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| Sanjeev Chatrath, Partner, Financial Services, EY.
Sanjeev has worked in Financial Services, Data, and Information Technology Industries for over 28 years in commercial leadership roles across global firms including Citigroup, IBM, Thomson Reuters, and Standard Chartered Bank while building high performing businesses in early-stages as well as at scale (Revenue up to USD 2.5 Bn per annum). During this time, his responsibilities have included Region Head, Client Management, Product Management, Business Management, and Market Development. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjeevchatrath/ |
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| Daniel Clarke, Head of enterprise Sales-APAC, ITRS Group.
Daniel is the Head of Enterprise Sales APAC at ITRS, where he oversees the Enterprise segment, catering to ITRS Group's largest clients, including major financial institutions. He focuses on growing the business through Go to Market activities in Sales, Pre-sales, Inside Sales, and Marketing. With expertise in business development, solution selling, account management, and capital markets, Daniel is adept at helping enterprise customers meet high availability and performance demands. His skills include market data, low latency trading, and financial markets. |
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| Alexis Crowell, VP and CTO APJ, GM Technology Solutions, Software & Services, Intel Corporation.
Alexis is a seasoned technology executive with nearly 20 years in the industry. She is an agile and proven global leader who has lived and worked on four continents. Her career path has spanned software engineering in cloud and client technologies, artificial intelligence and deep learning frameworks, edge compute & digital transformation, product marketing, and partnering with some of the industry’s largest entities as we collectively build solutions for end users. She has a strong conviction that Artificial intelligence can be a powerful ally for unlocking our potential and advancing towards a more sustainable future. |
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| Philippe Damay, Senior Presales Engineer, KX.
Philippe has cultivated his career in Singapore over 21 years across various sectors including banks, hedge funds and fintech. His expertise spans risk management, trading and quantitative trading. He is currently engaged with KX where his mission is to build a bridge that merges the worlds of finance, data science and database technology. With KX, he has been involved in algorithmic trading solutions, real-time analytical solutions catering to brokerage businesses and securities houses, as well as engagements in data science and AI projects. |
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| Aaron Foo, CEO, FMADIO.
FPGA Engineer, Software Engineer & Entrepreneur, Aaron Foo leads FMADIO, a company with a packet capture appliance which does so much more than just recording data. In a previous life Aaron worked on FPGA pre-trade risk solutions. In a previous, previous life he was a key engineer for the Playstation console. In a previous, previous, previous life he squeezed the maximum performance from GPUs when they first arrived in the form of Nvidia RIVA128 (1997). He also collects cacti. |
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Davor Frank, Director - Global Fintech Network Sales Engineering, AMD.
Davor started his career in Investment Banking technology, transitioning from the traditional Enterprise UNIX Infrastructure towards low latency trading infrastructure in the late 2000s. Since joining Solarflare, he spent the past decade focusing on applications and systems consulting, providing system and software architecture guidance to customers looking to improve performance of mission critical trading applications. Davor holds a degree in Computer Science from University of Zagreb.
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| Seth Friedman, CEO, Liquid-Markets-Holdings.
As CEO of LMS, Seth is responsible for product vision. He has been an active leader at the forefront of electronic trading for over 23 years, with deep sales-trading, technology, and consulting experience. His history of technology vision includes the invention of a multi-patented FPGA order processing technology proven in the field since 2010. Seth headed Program Trading at Morgan Stanley Japan before establishing the Electronic Trading Services business, which he expanded throughout Asia. At Nomura, Seth established the Quantitative Prime Services business, played a key role in the post-acquisition integration of Lehman Brothers, and was responsible for Electronic Product Management across Asia. |
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Jack Gidding, CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center.
