Open Source Finance: A Contradiction in Terms?

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also publishes online through the O’Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of MySQL, CollabNet, Safari Books Online, Wesabe, and ValuesOfN, and is a partner in O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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James Altucher is president and founder of Stockpickr LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com and part of its network of Web properties, and a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs a fund of hedge funds. He also is a weekly columnist for The Financial Times and the author of the books Trade Like a Hedge Fund, Trade Like Warren Buffett and SuperCa$h. Previously, Altucher was a managing partner at technology venture capital firm 212 Ventures and was CEO and founder of Vaultus and Reset Inc. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell and was a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a nationally ranked chess master.

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Graham Miller is a Founder and CEO of Marketcetera (http://www.marketcetera.com), a provider of open-source software for automated trading systems. Portfolio managers can quickly transform trading ideas and pricing rules into their own proprietary algorithms that are embedded in the Marketcetera Platform. The open-source foundation of the platform provides maximum flexibility and technology choice to institutions of all sizes.

Graham has over 10 years of experience in the finance and software industries, most recently serving as the director of electronic trading strategies at a hedge fund in New York. Prior to that Mr. Miller worked for Jane Street Capital, making markets in equity options on the floor of the American Stock Exchange, and directing electronic trading efforts. During his tenure on Wall Street, Mr. Miller oversaw the development of several high-throughput black box trading systems for equities, options, ETFs and futures. Before joining Jane Street Capital, Mr. Miller assisted in the development of several products and companies at Reactivity, a software incubator turned network security company, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007.

Graham is a contributor to the FIX Protocol Organization’s Algorithmic Trading Working Group. He holds 9 US patents, and has a bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from Stanford University.

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Stephen Bate is the VP of Software Development at the FOLIOfn online brokerage firm. His experience with trading software development ranges from market data distribution to order routing, order matching and automated trading systems. Earlier in his career he was involved in artificial intelligence and distributed processing research and did object-oriented database and software development consulting. Mr. Bate is also the founder and project lead for the QuickFIX/J project, the leading open source Java FIX engine implementation.

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