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SEFCON II

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The Wholesale Markets Brokers' Association Americas

Monday, October 3, 2011,
Grand Hyatt Hotel at Grand Central Station, New York, NY

2011 Speakers

	Dr. John Bates Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Progress Software Dr. John Bates is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Progress Software. In this role, John is responsible for creating, evolving and evangelizing Progress' market strategy and technology vision. Prior to joining Progress, John was the Co-Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Apama, the pioneering Complex Event Processing (CEP) software vendor. In this role, John led Apama's technology and go-to-market strategy, including spearheading Apama’s pioneering work in algorithmic and high frequency trading, real-time risk and market surveillance. He was also co-inventor of Apama’s revolutionary and patented technology. In 2011, Wall Street and Technology named John one of the “10 innovators of the decade” for his work in CEP and capital markets. Additionally in 2011, Institutional Investor named John #38 in the "Top 50 Disruptors" in financial technology. In 2010, John was invited to join the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee - to advise on best practices for trading, risk and surveillance. In 2011, John was invited by the UK Government’s Financial Secretary to the Treasury to join “Foresight” – a group to advise the UK government on the future of computer trading in financial markets. Mr. Bernardo started his career in institutional brokerage in 1996 with Cantor Fitzgerald brokering US Treasuries. Mr. Bernardo moved off the trading desk to utilize his experience and knowledge of the US Treasury market in the further development and launching of the eSpeed electronic system. In 2003 Mr. Bernardo moved to ICAP and was responsible for successfully developing the fixed income market share on the Brokertec electronic platform and later was given responsibility and successfully launched their electronic CDS Index platform in Asia and New York. Mr. Bernardo, a graduate of St. Johns University New York, was a board member of the ConfirmHub and a founding board member and the current Chairman of the Wholesale Market Brokers Association, Americas.

	Shawn Bernardo Senior Managing Director of eBroking in the Americas Tullett Prebon Mr. Bernardo is a Senior Managing Director of eBroking in the Americas and sits on the North American executive committee at Tullett Prebon. Tullett Prebon is a leading global inter-dealer broker of over the counter securities. Subsequent to joining Tullett in 2006, he has spent the past five years building various electronic and hybrid platforms to promote more efficient markets in Fixed Income, Energy, Credit, FX Options and Rates. He is involved with all strategic investments and partnerships for the electronic business. Mr. Bernardo started his career in institutional brokerage in 1996 with Cantor Fitzgerald brokering US Treasuries. Mr. Bernardo moved off the trading desk to utilize his experience and knowledge of the US Treasury market in the further development and launching of the eSpeed electronic system. In 2003 Mr. Bernardo moved to ICAP and was responsible for successfully developing the fixed income market share on the Brokertec electronic platform and later was given responsibility and successfully launched their electronic CDS Index platform in Asia and New York. Mr. Bernardo, a graduate of St. Johns University New York, was a board member of the ConfirmHub and a founding board member and the current Chairman of the Wholesale Market Brokers Association, Americas.

	James Cawley CEO of Javelin Capital Markets Mr. Cawley is CEO of Javelin Capital Markets, an electronic trading venue for credit default and interest rate swaps. Javelin executed one of the markets first fully Dodd Frank compliant trades in August 2010. Javelin will register as a SEF, once the rules are promulgated. Mr. Cawley is a founder of the Swaps & Derivatives Market Association. The SDMA is an association of several dealers and clearing brokers that advocate successful OTC derivative clearing, open access and transparency. Mr. Cawley has testified several times before the House and Senate Banking Committees with regard to the Dodd Frank Act. At the invitation of both the SEC and CFTC, Mr. Cawley has participated on several industry roundtables on the subject of derivatives reform and market structure. Mr. Cawley has authored several papers and comment letters submitted to the US Congress, the CFTC, the SEC and the Federal Reserve with regard to derivatives regulation. Mr. Cawley has 20 years derivatives sales and trading experience. Most recently, Mr. Cawley ran a credit derivative interdealer broker called IDX Capital. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Cawley began his career in the credit and derivatives markets working for Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers and Bank of America.

	Congressman Mike Conaway 11th Congressional District of Texas Serving in his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Mike Conaway has earned the reputation as “a voice of reason” in Washington. Mike represents the 11th Congressional District of Texas consisting of 36 counties in Central and West Texas including Midland, Odessa and San Angelo. Mike’s background as a certified public accountant (CPA) has given him the credibility to be a vocal proponent of reducing the national debt. Mike believes it is time for Congress to make tough choices and has authored “No New Programs” legislation to change the House rules on spending to require that the creation of any new federal program be joined with the elimination of an existing federal program of equal or greater cost. Mike has also advocated for a simpler and fairer tax system in Congress and has sponsored legislation that would bring more accountability in government funding. Mike demonstrated leadership in numerous policy areas and currently serves as a Deputy Republican Whip in the 112th Congress. Mike currently serves on the House Agriculture, Intelligence, Armed Services, and Ethics Committees. As a member of the Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, he supports the goals of the Global War against Islamic Jihadist and our young men and women in the armed forces. He understands the sacrifices that are being made by our troops and their families. On the Agriculture Committee, Mike serves as Subcommittee Chairman of the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, a subcommittee that entails jurisdiction of programs and markets for major commercial crops such as cotton, wheat, and rice. It also has oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). A native Texan, Mike grew up in Odessa and played football at Permian High School where he was a member of the school’s first state championship football team. He earned a BBA degree in Accounting from Texas A & M University-Commerce in 1970. After serving in the Army at Fort Hood, Mike resumed his career with Price Waterhouse & Co. He settled in Midland where he later worked with George W. Bush as the Chief Financial Officer for Bush Exploration. Mike is an ordained deacon in the Baptist Church, he is married to Mrs. Suzanne Conaway of Midland and together they have four children and seven grandchildren.

