Alongside his role of Managing Director, Chief Economist, Peter is also co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Economics team. Peter and his team produce weekly and quarterly publications for Deutsche Bank with a focus on US and global economic developments and Fed policy; he also comments on US and global economic and financial developments in the news media.

State Street Global Advisors are the second biggest money manager in the US with over 2.3 ($ millions) AUM. Recently, Collin has successfully integrated the Fixed Income, Cash and Currency departments allowing a better understanding of the interactions amongst the asset classes. Under Collins remit, SSGA have spent extensive amounts of time and resources conducting both research and TCA about the efficacy of the WM FIX relative to other trading points or averages.

Patrick Fleur is Head of Trading & Execution and a member of the Allocation Committee. His daily responsibilities are managing a desk of traders covering all asset classes within liquid markets. He is also running the World Overlay mandate. Patrick oversees all asset classes at PGGM and has recently implemented new multi asset strategies and innovative technologies to improve trading capabilities and respond to regulatory and market structure changes.

Steven is responsible for Hedge Fund Due Diligence, Risk Management of Hedge Fund Portfolios, and covers equities, fixed income and FX at Lyxor Asset Management. At the end of last year Steven did extensive analysis of Lyxor’s flagship multi asset portfolio made up of $2.5 billion (after record performance in 2013). This resulted in redemption of Lyxor’s systematic CTA’s, and investment in discretionary macro managers, as well as the movement of their equity books towards market neutral managers and redemption from traditional credit managers. The moves were controversial at the time but are working well in the current environment.

Peter joined Morgan Stanley in August 2010 and has 22 years of experience in the financial markets. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Peter set up and led the Global Quant Solutions business at RBS, a cross-product client advisory business, for 7 years.  Previous roles involved establishing an equity quant trading business at ABN AMRO and a variety of risk management roles across Europe and Asia. Peter holds an BSc in chemistry and mathematics from London University. He also holds an MSc in biodiversity conservation, also from London University.  

Mr Felix Adam is the founder and CEO of ACT Currency Partner, the Hedge Fund Manager with 20 years of history in working with institutional clients. The prior focus of ACT is generation of alpha in currency, option and precious metals, which is reflected in an average performance of 7.6% for the last 8 years. ACT is serving family offices and pension funds with execution and advisory. ACT Incubation business model is offering investment professionals the possibility to run their own Hedge Fund strategy. During his career in Citibank and J.P. Morgan Felix Adam gained a deep experience in providing Alpha with currencies. In 1992 he established ACT, which is today a well-known currency and global macro specialist.

Marc Chandler has 30 years of experience in the FX market. He started his career in 2005 at BBH as Global Head Of Currency Strategy. His current research projects include global imbalance and the relationship between savings, investment and growth. Marc is often called upon to provide macro-economic expertise on CNBC and Bloomberg amongst other media. 

Paul Chappell is Chief Investment Officer of C-View Limited, which he established in 1996, launching the C~View Currency Managed Account Program,  which has produced consistent risk adjusted returns since inception . In 2008 C-View launched the C-View Emerging, Developing and Minor Currency Program to capitalise upon the Company’s particular expertise in minor and developing currency FX. In February 2013 the C-View Global Macro Interest Rate Program was launched, expanding that expertise further into interest rate opportunities. C-View has in excess of  US$ 300mio in Assets Under Management.

Jim Cochrane is a Director in the ITG Analytical Products and Research group, the ITG TCA(r) for FX product manager. Transaction cost analysis is a perfect role for someone who has devoted his professional career to advising decision-makers on risks and strategy as well as the collection, analysis and dissemination of data and intelligence. In this role, he has the opportunity to not only help design a comprehensive analytical tool to study the 4-trillion dollar FX market, but also to consult with asset managers regarding foreign exchange trading costs and trading efficiency.

Luc is head of the Asset Allocation and Currency Management team. His team is composed of 21 portfolio managers, analysts and traders all responsible for strategic and tactical asset allocation, currency management, absolute return strategies and index management representing a total of $21 billion of AUM, making his team a Canadian leader in its field of expertise. Luc brings with him more than 28 years of investment experience covering both emerging market and G10 currencies.

