Laurence G. Allen serves as the Managing Member of NYPPEX, LLC, a global securities and investment banking firm specializing in 144A private equity transactions for securities exchanges, financial services firms, institutions and advisors. Mr. Allen has pioneered auction-based 144A private equity trading to achieve best price executions and to measure fair values for alternative investments under FASB Statement No. 157. Mr. Allen has served as a guest speaker at private equity conferences and been featured in numerous articles regarding trends in accessing global private market liquidity for alternative investments. NYPPEX provides access to over $10 billion in global private market liquidity through its 110 institutional members (as of September 15, 2007) for unregistered securities in private companies and interests in private partnerships. NYPPEX has developed a proprietary private market database of historical prices and/or estimated fair values on over 14,000 unregistered securities in private companies and interests in private equity partnerships and hedge funds headquartered in 47 countries. Mr. Allen has over 24 years experience in financial services. Previously, Mr. Allen served with Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, where he participated in the development of the markets for private placements and mortgage-backed securities. Mr. Allen has served on advisory boards for a variety of organizations such as the Wharton School, the Congressional Business Advisory Council, the Police Activities League and the Second Congregational Church of Greenwich. Mr. Allen is a licensed Series 24 principal. Mr. Allen received his M.B.A. in Finance and B.S. in Economics with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Allen resides in Greenwich, CT.

Educated at Cambridge University, Simon practised as a barrister before joining the London Stock Exchange in 1994. After serving as the AIM Regulator as a member of the AIM market’s founding team, he became Head of AIM. Simon was responsible for writing the original AIM Rules, introducing a fast-track procedure for companies with overseas listings seeking admission to AIM, and lobbying to secure AIM’s positioning under the current European legislative framework. He marketed and promoted AIM in the UK and overseas, as well as being principal spokesman for AIM with the press and wider media. Simon left the London Stock Exchange to join Ofex Holdings plc (as it then was) in January 2004. Simon saw in Ofex not what it was – a poorly positioned “third tier” offering in financial difficulties – but what it could be, as a launch pad for an independent UK market. He became Chief Executive Offer in November 2004, bringing in new shareholders and a new management team, and undertaking a programme of radical reform. Today, under Simon’s stewardship, PLUS Markets Group plc – as it is now known – trades over 7,500 securities. These comprise smaller, growing companies listed on its own market, and companies that are listed on the Official List and AIM but now also trading on PLUS. PLUS Markets Group has introduced true competition into the London equity marketplace for the first time, competing directly and credibly with the London Stock Exchange. The outcome of global exchange consolidation – and its possible impact on the London Stock Exchange, the London markets and “UK plc” - remains unclear. But PLUS Markets Group’s role as an independent market operator is becoming increasingly regarded as an important one.

 

Brendan T.N. Caldwell is President and CEO of Caldwell Investment Management Ltd. and Director of Caldwell Financial Ltd. Mr. Caldwell earned his B.Sc. from Trinity College at the University of Toronto and his M.A. from the University of London, England. He has held the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst since 1995. Mr. Caldwell is a member of the Toronto CFA Society, the CFA Institute and is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. Mr. Caldwell has been a member of the Toronto Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

Born in Athens in 1955, he studied Economics at the University of Athens and earned his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from INSEAD in France. In November 2006 he was elected Vice President of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges. In 2004 he was appointed as Chairman of the Athens Exchange, CEO of the Central Securities Depository, Chairman of the Athens Derivatives Exchange Clearing House and CEO of the Hellenic Exchanges Group, after the successful completion of his duties as General Secretary for the Olympic Games of the Ministry of Culture and as Executive Director and Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the Organizing Committee for the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games (2000-2004). Between 1990 and 2000, he has served as Deputy Governor (Executive) of the National Bank of Greece, Chairman of ETEVA bank, Chairman of the Insurance Company “ASTIR”, Managing Director of EPIRUS Co., Managing Director of EFG Balkan Investments, Managing Director of Bank of Athens, following a ten year international banking career with Bankers Trust Company (Paris, New York, Athens, Milan, London). Champion of Greece in Swimming (1969-1975), he participated as a water polo athlete in the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games (Moscow and Los Angeles), while in 1996 he was appointed as Head of the Greek Olympic Team in the Olympic Games of Atlanta. Apart from Greek he speaks English, French and Italian fluently.

