Bruce Benson is a graduate of the Wharton Business School, of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been working in the securities business for over 20 years, including positions in equity research, derivative sales, and sales trading. Prior to joining CLSA, Bruce worked at Barings and Goldman Sachs in Japan. Bruce is a managing director at CLSA where he built the Japanese Sales Trading team, before moving to his present role as the head of CLSA's algorithmic trading business for Asia.

Vineet Bhatnagar is the Country Head of MF Global (India) Private Limited - a 100 % subsidiary of MF Global USA. MF Global (India) Private Limited provides risk management services to corporate having a price risk exposure in commodities.

Vineet is also the Managing Director of MF Global- Sify Securities (India) Pvt. Ltd. a USD 10mln joint venture between MF Global USA and Sify Ltd.

With over 15 years experience in the financial markets, Vineet possesses an in-depth understanding of derivatives and commodities markets.

A PGDBM from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Vineet has been associated with reputed companies like Prime Securities as Manager Investment Banking and The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited where he was Manager- Retail Banking and Trade Finance Division.

Yogesh joined ICICI Prudential AMC in June 2004 and is currently the Vice President - Investments.

Yogesh currently manages six funds viz. ICICI Prudential Index Fund, ICICI Prudential SPIcE Fund, ICICI Prudential Equity & Derivatives Fun - Income Optimiser Plan, Equity & Derivative Fund- Wealth Optimiser Plan, ICICI Prudential Blended Plan A and ICICI Prudential Blended Plan B.

He has work experience of over 16 years. In his role at ICICI Prudential he is responsible for market analysis and fund management with his key strength being overall derivative strategy formulation and analysis.

His qualifications include B.Com; A.C.A. Grad C.W.A. Yogesh has worked with various financial services companies like Sushil Finance Consultants Ltd. and Falcon Brokerage Private Ltd in the areas of institutional dealings and strategy.

Yogesh's interest lies in astrology and reading. He is married to Purnima and has a daughter, Shailee.

Dean Chisholm is responsible for a wide range of Operations functions in the Asia Pacific region at Invesco. Invesco is a listed independent investment group, not related to any bank, trustee, custodian, insurance company or other financial institution. In Asia Pacific Invesco have fund management operations in Hong Kong, Melbourne, Taipei, Tokyo, Singapore and a joint venture in the PRC, manufacturing and distributing investment funds and other fund management products plus an Enterprise Centre in Hyderabad. Between 1995 and 1998, he was responsible for the regional Operations functions of LGT Asset Management before the acquisition by Invesco. From 1984 to 1993, he worked for PWC audit division in London and Hong Kong serving financial services clients. He is a past Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities Industry Group and currently Co Chairman of the OMGEO Hong Kong Advisory Board. Mr. Chisholm has a Bachelor of Science in Monetary Economics from the London School of Economics. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and is an Associate of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants.

I have over twenty three years of leadership and hands-on experience in developing and deploying technology-driven solutions. Presently I am leading technology at Bombay Stock Exchange Limited, India. Prior to this, I was working with Bharti Airtel limited, the biggest private sector telecom operator in India and responsible for enterprise-wide cross line of business transformation projects to cater to business growth until 2010 and beyond.

I did my graduation in 1984 in Electrical Engineering and did my Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management in 1986.

Ross Davies heads the Listed F&O sales for Deutsche India where he is focused on building the Clearing DMA and Voice broked listed business.

Ross joined DB in April 2008 after spending nearly 8 years with Fimat Australia where he was Head of Futures having helped rebuild the futures business from scratch.

He has over 14 years in Futures business experience primarily in Sydney having worked on the SFE electronic system SYCOM from near its inception covering European markets and managing night desks before moving to run the front office operations of Fimat.

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.

Ronald Fons is Cisco Asia-Pacific Marketing Manager for Financial Markets and Enterprise Architecture focusing on High Performance Trading infrastructures and application visibility management which identifies and analyses points of latency in trade flow.

Ron has over 30 years in IT working for financial services companies on Wall Street - Loeb, Rhoades & Company, Morgan Stanley, and The New York Stock Exchange.