Alessio de Longis, CFA, is the Vice President and Macro Strategist for the Global Multi-Asset Group at OppenheimerFunds. In this role, he leads the group’s macro research focusing on business cycle dynamics, global macro regimes, and their impact on asset class risks and returns. In addition, Alessio oversees and manages active currency strategies in GMAG’s funds. Between 2004 and 2013, Alessio was a member of the Global Debt team where he served as Portfolio Manager and Quantitative FX Strategist. He developed a large set of valuation and forecasting models for global interest rates and currency markets.

Ian Domowitz is the CEO of ITG Solutions Network, Inc. and a Managing Director at ITG, Inc. Prior to joining the company in 2001, he served as the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Professor of Finance at Pennsylvania State University and previously was the Household International Research Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. A former member of the NASD’s Bond Market Transparency Committee, he also served as chair of the Economic Advisory Board of the NASD. Mr. Domowitz has held positions with Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Columbia University, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He is currently a Fellow of the Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia University.

Robert has over 23 years of experience in FX Macro Sales at Goldman Sachs alone, where he began to publish widely-read research focusing on the FX markets and the macroeconomic environment, Robert is now both CEO and Head of Research of the online platform, Track.com. This year Robert has been able to use his own research to use diverse strategies that have reduced risk while trading in emerging markets. Attend this session to gain insight from this proficient expert.

Campbell and Company are one of the oldest commodity trading advisors in the world managing $3billion in assets, and Mike is viewed as a leading pioneer in the FX space. Mike uniquely covers the global trading desk covering Asia, EMEA and the Americas, all from one based out of Baltimore managing a team trading 24 hours a day. Mike has recently been monitoring how the recent effects of regulation and increasing technology in FX has impacted the buy and sell side working relationships as the market moves further towards an electronic environment.

Mr. Levas is a frequent conference speaker and commentator on the financial markets & asset management industry. He has been featured throughout the U.S.,Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia and in numerous publications, and media outlets including BusinessWeek, Waters, Reuters, and Bloomberg amongst many others. He possesses specialist expertise around Momentum Trading, Actively Managed Portfolios, Multi Asset & Macro Trading, FX Trading, In addition, Mr. Levas has extensive executive and senior level operational experience in various aspects of founding and managing asset management firms, broker-dealers & hedge funds.

Victor Lebreton manages the portfolio strategies for Quant Hedge a prop-trading fund. In 2007 he adopted new cutting edge electronic trading to develop his own trading strategies, delivering a liquid Absolute Return investment. Today, he teaches electronic and quantitative trading for ECE Paris engineer schools. His investment research is based on systematic and algorithmic trading developed through innovative algo-optimisation processes.

Peter Lundgreen is the CEO and founder of Lundgreen's Capital. The client segments are funds, corporations, municipalities, trusts and high net worth individuals based in northern Europe. Lundgreen’s Capital publishes a widely read 28-page quarterly magazine about the global financial markets, a 28-page quarterly magazine about China plus weekly newsletters. Peter Lundgreen has an extensive network in China and to ensure the optimal insight about China and Asia, Lundgreen’s Capital has its own research unit in Hong Kong.

Kevin McPartland is the head of the Greenwich Associates Market Structure and Technology practice. He has 15 years of capital markets industry experience with deep regulatory and technology expertise in fixed income, FX, and equity markets. Kevin has presented at a wide range of industry conferences and is quoted regularly in the financial media including The Economist, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Financial Times, and numerous other industry publications. He has also provided live and taped commentary for CNBC, National Public Radio, Bloomberg TV and Reuters TV.

David Mechner is CEO and co-founder of Pragma Securities, a New York-based financial services firm specializing in innovative algorithmic trading solutions developed and customized for both buy- and sell-side clients. Pragma’s unique combination of broker independence and quantitative expertise in market microstructure distinguish the firm as an ideal partner for a range of clients, including exchanges, brokers, institutions and hedge funds. Before founding Pragma Securities, Mr. Mechner developed and implemented short-term trading strategies as Director of Research at Pragma Hedge Fund, and prior to entering the field of finance, he was a doctoral fellow at New York University's Center for Neural Science. His interest in intelligent systems originated during his computer-science undergraduate years, during which he spearheaded a research effort in developing a sophisticated program for the game of Go. Mr. Mechner participated in the Japanese professional promotion system for Go and still ranks among the strongest non-Asian Go players in the world.

