The Honorable Caroline D. Pham, Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission The Honorable Caroline D. Pham was sworn in as a CFTC Commissioner on April 14, 2022. Commissioner Pham is a recognized leader in financial services compliance and regulatory strategy and policy. Her substantial experience spans key international issues such as prudential regulation and systemic risk, financial markets, fintech and digital assets, ESG, implementation of...
Americas Trading Conference 2024 Speakers
Wednesday 16th October
Keynote Speaker
Speakers
Amy May, Executive Director, Electronic Trading, Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley Amy May runs the global Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) vendor management team. A member of the firm since 1996, Amy and the vendor management team cover global connectivity for all high touch and low touch algorithmic and direct market access for equities, options and futures products. Amy started her career at Morgan Stanley in...
Bill Hebert, Former Co-Chair Global Marketing & Education Committee, FIX Trading Community William H. Hebert is a senior industry advisor and consultant working with various organizations and committees in both financial services and other industries. Throughout his career Mr. Hebert has been responsible for strategic technology, product and business development, electronic trading & trading systems technology, global market structure initiatives, client relationship management and strategic...
Brad Levy is the chief executive officer at Symphony, the leading financial markets’ infrastructure and technology platform. Prior to Symphony, Brad was a partner and executive at global analytics and information provider, IHS Markit, having also served as CEO of MarkitSERV and global head of its loan settlement and software services division. Earlier in his career, he spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, culminating in...
Brandon Rym Decoster, Product Management Team Leader, Bloomberg. Brandon “Rym” DeCoster heads product management of Bloomberg’s FIX, SWIFT, and Exchange Connectivity Platform Infrastructure. With 16 years of FIX Protocol experience and a prolific history of speaking on the topic, he is responsible for the ongoing modernization and standardization of FIX across all of Bloomberg’s FIX-enabled enterprise products.
David Kirby is Managing Director, Global Head of Bank and Broker/Dealer Coverage & DTCC Consulting Services Securities Practice at DTCC. Within this role, he leads DTCC’s Global Account Management team within Relationship Management and oversees all top-tier clients across the broker-dealer and custody segment with a focus on expanding relationships across the C-Suite and key decision makers. Previously, David served as Executive Director, Americas Relationship...
Denis Ignatovich is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Imandra, a global AI company pioneering Reasoning-as-a-Service® platforms for automated logical reasoning. He has over a decade of experience in trading, risk management, quantitative modeling, and complex trading system design. Prior to Imandra, he was head of the central risk trading desk at Deutsche Bank London. During his time at Deutsche Bank London, Denis realized the critical...
Emiko Kamoda, Co-Chair Americas Regional Committee, FIX Trading Community, Managing Director, Head of Prime Services Digital Strategy, Goldman Sachs. Emiko is global head of Prime Digital Strategy, responsible for delivering solutions to Prime Services clients. In her previous role, she served as chief operations officer of GS Electronic Trading (GSET) globally, where she managed strategic equities initiatives, business metrics and client onboarding. Prior to that, Emiko...
Erin Stanton, Analytics, Global Head of Client Support, Virtu Erin Stanton is a leader in the field of data science and big data and is known for her big energy which she brings to everything she does. With a wealth of experience spanning over 15 years in the industry, she presently serves as the head of Virtu’s Analytics Global Client Support team. Erin is a...
George Kledaras, Principal Owner, Limni Trading George Kledaras is a serial FinTech entrepreneur in trading systems and networks. George started his career in financial technology in 1989 working as a software engineer building trading systems. He is well known throughout the technology world as the founder, in 1996, of Javelin Technologies Inc. At Javelin, he was recognized as the leader in electronic trading software, especially...
Hanno Klein, FIX Technical Director and Global Technical Committee Co-Chair, FIX Trading Community, Founder and Senior Standards Advisor, FIXdom Hanno Klein works as an independent consultant specialised in the standardisation of electronic interfaces and is the founder of FIXdom – “The Wisdom of FIX” in Germany (April 2019). Previously, he has worked for more than 20 years at Deutsche Börse Group that provides the technology for...
Ignatius John, Vice President, Broadridge Financial Solutions Ignatius John, considered by many to be an IT visionary, is recognized as a pioneer in the use of the FIX Protocol for post-trade. As Global Trading Strategist at asset manager AXA Rosenberg, Ignatius implemented a complete post-trade solution in 2008 using the FIX Protocol. This accomplishment was highlighted in a leading industry journal on Trading, and was...
Jeffrey Mooney is an Associate Director in the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets. He heads the Office of Clearance and Settlement where his responsibilities include developing regulatory standards for central counterparties, central securities depositories and other entities that provide clearance and settlement services. He also represents the SEC in domestic and international policy initiatives. During his tenure, Jeffrey Mooney has served as counsel to former...