	Sonali Das Theisen Director, Credit Trading Barclays Capital Sonali Das Theisen is a Director in Credit Trading at Barclays Capital, based in New York. Ms Theisen joined Barclays Capital in 2010 from Bloomberg LP, where she was the Global CDS Business Manager. Prior to that, she worked at Bear Stearns as a Credit Derivatives salesperson and at Goldman Sachs as a Credit Derivatives Trader and Marketer. Ms Theisen graduated cum laude in Economics and Spanish from Harvard University.

	Athanassios Diplas Managing Director Global Head Systemic Risk Management Group, CIB, Deutsche Bank Athanassios Diplas is a Managing Director and Global Head of the Systemic Risk Management Group. The group is in charge of the systemic risk issues and market structure initiatives in the global derivatives markets. Mr. Diplas currently co-chairs the ISDA Industry Governance Committee and the Credit Derivatives Steering Committee. He also served on the Market Resiliency Working Group of the Counterparty Risk Management Policy Group III. Until recently, Mr. Diplas was the Global Head of the Counterparty Portfolio Management Group and prior to that he was the Chief Risk Officer/Deputy COO of Global Credit Trading. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Diplas worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co as an emerging markets credit derivatives trader and also managed the counterparty risk trading book for the credit derivatives business. Mr. Diplas holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Astronomy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

	Chris Ferreri Managing Director ICAP Chris is a Managing Director at ICAP, currently managing the product design, development and deployment for ICAP's hybrid electronic and voice trading systems for the securities and derivatives markets in the US. He has been in the Inter Dealer Broker space for more than 25 years. ICAP is the world's largest interdealer broker with an average daily transaction volume in excess of $2.3 trillion, more than 50% of which is electronic. Across this broad product offering, ICAP's customer base ranges from small regional banks to multi-national corporations, Broker-Dealers and Commercial Banks. After receiving his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, he began his career as an Engineer for E. I. DuPont de Nemours. In 1984, Chris joined Garban's U.S. Treasury division, and is currently registered with FINRA. During his tenure as a U.S. Treasury broker, he helped design a variety of internal analytic applications as well as participate in the design and development of the proprietary trading systems used at Garban. It was during his last assignment as manager of the proprietary US Treasury desk that Garban began the move toward interactive electronic trading. Chris was charged with organizing a business line for hybrid electronic and voice trading and began the design, development and ultimate roll out of ICAP's hybrid e-commerce solution, ETC. The trading platform grew into a separate division of ICAP, developing, installing and maintaining trading systems for US and Foreign Securities, Global Foreign Exchange trading, and a broad variety of money-market instruments. Today, Chris is responsible for trading systems strategy, design and planning for the blending of ICAP's voice brokered Over-the-Counter markets and implementation of electronic trading. Chris has participated in numerous panel discussions with the Bond Market Association (now SIFMA) and ISDA, as well as presentations in financial markets conferences in London, Mexico, South America, Tokyo and Korea. Chris is the Chair of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Interdealer Broker Advisory Committee, served as the inaugural Chairman of The Wholesale Markets Brokers' Association, Americas, and has represented the industry at conferences ranging in topics from business strategies, technology and regulatory concerns. He is a Board member of the Stevens Institute of Technology School of Systems and Enterprises. Chris is an active subject matter expert for the OTC Derivatives markets and has testified before the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee as well as the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets.

	Scott Garrett U.S. Congressman, 5th District of New Jersey For more than twenty years, Scott Garrett has been at the forefront of public policy deliberations dealing with issues related to the financial services industry, developing considerable expertise in areas ranging from securities and finance to insurance and regulatory oversight. Since his election to Congress in 2002, Garrett has consistently been one of the most active members of the House Financial Services Committee. During his tenure on the committee, Garrett has served on the Subcommittees on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises; Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit; Housing and Community Opportunity; and Oversight and Investigations. At the start of the 112th Congress, Garrett was selected to serve as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. In this role, Garrett oversees the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Securities and Exchange Commission and government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In addition, the subcommittee also handles all matters related to capital markets activities such as business capital formation and venture capital, and derivative instruments. A primary architect of the comprehensive House Republican financial regulatory reform proposal, Garrett authored substantive Republican alternatives in a number of areas, including derivatives and GSE reform. Despite his opposition to the overall package, he worked in a constructive fashion to pass several bipartisan provisions that strengthened the final product. As a culmination of his intense work on regulatory reform in the House, Garrett was selected to serve as a conferee on the House-Senate Conference Committee responsible for reconciling the two chambers’ versions of the financial services regulatory reform bill. His notable legislative achievements include easing the burden placed on small business by Sarbanes-Oxley and lessening the reliance on credit rating agencies by removing their reference in statute and regulation. In addition, he continues in his efforts to rein in the size and scope of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and promoting the creation of a covered bond market in the U.S. Prior to his election to Congress, Garrett served in the New Jersey General Assembly as the Chairman of the Banking and Insurance Committee. Garrett is frequently sought after to appear in the national media to discuss financial services issues, having appeared on CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN and MSNBC. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and other national business publications on issues related to financial services policy.