He is a certified TOGAF enterprise architect and was a member of the technical architecture team for the Stock Exchange of Singapore prior to the merger with SIMEX, thus creating the SGX.

He was Chief Enterprise Architect for the Dalian Commodity Exchange in China and designed China Construction Bank's Beijing Branch city-wide Frame Relay WAN infrastructure.

Ronald is based in Hong Kong.

Peter Jardine is one of the founding members of the Marco Polo Group. Currently as a Director of the Group, he is Head of Strategy, Business Development and the Broker Network for Marco Polo Asia. He is also Chairman of Marco Polo Africa.

Prior to joining Marco Polo he was a Director of Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank SA and head of the Equity Group. Before that he was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers, where he was co-head of investment banking for Africa.

Before joining Lehman he spent 13 years with Fergusson Brothers (now Investec Securities) where as a senior partner he headed both the corporate finance group and the institutional equity sales and trading departments.

With over 20 years in the banking and financial industry, Himanshu has been the consultant for ICICI Brokerage Services, Edelweiss Capital Ltd., Kaycee Group, BRICS Securities, Pioneer group, Anand Rathi Group, Citigroup Wealth Advisors, HDFC Securities, Citigroup Venture Capital International, Aptivaa Consulting, Centrum Group, Standard Chartered Bank, SMC Group, Sharekhan and Religare Securities etc.

Himanshu has been elected as the Honorary Treasurer & Official Spokesman of The Stock Exchange, Mumbai for the year 2000 - 2001, and was the Director from 1999 - 2002.

Graduated at the University of Mumbai in 1985, Himanshu is a Chartered Accountant and has been guest lecturer at IIM-A, BSE Training Institute, Government Law College, LIC and at various national and international seminars on the capital market.

Danny Lee joined NYFIX in 2007 to lead the business development efforts for NYFIX in the Asia Pacific region. With over 15 years of experience in the Asian markets with firms such as GFI Group and Thomson Financial, Danny brings a wealth of local market experience with goals to expand NYFIX business in the region. The appointment of Danny and the Asia Pacific team affirms NYFIX's recognition of Asia Pacific as a key growth market. Danny reports into Richard Hughes, Managing Director of NYFIX Global Services based in London.

Jesse manages the securities divisions in Mumbai. Prior to moving to Mumbai, he was head of the Japanese Equities sales trading desk in Tokyo. Jesse joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as a vice president and became a managing director in 2005.

Before joining the firm, Jesse worked variously in fixed income trading in New York, sales trading Asia Ex-Japan equities in New York and Hong Kong, and Japanese equities sales trading in Tokyo. He has been working in the financial markets since 1988.

Jesse earned a BA in Literature and Philosophy from Sarah Lawrence College in 1988. He and his wife, Rebecca, have three daughters and live in Mumbai.

Ravi Manchi is a Principal at Westwater; he is responsible for Business Strategy and Global Delivery. Ravi's indepth business knowledge on several aspects of Financial Services has assisted many organizations with the business strategy and technology transformation; leading to deployment of enterprise-wide solutions.

Ravi has managed major initiatives within the areas of Trading, Straight-through-Processing, Risk Management, Clearance & Settlement, Business Intelligence (MIS) and Compliance (including but not limited to AML-KYC, SOX, FASB, NYSE, NASD and SEC, etc¡K) solutions. Ravi has provided strategic planning and implementation expertise in many business areas throughout Capital Markets and Banking.

Ravi is a regular speaker & moderator at industry events and is a regular contributor to several articles for financial industry publications on topics ranging from FIX & other protocols, multi-asset class trading, Accessing Liquidity, etc... Ravi has been instrumental in developing large global transformation programs including liquidity connectivity and implementing complex Trading and DMA platforms.

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.

Presently, Dr. T. C. Nair is Whole Time Member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). He is also presently on the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Securities Market (NISM) set up by SEBI.

Prior to this assignment Dr. Nair, was Managing Director, Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Limited, Bangalore (wholly owned subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India).

