CONFERENCE DAY 2016

Chris Corrado was appointed London Stock Exchange Group COO / CIO in November 2015. From 2013 Chris was Managing Director at MSCI, CIO/CTO, responsible for technology, data services and program management. Chris has more than thirty years of global experience in managing technology platforms and transformational change in the financial services industry. Prior to joining MSCI, Chris held a variety of senior CTO roles in leading banks, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and UBS. He has also worked for high growth technology companies as CTO at eBay, CIO at AT&T Wireless, and SVP of Technology, Strategic Initiatives and Business Architecture at Asurion, the mobile technology protection company. He began his career at IBM. He graduated with a B.S. in Management Information Systems & Business Administration from the University of New York at Albany.

Sergei Poliakoff is the Chief Information Officer and the Executive Board member of Moscow Exchange. Before joining Moscow Exchange, Sergei was based in New York, where he held senior management positions at AQS Financial Markets, Deutsche Bank, NatWest Securities and Morgan Stanley. He received a BS in Computer Science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, and an MS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.

Dave Cliff is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol where he is also Head of the Merchant Venturers School of Engineering (comprising the University's departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Engineering Mathematics). He previously held professorial positions at the Universty of Southampton in the UK and at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, USA. Cliff also spent seven years working in the industry, initially for Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and later for Deutsche Bank. At HP and then at Deutsche, Cliff worked on cutting-edge adaptive automated trading systems for the global financial markets, a field he pioneered in, in the mid-1990s. From 2010-2012 Cliff was a member of the eight-person expert panel on the UK Government's "Foresight" investigation into the future of computer trading in financial markets. More recently, he served as a panel member of the UK Government's Blackett Review into UK’s FinTech.

Sandra is Deutsche Boerse's market microstructure expert and currently leading MiFID II implementation project for Deutsche Boerse’s cash market. She first joined the industry in 2003 as a graduate trainee at Deutsche Bank and worked as an investment manager in Private Wealth Management. In 2006 she moved on to Deutsche Boerse where she helped firms to raise capital through the primary markets and played a key role in the development of Deutsche Boerse's segment for small and medium sized companies (Entry Standard). In 2010 she joined the London office as a relationship manager where she was looking after major trading participants in the UK and Scandinavia and responsible for business related projects. Since 2012 Sandra has been instrumental in the firm's responses on several regulatory issues (e.g. MiFID II, Financial Transaction Tax, HFT, ESMA guidelines etc.). Sandra also played a vital role in the successful implementation of the German High Frequency Trading Act.

Michael Jaeggi is in charge of the IT of the Stuttgart Stock exchange. He was responsible for the successful and seamless migration of Boerse Stuttgart’s new trading system Xitaro which went live on 28 September 2015. Prior to joining Boerse Stuttgart in 2014, the Swiss-born father of two held C-level management positions with virt-x PLC in London and Clearstream International S.A. in Luxembourg. Furthermore, he was involved in the creation of a number of standards as the Chairman of the ST400 User Group Switzerland and the FESE Clearing and Settlement Taskforce. In the late 80’s he started a career as a project manager and director in the area of global risk management and business securities. Michael Jaeggi was involved in the implementation of seven automated exchange systems. In the early stages of his professional career, Michael Jaeggi worked as an exchange trader, both on the Zürich Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.

Dr. Matthias Burghardt is head of Business Development at Boerse Stuttgart. He is responsible for the future development of the system and the strategic provider management. In the implementation project for Xitaro, Boerse Stuttgart's new trading system, he was responsible for Stakeholder Management, Functional Design and Test & Acceptance. The Go-Live of the new system took place on 28 September 2015. Matthias has been with Boerse Stuttgart for more than 10 years. He holds a Master degree in Management from New Jersey Institute of Technology, a Diplom in Information Engineering and Management as well as a PhD in Business and Economics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Iosif is co-founder of Exactpro and has remained its Co-CEO after its acquisition by LSEG in May 2015. Iosif started his professional career as a software developer working on outsourcing projects for a number of US companies. In 2006, he joined a company specialising in providing Quality Assurance services for the financial industry as Head of Performance Testing and Test Automation projects done for a number of global investment banks and execution venues, including LSE Baikal. In 2009, Iosif co-founded Exactpro, an independent specialist firm focused on software testing for market infrastructures. He managed the first Exactpro project with LSEG: Turquoise migration to the MillenniumIT platform. He also created EXTENT Trading Technology Trends and Quality Assurance conference series, successfully launched by Exactpro in 2011. Iosif holds a Master of Science degree from the Theoretical Physics Department of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, graduated summa cum laude in 2001.

