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Americas Trading Conference 2022 Speakers
Tuesday 8th November 2022
Keynote Speaker
Tom Jessop, President, Fidelity Digital Assets Tom Jessop is the President of Fidelity Digital AssetsSM. In this role Tom is responsible for daily business operations while directing the company’s long-term vision to create full-service brokerage and asset management capabilities for digital assets of all types. Tom joined Fidelity in January 2018 as Head of Corporate Business Development. In this role, he led a team focused...
Speakers
Alisa DiCaprio, Chief Economist, R3 Alisa DiCaprio is the Chief Economist at enterprise technology and services firm, R3, based in New York City. In this role she oversees R3’s research and market intelligence functions. This includes providing economic advice on developments in digital assets, CBDC, trade and payments as well as contributing to R3 interactions with the public sector. From 2017-2022 Alisa held various positions...
Amrita Rajagopal, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Amrita is global head of Equities Client Platforms Engineering within the Global Markets Division. She is responsible for developing the client connectivity platform, onboarding automation and client reference data systems. Amrita co-sponsors the Equities chapter of the Women in Engineering network. Previously, she held a number of roles in New York and Tokyo within Equities Technology.
Amy May, Executive Director, Electronic Trading, Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley Amy May runs the global Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) vendor management team. A member of the firm since 1996, Amy and the vendor management team cover global connectivity for all high touch and low touch algorithmic and direct market access for equities, options and futures products. Amy started her career at Morgan Stanley in...
Brad Johmann, Global Head of Venues, Virtu Execution Services, Virtu Financial Based in New York, Brad Johmann is the Global Head of Venues for Virtu Execution Services. Brad oversees the firm’s ATSs and global block indications network, POSIT Alert. Joining the firm in January 2019, Brad’s prior experience included roles at Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Deutsche Bank. Brad holds a Bachelor of Science...
Brian Gay, Global Product Manager, Integration Services and E/OMS Vendor Partnership Manager, Liquidnet Brian defines and drives the integration components between customer trading systems and Liquidnet products globally across business units and asset classes. This includes creating and maintaining strategic partnerships with third party software and service vendors to promote solutions that offer seamless access to unique and diverse pools of liquidity and industry leading value-added...
Christopher Daur, Head of the Client Coverage Group for the Americas and Asia Pacific, Goldman Sachs Chris is head of the Client Coverage Group for the Americas and Asia Pacific, responsible for improving clients’ post trade operational experience with the firm. Previously, he was responsible for Prime Services Operations, including Prime Brokerage and Clearing, Securities Lending and Listed Derivatives and Derivatives Clearing Services Operations globally....
Collen Stapleton, Product Manager, MarketAxess Match & Repo Colleen Stapleton is the Product Manager for the MarketAxess Match & Repo platform. As Product Manager, Colleen actively works with new and existing clients to improve their Post-Trade automation, as well as works to develop innovative and creative ways to address additional touchpoints through the Post-Trade Repo Lifecycle. Prior to this role, Colleen was in charge of...
Dave Butala, Global Business Manager, Bloomberg Dave Butala is the global business manager for Bloomberg Indication of Interest (IOI) & Advertisements product. Based in New York, he oversees broker contribution, the buyside experience, and ensuring the quality of IOIs and Adverts on the Bloomberg network. Dave has been with Bloomberg for 12 years. His prior experience was a Product Manager for Bloomberg EMSX (Listed Securities),...
Denis Ignatovich, Co-Founder, Co-CEO, Imandra Denis Ignatovich has over a decade of experience in trading, risk management, quantitative modeling, and complex trading system design. Prior to joining AI, he was head of the central risk trading desk at Deutsche Bank London. He holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and degrees in CS and Finance from UT Austin.
Elisa Nuottajarvi, Vice President, SIFMA Asset Management Group Elisa Nuottajarvi is a Vice President with the Asset Management Group (AMG) at SIFMA. Elisa works as the primary staff advisor for the AMG Operations area. Elisa manages asset management operations related initiatives and the relevant AMG Operations committees, forums and task forces. Elisa’s focus is on improving asset managers’ operational excellence and efficiency, future of operations,...
Emiko Kamoda, Co-Chair Americas Regional Committee, FIX Trading Community, Managing Director, Head of Prime Services Digital Strategy, Goldman Sachs. Emiko is global head of Prime Digital Strategy, responsible for delivering solutions to Prime Services clients. In her previous role, she served as chief operations officer of GS Electronic Trading (GSET) globally, where she managed strategic equities initiatives, business metrics and client onboarding. Prior to that, Emiko...