Jackson Day is the Global Director Capital Markets, responsible for quality control of assurance services provided to US Foreign Private Issuers. His responsibilities include accounting, auditing, independence and other professional practice matters. Prior to re-joining Ernst & Young in 2003, Jackson was Acting Chief Accountant, US SEC, where he was the principal advisor to the SEC on accounting, auditing, and independence matters. He led the successful implementation of critical elements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act including new rules on auditor oversight, independence, corporate governance, and disclosure. Prior to joining the US SEC as Deputy Chief Accountant in 2000, Jackson was a partner in Ernst & Young’s National Office in New York, specializing in accounting matters. Jackson also is a former Chairman of IOSCO’s Standing Committee No.1 on accounting, auditing, and disclosure and a former FASB Practice Fellow. He also was an Observer of the EITF, FASAC, IASB’s SAC and IFRIC. Jackson has been a member of numerous working groups on matters affecting the accounting profession. Jackson holds a BS in Business Administration from Kansas State University.

 

Deborah A. Fuhr, Managing Director, heads the Investment Strategies Group at Morgan Stanley based in London. The unit consults with institutional investors and writes on the implementation and strategy on the use of Delta 1 products - including Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), OPALS (Optimised Portfolios As Listed Securities), certificates, swaps, futures, TOPAS, Index Funds, out-performance trades, securities lending and yield enhancement trades. The group publishes four comprehensive quarterly reports: 1) ETF Global Industry Review, 2) ETF short interest, 3) ETF options and futures and 4) ETF Global Tracking Monitor. It produces reports on specific trade ideas: performs customised analysis for clients critiquing and comparing the various costs of implementing asset allocation strategies using Delta 1 products: publishes quarterly guidebooks on global ETFs, index futures and options, swaps and certificates, OPALS, TOPAS and Shariah Index Funds. The group also maintains the following pages on Bloomberg ETFS , OPALS , MSEQ (for swaps), MSFU (for futures) and MSDP (for certificates) and on Reuters and Telekurs OPALS pages. For three consecutive years, Morgan Stanley has been ranked first for Exchange Traded Fund Research in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America in a global survey conducted by both International Fund Investment and ExchangeTradedFunds.com. In 2007, Ms Fuhr won an award for the Greatest Overall Contribution to the development of the Global ETF industry in 2006. In 2006, the organisations honoured Ms Fuhr for meritorious service to the ETF Industry. The award recognized her as one of the early strategists to cover exchange traded products, specifically for her work on OPALS and ETFs. In addition, the Greenwich Associates survey of institutional investors in Europe in 2002 - 2006, ranked Morgan Stanley first for ETF strategy. Ms Fuhr was ranked in the 2007 Financial News Top 100 Women in Finance, a distinguished list of the most influential women in European Finance. Ms Fuhr has been assisting clients with the implementation of Delta 1 solutions for over 10 years. She is on the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchanges (CASE) in Egypt and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Indexes. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Ms. Fuhr was an Associate at Greenwich Associates a financial service consulting firm. She has an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut.

Joe Gawronski is the President/COO of Rosenblatt Securities. Joe is formerly a securities lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell, a Vice President in the equities division with Salomon Smith Barney and COO of Linx LLC, an alternative block trading system. He received his B.A. in Public and International Affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is an Allied Member of the NYSE, a member of the NYSE Hearing Board, a member of the Advisory Boards of both the Journal of Trading and Wall Street & Technology magazine, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the author or co-author of several published papers on equity market structure and a frequent lecturer, moderator and panelist on the topic.

“Since January 2008 Paolo Giulianini has been Director and Head of ETF trading at UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking in London. During his 14 years as Head of Delta 1 Products at Banca IMI he was responsible for building the activity from scratch into one of the leading market makers for ETFs in Germany, France and Italy in terms of official market making roles and trades. He helped to strengthen his former bank’s ETF sales trading activities throughout Europe covering all ETF issuers and Delta 1 Certificates. In the process he took Banca IMI to the position of being a leading issuer of Benchmark Certificates in Italy for what has now been the last 4 years. He worked for IMI Bank in Luxemburg and in Frankfurt between 1994 and 1996. He graduated from Bocconi University in Milan in 1994. Paolo now runs a well established and successful ETF trading team based in London and in Munich. They are official market maker for ETFs issued by all asset managers listed on the Deutsche Boerse, Vienna Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana, Swiss Exchange and NYSE Euronext.”

