Andrew Allwright
Business Manager, Exchange Traded Instruments, Reuters

Andrew Allwright joined Reuters in March 2005 to shape the information vendor's response to the new European MiFiD (Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments) regulation. In this role he has represented Reuters externally in discussions about MiFID implementation with clients, regulators and industry associations. Within Reuters, Andrew defined the market requirements driven by MiFID and helped to shape the solutions delivered to meet these and now has responsibility for the development and sales of these solutions. He was previously a Director within CSFB's London-based Equity COO team. During his time at CSFB Andrew was the representative on the LIBA Securities Trading Committee dealing with market infrastructure, competition and regulatory initiatives.

David Anderson
Atradia Consulting

David is very well known in the market data community on both sides of the Atlantic, travelling frequently between London and New York City. With 23 years of sales, marketing and consultancy experience in our industry David brings a wealth of knowledge and a diverse set of experiences to play; including nearly 14 years working with Reuters and before that over 3 with Telerate. For the last 6 years David has been running Atradia Consulting, a specialist consultancy offering detailed insight into the peculiarities and opportunities of the market data industry. In those six years David has undertaken projects for Thomson Financial, Reuters, Bloomberg, Interactive Data, Deutsche Börse, The London Stock Exchange and IBM - to name but a few. David also edits under contract the annual and influential 'Inside Market Data Reference' publication and is frequently quoted in the press commenting on the market data industry. David is also a regular speaker or moderator at many well known industry events.

Craig Betts
CEO, Solace Systems

Craig Bradley
MicroRose

Craig Bradley founded MicroRose in 1995, an organisation specialising in performing audits solely on behalf of exchanges/market data providers, to assess compliance with their policies/contracts. In the past two years, MicroRose has performed in excess of 200 on-site audits worldwide, 60% of which were consumer firms/end users, 40% vendors. The majority of these audits were for more than one data provider at the same time. MicroRose continues to be the most prolific royalty/compliance audit operator in the industry. Craig has been in the market data industry for 18 years, starting with a vendor and then a London exchange.

Martin Buchberger
AIM Software

Established in 1998, AIM Software (www.aimsoftware.com) is one of the leading providers of reference data management and risk management solutions for financial markets, with offices in Austria, Switzerland, the US, Hong Kong and Japan. AIM Software is active in the major financial centres based on its service and support partner network and supports more than 100 references in 15 countries. Supported by the company's expertise in the areas of reference data management, risk management and financial instrument pricing, the creation of future proof software solutions is the cornerstone of AIM Software's business mission.For further information, please visit http://www.aimsoftware.com.

Carol Covall
Credit Suisse

Ms. Covall currently works in the Supply Management - Market Data Sourcing team, at Credit Suisse dealing with the commercial negotiations and legal terms and conditions associated with the providers of market data, and that includes Exchanges. Before joining Credit Suisse she was an independent consultant working in the market data 'arena' and enjoying contracts with major investment banks and asset management houses. She began work in the City as a credit controller with Reuters moving on eventually to the UK Sales team. She has worked in the industry for seventeen (17) years.

Robert Cumberbatch
Interactive Data Corporation

Robert is European business lines director, Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data (Europe). He focuses on executing product development plans, product reliability, product infrastructure, future business opportunities and the product development process. Robert also heads Interactive Data's cross-business MiFID project team. Robert Cumberbatch joined Interactive Data in June 1998 as production director to run the company's IT operations. Robert was responsible for the mission critical IT infrastructure with a 24 x 7 data centre, a 24 x 6 help desk, technical support group, network support and project planning. From January 2003 Robert led an international real-time integration programme aimed at integrating the then newly-acquired ComStock's infrastructure into that of Interactive Data. Prior to his work at Interactive Data, Robert worked for Telerate / Dow Jones Markets for 10 years where he helped to establish an exchange-traded securities service more commonly known as TIQ. Robert held senior management positions as IT strategic planning and IT operations manager for the EMEA region. He has also worked for Mercury Communications (Cable & Wireless) and British Telecom. Robert has an MSc in Networked Information Engineering.

