Benjamin Chan
Head of EMS, Greater China
Bloomberg

Benjamin overseas the strategy and development of the Bloomberg Execution Management System, client connectivity for order routing and indications of interest and the Bloomberg TCA platform in Greater China region. He has also worked in various divisions in Bloomberg, offering clients e-trading and STP solutions in fixed incomes and foreign exchange.

Dr. Zhongsu Chen
Deputy Chief Technology Officer
Shanghai Stock Exchange

Dr. Zhongsu Chen joined Shanghai Stock Exchange as Deputy Chief Technology Officer in 2001 after living in the US for 20 years. He was responsible for the development of the exchange's New Generation Trading System (NGTS) which was the largest IT project in China's securities industry since founding China's securities market in early 1990's. He also led the working group that defined China's Securities Trading Exchange Protocol (STEP) which is Chinese version of FIX (Financial Information eXchange) protocol, served as an advisor for Shenzhen Stock Exchange Technology Development Strategy Committee. In 2006, he served as a technical advisor in the Working Group for Founding of China Financial Futures Exchange which will start trading index futures soon.

Dr. Chen joined Time Innovation Ventures as a managing director in 2005. He is currently the chairman of Globalview Technology Development Corp. and serves on the board of directors in China Transinfo Technology Corp. (Nasdaq: CTFO ), Beijing Xiakexing Networking Technologies. He is currently a Vice President of Entrepreneur Alliance within China's Western Returned Scholar's Association (WRSA). Previously, he was a Vice President of Chinese Association for Science and Technology in USA (1999-2000), Board Director (1999-2001).

Carrie Cheung
Co-Chair FPL Japan Regional Committee
Director - Pacrim Electronic Trading
Merrill Lynch

Carrie Cheung is head of electronic sales and marketing at Merrill Lynch Pacrim. She joined Merrill Lynch Equity Technology in 2000, where she built up strong knowledge of electronic trading. Carrie moved into Equities Trading in 2005 and she now manages the electronic sales team to market the products to Merrill Lynch's client base. Before joining Merrill Lynch, Carrie worked at Fidelity Investment Japan, ING Baring, UBS and Salomon Brothers.

Alan Dean
Global Head of Cross Asset FIX Connectivity
HSBC - Global Banking and Markets

Alan is responsible for developing the global cross asset FIX connectivity value proposition for HSBC. His team provide development and maintenance of the FIX environment and Customer on-boarding including Customer Support services, enabling them to trade, Equities, Futures or FX online across the FIX gateways in the US, Europe and Asia.

Alan spent 20 years in Information Technology in the Markets arena, before transferring into the Business area in 2007. Prior to joining HSBC in 2005, Alan was the Chief Technology Officer of E-Crossnet, His experience includes creating an online multi-broker trading environment that enabled straight through processing for Customers orders / executions and FIX enabling the Buy-side Equities Matching environment for E-Crossnet.

Regional Responsibilities = Global (London, US, HK and Tokyo)
Number of staff managed = 25+
Current projects and initiatives = Global monitoring / alerting and Low
Latency Smart Order Routing
Major achievements = Managed the development, launch and implementation of a real-time global electronic brokerage solution.
Time in current role = 18 months
Budget = $10mm+

Fang Han Lin
Vice President
Hundsun Technologies Inc.

Fang Han Lin is the Vice President of Hundsun Technologies Inc., a premier financial IT solutions provider in China. The firm is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and employs over 1800 professionals.

Mr. Fang started his career at Hundsun in 1997, beginning as a software engineer, and subsequently served in a number of different posts, including R&D, team management, sales and marketing as well as business development.

A veteran in financial IT, he has witnessed the growth of China's financial services industry from its inception in the '90s. With his experience and insight, he continues to be instrumental in the development of the financial IT industry as head of the Investment Management Solutions division, which serves the technological needs of buy-side institutions. He also provides oversight to the Securities solutions and marketing division.

Mr. Fang holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering & Instruments from Zhejiang University and an EMBA from the China-Europe International Business School.