John is a well known commentator and advisor on Hedge Fund investing. He is currently CEO of the IGS Group, a specialist Alternative Investments company engineering strong connections between Investors and Opportunities in the Alternative Asset arena. IGS specialises in clear advice on product design and Portfolio Construction, market positioning and distribution for Hedge Funds, Fund of Funds and Service Providers. John was previously head of the European arm of HFR Asset Management building the AUM of the firm up to more than $4bn. John positioned HFR as a leading provider of Hedge Fund of Fund vehicles and was instrumental in launching the HFRX series of investable Hedge Fund Indices. Prior to his work with HFR, John worked with Barclays Capital setting up their Fund derivative business and was also involved in their derivatives Structured Solutions work with European Financial Institutions. This followed work at Paribas (now BNP Paribas) also focussed on Structured Derivatives and some of the first Fund Derivatives. John began his career in the Pension Consultancy sector before moving into Capital Markets having studied Pure Mathematics.

Martin Graham joined the London Stock Exchange in May 2003 as Director of Markets, managing all the market facing functions within the Exchange, including the development of all domestic and international markets business. Between 2003 and 2007 his business generated over 70% revenue growth on a flat cost base and accounted for 75% of the Exchange’s profits, as well as helping the London market to achieve a dominant position in the international IPO market. AIM was also transformed into the world’s leading market for high growth companies with an unprecedented global profile. During 2007 Martin led negotiations with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to form a joint venture to create a new equity growth market in Japan. In January 2008, following the merger with Borsa Italiana, Martin was appointed head of the combined Groups’ equity business. Martin has direct responsibility for all the Group’s equity client relationships, market operations and regulation, product management and development, equity markets strategy, AIM and RNS, the Exchange’s regulatory news service. Prior to joining the Exchange, Martin developed extensive industry experience in senior management positions at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and West LB Panmure. Martin graduated from the London School of Economics.

 

Pierre Guillemin, as a Managing Director at SwissLife Asset Management , is responsible for Quantitative Asset Management and Alternative investments. Previously, he was Head of Asset Management at SwissLife Asset Management (France) where he developped Quantitative techniques for Asset allocation, credit management and directional trading. Pierre Guillemin is graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris and from Université des Sciences de Paris (DEA, stochastic processes).

As Director of Trading and a member of the Executive Committee he has responsibility for the development and integrity of the Irish Stock Exchange’s markets for traded securities. He also has responsibility for the management of the relationships with strategic partners for trading, clearing and settlement, as well as for the Exchange’s IT strategy. He is Chairman of the cross-industry Irish Market Advisory Committee and is also Chairman of the Dematerialisation Implementation Group which is taking a lead role in advocating the full dematerialisation of Irish equities. He is a director of the Irish Investor Compensation Company. He has been an active participant on behalf of Ireland’s capital markets in the development of securities law in the European Union, particularly in relation to the Market Abuse Directive and as a member of the CESR Consultative Panel on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. Brian’s graduate and postgraduate studies were in the areas of Economics and Finance. He is a fellow of the Irish Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of the Securities Institute.

Lee Hodgkinson is CEO of SWX Europe (formerly known as virt-x) and Head of the Client and Product Group of SWX Swiss Exchange. Lee has been a member of the SWX Swiss Exchange Management Committee for five years, holding responsibility for the Market Operations division, where he led the development of SWX's high-capacity transaction platform. He began his career in the Markets Division of the London Stock Exchange, where he worked for nine years and is an alumni of Harvard Business School.

Thanks to Army training Colin Howard was an early adopter of electronics in the 60’s, inventing a range of control equipment in the 70’s – installing the first digital dealing rooms in the City in the early 80’s, and starting the first electronic stockbrokers in the late 80’s. In the 90’s he founded BusinessNet, a specialist ISP that is now a part of Level 3. In 1999 he founded the commodities exchange Comdaq, applying the exchange techniques developed there back into the development of equities and bonds markets in 2002. Recently the Nepal stock exchange went live, following the Caribbean based PPDAQ. He is currently finalising the launch of the Microfinance Exchange MFDAQ, and working on three more initiatives that are yet to be announced.

John L. Jacobs is Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Financial Products. As Chief Marketing Officer, Mr. Jacobs leads the strategic development and implementation of the branding and messaging for The NASDAQ OMX Group. Mr. Jacobs is also charged with maximizing and monetizing opportunities presented by NASDAQ OMX Group's index data through the creation of index products and financial instruments for use by the trading and investing community. Among other things, Mr. Jacobs is known for being the creator of the NASDAQ-100 ETF - the QQQs. He most recently led NASDAQ's modernization and further push into the 144A market through its PORTAL marketplace.

