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Managers: Electronic Trading
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Kevin McPartland
TABB Group
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| Kevin McPartland is a Senior Analyst with TABB Group, a research and strategic advisory firm focused on capital markets. He has authored the following TABB Group reports and studies: “Equity Options 2008: Rising Out of Obscurity”; “Credit Default Swaps: The Risk of Inefficient Markets”; “OTC Derivatives Processing: Blazing a Trail to Automation”; “Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The New Low-Latency Messaging”; “Low-Latency Options Trading: Unraveling the True Meaning of Speed”; and Financial Services Data Centers: Power, Proximity and Profit.” From 2003 to 2007, he was a senior manager with Detica in their global financial markets division, where he was responsible for strategic and implementation projects across equities, derivatives and fixed-income asset classes for the international management consulting firm’s top-tier investment banking clients. He previously held business analyst and project management positions at JPMorgan Chase in New York from 1998 to 2003 in their equities and futures & options divisions, where he was involved in support, development and planning of electronic trading solutions. He earned his B.S. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. |
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Daniel Chait
LAB49
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| Daniel Chait is a founder and Managing Director at Lab49, a technology consulting firm started in 2002 with offices in New York and London that builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry, including investment banks and hedge funds. Mr. Chait has directed engagements with many of Lab49's premier clients, specializing in low-latency and distributed systems within capital markets. He also oversees Lab49's strategic partnerships, recruitment, and staff development programs, and has often spoken and presented at industry events. Previously Mr. Chait was Director of Professional Services at Simile Software, where he successfully led web-services integration projects for the media industry, and co-founded Business Velocity, Inc., servicing Fortune 500 firms including Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, Citibank, Lehman Brothers, AXA/Equitable, and Prudential Securities. Mr. Chait has also worked as a consultant in the corporate banking practice at American Management Systems. Mr. Chait holds a Bachelor’s in Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. |
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Michael Graves
Tesseract Capital LLC
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| Michael Graves is the President and CEO of Tesseract Capital LLC. Prior to founding Tesseract, he was Managing Director of the Swiss Re Global Arbitrage Team from January 2006. His team ran a global portfolio of automated strategies that traded in 45 countries across multiple asset classes based upon quantitative models. Mr. Graves began his career in 1995 with the options trading firm, CooperNeff, in Philadelphia, where he worked for Program Trading pioneer Dr. Andrew Sterge. After two years with CooperNeff, Credit-Suisse(CS) hired Mr. Graves to start its Quantitative Trading Group(QTG). The QTG regularly traded over 5% of US equity volume in the late 90’s. After leaving CS in 2000, he started the Fountainhead Capital hedge fund which he ran for 5 years. Fountainhead was later absorbed by Fortress Investment Group (FIG), where the team built out the FIG infrastructure and quantitative trading portfolio. Mr. Graves is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Wharton School and the College of the University of Pennsylvania, holding a BS in Finance and Minors in Genetics and International Relations. |
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Ryan Highland
Trading Technologies
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| Ryan Highland is a Sales Manager in the NY office of Trading Technologies, Inc (TT). TT develops high-performance trading software for derivatives professionals, including the world's premier investment banks, brokers, Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs), hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and other trading institutions. In addition to providing exchange connectivity to the world’s leading futures exchanges, TT also provides connectivity to the Intercontinental Exchange OTC markets, BrokerTec Treasuries, and most recently the EBS Cash FX marketplace. Mr. Highland has been with TT in a sales role since 2004 and previously traded futures and equities with several proprietary trading firms in Chicago. While actively trading, Ryan implemented several automated execution strategies and he has used this expertise to consult with trading desks on enhancing returns with automation. Also, Mr. Highland has worked closely with the buy side community to provide execution solutions that tie seamlessly into a firm’s overall trading flow. Ryan earned his B.S. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University. |
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Arzhang Kamarei
Thesys Technologies
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| Arzhang Kamarei is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Thesys Technologies, LLC, an incubator company for high frequency trading strategists. He is in charge of business affairs at Thesys, including development and sourcing of new managers in the high frequency space. His experience also includes serving as the Chief Operating Officer for Tradeworx, Inc., a quantitative hedge fund with expertise in medium frequency and high frequency trading. Arzhang began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the International Equities Division, where he served as a market-maker and proprietary trader in European, Asian, and Canadian shares. Arzhang is a Chartered Financial Analyst and received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his masters from New York University. |
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