Neeraj Kulshrestha joined BSE as Chief Operations Officer in 2015. He is responsible for Trading (Operations and Development), Listing (Sales and Operations), Membership and IT operations. He is a member of the Executive Management Committee of BSE and is on the Boards of Indian Clearing Corporation Limited (ICCL) and Asia Index Private Limited. He has about 27 years of experience in Capital markets, which includes Securities Markets and General Insurance. Prior to BSE he was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley India for 10 years. Before that he was with the National Stock Exchange and managed various functions like Trading Operations, Inspection and Investigation, Futures and Options Clearing and Trading. He was also the CEO of India Index Services Ltd. and Dotex International Ltd. He completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Delhi University and his MBA (Finance) at Indore University.

Alexey is co-founder of Exactpro and has remained its Co-CEO of the company after its acquisition by the LSEG in May 2015. Alexey started his professional career as a software quality assurance engineer in the Moscow division of a New York based company, specialising in providing enterprise network management solutions, where Alexey was promoted to a senior software architect on several off-the-shelf products. In 2004, Alexey joined a company focusing on providing QA services for the financial industry as a senior software developer to implement a test harness for testing the back-end of a major US broker's trading system. Promoted to the role of technical project lead and senior R&D manager, Alexey then oversaw a number of successful software releases as part of several developments, as well as test automation and consulting projects for a number of the company's clients. As VP of Technology, Alexey also lead the company's work on developing several in-house products, including a back-end systems tester and an interactive exchange simulator. In 2009, Alexey co-founded Exactpro, an independent specialist firm concentrating on software testing for market infrastructures. He manages a few external accounts of Exactpro, including software quality assurance and software development work done for one of the world's largest interdealer brokers in OTC financial and commodity related products. He is also coordinating several projects on Post Trade quality assurance and related software development projects across the company. Alexey holds a Master of Science degree from the Theoretical Physics Department of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, graduated summa cum laude.

Alyona started her professional career as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for a company, providing quality assurance services for the financial industry. She delivered testing projects for deal capturing and position keeping systems, worked as a business analyst for a Collateral Management System for a large Russian investment bank, coordinated training and business user-driven transformation projects. Having joined Exactpro Systems in December 2009 as Head of Risk Management Practice, Alyona has managed several Post Trade quality assurance projects for LSEG and external clients, including SGX and CCPA. Alyona is working on scaling-up a team of software quality assurance engineers and team leads focused on risk management, clearing and settlement. Alyona holds FRM designation from GARP and a Master of Science degree from the the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty of the Moscow State University.

Claude Robitaille brings over 25 years of telecom experience to Accedian. As CTO, he leads the development of Accedian’s product architecture, engineering and technology teams, and is senior technologist. Claude began his career at EICON Technologies as part of the core engineering team, where he designed a broad Datacom access product portfolio and successfully held the positions of Product Architect, Project Manager and Team Leader. In 2000, Claude Robitaille co-founded Colubris Networks where he developed an innovative line of WiFi Access routers and successfully held the positions of Operations Manager and Director of R&D. Claude holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Montreal’s École Polytechnique in Montreal.

S.R.K. Branavan joined MillenniumIT in 1999 and has worked in various roles, from Head of Billing Products in 2003 to his current role as Chief Scientist - Machine Learning. Branavan earned his Master’s in Computer Science in 2008, and in 2012 went on to earn an award winning PhD in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on Machine Learning. He also has on-going research collaborations with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL and has multiple Best Paper awards at international Tier 1 research conferences. Together with his partners, he has a patent on techniques, applying machine learning to systems engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his current role, Branavan leads an R&D team looking at creating fundamental improvements to the software engineering process and introducing revolutionary new functionality to the next generation of MillenniumIT’s product lines via the application of Machine Learning and novel ideas nurtured via academic collaborations.