Tom Davin
Managing Director, Financial and Information Services Division (FISD), SIIA

Tom Davin is managing director, Financial Information Services Division (FISD) for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). SIIA is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. In this role, Davin works closely with FISD members identifying major issues and seeking opportunities to bring the financial information industry together to discuss those issues. Davin came to SIIA after eighteen years at The Nasdaq Stock Market, where he was most recently Senior Vice President for Market Data Distribution. In that role, he managed the products and distributor relationships that supported Nasdaq's real-time market data business. While at Nasdaq, he served as the Chair of the FISD Executive Committee.

Ottavio Gisler
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Georg Gross
Deutsche Börse AG, Head of Front Office Data & Analytics in the Segment Market Data & Analytics, Frankfurt am Main

Georg Gross heads the section Front Office Data & Analytics, the real-time data business of Deutsche Börse. With its real-time data feed family CEF®, Deutsche Börse runs one of the most efficient and fastest data feed systems of all international stock exchanges. Georg started with DTB Deutsche Terminbörse (the predecessor of Eurex) in 1990. After filling several positions in Product Development, Strategic Marketing and Sales he has been heading the Front Office Data department (formerly known as Information Services Streaming Data) of Deutsche Börse AG since 1997. Born in 1964 in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Georg holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Mannheim.

Jarod Hillman
London Stock Exchange

George MacDonald
Co-Chair FIX Protocol Global Fixed Income Committee, CEO, Macdonald Associates

George started working in financial markets in 1989 after graduating from Manchester University. Initially working in Germany and the Netherlands, he joined Macdonald Associates in 1992, returning to the UK before expanding the company abroad in 1995. During his time at Macdonald Associates, he has worked on a wide range of customer projects for major banks and stock exchanges in the areas of FX, equity, derivatives and fixed income. Based in Switzerland, he provides both consultancy to customers as well as support for the company's product range. He is co-chair of the FPL Global Fixed Income Committee.

Nick Merritt
Program Director, Financial and Information Services Division (FISD)

Nick joined FISD in May 2007 and focuses on management of a variety of FISD working groups, including Service Levels & Communications and Billing & Invoicing. He also develops program content for FISD events. Prior to joining FISD he was with the American Bankers Association from 2002-2007 where he served as Manager Service Membership providing products and services to more than 700 non-bank members of the ABA. Nick also worked with The Nasdaq Stock Market from 1987 - 2001 and served as Senior Director Issuer Services. He has a BA from The University of Mississippi and an MBA from The George Washington University.

Bill Nichols
Program Director, Securities Systems, Financial and Information Services Division (FISD), SIIA

Bill is Program Director for Securities Processing Automation for FISD. In this role, he concentrates on the intersections between technology and business practice. Special emphasis is in the areas of Standards, where he manages the Standards Steering Committee, Shadow Groups to track Standards developments, represents FISD members on several ISO Committees and is responsible for maintaining MDDL. Nichols was Co-founder/CEO of a research firm acquired by Thomson in 1995, after which he spent 7 years at Thomson Financial. He has an extensive background in Internet architecture and business models, and was retained as an expert witness regarding online traffic and advertising models in Homestore vs. AOL. Much of the past few years have been spent consolidating portfolio companies for venture-backed entities. Most recently, he was consulting on compliance-related product development for Anti-Money Laundering offerings.

Chris Pickles
Manager, Industry Relations, BT Global Financial Services

Chris has worked for over 30 years in the financial technology industry. His previous jobs have included being secretary-general of the European Association of Securities Dealers in Brussels, Head of Exchange Products at Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt, and marketing with Reuters in London, Paris and Frankfurt. Chris is Co-Chair of the Global Education & Marketing Committee of FIX Protocol Ltd, a member of the Executive Committee of SIIA/FISD, and is Chair of the MiFID Joint Working Group.

