Marc Alvarez
Executive Vice President, Products & Marketing, TAP Solutions Inc.
Marc is a financial industry veteran of over 20 years, with a track record including 12 years at Reuters working in both realtime and reference data services. For the past 5 years at TAP Solutions he has lead the development and launch of TAPMaster, an out of the box cross asset, multi data source securities master server application. With over 20 datafeeds in production and growing monthly , XML plays a big part in TAP's approach to data acquisition, management, and application not only for core processing, but also as input as well as delivery format. Marc has recently been elected to the FISD Executive Committee, chairs the MDDL Securities Model Working Group and sits on the Securities Processing Automation Advisory Committee.

Walt Baranger
Assistant to the Editor, News Technology, The New York Times
Walt Baranger is assistant to the editor for News Technology at The New York Times. His assignments have included Baghdad, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo, Afghanistan and other hot spots. In addition to handing field communications issues and wire service relations, Walt is The Times's representative to the International Press Telecommunications Council and is on the IPTC's board of directors. In his alleged spare time, he is webmaster for the Times employee newsletter-blog site, and is a member of The Times's company-wide XML committee. A journalism graduate from California State University, Fullerton, Walt was a reporter and editor at several Southern California newspapers before joining The Times. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and three children.

Jon Bosak
XML Architect and Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Known as "The Father of XML," Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer Jon Bosak organized and led the working group that created XML, subsequently serving for two years as chair of the XML Coordination Group of the World Wide Web Consortium. He is a long-time member of OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, and he chaired the committee that developed the OASIS process for the definition of industry-specific XML markup standards. He has also served on the Advisory Board of the Electronic Business XML initiative (ebXML), a joint project of OASIS and the United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT); on the Solution Provider Board of RosettaNet, the leading XML-based supply-chain organization for the electronics industry; and on the Board of Governors of the Electronics Industry Data Exchange Association (EIDX), a member section of CompTIA. He currently chairs the OASIS Universal Business Language Technical Committee. Articles by Jon Bosak can be found on his web page: www.ibiblio.org/bosak/

John Bottega
Chief Data Officer, Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking
John Bottega has over 20 years experience managing and transforming reference data functions at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. In his recent appointment to Chief Data Officer at Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), Mr. Bottega will be responsible for planning and managing the Corporate and Investment Bank’s reference data strategies, policies, line functions and data investments working closely with Citigroup’s Global Infrastructure Conversion and Alignment Program (GICAP), CIB Technology and the CIB Data Council. An active industry participant, Mr. Bottega served as executive committee chairman of the Financial Information Services Division/Software and Information Industry Association and as a committee member of the Enterprise Data Management Council. In addition, he has been a member of the SIA Standards and Protocols Committee, the Market Data Definition Language Committee and the ISO Standards Committee.

Brian Buzzelli
Vice President and Product Manager, Investment Manager Solutions Business, Mellon Financial
Mr. Buzzelli is responsible for the definition, design, and development of Mellon’s IMS Reference Data product and through partnering with other internal business lines including Sales, Operations and Technology, the successful product deployment. In addition, he is the Business Architect for the IMS Blueprint project where he stewards the alignment of technology solutions to Mellon’s operational business requirements. Mr. Buzzelli joined Mellon in 2002 and managed the Application Development team within the Global Securities Technology group. He and his team were responsible for the development and implementation of Eagle technologies in support of the IMS business. Prior to joining Mellon, Mr. Buzzelli has held various business and technical leadership and development positions with Access Data and Federated Investors. His experience includes working with many of the largest investment management and financial services firms in the industry. Mr. Buzzelli holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Decision Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and holds two Master degrees, an MBA and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems.

Stefan Chopin
Chief Technology Officer , EDGAR Online
Stefan Chopin was appointed Chief Technology Officer in February 2004, after serving on the Board of Directors of EDGAR Online since 1996. Stefan is a 20 year technology veteran of the Financial Services Industry and is responsible for EDGAR Online's technology strategy and the development of all product offerings. He was previously the president of Pequot Group, Inc. a financial technology development company. From 1998 to November 2001, he was the Senior Vice President of Technology for iXL Enterprises, Inc., an e-business solutions provider. Previously, Stefan was the Vice President of Engineering at Micrognosis, Inc. a leading provider of trading room solutions.