Mr. Ferdinando La Posta received his degree in electronics from Naples University in 1979 and soon joined the Olivetti operating systems group. In 1981 he became a member of the USA team responsible for designing and implementing the kernel of MOS operating system for the Olivetti L1 line products, on the file system area and the locking and recovery environment. Between 1984 to 1985 he joined the system architecture team, working on the definition of a DIP standard protocol (based on LU6.2) in ECMA TC32/TG2, whilst designing MOS operating system distributed architecture in a LAN environment. In 1985 he joined the Italtel Telematica PBX research and development group as Team Leader, in charge of all system aspects under UNIX for an integrated voice/data switching project. In January 1988, he moved to the system architecture group, as assistant to the research chief, where he worked on PBX networks sides. He also investigated the AI technology, defining and building Expert Systems for automatic features testing and PBX configuration. Ferdinando La Posta co-founded GATElab Group in 1989 with Antonio Caroselli with the vision to play a leading role in the adoption of emerging technologies to mission-critical areas such as finance. Since the early ’90s GATElab has been providing its customers, namely, exchanges, investment banks and hedge-funds, with state-of-the-art technologies in low-latency high-performance trading and information handling. The GATElab Group is now part of London Stock Exchange Group. Ferdinando has been appointed as the CEO to drive the international growth plans and to continue to expand GATElab offers in the low latency arena.

Carlo advises countries, institutions and clients on securities and financial markets, with a particular focus on the regulatory environment in the European Union and its business implications. He assists clients in addressing difficult regulatory and enforcement issues, as well as in implementing sound governance and business solutions. With a background that combines regulatory and supervisory experience, Carlo worked for 13 years with the European Securities and Market Authority and its predecessors, most recently as Acting Secretary General of the Authority, which is the EU financial regulatory institution that focuses on securities and investor protection. He also served as Secretary General of the Committee of European Securities Regulators, an ESMA predecessor. He joined the Authority in 1998, when it was known as the Forum of European Securities Commissions, and was a member of the Secretariat specializing in investor protection and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, a European Union law that provides consistent regulation for investment services across the member states of the European Economic Area. During his tenure with at the Authority, he was also stationed in 2001 and 2002 at the European Central Bank and the European Commission. Carlo began his career with the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa), working as an Officer in the intermediaries and international relations offices. He is also a certified accountant.

Gayath joined MillenniumIT in 2002, and has since worked on defining the architecture and the development of MillenniumIT’s Service Billing systems. After multiple successful projects, Gayath moved to Creative Search Technologies in 2007 to work with FAST – the Norway based enterprise search engine developer, to work on the core indexer of their flagship product FAST ESP. He was later responsible for quality assurance of all development teams at CST. With the Microsoft acquisition of FAST, Gayath went on to join the Microsoft’s Enterprise Search Group and has worked on Office 365, the cloud deployment of Microsoft Office until 2015. Having rejoined MillennumIT, Gayath now serves as an Associate Vice President in the Engineering group and is responsible for all quality aspects of the new CCP product build. He also plays a pivotal role in advancing the software development and testing methodologies at MillenniumIT. Gayath holds a BSc in Electronics and Telecom, and an MSc in Telecommunication from University of Moratuwa.

Alyona graduated as Master of Science from Automation and Electronics Faculty of the Kostroma State Technological University (KSTU) in Russia. She began her professional career as a Quality Assurance Engineer and later was given the responsibilities of a Test Lead in Exactpro. Alyona has been heading QA projects involving various technologies utilised by firms in global financial markets industry - a leading European multilateral trading facility, one of the world's largest interdealer brokers in OTC financial and commodity related products, a premier technology solutions provider, to mention a few. She has also managed testing for LSEG FPGA-accelerated Market Data Dissemination platform.

Alexey graduated from the Computer Sciences Department of the Lomonosov's Moscow State University with honors in 2001. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences on the Formal Specification and Testing of Asynchronous Systems in 2006. Alexey has worked for the Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPRAS) since 1999. His research interests include formal methods for software and hardware systems, model based testing, verification of operating systems and design of safety critical embedded systems. Alexey was the lead architect of the LSB Infrastructure program run jointly by ISPRAS and Linux Foundation. He is a director of the Linux Verification Center of ISPRAS, where a number of verification techniques are developed and applied to the Linux kernel and other real-time operating systems.