Simon Leighton-Porter

Simon Leighton-Porter joined Citigroup's Global Custody sales and account management team in 1998. In 2000 he transferred to the equities division of Citigroup Global Markets Limited where, as a Vice President within the global middle office, he was responsible for a number of STP initiatives designed to improve the firm's cross-border securities processing. He still works part-time for Citigroup and is also a director of the software company Rapid Addition. He serves on a number of industry committees and was a member of ISO TC68 SC4 WG8 which produced the draft for the ISO 16372 (IBEI) Standard. He is also a member of the FIX Global Technical Committee and the FIX Business Practices Committee. Prior to his current role, Simon worked mainly in the exchange traded derivatives field. Before this, he spent 16 years as an officer in the Royal Air Force.

Stuart Richardson
Head of Compliance, 3rd Party Content Group, Reuters Limited

Stuart Richardson is Head of Compliance within the 3rd Party Content Group for Reuters Limited. Stuart is responsible for co-ordination and completion of third party audits of Reuters, product compliance and controls over third party data on a global basis. With a finance and internal audit background, Stuart has over 10 years experience of market data within Reuters, from the audit side through to content acquisition and reporting. Currently based in London, Stuart was previously based in the USA for 5 years and prior to that in Asia and Europe.

Rakiya Sanusi
Islamic Finance Information Service, Internet Securities Inc.

Mrs Rakiya Sanusi is currently Director, for Internet Securities' Islamic Finance Information Service www.securities.com/ifis part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc Group, based in London. She joined the Euromoney Group in 2003 as Global Product Manager and has spearheaded the product developments on IFIS since then. Mrs Sanusi has an LLM from Kings College, University of London, and was formerly with the Institute of Islamic Banking & Insurance, London where she spent 4 years promoting the Islamic finance industry through its activities. IFIS (Islamic Finance Information Service) is the most comprehensive online Islamic finance information portal with Global coverage. It exclusively tracks the developments in the Islamic financial world, featuring League tables on the Sukuk market, funds, Syndicated loans, Projects & Infrastructure Financing; the first online Shariah scholar database exclusive to IFIS; Regulatory & Legislative content, News, Academic & Research papers, Broker reports; Sovereign, Issue & Issuer Ratings; Company & financial data etc. It is a significant source of information for Industry participants, top investment banks, corporations, law firms, consultants, Rating Agencies, Researchers, insurance companies, universities and libraries, multilateral organizations etc.

Julia Sutton
Citi

Ms. Sutton joined BZW which went on to become Barclays Capital in 1987. She moved into data on the settlement side in 1989, however her real career with customer data began with the collapse of Barings. Barclays decided at that point that they wanted a centralised data group that were responsible for knowing who their customers were and how they were linked together. Since she was working with the equities data group at that point sheI was selected as someone to help set up this utility. Since then her life has been customer data and how it should be grouped, how it flows and what impact it has within the various groups that it touches. She joined Citi in Nov 2005 and is currently the Global Head of Customer Accounts.

Keith Wood
Cirquent | Softlab group

Keith Wood has been working in Investment Banking since 1984. During that time he has held a number of senior roles in the front, middle and back offices of large investment banks providing technology and process solutions for derivatives and complex structured products. For the past 12 years he has been involved in a number of large consulting projects associated with the implementation and optimisation of risk management and regulatory reporting requirements in Europe. For the past four years Keith has been responsible for business development at Cirquent.

Nourredine Yous
Telekurs Financial

I have been working for 26 years in the data research area with a special focus on reference data. My involvement in the data business of the TKF subsidiaries worldwide contributed considerably to my knowledge and experience in this area. I have been involved in the development of many ISO securities standards, some of which like the ISIN, the CFI, ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 are today established as a "must" in any reference data environment. I chaired the ISO TC68/SC4/WG6 as of 1992 and developed successively the CFI, and the FISN. Representing the swiss numbering agency even before the foundation of ANNA, I made profit of my ISO role and experience to encourage and support ANNA in particular with the implementation of the CFI. Finally I chair ISO TC68/SC4, the ISO committee in charge of the securities standards since the year 2000. As such I have been involved in all the attempts of developing an IBEI standard, issue that I continue to follow today with much attention."