As CEO, Ron is directly responsible for the strategy and direction of the company; determining resource allocation and driving initiatives to meet customer and shareholder needs. He also serves as the main public communicator for the company, including important discussions with clients, prospects, news, media, strategic partners, etc. Ron directly manages 3 reports, overseeing a total of 12 personnel worldwide. Over the past two years, Ron has served as a professional bridge between the worlds of bitcoin and Wall Street. Given his almost 25 year history in financial markets, and deep work with digital currency technologists around the world, Ron is best suited to allow these two segments to interact in the most efficient and effective ways possible. In addition to hundreds of in person and telephone discussions with technology firms, global broker dealers, hedge funds, institutional investors and governmental authorities, Ron has also has the privilege of managing a team of financial and technology specialists who are designing or who have delivered state of the art trading, analytics and market data solutions created specifically for financial professionals at the crossroads of the digital currency revolution. Some of these include trading technology for digital currency trading, liquidity analysis, market venue research, and bitcoin volatility index data services. 

At Shaffer Asset Management Inc., Dan has developed and manages an “Absolute Investment Strategies” program, using individual stocks and ETFs/ETNs to track indices, commodities and currencies in separately managed accounts. He continues to trade commodity futures and foreign currencies for his own account on almost a daily basis. Dan shares his personal knowledge, research and trading experiences on price movements to help you improve your trading results.

Mr. Sternberg is the Senior Managing Partner of Lake Hill Capital Management LLC. Lake Hill is a private investment manager specializing in electronic trading of options and futures in energy, metals, grains, livestock, soft commodities, equity indices, rates and FX. Lake Hill sources alpha by being an automated electronic liquidity provider in exchange-traded products. The firm is an industry leader in applying advanced technology to trading and manages assets for sophisticated high net worth and institutional investors. Prior to founding Lake Hill in 2005, Mr. Sternberg was Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, Managing Partner at Archelon, LLC and Managing Director at Salomon Brothers. Mr. Sternberg founded Lake Hill after more than 20 years of experience building several dominant derivatives businesses. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics/Business and a Master of Business Administration in Statistics from the University of Chicago.

Petra Wikström, Global Head of FX Execution & Alpha Solutions, joined BNP Paribas in 2014. She is part of developing the bank’s pre- and post-trade transaction cost analysis and quantitative investment analysis directed to institutional investors globally. Specifically the team delivers bespoke analysis on topics such as currency benchmarks, hedge ratios and minimizing tracking errors and assisting clients who wish to implement a more quantitative currency investment process.
 
Petra has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry, and held  both regional and global roles providing FX and cross-asset quantitative investment solutions to institutional and corporate investors for 7 years at Royal Bank of Scotland and RBS Greenwich Capital, and most recently at Morgan Stanley. She also earlier worked at BNP Paribas, London, in the early years of 2000.
 
Petra holds a PhD in Turbulence, Fluid Dynamics, from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

William K. Goodbody, Jr., Chief Operating Officer & Head of Sales, oversees KCG Hotspot, the company’s institutional electronic foreign exchange offering. He has extensive experience managing multi-asset class trading products and is an expert in global market structures.

KCG is a leading independent securities firm offering investors a range of services designed to address trading needs across asset classes, product types and time zones. The firm combines advanced technology with exceptional client service across market making, agency execution and venues. KCG has multiple access points to trade global equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities via voice or automated execution.

Bill has been managing Hotspot since 2008. He has been with the company for more than 18 years in various capacities, including Head of Market Structure and Exchange Strategy, Business Manager of the Broker-Dealer Client Group, and Co-Head of Client Services for Knight Capital Group prior to that company’s merger with GETCO in July 2013 to form KCG. Additionally, he was First Vice President at Jefferies & Company, Inc. from 2004 to 2006, where he served as the Director of Equities Sales & Trading Technology before returning to Knight.

Bill has been a member of numerous financial services industry committees, including SIFMA’s Equity Markets & Trading Committee and the STA’s Trading Issues Committee, and he served as a director on the boards of NSX Holdings, Inc. and the National Stock Exchange, Inc. 