Dr. Jamie Allsop, founder and CEO of clearpool.io is passionate about market micro-structure and the role it can play in bringing better markets to all participants. He is an experienced director with a strong track record of delivering innovative solutions in highly regulated environments. At clearpool.io Jamie is leading the delivery of next generation exchange technology targeting MiFID II and emerging economies. A former lead architect and development director at the NYSE he also acted as a technical witness to SEC for the May 6 2010 Flash Crash. It was during this time he decided he could best tackle the problems found in modern markets directly, leveraging his deep technical knowledge of the domain. Along with other like-minded individuals he founded clearpool.io and hasn't looked back. Originally an engineer by background, he holds a PhD in adaptive design for high performance systems. With a history of delivering with agility he can also be found speaking at international conferences on agile development and system architecture. As a member of the BSI C++ (JTC1/SC22/WG21) ISO standards Panel he also enjoys keeping in touch with his engineering roots helping to shape one of the most important and widely used development languages in play today in finance.

Duncan has over 20 years experience in the software industry, with 16 years directly involved in Test Automation. He graduated with honours in Computer Science at the University of Warwick, England, going on to start his career as a software developer in IBM’s UK Research and Development centre in Hursley Park. From IBM he joined a rapidly expanding test consultancy in an automation consultancy role where he was instrumental in delivering projects for blue chip organisations across a wide range of industry sectors, eventually going on to lead the automation practice for the UK. With this experience he went on to co-found Odin Technology, an innovative test automation software company based in the UK. Odin has gone on to provide its test automation platform to over 100 clients across the globe, counting major financial institutions and global systems integrators amongst their clients. He currently holds the post of Technical Director, responsible for the company’s product development, support and pre-sales functions.

Alex has over 5 years of experience in trading platform development. He joined PFSOFT team and started his professional career as a Quality Assurance Engineer in 2010, after graduating from Dnipropetrovsk National University where he obtained a Master of Computer Sciences degree. In 2010-2012 Alex was focused on software testing including execution of conformance tests with various liquidity providers, risk management testing, etc. In 2012 he pursued his career as a Technical Support Officer. Currently Alex is Head of Technical Support at PFSOFT, working on bridging the gap between software development and market requirements. He is working with company departments to identify areas where current technologies can be applied to manual or automated processes, to analyze needs and assist IT staff with systems development to meet business requirements. He also sets up and manages processes to run a multi-asset trading platform for brokerage companies and banks.

Milan is a Tradecope Department Director at Netcope Technologies, formerly FPGA department of INVEA-TECH company. He gained his experience working as a solutions architect of Tradecope, low-latency trading solution based on FPGA technology. Milan had been selected to tackle the challenge of building Tradecope even before graduating based on his academic achievements and work on research projects at Brno University of Technology, where he later received a Master's degree in Computer Science and Computer Networks.

Marina graduated as a Master of Science from the Kostroma State Technological University (KSTU) in Russia. She began her professional career at Exactpro as a Software Test Engineer. She was later promoted to a Test Lead, then to a Test Manager and after that to a Senior Test Manager leading projects in Clearing and Settlement areas. Marina is also involved in coordinating the requirements for ClearTH testing platform across QA Post Trade projects and the Exactpro software development team. ClearTH is extensively used to verify Post Trade infrastructures for customers worldwide.

Nan graduated with a Master's degree in Management Information Systems from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and is also a qualified Management Accountant. He is a senior QA Manager with over 10 years’ experience, managing large-scale end-to-end quality assurance programmes and projects for a number of tier 1 investment banking clients. Nan has in-depth knowledge of designing test strategy and managing testing processes throughout project lifecycles, operating with both waterfall and agile delivery methodologies. He also has a keen interest in the evolution and the ever-changing environment of Agile and Continuous Integration Delivery and how quality assurance is being shaped in this context.

Jake Northey is a product manager at Itiviti with 11 years of experience building and delivering custom electronic trading systems. Jake has spent the past 10 of those years focusing on messaging protocols for the electronic trading industry. In 2006, he created the first open source FAST implementation, OpenFAST. Since then he has gone on to design and lead a team of developers to build a suite of FIX certification and testing tools. Jake's custom solution experience includes developing FIX interfaces for exchanges, exchange connectors for proprietary trading firms, and backend clearing systems.

