Overview (Home Page) | 2012 High Performance Computing Financial Markets Show and Conference, April 8, 2013, Monday, Roosevelt Hotel at Grand Central Station, NY

April 8, 2013 | Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY
Next to Grand Central Station on East 45th St and Madison Avenue, Midtown, New York

2013 Speakers

	William F. Adiletta Partner Capco Bill has has over 25 years of experience leading some of the most significant innovations in the Financial and Telecommunications industries; and is a recognized expert in global trading systems and large-scale software development. Before joining Capco, Bill was President of TekFinancial. Preceding TekFinancial, he was the CIO of Global Crossing responsible for consolidating the technology infrastructure of its global acquisitions and centralizing worldwide information systems and controls. Upon Global Crossing's acquisitions of IX Net and IPC Bill was CTO for both organizations. Prior to his positions with Global Crossing, Bill was president of the Capital Markets division of OptiMark Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of trade order matching facilities for global securities markets and exchanges. He originally joined OptiMark as the CTO and developed three complete exchange systems at the Pacific Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the Osaka Stock Exchange. Previously, Bill was President and COO of Market Vision, a leader in Electronic Trading Systems for Equity, Fixed Income, and Foreign Exchange as well as real-time middleware. Bill Adiletta earned a B.A. in Physics from the University of Connecticut, and an M.S. in Physics from DePaul University in Chicago.

	Jeffrey M. Birnbaum Founder and CEO 60 East 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.

	Nan Boden President CEO Myricom Nanette (Nan) Boden is the CEO of Myricom, a successful Caltech spin-off founded in 1994. Myricom, a leading pioneer and innovator in high-performance computer networking, has evolved to become the technology leader in extreme-performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) solutions specialized for vertical markets. Over the years at Myricom, Dr. Boden has migrated from the techie world to the business world. She became Executive Vice President in 1999, a member of Myricom's Board of Directors in 2001, and was named CEO in 2010. Nan earned her BS degree from the University of Alabama in Applied Mathematics, and her MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Caltech. Nan's PhD research in "Runtime Systems for Fine-Grain Multicomputers" led directly into her work at Myricom, where she wrote the software that controlled the company's first products. With the goal of adding formal business education to her hard-won business experience, Nan is pursuing her MBA at UCLA (degree expected summer 2011).

	Donal Byrne CEO Corvil

	Nick Ciarleglio Senior Systems Engineer Arista Networks Nick Ciarleglio is currently a Senior Systems Engineer and Financial Services Product Manager at Arista Networks. Nick arrived at Arista Networks in 2008 as the company’s first Systems Engineer. In his current role, Nick is responsible for network architecture consulting in the financial services vertical, and has specifically focused on end to end low-latency architectures. Nick also provides field feedback and "real world" expertise to the Arista development teams. Prior to his arrival at Arista, Nick was a Senior Technical Consultant for Hewlett Packard.

	Mike Day Chief Virtualization Architect IBM Corporation Mike Day is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is the Chief Virtualization Architect for IBM's Open Systems Group. Mike has designed or developed technologies used every day by millions of people including network operating systems, internet protocols, systems management, security, and virtualization. Mike has many patents, has authored key technology standards, written books, and worked on commercially successful products for companies including Novell, Intel, IBM, and a two start-up companies. Today Mike focuses on Linux and Open Source Virtualization technology. Mike lead IBM's entry into open-source hypervisor development with the Xen hypervisor, and now directs IBM's Open Source Virtualization development efforts. Mike graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Philosophy.

	Jean Staten Healy Director WW Cross-IBM Linux & Open Virtualization IBM Corporation Jean Staten Healy manages a marketing and business development organization with the responsibility for IBM Linux strategy and marketing across all company brands and the relationship with IBM's Linux Distribution Partners. In this role she coordinates the cross-company strategy for Linux including the achievement of revenue goals, ensures rapid response to changes in the market environment and acts as the IBM spokesperson in the Linux space. Prior to her current position, Ms. Staten Healy was the Director of Marketing Strategy in the IBM Software Group, Director of Business Development and Regulatory Affairs in the IBM Systems and Technology Group, Director of Innovation Initiatives at IBM Corporate Headquarters. and the IBM Customer Advocate in the Office of the Chairman and CEO. In addition, she has held management positions in the IBM Global Services Group. Ms. Staten Healy has lived and worked in Asia. She holds a Masters degree in theoretical linguistics and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree with a Certificate of Concentration in International Law. Ms. Staten Healy is licensed to practice law in the States of New York and Connecticut and is a published author on various legal topics.

	William Henry Senior Consulting Software Engineer Red Hat William Henry has more than over 20 years experience developing large- scale, distributed systems and service- oriented architectures (SOA) for both government and private industryies (, including: finance, telecommunications, health care, transportation, animation, and software product development). ThisHis experience includes extensive use of open, standard, and proprietary technologies, deploying and integrating enterprise -class applications and services. William has worked in engineering, product development, professional services, and partner alliances and has held several management positions. William currently works in the office of the CTO at Red Hat with a specific focus on emerging technologies including advanced messaging and cloud product lines. He has helped deploy large- scale grids, developed AMQP- based applications, and more recently worked with Red Hat CloudForms and OpenSshift by Red Hatand Cloudforms. He is currently working on various AMQP integration and interoperability projects with both customers and partners. William has been guest speaker and expert panelist at various industry events, including the Red Hat Summit, OMG, JavaOne, and TheServerSide, and other industry events. William holds both B.S.a bachelor’s and master’s degrees and M.S. in Computer Science from Dublin City University, Ireland, and now lives in Colorado, USA.