Eric. E. Cohen
XBRL Global Technical Leader , PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Eric E. Cohen, CPA, is one of the founders of XBRL and serves as XBRL Global Technical Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is the chief architect of XBRL GL, a past chair of XBRL US and chair of the OASIS Tax XBRL Liaison Wubgroup. He is especially interested in the audit, assurance, tax, security opportunities and challenges of XBRL. Contact Eric at eric.e.cohen@us.pwc.com.

Mark Cox
Lead Business Analyst CME Clearing Systems, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
Eight years experience at the CME Clearing House and currently lead project manager of clearing system development. Most recently, through the medium of the FIA Standards Working Group, Mark has worked hard to achieve what is currently a critical mass behind the adoption of FIXML for post trade processing in the listed derivatives industry. This year in collaboration with major industry software vendors and the exchange and clearing member firm community he has led the implementation of real time FIXML processing for average price allocations and other major enterprise critical data transfers. In addition he is currently working to implement important value added processing functionality using FIXML for trade sub-allocation, further seamless processing from front end order execution to post trade processing, collateral management, and large trader reporting.

Tom Davin
Vice President & Managing Director, Financial Information Services Division, Software and Information Industry Association
The FISD is a global, neutral forum for the financial information industry. Its membership includes major exchanges, financial news organizations, market data vendors and consumers. As VP and Managing Director, Tom is responsible for working with the FISD's diverse membership to address and resolve business and technical issues related to the distribution, management, administration and use of market data. Participants use the forum to exchange ideas, build business relationships and improve the business climate associated with the worldwide flow of financial information. Tom came to SIIA after eighteen years at The Nasdaq Stock Market, where he was most recently Senior Vice President for Market Data Distribution. In that role, he managed the products and distributor relationships that supported Nasdaq’s real-time market data business. While at Nasdaq, he served as the Chair of the FISD Executive Committee.

Andrew Delaney
Publisher, A-Team Group
Andrew Delaney, based in New York, has been involved in information gathering and dissemination around financial markets IT since 1987. Andrew joined A-Team in 2002 to spearhead the company's publishing activities. A-Team has subsequently launched three leading market intelligence briefings. Andrew is the publishing executive responsible for A-Team's offerings in the pre-trade information and electronic transactions areas. Before joining A-Team, Andrew spent three years launching a financial information distribution platform aimed at the off-trading-floor marketplace. Prior to that he spent 11 years at Waters Information Services in a variety of senior roles including editor-in-chief, senior vice president of global sales, and general manager of North American operations. He also spent time with Banking Technology magazine in London and The Wall Street Journal in Brussels.

Allan Grody
President, Financial InterGroup
Mr. Grody has been involved in the financial industry for nearly 40 years and was an early participant in the banking, securities and investment industries. He was the founding partner of Coopers & Lybrand’s financial services consulting practice and later started businesses in financial planning, employee benefit services, and internet based financial services. He was an early innovator in standards, reference data systems, and industry utility organizations. He was a member of the team that installed the first operational CUSIP system and later oversaw the implementation of the largest global custodian’s early entry into the Depository Trust Company. He subsequently advised the Software Industry Association on the Security Glossary project and organized the first Cross-Industry Standards Conference. Prof. Grody founded and taught the financial industry risk management systems course at NYU’s Stern Graduate School of Business. He has been active in industry trade associations and committees, and represented many financial institutions and exchanges as an expert witness. He is the co-author of numerous papers and articles including Progress in Establishing Financial Industry Standards – The New Initiatives to Exploit XML as the Genome of Financial Transactions; and Operational Risk & Reference Data: Costs, Capital and Risk Mitigation.

Frank Guerrera
CTO, Financial Services, SolaceSystems
Mr. Guerrera is an expert in the planning, development and management of complex networks for distribution of real-time information within financial markets, having served as CTO and Executive Vice President with HyperFeed Technologies and as a Vice President with Reuters America. He has designed global trading floor networks and electronic trading systems for some of the world's largest financial institutions including the global headquarters of State Street Bank, JP Morgan and Fidelity Investments.

