

Anlong Li is Partner and Director of Financial Engineering at Spot Trading LLC. He has 20 years of trading and research experience in derivatives including fixed-income, equity, weather/energy, credit and ABS. Mr. Li started his Wall Street career on swap desks at Lehma…more ›

Karim Taleb, Ph.D. is the Managing Partner 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 q…more ›

Arzhang Kamarei is President of Tradeworx, a quantitative investment management firm with expertise in high-frequency and medium-frequency market-neutral strategies. He is responsible for business development and corporate strategy at Tradeworx, including the launching…more ›

Blair Hull is the chairman of Hull Investments, Founder of Ketchum Trading, and the former CEO and chairman of Hull Trading Company. In 1985, Blair Hull founded Hull Trading Company, a global leader in the application of computer technology to listed derivatives tradi…more ›

Matthew Shapiro is President of MWS Capital LLC, a Fidelity Institutional Adviser specializing in Wealth Management. Matt is an expert in portfolio analysis and supervision, fixed income investing, 401k optimization, and complex wealth management and estate issues. Ma…more ›

David Jessop is the Global Head of Equities Quantitative Research at UBS. His areas of research include portfolio analysis and construction, style analysis and risk modelling. He also helps clients understand, use and implement the quantitative tools available from UBS.…more ›

John, a 20 year industry veteran, has held leadership positions in strategy, management, architecture, and the design of high volume, high performance, low latency systems. He served as the Head of Technology for SBC’s Global Foreign Exchange business; VP of Electronic …more ›

Larry Pitcher is the Managing Partner at Quantorithms Fund, LLC. Mr. Pitcher has enjoyed trading since he was a Series 7 Stock Broker in 1987. In 1989 he founded Chicago Investment Center, Inc. and in 2008 founded Quantitative Algorithms Capital Partners, LLC. He heads …more ›

An experienced growth technology executive, Nick Solinger is responsible for marketing and product strategy at Traiana. Prior to joining the company in 2002, Nick led the team that defined and launched the Traiana Harmony offering, which today is the firm's flagship…more ›

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, HypoVereinsbank and Credit Lyonnais. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the develop…more ›

Alex Dziejma is the Chief Architect of Dymaxion Capital Management. Dymaxion is a trading & technology company that exploits cutting-edge technology and mathematical risk management models in their proprietary high-frequency trading systems. Prior to Dymaxion he de…more ›

Patrick Flannery has a decade of experience building state of the art of trading technology. He was the first technology specialist and employee at two successful electronic trading firms in New York including his previous employer Sumo Capital, an equity options marke…more ›

Since joining Allston in early 2004, Peter has had experiences in all technical aspects of the company. In his first two years he started the automation of back office processes and built a state of the art real-time operations desk that supported trading activities acr…more ›

Dan Hawke is the Unit Chief of the SEC Division of Enforcement’s Market Abuse Unit and the Director of its Philadelphia Regional Office. In his capacity as Chief of the Market Abuse Unit, Mr. Hawke oversees investigations into abusive conduct exploiting current market s…more ›

Jon Kroeper is the Senior Vice President of the Quality of Markets Section of FINRA’s Market Regulation Department. The Quality of Markets Section is responsible for the conduct of post-trade surveillance and investigations related to data integrity, market conduct rul…more ›

Mehmet Yanılmaz is partner at Myra Trading, a proprietary algorithmic trading firm in Chicago; president of Navus, a financial strategy and productivity advisory firm in Chicago; associate of the Institute for Financial Markets (IFM), in Washington, D.C.; adviser to Ist…more ›

As Managing Director, Mr. Nenner is responsible for the firm’s “super” high-touch trading division, a successful, specialty niche of their global operations. He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in portfolio management and trading, corporate, operative, an…more ›

Tim Cox is a Director in the Global Execution Services group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, responsible for the management of execution sales for the group’s quantitative business. Prior to this role, Cox was in the Strategic Investments group, responsible for a po…more ›

John Netto is the President of M3 Capital and author of "One Shot - One Kill Trading: Precision Trading through the Use of Technical Analysis" (McGraw-Hill, 2004). John has worked with buy-side firms, sell-side firms, and technology providers on more efficient…more ›

Mr. Arslan is founder and Managing Member of Aien Capital LP (AienTech), a multi asset & multi strategy hedge fund. AienTech focuses on building alpha generating algorithms and ultra-low latency infrastructure for both high and low frequency trading. Mr. Arslan was…more ›

Head of Trading Research at Toji Trading Group. President and founder of Research Software International. Faculty at The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics and Program on Financial Mathematics, The University of Chicago. Toji Trading Group specializes in pro…more ›

Arun Kaul has been in the investment management business for over eighteen years and is the Managing Principal and the Chief Investment Officer of the Olympian Group of Investment Management Companies. Prior to Olympian, he was a co-founder and Chief Investment Officer …more ›
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