Keith Ackerman is Global Head of Next Generation Research for Thomson Financial and a recognized expert in global information services content, data and electronic transactions. At Thomson Financial, Mr. Ackerman has a variety of leadership roles and responsibilities including the Thomson Financial Primary Research business, managing the Global Contributor Team, and he is a member of the management team for Thomson Financial’s Investment Management business.

Prior to joining to Thomson Financial, Mr. Ackerman was the Chief Executive Officer of BNY Jaywalk LLC and President and COO of BNY Commission Management Solutions LLC – both former subsidiaries of The Bank of New York. These sister companies provide outsourced technology, content networks, performance measurement, and payment agent services to different customer bases within the financial services community.

Before the Bank of New York, Mr. Ackerman was Senior Vice President of Instinet Corporation (a former subsidiary of Reuters Plc.) At Instinet, Mr. Ackerman transformed its global research business into a provider of content, data, and industry expert networks via commercial partnerships with speciality firms located around the globe.

In the years before Instinet, Mr. Ackerman served on the management team of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ global strategy/business development unit and was President of a wholly owned Price Waterhouse subsidiary that created and sold risk management products to the Fortune 500. Previously, Mr. Ackerman was Managing Director of a specialized, privately held information services company and worked for two New York Stock Exchange member firms engaged in, among other things, initial public offerings and bridge financings for medium capitalization technology based companies.

Mr. Ackerman holds an MBA from the Fordham University Graduate School of Business and a BA from Tufts University.

Stewart Alsop is partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital fund focused on helping technology entrepreneurs start companies and the lead investor in Cake Financial. He was a general partner with New Enterprise Associates through 2004 and lead that firm’s investments in companies such as TiVo, Portola Communications (sold to Netscape), Glu Mobile, and Xfire (sold to Viacom). During that time, he also wrote a column for Fortune. Prior to NEA, Alsop was Editor in Chief of InfoWorld, a weekly newspaper for information-technology professionals. He also published PC Letter, a fortnightly newsletter for computer industry insiders, and produced the Agenda and Demo conferences for executives of companies in the computer industry. Before 1985, he served in several executive editorial positions at business and trade magazines, including Inc. magazine. Alsop graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles.

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.

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.

Tony was previously Chief Risk Officer for Tower Capital, a $2 billion portfolio of hedge funds. Prior to Tower, he was a Director of Research for the $15 billion Zweig family of funds. Tony was named to Institutional Investor‘s “Online 40” annual ranking of e-finance leaders. He has a BS in Applied Math & Computer Science and an MS in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.

Henry Blodget is the CEO of Silicon Alley Insider, Inc., an online business media company based in New York. Prior to founding SAI in May, 2007, Henry was CEO of Cherry Hill Research, an Internet research and consulting firm.

From 1994-2001, Henry was an investment banker at Prudential Securities and an equity analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. and Merrill Lynch. As a Managing Director at Merrill, he ran the firm’s global Internet research practice and was the top-ranked Internet analyst on Wall Street.

Blodget’s first book, The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer’s Guide to Intelligent Investing, was published in January 2007.

Richard Bookstaber has worked at a number of hedge funds, running the FrontPoint Quantitative Fund, a market neutral long/short equity fund, and overseeing risk management at Ziff Brothers Investments and Moore Capital Management. At Ziff Brothers he also developed and managed the firm’s quantitative long/short equity portfolio.

Prior to joining Moore, Mr. Bookstaber was the Managing Director in charge of firm-wide risk management at Salomon Brothers. In this role he oversaw both the client and proprietary risk-taking activities of the firm, and served on that firm’s powerful Risk Management Committee. He remained in these positions at Salomon Smith Barney after the firm’s purchase by Traveler’s in 1997 and the merger that formed Citigroup.

Steven has pioneered and managed Internet-based consumer services for more than 10 years. Prior to founding Cake Financial in April of 2006, Steven served as the senior director for strategy and business operations for the $100 million Digital Music Division at RealNetworks, where he managed the day-to-day operations for Rhapsody, the leading music subscription product, as well as the digital download, and advertising-based businesses. Prior to RealNetworks, Steven was the director of business development at financial services startup myCFO, founded by Jim Clark and backed by Kleiner Perkins. Among his accomplishments at myCFO, he executed the $100 million-plus partnership with CSFB. Steven graduated cum laude with Highest Thesis Honors from Tufts University and received his MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS), where he wrote RealNetworks: Rhapsody, which was published by HBS Publishing. Steven continues to be a guest lecturer at HBS.

Eric is Data Strategy Officer for the Global Advanced Active group of Barclays Global Investors. He has been working with financial data as reference data and as fuel for large institutional quantitative investment strategies for more than 15 year.

Eric supported the transformation of one of the world’s largest index managers to a firm that is now also one of the worlds largest active fund managers. Eric is responsible for maintaining a data strategy that gives Barclays Global Investors researchers and fund managers a competitive edge in the never ending quest to beat the market. Eric has front line experience working with market data, fundamental data, analyst data and economic data from scores of data vendors.

Before working in the finance industry Eric worked on Air Defense systems for several aerospace companies including ITT Defense, Hughes Ground Systems and others.

Eric has a BS in Computer Science from West Coast University.

Prior to Wikinvest, Parker worked in marketing at Amgen in a variety of marketing roles, most recently, on a counter-launch strategy team in the company’s Nephrology Business Unit. Parker graduated with a degree in Chemistry from Harvard College.

Bo Cowgill joined Google in 2003 after graduating from Stanford. At Google, he has worked on quantitative projects related to Google Analytics, the Google ad auctions and internal prediction markets. He recently released Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence From Google, an economics paper with Justin Wolfers (Wharton) and Eric Zitzewitz (Dartmouth).

Mr. Cramer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was President of The Harvard Crimson. He then worked as a journalist at the Tallahassee Democrat and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, covering everything from sports to homicide, before moving to New York to help start American Lawyer magazine. After a three year stint, Mr. Cramer entered Harvard Law School and received his J.D. in 1984. Instead of practicing law, however, he joined Goldman Sachs, where he worked in sales and trading. In 1987 he left Goldman to start his own hedge fund. While he worked at his fund, he helped start Smart Money for Dow Jones and then in 1996, he co-founded TheStreet.com, where he has served as a columnist and contributor ever since. In 2000, he retired from active money management to embrace media full-time, including radio and television. Currently, Mr. Cramer is a markets commentator for CNBC and TheStreet.com. In addition to his daily writing for TheStreet.com’s RealMoney and Action Alerts PLUS, as well as his participation in various video segments on TheStreet.com TV, Mr. Cramer serves as host of CNBC’s Mad Money television program.

