Speakers | 2012 High Performance Computing Financial Markets Show and Conference, April 2, 2012, Monday, Roosevelt Hotel at Grand Central Station, NY

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2011 High Performance Linux Financial Markets Show & Conference, April 2, 2012

2011 Speakers

	Jean Staten Healy Director, Cross-IBM Linux, IBM Corporation 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.

	Steve Pawlowski Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel Architecture Group, Intel Stephen S. Pawlowski is an Intel Senior Fellow, chief technology officer for the Intel Architecture Group, and general manager for Cross-IAG Architecture and Pathfinding for Intel Corporation. He is responsible for ensuring architectural consistency across all Intel® Architecture and implementation of initiatives such as security and manageability across Intel® Core™ and Atom™ product lines. Pawlowski joined Intel in 1982. He led the design of the first Multibus I Single Board Computer based on the 386 processor. He was a lead architect and designer for Intel's early desktop PC and high performance server products and was the co-architect for Intel's first P6 based server chipsets. He helped define the system bus interfaces for Intel's P6 family processors, the Pentium® 4 processor and Itanium™ processor. He also created and led the research for Intel's agile radio architecture for a future generation of wireless products, he was the director of Corporate Technology Group's Microprocessor Technology Lab and prior to his current assignment he was the CTO of the Intel Architecture Group and General Manager of the DEG Architecture and Planning. Pawlowski graduated from the Oregon Institute of Technology in 1982 with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering technology and computer systems engineering technology, and received a master's degree in computer science and engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute in 1993. Pawlowski holds 56 patents in the area of system, and microprocessor technologies. He has received three Intel Achievement Awards.

	Vikram Mehta CEO, BLADE Network Technologies, an IBM Company Vikram Mehta 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

	Feargal O'Sullivan VP, Platform Development, NYSE Technologies Feargal O'Sullivan is the Vice President of Platform Development for NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext and the world's leading provider of end-to-end electronic trading solutions. Mr. O'Sullivan is responsible for developing a highly secure, dedicated financial services community platform that supports compute, storage, and applications ‘as-a-service' from a wide-range of market participants. By leveraging NYSE Euronext's Secure Financial Transactions Infrastructure's (SFTI) global wide area network and state-of-the-art Liquidity Centers in Mahwah, NJ and Basildon, Essex, the NYSE Technologies platform is the go-to platform to host and deploy mission-critical financial services applications. Mr. O'Sullivan's previously served as Head of Trading Solutions for NYSE Technologies in which he managed the enterprise software solutions business across North and South America. Covering the complete trading life-cycle from quote-to-trade confirmation, NYSE Technologies' Trading Solutions deliver ultra high-performance direct market data feed handlers, next-generation middleware, tick capture and analytics, and highly-optimized gateways to a wide range of trading venues. These products combine into a customizable solution that enables financial services firms to build industry-leading and high performing trading platforms. Mr. O'Sullivan has more than 15 years of experience helping financial services firms build and deploy front-office trading platforms. In 1995, Mr. O'Sullivan joined the end-user technology group at BlackRock Financial Management, where he supported a wide-range of business users until moving to TIBCO Finance Technology, Inc. in 1997 as a field engineer. At TIBCO, he initially focused on client installations but soon moved to pre-sales engineering and large scale project management. When TIBCO Finance merged into Reuters America, LLC., he served seven years as a senior sales person with a focus on the Reuters Market Data System as well as TIBCO integration products. Mr. O'Sullivan holds a Bachelor's Degree from University College Dublin, Ireland, with a double-major in History and Philosophy.

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

	Mats Andersson CTO, NASDAQ OMX

	Jayshree Ullal President, CEO, Arista Networks

	Dr. Eng Lim Goh CTO, Senior Vice President, SGI Dr. Eng Lim Goh joined SGI in 1989, becoming a chief engineer in 1998 and chief technology officer in 2001. He oversees technical computing programs; with the goal to develop the next generation computer architecture for the new many-core era. Correspondingly, he also works on solutions to massively parallel rendering. Between these two efforts, he has been granted four U.S. patents. In 2005, the IDG publication, InfoWorld, named Dr. Goh one of World's 25 most influential CTOs. That same year, he was also included in the HPCwire list of "15 People to Watch." In 2007, he was named "Champions 2.0" of the industry by BioIT World magazine, and received the HPC Community Recognition Award from HPCwire. Before joining SGI, Dr. Goh worked for Intergraph Systems, Schlumberger Wireline and Shell Research. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, he completed his Ph.D. research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics. He also holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University, U.K.

