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| Speakers as of March 10, 2010 |
Simon Adams,
Senior Technology Strategist, Investment Management & Research, Russell Investment Group
Simon B. Adams is a member of the investment technology team within Russell's Investment Management & Research department. He is responsible for identifying and managing the development and implementation of key components of the investment unit's strategic direction with respect to technology. His responsibilities include managing a group of outsourcing professionals who design, develop, and implement research and portfolio management tools and analytics for use by Russell's investment professionals globally. These tools and analytics are the primary systems and integral components in Russell's global research and fund management activities.
Prior to accepting these responsibilities in 1998, Simon was a senior research analyst in Russell's equity research department, where his primary responsibilities were researching US small capitalization and growth investment managers. His research activities included identifying and evaluating superior new investment management firms as well as an ongoing review of existing client managers. He advised Russell clients on their equity structures and investment managers; Russell's investment management division also used his research. Simon joined Russell in 1989 as a research associate in the company's Australian office, where he was involved in several areas, including analytical services and consulting. He transferred to Russell's head office in Tacoma in 1992.
Before completing his M.B.A., Simon was based in Sydney as a financial analyst in the corporate finance and capital markets departments of Societe Generale. He was primarily responsible for the evaluation and preparation of credit proposals for major corporate clients.
B.Ec. (Honors), Economics and Accounting, University of Sydney, 1986.
M.B.A., Finance and Statistics, Australian Graduate School of Management,1989.
 Mike Atkin,
Vice President, Financial Information Services Division of SIIA
Michael I. Atkin is Vice President, Financial Information Services Division (FISD) for the Software & Information Industry Association. FISD is a global forum among exchanges, vendors and users of market data. Mike functions as content facilitator and neutral mediator on the spectrum of business issues taking place within the financial-information industry.
Mike has extensive relationships with key market-data professionals within all sectors of the business on a worldwide basis. He posseses a detailed understanding of the policy and technical complexities of the market-data business from the exchange, vendor and user perspectives -- with expertise in the business, securities administration and standards-related activities associated with market-data distribution. Mike is an accomplished speaker and frequent contributor to financial-trade publications.
 David Bartoletti
Partner at CapCo Consulting Group
David Bartoletti is a Partner at Capco, focused on developing leading-edge technology solutions for a broad range of financial services clients. He brought Capco's innovative Reference Data Manager product to market in 2000, one of the first ASP technology offerings to tackle the problem of distributed security master and client/counterparty reference-data bases. He continues to work with clients and strategic reference-data-solution providers to craft complete data-management offerings for global broker dealers and asset managers.
David's wide dossier of skills comprises deep-industry expertise in financial-Web portal creation, retail brokerage web development, on-line portfolio management systems, messaging middleware and real-time market data systems. David co-founded Entropae, a finance-technology consultancy that provides Internet, middleware and market data consulting services to financial institutions. There he launched a web-based mutual fund trading and accounting site for investment advisors in Japan and Korea. Previously a Senior Vice President at Fidelity Investments for the Fidelity Brokerage Technologies Group, David developed and launched a Web-based portfolio-management and accounting engine for the firm's investment advisor customers. David holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 Paul Bent,
Senior Associate, Quellos Group
Paul Bent is a Senior Associate with Quellos Fixed Income Advisors, which is part of the Quellos Group, LLC. Quellos directly manages a series of cash and fixed income funds with specific risk, return, liquidity, cash flow and tax objectives. Additionally, Quellos offers clients financially engineered portfolios that correlate to particular fixed income indices and incorporate specific client objectives.
Among Paul's current duties is the development and support of the systems required for accounting, data warehousing, reporting and risk analysis. He has also worked on fixed income business application software development.
Prior to working for Quellos, Paul was a Senior Research Engineer with Boeing and McDonnell Douglas and a postdoctoral scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.
 John Bottega,
Director, Global Markets & Investment Banking/Product Master Environment, Enterprise Data Standards Initiative, Merrill Lynch
22 years in the information management business, spent the last 17 years working with Financial Industry Market Data.
From 1990-1999, managed the Front Office Security Master Database for Lehman Brothers, implementing centralized processing of vendor feeds, data quality validations, exception handling, workflow and data distribution.
Currently, working at Merrill Lynch as Product Manager for the firm's Enterprise Security Master Database (PME), responsible for PME functionality, specifications and QA.