	Jan Mark Holzer Senior Consulting Engineer Red Hat Jan Mark Holzer is a senior consulting engineer and member of Red Hat’s CTO office. Jan helps Red Hat’s large and strategic customers leverage new and emerging technologies in their IT environments. This includes building proof-of-concept deployments, as well as working with customers to (re)architect their IT environments around open source technologies. As a member of the CTO office, Jan is leading the team responsible for emerging technologies. He also is the primary interface for customers into Red Hat’s R&D organization and CTO office. His current focus is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, virtualization, cloud computing, large-system scalability, and many other emerging technologies in the Linux and datacenter space.

	Paul Jameson Managing Director Global Financial Services Cisco Systems

	Moiz Kohari VP Advance Platforms 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.

	Dave Malik Senior Director Advanced Services Cisco Systems 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.

	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.

	Adam Sussman Partner Director of Research TABB Group

	Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Editor-in-Chief Securities Technology Monitor SourceMedia 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.

	Dino Vitale Director Morgan Stanley Cross Technology Services

	Emile Werr Vice President & Head of Product Development 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.

	Jamon Bowen Technical Marketing Manager, Accelerated Solutions Division LSI Corporation Jamon Bowen is a Technical Marketing Manager in the Accelerated Solutions Division of LSI Corporation, focusing on real-world use cases for SSDs and support for end user proof-of-concepts. Previously, Jamon was Director of Sales Engineering and Customer Support at Texas Memory Systems, Inc. He was a member of the board of directors of SNIA’s Solid State Storage Initiative and has been deploying and supporting enterprise SSD deployments since 2004. Prior to moving into technical sales and marketing, he worked as a developer. Jamon has an Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s degree from Colorado School of Mines, with a minor in Computer Science.

	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.

	Michael Wacey Managing Principal Capco Michael Wacey is a Managing Principal in Technology Services. He has prior consulting experience in multiple industries including the Financial Services at CSC Consulting. Michael's areas of focus include: Bank Retail and Commercial Customer Profitability, Solution Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, Methodology, Project Estimation, and SOA. Past financial services clients include Citi Bank, JP Morgan Chase, MetLife, Munic RE, Compass Bank, and Bank of Montreal. Michael has been successful in delivering Customer Profitability, Data Warehouse, and other solutions. Prior to CSC Michael started ASI Financial Services with two Partners to deliver Customer Profitability Solutions to major banks. They sold ASI to FiServ in 1998. Michael decided to join Capco because the company focuses on the Financial Services industry. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Drexel University and a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis. Michael holds an Adjunct appointment in the Graduate Computer Science Department of LaSalle University and teaches 1-3 courses each year.

	Douglas Rich General Manager Americas Storage Made Easy Doug has over 25 years experience in the technology industry leading numerous organizations from infancy to steady growth in many different markets. He is recognized for his ability to identify technological innovation and develop a business around them. Prior to Storage Made Easy, Doug worked building enterprise operations at Ipswitch File Transfer, EMC and DataMotion. Doug was also General Manager at Gigaspaces, where he built them into a leading player in the high performance computing space. Doug led a team at Vericept, a pioneer in the Data Loss Prevention space. Doug also had success in the contact center space with Tellme and Kana. Before that he managed teams for Verity (enterprise search) and Gupta (database and client server). It is this breadth of experience that gives Doug great insight into the converging markets around storage, big data, cloud computing, collaboration, security, and BYOD.

	Mike Stemmler Co-Founder, Cloud Partners

	David Stump Director Global SAP Alliance, NetApp As Director of the Global SAP Alliance, Dave Stump leads a large cross-functional team inside of NetApp in the development and implementation of go-to-market activities for selling and promoting NetApp solutions for SAP. This involves working with key pathways such as Global System Integrators, technology partners, the direct sales force and diverse channels. To ensure that these two companies find strong areas of synergy resulting in market-leading solutions, Dave brings decades of experience. For twelve years he implemented SAP solutions as a technical consultant and manager of SAP America, IBM and Clarkston Consulting. In addition, he led professional service and sales organizations for over fifteen years. Rounding out his managerial and technical expertise, he has over twenty-three years of commercial systems experience designing, implementing and supporting client-server based environments.

	Parisa Fathi Senior Product Manager NetApp

	Bill Zhang Senior Product Manager SAP AG

	Gil Tene CTO and co-founder Azul Systems Gil Tene is CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. He has been involved with virtual machine technologies for the past 20 years. Gil pioneered Azul's Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (C4), and various managed runtime and systems stack technologies that combine to deliver the industry's most scalable and robust Java platforms. Gil is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide, and an official JavaOne Rock Star. In 2006 he was named one of the Top 50 Agenda Setters in the technology industry by Silicon.com. Prior to co-founding Azul, Gil held key technology positions at Nortel Networks, Shasta Networks and at Check Point Software Technologies, where he designed ground breaking traffic management solutions. He architected OSs at Stratus Computer, HA solutions at Qualix/Legato, and served as an officer in the Israeli Navy Computer R&D unit. Gil holds a BSEE from The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and has been awarded 31 patents in computer-related technologies. Twitter: @giltene

>	Mike Stemmler Co-Founder Cloud Partners Michael is responsible for the overall strategic direction of Cloud Partners™ and manages day-do-day business operations. Michael has a long history in working with large global enterprises and maintains strong relationships within the IT and business IT community. Prior to starting Cloud Partners^TM, Michael was a Client Partner for Capco, an IT and business consulting firm focused on capital markets. Prior to that, and for the bulk of his career, he worked for HP/EDS where he began leading outsourcing deal-pursuit teams, and concluded with a role managing a business that included 1,100 people in 36 countries. During his tenure with HP Michael is credited with sourcing and closing more than $1.3b in new services revenues, including the first ever enterprise managed-service delivered from a cloud. Michael graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in English and Economics.

More speakers and topics to come.