Denis Imaev, Managing Director, Head of Algorithmic Trading Development, Cantor Fitzgerald

Denis Imaev has led Cantor Fitzgerald’s algorithmic trading development team since its inception. With extensive experience in building mission critical software in several industries, he is responsible for the overall system design, architecture, and implementation across multiple asset classes.

Prior to Cantor Fitzgerald, Denis had been a lead developer at J.P.Morgan Equities Algorithmic group and Bank of America Electronic Trading team.

Denis’ main interests are mechanical sympathy-driven high performance software design, rapid application development for industrial scale systems, digital assets and blockchain technologies, automatic control theory applications.

Enrico Cacciatore, Senior Quantitative Trader, Head of Market Structure and Trading Analytics, Voya Investment Management

Enrico manages trading for the quantitative equity team as well as all ETP trading for the Multi-Asset Strategies Solutions team. In addition to trading, Enrico leads the effort in evaluating and improving the overall trading process from both an execution and systems prospective. Enrico is a member of NASDAQ’s Institutional Traders Advisory Committee (ITAC) and Intelligent Ticks Proposal as well as Virtu Analytics Advisory Board.  Enrico earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace Systems) from the United States Military Academy at West Point, as well as graduate studies in Computational Finance (MSCF) from Carnegie Mellon University.

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.