CLEARING PANELS 2010 – Chicago EDITION

Alain Courbebaisse is chief information officer of Newedge Group. In his position, Alain provides strategic direction and leadership, and is responsible for determining the overall direction of the firm’s IT initiatives.

Alain has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry. For the past eleven years Alain has been with Newedge Group, holding such positions as chief information officer in the Paris office, chief information officer and head of IT CSTP in the London office, and global chief information officer in the Chicago office.

Rich Hulit runs Professional Services, which leverages the experience and industry knowledge of SunGard’s Brokerage and Clearance business to help firms effectively manage resource constraints and business and technology change, identify areas of inefficiency and reduce costs, and fully understand the capabilities of their systems and infrastructure. Prior to that, he provided strategic direction and leadership for SunGard’s GMI and Octagon solutions for futures and derivatives processing and accounting.

Mr. Hulit has more than 15 years of management experience in the financial services industry. Most recently, he was the chief administrative officer for Prudential's exchange traded Futures, Foreign Exchange and Base and Precious Metals sales and trading businesses. His responsibilities included operations, systems application and development, technology, client service commodity finance, operational risk management and corporate governance. He has led the rebuilding, restructuring and outsourcing of all front and back office execution, trading, clearing, settlement, credit, risk and commodity finance systems, and created and staffed a new mid-office client service and data delivery group.

At Merrill Lynch, Mr. Hulit managed the NY Futures Sales Office and had responsibility for the Futures product globally. Prior to that, he was the business manager for the Equity Options, Futures and Commodity Pool Operator businesses. He started at Merrill in Corporate Treasury, running the internal banking and cash management consultancy group.

He is also a futures broker, newsletter editor and publisher, Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and industry consultant. Lothian is the president & CEO of John J. Lothian & Company, Inc., a National Futures Association member CTA. John is also the president of the Electronic Trading Division of The Price Group.

He is the editor and publisher of the John Lothian Newsletter and publisher of Environmental Markets Newsletter, John Lothian Newsletter – Metals Edition and JLN – Managed Futures Edition, JLN Options and JLN Interest Rates.

He is a 1983 graduate of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Management/Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications/Journalism.

John is active in the Boy Scouts of America and serves as a Scoutmaster of a suburban Chicago troop.

Xuong Nguyen is executive vice president and chief operating officer at FCStone, LLC. In his role, Xuong has overall responsibility for clearing and settlement functions for futures, FX and OTC business, as well as product development, customer support, technology services and the overall strategic direction of the firm.

Prior to joining FCStone, part of International Assets Holding Corporation (INTL), he was chief operating officer at MF Global, where he spent six years at their FCM reengineering process controls systems and implementing reporting and reconciliation systems. Before MF Global, he gained experience in trading operations, controls and audit, with positions at Bank of America, Bank One, ABN AMRO, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Ray Tubridy is managing director of State Street Global Markets where he has overall responsibility of product development for the firm’s FCM. With over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, Ray has managed futures operations both regionally and globally, using his talents to weave technology and operations together to bring operational efficiencies to his corner of the futures industry.

Ray began his career at Merrill Lynch where he learned the business from the ground up. He held numerous back office operations positions as well as management positions in the clearing department. Prior to that Ray served in the US Air Force