Meet the Executive
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IPUG Chairman UBS Tel: 0207 567 5026 Deborah is a recognised market data professional within the financial services industry. She has directed and influenced the delivery of strategic business critical solutions in international organisations for both vendor and financial institutions for a number of years. She started her career as an industrial placement in Open Systems at Reuters before moving into a variety of roles in support, sales, marketing, sourcing and technical teams on the vendor side. These roles have included Global Datafeeds Product Manager and European Technical Analysis Marketing Manager. Deborah then switched to working for buy/sell side institutions and has held a variety of global roles in market data for programme management and business analysis as well as Global Head of Market Data at Barclays Capital. Currently she is at UBS working in Supply & Demand Management and became the IPUG Chairman in July 2011. |
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Credit Suisse Group Tel: 020 7888 7478 Justin is currently the Sourcing Manager for Market Data and Trade Related Services at Credit Suisse Group, globally. Since joining Credit Suisse in 2001, Justin has held a number of roles managing Market Data Business Analyst and Commercial teams. Justin has been involved in the Market Data industry for a number of years and prior to Credit Suisse, Justin fulfilled a number of related roles at firms such as Deutsche Bank and Lloyd TSB Treasury. Justin began his career at Merrill Lynch as an Information Associate. |
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UBS Tel: 07830 254 580 In December 2008, David joined UBS AG and is Director in Market Data & Commissions Global Sourcing. He was previously Head of Procurement & Cost Control at Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets Europe from May to Nov 2008. From 2006 to 2008 he was Global Head of Market Data at Barclays Capital. From 2001 to 2006 he was Global Head of Market Data for Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. He first worked there as Head of Supplier Management for Market Data Services. From 1993 to 2001, David worked for Morgan Stanley, first in the Fixed Income, Commodities and FX department, where he held Sales and Trading posts around Europe. He later worked in their Market Data and Technology department in London. He is Executive Committee member at FISD, IPUG and COSSIOM. He is also FISD Co-Chair of the Consumer Constituent Group. David earned a “Diplomkaufman” in Berlin and a “Diplome des Grandes Ecoles” degree in Paris. |
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IPUG Website Lead BNP Paribas John Ikel has been working in the investment banking sector since the start of 1998, where he started in IT support, before moving into market data analysis and project management in 2002. He assumed global responsibility for market data compliance shortly after as well as the management of market data audits within EMEA. Since that time he worked for several investment banks with global responsibility for both the global management of market data compliance as well as market data audits. He has also spoken on the subject at industry events such as COSSIOM. |
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Markit Lead BNP Paribas Tel: 020 7595 2470 Meg graduated with a degree in English and Theology from the University of |
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BNP Paribas Tel: 020 7595 6357 Ian has been working in the market data arena for over 25 years, having worked for a number of tier 1 and tier 2 banks, as well as spending a few years as a consultant in the City. Over the past 6 years he has specialised in management and procurement roles, within market data. |
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Scottish Regional IPUG
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Scottish Regional IPUG Co-Chair Standard Life Investments Graham is based in Edinburgh and has worked at Standard Life Investments Limited for 10 years as their Manager of Global Information Services and Market Data. His areas of expertise include vendor management & negotiations, market data compliance and guidance, and advising on legal and commercial aspects of vendor licenses. Before 2001, Graham was Managing Director and Senior Consultant at Screen Consultants (Scotland) Limited for over two years. Prior to this, Graham worked for Bridge Information Systems as the Scottish and Irish Sales Manager. He started his career at Wood Mackenzie & Co. (Stockbrokers). Graham has been involved with IPUG for 10 years and was Chairman of the group from July 2009 to July 2011. In his spare time, he enjoys motorcycling and scuba diving. |
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APAC Regional IPUG
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APAC Regional IPUG Co-Chair Standard Chartered Bank Globally responsible for Market Data Services and low latency infrastructure at Standard Chartered Bank, Jeremy has 15 years of experience managing and engineering market data and order execution infrastructure. Current projects include delivering "Market Data as a Service": an innovative approach to market data operations and associated costs transforming global management expenses into direct, on-demand pricing; "Data unbundling", the uncoupling of data components from consolidated data vendors and efficient infrastructure re-engineering. Previous roles have included Information Security audit, six years as a market data engineering Lead with Goldman Sachs Japan, regional market data management with Lehman Brothers Japan, Head of Prime Services and Electronic Trading infrastructure for Mizuho Securities, Japan.
APAC Regional IPUG Co-Chair Macquarie Group Email: martin.finniss@ipug.org Martin is currently with Macquarie Group as an Associate Director, Vendor Relationships and strategy, Market Services. 20 plus years experience in Market Data. Martin joined Reuters (now Thomson Reuters) in 1986 as a field service engineer after serving as an Engineer in the Royal Australian Air Force. Martin held various technical roles over the proceeding 10 years leaving as Technical Service Manager. Since then Martin held various Market Data and Trade Floor Technology roles in Westpac, Citigroup, and Salomon Smith Barney. There were also brief stints in Recruitment and Options Trading. Current area of expertise includes Vendor Management & Negotiations, Data strategy and compliance/Audit. |
IPUG Staff
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IPUG Coordinator IPUG Michaela joined IPUG in early 2011 as the new coordinator. She previously worked at Nomura as a market data administrator. |
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IPUG Treasurer IPUG Martin started his professional career with Royal Insurance, moving from operational research into their investment division in 1986 just before the “Big Bang” in London’s investment market. After retiring from Royal, he joined an IT consultancy in 1998 as a Market Data Consultant and has been exclusively with Nomura International until (again) retiring in October 2009. He remains involved in market data through IPUG as a member of their Executive with a special interest in the EC case against S&P over licensing of CSB-ISINs |
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How to join the IPUG Executive Committee
The executive welcomes applications for the executive from any member who believes that they can contribute expertise or skills in an area which will add value for general membership.
Volunteers should recognise that acceptance on to the committee will entail:
- A commitment of at least one and a half days of their time a month to dealing with IPUG issues. Your employing firm will need to recognise and support you in this.
- A commitment to attend the monthly executive meetings (generally 2 hours in length)
- Managing one of the vendor relationships and/or Special Interest Groups on behalf of the membership
- Other ad hoc duties and tasks as assigned within an executive meeting