Mr. Cramer is the author of “Confessions of a Street Addict,” “You Got Screwed,” “Jim Cramer’s Real Money,” “Jim Cramer’s Mad Money,” and a forthcoming book, “Jim Cramer’s Stay Mad for Life, pub date December 4, 2007. He is a frequent contributor to New York magazine. He has been featured on 60 Minutes, Nightly News with Brian Williams, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and NBC’s Today with Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera.

Cary J. Davis joined Warburg Pincus in 1994 and is responsible for investments in the software and financial technology sectors. He received a B.A. in economics from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was executive assistant to Michael Dell at Dell Computer and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Davis is a director of Cassatt, NYFIX, Pi Corporation, Secure Computing, TradeCard and Wall Street Systems. In addition, he has been involved in a number of prior investments including OpenVision Technologies (merged with VERITAS Software) and BEA Systems. Mr. Davis has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and is president of the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst.

Michiel de Boer, PhD, is director of product development at Zecco.com, the online trading and investment community. He has extensive experience with new business development and entrepreneurial processes at both established and start-up firms. During the first digital wave in the 1990s, he conducted his doctoral research at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam into the impact of multimedia on the publishing industry. During the turbulent times of digitalization impacting the photo imaging industry, he was managing director at the Technotape Group, a multi-national supplier to this industry. In between, he has acted as consultant with Gemini Consulting as well as independently to a wide variety of industries and companies dealing with strategic change.

Salil is a Partner at Bay, and focuses on areas in which he has operating experience and thus some intuition. Salil was founder & CEO of Customware, a CORBA services company (acquired by Visigenic, now part of Borland), co-founder and CEO of The Middleware Company (acquired by Precise, now part of Symantec), and of TheServerSide.com network of social media sites (acquired by TechTarget).

In addition to traditional venture investments, Salil is leading:

- Bay’s seed program, a fast-track process for investing $250K-$750K in bold out-of-the-box capital-efficient ideas

- Bay’s appfactory program (along with Angela Strange), which invests $25K-$250K in applications atop the Facebook platform

Salil has held technical leadership positions at several technology companies including Sun Microsystems, taught summer courses at Stanford University, and has been an advisor to several internet community businesses.

Tom is the Chief Growth Officer for TradeKing, a top-ranked nationally licensed online broker deal. Prior to joining TradeKing, Tom was a co-founder, Partner and Managing Director of Baird Venture Partners, LLC, a venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL. Prior to Baird Venture Partners, Tom served as a Vice President in Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Investment Banking Group. Tom was also a Senior Product Manager and Senior Analyst at Morningstar, Inc. and an Associate in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s Investment Banking Division. Tom earned an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and MA with high honors from Michigan State University and a BA, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame.

Roger Ehrenberg is chairman and co-founder of Monitor110 (http://www.monitor110.com), a rapidly growing company that helps institutional investors turn Internet information into alpha generation. A 17-year Wall Street veteran, Roger co-founded Monitor110 in early 2005 with the passion to change how Wall Street accesses, analyzes and monetizes information extracted from the Internet.

Roger is also one of the most active New York City-based angel investors through IA Capital Partners LLC, his personal early-stage investment vehicle focused on financial technology and social and digital media. Roger has seeded or invested in over 20 early-stage companies since 2004.

Prior to joining Monitor110, Roger served as President and CEO of Deutsche Bank’s internal hedge fund trading platform DB Advisors LLC. His 130-person team managed $6 billion in capital through a multi-strategy hedge fund platform with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Earlier, Roger was Global Co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Strategic Equity Transactions Group. In 2000, Roger’s team won Institutional Investor magazine’s “Derivatives Deal of the Year” award. As an Investment Banker and Managing Director at Citibank, Roger held a variety of roles and responsibilities in the Global Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Structuring Groups. Roger currently serves on the boards of Monitor110, Inc.; Clear Asset Management LLC, a technology-enabled investment advisory and financial publishing firm; Buddy Media, Inc., an applications development firm for social media platforms; Mytrade, Inc., a flexible digital media platform for traders and investors; Global Bay Mobile Technologies, Inc., a mobile data collection solution vendor; and Spotlight Data Solutions, Inc., a provider of wireless data collection solutions for business process management. He previously served on the Board of DSL.net Inc., a publicly-traded telecommunications company. Today, Roger is frequently consulted as a subject matter expert by the financial media and has appeared in numerous media outlets including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Institutional Investor, Barron’s, TheStreet.com, NPR Marketplace, BBC, Reuters, Red Herring, Wired, Daily Deal, Crain’s New York, Advanced Trading, and Agence France Presse.

Roger also authors the popular financial blog Information Arbitrage (http://www.informationarbitrage.com), focusing on Wall Street, hedge funds, market structure, regulation and investment-oriented themes discussed on the Internet.

Roger holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Michael Ferrari is the Vice President of Applied Technology and Commodity Research at Weather Trends International. He has several years of research experience which span the theoretical and applied domains of the geophysical and biophysical sciences. At WTI he extends these ideas, and incorporates new ways to visualize the data towards the construction of trading strategies in the global commodity sector. Before joining WTI, Michael was a commodity research scientist and trader where he was primarily involved with global climate forecasting, remote sensing analysis and algorithm development, applied technology research, and commodity analysis/modeling. In addition to his role at WTI, he is currently completing his PhD from Rutgers (post qualifying exam) where his research focuses on physical hydroclimatology and environmental evolution. Michael has published and presented research findings in several areas, including global climate modeling, pattern recognition, biometeorology, environmental metagenomics, and climate economics. He likes anything to do with water, in liquid or frozen state.

Biography coming soon.

David Friedberg currently serves as the CEO of WeatherBill, having founded the company in 2006. Prior to founding WeatherBill, David was with Google, where he joined as one of the founding members of the company’s Corprate Development team. David managed a number of strategic projects for Google, including identifying and leading several of Google’s largest acquisitions. David also served as a Business Product Manager for AdWords – Google’s primary revenue source. Prior to Google, David spent several years working in private equity and investment banking. He has invested in and advised dozens of companies in the technology industry. Earlier, David worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he led several projects as a mathematical programmer. David received his BA in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley.

Biography coming soon.

