High Frequency Trading World Amsterdam - Speaker list

After graduating from Novosibirsk State University in 1998 Danil has joined Relativity Technologies where he used his skills of automatic graph visualization for re-engineering the large COBOL systems and helping the industry to overcome the year 2000...

Valerie Bannert-Thurner (Ph.D.) is the Executive Director of FTEN Europe. She runs FTEN’s European and Asian business. She is responsible for the expansion of FTEN’s client base and product lines into these regions and to adapt the FTEN business models to the regional...

Graeme is professional software engineer, architect and strategist with a strong track record in delivering low latency, parallelised trading applications and analytical/visualisation solutions in financial sector. At present, he is CTO with Celeritas Markets LLP, a...

Matteo Cassina is President of Citadel Execution Services in Europe. CES is a division of Citadel Securities Ltd., the FSA regulated broker dealer trading listed products across Europe on a principal basis and on behalf of clients. Matteo Cassina has 13 years of...

Bart Chilton was first nominated by President Bush and confirmed as Commissioner by the U.S. Senate in 2007. In 2009, he was re-nominated by President Obama and reconfirmed by the Senate. Chilton has served as the CFTC’s Chairman of the Energy and Environmental...

Erik Engbers is the CTO of Scrocca Option Trading, a proprietary trading firm based in Amsterdam. After obtaining a MSc in mathematics and a PhD in computer science, he started as a market maker in equity and index options at Saen Options. In the following years Erik...

Bob Giffords is an independent analyst and consultant for the European banking sector with over 25 years experience in financial technology, mostly as an independent consultant. Bob writes for several leading financial journals, including Automated Trader, Swift...

Laurent Grillet-Aubert studied in Paris and Kiel, Germany. Graduate of Paris X University in Economic Modelization and Econometrics, he joined the Economics Research Department of Goldman Sachs International in 1994. As an Associate Economist, he was based successively ...

I was born in 1976 in the university town of Göttingen, Germany, as the son of university professor Dr. Stefan Jacobs. After completion of high school in 1995 I began my studies in law at the University of Göttingen. Before graduating in 2001 with distinction I spent...

Arzhang Kamarei is a Partner at Tradeworx, a quantitative investment management firm with expertise in fully automated, high-frequency and medium-frequency equity market-neutral strategies. He has been responsible for business development and corporate strategy at...

Victor Lebreton manages the strategies and the electronic trading platform for the prop-trading company QUANT HEDGE. He has a background in IT management and consulting firm. Since 2005 he has developed automated strategies for his own and in 2008 he moved to...

Kieron O’Brien is the managing director of Rosenblatt Securities Europe. Since 2002, Kieron has been responsible for developing Rosenblatt’s efforts in Europe, where he consults with money managers on topics including market structure, exchange investments and...

Mike O'Hara is a veteran of the Capital Markets industry, having started his career in the mid-1980's as a junior trader for UBS, in the Gilt Options pit on the LIFFE floor. Describing himself as more of a geek than a trader, he spent most of the 1990's working for...

Ashish joined Quant from Nomura/Lehman India where he was involved with setting up the equity-linked structured products desk. Prior to Nomura, he was with Lehman Brothers, New York, on the FX derivatives desk, trading currency derivatives and structured products for...

Fred is responsible for the overall Business Development of Vincorex. He previously launched marketing activities for a market-neutral equity hedge fund in Switzerland. He has a total of over eight years of financial industry experience with particular focus on...

Dr Tobias Preis is founder of the Artemis Capital Asset Management. He performed complex systems research with H. Eugene Stanley at Boston University and Dirk Helbing at ETH Zurich. He was awarded a Ph.D. in physics from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and...

Dr Hans Christian Reinhardt heads the quantitative trading service group at Morgan Stanley in London which offers a broad range of products such as co-location, tactical and strategic execution algorithms, market micro-structure research and analytics for...

Antonio Reyes is Global Head of Electronic Execution Products for Listed Derivatives at Citigroup. Before joining Citi, he spent 12 years at J.P.Morgan performing in a variety of roles in the Electronic Execution space, including Global Head of Electronic Client...

Combining her academic and investing expertise, Sonia founded investment vehicle Level E Capital SICAV and its flagship quantitative absolute return fund, The MAYA Fund. The Fund uses a quantitative and systematic approach, backed by extensive artificial intelligence...

Andrew Simpson came to EuroCCP from London-based exchange SWX Europe, where he served as interim Chief Operating Officer and led the delivery of their dark pool. Prior to SWX Europe, Andrew was head of IS Strategy for the UK Financial Services Authority's...

Fund Manager at Egham Capital. After receiving PhD in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from the Royal Holloway University of London, continued the research and developed a super-computer capable of analysing and learning vast amounts of financial data. For...

Karim Taleb is the Principal of Robust Methods LLC, a New York based manager specializing in multi-asset absolute returns strategies. He oversees all operational aspects of the firm including portfolio management, risk management, computing systems, and quantitative...

Kee-Meng Tan, Managing Director at Knight, oversees the Electronic Trading Group (ETG) in Europe. Highly experienced in managing equity execution businesses in Europe and Asia, Kee-Meng joined Knight in March 2008 to lead the European expansion of ETG. ETG...

Prior to his role at Lakeview, Peter managed significant hedge fund type investment portfolios and quantitative trading departments for among others Cooper Neff, Salomon Brothers, ypoVereinsbank and Credit Lyonnais. He has over ten years of experience in the...

Kris Wulteputte (43) spent most of his career in a variety of risk management roles in the banking sector. Since September 2009 he is Chief Risk Officer at KAS BANK. His main focus is on the integrated, consistent and systematic management of the low risk appetite...

25 years experience in trading business management, arbitrage trading, market making in derivatives, fixed income and FX, risk management, balance sheet & liquidity management, development and commissioning of trading infrastructure, large technology project...