Aref Karim, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer – Quality Capital Management Ltd. Aref Karim, in addition to serving in the Chief Executive role, carries overall responsibility for QCM’s investment strategies and research. Mr. Karim qualified as Chartered Accountant in the UK and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has been in the hedge fund industry for 25 years combining both ‘buy’ side (allocation) experience as well as ‘sell’ side (fund management) role at QCM since inception. He spent 14 years with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (‘ADIA’), a multi-billion dollar Sovereign Fund in the Middle East that has a significant allocation to alternative investments. QCM is a UK based hedge fund manager with a 12 year operating history. Today, QCM offers three ‘long volatility’ investment programmes: the Global Diversified Programme, its flagship fund, and two commodity exclusive programmes: the Global Natural Resources Programme and the Enhanced Commodity Beta Programme, with a total AUM of USD 640 million as of February 2008.

Mr. Kleiman is Senior Partner at Kleiman International Consultants, which he co-founded in 1987 in New York City where the company was based before relocating to Washington in 1993. The firm has the longest record of providing independent monitoring and analysis of worldwide banking and securities markets, and at its twentieth anniversary launched the “Emerging Markets Talk” blog on its website. The firm’s emphasis is on the emerging economies, and clients include international banks, securities firms, brokerages, fund managers, pension funds, corporations, private investors, and multilateral organizations worldwide. The firm’s experience with international investors is often tapped for capital market evaluation and advisory assignments for international lending organizations in all developing regions. For the private sector, Kleiman International offers in-depth evaluation of economic and financial market development for emerging markets worldwide. Kleiman provides market and instrument comparisons, and counsels clients on risk and opportunity associated with portfolio and direct investment, and trading and credit activity. Through its wide range of public and private sector sources, the firm assists investors and executives in identifying and assessing financial services and investment opportunities and vehicles, and tracking developments through regular coverage of more than 75 markets. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Kleiman held positions with international consulting firms in New York and Washington. He is regularly consulted by government agencies and the media on global economic and financial market issues, and contributes to international publications. He was chosen to be an overall Financial Sector Reform advisor for the IMF and World Bank’s flagship First Initiative and writes a regular emerging markets column for the Financial Times. Mr. Kleiman is a magna cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and he earned advanced degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris) and the London School of Economics, and is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He is member of many industry and trade associations focusing on global affairs, development and investment, and initiated The Bretton Woods Committee “Private Sector Group to Assist Poor Countries.”

David Krell is a founder of ISE and was President & CEO until December 31, 2007. From 1997 to 1998, he was Chairman and co-founder of K-Squared Research, LLC, a financial services consulting firm. From 1984 to 1997, Mr. Krell was Vice President, Options and Index Products, of the New York Stock Exchange where he managed marketing, systems and new product introductions for the division. From 1981 to 1984, Mr. Krell was First Vice President at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, responsible for the management and operation of the Marketing and Sales Division. Mr. Krell was also a Vice President of Merrill Lynch from 1978 to 1981 and founded its Managed Options Service. Mr. Krell is active in numerous industry groups. He was a Director on the Board of the International Federation of Technical Analysts, a president of the Market Technicians Association and a Director on the Board of The Options Clearing Corporation.

Mark is FTSE Group's Chief Executive and company founder. He established FTSE Group as an autonomous company in 1995 and has been responsible for the company's global expansion since. Under Mark's leadership, FTSE Group has grown from a start-up company with nine employees to a world-leader in the design and management of stock market indices. During his career at FTSE Group, Mark has forged alliances with stock exchanges around the world and pioneered the concepts of free float and treatment of multinational companies. Mark has also formed productive and long-lasting relationships between FTSE Group and charity organisations, in particular with children’s charity UNICEF. Mark is committed to raising the profile of UNICEF within the City, and has joined several field trips to see at first hand the needs of children in the Third World. He has received an Honorary Fellowship from UNICEF, in recognition of the innovative fundraising model created by the FTSE4Good index series. Mark began his career in the City in 1985 with London Stock Exchange, where he worked on the deregulation of London's equity markets - the "Big Bang". A keen football fan, Mark can often be heard shouting for Chelsea at London football grounds.