Jonathan Glick, Director of Research Operations for Gerson Lehrman Group is responsible for strategic oversight of GLG product offerings and research services. Before joining GLG, Jonathan was CEO of OuterForce, providers of a software platform for the management and compensation of expert networks. Prior to OuterForce, Jonathan was Head of Product Development and Technology for The New York Times Electronic Media Company responsible for the design and development of all products and services, including The New York Times on the Web. Jonathan received an undergraduate degree from McGill University and pursued graduate studies in Cognitive Science and Instructional Technology at Columbia University.

Bruce Golden is a general partner with Accel Partners, a leading global venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, London, and China. Bruce has been involved in introducing technology to the financial services market in both his capacity as an operating executive and investor over the past 23 years. Investments that Bruce led of particular relevance to financial services include comScore (SCOR), Dapper, Moneyline-Telerate, Qliktech, Streambase and Super Derivatives. Additional Accel investments in this area include eInsurance, Integral Software, Prosper and Yodlee. Prior to joining Accel in 1997, Bruce held executive marketing and sales positions at Illustra Information Technologies, a pioneer in the area of object-relational databases. In 1996 Illustra merged with Informix Software, where Bruce became General Manager of the Data Warehouse business. Prior to Illustra, Bruce spent almost eight years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of roles, including helping to launch Sun’s efforts in the financial services market. Bruce holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Columbia University. Bruce currently lives in London with his wife and two children.

Jimmy Guterman is editorial director of O’Reilly’s Radar group and the editor of O’Reilly’s Release 2.0. He has been editor in chief of Forrester, Gaming Industry News, CD Review, and has written or edited for more than 100 newspapers, newsletters, or magazines. Jimmy first contributed to an O’Reilly project in 1993 (long live GNN). He lives in Massachusetts and has been president of The Vineyard Group since 1996.

Penny joined FirstRain in 2004 with the mission to solve the qualitative information overload problem of the institutional investor. She has developed FirstRain as the leading search-driven research provider to the financial services market.

Prior to FirstRain, Penny was Chairman and CEO of Simplex Solutions where she led the company to an IPO and through the sale to Cadence Design Systems. She continued at Cadence as Chief Marketing Officer and General Manager of a major division. An executive at Synopsys, Penny started her career as an R&D engineer with Texas Instruments then Daisy Systems.

Penny serves on the boards of FirstRain, Rambus, the Anita Borg Institute, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte and CCPY (California Community Partners for Youth). Penny speaks on entrepreneurship, career management and technology challenges and has given talks at Berkeley, Stanford, BU and Santa Clara business schools as well as for numerous industry organizations and women’s career development organizations. She holds a B.A. with honors in mathematics from Cambridge University in England.

Matt leads the conception, filtering and execution of Connotate’s services efforts for all clients and prospects.

With over twenty years of high tech industry experience, and executive roles in two, Fast 500 companies, Matt has a wealth of knowledge regarding the technology and business life cycles. His experience includes leading software product businesses, consulting businesses, R&D organizations, customer support and instituting project management best practices. Prior to starting his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Matt received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors from the Pennsylvania State University and a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Dr. William H. Janeway has over thirty-five years of practical finance experience in investment banking and venture capital. As Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus and former Vice Chairman, he initiated and managed the investment strategy for Information Technology that established the firm as a global leader in the domain including funding from start-up such prominent providers of infrastructure software as BEA Systems and VERITAS Software.

Jason is the founder of HighStep Capital, an innovative long/short equity hedge fund that combines fundamental research with advanced data mining technology to trade technology stocks. He previously worked at J. Goldman & Co and Goldman Sachs, where he covered the Internet sector. Jason holds and MBA from Cornell University and BS from Babson College.

Ken Kam is the CEO and founder of Marketocracy, Inc. and Marketocracy Capital Management LLC. Marketocracy Capital Management is the registered investment advisory firm that manages the Masters 100 Fund (MOFQX). Ken founded Marketocracy to recruit a large team of portfolio managers with expertise and a passion for investing. His mission is to find the best investors in the world and then track, analyze, and evaluate their trading activity. Marketocracy has recruited over 80,000 people to manage over 65,000 model portfolios at www.marketocracy.com that compete to become the best investors.

The Masters 100 Fund combines the experience and expertise of portfolio manager Ken Kam with a unique and powerful research tool: the m100 Index, which is made up of the current ideas of the best performing virtual funds at Marketocracy. These virtual portfolios have been tracked using the same criteria as professional mutual fund managers and are the very best among the virtual funds on the site.

Prior to Marketocracy, Ken was the co-founder and CEO of Firsthand Funds and the co-portfolio manager of the Firsthand Technology Value Fund which was ranked as the #1 fund of all mutual funds in the country for the 5 year period ending September, 1999.

Ken has over 20 years of investment experience and holds a B.S. degree in Finance from Santa Clara University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Dr. Kaplan is Founder and CEO of PredictWallStreet Inc., a Silicon Valley company specializing in applications that process the collective intelligence of online investors to generate an edge in the market. Previously, Dr. Kaplan spent twelve years as CEO of iQ Company and has also worked at IBM and at the University of California Santa Cruz as a visiting professor in Computer Science. Dr. Kaplan holds MS and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University where he co-authored papers with a Nobel-Prize winning economist. He is a member of the scientific research society Sigma Xi and has authored and co-authored more than 30 publications, including a book and eight patents in the software field.

Prior to co-founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer was president of CDS, Inc., a successful independent software vendor specializing in programming and testing tools. Previously, Kaufer was co-founder and vice president of engineering of CenterLine Software, where he led the development of several award-winning programming environments that fueled the company’s growth to more than $20 million in revenue. Kaufer, winner of the 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, holds several software patents and has spoken at dozens of travel and high-tech conferences worldwide. He is a board member of the Caring For Carcinoid Foundation (http://www.caringforcarcinoid.org) a non-profit charity dedicated to finding a cure for Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine cancers. He has a B.S. in computer science from Harvard University.

Dr. Kedrosky is a venture capitalist, media personality, and entrepreneur. He is a sought-after speaker; an analyst for CNBC television; a columnist for TheStreet/RealMoney; the editor of Infectious Greed, one of the best known business blogs on the Internet; and he is frequently quoted in major publications around the world.

Most recently he has been the Executive Director of the William J. von Liebig Center in San Diego, California. Using an innovative seed capital program, the Center catalyzes the commercialization of technologies from the internationally-ranked University of California, San Diego.