Jim Kaye, Executive Director, FIX Trading Community Jim has worked in the financial industry for 25 years, mostly in equities electronic trading, market structure and regulatory implementation. He has been involved in FIX in various capacities over most of this period, having served as GSC co-chair for eight years, a director for five and as co-chair of various working groups.
Katie Kolchin, CFA, Managing Director, Head of Research, SIFMA Ms. Kolchin is an experienced research analyst, proficient in sell side equity and fixed income research. She has extensive global capital markets industry knowledge garnered through a unique set of professional experiences. Currently, she is the Head of Research at SIFMA, running the team performing the data and analysis work for the firm, as well as...
Kevin Houstoun, Board Director, FIX Trading Community, Executive Chairman, Rapid Addition Kevin leads Rapid Addition, a company specialising in Financial services software that delivers high-performance, low-latency electronic trading software. Rapid Addition provides messaging platform that works with FPGA hardware and software to support electronic financial messaging for applications such as price dissemination, order routing, smart order routing, sponsored DMA and many other electronic trading applications....
Kevin Sweeney Fidelity Investments; President of Digital Brokerage Services Broker-Dealer, Head of Product Management Strategy, Planning & Operations, FCAT. Kevin Sweeney supervises the Digital Brokerage Services Broker-Dealer for Fidelity Investments. His mandate is to drive innovation and next gen brokerage trading and settlement strategies, products, and technology. Prior to joining Kevin worked in leadership roles in global banks, Exchanges, and startups in leadership roles where...
Lee Saba, Co-Chair Global Steering Committee, FIX Trading Community, CTO, Head of Market Structure, Rialto Markets Lee Saba brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Rialto as Head of Market Structure, Lee was Managing Director and Principal at Wellington Management where he was responsible for proprietary and third party multi-asset electronic trading and connectivity infrastructure. For over...
Lona Mozumder has 20 years of comprehensive background in financial services, risk management, and data analytics, at institutions like the London Stock Exchange Group and Chicago Mercantile Exchange leading Sales teams in Optimization, Data, and Analytics division for the Americas. Her role involves strategizing for sales growth, maintaining high-level client relationships, and collaborating with product development and marketing teams. Prior to that, Lona worked at Citi and BnP Paribas in sales and Trading of Derivatives across...
Milena Kohlhofer, Head Of Sales, U.S. & Latam, Ownera With 16 years of experience in Capital Markets and Wealth Management, she led key strategic Digital Assets initiatives and investments for Capital Markets at U.S. Bank and Citi. With expertise in product development, partnerships, and digital strategies, she has an extensive network in the digital asset space.
Rashmi Rao, Senior Business Manager, Investments, LGIM America. Rashmi Rao is a Senior Business Manager, Investments at LGIM America. In her role, she supports the effective management and development of LGIM America’s investment capabilities and is responsible for the oversight of financial planning, expenditure and governance processes. Rashmi joined LGIM America in 2023 as a Business Analyst before taking on her current role in January...
Roger Burkhardt is the Head of AI for Broadridge Financial Solutions and CTO for Capital Markets. He has over 20 years of experience in both electronic trading and AI in capital markets. Prior to Broadridge, he co-led McKinsey’s AI practice for financial services. His previous leadership roles include CTO and FinTech CEO As NYSE CTO, he led the transition to an electronic market.
Scott Atwell, Manager FIX Trading and Connectivity, American Century Investments Mr. Atwell developed American Century’s FIX system providing FIX connectivity to virtually all of the brokers used for their equity trading worldwide. He currently serves as a Director for the FIX Trading Community organization, the non-profit organization which manages the FIX Protocol. He has served as Co-chairperson of the Global Steering Committee for FIX Trading...
Regional Director – Americas, FIX Trading Community
Sneha Savalgi, Vice President, Electronic Trading, Goldman Sachs Sneha rejoined Goldman Sachs in February, 2024 as a senior FIX Engineer within the Global Banking and Markets business to help drive initiatives and overseeing electronic trading client onboarding for our legacy and low-latency offerings. She plays a crucial role in improving onboarding processes for better efficiency and mentoring junior FIX engineers with her expertise to foster...
Stefano Dallavalle is Head of Product – Digital Assets at R3, to which he brings seven years’ experience of the fixed income markets at trading platform MarketAxess, trading technology vendor FlexTrade and blockchain-based corporate bond trading platform LedgerEdge.
Steven Kelly, CFA, Product Manager, CME Group Steve Kelly is a Product Manager at CME responsible for CME Trade Operations Services. Prior to joining CME, Steve worked at Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Scudder Investments. Steve is a transformational leader with a reputation for delivering innovative strategies and solutions across the full spectrum of financial services.