Mayank Gupta
Vice President, Morgan Stanley
Mayank heads the data access service team for Morgan Stanley's market data silo. Over his eight years with market data he has also contributed on time-series data and visualization tools. Previously Mayank has worked at JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, CSFB and Sybase. His primary focus has been middleware, decision support systems and OLAP tools/engines.

Pete Harris
President, Lighthouse Partners
Peter Harris is founder and president of Lighthouse Partners, a marketing strategy consulting company focused on the intersection of advanced technologies and the financial trading and investment markets. Lighthouse engages in 1:1 consulting projects, and also creates the agenda for several financial technology conferences. Prior to forming Lighthouse, Mr. Harris was president and editor-in-chief at Waters Information Services (now Incisive Media), a leading business intelligence service for the financial IT markets. Before entering the publishing world, Mr. Harris specialized in software development. In the mid 1980s, he was a project manager and software architect, working in the Advanced Systems Group of the London Stock Exchange. At the LSE, Mr. Harris built one of the world's first digital market data distribution systems, dubbed Radix. He has also held a variety of software management and development roles at Intercom Data Systems (now Royalblue Technologies), Knight-Ridder Unicom and the Financial Times. Mr. Harris is a board member of GenomeWeb LLC, a publisher in the field of bioinformatics and related sciences. He is also a member of the advisory boards of Enigmatec Corp., a developer of autonomic datacenter management technology, Volante Technologies, a financial markets data management specialist and A-Team Consulting, a financial technology analysis, research and publishing company. Also, he is an advisor to It's the Content, Inc. and also to the editorial steering committee of Forex Television.

James Hartley
Chief Technologist, FISD/SIIA
Mr. Hartley, as Chief Technologist of FISD/SIIA, is charged with support and development of MDDL (www.mddl.org) and similar efforts at the association. Previously, Mr. Hartley was employed by Reuters Group (aka Bridge Information Systems) for five years as Senior Architect for the Chief Architecture Office, as well as Catalyst in the Office of the Chief Scientist, where he concentrated on the development of leading edge technologies, including delivery mechanisms and user interface platforms, for the dissemination and representation of quotes, news, charts, and other financial information. Mr. Hartley has had global involvement and responsibilities in furthering new capabilities and products through training and technical leadership. Mr. Hartley has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Computer option) from The Ohio State University and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Colorado at Boulder.

Elmer Huh
Elmer Huh was a Senior Analyst in the Global Valuation, Accounting and Tax Policy (GVAT) Team for Morgan Stanley's Equity Research Department. He was primarily responsible for advising internal and external insititutional clients in the North American and Asia Pacific regions on accounting and regulatory issues and their valuation implications. He and the rest of the team worked on various products helping investors understand the interaction between enterprise risk, capital employed, financial leverage and instrinsic value. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in January 1998, Elmer's experience in financial services included associate analysts positions at BancBoston Robertson Stephens and the Fir Tree Value Fund. He also worked as a senior consultant for Grant Thornton's Management Consulting Division concentrating on information systems, manufacturing and operations research.

Peter N. Johnson
Senior Vice President and Manager, Strategic Technology, Mellon Financial Corporation
Pete Johnson has worked in strategic technology at Mellon Bank for more than 10 years. As a senior member of Mellon’s corporate IT organization, Pete works directly with key line-of-business counterparts across Mellon's broad range of businesses to resolve strategic technology and architectural issues. In addition, Pete plays a central role in introducing new technologies at Mellon, including Wireless, Groupware, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Client/Server Middleware and various Internet architectures. Reporting directly to Mellon CIO Kevin Shearan, Pete manages Mellon's strategic technology group; his group is responsible for tracking emerging technologies, managing architectural standards and developing enterprise technology strategy.

Yossef Newman
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Yossef Newman is an audit senior manager at Deloitte and a member of the Audit Technology and Innovation Team. He serves as Vice Chair on the XBRL-Intl Accountants Working Group and is a member of the XBRL-US Steering Committee. Yossef specializes in technology assisted auditing with a focus on the Securities and Banking Industry. Through his involvement in the US-Domain Working Group, the Intl-Accountants Working Group and other activities both within as well as outside the XBRL Consortium Yossef has been active in furthering the development and adoption of XBRL.