He is a venture partner with Ventures West, Canada’s largest institutional venture capital firm. In that capacity his interests include consumer technologies, media, semiconductors, and life sciences. He is currently on the board of Marqui Corporation, a marketing automation software firm, as well as Dabbledb, a hosted data management company.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Kedrosky founded the technology equity research practice at HSBC James Capel. As a highly-ranked technology equity analyst, transactions with which he was involved created in excess of a billion dollars in public market value. Dr. Kedrosky was one of the first analysts to cover Internet companies, as well as making early and timely calls in networking and communications.

Dr. Kedrosky has also been a successful entrepreneur. In 1999 he financed and launched one of the first hosted blogging services, GrokSoup. The service grew to more than a thousand subscribers. Relatedly, he wrote for Harvard Business Review what is widely regarded as the seminal article on dark matter and syndication technologies.

Dr. Kedrosky is a sought after media personality. He has hosted a television program, “Profiles on Innovation”, that is available on cable in the U.S., as well as on the web (at www.ucsd.tv). He has written influential columns for Business 2.0 magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Harvard Business Review, and others. He has also appeared on many media outlets, including CNN, PBS Newshour, ABC Nightline, and the New York Times, and he can be seen frequently on CNBC’s “On the Money”. He maintains one of the best known technology, venture capital, & finance blogs at http://paul.kedrosky.com.

Dr. Kedrosky currently divides his time between La Jolla, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

As the senior vice president in charge of Motley Fool CAPS, John Keeling oversees all areas of the service, including product development, analytics and research, business and partner development. Prior to joining The Motley Fool John spent eight years at AOL, where he developed and launched AOL’s Personalization Services, including AOL Personal Finance, My AOL, AOL Alerts, AOL Certified Mail, and AOL Wireless and Voice Portals. He has patents filed for secure email and instant messaging inventions. At Netscape Communications, John developed messaging services for a wide range of clients including the Mac.com, Palm.net and an email alerts platform for Charles Schwab. John has a B.A. and M.A. from Virginia Tech and PhD(ABD) from Stanford University.

With more than a decade of experience marketing and selling products, Jason Knight saw first-hand the vast amounts of data that businesses compile on their target audiences. As a consumer, he felt a real inequity – he didn’t know nearly as much about the places he was shopping as they knew about him. Recognizing how powerful it would be if consumers could aggregate and share their insights on businesses, he joined forces with Marc Hedlund to create Wesabe.

Prior to Wesabe, Jason served as vice president of marketing and business development of Asurion Asia Pacific, where he signed the company’s first Asian carrier, Korea Telecom Freetel, and launched Asurion’s consumer direct marketing campaign. He was previously a Tokyo-based managing director at Ogilvy & Mather, and held executive positions at Excite@home and Kendara. Jason served in the Marine Corps for four years, and is a graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz.

Financial markets have been continuously transformed by technology. This has been occurring for hundreds of years, and continues today. David Leinweber’s professional interests focus on how modern information technologies are best applied in trading and investing. As the founder of two financial technology companies, and a quantitative investment manager he is an active participant in today’s transformation of markets

Clients at his consulting and software development business include some of the world’s largest investment managers and hedge funds. These tasks involve trading systems and automated analysis of textual and Internet information sources. All build on his history of innovation in financial technology.

At the RAND Corporation, he directed research on real-time applications of artificial intelligence that led to the founding of Integrated Analytics Corporation. IAC was acquired by the Investment Technology Group, (NYSE:ITG) and, with the addition of electronic order execution, its product became QuantEx, an electronic execution system still in use for millions of institutional equity transactions daily. Large institutions concerned with controlling transactions costs and proprietary traders found them particularly valuable.

As Managing Director at First Quadrant, he was responsible for institutional quantitative global equity portfolios totaling $6 billion. These long and market neutral strategies utilized a wide range of computerized techniques for stock selection and efficient trading.

Quantitative investing is driven by electronic information, and the Internet dramatically transformed the financial information landscape. This led to the founding of Codexa Corporation, a Net based information collection, aggregation and filtering service for institutional investors and traders. The company’s clients included many of the world’s largest brokerage and investment firms.

As a visiting faculty member at Caltech, Leinweber’ worked on practical applications of ideas at the juncture of technology and finance. He is a collaborator in the Harvard Business School’s e-Information project. Dr. Leinweber has advanced the state of the art in the application of information technology in both the sell-side world of trading and the buy-side world of quantitative investment. He’s published and spoken widely in both fields. He’s gone five rounds against the Wall Street Journal dartboard.

He is an advisor to investment firms, stock exchanges, brokerages, and technology firms in areas related to financial markets , and a frequent speaker and author on these subjects. His book, “Nerds on Wall Street: Wired Markets in a Wired World” will be published by Wiley in 2008

In his misspent youth, he graduated from MIT, in physics and computer science where he was one of the first 5000 people on the Internet. That was when it was called the ARPAnet and wasn’t cool. He also has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard. But on a good day, it’s hard to tell.

See also: http://nerdsonwallstreet.typepad.com/

Weiting is the co-founder of SocialPicks, a Silicon-Valley based startup changing the way stock investors discuss and share ideas on the Web. Weiting has a MS in MS&E Finance from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and previously held several technical and product roles at silicon valley startups.

SocialPicks recently announced a partnership with Reuters for its Stock Buzz social network product. SocialPicks is backed by Bay Partners, Y Combinator, and prominent silicon valley angels, including the founders of social networks such as Bebo and HotorNot.

In his role as CTO of InfoNgen, Mr. Mahoney is the architect of the firm’s overall product and technology strategy. Previously Mr. Mahoney was a founder of Multex.com, whose highly regarded offerings helped to redefine the financial information and research marketplace. As CTO of Multex, he navigated the company through its transition to the internet, and the subsequent rapid expansion of its product portfolio. An avid blogger, Mr. Mahoney posts frequently about various topics, mostly technology focused, on his personal blog The Digital Edge (thedigitaledgeblog.com).

Anju Marempudi is the founder and CEO of IntelliBusiness, Inc. and the creator of eventVestor, a financial information platform for event driven investment analysis and business intelligence. Anju has strong technology, business, and financial industry background with over 15 years of experience in analytics, research, and consulting at Merrill Lynch, Reuters Instinet, KPMG, Epiphany, Staples, Verizon Wireless, NBA, Campbell Soup, Guardian Life Insurance, ZS Associates, Sanofi Aventis, Bristol Myers Squibb, IBM, and TCS. He has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bob Marshall co-founded AWS Convergence Technologies, owner and operator of the WeatherBug brand, in 1993 and currently serves as company President and CEO. Marshall pioneered the networking of weather instrumentation and cameras using the Internet-parlaying this capability into the single, largest network of weather stations and Internet cameras and one of the largest private weather companies in the world.

