Speakers

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2010 High Performance Linux Financial Markets Show & Conference, April 19, 2010

Featured Speaker William F. Adiletta President, TekFinancial Solutions

Featured Speaker Mats Andersson CTO, NASDAQ New York, NY

Featured Speaker Andy Bechtolsheim Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman, Arista Networks As Chief Development Officer, Andy Bechtolsheim is responsible for the overall product development and technical direction of Arista Networks. Previously Andy was a Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, where most recently he was responsible for industry standard server architecture. Andy was also a Founder and President of Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet startup acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996. From 1996 until 2003 Andy served as VP/GM of the Gigabit Systems Business Unit at Cisco that developed the very successful Catalyst 4500 family of switches. Andy was also a Founder and President of Kealia, a next generation server company acquired by Sun in 2004. Andy received an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a Ph.D. Student at Stanford University from 1977 until 1982.

Featured Speaker Thomas M. Befi Vice President of Information Systems Services Insurance Services Office, Inc. Tom Befi is Vice President of Information Systems Services at Insurance Services Office, Inc. Mr. Befi is responsible for ISO IT Infrastructure, Operations and Customer Technical Support. Mr. Befi has worked at Insurance Services Office, Inc. for more than twenty years holding positions of increasing responsibility. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry New York.

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

Featured Speaker Ed Bugnion Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Cisco Systems Ed Bugnion is the Vice President and Chief Technical Officer at Cisco for the Server Access Virtualization Business Unit. Bugnion joined Cisco with the acquisition of Nuova Systems, a company that he co-founded in 2005. Prior to Nuova Systems, Bugnion was the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of VMware, where he served from 1998 until 2005. Prior to VMware, Bugnion did graduate work at Stanford University in the areas of virtualization, simulation, and computer architecture, and worked at DEC’s Western Research Laboratory. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from ETH Zurich and an master's degree from Stanford University both in Computer Science.

Featured Speaker Tom Donnelly Sr. Product Marketing Manager Fujitsu America Inc.

Featured Speaker Nicolas Dubé, Ph. D. Technical Director, High-Performance Computing Oracle Corporation As a member of the Strategic Engagements Team at Sun, Nicolas Dube works with superscale HPC customers to design and deploy world-class supercomputers, primarily Top50. Following the acquisition by Oracle, his responsibilities have evolved into a broader focus to flow down bleeding-edge HPC solutions to large enterprise customers. Previously, Nicolas was technical advisor for CLUMEQ, where he initiated and drove the design of CLUMEQ’s silo datacenter. Nicolas holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering and economics from Laval University, proposing a futures exchange for commoditized compute resources.

Featured Speaker Antonio Hallak Head of Global Arbitrage Trading IT Credit Suisse, New York, NY

Featured Speaker Per Hansen Senior Director, Enterprise Marketing, Ciena Per Hansen is a Senior Director, Enterprise Marketing at Ciena, where he is focused on the networking needs of our enterprise customers. Prior to joining Ciena in September 2008, Per was Senior Director, North American Enterprise Sales and Business Development at ADVA Optical Networking, where he worked with service providers and enterprises on their application and networking needs, as well as guided the prioritization of product development. Prior to joining ADVA in June 2004, Per was one of five founding professionals who established Photuris Inc., which developed optical communication networking equipment primarily for the Regional Bell Operating Companies and the Competitive Local Exchange Carriers. Prior to 2000, he had served as Senior Manager of Lucent Technologies’ Network Product Groups and, before that, was a Research Scientist for Bell Labs. Per holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds 21 patents and has shared his expertise at more than 70 industry events and in more than 50 publications.

Featured Speaker Tom Hansen Principal Analyst, STAC Tom has over 21 years of hands-on experience in trading technology. In his four years with STAC (the Securities Technology Analysis Center), Tom has led path-breaking benchmarks of emerging network, compute, messaging, caching, feed handling, and event-processing technologies. Tom is currently the lead auditor for STAC-M Benchmarks, the customer-driven benchmark standards for market data feed handlers, messaging middleware, and tick databases. With the accelerating uptake of STAC-M throughout the industry, Tom's remit is to work with vendors and customers to get maximum value from STAC Test Harnesses and to ensure that benchmarks intended for public release are properly executed. Prior to STAC, Tom was with Reuters. As global product manager for Reuters APIs, Tom brought to market multiple versions of the Reuters SFC API and Reuters Foundation API. As an experienced C++ and Java developer, Tom also led development of the C++ SFC API and Reuters SSL Java Edition and contributed to development of the Triarch infrastructure. Tom has Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Featured Speaker Jean Staten Healy Director of Cross-IBM Linux Strategy Jean Staten Healy manages a marketing and business development organization with the responsibility for IBM Linux strategy across all company brands. 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 M.A. degree in theoretical linguistics and a J.D. 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.