A Central Banker by profession, Dr. Nair, has held various important positions in the Reserve Bank of India since February 1978. He was Chief General Manager, Department of External Investments and Operations, General Manager of Internal Debt Management Department, General Manager - Currency Management, Senior Faculty Member - Bankers' Training College, Assistant Chief Officer in the Department of Banking Operations and Development and Assistant Director in Management Services Department.

Dr. Nair has also been Member of various Committees formed by the Government of India, Reserve Bank of India and Securities and Exchange Board of India.

A post-graduate in Monetary Economics from the University of Mumbai, Dr. Nair was awarded Ph.D. by the University of Mumbai for his thesis entitled "Offshore Banking: A Benefits Maximizing Model for India".

Dr. Nair has published several articles in various national and international publications. He has travelled widely and is a regular visiting faculty at various institutes and universities in India.

Ms. Kaku Nakhate is Co-Head of Equities at DSP Merrill Lynch Limited.

In her capacity as Co-Head Equities, Kaku is responsible for Equity Sales, Equity Structured Products, Equity Derivatives and allied businesses. She is also responsible for promoting the India Equity Product within Merrill Lynch offices and has been designated as the Global Product Manager for the Indian Product within Merrill Lynch.

Kaku has been with the firm for nearly 20 years, and is currently Chairperson of the India Operating Committee and member of the Executive Committee for DSP Merrill Lynch.

Prakash has been in the business for 18 years. He started his career as an Authorized Assistant and did business on the floor of the Chennai Stock exchange in 1990. He worked as a Head of India sales trading with Cazenove and also worked with ICICI Securities before moving to Franklin Templeton in May 2004.

Chetan Pandya is Head of IT at Kotak Securities - Institutional Equities, India's premier broking firm. He has around 12 years of experience in the Indian capital markets in various functions ranging from equity sales, trading, operations, projects and IT.

Over the years, Chetan has been closely associated with changing the landscape of front office and operations technologies in Indian capital markets.

Cantor Fitzgerald (Tokyo) '94-'96; Currency Options Broker
Fidelity Investments (Tokyo) '97-'00; Japanese Equity Trader
Janus Capital (Hong Kong/Singapore); '00 - present; Director of Regional Trading

PS Praveen is India-based Country Manager for Transaction Network Services. Praveen has been an active member of FPL in the region and is instrumental in promoting FIX Committee in India. He is responsible for the FIX connectivity to Buysides, Sellsides and Exchanges in India. He has been educating the India community in FIX implementations from 2005.

Prior to this, Praveen was with Usha Comm India and USA. He has over 20 years of experience in variety of roles in Sales and Marketing in India with domain expertise in Telecom Networks, VoIP, Wireless Technologies, Payment Solutions, Billing and Customer care. He has developed strong relationships with the Indian Exchanges.

Mr. Paul Saubestre is currently Head of Trading, BNP Paribas Securities (Asia) and Head of Client Execution Platform Asia and Japan.

As Head of Trading and Client Execution Platform Asia and Japan, Paul is responsible for ensuring the sound and steady development of the business line covering all equities and derivatives flow execution activities such as Direct Market Access (DMA), Program Trading and algorithmic trading in the Japan-Asia area. His managing position puts him in direct contact with the various aspects of this business unit from information technology to sales and operational issues.

Paul moved to Asia with Credit Agricole Indosuez Securities in the role of Managing Director, Head of Equity Derivatives for Asia, Credit Agricole Indosuez Securities in 2001. In this role he implemented the Equities Derivatives Platform across Asia covering all aspects of Trading activities, support functions and Sales. On the merger between Credit Agricole Indosuez and Credit Lyonnais, Paul was made Global Head of Equity and Derivatives, Asia for the new entity known as Calyon.

Prior to that, Paul was with Credit Agricole Indosuez as Director, head of Derivative Trading (Vanilla Options). Here Paul launched the Warrant program in France, structured coordinated and marketed derivative products to European Clients. Along with this activity, held the position of Head of Trading, managing the Derivative trading team.

Paul first joined Indosuez' Cheuvreux, France, office in 1993 As Vice President -Derivative Trading managing proprietary options books for the European markets, along with OTC products pricing and hedging.