Eric Knight, Head of Crypto Market Making Strategies, Jane Street & Founding Member, Crypto Trading Desk Eric helps coordinate the desk’s infrastructure and is actively involved in day-to-day crypto trading and strategy development. He joined Jane Street in 2001 as a trader on the floor of the Americas Stock Exchange. He got his trading badge at the age of 21, becoming one the youngest traders on the floor. He...
Harsh Devpura, Principal, Product Owner, Securities Finance, OCC Harsh Devpura is Principal, Product Owner, Securities Finance at OCC, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization. In his current role, he is Co-Chair of OCC’s Securities Lending Working Group, a team responsible for developing a set of recommended practices to support automated processing of securities lending. These efforts support collateralized securities loans and global central counterparties...
Ignatius John, Vice President, Broadridge Financial Solutions Ignatius John, considered by many to be an IT visionary, is recognized as a pioneer in the use of the FIX Protocol for post-trade. As Global Trading Strategist at asset manager AXA Rosenberg, Ignatius implemented a complete post-trade solution in 2008 using the FIX Protocol. This accomplishment was highlighted in a leading industry journal on Trading, and was...
Ila Eckhoff, CPA, MBA – Board Chair, Cerebral Palsy Foundation Ila Eckhoff, CPA, Managing Director, member of BlackRock’s Global Investment Operations. She was responsible for leading BlackRock’s Industry and Counterparty Management strategy. Ms. Eckhoff served on a number of committees, including the Business Operations and Technology Leadership Committees, Government Relations Steering Committee and Technology and Operations DEI Committee. She is also a founder and MD sponsor...
Jim Kaye, Executive Director, FIX Trading Community Jim has worked in the financial industry for 25 years, mostly in equities electronic trading, market structure and regulatory implementation. He has been involved in FIX in various capacities over most of this period, having served as GSC co-chair for eight years, a director for five and as co-chair of various working groups.
Jim McLoughlin, Head of Rates and Credit, OSTTRA As Head of Rates and Credit, James is responsible for driving the OSTTRA business strategic direction, platform delivery and client engagement. Prior to this role, James was Head of Global Client Services and Customer Engagement for the Platforms and Regulatory Compliance division of IHS Markit. For over 10 years he has focused on Credit and Equity Derivatives...
Kate Chatzopoulos, Global Head of Operations Strategy, Symphony Kate Chatzopoulos is a senior client and product lifecycle enablement leader dedicated to client development within the Capital Markets sector. Kate has spent her career in Front Office and Operations at leading financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Blackrock. She is currently the Head of Operations Workflow at Symphony Communications, where she spearheads product innovation for...
Katie Kolchin, CFA, Managing Director, Head of Research, SIFMA Ms. Kolchin is an experienced research analyst, proficient in sell side equity and fixed income research. She has extensive global capital markets industry knowledge garnered through a unique set of professional experiences. Currently, she is the Head of Research at SIFMA, running the team performing the data and analysis work for the firm, as well as...
Laurence Jones, Americas Regional Director, FIX Trading Community With 18 years’ experience in the financial services post-trade space, Laurence serves as the Americas Regional Director at FIX, and is a Managing Partner at TZero Partners LLC, a post-trade consultancy firm. Laurence has held several roles in FIX, including Co-Chair of the Global Post Trade Working Group from 2018-2023 as well as sitting on the Americas...
Lee Saba, Co-Chair Global Steering Committee, FIX Trading Community, CTO, Head of Market Structure, Rialto Markets Lee Saba brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Rialto as Head of Market Structure, Lee was Managing Director and Principal at Wellington Management where he was responsible for proprietary and third party multi-asset electronic trading and connectivity infrastructure. For over...
Lona Mozumder, Board Director, Women in Derivatives (WIND), Head of Sales, Americas – Trading Solutions, Refinitiv, an LSEG business Lona Mozumder is Head of Sales, Americas – Trading Solutions at Refinitiv, an LSEG business. Previously she was the Head of Sales and Relationship Management, Americas, OSTTRA (a joint company owned by CME Group and IHS Markit), where she was in charge of managing and expanding the OSTTRA Americas...