Paul joined GFT as a Principal Consultant in 2015 having had extensive experience in both line and change management roles in Investment Banking operations. Paul has a successful track record in finding intellectual solutions to business problems and implementing new technology to support new businesses, process change and delivery of cost benefit. More recently he has focused on regulatory change implementation and currently leads GFT’s MiFID II delivery programme.
Prior to GFT, Paul was a Managing Director at Barclays Capital where he was the Global Head of Equities Operations and in a career spanning more than 20 years, has previously held senior management roles in Equities and Prime Services Operations at Barclays, Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank.

Wolfgang Platz brings over 20 years of technology experience to Tricentis. Wolfgang founded Tricentis in 2008 as a testing consultancy and laid the cornerstone for the development of our enterprise software testing product, Tosca Testsuite. Today, he is responsible for global product management, R&D and delivery of product-related support and services to our customers.
Prior to Tricentis, Wolfgang was at Capgemini as a group head of IT development for one of the world’s largest IT insurance-development projects. There, he was responsible for architecture and implementation of life insurance policies and project management for several projects in banks.
Wolfgang holds a Master’s degree in Technical Physics as well as a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Technology.

Mariagrazia is the founder of Quence, an Italian company focused on SW Quality Assurance & Testing Automation and ALM for IT and Financial Markets.
After getting her Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano , Mariagrazia started her career in Agusta Helicopter where she led a SW International Engineering project dealing with SW methodologies and standards for on-board SW of a new helicopter.
She then joined SIA (SocietàInterbancaria per l’Automazione) an Italian company which implemented the RNI (Rete NazionaleInterbancaria – National Interbank Network), connecting all the financial and banking institutions to the interbank payment system. At SIA she was the enabler and leader of introducing the automated testing processes and environments into the company.
In the late 1990s she joined an Italian company specializing in consulting and SW development projects for the Telco. She started the SW Testing Business Unit, developing business opportunities for the creation of a Test Automation Solution for Messaging Systems and for effective automation testing of Service Provider’s Core Network. She was in charge of the Marketing&Sales Department dealing with complex projects and key customers. She also managed the set up of international partnerships and strategic alliances.
Mariagrazia founded Quence in 2014 with this mission in mind: providing SW Quality Assurance, SW Testing, Application Lifecycle Management methodologies, best practices and processes to face and overcome the challenges of Agile, DevOps and Time-to-Market of SW Centered businesses and companies.
She loves challenges, innovation, knowledge and cooperation.
Her motto is: “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.” (Aristotle)

George is a serial entrepreneur in technology markets. He is the founder and CEO of TestPlant, a maker of software test automation tools. It is one of the UK's fastest growing tech businesses, with The Carlyle Group becoming majority shareholders in January 2016. The company is included in the 2015 Sunday Times Tech Track 100, a Red Herring Global 100 Winner, a Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast 100, a CityA.M. Leap 100 company and a three times winner of a Queen's Award for Enterprise. TestPlant has offices in London, Berlin, Shanghai, Tokyo and in the US, San Francisco, Boulder and Philadelphia. A Bachelor of Commerce graduate from the University of Edinburgh, George served a corporate apprenticeship with Ford [on the Dagenham shop floor] before switching to the tech industry spending time with Motorola and Cable & Wireless. He has previously run businesses in the UK, Hong Kong, India, Western and Eastern Europe and in the USA. Born in Inverness, George was brought up on a farm, the eldest of six children. He has been a motor racing competitor of two and four wheels, competing in British and European sports car championships as a semi-pro driver in Lotus, Porsche and Maserati cars. He has five children and lives in North London. A trustee of the national charity Kids in Museums, he is interested in agricultural heritage projects and is also a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers.

Gherardo Lenti Capoduri is Head of Banca IMI’s Market Hub. He started his career in Financial Control, before moving into Trading at Citigroup. Here he gained extensive experience of both trading and quantitative research, and from 1999 became heavily involved in trading platforms and specializes in online trading, electronic trading platform, and institutional investors sales in both brokerage & execution. Gherardo is board member of ASSIOM FOREX and holds a degree in Business Administration and Management at Bocconi University in Milan.

Oleg Pavlikov graduated from the Applied Mathematics department, Natural Sciences faculty, Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering in 2001. He majored in Mathematical Support of Computers. Oleg joined Exactpro in 2011 when the Obninsk office was opened and started as a non-functional testing (NFT) specialist for Borsa Italiana project. Oleg is now head of NFT for FPGA-based Group Ticker Plant (GTP) project.