	Gary Gensler Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Gary Gensler was sworn in as the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on May 26, 2009. Chairman Gensler previously served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as Under Secretary of Domestic Finance (1999-2001) and as Assistant Secretary of Financial Markets (1997-1999). He subsequently served as a Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Senator Paul Sarbanes, on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reforming corporate responsibility, accounting and securities laws. As Under Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman Gensler was the principal advisor to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and later to Secretary Lawrence Summers on all aspects of domestic finance. The office was responsible for formulating policy and legislation in the areas of U.S. financial markets, public debt management, the banking system, financial services, fiscal affairs, federal lending, Government Sponsored Enterprises, and community development. In recognition of this service, he was awarded Treasury's highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award. Prior to joining Treasury, Chairman Gensler worked for 18 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was selected as a partner; in his last role he was Co-head of Finance. Chairman Gensler is the co-author of a book, The Great Mutual Fund Trap, which presents common sense investment advice for middle income Americans. He is a summa cum laude graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1978, with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School's graduate division in 1979. He lives with his three daughters outside of Baltimore, Maryland.

	J Christopher Giancarlo Conference Chair GFI Group Mr. Giancarlo is responsible for executing strategic transactions and directing corporate communications. Mr. Giancarlo joined GFI in 2001 as part of the acquisition of Fenics, where he structured strategic alliances with major investment banks. Prior to Fenics, Mr. Giancarlo was a Corporate Partner in the New York law firm Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, LLP.

	Jeff Gooch CEO, MarkitSERV Prior to the launch of MarkitSERV, Jeff served as executive vice president, global head of Portfolio Valuations and co-head of Global Trade Processing for Markit. Throughout his career, Jeff has worked in various product areas including cash equity, bonds, over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, loans and collateral. Prior to joining Markit, Jeff spent 11 years at Morgan Stanley in a variety of roles including running its straight-through processing (STP) and line operations groups. His last role was as managing director and global co-head of Fixed Income Operations. He has been extensively involved in industry groups and is a former co-chair of ISDA's operations committee. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Jeff spent eight years in the financial services practice at Ernst & Young, in both its audit and consultancy divisions. Jeff holds an MA in mathematics from Cambridge University and is a chartered accountant (ICAEW.)

	Julian Harding Executive Director Tradition Julian Harding is an Executive Director at Tradition, and is also a founding Board member of the Wholesale Markets Brokers' Association, Americas. He has more than thirty years’ experience in various over-the-counter markets. His career began as a foreign exchange and deposits dealer at Société Générale in London in 1978, followed by a period at Marine Midland Bank in New York where he both consulted on matters of international treasury management and became one of the earliest traders in and designers of the nascent FX options market. In 1985, he founded Tradition Financial Services in 1985, at the time the world’s first specialist over-the-counter derivatives brokerage, and later spanning the globe with offices in 13 countries and brokering markets in FX derivatives, precious metals, equity derivatives and the energy spectrum. After 20 years as co-CEO, Mr. Harding retired from the derivatives business, to return in 2008 as a general consultant to the Tradition Group with a current focus on legislative, regulatory and strategic e-commerce matters.

	George Harrington, CFA Global Head Bloomberg Fixed-Income Trading George Harrington is the global head of Bloomberg's Fixed Income Trading (FIT) business, the world's largest and most widely used fixed income trading platform. In this position, he is responsible for overall strategy and delivery of FIT, which provides liquidity for more than 150 of the world's leading major and regional/specialist dealers. FIT also provides trading functionality, and straight through processing across all fixed income asset classes including cash bonds, repo, money markets, interest-rate and credit derivatives, mortgages, money markets, and municipal bonds. Previously, Mr. Harrington was head of Product Management for Bloomberg's Fixed-Income Derivative Trading business, overseeing single and multi-dealer execution services, clearing and legal execution services, and VCON – Bloomberg's Voice trading network. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he worked at Tradeweb managing the credit default swap execution business and at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he worked in corporate valuation. Mr. Harrington holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Boston College and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

	James J. Hill Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in New York and Morgan Stanley’s Global Credit Derivatives Officer James J. Hill is Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in New York and Morgan Stanley’s Global Credit Derivatives Officer. Jim is leading Morgan Stanley Global Corporate Credit Group’s efforts around the development of central counterparties for over-the-counter credit derivatives, responding to, and developing business strategies relating to, legislative and regulatory changes impacting the over-the-counter derivatives markets, and developing market infrastructure solutions to reduce operational and systemic risk in the over-the-counter derivatives markets. Jim has led Morgan Stanley’s efforts with respect to numerous industry initiatives relating to the development, growth and overall improvement of the over-the-counter derivatives and corporate credit default swaps market and is a key member of several important industry working groups, including the European Commission Working Group on Derivatives, and The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Working Group on Buy-Side Access to Central Counterparties and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Credit Steering Committee. Jim is a senior member of the team that developed and launched the first Credit Default Swap Index transaction and developed the Firm’s multi billion dollar basket default swap note issuance program. Jim manages all non-market risk for Morgan Stanley’s Global Corporate Credit Group. In addition, in his capacity as a member of Morgan Stanley’s Structured Credit Products group, Jim develops structures and executes innovative credit and derivative solutions for corporate and institutional clients of Morgan Stanley. Jim received a J.D. from Cornell University in 1991 and a BA from American University in 1988.