Michel Maquil, 57, is the President & Chief Executive Officer, or Président du Comité de direction, of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange which he joined in 1974. He held a number of positions within the Luxembourg Stock Exchange where he was appointed Manager of the Securities Listing Department and of the Information Technology (IT) Department prior to being appointed Sous-Directeur in 1982, Chief Executive in 1987, and President & Chief Executive Officer in April 2001. Michel Maquil is Chairman of the Board of CCLux. CCLux is a 100% subsidiary of the Luxemoburg Stock Exchange which operates in the financial data business. The company collects, processes and distributes information, such as net asset values, financial reports, corporate events, on Luxembourg investment funds. He belongs to various bodies of the Brussels-based Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE). He is also a delegate of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to the General Assemblies of the Paris-based World Federation of Exchanges. He sits on the Board of the Luxembourg Banks & Bankers Association (ABBL), the representative professional body of financial institutions in Luxembourg. He is a member of the Board of the Luxembourg Investment Funds Association (ALFI) which represents the interests of the Luxembourg investment fund industry. He chaired PROFIL, ie the Federation of Luxembourg financial professionals from 2005 to 2007 and is currently Vice-Chairman. He belongs to a number of committees and working groups, set up in particular by the Commission for the Supervision of the Financial centre (CSSF) and dealing with the organization and development of the Luxembourg financial centre. Michel Maquil graduated in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He sits on the Board of the Luxembourg Association of the Friends of the Catholic University of Louvain Foundation.

Jorge Mariscal serves as Director of Investment Research. He has over 18 years of experience in international financial markets, with 15 years specifically dedicated to emerging markets. His expertise is in core research and portfolio strategy. Mr. Mariscal has served in senior positions on Wall Street with extensive experience in building and managing top-ranked research teams and advising emerging markets portfolio managers. Prior to joining the Investment Manager, Mr. Mariscal was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in charge of coordinating the firm's global emerging markets research product and portfolio strategy for Latin American equities. From 1992 to 2001, he and his team were frequently named to the prestigious “Institutional Investor Latin American Research Team" as well as other similar polls. While at Goldman Sachs, he also founded and directed the Latin America Equity Research Group, which grew to a peak of 33 professionals from seven different countries, providing research on Latin American equities. Prior to this, Mr. Mariscal held senior positions at The Nomura Research Institute where he led the Latin American economic and equity research effort. He also served as a Vice President on the sovereign debt restructuring desk of Manufacturers Hanover Trust and began his career at Merrill Lynch, working with the firm's Chief Economist. Mr. Mariscal was born and raised in Mexico City. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and holds a Ph.D. in Economics and International Finance from New York University.

Bob McDowall is a senior analyst working in TowerGroup’s European headquarters in London. Bob covers the principal challenges and opportunities affecting the European banking, securities and investment management markets. Bob McDowall has joined TowerGroup with 30 years experience in the Banking and Securities and Investment business. He has worked for a number of institutions including Merrill Lynch, Pru-Bache, Syntegra and Singer and Friedlander. His experience covers administrative and operational management, business development, corporate advisory, marketing and control and planning functions across most asset classes. During that time he has been member of a number of industry and consultative groups. Since 1998 he has worked in a consulting capacity and has presented at a range of conferences on Capital Markets, Regulation and Banking. He has also worked with the private French monetary think-tank, le Centre Jouffroy pour la Reflexion Monetaire He has contributed numerous articles, papers and research documents in publications as diverse as FX/MM, Reuters/FT/ Financial Regulation International (FRI) and it-analysis.com on a range of issues covering macro-economics, most financial asset classes, financial regulation, risk management and application of technology to banking and capital markets. Bob has a degree in law (LL.B) from University College London.

 

Dr Netherwood is a founding partner of Beach Horizon LLP with responsibilities for investment management and research for Horizon. He was responsible for designing and building the Horizon trading system. He has over 14 years experience in designing and building trading systems and large-scale risk management systems in a number of investment banks. Prior to founding Beach Horizon in May 2005, Dr Netherwood was at Beach Capital Management from 2001 where he was responsible for building systematic trading systems. Paul started his career at AHL (now Man Investments Limited) in 1993 where he was involved in trading system development. He later moved to Nomura to build risk management systems. Following that, he was Chief Architect at a risk management software house responsible for building Credit Risk Management systems for Deutsche Bank. He has a PhD in Pattern Recognition and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Kingston University.