Ingo Philipp is on the product management team at Tricentis. In this role his responsibilities range from product development and product marketing to test management, test conception, test design, and test automation. His experiences with software testing embrace the application of agile as well as classical testing methodologies in various sectors including financial services, consumer goods, commercial services, healthcare, materials, telecommunications, and energy.

George has been involved with Quality Assurance for most of his long career, both within and outside IT and as such, he has become a respected speaker and advocate of practical quality in the industry. An early adopter of agile methods in the 1990s leading development teams, he soon became a sought after speaker on the subject when the agile tide rose and testers in particular became confused about their role in this new world. George Wilson started his career as a Naval Architect and Chartered Engineer doing inspections and plan approval of new and existing craft. In this role, long complex calculations were required in new areas such as GRP composite structures which took days to complete. He created computer programs that performed these calculations in minutes and transformed the whole design, approval and inspection process. Moving to more commercial applications, he developed systems for Plant Maintenance, Accounting, Banking, and Training Centres which were implemented around the world. Quality and innovation always played a large part of his strategy and philosophy and is reflected in his belief that quality is a team principle. A personal hate is where one group, very often a QA team, get blamed for bad quality when they are most unlikely to be the cause. He has worked as the Quality Manager in a regimented ISO 9001 environment, an approach and philosophy he has mixed feelings about. He says he thinks that he is still an engineer at heart, and that translates into making things work and getting stuff done. He postulates that perhaps this is why there are so many engineers in management, as they recognise that not everything can be absolutely perfect, but whatever it is, it does need to do a job well and be safe. - A perfectly acceptable definition of quality in his book. Since setting up Original Software with CEO Colin Armitage, his role has become ever more focused on software quality helping clients adopt technology to take a wider view of quality covering all the stages and elements including those like UAT which have been traditionally disregarded, but still account for a lot of man-hours and effort at a key time. He hates to see quality defined as a step in a process, rather than being a thread through the process - right through to helping ensure the users know how to use the delivered solution, to make it do what was needed. He coined the phrase Shift Right, not as an antidote to the current Shift Left focus, but to point out that in achieving overall quality one cannot ignore the later phases of the delivery cycle as they are likely to involve more people, more time and greater cost. In a long career combining engineering, programming, testing, training, consultancy and management he brings together and informed and balanced perspective on the industry and the challenges that lie ahead.

Anna-Maria is Marketing Director at Exactpro, responsible for business development and communications. Anna-Maria organised Tool & Methods of Program Analysis conferences in Kostroma and St. Petersburg in partnership with the leading research centres in Russia. Anna-Maria graduated from the Kostroma State Technological University (KSTU).

Pavel is a graduate of Bauman Moscow State Technical University with Master’s Degree degree in Applied Mathematics. He started his professional career in QA and finance as a Sales Manager at Russian Standard Bank. Then he worked for a quality assurance services company on Charles Schwab & Co. projects, at UBS Investment Bank, and for another leading quality assurance services provider. With over 10 years of QA experience, Pavel is an expert in test case development, functional, regression and non-functional testing, test execution and planning, project management for clients the global financial industry and has played a key role on a number of Exactpro projects.

Liubov graduated with honors from Stavropol State University in Russia with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communications. She began her professional career as a computer systems engineer and Instructor and then worked as QA engineer, QA Team Lead and QA Project Manager for a QA services company on Charles Schwab & Co. and Thomson Reuters projects. Having joined Exactpro in April 2010, Liubov has been managing post trade QA on a number of projects for one of the world's largest inter-dealer broker firms in over-the-counter financial and commodity related products.

Jeremy has been the Director of PMO for the Tradition Group since September 2010, overseeing the strategic development of the group PMO function responsible for Project and Programme Management, QA and ITSM. Before taking his role at Tradition, he was the programme lead for Turquoise Trading during its initial launch and the later acquisition by the LSE Group. Prior to his move into capital markets, Jeremy held various engineering and project roles across the automotive, defence and aerospace sectors, including a lead programme role on the iconic Airbus A380 project. He is a certified PMP project manager and intuitive business change specialist, who combines a passion for leadership, people, process and technology to deliver sustainable solutions for the future.