	Paddy Hirsch Senior Editor at Marketplace Paddy Hirsch is a senior editor at Marketplace. He is the creator and host of the Marketplace Whiteboard, a video explainer of financial and economic terms, and the writer and co-producer of Marketplace Crisis Comix, a comic strip chronology of the 2008 Financial Crisis and resulting recession. He also edits the Marketplace Index and the Marketplace Pulse. Paddy joined Marketplace as the New York and financial markets editor in 2007. Previously, he was a senior editor at Leveraged Commentary and Data, a newswire owned by Standard and Poor’s that covers the syndicated finance, CLO and loan-backed CDS markets. He joined S&P in 2001 from Direct Capital Markets, an online early-stage investment company. Prior to joining DCM, he edited the Institutional Investor newsletter , Bank Letter, which covered the senior leveraged loan markets. Paddy has been a journalist for more than 13 years, and has worked in Hong Kong as field producer for CNBC, in Vietnam as the editor of the Vietnam Economic Time, and in Sarajevo as a consultant to the Open Broadcast Network in Bosnia. Before starting his journalism career, he served for eight years as an officer in the Royal Marines.

	Jeffrey Hogan Managing Director, Business Development BGC Partners As Managing Director for Business Development at BGC, Mr. Hogan is responsible for ongoing business development and relationship management with clients in Europe and for liaising with government and regulatory bodies globally. Based in London, he has engaged in sales, product development and strategic development issues since the formation of BGC in October 2004. Prior to his role with BGC, Mr. Hogan spent 19 years at Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed, Inc. in New York and London. During this period he managed several derivative and cash brokerage units and was Managing Director of e-Commerce at Cantor Fitzgerald. In addition, he was heavily involved in sales, product development and merger & acquisition activity at eSpeed. Before joining Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed, Mr. Hogan served in various trading and management positions for four years at Bankers Trust Company in New York and for five years at Manufacturers Hanover Trust in London. Mr. Hogan contributes regularly to conferences in Europe, Asia and North America on topical matters in the fixed income, derivatives, and e-Commerce industries. In addition to representing BGC at ISDA, SIFMA, WMBA and European Covered Bond Council, Mr Hogan has recently served on the European Commission's Derivatives Working Group.

	Paul Humphrey CEO Electronic Broking & TP Information Tullett Prebon plc Paul Humphrey was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Tullett Prebon Electronic Broking & TP Information in October 2007. At Tullett Prebon, Paul is responsible for determining group strategy for electronic broking, application development and information. Paul occupies a seat on the Tullett Prebon global executive committee. Previously Paul was Executive Director - Global head of eBusiness for ABN AMRO where he was part of the traded markets management team and responsible for the electronic expansion of all asset classes. Prior to this Paul was Managing Director at Van der Moolen NV, Head of Sales at SLK Global Markets (Acquired by Goldman Sachs) and Managing Director at Garban.

	Christopher A. Iacovella Committee on Financial Services in the U.S. House of Representatives I hold a bachelors degree from the University of Connecticut in Business Administration where I majored in Finance and lettered for the Men’s soccer team. I worked as a bond broker and on a fixed income derivatives desk prior to obtaining an M.B.A. from the University of Tampa with a concentration in Macroeconomic Policy and Corporate Finance. I also hold a law degree from the Florida State University College of Law and I have experience as a structured finance, capital markets, and merger & acquisition attorney. I am licensed to practice in Texas and Florida. Since moving to Washington D.C., I worked as Special Counsel & Policy Advisor to Commissioner Scott O’Malia at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission working on the implementation of Dodd-Frank. I have recently been detailed from the CFTC to the Committee on Financial Services in the U.S. House of Representatives, where I work with both the full committee and the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and GSEs chaired by Rep. Garrett on derivatives issues. Finally, I have international and national security law experience, which I gained through an LL.M. at Georgetown University, through international business transactions, and by providing legal and policy advice to trade associations during international treaty negotiations in Geneva.

	Ron Levi Chief Operating Officer GFI Group Mr. Levi has been Chief Operating Officer of GFI Group since May 2006. He is responsible for the company's activities globally. Since 2010, Mr. Levi has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kyte Group Ltd, an integrated clearing, broking and investment services provider, a subsidiary of GFI Group. Mr. Levi joined GFI in 1993 and became Managing Director, Europe in 2004. Prior to holding this position, Mr. Levi managed the company's European energy business. In 2008, Mr. Levi led the acquisition of Trayport Ltd, a leading provider of software to the global commodity trading community. Mr. Levi is a founding member of LEBA (London Energy Brokers Association), created in 2003 to represent the interests of London-based energy brokers Before joining GFI, Mr. Levi was the Director of Fixed Income at Garban PLC.

	Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney Congresswoman, NY 14th District, Manhattan's East Side and Western Queens “No one has been a greater (anti-trafficking) champion than Carolyn Maloney, a Democratic Congresswoman from New York." -- Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, “Half the Sky” (Knopf, 2009) "While I am critical of Congress, kudos have to be given to Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, for her efforts..." --Joseph E. Stiglitz, "Freefall" (Norton, 2009) First elected to Congress in 1992, Carolyn B. Maloney is recognized as a national leader with extensive accomplishments on financial services, national security, the economy, and women’s issues. She is a senior member of both the House Financial Services Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and immediate past Chair of the Joint Economic Committee. She serves as Vice-Chair of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. Her career has been a series of firsts. Maloney is the first woman to represent New York’s 14th Congressional District; the first woman to represent New York City’s 7th Council district (where she was the first woman to give birth while in office); and was the first woman to Chair the Joint Economic Committee, a House and Senate panel that examines and addresses the nation’s most pressing economic issues. On the House Financial Services Committee (and as a past chair of its Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee), she has worked to modernize financial services laws and regulations, strengthen consumer protections, and institute more vigilant oversight of the safety and soundness of our nation’s banking industry. Her Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights (the Credit CARD Act) was signed into law by President Obama in Spring of 2009. As a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Maloney legislation has saved hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars. As co-founder of the House 9/11 Commission Caucus, Maloney helped author and pass legislation to implement all of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations for improving intelligence gathering. The James Zadroga 9/11 Health Care and Compensation Act, her bill to provide health care and compensation for 9/11 first responders, residents and workers near Ground Zero passed Congress in late 2010 was signed into law by President Obama January 2, 2011. As a champion for domestic and international women’s issues, Maloney helped pass legislation that targets the ‘demand’ side of sex trafficking; provides annual mammograms for women on Medicare; the Debbie Smith Act which increases funding for law enforcement to process DNA rape kits, termed ‘the most important anti-rape legislation in history.’ Her legislation to create Women’s Health Offices in five Federal agencies was part of the landmark health care reform legislation signed by President Obama. New York City has no stronger advocate in Congress than Maloney. She has doggedly fought for full federal assistance to help the city rebuild from 9/11, most recently helping secure federal aid to fund the health care needs of those made sick by the toxic air at Ground Zero. She has also delivered hundreds of millions of dollars for two of the largest public works projects in the nation, the Second Avenue Subway and East Side Access project, both of which run through her district. Time magazine described her as a “tenacious, resilient legislator.” The Village Voice characterized her as “a tiger in the House on every dollar due New York.” The New York Sun said “her entire career has been marked by a kind of personal courage.” Our Town weekly said “fighting for New Yorkers, a strong economy, and equal opportunity, Maloney pushes through a broad agenda in Washington.” And The New York Times said, “New York's Congressional delegation stands out for their moxie, kind of the way New Yorkers themselves often do. Among the brashest members is Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat of Manhattan.” Ten Maloney bills have been signed at ceremonies in the White House, where all the principal legislators involved in the legislation witness the President's signing of the bill into law: H.R. 556, the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (July 26, 2007); H.R. 627, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 (May 22, 2009); H.R. 867, the Adoption and Safe Family Act (November 19, 1997); H. R. 1088, the Investor and Capitol Fee Relief Act (January 16, 2002); H. R. 800-9, the Education Flexibility Partnership Act (January 16, 2002); S. 1379 - 4, the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (October 8, 1998:); H. R. 5107 - 34, the Justice for All Act of 2004 (October 30, 2004); S. 2845, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (December 17, 2004); and H. R. 972 - 16, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (June 10, 2006). These laws were enacted under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

	Gil Mandelzis CEO, Traiana Gil Mandelzis co-founded Traiana in April 2000 and continues as Chief Executive Officer following the acquisition of the company by ICAP in October 2007. In 2009, Gil was appointed to ICAP's Global Executive Management Group. Gil's role at Traiana is to consolidate the company's position as the market standard for post-trade processing for foreign exchange transactions, while expanding its offering in other OTC markets. Prior to Traiana, he worked in the M&A Group at Deutsche Bank Alex Brown (formerly BT Wolfensohn) in New York, where he advised companies in the financial and technology sectors. Mr. Mandelzis holds a MBA from INSEAD.

	Daniel Marcus Managing Director of Strategy and Business Development for Tradition Daniel Marcus is the Managing Director of Strategy and Business Development for Tradition, one of the world’s largest and most diverse inter-dealer brokers. In his role at Tradition, he is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic initiatives on a global basis, including ensuring that Tradition is fully compliant with regulatory reform. Most recently, he was responsible for the development and roll-out of Tradition’s hybrid OTC trading platform Trad-X. Daniel is a qualified lawyer and joined Tradition in 2007 as General Counsel. Prior to joining Tradition, he was Senior Counsel at the London Stock Exchange, where he was responsible for all regulatory, IT, corporate and commercial legal work. In particular he worked on the LSE’s successful defenses against hostile bids from Euronext, Deutsche Bourse, Nasdaq and Macquarie, as well as the acquisitions of Proquote, EDX and Borsa Italiana. Daniel is Tradition’s Council representative on the Wholesale Markets Brokers Association. Tradition is the interdealer broking arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition and one of the world's largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter financial and commodity related products. Represented in over 27 countries, Compagnie Financière Tradition is listed on the Swiss stock exchange.

