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...
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Michael O’Hara
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...
Brad Johmann
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...
Brian Gay
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...
Ila Eckhoff, CPA
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...
Denis Ignatovich
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...
Tom Jessop
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...
Ram Pantangi
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...
Harsh Devpura
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....
Scott Atwell
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...









