifying growth opportunities and strategies for Platform Computing.

Nick’s career in enterprise infrastructure technology spans more than 20 years, having spent the first 10 years of his career in telecom network infrastructure, holding a range of Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering positions at Bell Canada. Over the last 9 years, Nick has helped to drive the product commercialization and the customer adoption of new products at several software companies including Platform Computing, divine Inc, eAssist Global Solutions, and Delano Technology Corp.

Nick graduated, with Honors, from the University of Toronto, with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering.

Lynn Lewis
Principle Member of Technical Staff
AMD

Lynn Lewis is a Principle Member of Technical Staff for AMD working as the North Americas Field Engineering Manager.

A Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy he earned degrees in Technical Management, Math, Computer Science as well as a MBA and a MS in Applied Math with graduate research in Hydrodynamic Stability at The Florida State University. As an Aeronautical Engineer and Research Scientist, he Co-founded the Computational Fluid Dynamics Section at the Air Force Armament Laboratory EAFB, Fl. There he worked as part of a small team of scientists validating perturbation and continuum approaches to simulate store separation for weapons system integration. He contributed to missile stability modeling and parallel techniques to both fluid and structural simulation codes.

He worked with software and hardware engineering teams at SGI, Cray, Compaq, HP, Microsoft and AMD as an engineer evangelizing and demonstrating techniques for vector and scalar parallel methods as well as visualization to engineers and scientists from Volvo to Audi, Boeing to Air Bus. His work with independent software vendors influenced the first parallel commercial engineering tools from ESI Pam, Dassault Abaqus, Altair Mecalog, CD-Adapco, and Ansys.

Working with the financial institutions throughout the Americas and Europe, he supports AMD customers creating and experimenting with stochastic and data driven analytical workloads.

Vamsi Chemitiganti
Chief Architect, Northeast Region
Red Hat

Responsible for the customer engagement strategy and architecting solutions across Red Hat offerings in key verticals such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail and Transportation. Vamsi builds collaborative customer relationships, engages with peer CTOs, and shares his technology vision. He has been a solutions architect for 13 years, and has been with Red Hat since 2008. He holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Bangalore University.

Lars Ericson
Consultant, Catskills Research Company

Lars Ericson is a risk management and trading systems solution architect and quantitative developer who has worked on Wall St for 23 years, in roles at Citigroup, Sakura, Sumitomo, UBS and Merril Lynch, working with Commodity, FX, Interest Rate, Credit, Inflation, Municipal, Mortgage and Convertible Bond products, in functional areas such as Cross Product VaR and Stress Margining, Commodity Multi-Asset Multi-Currency Investor Products, Commodity Derivatives Trading, Convertible BondTrading and Interest Rate Trading. He is experienced with high performance and grid computing technologies including Platform Symphony, CUDA/GPGPU and Thrust, OpenMP/TBB, Intel VTune, Parallel Inspector and ICC optimizing compiler, and NVidia NSight for Visual Studio in Windows and CUDA-GDB on Linux. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from New York University, and was a member of the Ultracomputer Project at NYU and the Distributed Sensor Network Project at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Chris Gottbrath
Principal Product Manager for TotalView and ThreadSpotter
Rogue Wave Software

Chris Gottbrath is Principal Product Manager for TotalView and ThreadSpotter at Rogue Wave Software. He's worked with the TotalView debugger for 12 years in a range of technical and marketing roles. Prior to that he wrote his fair share of bugs in linux-based numerical simulations of galaxy dynamics and large scale structure as a graduate student in Tucson, AZ. He received a Masters of Science in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Arizona.

Peter Lankford
Founder and director
STAC, the Securities Technology Analysis Center

Peter Lankford is founder and director of STAC, the Securities Technology Analysis Center (www.STACresearch.com), which provides hands-on technology research and testing tools to the trading industry. STAC facilitates the STAC Benchmark Council™, a group of leading trading organizations and vendors that engages in technical dialog and specifies standard ways to measure the performance of trading solutions. Members can use standardized STAC Test Harnesses™ in the privacy of their own labs to compare the performance of their trading systems to published STAC Benchmarks.

Prior to STAC, Peter was Senior Vice President of Information Management Solutions at Reuters, where he led the $240M market data systems business. Peter’s team led Reuters into the business of low-latency direct exchange feeds and catalyzed the widespread adoption of Linux on Wall Street by making the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) the first major product for the securities industry on that platform. Prior to Reuters, Peter held management positions at Citibank, First Chicago Corp., and operating-system maker IGC. Peter has an MBA, Masters in International Relations, and Bachelors in Chemistry from the University of Chicago.

David Rukshin
Senior Vice President
D.E. Shaw Group

David is a Senior Vice President at the D. E. Shaw group, a global investment firm. David is currently responsible for infrastructure platform for the firm's electronic trading businesses.

Richard Reichgut
Principal Financial Services Industry
Greenplum, a Division of EMC.

Previously, as the director of financial services for the Collaborate Software Initiative (CSI), Richard Reichgut was responsible for leading the company’s sales and business development in its financial services practice. In this role, he developed the CSI Open Market Data (OMD) initiative and spearheaded its successful customer participation program. Prior to that Reichgut headed up Financial Services Industry Marketing at AMD, where he was responsible for the company’s financial services strategy.

Erik Melander
Senior Director
Forsythe Technology Solutions

As senior director, Erik Melander help manages Forsythe’s Technology Solutions Group. He has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to his role at Forsythe, Melander was chief technology officer at Paragon Solutions Group. He was responsible for the technical sales organization, professional services organization and establishing strategic direction.

Jason Waxman
GM, Cloud Infrastructure Group
DCSG

As senior director, Erik Melander help manages Forsythe’s Technology Solutions Group. He has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to his role at Forsythe, Melander was chief technology officer at Paragon Solutions Group. He was responsible for the technical sales organization, professional services organization and establishing strategic direction.

Dave Malik
Solutions Architect
Cisco

Michael Henderson
Chief Architect
Direct Edge

Neal Secher
Morgan Stanley

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

More speakers and topics to come.