Under Marshall’s leadership, WeatherBug formed a strategic public/private partnership with NOAA’s National Weather Service, whereby the federal government relies on WeatherBug data for mission critical severe weather alerting and homeland security response. WeatherBug’s professional solutions are also relied upon by more than 100 state and local government agencies, energy traders, electric utilities, schools, broadcast media partners and businesses. Additionally, WeatherBug is a leading digital media property as the number one provider of weather on mobile phones across all US carriers and a top four news and information site on the Web with more than 16 million monthly unique users, as reported by comScore Media Metrix – November 2007.

Prior to launching AWS, Marshall served as a program manager and lead engineer at BBN (formerly Bolt, Beranek and Newman, the company credited with starting the Internet) on a number of advanced military sensor, signal processing and networking programs.

Marshall is a cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, College of Engineering.

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.

Bruce Molloy’s visionary leadership has helped grow multiple companies, resulting in many award-winning products. As a recognized authority in Knowledge Management, he has been featured in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal and Barron’s.

As CEO of Connotate Technologies, Mr. Molloy has brought the company from a promising technology to a high-growth market leader. Having secured strategic investment from Goldman Sachs, Connotate is growing at more than 300% a year, boasting market leading customers in finance, publishing and government.

An experienced entrepreneur, Mr. Molloy has served as CEO and board member of several technology companies. One of his companies, The Molloy Group, merged with ServiceWare Technologies and completed a successful IPO. Mr. Molloy holds a B.A. in Physics and Music from Columbia University.

Renny Monaghan is responsible for the delivery of salesforce.com’s award-winning Software-as-a-Service solutions for the Financial Services industry. In this role, Monaghan works closely with the over 1,600 financial services organizations around the world that have standardized on Salesforce, and evangelizes the transformation that Software-as-a-Service is having on client relationships. Monaghan led the recent launch of Salesforce Wealth Management Edition, the next generation financial services desktop, to wide industry acclaim. As salesforce.com’s resident financial services industry expert, Monaghan has an in-depth understanding of the issues financial services firms face and how Web 2.0 technology is revolutionizing the industry.

Monaghan’s background includes leadership roles in managing financial services solutions at Oracle Corp, Siebel Systems Inc, and Janna Systems Inc.

Brian O’Keefe is Director of Product Management at Panopticon Software. He leads cross-functional teams involving engineering, QA, usability, marketing, sales, and support group to help develop and launch new products. Brian has over 20 years of experience in financial services and in selling software and services to financial institutions and other firms. Before joining Panopticon, O’Keefe was Director of Financial Analytics of TIBCO Software, Inc. He has managed an institutional portfolio at Putnam Investments where he also traded foreign currencies, futures, bonds, equities and derivatives. In addition, Brian held positions as Director of Sales at a leading alternative trading system (ATS) company and Director of Sales at a Direct Market Access (DMA) electronic broker. He brings a wealth of knowledge and skill his broad experience spans proprietary trading within banks to selling software and services to financial institutions.

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.

Sean Park is a leading independent thinker on the future of financial markets, the author of The Park Paradigm, and the founding partner of Sixth Paradigm LLP, a new advisory and investment firm focusing on the intersection of financial services and technology, organized around the central theme of a new industry paradigm driven by accelerating technological change and the impact of changing social and cultural trends. These include demographic change, globalization and deregulation.

Sean is also a founding investor in innovative companies such as Betfair, WeatherBill, and seedcamp and has extensive experience investing in and advising start-up and high growth companies in addition to over 16 years of experience working at a senior level in capital markets and investment banking. Building businesses has been a key theme throughout his career.

Prior to founding Sixth Paradigm LLP in 2007, Sean worked at Dresdner Kleinwort’s London office as Managing Director and Head of Digital Markets; a business division created in 2005 to develop, deploy and operate a complete suite of electronic/web-based trading, execution and analytical services across the full spectrum of capital markets and investment banking products. He was also a member of the Capital Markets Management Committee.

Sean joined Dresdner Kleinwort in 2000, where he held a series of senior positions in the Credit business including Head of Credit Flow Products. Prior to this, he held several positions such as Head of the European Bond Syndicate at BNP Paribas, having previously traded Ecu eurobonds and French government bonds, and was directly involved in most of the inaugural benchmark bond issues that laid the foundations of the Euro Capital Markets.

He is also a former board Director (and past Chairman) of International Index Company (provider of the iBoxx bond, iTraxx credit derivative and the iBoxxFX currency indices) and a founding Director of Markit Group (the leading industry source for asset valuation data and services supporting independent price verification and risk management in global financial and energy markets.)

Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Sean has a BSc in Materials Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is now based in London.

Robert Passarella has spent over 18-years on Wall Street in the gray zone between business and technology. Rob has always focused on leveraging technology and innovative information sources to empower Equity Research and serve clients. A veteran of Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and Bear Stearns; he has seen the transformational challenges first hand, up close, and personal.

Always intrigued by the consumption and use of information for investment analysis, Rob is passionate about leveraging alternative data and news provided by the Internet for investment analysis. Robert holds a BBA in Finance from Baruch College and an MBA from the Columbia Business School.

Kevin Pomplun is the founder and CEO of SkyGrid. Established in 2005, SkyGrid is an innovative financial platform for hedge fund managers, portfolio fund managers, and research analysts. SkyGrid delivers real-time access to thousands of sources of relevant corporate news – and millions of Internet sources – to surface accurate, rich, and immediate market Sentiment. Kevin is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company. He also leads the design of the SkyGrid platform and the development of its core technology and operating infrastructure.

JP Rangaswami is the Managing Director, Service Design for BT Design – BT Group’s IT design and delivery business. It has total responsibility for designing, building and implementing the IT and business processes, systems, networks (non-Openreach) and technologies. JP is responsible for group operations as well as enterprise management platforms and web technologies. He has extensive international experience and is passionate about delivering outstanding end-to-end customer experience. He has a record for innovation and collaboration that underpins his customer-focused delivery of major global programmes. JP joined BT from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he served as Global CIO demonstrating recognised market leadership in the use of innovative tools and techniques. He is a compelling advocate for community-based “opensource” development methods and practices. He is a fervent blogger (www.confusedofcalcutta.com) and a regular speaker at industry events, particularly on innovation and opensource. He was named CIO of the Year by Waters Magazine in 2003, CIO Innovator of the Year by the European Technology Forum in 2004 and is named as one of the top 10 CIOs in silicon.com’s CIO50 list for 2007. He is an Advisory Board member of CAL-IT and a Charter Member of TiE UK, along with memberships of the IoD, the ACM and the IEEE. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). JP is also a Freeman of the Information Technologists Company (a London City Livery Company, also known as the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists).