Featured Speaker Nicholas Kamparosyan Linux & Virtualization Global Business Unit, Oracle With a keen eye towards helping clients understand and use emerging technology, Nicholas Kamparosyan holds key responsibility for Linux and virtualization field sales to Oracle’s largest enterprise clients. His professional experience began in consulting, and grew from serving industries that include financial, telecom, media, pharmaceutical, and retail. He earned an M.S. from Drexel University.

Featured Speaker Dave Malik Director, Solution Architecture Cisco Systems Dave Malik is a Director of Solutions Architecture in Cisco’s Advanced Services organization responsible for developing data center architectures and low latency strategies for Financial Services firms. For the past 10 years, he has been involved in developing solutions to support market data and trading floor applications. Dave is active in industry forums and is an author of several publications. He has also been focusing lately on cloud computing and virtualization strategies as they pertain to the Financial Services vertical. Dave holds 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 Doug O'Flaherty Product Marketing Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Douglas O'Flaherty is the Product Marketing Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the leading commercial Linux distribution. In addition to leading global outbound marketing, his team is also responsible for the enterprise feedback and market direction that helps shape Red Hat's releases and lifecycle. Doug joined Red Hat in 2009 from AMD, where he led marketing for compute intensive workloads for seven years. His work at AMD covered several vertical marketing including Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Financial Services. Prior to AMD, he held senior positions in several start ups - one of which was successfully sold, one which continues to grow and one whose technology lives on, though the company did not.

Featured Speaker Feargal O'Sullivan Head of Enterprise Software, America 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™ and shared-memory based middleware, Data Fabric™.

Featured Speaker Raymond Russell Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder Corvil Raymond is a founder of Corvil and co-inventor of its core technology. He started his career as a research assistant under Prof. John Lewis in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). There he worked with John and Fergal Toomey (Principal Scientist with Corvil) in pioneering the measurement of the Large Deviation properties of packet-switched network traffic. In 1997, Raymond completed his Ph.D. thesis on the transformation of stochastic processes under random time-changes, and took up a part-time Assistant Professorship in DIAS. He used the rest of his time to work with Lewis and Toomey on the foundations of Corvil, which he joined full-time in 2000. He used a central result of his thesis to apply the original form of the technology to IP networks. 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 fulfillment of Corvil’s innovations with a focus on applications and infrastructure in capital market. Recently, Raymond has led intensive investigations into latency issues impacting proprietary trading firm applications and utilized this experience to improve Corvil’s product offering.

Featured Speaker Leonard J. Santalucia CTO, Business Development Manager, Certified Specialist, Vicom Infinity, Inc. Len Santalucia has been in the IT industry since 1973. He is presently the CTO and the Business Development Manager for Vicom Infinity, Inc. Len is also a 27 year IBM veteran. Len was a Senior Consulting Certified Sales Specialist for IBM Americas Linux Impact Team and a Certified IBM eServer Systems and IT Specialist. He was also the first member of the elite IBM Linux Impact Team formed in 2000. In this role, he specialized in Linux, Open Systems, Large Scale Virtualization, Object Oriented, LAN, and Web 2.0 technologies for the Financial Services and Banking Sector. Len is a key liaison in providing IBM customer requirements into the IBM STG hardware lab and IBM Software Group. He is also frequently sought after for presenting IBM's STG Hardware, Software, Linux, Virtualization, and OSS Strategy and Directions at the IBM Executive Briefing Centers, IBM Linux Center of Competence, IBM Palisades Conference Center, IBM Hawthorne Research Center, IBM Top Gun Classes, Technical Conferences, Consultant Conferences, as well as to individual customers all over the world.

Featured Speaker Dr. Chuck Seitz, Founder & President, Myricom Chuck Seitz earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees from MIT, and during the 17 years prior to founding Myricom in 1994 was a Professor of Computer Science at Caltech. Among Chuck's many professional honors, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1992 "for pioneering contributions to the design of asynchronous and concurrent computing systems."