Active participant in various industry bodies, including:
FISD (Software and Information Industry Association / Financial Information Services Division)
General Member 1993 -- Present
ANNA User Group -- Committee member 1998 -- Present
Executive Committee Member (representing Merrill Lynch) 2002 -- Present
MDDL (Market Data Definition Language) -- XML standard for Product & Price data
Steering Committee 2000 -- Present
Vocabulary Committee 2000 -- Present
Chairperson: MDDL Liaison Committee 2001 - Present
X9D
General Member 2002 (new)
Wall Street & Technology Magazine
Reader Advisory Board 2001-2003 -- Present
ISO 15022 Working Group 10 -- ISO group focused on the implementation of the XML 15022 Data Standard
General Member 2001
 Sandy Dinetz,
Director of Industry Standards at Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Sandra Dinetz is a Director responsible for Industry Standards with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and has been with the firm since 1996. In her role as the Standards Coordinator, Sandy is an active member of the STP Streetside Processing Committee Technical Working Group, which is developing standards-based messages for Trade Capture Reporting and Settlement.
Sandy is the immediate past Chairman of X9D, the securities sub-committee of X9, which is accredited by American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Sandy is the US Representative for the Registration Management Group (RMG) of ISO 15022 -- The Data Dictionary and Catalogue of Messages. Sandy is the Chair of the US Trade Initiation and Confirmation (TIC) National Market Practice Group (NMPG), and a Regional Director/Americas of the Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG). Sandy is on the steering committee of the ISO 15022 XML Working Group TC68/SC4/WG10; she is also a member of S.W.I.F.T.'s Funds Industry Working Group, which is developing cross-border Mutual Funds standard messages. She is a US representative on S.W.I.F.T.'s Business Experts Working Group and the US S.W.I.F.T. Securities Sub-Committee.
Prior to joining DTCC, Sandy spent 14 years at Salomon Brothers in New York, London and Tampa.
 Kathleen Dugan, Manager, Corporate & Institutional Services Multinational and Global Custody Product Group, Vice President, Northern Trust-Chicago
Kathy manages the Multinational and Global Custody Product Group at Northern Trust. Her team focuses on delivering cutting-edge custody products and services to multinationals, fund sponsors and investment managers. The group initiates and oversees the coordination of products throughout their lifecycle, from strategic definition to end-of-life planning, to meet the challenges of emerging client needs, technology change and global expansion.
Prior to joining Northern Trust in 1998, Kathy managed a product team at State Street. Before taking up a career in financial services, she held university teaching posts in Australia, Papua New Guinea, China and the United States.
Credentials and Affiliations
M.B.A. degree, Simmons Graduate School of Management
Ph.D. degree, University of Kansas
B.A. degree, Harvard University
Chartered Financial Analyst
Member, Association for Investment Management and Research
 Steve Goldberg,
Vice President of Market Data services at Jefferies & Co.
Steven Goldberg is currently Vice President of Market Data Services, at Jefferies & Co. where he has served for more than seven years. He has 25 years experience in financial information services, with over 17 years in market data services. Responsibilities at Jefferies & Co. include negotiating vendor agreements, ordering services for traders, testing new products, invoice processing, completing exchange exhibits, maintaining vendor and exchange relationships, and reducing expenses for market data services.
Prior to Jefferies and Co. he was Product/Marketing Manager for trading room software for British Telecom in North America. He was responsible for "Americanizing" their international software product, defining the marketplace in North America, and having the product certified by market data vendors and exchanges. He also served as a Product Manager for Telekurs' Ticker in North America, and Marketing Manager for digital datafeeds for Reuters in North America. He introduced Reuters' first record based digital data feed, Marketfeed 2000 in North America and also introduced SelectFeed, a second record based digital feed. While at Reuters he helped create a mortgage backed securities information service, attracting numerous contributors of pricing data, and led a broad variety of projects to create new information services in North America. Prior to Reuters he worked for a number of computer services firms in sales and marketing.
Steve is active in several industry organizations and has provided testimony to the US Department of Justice on industry practices.
He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Political Science and a Master of Business Administration in Finance.
Stephen Gouthro,
Senior Vice President, Investment Data & Applications and Global Client Reporting at Putnam Investments
Stephen Gouthro is currently a Senior Vice President, within Putnam’s Information Services Division, where he is focused on the Investment Data Operations, management of data infrastructure projects and support of quantitative and fundamental research systems and processes.
Mr. Gouthro is also responsible for the strategy and delivery of Putnam’s reporting needs in the Defined Benefits and International Businesses.