John Fildes
Co-Chair FPL Asia Pacific Regional Committee
Managing Director, Instinet

E. John Fildes is the Managing Director of Instinet Pacific, responsible for all the operations of Instinet in non-Japan Asia. Prior to this he was with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong for 10 years where he held positions as the Head of Equity Marketing and Head of Electronic and Program Trading for the Institutional Equity Division in Asia-Pacific. Before that he was the Head of MSCI for Asia Pacific and was actively involved in the launch of MSCI futures contracts for Taiwan and Singapore on SIMEX. He is also the Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific FIX (Financial Information Exchange Protocol) Steering Committee and is active in promoting the protocol throughout the region. He has been a member of the Steering Committee since 2000. He has written and spoken extensively on the subject of FIX and Electronic Trading.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley Mr. Fildes held various positions in Europe with the Financial Times Group, Standard and Poor's and Reuters and has an extensive knowledge of the financial information marketplace.

Simon Gleave
Partner-in-charge, Financial Services
KPMG China

Simon is the partner in charge of KPMG's Financial Services practice in China. He has been working in Beijing since 2001 and has been involved in the IPO projects of China Construction Bank and CITIC Industrial Bank. He has significant banking experience in China from projects including a diagnostic review and numerous due diligences of large and medium scale commercial banks. Simon also acts as the lead partner for a number of Chinese clients listed in the US as well as the Hong Kong stock markets.

Before his move to Beijing, Simon was the engagement partner for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority study of the Hong Kong banking sector providing recommendations to improve market regulation, which included interest rate deregulation and deposit protection.

Simon has also focused on a number of clients with securities operations, including, broking, trading and market arbitrage. Specific projects have included acquisition due diligence, compliance and operations reviews and fraud investigation.

Guo Chun
Head of international business division
Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Co., Ltd.

Prior to joining Shenyin Wanguo Securities, Guo Chun worked in Shanghai Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) from 1983. Beginning his career in securities industry from 1987, Guo Chun has more than 20 years of experience in securities brokerage and investment banking. Guo Chun joined Shanghai Shenyin Securities in 1990 as the Shanghai Regional Head. After the merge of Shanghai Shenyin Securities and Shanghai Wanguo Securities, Guo Chun was appointed the Deputy Managing Director of Shenyin Wanguo (HK) Group Limited in 1997 and the Executive Director in May 2000. In May 2008, Guo Chun was concurrently appointed the General Manager of International Business Division, Shenyin Wanguo Securities.

Fengjun Han
Vice general manager of Sales & Trading Department
GuoTai JunAn Securities

Mr Fengjun Han is the vice general manager of Sales & Trading Department at GuoTai JunAn. He moved into this department in 2007, and is responsible for trading, settlement and customer Support services. Now he is trying to ameliorate the whole institutional trading platform in GuoTai JunAn, including domestic and international trading. Along with his team he is trying to provide a seamless trading environment that enables straight through processing (STP) for Customer orders / executions.

Huang Yue
Chief of Real Time Information Business Department
SSE Infonet Co. Ltd.

Mr. Huang Yue joined SSE Infonet in 2004 and now he is the chief of real time information business department. As a project manager, he worked with his colleagues and developed SSE level-2 new data feed based on FIX/STEP Protocol in 2006. In 2008, his team has finished developing the level-2 FAST system and high performance has been achieved.

Prior to joining SSE Infonet, he had worked as a managing director in an Information security company(Wellhope Information Co., Ltd) for 3 years.

Mr. Huang graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1993, and received his Master degree and Ph.D in Shanghai Jiaotong University(SJTU) in 1995 and 1998. During 1999-2001, he has worked as a post doctoral fellow in the department of computer science and engineering in SJTU.

Chris Jenkins
Co-Chair FPL Asia Pacific Education and Marketing Committee
Executive Director, Tora Trading

Chris Jenkins is Executive Director for TORA Trading, responsible for the Asian offices, including a major data centre and sales operations for all non-Japan Asian business.

At TORA, Mr. Jenkins manages commercial activities based on TORA¡¦s multi-broker electronic trading platform which is focused on Asia and has operations across the region. He was formerly the Regional Head of Sales for SWIFTNet FIX. Before joining SWIFT, Mr. Jenkins set up operations for Macgregor in Hong Kong. He spent 3 years working at AXA Investment Management in London and prior to that worked for Midland Stockbrokers.

Mr. Jenkins has been an active member and supporter of FPL in Hong Kong and is currently the Co-Chair of the Education and Marketing Committee of FPL in Asia promoting the use of Electronic trading throughout the region.

Sam Johnson
NYSE Euronext EVP
co-CEO of NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions

Sam Johnson is NYSE Euronext EVP and co-CEO of NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions.

NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions offers a suite of comprehensive, best-of-breed commercial technology solutions that include advanced end-to-end market data management, global exchange connectivity and matching technologies, co-location services, and super low-latency order routing capabilities. Its products attract and enable the free flow of liquidity for high-volume markets around the world.

Sam works with Danny Moore (co-CEO of NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions) to combine and leverage NYSE Euronext's global commercial technology business. NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions' mission is to provide seamless and efficient access to liquidity around the globe. As co-CEO of the group Sam is responsible for overall operations in the Americas as well as the global SFTI business line.

NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions was created in early 2007 with the acquisition of TransactTools, a high-performance transactional messaging technology company, and has expanded during the past year through the acquisitions of Wombat, a super-high performance data management solutions company. In August 2008 Atos Euronext Market Solution (AEMS) was incorporated into the group, adding exchange trading expertise and the market engine technology that powers Euronext and LIFFE markets as well as over 20 of the world's securities exchanges. In addition to these world-leading enterprise technologies for trading and connectivity, the group also operates SFTI, the secure and rapidly expanding network backbone that currently connects over 1,000 markets and market participants across the Americas and Europe.

Sam founded TransactTools in early 2000 and grew the company over seven years to be the leader in high-performance enterprise trading connectivity management solutions before it was acquired by NYSE Group in 2007. Prior to founding TransactTools, Sam was Vice President, Equities Electronic Trading, at Goldman Sachs.

Ron Ko
Head of Marketing ETI Asia
Thomson Reuters

Ron is responsible for the marketing activities in Asia region concerning Exchange Traded Instrument of Thomson Reuters. Before his current role, he focused in order routing system of Reuters and client connectivity in China.

 

Dr. David Dapeng Li
Chief Information Officer and Chief Architect
Shanghai Futures Exchange

Responsibility includes all technology areas in the exchange. The major assignment is to lead the effort of building a new generation exchange systems (NGES). Lead the exchange level risk management project. For Phase I of NGES (2003-2006), completed business analysis, framework definition, architecture design, development, testing, and deployment steps to make a very successful delivery of trading, market data publishing, partial of clearing to a new level of capacity. At the same time led the effort to build a development team from 0 to 80 people. Entire budget for the phase I was 170 million RMB. During Phase II of NGES (2006-2007), delivered a brand new risk management system with budget of 25 million RMB. Phase II included consulting done by one of top business schools in China on theoretical modeling. After that, developing task was done solely by the technical team under my management. The result gave business units superior satisfaction, especially on real time stress results within 1 minutes for entire Shanghai Futures Exchange market. Right now lead the Phase III of NGES to focus on back-end processing, including re-architect and develop clearing/delivery business model.

The research responsibility in SHFE is advisor of post doctor program with two post-doc researchers each year under my supervision. Currently one researcher focuses on commodity index products, and another one focuses on financial engineering, specially on market data mining.

Took the leading role on adopting FIX standard to Chinese market, overlook the entire effort to compliant with FIX protocol. And coordinate with FIXProtocol organization.

Prior to the current role, my most recent positions were: Director of Consulting Working Committee, China Computing Federation (CCF), Chief Architect of Information Services & Director of Software Engineering Department, New York Mercantile Exchange.

Yisha Lu
Executive Director, Head of equity trading
CICC

Presently executive director, head of equity trading at CICC.
Joined CICC in 2004 from JPMorgan.

 

George Molina
Director of Asian Trading, Franklin Templeton Investments
Co-Chair FPL Asia Pacific Regional Committee

George Molina is the Asian head of trading for Franklin Templeton's Asian Trading desks located locally in Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea and Shanghai. He joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 1997 as a member of their Global Trading Group based out of Florida, USA before being transferred to Hong Kong in 2002.

Prior to joining Franklin Templeton Mr. Molina worked for the Scudder Kemper group trading Asian Securities. He is currently Co-chairman of FIX Protocol Limited Asia where he is responsible for the promotion of electronic trading in the region.

Hongjie Qu
Executive Director, Head of China Electronic Trading
Beijing Gao Hua Securities

Hongjie joined Goldman Sachs in 1998, transferred to Beijing Gao Hua in 2007. He manages the China Electronic Trading business of Gao Hua, which covers DMA, Internet, and Algorithmic trading services for clients. Prior to Gao Hua, Hongjie had worked in Assets Management, Legal, and Risk Management divisions in Goldman Sachs New York. Hongjie has many years of IT background, he holds a BS degree in Physics and a MS degree in Computer Science.