Featured Speaker Jim Theodoras VP Technology, Office of the CTO, ADVA Optical Networking Jim Theodoras is currently Vice President of Technology, Office of the CTO at ADVA Optical Networking working on multi-protocol optical transport products for enterprises and service providers. He is currently focused on low-latency transport of Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fibre Channel traffic, and specifically solving challenges unique to Financial Markets. Jim has over 20 years experience in the fields of both optical transport and Ethernet switching, including technical positions at Cisco Systems and Alcatel Networks. Jim was optical liaison editor for IEEE Communication Magazine from 2006-2010. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Ethernet Alliance, as well as chairing its Carrier Ethernet subcommittee. Jim has 14 patents in the fields of telecommunication, is a frequent contributor to industry publications, presenter at international conferences, and an active contributor to the Blogosphere.

Featured Speaker Carl Trieloff Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

Featured Speaker Bob Van Valzah Director, Product Marketing 29West, now a part of Informatica Bob left TIBCO in 2004 to be one of the 4 founders of 29West. They defined a new market for ultra-low-latency messaging and pioneered the daemonless, serverless design that now sets all the performance standards. Now that all of 29West is a part of Informatica, their leadership is expected to grow even stronger. Bob was in on the ground floor of microprocessors in 1975, C in 1977, Unix and the ARPAnet in 1979, TCP/IP and the Internet in 1985, the World Wide Web in 1992, and reliable multicast in 1998, all culminating in the birth of low-latency messaging. Bob has a pair of Computer Science degrees from the University of Illinois, but he tries hard not to let those get in the way of communicating with people who have business problems to solve.

Featured Speaker Stanley Young, CEO NYSE Technologies and co-Global CIO NYSE, Euronext, New York, NY Stanley Young is Chief Executive Officer for NYSE Technologies and co-global Chief Information Officer of NYSE Euronext. NYSE Euronext (NYSE/New York and Euronext/Paris: NYX) operates the world's largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext, which brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges, is a world leader for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds and the distribution of market data. Mr. Young is CEO for NYSE Technologies, the world’s leading provider of comprehensive transaction, data and infrastructure services and managed solutions for buy-side, sell-side and exchange communities. NYSE Technologies’ flexible and scalable products deliver robust and integrated solutions, from single trading positions to complete exchange platforms. Mr. Young is also Co-Global CIO of NYSE Euronext and works with Steve Rubinow (Co-Global CIO) to combine and leverage NYSE Euronext’s technology across North America and Europe as a result of the recent insourcing of Atos Euronext Market Solutions (AEMS). Mr. Young and Mr. Rubinow are jointly responsible for delivering the group’s strategies to implement the universal trading platform (UTP) and managing the technology unit of NYSE Euronext. From 11th June 2007, Mr. Young was the Chief Executive of AEMS, the leading global provider of technology solutions for exchanges, clearing houses, banks, brokers, and intermediaries, until its incorporation into NYSE Euronext on 6th August 2008. As a result of this transaction, NYSE Euronext acquired ownership of the NSC cash trading and LIFFE CONNECT® derivatives trading platform technology and all of the management and development services surrounding these platforms as well as AEMS’s third-party exchange technology business. Mr. Young joined AEMS from Hewlett-Packard where he was Head of the FSI Consulting & Integration business in North America. Prior to this he was Worldwide Director of Financial Markets. Mr. Young has held senior partner positions in Capco and Accenture with accountability for the Global Capital Markets and Market Infrastructure businesses. He also spent more than 11 years at the London Stock Exchange as Director for New Strategy Development responsible for the implementation of the Exchange's trading and trade management systems.

Featured Speaker Robert C. Zak, Sr. Platform Architect Digital Enterprise Group, Intel

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 Paul Jameson Global Senior Director Financial Services Cisco Systems Paul currently serves as Cisco’s global marketing and solution development director for financial services; covering financial markets, retail banking and insurance. Paul is a veteran business leader and information technology professional with more than 26 years of success in executive management, business development, marketing, sales, and delivery of business solutions covering software, services, outsourcing, and consulting. Paul joins Cisco from Getronics/KPN, a $3.1 billion global IT software and services company, where he was senior vice president of global Financial Business solutions. Paul also served as vice president of sales and marketing for Getronics North America, where he was responsible for all elements of sales, marketing and strategy within the North American theatre. Prior to Getronics, Paul was President and CEO of e-Bank™, a leader in multi-channel information integration and customer relationship management solutions for the financial services industry. Prior to e-Bank, Paul was the vice president of North American Banking for Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, served as President of Fiserv’s information management business unit, as well as senior vice president of Fiserv’s bank outsourcing business. He began his career at Mellon Bank where he held both product management and consulting positions within their outsourcing division. Paul holds a bachelor’s degree in business management and finance from Franklin and Marshall College.

Moderator Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Editor-in-Chief, Securities Industry News 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.