Since 1996, Stephen has developed a centralized data organization, focused on achieving a real-time and STP platform for referential and analytical information. Mr. Gouthro developed a centralized operations group, responsible for managing data integrity around investment data across the enterprise. He has also implemented a data hub / data mart strategy, enabling Putnam to deploy new investment applications without the worry of acquiring the data.
Over the past 13 years, Mr. Gouthro has held previous positions in Institutional and Mutual Fund Accounting, Securities Pricing, Performance Analysis and Investment Operations. His background is within the business units of investment management, although eventually transitioning into Information Technology.
Mr. Gouthro holds a B.S. degree in Finance from Northeastern University.
 Robert Hegarty,
Vice President of the Securities and Investments Practice at TowerGroup
Rob is vice president of our Securities & Investments practice, the umbrella for the three following practice areas: Securities & Capital Markets, Investment Management, and Retail Brokerage & Investing. Rob's group focuses on technology trends and strategies in the brokerage, capital markets, investing, and asset management industries.
Rob has over 15 years of experience in the financial services technology industry. Prior to joining TowerGroup in 1999, Rob was vice president of trading systems at Putnam Investments in Boston. Prior to Putnam, Rob was with Fidelity Investments in Boston for eight years, most recently as vice president of technology of the institutional broker/dealer arm of Fidelity Investments (Fidelity Capital Markets or FCM), where he had overall responsibility for technology for this $300 million company. His responsibilities included strategic technology planning, business analysis, project management, trading floor support, market data, and telecommunications. He also had overall technology responsibility for building FCM's 230-position trading floor as well as managing the technology integration for acquisitions FCM was undertaking. Earlier he held positions in product development for electronic trading and in technology consulting to the many internal companies at Fidelity. Prior to Fidelity, he was division vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York and was with the IT management consulting division of Coopers & Lybrand's Boston office.
Rob holds an M.B.A. with a finance/marketing concentration from Babson College and a B.S. in computer science from North Adams State College. He is also NASD Series 7 and 63 registered.
 David Hirschfeld,
Managing Director, Enterprise Data Services Group, Citadel Investment Group
David Hirschfeld currently works at Citadel Investment Group, where he is a Managing Director in charge of Enterprise Data Services. This group is responsible for all aspects (operations, development and vendor management) of the firm's real-time and referential data.
Prior to Citadel, Mr. Hirschfeld was at Merrill Lynch where he managed the firm's Enterprise Data Standards Initiative. This group had global responsibility for all aspects of both client and referential data.
Mr. Hirschfeld has previously worked at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Tudor Investment Corporation. At Tudor, Mr. Hirschfeld was a partner and held many titles, including President/CEO of Tudor Software and VP/Director of Technology. He was also a successful researcher, arbitrager and systems trader for them.
Mr. Hirschfeld holds an MA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Duke University. He has been a long time member of the Board of Directors for Iverson Financial Systems, a provider of financial data.
 Tom Jordan,
President, Jordan & Jordan
Tom Jordan is President and CEO of Jordan & Jordan, which provides Management Consulting, Project Management, Market Data Management, Search and Software Development to the Securities and Banking Industry.
Tom Jordan is also Executive Director of the Financial Information Forum, a consortium of brokers, vendors, service bureaus and exchanges whom address issues regarding the effect of structural and technological changes on securities processing and the collection and distribution of market data.
From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Jordan was the Managing Director of Knight-Ridder Financial/Americas. Prior to that position, he was the Chairman of Monchik-Weber, a Wall Street consulting and product development firm. Mr. Jordan also held various management positions at IBM both on the technical and marketing side of the business. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Korea.
Mr. Jordan holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Saint Peter's College and a M.S. in Industrial Administration from Union College.
 Kerry Massaro,
Editor in Chief, Wall Street & Technology
Kerry Massaro is editor-in-chief of Wall Street & Technology, where she manages the magazine, conferences and online newsletter content. Kerry joined WS&T as executive editor in March of 1999. Previously, she was an editor at Institutional Investor, working on publications that include Corporate Financing Week, Operations Management and Real Estate Finance & Investment. Named editor-in-chief in January 2000, she is responsible for assigning and editing stories and managing projects including Wall Street & Technology's conferences, reader advisory board and partnerships. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
Jo McCann,
Manager, Middle Office Data, AIG
 Cristina McEachern,
Event Chair and Senior Associate Editor, Wall Street & Technology
Cristina McEachern is a senior associate editor for Wall Street & Technology. She has been with the publication since 1999 and covers risk-management and market-data technology and trends. Cristina attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She has held previous internships with Miller Freeman magazines as well as at a television station in Santa Barbara, Calif. Cristina generally attends conferences and events relating to risk and market data and regularly covers SIA events. Cristina also covers risk and market data for the Wall Street & Technology Week.
