Adam Peralta, Head of US eRates Distribution and Product, Morgan Stanley

Adam Peralta is the Head of US eRates Distribution and Product at Morgan Stanley. A business executive with over 18+ years of experience, Adam is responsible for the US eRates franchise where he focuses on distribution, automated trading, product development, strategic investments and market structure.

Most recently, prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Adam was the Global Head of Rates Electronic Trading at Bloomberg, overseeing the electronic interest rates trading business and product development. He led a global team of product managers with a focus on developing new trading technologies aimed at digitizing and automating current trade execution practices.

Prior to running Global Rates, Adam was a Product Manager at Bloomberg and focused primarily on Interest Rate Derivatives, Clearing and Regulatory matters impacting the swaps market. Here, Adam was one of the key architects of Bloomberg SEF, one the largest electronic trading platforms in the industry for executing interest rates swaps. Additionally, Adam has held various roles across different verticals within Bloomberg including sales where he covered both dealers and large institutional buyside accounts.

Adam obtained a J.D. from New York Law School and a B.S. from Muhlenberg College.

Mukesh Manwani, Vice President, Product Management, State Street

Mukesh is a Vice President of Product Management within State Street Global Markets. With over 20 years of experience in capital markets, Mukesh has held various positions within business and technology organizations. In the last decade or so, he has been instrumental in transforming FX workflows by automating the end-to-end FX trade life cycle as part of various FX product offerings. He has led the implementations of electronic trading platforms, including FX aggregators, FX algos, and primary market making services. The FIX protocol has been a key contributor to the electronic trading offering to meet the goals. Mukesh has a great passion for technology and uses his passion and business acumen to build innovative products. Currently, he is also involved in projects that involve using Blockchain technologies to bring efficiencies to FX workflows and reduce the cost of trade and counterparty credit risk.

Mukesh holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and an MBA from Boston University.

Ally Bernstein, Vice President, Product Manager, BlackRock

Ally Bernstein, Vice President, is a member of Aladdin Product Management team within the Aladdin Product Group, focusing on enhancing the ETF order taking process. Aladdin Product Management works in partnership with stakeholders to create the product vision, think commercially about the product, and enhance the Aladdin value proposition for its users. Ally earned a BSE in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jon Butler, CEO and co-founder, Velox

Jon is CEO and co-founder of Velox, a fintech firm enabling Capital Markets developers to build software faster. Prior to founding Velox, Jon was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he held roles as Head of Equities Trading Technology and Head of Operations Technology. At GS, he focused on the electronification of the Equities market, the implementation of Dodd-Frank and the large-scale industrialization of the bank’s Operations function.

Jon was also an MD at RBS where he co-headed Markets Technology and was responsible for building a cross-asset flow trading platform that could be used both internally and directly by clients. Jon began his career in the late 90’s as developer at NatWest Markets in Hong Kong, building Index Arbitrage systems and holds a BSc in Software Engineering from University of Birmingham, UK.

Jim Kwiatkowski, Chief Executive Officer, LTX

Jim has more than 30 years of industry experience. Most recently, he served as Managing Director and Global Head of Transaction Sales at the London Stock Exchange where he was responsible for leading sales of the foremost electronic trading platform for foreign exchange. Prior, he served as Global Head of Transaction Sales at Refinitiv, encompassing both client relationship management and new business teams for the buy-side and sell-side client segments. Prior to Refinitiv, Jim was Global Head of Transaction Sales at Thomson Reuters, which he joined as part of the acquisition of FXall, where he was also Global Head of Sales, through its successful IPO.

George Rosenberger, General Manager – NYFIX, Broadridge

As the General Manager, George is responsible for Broadridge’s NYFIX business globally including the Order Routing Network and Post-Trade Matching service.

Prior to Itiviti, George worked as a Managing Director at ConvergEx, an Agency Broker Dealer, where he was responsible for the Trading Services Division which included Global Trade Support, Global Connectivity, Vendor/Exchange/Broker Relations as well as the CONNEX Managed Services business, which he founded while there.

George holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Towson University.