A frequent commentator on CNBC, Barry L. Ritholtz is a weekly guest on Kudlow & Company. He has guest-hosted Squawk Box on numerous occasions, and also appears regularly on Bloomberg, Fox, and PBS¹. Mr. Ritholtz was profiled in the Wall Street Journal’s Quite Contrary column (August 3, 2004; Page C3). His market perspectives are quoted regularly in the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortunes, and other print media².

He is deeply honored to be the dedicatee of the The 2007 Stock Trader’s Almanac’s 40th Anniversary edition.

Mr. Ritholtz is the author of the popular “Apprenticed Investor” columns at TheStreet.com, a series geared towards educating novice and intermediate investors. Mr. Ritholtz also publishes more formal analyses, often at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, or RealMoney.com3.

Recently, Mr. Ritholtz was Chief Market Strategist for Maxim Group a New York Investment bank, managing over $5 Billion in clients assets. Applying his model to the broader investing environment, Mr. Ritholtz wrote weekly Market Commentary for the firm’s brokers and institutional clientele. His research and investment commentary is now available to the investing public at Ritholtz Research & Analytics.

Beyond the weekly commentary and published articles, Mr. Ritholtz also authors The Big Picture—a top-ranked financial weblog. The Big Picture covers Investing & Trading to Macro Economics, and everything else in between. The blog has quickly amassed over 11 million visitors.

Media accolades have poured in for The Big Picture from the NYT (“Trenchant economic commentary”) and the WSJ (“What the In-Crowd Knows). The Journal cited The Big Picture as the Economic “Blog Insiders Read to Stay Current;” Business Week noted its “insightful calls on the direction of the stock market” (Blogging For Dollars). CNBC’s Larry Kudlow described it as “very helpful and addictive—the best stock market blog there is.” Numerous traffic sites rank The Big Picture as the most trafficked Markets/Economic’s blog on the web.

Ritholtz’ longstanding interest in media and technology led him to Burst.com, a publicly traded software firm focusing on faster-than-real-time audio and video streaming over the internet. He has served on the firm’s Board of Directors for the past 4 years. His expertise in digital media has led top tier Newspapers and Magazines to consult with him on the development of their online strategies.

Hailed as a “bright and savvy fellow” by Alan Abelson’s Up and Down Wall Street column (Barron’s), he is one of handful of Strategists who participate in BusinessWeek’s annual market forecast. He teaches a course on The Economy of America for New York University’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies.

Mr. Ritholtz performed his graduate studies at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, where he focused on Economics, Anti-Trust and Corporate Law. He was a member of the Law Review, and graduated Cum Laude with a 3.56 GPA.

His undergraduate work was at Stony Brook University, where on a Regents Scholarship, he focused on Mathematics and Physics, graduating with an Associates degree in Political Science. He was a member of the Stony Brook Equestrian Team, and competed successfully in the National Championships (1981) of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association. In addition to writing the National Affairs column for the campus weekly (The Stony Brook Press), he was elected Vice-President of the student body.

When not bemoaning the New York Knicks’ all-too-frequent offensive lapses, Mr. Ritholtz is a vintage sports car enthusiast. He and his wife Wendy, an artist and teacher, and their hairy dog Max, live on the North Shore of Long Island, New York.

Cathleen M. Rittereiser is an alternative investment sales and marketing executive focused on the institutional investor market, particularly foundations and endowments. Cathleen has held sales, marketing and client relationship management positions at leading financial services and investment firms. Her experience includes her current role as Vice President, Marketing for Alternative Asset Managers, LP (AAM) an independent investment boutique specializing in emerging hedge fund managers. Before joining AAM, she handled business development for Symphony Asset Management, an alternative asset management firm owned by Nuveen Investments. Previously, Cathleen marketed financial information and technology services and began her career at Merrill Lynch. Cathleen is the co-author with Larry Kochard, the Chief Investment Officer of the Georgetown University endowment, of Foundation and Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions to be published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in December 2007. An accomplished public speaker, Cathleen has participated in investment industry conference panels throughout her career on topics ranging from securities valuation to the impact of technology in financial services and has broad knowledge of digital media, social networking and Web 2.0 technology. Cathleen received an AB from Franklin and Marshall College and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She lives in New York City.

Nouriel Roubini is Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University and Co-Founder and Chairman of RGE Monitor, a web-based economic and geo-strategic information service and economic consultancy. He is a senior academic researcher in the field of international macroeconomics; he has also had broad policy experience in a number of positions in the U.S. government and his views are regularly and widely cited in the press and media. He is a frequent commentator on global economic issues and his global economics Web site (www.rgemonitor.com) has been ranked as the #1 web site in Economics in the world (The Economist magazine, 1999). Professor Roubini received his undergraduate degree at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1988. Before joining Stern, from 1988 to 1995 he was a faculty member of the Economics Department at Yale University. On the policy side, he was the Senior Economist for International Affairs at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 1998-1999; then, the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs and the Director of the Office of Policy Development and Review at the U.S. Treasury Department in 1999-2000; in those positions he worked, among other issues, on the resolution of the Asian and global financial crises of 1997-1998 and the reform of the international financial architecture after these crises. He has been a regular visitor and consultant to the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and other public and private institutions. He had had and maintains frequent contacts with policy officials from around the world, senior private financial sector professionals and a wide range of scholars and researchers in academia and non-academic research institutions. He has published over 70 theoretical and empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues, Europe and the Unites States’ economy, the Asian and global financial crisis, emerging markets, the reform of the international financial system and global economic imbalances. He is the co-author (with Alberto Alesina) of the book “Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence” (M.I.T. Press, 1997). His new book (co-authored with Brad Setser) “Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets” was published by the Institute for International Economics in August 2004. The book – a seminal contribution to the field – studies the currency, financial and sovereign debt crises in emerging markets in the last decade (Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Pakistan, Ukraine, etc.) and their resolution via policy adjustment, official/IMF “bail-out” packages and private sector involvement (“bail-ins”) in crisis resolution.