Shen Tao
Sales manager, Institutional Sales and Trading
Guosen Securities

Tao is responsible for sales and marketing efforts to the institutional clients, including QFII. He also oversees the Program Trading and Algorithmic Execution services for Guosen brokerage business, where he developed and maintained a pioneering project on building Guosen's capabilities in computerized trading adopting advanced tools and methods currently used in international financial markets such as FIX. Prior to joining Guosen, Tao has assumed different management roles in Beijing Yanhua Hi-Tech Co.,Ltd, Haitong Securities Co.,Ltd, and China International Futures Co., Ltd.

Tao holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Reading. Tao is a CFA charter holder and a member of HKSFA.

Brook Teeter
Director, Head of AES Sales, Asia Pacific
Credit Suisse

Brook Teeter has been in the financial services industry for over 12 years. His current role is Head of AES Sales, Asia Pacific at Credit Suisse. Brook is based in Hong Kong and is responsible for all sales relating to electronic trading products at Credit Suisse.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Brook was Head of Institutional Sales, Asia Pacific at E*TRADE residing in both Hong Kong and Singapore.

Brook has been an active member of FPL both in the US and Asia since 2000 has been previously Co-Chair of the Asia Education and Marketing Committee.

Max Wang
Director
BNP Paribas Securities Asia

Max Wang, Director, BNP Paribas Securities Asia, is one of BNP Paribas Senior Traders specializing in Global Portfolio Trading and Algorithmic Trading 'Algo'. Bringing in 10 years of Trading Experience to the Global Trading Team based in Hong Kong, Max is a part of the team leading 'Algo' development, and trading strategies, working closely with our Global client base to understand the market trends and improve the BNP Paribas Trading products. Prior to working for BNP Paribas in Hong Kong Max was Head of Trading for BNP Paribas in Taiwan. Before that Max worked for Merrill Lynch and assisted in building the electronic trading platform which is still in place today. Max has also worked for Deutsche Bank and UBS.

Michael Wang
Head of Dealing
CIFM Asset Mgmt Co. Ltd, Shanghai

Biography

1994-1998	Security Analsyt/Cathay Financial Holding Co, Taiwan
1998-1999	Deputy Reserach Head/Taisec Secs Co. Ltd. Taiwan
1999-2002	Fund Manager/ Ta Chong Investment Trust Co Ltd. Taiwan
2002-2007	Head of Dealing/JP Morgan Asset Mgmt Taiwan Co Ltd.
2008-Now	Head of Dealing/CIFM Asset Mgmt Co. Ltd, Shanghai

Yu Huali
Director, Computer Engineering Department and Head, IT Strategy and Planning Group
Shenzhen Stock Exchange

Ms. Yu is Director of Computer Engineering Department and Head of the IT Strategy and Planning Group, Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Her responsibilities include development of the Exchange's IT strategies and short-term IT planning, and R&D of the Exchange's technology systems. She joined the Exchange in 1993, and has more than 15 years of experience in planning and design and development of securities trading systems.

Ms. Yu received her MBA from Amoy University in 2003, and she graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990.

Sylvia S.M. Yeung
Business Development Manager, Institutional Equities
Tradeweb, Asia

Sylvia Yeung is the Asia Business Development Manager for Tradeweb's Institutional Equities business; which includes market-leading solutions such as the Tradeweb Routing Network, AutEx IOIs, Tradeweb TCA and BlockDATA.

Sylvia leads a professional team serving major financial institutions throughout North-East Asia including China, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan. In 2008, Sylvia successfully aligned significant agreements with KOSCOM (Korea) and STOCOM (China) and Tradeweb Asia. With her vast knowledge and exposure in this market, she is also involved in advising on the roll-out of Tradeweb's latest equity offering, Smart IOI.

The Tradeweb Routing Network is one of the largest market-neutral, global hub-and-spoke FIX protocol based messaging networks in the world. The Network provides both liquidity and access to trading destinations, with over 1,000 of the world's leading Institutional and Brokerage firms depending on Tradeweb for FIX connectivity to their global trading partners. With well over 1.5 billion shares traded per day over 7,500 connections between subscribers, the Tradeweb Routing Network is the global standard for the FIX routing of orders and execution reports between trading partners.