IPUG Chairman
Bloomberg SIG Joint-Chair

UBS
Tel:     0207 567 5026
Email:  deborah.mcadams@ipug.org
Email:  chairman@ipug.org

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.

Thomson Reuters SIG Chair

Credit Suisse Group
Tel: 020 7888 7478
Email:  justin.bush@ipug.org

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.

Cost Optimisation SIG Chair

UBS
Tel: 07830 254 580
Email:  david.berry@ipug.org

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.
Married with three children, David is a keen rugby and ice-hockey player.

Scottish Regional IPUG

Graham Downie

Scottish Regional IPUG Chair Standard Life Investments Tel: 0131 245 7309 Email:  graham.downie@ipug.org 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.

APAC Regional IPUG

This new regional sister group has just been formed and is being driven Jeremy Green @ SCB and Dara Lyne @ Macquarie until a proper Asia IPUG Exec can be formed.  Details will be posted as soon as a formal structure is announced.

IPUG Staff

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