	William F. McCoy Managing Director and Counsel in the Legal and Compliance Department Morgan Stanley William F. McCoy is a Managing Director and Counsel in the Legal and Compliance Department of Morgan Stanley. He advises Morgan Stanley in connection with its futures, fixed income and commodities trading activities, including its sales and trading activities involving metals, oil liquids, electricity, coal, agricultural products, carbon and emissions. He also advises Morgan Stanley in connection with risk management issues. His previous positions included Vice President & Assistant General Counsel of Metallgesellschaft Corp. (1991-1993), Vice President & Counsel of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company (1986-1991), and Attorney in the Enforcement & Compliance Division of The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (1984-1986). His degrees include a J.D. in 1984 from Fordham University School of Law, and a B.S. in Economics in 1981 from the Wharton School of Business and Economics at The University of Pennsylvania. In addition, from May 2002 through May 2004, he served as the President of the Law and Compliance Division of the Futures Industry Association (“FIA”), and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the FIA’s Law & Compliance Division. From early 2004 until early 2007, he served a number of terms as a member of the FIA’s Board of Directors. From August 2003 until February 2007, he served as a member of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group. Since 2008, he has served as a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Energy Markets Advisory Committee, and its reconstituted Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Futures Association.
	Alex McDonald WMBA Prior to joining WMBA, Alex has spent his career in Banking and Fund Management. He has over twenty years of experience as a macro trader and portfolio manager, most recently he was a senior portfolio manager at BSAM Global Alpha Fund and prior to that a portfolio manager in global macro, at OLEA Capital Partners and at BlueCrest Capital focusing on commodities, fixed-income and currencies worldwide. Additionally, he was a Director, in charge of Emerging Markets and currency trading at CSFB for eight years, and prior to that he was Executive Director at Goldman Sachs on their fixed-income proprietary trading desk. He joined JP Morgan in 1988 and subsequently traded with and managed their futures, fixed income arbitrage and FX teams. He holds an MA from Cambridge University in Geophysics/Geochemistry.

	Kevin McPartland Principal, Director of Fixed Income Research Kevin McPartland, a principal and the director of fixed income research at TABB Group, has over 10 years of capital markets industry experience with deep expertise in OTC derivatives and financial services technology. Kevin joined TABB in September 2007 from Detica (formerly m.a.partners), where he was a senior manager in the global financial markets division, responsible for strategic and implementation projects across fixed income, OTC derivatives and equities for the firm's investment banking clients including Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and UBS. Prior to joining Detica, he held positions at JPMorgan Chase in both futures and options and equities, managing development and implementation of electronic trading systems, as well as project management and business analysis of major business and technology initiatives, strategic architecture design and business process definition. Kevin has authored TABB research reports on the OTC derivatives markets, including: "Higher Frequency Swaps Trading: Market Making and Arbitrage;" "The Future of OTC Derivatives: SEF and the New Dealer;" "Swap Execution Facilities: an Industry Barometer;" "SEF 101: Deconstructing the Swap Execution Facility;" "OTC Derivatives Reform and the Digital Divide;" "Credit Default Swaps: Industry Projections;" "Credit Default Swaps: The Risk of Inefficient Markets;" and "OTC Derivatives Processing: Blazing a Trail to Automation." An often requested speaker at a wide range of industry conferences, he has been quoted extensively in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Business Week, Bloomberg News, Reuters News, Wall Street & Technology, Advanced Trading and numerous other industry publications. He has appeared on CNBC, National Public Radio, Bloomberg TV and Reuters TV. Kevin has also provided testimony in 2011 to the US Senate's Banking Committee (June) and the US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) (March).

	Richard M. McVey Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board Richard M. McVey has been Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors since the inception of MarketAxess. As an employee of J.P. Morgan & Co., one of the firm's founding broker-dealers, Mr. McVey was instrumental in the founding of MarketAxess in April 2000. Prior to founding MarketAxess, Mr. McVey was Managing Director and Head of North America Fixed Income Sales at JPMorgan, where he managed the institutional distribution of fixed-income securities to investors, from 1996 until April 2000. In that capacity, he was responsible for developing and maintaining senior client relationships across all market areas, including fixed-income, equities, emerging markets, foreign exchange and derivatives. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. McVey led JPMorgan's North America Futures and Options Business, including institutional brokerage, research, operations, finance and compliance. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Blue Mountain Credit Alternatives L.P. Mr. McVey received a B.A. in Finance from Miami (Ohio) University and an M.B.A. from Indiana University.

	Stephen Merkel Board Member, WMBAA; Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary BGC Partners, Inc. Stephen Merkel is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of BGC Partners, Inc. He originally joined Cantor Fitzgerald in 1993, overseeing all legal and compliance functions for the firm. Prior to its merger with BGC, Mr. Merkel was also a Director of eSpeed, and before this was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of eSpeed from June 1999. Prior to joining Cantor Fitzgerald, Mr. Merkel was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Goldman Sachs & Co., dedicated to the J. Aron Division. He began his career at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Mr. Merkel graduated with a B.A. Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received his law degree from the University of Michigan School of Law.

