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Jeffrey Walker
Managing Partner |
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Jeff has twenty
years experience in international financial and information
services, focused on strategic marketing and product
development. At Reuters Jeff built global marketing, sales and
product management organizations that developed, promoted,
supported and sold the company’s first integrated global
real-time, reference database, news and analytic product. The
product reversed a key, declining market segment and became
the fastest selling new generation information service for
Reuters. As a member of the founding team at several VC-backed
financial service start-ups, he developed the product vision,
strategic marketing and alliance programs. He structured and
implemented key revenue and product alliances for global
financial exchanges targeted at institutional markets. Jeff
was a financial systems analyst and arbitrage trader for DCNY,
a primary dealer of securities. |
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Thomas Kokoska, Jr.
Chief Technical and Financial Engineering Officer |
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Tom has
twenty years experience in the finance and financial services
industries, spanning quantitative analysis, technical design, production, & management,
and product and project management. At Reuters, Tom designed and implemented
the company's strategic fixed income databases, managed the production of analytics for their
flagship equity and fixed income front office products,
and managed the strategic direction of the technical analysis
and graphics products.
Tom has worked in technical design, financial modelling and product design at DLJ, Smith Barney,
Bloomberg, and UBS.
Tom holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Cornell University
and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. |
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Atul Jain
EVP, Financial Software Engineering |
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Atul advises clients on issues
relating to deployment of technology, system specification,
software engineering and applications outsourcing. Atul
founded Vichara, a consultancy and development firm that works
with clients to optimally manage all aspects of proprietary
technology development for the financial service industry.
Prior to Vichara, he was a Managing Principal at Unisys, where
he headed the American capital markets technology business.
Atul joined Unisys in 1999 as part of Unisys’ acquisition of
TechHackers, a quantitative financial technology firm that he
founded in 1986 and served as CEO. Earlier, he worked as a
consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers and research engineer
at Hewlett Packard. Atul holds MS and BS degrees in computer
science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). |
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Michael How
EVP, Financial Product and Project Management |
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Mike specializes in managing
project-related technical issues, including system
architecture and software development. He is a leading
technical resource and mentor for both Accendo and client
technical staff. Michael founded Vichara, a consultancy and
development firm that works with clients to optimally manage
all aspects of proprietary technology development for the
financial service industry Prior to founding Vichara, he was a
Managing Principal at Unisys, which he joined in 1999 as part
of Unisys’ acquisition of TechHackers, a quantitative
financial technology firm that he founded in 1986 and served
as CTO. Prior to founding TechHackers, he worked as a research
engineer at Hewlett Packard and Digital. Mike holds MS and BS
degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT). |
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Andrew Sutherland
EVP, Front Office Trading Systems |
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Andrew’s expertise is in financial
software, front-office trading systems and systems
integration. Working from London, Andrew maintains close
contact with our European client base. Andrew managed a
front-office development team at the commodity derivatives
unit of Barclay’s Capital. Prior to Barclays, Andrew was a
derivatives trader at Citigroup, where he dealt in hybrid
products and fund derivatives. Also at Citi, Andrew was a
driving force behind the development of their exotic
fixed-income derivatives trading system, now used globally.
Andrew holds a J.D. (Doctor of Law) from the University of
Virginia, and a B.A. in physics and computer science from
Swarthmore College. |
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