Bill Prew, COO, Founder, INDOS Financial Limited

Bill Prew is the Founder of INDOS Financial Limited, a hedge fund-related business which will formally launch during 2013. Prior to establishing INDOS in January 2013, Bill was the Chief Operating Officer of James Caird Asset Management LLP, a hedge fund manager with offices in London and New York. During his five years at JCAM, Bill was responsible for a wide range of functions, one being information technology. Bill started his career with PwC in London in 1993 and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1997. After 7 years with PwC in London and Australia, Bill spent 2 years as the Finance and Operations Director of a technology company before joining Barclays Global Investors in 2002. At BGI, Bill held senior finance and operational roles including European CFO and Head of Supplier Management.

Bob Guilbert, Managing Director, Eze Castle Integration

With more than 20 years of IT experience, Bob Guilbert is responsible for leading all of Eze Castle Integration’s marketing, partnership and product development functions. The scope of his efforts ranges from maximising the value of the company’s brand, establishing core strategic partnerships, and developing new product lines for the company. Prior to joining Eze Castle in 2005, Mr. Guilbert was vice president of business development at Virtual Iron Software, where he developed and oversaw all facets of business development and channel management. Mr. Guilbert has also held senior marketing and business development positions at Double-Take Software (formerly NSI), EMC Corporation, and Digital Equipment Corporation. He is fluent in German and graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.

Christian Jensen, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Operations, Portman Square Capital LLP
 
Christian Jensen is the Chief Technology Officer and Head of Operations at Portman Square Capital LLP. Prior to this, he was Head of Prime Services IT at HSBC building a new platform from project inception to successful delivery of an entirely new business. This followed roles as CTO for Jabre Capital Partners (2007-2009) and Head of Alternative Investments IT, Morgan Stanley (2005-2007). Prior to that Mr Jensen worked in Equity IT at Deutsche Bank in London (1997-2000) followed by a role as Head of Equities IT and Operations in Asia Pacific for Deutsche Bank (2000-2002). Mr Jensen also worked in front office and Risk IT at Morgan Stanley (1990-1997). Mr Jensen studied electronics engineering at the Technical University of Denmark

Craig Jennings, Vice President, Credit Suisse Prime Services

Craig Jennings is a Vice President within the Prime Consulting team of Credit Suisse Prime Services. Craig has over 10 years’ experience working in a number of roles with technology providers within the Hedge fund industry. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Craig was the Business Development manager at Derivation Software, a provider of Portfolio and risk management solutions to hedge funds. Previously, Craig was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, working as a technology consultant within the Prime brokerage division. Craig has also held positions at other financial software companies including Tradar, where he was Sales Director and Pertrac Financial Solutions, where he was a Senior Sales Executive. Craig holds a Bsc in Economics and Finance from Birmingham University.

Eldon Sprickerhoff, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, eSentire

With over 15 years of tactical information security experience, Eldon Sprickerhoff leads both the eSentire security research team, as well as the eSentire customer-facing team that conducts vulnerability assessments.  Mr. Sprickerhoff sets the future vision and direction for security technology within the company, defines operational security best practices, and oversees the security posture on behalf of customers.  He holds several security industry certifications and is considered to be a subject matter expert in information security analysis.  Mr. Sprickerhoff holds a B.Math. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He is a practitioner and instructor of Yoshinkan Aikido

Kunaal Mistry, Associate, Simmons & Simmons

Kunaal is an associate in the Information, Communications & Technology group at Simmons & Simmons in London. He advises clients from various sectors on a range of general commercial contracts, procurement, technology, telecoms, outsourcing, communications and information law issues. He has advised hedge funds on their ICT arrangements, including on cloud services procurements. Kunaal also has experience of advising clients on data protection issues. Kunaal has written articles and provides client training on various issues including data licensing arrangements and data protection.

Sheriff Ojugbele, Chief Technology Officer, Lucidus Capital 

Sheriff Ojugbele is the Chief Technology Officer at Lucidus Capital Partners LLP  where he is responsible for the overall strategy and vision of all aspects of Information Technology within the company. Prior to this, he worked at Caxton Europe Asset Management where he led the IT department in their London offices. Before Caxton Sheriff worked at Thales Information Systems as a consultant providing IT manager services for several investment banks and asset management companies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Systems Engineering.

Simon Eyre, Director of Service, Eze Castle Integration

Simon Eyre is director of service in the London office of Eze Castle Integration. With 15 years’ experience in the IT industry, Simon is responsible for the delivery of all services within the UK for Eze Castle Integration. His scope is both technical and non-technical – including delivery of cloud, network and storage products, client relations as well as the hiring, management and training for all IT staff. Simon is into his 10^th year with Eze Castle Integration and was instrumental in their first multi-tenant environment in New York and the opening and success of the company’s London operations. He previously worked for a Federal Business providing them with the necessary experience to transition from a UNIX to Wintel platform.Simon has lived in both US and UK and attended Rutgers and NJIT Universities for his BSc in Electrical Engineering.

Trevor Evans, Vice President, Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage

Trevor is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage and is an Infrastructure consultant within the Business consulting team. Trevor is responsible for Infrastructure consulting, providing a Virtual CTO function to Morgan Stanley Hedge Fund Clients, he has been with Morgan Stanley for 15 Years and has worked in Infrastructure consulting roles throughout the firm across most divisions. Prior to Joining Morgan Stanley, Trevor worked for a number of Investment Banks and Oil companies, project managing global IT infrastructure projects.

Vinod Paul, Managing Director, Eze Castle Integration

Leading a talented team of customer service and engineering professionals, Vinod Paul oversees all customer-facing engagements for Eze Castle Integration. Vinod joined the company in 2002, and his responsibilities include service delivery and business development for the firm. Previously, Vinod was the director of technical services for Martin Progressive, supervising a staff that supported 6,000 customers. Prior to that, he provided project management and engineering consulting services to IBM Global Services, Lucent Technologies, Tyco Submarine Systems, and Penguin Putnam Publishing. Vinod served on the Hedge Funds Care board of directors and is the founder of the New York Hedge Fund Technologists Group. He is a graduate of Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences.

Ulf Svensson, Head of Partner Program/Enterprise Product and Solutions, Bloomberg

Ulf Svensson leads Bloomberg's Partner Program within its Enterprise Products & Solutions business, where he focuses on developing relationships and integrating products with vendors, consultants and prime brokers across the financial services market.
 
Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2011, Ulf held the position of Chief Technology Officer at leading hedge funds in both Europe and the United States, including CQS and Soros Fund Management. He is based out of Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in London.

Warren Roy, CEO, Global Relay

Warren Roy is CEO and founder of Global Relay.  A life-long entrepreneur and a 20-year veteran in the information technology sector, Warren drives the overall strategic direction for Global Relay — focusing on the design and development of cloud-based messaging, collaboration and archiving solutions to address compliance requirements for the financial sector. Warren founded Global Relay in 1999 with a vision to create multi-lingual, enterprise-class messaging services.  Warren Roy was named British Columbia CEO of the Year for 2012 by Business in Vancouver Magazine.