Alexander Saint-Amand is President and Chief Executive Officer at Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG). Before joining GLG at its inception, he worked for Bloomberg in New York and Frankfurt. Alexander is a graduate of the University of Virginia.

Rick is known as one of the foremost airfare experts in the industry. Reuters News, The Associated Press, & Bloomberg regularly publish Farecompare.com (his website) airfare pricing data along with Rick’s expert analysis.

Wall Street Journal partnered with Farecompare.com to publish it’s popular weekly Wall Street Journal/Farecompare.com Business Travel Index, & Portfolio magazine featured how airline industry stock analysts use Farecompare pricing data to predict stock prices.

His popular new generation air travel website, (FareCompare.com, a free service to consumers), combines powerful new technology, with expert advice and insider tips to empower consumers with information to make the best airfare buying decision. FareCompare proprietary software rapidly processes massive amounts of complex airfare data, directly from the airlines, and delivers the new airfare pricing to consumers, hours before it shows up anywhere else (including the most well known sites and even the airline websites).

Farecompare.com not only helps travelers find airfare deals, but also provides important news to consumers about air travel issues. On October 4th, 2007, CBS Evening News broadcast an interview with Rick, along with Farecompare data, alerting the national television audience about which cities to avoid flying through on Thanksgiving, due to likely delays and cancellations. The New York Times published an article headlined “Flying for the Holidays? Brace Yourself” featuring Rick’s interview & data about Thanksgiving air travel, which became one of the NY Times ‘most emailed’ of the week.

Rick’s latest passion (besides making sure consumers never overpay for airfare again) is helping airline passengers learn about their rights, and working to improve customer service issues. Follow what Rick is doing daily on his new blog at www.RickSeaney.com and email him at rick.seaney@farecompare.com.

Rick received his degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas where he studied Mathematics and Computer Science. He was hired by Mobil Oil, while still going to college, to run their computer system and became a consultant to the company upon graduation.

During the 1980’s, Rick was deeply involved with high-end computing technology that processed and mined huge quantities of oil and gas exploration data.

In the late 1990’s, he decided to get into Internet technologies and move away from the oil and gas industry, and in 1999, Rick founded XXI Technologies (21st Century Technologies).

During 2001, XXI Technologies began building a system for dynamic travel packaging. By 2004, FareCompare L.P. was established for building proprietary software to process airfare information, and in 2006, FareCompare.com, the present consumer airfare website debuted on the Internet.

Travel + Leisure just named Farecompare.com in it’s top 25 travel websites, Daily Candy, in one if it’s email tips praised the website in dazzling report about Farecompare.com finding cheap First Class Airline Tickets.

Dr. John Seo is Co-Founder and Managing Principal at Fermat Capital Management, LLC. Based in Westport, Connecticut, Fermat Capital manages over $2 billion in catastrophe bond investments, making it one of the leading catastrophe bond investors in the world. Prior to forming Fermat Capital with his brother Nelson in August of 2001, John was Senior Trader in the Insurance Products Group at Lehman Brothers, an officer of Lehman Re, and a state-appointed advisor to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. John received a B.S. in physics from the M.I.T. in 1988 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1991.

Prior to creating Wikinvest, Mike was an advisor and consultant to many internet and mobile startups and held key positions at Amazon.com where he launched and ran the Amazon Visa Card business, headed up product development in the Global Payments team, led a technology team focused on building new strategic partnerships and initiatives, and built sophisticated fraud detection models. He received a BA in Applied Math and a MS in Computer Science, both from Harvard University.

Adam Siegel is a co-founder and the CEO of Inkling Markets, a Chicago-based prediction market company that helps organizations and individuals tap into the collective wisdom of their employees, peers, and customers to improve forecasting processes, predict key corporate metrics, identify promising future innovations, and forge new communication and collaboration channels. Previously, Adam worked at Accenture, a global consulting firm where he served over a dozen clients across multiple industries. Adam holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Indiana University.

Mike has built a career creating software that transforms inscrutable data into compelling, actionable information. He co-founded Altos Research in 2005 and, as CEO, has built the company into the premier resource for real-time real estate market analytics (because real estate information is notoriously inscrutable and highly latent.) The company’s information products serve investors, derivatives traders, and thousands of real estate professionals. Mike’s insights on information technology and the real estate market are widely sought, including recent commentary on /Bloomberg Television/ and in the /New York Times/. Prior to founding Altos, Mike was vice president of marketing and product management for network security systems vendor Nevis Networks where has a patent pending for applied data cryptography. For more information see: www.altosresearch.com

Steven Skiena is Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He is the author of four books, including “The Algorithm Design Manual” and “Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win”. His research interests include the design of graph, string, and geometric algorithms, and their applications. His recent work revolves around trend analysis for news and blogs (www.textmap.com). He is a Fulbright scholar, ONR Young Investigator Award winner, and recipient of the IEEE Computer Science Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Fred Speckeen is partner, President and CEO of Advanced Economic Research Systems Inc (AERS). AERS mines and monetizes the world’s largest e-commerce platform and is growing to include others. “E-commerce data is as real-time as it gets, and as e-commerce transaction data grows in proportion to the sum of total commercial transactions, these data are being transformed from merely descriptive to increasingly predictive”. AERS serves a wide variety of clients, including the financial asset management sector, with daily-updated, deep and broad sector and brand intelligence. Fred and CTO Andrew Sukow will debut AERS’s latest product, SectorView at Money:Tech.

Steve G. Steinberg (steve at steinberg.org), principal of Steinberg Consulting, is currently retained by a New York investment firm where he acts as a technology trend-spotter. He also founded and led the fund’s quantitative research group, created their online portfolio system, and assisted on many other projects. Mr. Steinberg graduated from UC Berkeley with a master’s degree in computer science and worked as an embedded software developer in Santa Barbara and Tokyo. He has extensive experience in computer security, from membership in the notoriously exclusive Legion of Doom as a teenager, to founding the penetration testing lab at a “big-four” consulting firm in 1992. Steve has also written about technology for the Los Angeles Times, The Industry Standard, and Wired, including the seminal “Netheads vs. Bellheads” essay (Wired 4.10, 1996).

Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a co-architect of the Aurora/Borealis stream processing engine as well as the C-Store column-oriented DBMS. He is the founder of four venture-capital backed startups, which commercialized these prototypes. Presently he serves as Chief Technology Officer of StreamBase Systems, Inc., which is commercializing Aurora/Borealis and Vertica, which is commercializing C-Store.