Steven Ridings,
VP, Enterprise Data Standards Initiative - Client & Counterparty Data, Merrill Lynch
Steve Ridings is currently the product manager for the Common Party Entity Repository, Merrill Lynch's centralized database of public party data that supports the unique identification of parties
(organizations, individuals, and managed accounts), compliance with regulatory directives, and enables CRM initiatives, for the Global Markets & Investment Banking businesses.
Prior to this, he worked on the client information model for a large reengineering project in the Global Private Client business, and developed client-centric strategies and technology proposals that were later adopted by the International Private Client division of Merrill Lynch.
He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Cincinnati and an M.S. in Computer Science from California State University at Chico.
Anthony Rizzi,
Vice President, Business Executive - Global Market Reference Data, JPMorgan Investor Services
Anthony Rizzi is a Vice President and Business Executive for Global Market Reference Data (GMRD) for JPMorgan Investor Services. In this role, he is responsible for managing the business development of a centralized security master that captures, cleanses and delivers a composite asset record that identifies a security and its related attribution. The GMRD product is a key factor in establishing data consistency across Investor Services' core applications leading to improved operating efficiencies.
Mr. Rizzi joined JPMorgan in 1988. Prior to joining the GMRD development team, Mr. Rizzi was responsible for the operations group that supported asset indicative data, pricing and corporate actions for Investor Services' core applications in the United States.
Mr. Rizzi received a bachelor's degree in finance from The State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a member of the CUSIP Agency Board of Trustees.
Rich Robinson,
AVP/Senior Business Analyst, Deutsche Bank AG NY
Richard C. Robinson is currently an Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Bank in the brokerage division, working on trading-systems solutions and architecture.
He maintains an active role in industry groups for Deutsche Bank, focusing on straight-through- processing issues ranging from messaging and formats to market-data quality and standards, as well as other ways to gain efficiencies in the marketplace. He is Co-Chair of the Repository project team for ISO's Working Group 10, Chairman of the Vocabulary Committee and member of the Steering Committee for the Market Data Definition Language (MDDL), member of the ANNA Service Bureau User Group, and Co-Chair of the Unique Security Identification initiative sponsored by FISD. He is also a key member of ISITC-IOA, Omgeo's ALERT SSI User Group, and SWIFT's Fund Business Validation Group.
Mr. Robinson has worked in the finance industry for over 10 years, holding positions in the Global Custody divisions of The Bank of New York and Bankers Trust, the financial-software company Merrin Financial, and NSCC's International division (ISCC/IDC). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management and MIS from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA in Information Technology and Organizational Behavior from NYU's Stern School of Business.
 Judy Smith,
Managing Director, Institutional Securities, Morgan Stanley
Judith A. Smith is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley. Ms. Smith joined Morgan Stanley in 1986. She was promoted to Managing Director in 1992. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Smith spent nine years at Andersen Consulting. During her tenure at Morgan Stanley, Ms. Smith has held senior management positions in operations and technology in Global Institutional Securities, Treasury, Investment Management, Custody and Clearing. She currently serves on the board of the International Securities Services Association (ISSA) and is an active member of the SIA’s Operations Division, Corporate Action Division and STP Steering Committee. She has recently been involved in the formation of the industry-wide reference data initiatives: RDUG and REDAC. From 2000-2002 she served on the board of the Futures Industry Association (FIA).
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Boston College in 1974. Ms. Smith received a M.B.A. in Management Science and a M.S. in Operations Research from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1977.
Ms. Smith resides in New York with her husband.
John White,
Principal, Investment-Data Management at State Street Global Advisors
John White manages the Investment Management Data team for State Street Global Advisors, which is responsible for investment data vendor relationships worldwide. In addition, his team provides support for various internal data applications and to the company's technical and investment groups (including security master).
John has over 18 years of experience in the investment data management field. Prior to joining State Street Global Advisors, John was manager of Columbia Management Company's Data Management Group and before this he managed the Data Integrity Group at Wellington Management Company.
John holds a BS from Stonehill College and currently serves on the executive committee for Financial Information Services Division of the Software and Information Industry Association.
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