	Nan Boden 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).

	Michael Feldman Editor, HPCwire

	Peter ffoulkes Vice President Marketing, Adaptive Computing – Representing Novell & Microsoft Peter ffoulkes has over twenty years of diversified international experience in enterprise and high performance computing including positions in management, business and product strategy development, product marketing, sales and training with leading international information technology companies. His most recent positions were director of outbound marketing at ClearSpeed Technology, director of marketing for high performance computing at Sun Microsystems and director and principal analyst for the Worldwide Workstation Computing program at Gartner Dataquest.

	Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Editorial Director, Money Management Group, 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.

	James E. Hoffman Vice President Advanced Technologies Group, Tekmark Global Solutions James E Hoffman is Vice President, Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), for Tekmark Global Solutions LLC, one of the largest privately held providers of information technology, communications and consulting services to companies worldwide. The ATG Team offers consulting services to our large enterprise clients. Our areas of expertise include security, application optimization services, low latency network optimization, IP Telephony, enterprise management, and application development. Our key vertical focus areas are financial services, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications. Mr. Hoffman has over 20 years of experience serving the technology industry; and is a recognized industry expert with a focus area on large-scale global projects. Prior to joining Tekmark Global Solutions Mr. Hoffman was President and CEO of Vision Technology Partners, Inc. "VTP" a specialized consulting group focusing on Security, IP Telephony, Application Acceleration, WAN Optimization, and Enterprise Network Management, VTP provided support to various markets including the financial sector, retail, transportation, and the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, VTP was often sought out by large hardware manufactures to support their products within key accounts. In the late 1990 to early 2000s, James Hoffman was a distinguished engineer for the presidents Tiger Team working at Avnet Enterprise Solutions, at the time, one of the largest publicly traded solutions providers in the world. In that role Mr. Hoffman was responsible for the design, support, and executive sponsorship of key enterprise solutions for Avnet ES. Previously, Mr. Hoffman was the eastern region Senior Engineering Overlay for Siemens ICN at that time the second largest company in the world. In this role Mr. Hoffman developed advanced technology solutions and products to support major accounts primarily up and down the east coast and sometimes when required around the globe. Mr. Hoffman worked on special projects for Siemens that included corporate strategy, development, marketing, solutions engineering, and vision planning. James Hoffman earned a B.S. Degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from Trinity College. In Addition to his Bachelors degree Mr. Hoffman has held multiple certifications from Cisco Systems, 3COM, Foundry, APC, Siemens, Avaya, Nortel, Hewlett Packard, and others. He has also contributed to various industry publications and white papers. Mr. Hoffman is also an active advisory member for various industry leading hardware manufactures.

	Jason Tesarz Torrey Point Group Director of Engineering, Northeast Resident Expert on NAC Deployment Having led over 50 NAC deployments and counting, Jason Tesarz is the most recognized expert for NAC (Network Access Control) deployments. Jason comes to Torrey Point after Defigo Systems, a company he co‐founded, was acquired by Torrey Point in January 2011. Jason's networking career started while still a high school student, as a Quality Assurance Engineer at Healtheon. Jason's career continued to grow and evolve and he has held several networking positions with various companies including, working as a Quality Assurance Engineer at Neoteris and as a Sr. Security Consultant for Juniper. Jason has in‐depth and intimate knowledge of data center and NAC deployment and has worked with numerous financial institutions on projects related to low‐latency trading and audit and regulatory compliance.

	Chuck Dubuque Product Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Chuck Dubuque is the Product Marketing Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and is responsible for market analysis, program strategy, and channel support. Prior to joining Red Hat, he worked for three years at a mid-sized VAR (value-added reseller) where he experienced both the marketing and engineering of enterprise hardware and software, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware, Microsoft Windows Server, NetApp, IBM, Cisco, and Dell. Earlier in his career, Chuck spent eight years in the biotechnology space in marketing and business development. He earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.