	Ross Pazzol Partner KattenMuchinRosenman, LLP Ross Pazzol focuses his practice on a broad range of financial services matters. He concentrates on, and has significant experience in, the regulation of broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, investment companies and hedge funds, clearing houses and investment advisers. He also has significant experience in all aspects of exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives transactions and securities financing and lending arrangements, and assists clients in understanding the documentation issues and regulatory and credit considerations that arise in connection with these transactions. He also represents hedge funds, commodity pools and proprietary trading firms on a wide variety of corporate and regulatory matters, and has advised a number of financial services firms on mergers and acquisitions, private securities offerings and general employment matters. Mr. Pazzol is a member of the Futures Industry Association Law & Compliance Division and serves on a number of ISDA Working Group committees. Mr. Pazzol began his career in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Market Regulation. Mr. Pazzol earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1982, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Juris Doctor from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law in 1987, where he served as the articles editor for the Loyola Law Review. He is admitted to practice in Illinois.

	Robert G. Pickel Executive Vice Chairman INTERNATIONAL SWAPS AND DERIVATIVES ASSOCIATION, INC. (ISDA) Robert G. Pickel is Executive Vice Chairman of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. Mr. Pickel served as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of ISDA from January 2001 to November 2009. From 1997 to 2001 he held the position of General Counsel of ISDA. Prior to joining ISDA, Mr. Pickel was Assistant General Counsel in the Legal Department of Amerada Hess Corporation, an international oil and gas company, from 1991 to 1997. He has also worked at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York and London, where he represented ISDA in a variety of matters. Mr. Pickel serves as a member of The Bretton Woods Committee and a member of the Board of the Capital Markets Law Journal. Mr. Pickel graduated from Williams College and received his law degree from New York University.

	Scott O'Malia Commissioner, U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Scott O'Malia was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 8, 2009, as Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and was sworn in on October 16, 2009. He is currently serving a five-year term that expires in April 2015. Born in South Bend Indiana and raised in Williamston, Michigan, Commissioner O'Malia learned about commodity prices firsthand growing up on a small family farm. As a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), he brings both his agricultural background and experience in energy markets, where he has focused his professional career. Before starting his term at the CFTC, Commissioner O'Malia served as the Staff Director to the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, where he focused on expanding U.S. investment in clean-energy technologies, specifically promoting low-cost financing and technical innovation in the domestic energy sector. From 2003 to 2004, Commissioner O'Malia served on the U.S. Senate Energy and National Resources Committee under Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), as Senior Policy Advisor on oil, coal and gas issues. From 1992 to 2001, he served as Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.), now the Senate Minority Leader. During his career, O'Malia also founded the Washington office of Mirant Corp., where he worked on rules and standards for corporate risk management and energy trading among wholesale power producers. In his time at the CFTC Commissioner O'Malia has advanced the use of technology to more effectively meet the agency's oversight responsibilities and is seeking the reestablishment of the long dormant CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (C-TAC). As Chairman of the newly reinstated Committee, Commissioner O'Malia intends to harness the expertise of the C-TAC membership to establish technological 'best practices' for oversight and surveillance considering such issues as algorithmic and high frequency trading, data collection standards, and technological surveillance and compliance. Commissioner O'Malia earned his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Michigan. He and his wife, Marissa, currently live in Northern Virginia with their three daughters.

	Lee Olesky Chief Executive Officer, Tradeweb Lee Olesky is the CEO and co-founder of Tradeweb. He has an extensive background in managing both investment banking and financial technology companies, in a career highlighted by innovation and the successful introduction of a series of electronic trading companies. Olesky is playing a key role in the debate on the reform of the derivatives markets, providing government agencies with insight into the issues surrounding the move to electronic trading and central clearing. In his previous role as President of the company, Olesky was based in London, where he spearheaded the company's expansion in the international and derivative markets. Prior to joining Tradeweb, Olesky was the President and founder of BrokerTec, a successful electronic brokerage platform, which was sold to Icap in 2003. Previously, Olesky worked at Credit Suisse First Boston in a variety of management positions, most recently as Chief Operating Officer for the Fixed Income division. Olesky has been named one of the "Top Global Executives and Innovators in Financial Technology" by Institutional Investor magazine for the last 4 years. He has served on a variety of both private and public company boards and currently serves on the boards of Tradeweb, Data Explorers and the international advisory board of the British -American Business Council (BABC). Olesky has a Juris Doctorate from George Washington University, the National Law Center in Washington D.C.; a B.A. in History from Tulane University; and attended University College in London. He has lectured at leading academic institutions, including Cambridge University and University of California, Berkeley business schools and has provided expert testimony to the US Congress and various regulatory authorities. Olesky is based in New York City with his wife and three sons.

	Jess Sharp Executive Director, U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness Jess Sharp is executive director of the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC). Sharp oversees the organization's efforts to support capital markets that are the most fair, efficient, and innovative in the world, with a particular focus on derivatives regulation, GSE reform, and consumer financial protection. Before joining the Chamber in January 2011, Sharp spent two years running a public policy consulting business as a sole proprietor, providing policy and political analyses and helping clients navigate the regulatory and legislative processes. He entered the private sector after 11 years of government service in the legislative and executive branches. Sharp served on President George W. Bush's Domestic Policy Council, first as a specialist in transportation and labor policy issues and then as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. In this capacity, he brought together Cabinet agencies and outside stakeholders to develop administration policy, advise the president, and oversee the implementation of the president's program. Specifically, Sharp coordinated the president's efforts on housing and financial services, immigration reform, transportation reform, postal reform, reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and general health, labor, and environmental matters. Earlier, Sharp served on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff where he formulated policy and plotted legislative strategy, specializing in highway finance, highway safety, and railroad issues. Sharp has a B.A. in history from Colgate University and an M.A. in government from Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife, Meredith, live in Washingto n, D.C.