DR. JAMES E. NEWSOME has been president of the New York Mercantile Exchange since August 2004. Prior to that, he served as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) beginning in December 2001. He was a commissioner of the CFTC from August 1998. In addition to his responsibilities at the CFTC, Dr. Newsome served as a member of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets and on the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force to coordinate corporate fraud investigations. Along with Dr. Newsome's board responsibilities at NYMEX, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, NYMEX Europe, and the National Futures Association. His honors include: Distinguished Alumnus, University of Florida; Alumni Fellow, Mississippi State University; Arthur Kaplan Award, Futures and Options for Kids; and Person of the Year, Stock Futures and Options Publication. Dr. Newsome received his bachelor of science degree in food and resource economics from the University of Florida and his masters of science and doctorate of philosophy degrees from Mississippi State University.

Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke is the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. She has been Chief Executive since January 2000. Professor Onyiuke had joined The Nigerian Stock Exchange in 1983 after a return to Nigeria from the United States and she has since served the Stock Exchange in various capacities over the years, gaining a strong knowledge of all the operations of the Stock Exchange. While in the United States Professor Onyiuke served at the New York Stock Exchange as Exchange Services Manager and Systems Consultant, from 1976 to 1983. She participated in the very selective Executive Exchange Program during President Carter’s White House years and was nominated and listed in the “WHO IS WHO OF AMERICA” in 1981. She has received many distinguished awards for exceptional leadership and academic excellence, including the Goldman Award for best thesis, the foreign Students Academic Excellence Tuition Award between 1972-76, and most recently the National award of OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF THE NIGER (OON) for distinguished service to Nation hood in 2001. Professor Ndi Okereke Onyiuke, OON attended Queen’s School, Enugu where she made Grade 1 in 1965, and passed her Higher School Certificate (A-Levels) in 1967. She was further educated in the United States gaining her Bachelors degree at the Baruch College of the City University of New York in 1975, majoring in Computer Science and Economics. She has a Maters of Business Administration (MBA) from City University of New York Graduate school 1977 and a doctorate (Phd/ DBA) in Finance and Securities Markets from the City University of New York Post Graduate Center. She participated in Chase Manhattan Bank MBA fellow’s program in 1978, and the IBM School of Computer Systems Software Management in 1979. She was awarded the Professor of Capital Market Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in July 2007. In addition to the demands of the various management roles she held at the Nigerian Stock Exchange from 1983 to date, she has equally served some selected corporate firms on their boards of directors, including Ivory Merchant Bank, Cooperative and Commerce Bank and NAIRA Properties Limited. To her credit she over saw the establishment of the sole Clearing House and subsidiary to the Nigerian Stock Exchange, the CENTRAL SECURITIES CLEARING SYSTEM LIMITED (CSCS), as Project Director. She continues to serve as Director on the CSCS board of Directors. In the public sector Professor Onyiuke has served her Nation as member of the Board of Directors of the National Directorate of Employment from 1987 to 1990, Visiting Professor for MBA, MBF and MSC classes for the University of Lagos 1995 to 1997, Member of the Nigerian Accounting Standards Board and member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. Professor Onyiuke also makes extensive contributions to several INTERNATIONAL organizations and Forums including the World Federation of Exchanges and the World Economic Forum. Professor Ndi Okereke Onyiuke, OON is the immediate past Chairman of the African Stock Exchanges Association ASEA, and presently the Chairman, Transnational Corporation Nigeria Plc.

Stephen Oxley is a Managing Director and a partner of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO) which is an independent, specialist, fund of hedge funds firm with offices in London and a base in Southern California. PAAMCO manages over $7.5bn in multi-manager, multi-strategy hedge fund portfolios for clients that include some of the largest pension funds and financial institutions in Europe and around the World. Stephen is based in the London office of PAAMCO but has global responsibility for Account Management with a particular focus on European institutional investors. He is involved in all stages of the investment process as a member of the Investment Management Committee, and he chairs the firm's Account Management Committee. Prior to joining PAAMCO, Stephen was a partner and Senior Investment Consultant at Watson Wyatt, LLP in London, where he was responsible for advising a number of the firm's large institutional clients. He was also head of Watson Wyatt’s hedge funds research team.