Joseph Hoffman is Director of Equity Derivatives and Foreign Exchange for Russell Investments. Joseph founded and leads the group responsible for managing currency risk in international portfolios and the trading, analytics, and reporting involved in Russell’s agency FXTM program. In addition to overseeing the currency management business, Joseph is responsible for a team of six portfolio managers who handle equity derivatives trading and the cash equitization program for Russell funds.

Joseph is a licensed registered representative, FINRA Series 7, 24, and 65 and is a member of Russell Implementation Service Inc., an SEC registered investment adviser and FINRA member firm.

Michael DuCharme is Head of Currency Strategy for the investment services group within Russell Investments. Michael assists external clients with developing strategies for managing currency risk, reducing foreign exchange transaction costs, and minimizing operational work load.

An expert in foreign exchange, Michael wrote “First Steps in Foreign Exchange Transaction Cost Analysis” published in The Journal of Performance Measurement. He has been frequently quoted in the media including Institutional Investor, FundFire, aiCIO, Bloomberg, Pensions & Investments and other publications.

Michael is a licensed registered representative, FINRA Series 7, 55, and 66 and is a member of Russell Implementation Service Inc., an SEC registered investment adviser and FINRA member firm.

Brian Golob is Global General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Russell Investments. Brian is responsible for providing strategic direction for Russell’s global legal functions and for Russell’s regulatory compliance programs globally. Brian has held leadership roles in Compliance and Legal since 2009. Prior to 2009, Brian held a variety of roles at Russell including managing director of strategic development for Russell’s implementation services and managing director of business services for Russell’s institutional business group.

Brian is a licensed registered representative, FINRA Series 7 ad 24 and is a member of Russell Implementation Services Inc., an SEC registered investment adviser and FINRA member firm.

As vice president of Loomis, Sayles & Company, Eddy Sternberg is also co-portfolio manager for all emerging markets portfolios, including the Natixis Loomis Sayles Emerging Debt & Currencies Fund and Loomis Sayles Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund. He has 28 years of investment industry experience as a fixed income analyst and portfolio manager. Through his current position Eddy is able to contribute brand new knowledge of exciting opportunities to be gained in the emerging market.

Daniel G. Viola oversees the firm’s Compliance Group. He structures and organizes broker-dealers and investment advisers and regularly counsels investment professionals in connection with regulatory matters.
Mr. Viola previously served as a senior compliance examiner for the Northeast Regional Office of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). During his tenure at the SEC, he worked on several compliance inspection projects involving compliance examinations of registered investment advisers to ensure compliance with the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Securities Act of 1933, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Mr. Viola's examination experience includes reviewing financial statements, performance advertising, disclosure documents, and investment adviser and hedge fund issues arising under ERISA and blue-sky laws.
After leaving the SEC, Mr. Viola founded VIOCO, Ltd. (“VIOCO”), which provided consulting services to registered investment advisers and broker-dealers in the field of regulatory compliance, including compliance policy planning and implementation of soft dollar reviews, mock SEC compliance audits, and compliance training for supervisory personnel. VIOCO also served as a consultant to provide mandated corrective consulting to investment advisers that were sanctioned by the SEC. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Viola served as general counsel for Andover Brokerage LLC, which was ultimately acquired by SunGard (NYSE:SDS). Andover was a self-clearing member firm of the NASD, currently known as FINRA and a trading/technology firm that provided direct-access trading, order routing, and brokerage and clearing services to the professional traders.
Prior to joining Sadis & Goldberg, Mr. Viola was general counsel to the Carlin Financial Group (“Carlin”). Mr. Viola directly monitored all litigation, arbitration and compliance matters for Carlin and its related entities, including Generic Trading of Philadelphia LLC, a proprietary trading broker-dealer registered with the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, currently known as NASDAQ OMX.

Andy Maack, CFA, is a senior manager in Vanguard Fixed Income Group. He serves as the head of FX Trading supporting Vanguard’s equity and fixed income portfolios globally. Mr. Maack joined Vanguard in 2002 and has worked within the Investment Management Division since 2004, and previously served as an equity portfolio manager and municipal bond trader. Prior to that he held several roles in the Retail Investor Group. Mr. Maack earned a B.S. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is a CFA charterholder and CFP Professional.

