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Instructors: Joe Rosen, Randy Schafer and Scott Porter

Bio - Joe Rosen

Joe Rosen is a securities industry veteran with 25 years experience as an exchange executive, adviser, CIO & Quant, author, lecturer, as well as developer and marketer of electronic trading systems.  He was most recently Managing Director, Trading Technology/Head of Technology Marketing at the New York Stock Exchange, where he developed and executed an Exchange-wide initiative to promote NYSE’s trading/technology products, including a successful marketing campaign for the Hybrid Market initiative targeted at major sources of order flow and connectivity.

Previously, he was a partner for ten years at a financial technology consultancy, where he served as a strategic IT advisor, and built/deployed bespoke trading systems for a broad cross-section of international financial institutions, including global money managers, securities firms and market centers.  Prior to this he was the founding Chief Information Officer & Director of Quantitative Research for Dubin & Swieca Capital Management and Highbridge Capital, and a senior IT manager at Nomura Securities.  Before this he was a managing consultant and developer at TCAM Systems, where he developed one of the first electronic trading systems with automatic execution capabilities.

Joe has contributed in various capacities to nearly one hundred organizations across all segments of the global securities and investments industry, and has worked with scores of financial technology vendors across most functional areas.  He has lectured globally, and been widely published, including five books, among them The Handbook of Investment Technology [McGraw-Hill].  His degrees include an MBA from Columbia University in Finance, International Business and Marketing, and a Masters as well as Doctoral Candidacy in Political Science from Stony Brook University, which included concentrations in Quantitative Methods, Middle East Politics and Civil-Military Relations.

Joe serves as Adjunct Professor of Management at Polytechnic University, where he teaches a course on Management of Technology & Innovation in Financial Services [MOTIFS] in their Executive Master’s Degree Program.  His most recent book is The Handbook of Electronic Trading.

Bio - Randy Schafer

Randy Schafer is currently an independent management consulting serving clients in the financial services industry.  He has done strategy and product development work for DTCC and SWIFT among others in the capital markets.  His work has involved cash, derivatives and syndicated loans, and has involved custodians and funds administrators, dealers, fund managers, vendors and market infrastructures.

Mr. Schafer has done similar work in global cash management for Chase Manhattan Bank where he developed a global payment strategy roadmap, and helped lead the bank’s expansion into Low Value clearings outside the US, and into Micropayments with Chase’s early support of the NJ implementation of EZPassTM.

More broadly, Mr. Schafer has done consulting work for many of the leading global financial institutions in nine years at Oliver, Wyman & Company.  Mr. Schafer holds a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.