Automated Trading 2008: Speakers
Automated Trading 2008
Royal Society of Arts, London WC2 - 15 October 2008
 Emmanuel Acar - Directional TradingEmmanuel Acar is the director of Directional Trading Limited. He worked for almost sixteen years in FX dealing rooms. At Bank of America, he headed the London Risk Management Advisory desk. Prior to this, Emmanuel worked at Citibank within the FX Engineering Group. He was a proprietary trader and portfolio manager for close to ten years at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, BZW and BNP's London Branch. Emmanuel has a PhD from City University and has been active in the development of proprietary trading models since 1990. |
 David Aronson - Baruch UniversityDavid Aronson is an adjunct professor at Baruch College in New York where he teaches an undergraduate course in technical analysis. Previously he was a proprietary trader for Spear Leeds and Kellogg and later founded Raden Research Group, a firm that was an early adaptor of data mining for financial markets. He is the author of "Evidence Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals" published by Wiley. |
 Urban Jaekle - Emilio Tomasini & Partners Urban Jaekle is a partner of the company “Emilio Tomasini & Partners”, which provides trading systems’ advisory services to hedge funds, banks and corporations. He is co-author of "Trading systems applied to the UK financial markets” (Harriman, London, forthcoming November 2008). |
 Gaurav Mangla - Collage LLCGaurav Mangla (New York, NY) is the author of "Financial Trading Systems Design and Development in C++" (John Wiley, to be published), and Founder & CEO of COLLAGE LLC, USA. The company provides financial technology and quantitative consulting services to large investment banks and hedge funds. Prior to this he worked for over 10 years on Wall Street (Morgan Stanley, HSBC, Barclays Capital) where he designed and implemented several automated trading systems. These include an electricity trading system, a credit derivatives trading system, and a fixed income trading system. He holds B.TECH degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. |
 Martin Sewell - University College London Martin Sewell is a PhD researcher at University College London, where he is looking into "The Application of Intelligent systems to Financial Time Series Analysis". He also works for Cirrus Capital, a hedge fund in London. Prior to this he traded Spot FX at OCM and Prime Forex. |
 John Wolberg - Israel Institute of Technology John R. Wolberg is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He is the author of the book "Expert Trading System - Modeling Financial Markets with Kernel Regression", published by Wiley. An expert in financial data modeling, he has done research and consulting for leading financial institutions, and has worked with some of the pioneers of computerized trading. Dr. Wolberg holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT. |
 Woon Wong - Cardiff Business School Dr Woon K Wong is Senior Research Associate in the Investment Management Research Unit at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. His research interests include risk management, asset pricing and investment management. He has published numerous papers in respected academic journals and regularly conducts seminars on backtesting and VaR. |
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