Jack has over 30 years of experience in development and business management of financial technology. As CEO of STAC, Jack leads the expansion of the STAC community and the value that STAC delivers to that community. Prior to this, Jack was Head of FX Technology at London Stock Exchange Group, Global Head of Trading Technology at Refinitiv, Global Head of Wealth Management Technology at Refinitiv, Head of Elektron Real-Time Platform at Thomson Reuters. Earlier in his career, Jack was second in command at STAC, helping build it from the ground up in its first seven years. Jack has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and a MS in Financial Markets and Trading from Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business.
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| Ankur Gupta, Director, E-Trading Data Analytics, Bank of America.
Ankur has been with Bank of America for over 17 years covering low latency technology offerings across different asset classes in global markets. In his current role Ankur is leading Global E-Trading Data Analytics team. He is responsible for delivering Data science technology solutions for E-Trading business at BofA. His expertise lies in building scalable low latency data platforms supporting 10s of billions of msg/day and delivering high speed, feature rich data science capabilities to the business and quantitative research group. |
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| Tinku Gupta, Chief Information Officer, SGX Group.
Ms Tinku Gupta was appointed Chief Information Officer of Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) in October 2023. In her role, Ms Gupta leads the Business Operations, Cyber Security and Technology functions, supporting SGX Group’s ambitions to serve the entire capital structure and provide greater access to an ever-widening range of asset classes. Building on the successes of the operations and market services, and technology teams, Ms Gupta also steers the group’s continued progress towards increased automation and efficiency in delivering upgraded services to our customers. Ms Gupta holds a Masters’ degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.
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| Thijs Jacobs, Group Chief Technology Officer, SGX Group.
Mr Thijs Jacobs joined SGX Group as Group Chief Technology Officer on 1 March 2024. He is responsible for leading the Group’s strategy for the structure, development and deployment of technology in alignment with business priorities and organisational goals. Mr Jacobs was previously chief executive officer of Lin Jacobs Corporation, which he founded to partner and support large financial institutions seeking to transform their businesses through technology. Mr Jacobs holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. |
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| Louis Liu, CEO, Shengli Technologies.
Louis is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful technology companies. At Shengli, he led an engineering team to build the first pure FPGA hardware-based trading system for China’s financial markets. Prior to Shengli, Louis was co-founder and co-CEO of Sonic Trading in New York, a pioneering trading technology firm. Louis designed Sonic’s core system from scratch and evolved it from a professional trading system to an institutional platform. After Sonic’s acquisition by Bank of New York, Louis served as Managing Director responsible for equity trading systems. Louis received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Columbia University in operation research. |
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| Stuart Loy, AWS Solutions Architecture Leader, Global Financial Services, Amazon Web Services.
Stuart leads the AWS global financial services solutions architecture team, based out of Singapore. He works with the world’s largest banking, capital markets and insurance companies, driving industry wide innovation through the adoption of AWS technology. Stuart has been with AWS for four years and prior to that worked in the capital markets industry building trading systems across a variety of asset classes, from complex structured credit products, to low latency electronic currency trading. |
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| Miguel Mateo, Chief Technology Advisor, World Wide Technology.
Miguel focuses on aligning IT environments with business objectives and driving growth through innovative technology solutions. He has extensive experience with Global Financial corporations such as Citi, UBS, and Morgan Stanley and has a proven track record in IT management, business transformation, and technology consulting. Miguel implemented significant cost-saving measures and optimizations in previous roles; his expertise lies in Account Management, IT Service Management, and Business IT Consulting, with a strong background in enhancing end-user experience and technology infrastructure planning. He is also proficient in strategic planning, information security, and marketing strategy and is a profound AI Strategy Evangelist. |
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| Patrick Miyamoto, Specialized Electronic Trading Infrastructure, Morgan Stanley-MUFG.
Patrick Miyamoto is a senior infrastructure engineer at Morgan Stanley MUFG in Tokyo. He has been working in investment banking for nearly 20 years, almost exclusively in the low latency space, building out and supporting electronic trading infrastructure in 10+ countries across the Asia-Pacific region. |
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| Chris Morgan, Vice President, AI Solutions, VAST Data.