	Jeff Siegel Senior Counsel for the Democratic Staff of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Jeff Siegel serves as Senior Counsel for the Democratic Staff of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, where he is responsible for advising Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) about implementation of the new derivatives framework and the Volcker Rule under the Dodd-Frank Act. Prior to working on the staff of the Senate Banking Committee, he served as Legislative Director and Counsel for former Congressman Michael E. McMahon (D-NY) where he helped draft a comprehensive bill to regulate derivatives, and was the primary staff counsel in efforts by moderate House Members to negotiate key provisions of the derivatives title of Dodd-Frank. Prior to joining Congressman McMahon's office, he worked for more than five years as a law firm associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York City where he handled a wide range of matters involving insurance, bankruptcy, antitrust, RICO, white-collar crime, ERISA, and municipal contract actions, as well as US Department of Justice and US Securities and Exchange Commission investigations. He holds a JD from Cornell Law School, and a BA cum laude from Princeton University.

	Gillian Tett US Managing Editor Financial Times Gillian Tett is the US managing editor of the Financial Times. She leads the editorial development of the paper's US edition and of US news on FT.com. Previously, Tett was assistant editor responsible for the FT's markets coverage. She has also served as capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, Tokyo correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. Tett was named Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) by the British Press Awards and Senior Financial Journalist of the Year (2007) by the Wincott Awards. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little Brown, UK and Simon and Schuster, US) published in May 2009, and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003). Fool's Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the Spear's Book Awards in 2009. Before joining the Financial Times in 1993, Tett was awarded a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union. While pursuing the PhD, she freelanced for the FT and the BBC. She is a graduate of Cambridge University.

	William C. Thum Principal The Vanguard Group William C. Thum is a Principal of The Vanguard Group in Valley Forge, PA, where he is the senior derivatives transactional and regulatory specialist in the Legal Department. Mr. Thum is a frequent speaker at ISDA, SIFMA and various other conferences on derivatives related matters, has written numerous articles on derivatives issues and has participated in several joint CFTC / SEC public roundtables on Dodd-Frank Act-related rulemaking. Prior to joining Vanguard in 2010, Mr. Thum was a partner with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP where he concentrated on derivatives regulatory issues and tailoring agreements across fixed income and equity products including prime brokerage for banks, broker dealers and asset managers. From 1998 to 2007, Mr. Thum was executive director and head of institutional securities documentation - Americas at Morgan Stanley. From 1996 to 1998 Mr. Thum was vice president and head of derivatives documentation - Americas at UBS. He also worked at BNP Paribas as legal counsel and at Dresdner Kleinwort in London as assistant director, legal counsel. Mr. Thum received his JD from The American University, Washington College of Law and his BA from Bucknell University. He is admitted to the bar in New York and Pennsylvania.

	Mark Vonderheide Co-Founder Geneva Energy Markets, LLC Mark Vonderheide began his career in oil with Exxon in Houston in 1982. After graduating from Wharton Business School in 1986, he joined Shell Oil as staff to the executive vice president and began work on the oil trading desk in 1988. He has since traded for Vitol, Morgan Stanley, and Hetco. Until 2007, he was Global Head of Oil Trading for Deutsche Bank. Four years ago, he co-founded Geneva Energy Markets, LLC (GEM) with Geneva Trading, a futures trading company based in Chicago. GEM is a proprietary oil trading company that makes markets in over-the-counter swaps and block futures. The firm has offices in New York and Dublin. As the one of the industry's highest volume traders of oil swaps, GEM was a major catalyst in bringing the great majority of oil swap transactions into a cleared environment. The firm actively trades brent, wti, gasoil, heating oil, and gasoline.

	Tomas Zikas State Street Global Markets Tomas Zikas is Managing Director and Head of the eRates business within State Street Global Markets, a position he assumed after State Street's acquisition of Currenex in March 2007. In this role, Mr Zikas is responsible for the provision of neutral execution services for the fixed income and derivative markets, operating platforms such as GovEx (for cash treasury securities), SwapEx (for interest rate derivatives), and Fund Connect (for third party money market and investment funds). Before joining State Street, Zikas was hired at Currenex as the Managing Director of business development. Prior to that, Zikas spent four years as Global Head of Sales at Trayport Ltd, where he provided matching engine and front-end technology for real-time, continuous trading across multiple asset classes in Europe, the Americas and Asia with a principal focus on commodity trading. Previously, Zikas was Managing Director of the OTC commodity exchange HoustonStreet Exchange Ltd in London, facilitating trading in newly deregulated European electricity contracts. Mr Zikas earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and served in the US Navy as an officer onboard the nuclear submarine USS Archerfish (SSN-678) and also as a U.S. representative on the NATO staff in the United Kingdom. Mr Zikas also received a Master’s Degree from Boston University.