	Subhendu Ghosh Product Manager RHEL, Red Hat Subhendu Ghosh has been with Red Hat for over 5 years and is the product management lead for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Prior to joining Red Hat, Subhendu held positions in engineering at Qwest Communications and network management systems at AT&T among other companies.

	Tom Befi Vice President of Information Systems Services, 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.

	Edward Epstein Manager of Unstructured Information, IBM Research As part of the Watson/Deep QA project, Edward Epstein is responsible for scaling out Watson's computation over thousands of compute cores in order to achieve the speed needed to be competitive in a live Jeopardy! game. For the past seven years, Mr. Epstein has been manager of the IBM team doing ongoing development of Apache UIMA. Originally an internal IBM Research project, Apache UIMA is an open source, highly scalable, multimodal framework used to create applications doing deep analysis of natural human language text and speech. Mr. Epstein also previously contributed as a Research Staff Member and manager to IBM's development of large vocabulary speech recognition technology. Before coming to IBM, Mr. Epstein worked for Technicon Instruments on development of the first automated white blood cell differential system based on flow-through cytochemical analysis.

	Stanley Young CEO, NYSE Technologies Stanley Young is Chief Executive Officer for NYSE Technologies, NYSE Euronext's commercial technology business. 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. A division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), NYSE Technologies provides comprehensive transaction, data and infrastructure services and managed solutions for buy-side, sell-side and exchange communities that require next-generation performance and expertise for mission critical and value-added client services. With the acquisition of NYFIX in November 2009, NYSE Technologies now provides a vital and unique connectivity link between the buy-side and sell-side at the point of origin in the trade flow process. This includes more than 450 buy-side institutions and more than 600 sell-side institutions, and connections to exchanges and other electronic trade execution venues around the world. 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.

	Dan Potts Fusion IO Dan Potts is a Consulting Systems Engineer for Fusion-io who brings more than 20 years of sales and engineering experience to the company, having worked with both large organizations and startups. He has served in an engineering capacity at IBM, HP and EMC. Dan has also held positions at Ocarina, StorageNetworks, Sequent, and CLSI, Inc. Dan has a deep technical knowledge of storage memory architectures, SAN and NAS disk arrays, switched-fibre environments with large arrays, UNIX and Windows servers, SMP and NUMA architectures, Dynix/ptx OS, Oracle, Informix and backup solutions.

	Jarrod Yuster CEO, Pico Quantitative Trading Jarrod Yuster is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pico Quantitative Trading (PQTSM), an agency broker dealer that specializes in providing multi-asset electronic trading services. PQT offers expert assistance in low latency trading needs ranging from client coverage to technology development along with market structure, stock loan, clearing and co-location trading. Mr. Yuster has more than 15 years of experience in institutional equity trading. Most recently, Mr. Yuster was a Managing Director and Global Head of Merrill Lynch's Portfolio and Electronic Trading, where he oversaw the business from inception in 2002 until February, 2009. He was responsible for sales, trading, risk, service, product development and quantitative analytics for these products worldwide. His trading products reached over 85 global equity markets and were used by institutional clients, hedge funds, broker dealers and retail clients as well as Merrill Lynch's internal trading desks. His team built electronic and quantitative trading strategies and provided consulting to clients on execution, transaction cost analysis, trading technology and market structure. Mr. Yuster was on the equity management committee responsible for strategic investments and partnerships and held several Director and Advisory roles for portfolio companies and industry committees (including a member of the NSX Board of Directors, OES Marketgroup Board of Directors, FTEN Advisory Board, the NYSE electronic trading committee (ELTAC), and a NYSE seat in his name representing Merrill Lynch). Mr. Yuster has extensive experience starting trading businesses. Before joining Merrill Lynch, he led the quantitative and automated trading efforts in the portfolio trading group at Schwab Capital Markets. He has also held positions in quantitative research and program trading at Bank of America Securities and Deutsche Bank Securities, both start-up trading desks. Mr. Yuster received his M.S. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1995 and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1993. Prior to his career on Wall Street, he worked as a product engineer, performing semiconductor research at Intel Corporation. Mr. Yuster serves on the Advisory Council for the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI), providing mentorship to Yale student entrepreneurs. Mr. Yuster is an active early stage investor in and advisor for numerous technology and services companies including PaperG, YouRenew, Soft Tissue Regeneration, Dataminr, SocialSci, Hadapt, StarStreet, and others.