Chris is the Vice President of AI Solutions for VAST Data, Inc.. In this role he is responsible for market development and sales strategy for VAST Data’s rapidly growing AI solution. Over a 30-year sales career, Morgan has built successful partner and alliance organizations made up of every type of partner (GSI/RSI, cloud, managed services, integration services and consulting) for technologies from datacenter hardware and software to cloud-based services. He has built partner organizations for both pre-IPO startups experiencing explosive growth (Nutanix, UiPath, and Gong.io) and for new business units in established companies (Sun Microsystems and NetApp). |
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| ChongLiang Ng, Datacenter Sales Specialist, South Asia, Dell Technologies.
ChongLiang brings years of experience in the Enterprise datacenter solutions, where he has served as a passionate trusted advisor. His expertise lies in collaborating with partners & customers, developing strategic plans to enhance market share, and proactively identifying new business opportunities. Whether on stage or virtually, ChongLiang captivates audiences with his insights and practical wisdom. |
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| Clement Pelletier, APAC Sales Director, NovaSparks.
Clement is an Electrical Engineer with a passion for Electronic Trading, boasting over two decades of expertise in the APAC region. Transitioning from a role with a front office trading application provider, he specialized in providing FPGA trading applications. |
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| Yixuan Qin, CEO, AcceleCom.
Dr. Yixuan Qin is the founder and chairman of AcceleCom ltd. Which provides low latency service for financial sector, data centre,etc. Dr. Qin specializes in research on high-performance computing, low-latency optical networks, as well as software and hardware co-design technologies. |
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| Sergey Sardaryan, CTO, LDA Technologies.
Sergey is the CTO of LDA Technologies, a leading company in the field of high-performance FPGA-based computing and networking solutions. With a passion for technology and innovation, Sergey has spearheaded the development of cutting-edge products that address the complex needs of modern computing environments. Outside of his work in the tech industry, Sergey is an avid CrossFit enthusiast and has a long-standing interest in, and support for, Electric Vehicles and EV technology. |
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| James Shannon, Head of Execution Research APAC, Optiver.
James's career in the financial industry spans over two decades and two continents. He began as a runner on the CBOE trading floor and has since led global trading operations in both Chicago and Sydney. His passion for achieving superior execution performance and integrating technology with trading has been a driving force throughout his career. This dedication led him to spearhead execution research at IMC and continues in his current role as Head of Execution Research at Optiver. Outside of his profession, James enjoys fitness, hiking, and exploring the outdoors with his three grown children and wife. His most challenging hike to date was the spectacular Milford Sound hike in New Zealand. |
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| Atul Vidwansa, VP Sales (APAC), DDN.
Atul is seasoned sales executive, currently working as Vice President, Sales (APAC) at DDN Storage. Atul has extensive experience in the technology industry, with focus on High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) industries. Atul started their career at Sun Microsystems and have held technical and sales positions at Cluster File Systems, Oracle and DDN. Atul has expertise in designing multi-petabyte and large performance-based data storage solutions for exascale, web scale and machine learning/deep learning applications. |
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| Dave Weber, Director and CTO, Global Financial Services Industry, Lenovo.
Leads Lenovo's global financial services industry technology initiatives. Dave is focused on low latency, high performance and emerging technologies, as well as on-prem/hybrid cloud, AI, sustainability, and automation initiatives. He works with financial markets clients to provide advanced solutions, and with partners to build out the ecosystem, as well as with Lenovo Research and Development to influence future products and drive innovation. Dave also leads the Lenovo relationship with STAC®️. Dave is based near New York City. |
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| Warren Yong, Head of Technical Account Management, Asia, KX.
As the head of TAM in Asia with KX, I work closely with our existing clients to enhance their customer experience, architect real-time and historical applications. My background includes developing trade surveillance applications to detect insider trading for financial institutions and implementing quality control using anomaly detection in manufacturing fabs. My vision focuses on streamlining data use through efficient architecture and code to achieve more with less. |