Victor Papazov is Founder and Chairman of the Board of Bulgarian Stock Exchange. He is with the institution since its inception in 1991 and served as CEO during the first nine years of its existence. Currently he is representing the institution and serves as a liaison with the Government and the Parliament. He is also responsible for the planning and implementation of the future integration of BSE into European capital market structure. His knowledge in the capital markets field is utilized both by the Parliament where he advises the Chairman of the Economic commission and as a professor in UNWE and International University in Sofia. He has Masters Degrees in Planning and Foreign Trade from UNWE and accomplished programs at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., Stanford University and Harvard Business School. For his achievements he was announced Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

 

 

Rainer Riess is Member of the Management Board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Managing Director Cash Market Business Development at Deutsche Börse. He is responsible for sales, business development as well as issuer and investor markets of all cash market activities of Deutsche Börse AG, comprising of the electronic trading system Xetra® and the floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Currently, more than 250 member institutions from 19 countries use the Xetra system. Altogether, the cash market of Deutsche Börse comprises of more than 280,000 stocks, bonds, exchange-traded and actively managed funds, certificates and warrants. His past experience within Deutsche Börse Group has included managing the Primary Markets department for all listing business, creating the Neuer Markt and shaping the development of the German and European equity market and its regulatory structure. He worked on several product innovations and introductions such as the Xetra trading system, the exchange-traded funds business (XTF® segment), the introduction of the Equity CCP and enhancements of the specialist trading functionalities. Rainer Riess holds a Masters of Arts in Economics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Miami. He is a former Fulbright scholar.

Kaj Rönnlund is chairman for Estlander & Rönnlund and is responsible for Business Development. Kaj became involved in trading derivative instruments in 1987 with the founding of market-maker company Sophos AB in Stockholm. The year after, Servisen Arctos & Partners was established in Helsinki and then also in Frankfurt under the direction of Kaj Rönnlund and Martin Estlander. In 1991 it started managing its longest running Hedge Fund Program, Estlander & Rönnlund Global Markets. The company changed its name to Estlander & Rönnlund, following a management buyout in 1992. In 2002 Estlander & Rönnlund Global Volatility was launched and in 2003 the company began trading Estlander & Rönnlund Global Equity Arbitrage. Kaj holds an MSc degree in Finance from the Swedish School of Economics in Vaasa.

Karsten Schroeder is the CEO of Amplitude Capital and the portfolio manager for the Amplitude Dynamic Trading Fund. He oversees all the key decisions related to product development, trading ideas and strategy for the Amplitude’s range of funds. Together with his partners he founded Amplitude Capital in September 2004. Prior to that he was with McKinsey where he was involved in a number of key Corporate Finance projects involving blue chip European clients. Karsten received his Business Diploma from the HHL in Germany. Growing up in former Eastern Germany, he also lived in the US and Australia. Karsten started trading Futures and Options at a young age and eventually turned his passion into his profession. He regularly speaks at conferences and appears as a frequent guest on business channels, such as Bloomberg and CNBC.

John is a director of the London Investment Banking Association (LIBA). In addition to securities trading, clearing and settlement issues generally, his responsibilities include enhanced disclosure of commission spend in the UK and Europe. He remains closely involved in LIBA’s work on exchange consolidation and competition between exchanges. He also deals with issues in the fields of prime brokerage, hedge funds, controls on market abuse, exchange relationships and tariffing policies. During his time at LIBA, John has also had responsibility for LIBA’s work on analysts and conflicts of interest, His responsibilities have also included primary market issues, including LIBA’s work on the takeovers, prospectus and market abuse directives, as well as contributing to work on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. Before joining LIBA in July 2000, John worked for capital markets solutions consultancies and the UK’s senior regulator and central bank, covering IT and regulatory issues in the fields of trading and settlement. He also has six years’ experience as a corporate broker and two years post-qualification experience of company and commercial law, having taken a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University in 1979. John is familiar with the way that market practices, the requirements and policies of regulators and legislative provisions interact withy commercial relationships.

David Shrimpton, 36, is a member of the Exchange’s Executive Committee, with specific responsibility for the development of the Exchange's equity markets business. With a background in Law, David joined the Exchange in 1997 from PricewaterhouseCoopers and has held management positions in regulation, operations and commercial functions across the Exchange. David is currently responsible for the commercial development of the Exchange’s equity market listing and trading revenue growth on a domestic and international basis.