Louis John Rosato, III, Co-Chair Americas Regional Committee, and FIX Lifecycle and Ecosystem Working Group, FIX Trading Community, Director, Investment Operations BlackRock Lou Rosato, Director, is a member of BlackRock’s Global Investment Operations Leadership. He oversees Industry Engagement and Strategy in partnership with Blackrock’s Counterparties, Custodians, Third-Party Providers, Industry Organizations, Utilities and Clients. Lou works closely with BlackRock’s leadership and technology professionals to conceptualize, design...
Michael Lynch, Chief Product Officer, Symphony Michael Lynch is the chief product officer at Symphony, the leading financial markets’ infrastructure and technology platform. He joined the company in June 2021 and is responsible for Symphony’s strategic product direction including product vision, design, and development as well as user research. Prior to Symphony, he was head of digital workplace product strategy at Goldman Sachs. He also...
Michael O’Hara, Head of Sales and Marketing in the Americas, ITRS Group Michael is Head of Sales and Marketing in the Americas for ITRS, the leading provider of application and infrastructure tooling in Financial Services. ITRS has served the industry for 25 years, offering unparalled visibility and response time in the most demanding markets. ITRS has tailored solutions for FIX connectivity, Market Data feeds, as...
Noel Reyes, Americas Head of Equities Electronic Trading Products, Goldman Sachs Noel I. Reyes is the Americas Head of Equities Electronic Trading Products at Goldman Sachs. He previously held positions at J.P. Morgan, Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers. Mr. Reyes holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the NYU Stern School...
Peter Altero, Jr., Head of Rates & Repo Business Development, OSTTRA As the commercial product lead for the rates & repo business, Peter is responsible for product growth, commercial strategy, and business development efforts globally. With over a decade of experience in the post-trade processing space, he specialises in clearing, compression, trade venue workflows, and regulation with a focus on customer experience and network impact....
Ram Pantangi, Engineering Manager, Coinbase Based in New Jersey, Ram manages the Trading Systems group that is responsible for Matching Engines, Order Management and Clearing for the US Crypto Spot Exchange. Prior to joining Coinbase in 2021, Ram spent more than 15 years in the financial services industry leading various engineering teams in the Equities Algo Execution Technology, Rates Algo Trading and Markets Intelligence areas....
Robert Costick, New Business Initiatives Director, OSTTRA The global product lead for all new initiatives relating to ETD post trade overseeing a steady pipeline of product enhancements, devising commercial strategy and spearheading client adoption efforts. Robert has over 10 years’ experience in cross asset post-trade & trade execution services, accumulating extensive knowledge of workflows, trading APIs, messaging protocols and agile based product development. During...
Scott Atwell, Manager FIX Trading and Connectivity, American Century Investments Mr. Atwell developed American Century’s FIX system providing FIX connectivity to virtually all of the brokers used for their equity trading worldwide. He currently serves as a Director for the FIX Trading Community organization, the non-profit organization which manages the FIX Protocol. He has served as Co-chairperson of the Global Steering Committee for FIX Trading...
Serg Gulko, CEO, Axon Trade He focuses on building and managing platform that utilizes FIX protocol to stream market data and trade across multiple digital assets exchanges. Prior to starting Axon Trade, Serg spent a decade as a CEO of AxonSoftware, company, specialized in building HFT and uHFT solutions for FX markets as well as large-scale market data processing projects. Actively promotes usage of FIX...
Thomas Toller, Managing Director, Exactpro Thomas Toller joined Exactpro in 2019 as the Managing Director of the New York office with responsibility for operations and business development in the Americas. As a financial executive with over 15 years of experience in electronic and low latency trading in the US, European, and emerging markets, Thomas has worked for both buy-side and sell-side firms and has served...
Tia Adams, Global Head of Securities Lending Operations – Global Markets Division, Goldman Sachs Tia Adams is global head of Securities Lending Operations in the Global Markets Division at Goldman Sachs. Tia joined Goldman Sachs in 2005 as an associate in Client Assets Operations and was named managing director in 2021. Prior to joining the firm, Tia worked in a bankruptcy consulting practice. She also...
Toby Babb, Chief Executive Officer, Harrington Starr Toby has worked with the world’s leaders in Financial Services and Commodities Technology for over twenty years as a multi award winning recruitment CEO. As Founder of the Harrington Starr Group, Toby has built a pioneering, values-based company, working with customers to provide solutions beyond the traditional models on offer in the sector. He is a keen student...