Archives: Profiles

Lael Wakefield is President of the Americas for Itiviti and is responsible for all aspects of the business as well as the 120 employees within the region. Their new Connect and Trade solutions portfolios make up one of the most comprehensive offerings in capital markets technologies and services – providing the functionality to match any...

Carl Forsberg is a Director on Axoni’s Enterprise Solutions team, where he focuses on building and deploying large-scale distributed ledger initiatives with the world’s leading financial institutions. Prior to Axoni Carl worked in Fixed Income and Commodities at Morgan Stanley, as well as Deutsche Bank within the Global Markets business. Carl has a B.S. in...

Ivan Mihov, Head of Buy-Side Fixed Income EMS, AxeTrading Head of Buy-Side Fixed Income EMS, Ivan joined AxeTrading in late 2017 to lead sales and business development for AxeTrading’s Buy-side Fixed Income EMS. AxeTrading is a specialist Fixed Income EMS servicing Sell-Side, Buy-Side and Brokers across 4 continents. AxeTrading delivers a modern technology toolkit of...

Bill Hebert, Co-Chair Global Member Services Committee, FIX Trading Community William H. Hebert is a senior industry advisor and consultant working with various organizations and committees in both financial services and other industries. Throughout his career Mr. Hebert has been responsible for strategic technology, product and business development, electronic trading & trading systems technology, global...

Amy D. Hong, Managing Director, Global Head of Market Structure Strategy, Goldman Sachs Amy is head of Market Structure Strategy for the Securities Division. She serves on the Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Fixed Income Best Execution Subcommittee and was previously co-head of the Securities Division Women’s Network. Previously, Amy was on the Municipal Bond...

Chris Smith, Head of Post-Trade, Trax Chris Smith joined Trax in April 2014, now serving as Head of Trax and is a member of the management team for Europe and Asia.  As Head of Trax, Mr. Smith is responsible for the development and delivery of the Trax Post-Trade Services, including regulatory reporting and trade matching. ...

Michael Lurie, Director Regulatory Reporting Equities Trading Technology, Credit Suisse Michael is currently Director Regulatory Reporting within Equities Trading Technology at Credit Suisse.   He has over 20 years experience with equities trading and trade processing systems, and for the past 10+ years has focused on regulatory-driven,  system and process change.  Michael Is Co-Chairman of the...

Shelly Bohlin, Vice President, FINRA Shelly Bohlin is a Vice President in the Quality of Markets Section of FINRA’s Market Regulation Department. She oversees the Market Analysis and Audit Trail Group which is responsible for monitoring member firm compliance with FINRA Rules and federal securities laws related to market making, order handling, trade reporting and...

Timothy Stark, Equity Analytics, Capital Group Timothy joined The Capital Group Companies in 2008 and is a member of the firm’s Market and Transaction Research (MTR) group.  MTR conducts research into all aspects of equity market structure.  The group does everything from traditional TCA to studying market structure and regulatory issues to creating quantitative models...

Tom Schouwenaars, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Tom manages the Equity Algo Strats team in the Americas, researching and developing electronic execution strategies for the firm’s Equities and Electronic Trading franchise since 2009. Previously, he worked in Global Securities Services on portfolio risk and flow analysis. Tom joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 as an associate in...