An FX and derivatives industry veteran and a frequent speaker on cross-asset class market structure analysis, James leads firm-wide strategy and business development at MarketFactory.  James co-founded MarketFactory to address a gap in the market for turnkey aggregation platforms.  Formerly Head of Research and Strategy of ICAP / EBS (Electronic Broking Services), James helped lead the sale of EBS to ICAP in 2006.  Prior to that, James was Head of Sales for the Americas and Asia-Pacific as well as the Global Head of Product at EBS.  James began his career at Citibank and received his BSc. in Engineering Honors from the University of London, Imperial College.  Outside of MarketFactory, James is a keen cyclist, a certified US Coast Guard Captain (up to 50 ton vessels), and a skipper at the Manhattan Yacht Club.

Mayra Rodríguez Valladares is Managing Principal of  MRV Associates. She is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, The Wharton School, and The Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania. She was also a Raoul Wallenberg Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a highly motivated business professional, who has twenty five years of financial regulatory and capital, foreign exchange, and energy markets experience at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, JP Morgan, BTAlex.Brown, and as a financial consultant and trainer. She has published over 80 articles in publications such as American Banker, Bloomberg’s Financial Regulatory Brief, The New York Times, Russian Petroleum, and World Oil.

Jennifer Litwin is responsible for spearheading Greenwich Associates’ relationship management and marketing initiatives with key decision-makers at select priority buy-side institutions and is a frequent speaker at industry and investor conferences. Prior to joining Greenwich Associates in 2007, Jennifer was a senior sales-trader on the Synthetic GIC desk at UBS Investment Bank. She began her career as an Associate in the Operations Group at AIG Financial Products Corp. Jennifer is a recipient of Traders Magazine Wall Street Women, A Celebration of Excellence 2012 - Crystal Ladder Award.
Jennifer is also a professional opera singer and earned her Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Yale University School of Music, respectively.

Soren Haagensen is Managing Director and Head of E-Commerce for the Americas region at Societe Generale. Based in New York, Soren joined the bank in May of 1995. Currently he leads the bank's regional e-commerce initiatives across Credit, Rates and Foreign Exchange products. Previously, Soren worked at Bank Brussels Lambert in New York, as well as Den Danske Bank in Copenhagen and New York.

Ganesh Iyer is Director of Product Marketing for Network Services at IPC Systems, a leading provider of trading communications and network services for the global capital markets. At IPC, Ganesh is part of the team responsible for spearheading global product marketing initiatives, building brand awareness and growing the business. He has been widely quoted in the press regarding various aspects of the financial markets and has been featured in a number of publications and media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Information Management, Securities Technology Monitor and Futures and Options World. He has also spoken at key industry events including TradeTech Europe and the World Financial Information Conference. Prior to joining IPC, Ganesh was responsible for marketing and product management at Syncsort, a leading provider of high-performance data integration software and iLEVEL, a spin-off of the Blackstone Group that offers a cloud-based SaaS solution to the alternative investment market. Ganesh has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry spanning product marketing, market research and strategic planning.
Ganesh holds an MBA from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and a BS in Engineering from the Delhi Institute of Technology in India. He is Pragmatic Marketing Certified, an FISD Financial Information Associate and has passed the National Commodity Futures Examination.

George Harrington is the global head of Bloomberg’s Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Trading business (FICC), the world’s largest and most widely used fixed income and foreign exchange trading platform. In this position, he is responsible for overall strategy and delivery of FIT and FXGO, which provides liquidity for more than 150 of the world’s leading major and regional/specialist dealers. FIT also provides trading functionality, and straight through processing across all fixed income asset classes including cash bonds, repo, money markets, interest-rate and credit derivatives, mortgages, money markets, and municipal bonds. FXGO provides execution in spot, forward, option, and NDFs.

Previously, Mr. Harrington was head of Product Management for Bloomberg’s Fixed-Income Derivative Trading business, overseeing single and multi-dealer execution services, clearing and legal execution services, and VCON – Bloomberg’s Voice trading network.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, he worked at Tradeweb managing the credit default swap execution business and at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he worked in corporate valuation.