| Judging panel for the 2008 FST
Awards
The judging panel for the FST
Awards 2008, to be held on 27 March at the London Marriott Hotel,
Grosvenor Square, London, has been announced. It includes a number
of well known and respected industry representatives. The judges
are looking forward to receiving your nominations and reviewing
the advances and innovations made over the last year |
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Tony Harrop - Chief Technology Officer, LiquidityHub
Tony is now working at LiquidityHub, a multi-distributor, multi-dealer
liquidity aggregator for the fixed income market. Owned and operated
by a consortium of 16 leading banks, including HSBC, RBS, Société
Générale and JPMorgan, the aim of the project is to
take advantage of the changing landscape of the financial markets
and aggregate liquidity and market data in support of electronic
trading.
Previously, Tony worked at Detica in the consultancy’s Capital
Markets Sector where he was charged with keeping abreast of the
latest developments, and producing thought-leading solutions and
ideas within the investment banking domain. He has worked for over
20 years as a consultant both in the UK, Central Europe and the
US and has led projects at many blue-chip organisations, including
Tier One Investment Banks such as Citigroup. Tony is keen to hear
of innovative uses of technology that have really facilitated changes
in the way businesses work and, as such, is looking forward to seeing
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Leonard H. Schrank –
Chairman of Act3 Technologies Inc and CEO of SWIFT 1992-2007
A well known industry figure from his time in charge at
SWIFT, the industry-owned financial messaging system, Lenny is now
devoting his energies to Act3 Technologies Inc, where he is the
co-founder, Chairman and CEO. The new company
is seeking to transform the Internet into a ‘Web 3.0’
space where commerce is secure, rights are respected, and advertising
is effective. Leonard
served as CEO at SWIFT until April 2007. During his 15-year tenure,
message traffic grew seven-fold; prices dropped 80%; system availability
achieved 5x9s reliability; and three major market segments were targeted
for future growth – securities, market infrastructures for clearing
and settlement, and corporate treasury. In addition, a new IP messaging
platform, SWIFTNet, was launched; resilience raised; and debt reduced
to zero. In 2001, The Wall Street Journal called SWIFT "one
of the dominant franchises of our network age".
Previously Lenny worked in London as the head of Chase Manhattan Bank’s
Interactive Data Corporation, a global information and computer services
company. He joined Chase/IDC in 1977, when it acquired the software
company he co-founded in 1970 with four fellow MIT partners and graduates.
He was President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium from
1998-2007 and is currently a member of the ICT advisory board of GIMV,
a Belgian venture capital fund; and a member of the Board Strategy
Committee of Wisekey, a Swiss Internet security infrastructure firm.
A frequent speaker at Sibos, Lenny is also a regular participant at
the Davos World Economic Forum and Microsoft’s CEO Summit.
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Peter Golden –
Chairman of the British Computer Society’s Financial Services
Specialist Group (BCS FinSig)
Peter heads up the BCS’ FinSig
group whose aim is to identify and promote good practice in the
design, development and use of financial services IT systems and
to support research and the development of cross-industry standards.
For his day job Peter works as a consultant for the jmg partnership
and is an accomplished IT strategist, technical architect, programme
director, CI(T)O and technologist. He has 35 years experience in
systems development, business analysis and IT strategy and hands-on
experience in senior management roles. With
25 years experience specifically in the financial services sector,
Peter has worked for investment, retail and commercial banks, stock
exchanges, and independent software vendors. He has extensive international
experience including residential periods in Switzerland, Belgium and
the US. He was formerly IT Director for BZW (now Barclays Capital)
and VP for trading systems at Citibank.
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Barry Holland –
Advisor to FST magazine & ex-Director of Operations, Barclays
Capital (now retired)
Barry joined Barclays Capital in 1975 and moved around the group
covering different areas such as Factoring & Leasing, Group
Treasury and Treasury Operations, where he rose to the position
of Director of Operations. After 30 years with Barclays he decided
to retire in September 2005. Barry still maintains a keen interest
in the Financial Services sector, however, and is looking forward
to seeing some old friends at the FST Awards and to acting as our
impartial industry representative and roving industry expert.
During his time at Barclays, Barry had responsibility for all money
market and Foreign Exchange (FX) operational and settlement issues
for London. He also dealt with all FX issues for New York. Barry
was very active with the CLS system (Continuous Link Settlement)
in his role as project manager for the Barclays CLS project and
he oversaw the smooth implementation of the project within Barclays
Capital. He chaired the CLS London & European User Group, an
active forum of banks that meets regularly to discuss, debate and
plan implementation and operational business details for CLS. He
also sat on the CLS Services Board. As a member of the London Investment
Banking Association Treasury Operations Committee, Barry was also
involved with the Bank of England Money Market Liaison Group. He
was actively involved with the development and implementation of
Real Time information within Barclays Capital, ensuring that controls,
cash and liquidity management and client service were all enhanced.
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Neil Ainger –
Editor, Financial Sector Technology Neil joined Financial Sector Technology as the new
editor in January 2005 after moving down to London from Reed Elsevier’s
offices in Oxford where he was previously employed as a technical
journalist. He has worked on publications for BT Global, PWC, and
Lucent Communications, in New York City. He has been employed as
a writer and editor on B2B magazines and online publications for
nearly ten years since graduating from the University of Leeds in
1995 with a degree in English. Neil is looking forward to welcoming
some of the industry’s leading players to the FST Awards.
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