Professor Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on data base technology, operating systems and the architecture of system software services. He was awarded the ACM System Software Award in 1992, for his work on INGRES. Additionally, he was awarded the first annual Innovation award by the ACM SIGMOD special interest group in 1994, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann award in 2005, and is presently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at M.I.T., where he is working on a variety of future-generation data-oriented projects.

Larry Tabb is founder and CEO of TABB Group, the financial markets’ research and strategic advisory firm focused exclusively on capital markets. Founded in 2003 and based on the interview-based research methodology of “first-person knowledge” he developed, TABB Group analyzes and quantifies the investing value chain from the fiduciary, investment manager, broker, exchange and custodian, helping senior business leaders gain a truer understanding of financial markets issues.

Before founding TABB Group, he was vice president of TowerGroup’s Securities & Investments practice where he managed research across the capital markets, investment management, retail brokerage and wealth management segments. As the founding member of TowerGroup’s securities and investments business, he was instrumental in growing the business into a global brand representing over 150 research clients around the world.

Quoted extensively and in virtually all industry and general news publications, he has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Associated Press, The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, Dow Jones News, Barron’s, Forbes, Business Week, Financial News, Wall Street & Technology, Securities Industry News, Waters, Global Investment Technology, Computerworld, eWEEK, American Banker, The Banker, Lipper HedgeWorld, Hedge Fund Review and Wall Street Letter. He continues to be a featured speaker at major industry and business conferences throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Canada.

Prior to joining TowerGroup, he managed business analysis for Lehman Brothers’ Trading Services Division and was responsible for overseeing the specification, testing and implementation of dozens of major systems during his tenure. He also led capital markets technology planning at Lehman Brothers where he developed one- and three-year technology plans from 1988 through 1992. He began his financial markets career managing various operations for the North American Investment Bank of Citibank, including front office trading and finance operations, back-office money market operations and, for US Treasury debt, proprietary trading clearance and settlement operations.

Finbar Taggit is an anonymous blogger who comments daily on the global Hedge Fund industry via fintag.com. He works in Mayfair, London and has many years Investment Banking and Hedge Fund experience. His irreverent views are often cited in the mainstream media and his mission is to understand why downloading Yahoo market price data is faster than Bloomberg.

Rikki Tahta has held a number of senior roles in Finance and Information Services. Previous start-ups include ARK Information (acquired by Thomson Financial), WebTrack (acquired by Jupiter Communications – later public on NASDAQ), Steelhead Systems (acquired by Merrill Lynch) and Bookpages (acquired by Amazon.com). Other positions include Chase Capital Partners (private equity) and Thomson Financial (Securities Data Corporation). Rikki lives in New York and loves fishing.

A self-confessed data geek, Bill is the general manager of global research at Hitwise, the world’s leading online competitive intelligence services. Bill and his team of analysts are widely quoted throughout the industry on the latest Internet trends. Bill appears as a frequent guest on CNBC, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times the Washington Post and USAToday on topics ranging from the state of e-commerce to predicting American Idol winners using search term research. Bill also writes a weekly column for Time Magazine (Time.com) entitled The Science of Search.

George Tsiolis is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and the Founder of AGORACOM, a second-generation financial community that has successfully eliminated epidemic levels of spam, bashing and profanity that plagued first-generation communities.

George accomplished this by rejecting the traditional advertising model, which sacrifices quality for page views. Rather, he created an ASP model for public companies to create a community of shareholders, as well as a wiki-powered “freemium” model for shareholders of non-clients.

The results have crushed the status quo model for financial discussion forums. AGORACOM is generating 7-digit revenues and 6-digit profits from over 80 clients. Most importantly, both public companies and individual investors are extremely happy. Currently, approximately 120,000 unique visitors read 10,000,000 + pages of information every month.

George will be presenting this model at Money:Tech as the future of online financial discussion.

Martin Wattenberg is the manager of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, whose research focuses on new forms of data visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. The lab’s latest project is Many Eyes (http://www.many-eyes.com), an experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis. Prior to joining IBM, Wattenberg was the Director of Research and Development at SmartMoney.com, where he designed internet-based financial software. His work at SmartMoney included the groundbreaking Map of the Market, which visualizes live data on hundreds of publicly traded companies. Wattenberg is also known for his visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.

Devin Wenig is the Chief Executive Officer of the Markets Division of Thomson Reuters. He leads the global financial services and media businesses, which provide indispensible information to professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets.

Previously, Mr. Wenig served as Chief Operating Officer and a Board Director of Reuters Group PLC and held a number of senior management positions. Mr. Wenig first joined Reuters in 1993.

Mr. Wenig is a director of Nastech Pharmaceutical Company, one of the first American biotechnology companies, the March of Dimes charity, and FXMarketSpace, a Reuters joint venture with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He is also a Member of the Young Global Leaders section of the World Economic Forum.

Mr. Wenig received a B.A. from Union College and received a J.D. from Columbia University Law School.

Randall Winn is co-head of Capital IQ, where he was co-Managing Principal and director prior to its sale to McGraw Hill. Randall, together with Steve Turner, jointly oversees all of the sales, technology, product development, data collection, strategic development, and corporate activities of Capital IQ, with a total staff of approximately 3,000 worldwide.

Prior to Capital IQ, Randy was a principal at Saunders Karp & Megrue LLC., a middle-market private equity investment firm which managed over $1.7 billion. While at Saunders Karp, Randall was on the board of and actively involved in investments in Targus Group International, Inc., Accessory Network Group and Hartford Computer Group, Inc.

Before joining Saunders Karp, Randall was at Goldman Sachs & Co. working first in Corporate Finance and then in the Principal Investment Area. While in the Principal Investment Area Randall was actively involved in investments in Westin Hotels, Paz Oil and Claridge Israel.

Randall received an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University with a certificate in East Asian Studies.

Justin Wolfers is an assistant professor of economics in the Business and Public Policy Department at the Wharton School. He is a visiting scholar with the San Francisco Federal Reserve, a Research Fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, and a research affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and an economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia. Dr. Wolfers earned his Ph.D. in economics in June 2001 from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright, Knox and Menzies Scholar and a fellow with the MacArthur Network on Inequality and Social Interactions. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics his native Australia at the University of Sydney in 1994, winning the University Medal.

Professor Wolfers is a leading academic expert on prediction markets, but also does research in labor economics, macroeconomics, law and economics, social policy and behavioral economics. Beyond research, he is a popular MBA teacher, a columnist with the Wall Street Journal and a frequent contributor to the public debate.