Jim Northey
Jordan & Jordan
Jim Northey is the co-chair of the FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) Global Derivatives Committee and a member of the FPL Global Steering and Global Technical Committees. Jim is the FPL representative to the ISO 20022 TC68/SC4. Jim is the manager of the derivatives practice area for Jordan & Jordan. He actively participates in the FIA, IAFE, GARP, and is a member of the IEEE. Prior to joining J&J, Jim was a principal and founder of The LaSalle Technology Management Group (LTG) in Chicago. Mr. Northey has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Indianapolis and a M.S. in Financial Markets and Trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology with an emphasis in Computational Finance. Jordan & Jordan is a leading financial markets management and technology consulting firm headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, and Singapore.

Kurt Ramin
XBRL International Chair, International Accounting Standards Board
Kurt P. Ramin is Global Chairman, XBRL International Steering Committee. He is based at the International Accounting Committee Foundation (IASCF) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in London. Responsibilities at the IASB include improving electronic services related to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and assisting the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) with the outreach to countries adopting IFRS. Before being seconded by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to London he was a Partner in PwC's New York office working in their Capital Markets Practice. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial Officer to several different companies in the USA and Germany.

Dan Roberts
Chair, XBRL-US Steering Committee, and National Director of Assurance Innovation, Grant Thornton LLP
Daniel Roberts is Grant Thornton's representative to the XBRL consortium (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), is the Chair of the XBRL-US Steering Committee (2005-2006), the XBRL-US Representative to the XBRL International Steering Committee, and Chair of the XBRL International Accounting Working Group. He has experience in Risk Management, Internal Audit Management and Information Systems Audit, Corporate Governance and consulting in Organizational Efficiency and Effectiveness. Before the assurance industry, Dan had 10 years experience in most aspects of the Information Technology industry. Dan immigrated to New Zealand in 1986, living and working in New Zealand, Malaysia and Thailand until February 2001, when he returned to the United States, joining Grant Thornton in Chicago, IL. He comes from a USAID family, was born in Libya, and has lived in Tanzania, Tunisia, Thailand, Syria, Greece, and most recently New Zealand.

Michael Skutinsky Jr.
Executive Director, RIXML.org
In addition to his responsibilities at RIXML.org, Mr. Skutinsky continues with his consulting practice, which has been responsible for the development and implementation of various systems for evaluating equity research. Prior to his work as a consultant, Mr. Skutinsky held a number of positions at Salomon Smith Barney, most recently as Managing Director for Market and Data Analysis for Global EquityResearch. In this last position, he was responsible for designing and implementing systems to assess the effectiveness of Salomon’s global equity research and managing all vendor relationships for the division. Prior to this position he was the Global Chief Administrative Officer for the Global Equity Research Division for ten years. Prior to joining Salomon Smith Barney, Mr. Skutinsky held positions at Lehman Brothers, Paine Webber and Chase Manhattan Bank. Mr. Skutinsky received an MBA in management from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Bachelor of Science degree in business management from Montclair State University.

Liv Watson
VP of Global Strategy, EDGAR Online
Liv A. Watson is the Vice President of Global Strategy at EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDGR), where she is responsible for developing EDGAR Online's International business development strategy. EDGAR Online is a leading provider of value-added business and financial information on global companies to financial, corporate, and advisory professionals. The company makes its information and a variety of analysis tools available via online subscriptions and licensing agreements to a large user base. She has spent the last 15 years finding new ways to apply her financial and business reporting expertise to technology and her technical expertise to accounting. Working globally with leading market regulators, accounting associations and institutions, Ms. Watson has been instrumental in the creation of the XBRL International framework for the financial and business reporting supply chain. Liv has presented XBRL to a wide range of audiences ranging from international standards bodies to Fortune 500 companies and speaks with authority about its benefits, potential applications, and broad adoption. Liv authored one of IMA's most successful CPE courses "Accounting System Technology for the 21st Century". She has also authored several published articles on future trends of the profession for international publications and journals including Strategic Finance.