Ian Smith is a Director of Credit Suisse based in London. He is head of European Algorithm development for Advanced Execution Services (AES). Ian joined Credit Suisse in 2000 to work in the Electronic Trading tools group. In 2002 he joined the AES team as System Architect. Prior to that he worked in Equity Derivatives at Citibank. Ian holds a Masters degree in International Economics

A graduate of the Law and Administration Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (LLM) and the Panth鯮-Assass University (Paris II) - doctoral studies. Doctor of Laws (LLD) and Legal Counsel. In the course of his career, Mr Sobolewski worked at the Law and Administration Faculty of the Jagiellonian University (1989-1995), in the Office of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland (1992-1993) and as an Advisor to the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (1994). From 1994 to 2006 Mr Sobolewski was the Executive Vice President of the Management Board of the National Depository for Securities. As of June 28, 2006 - President of the Warsaw Stock Exchange Management Board. As of June the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the National Depository for Securities. Former Arbitrator at the Warsaw Stock Exchange Court and at the Court of Arbitration of the National Depository for Securities. Worked with the Bureau of the Government Plenipotentiary for Pension System Reform (1997-1998). Expert of many Sejm (Parliament) and Senate commissions. Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Exchange Centre. From 1997 to 2002 Associate at the Faculty of Management of the Warsaw University (Civil Law Issues in Management Department). From 2005 the Executive MBA lecturer in Legal Aspects of Managerial Decisions (a joint program run by the Universities of Warsaw and Illinois). From 2005, Member of the European Commission's Legal Certainty Group. From 2006, President of the Association of Polish Lawyers. Member of the Board of the National Centre for Research and Development. Member of the Supervisory Board of the WSEInfoEngine. Author and co-author of numerous books and articles on capital markets and corporate law.

Mr. Takacs is Managing Partner of CAPMEX – The Capital Market Experts, a company specialised on capital market and exchange development. We have acquired a wealth of experience from projects across four continents, implemented on behalf of governments, central banks, multilateral development banks, financial institutions, supervisory authorities, and especially exchanges. Until the end of January 2003 he was Director Consulting & International Projects at the Vienna Exchange, where he headed the profit centre for consulting & international development. In his more than fifteen years of experience Hannes has been actively involved in a great variety of projects related to capital markets development, exchange management, strategic planning and SME financing in emerging markets. Before his assignment as head of the exchange’s consulting division he was head of the exchange academy of the Austrian Futures & Options Exchange as well as of the Stock Exchange. Hands-on Experience as Manager and Financial Markets Expert As project director Mr. Takacs designed and managed a number of financial market projects all over the world. He also acted as project director for the initiative of the European Union to restructure the Russian financial market after the crisis in 1998, where he led a team of 15 long-term and more than 50 short-term experts over a period of three years and advised Russian exchanges, investment banks, financial institutions, clearing houses, regulatory authorities and companies. Among others, Mr. Takacs is frequent adviser to management boards of exchanges and securities commissions. Furthermore, he drafted various feasibility studies for the implementation of derivatives exchanges and was member of the project team for the implementation of the Austrian Futures and Options Exchange in Austria. Currently, he is working on a Meta Exchange and Clearing House concept which inquires into the possibility to create a regional exchange and clearing hub to integrate fragmented capital markets without loosing the identity of the local exchanges under the perspective of the different currency regimes. Extensive Network and International Working Experience Mr. Takacs disposes of an extensive network in the financial sector, especially to exchanges, investment banks, clearing/settlement institutions and institutional investors as well as to governments and regulatory authorities, especially in emerging markets. Mr. Takacs holds a master degree from the University of Leicester, UK, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Overall responsibility for Derivative and program trading. Joined Schroders in 2002. Prior to Schroders he was a Vice President and head of Portfolio trading at JP Morgan Asset Mgmt from 1998. From 1994 he was responsible for global trading at Qauestor Investment Mgmt, a hedge fund. Investment career commenced in 1987 upon joining Prudential Portfolio Managers working in various roles in the Investment Management department

Tony is an investment director, head of derivatives and dealing, and a member of the investment management group. He is also the manager of all tracker funds and all derivative-based funds. Tony joined the group in 1989 from Citicorp Scrimgeour-Vickers, where he was a director of derivative products. Prior to that, he gained experience of derivative markets with a number of City firms. Tony holds a BSc in mathematics and statistics from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a member of the IMA and London Stock Exchange institutional advisory groups. He was also a non-executive director of OMLX and a member of the market advisory board of LIFFE.

 

Mr. Zoido is currently Chairman of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), the company which integrates all the securities markets and clearing and settlement systems in Spain. He is also Chairman of Bolsa de Madrid (the Madrid Stock Exchange), and is a Member of the Board of Directors of different companies including CLEARSTREAM INTERNATIONAL and OMEL (The new electricity market in Spain). He is a member of the WFE ( World Federation of Exchanges).