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Jean Staten Healy manages a marketing and business development organization with the responsibility for IBM Linux strategy across all company brands. In this role she coordinates the cross-company strategy for Linux including the achievement of revenue goals, ensures rapid response to changes in the market environment and acts as the IBM spokesperson in the Linux space.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Staten Healy was the Director of Marketing Strategy in the IBM Software Group, Director of Business Development and Regulatory Affairs in the IBM Systems and Technology Group, Director of Innovation Initiatives at IBM Corporate Headquarters, and the IBM Customer Advocate in the Office of the Chairman and CEO. In addition, she has held management positions in the IBM Global Services Group. Ms. Staten Healy has lived and worked in Asia.

She holds a M.A. degree in theoretical linguistics and a J.D. with a certificate of concentration in International Law. Ms. Staten Healy is licensed to practice law in the States of New York and Connecticut and is a published author on various legal topics.

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John Edge is a Co-Founder of Redkite Financial Markets, the world's leading, independent markets surveillance solutions provider.With over a decade of capital markets experience. John previously worked in global markets sales and trading for UBS and Lehman Brothers, latterly as a founding member of JP Morgan's Electronic Client Solutions group.

John's first-hand trading expertise has been instrumental in the formation of Redkite Financial Markets and the development of the industry's first purpose-built real-time markets surveillance solution, Redeye. The CEP-based solution has been development to meet the requirements and demands of today's buy- and sell-side institutions, trading venues, regulators, and other participants that recognize the need to manage compliance risk in real-time.

John is responsible for the strategic direction of Redkite Financial Markets in North America and relationship management for the company's client and partner groups. Redkite's relationships provide clients access to the most comprehensive global cross asset content from the leading market data and infrastructure provider, with comprehensive, dedicated hosting and support.

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Mr. Kneafsey is founder and CEO of Options IT, a provider of private financial cloud services to the global financial community. Mr. Kneafsey launched Options IT in 1993 as a provider of outsourced IT services to the investment banking industry. He quickly expanded Options IT's client roster to include asset management firms, hedge fund managers, private equity firms and brokerage firms.

In 2000, Mr. Kneafsey oversaw the development and launch of the Options PIPE platform, Options IT's global private cloud services platform. Designed and implemented to optimize Options IT's operational processes and to minimize what Mr. Kneafsey viewed as significant and systemic inefficiencies in the financial sector's IT implementation practices, the Options PIPE platform was the first, comprehensive Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform for financial services firms.

Since 2000, Mr. Kneafsey has presided over the expansion of Options IT into North America in 2004 and Asia in 2006. Options IT now provides market data and execution connectivity to all major markets, globally. The firm supports more than 100 firms globally and has worked with more than 150 financial technology vendors to deliver financial applications and solutions on-demand, via the Options PIPE private cloud.

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Stewart Raphael is Business Development Executive for IBM System Networking in IBM's Systems & Technology Group. Prior to joining IBM, Stewart served as Area Vice President Sales for BLADE Network Technologies, acquired by IBM in 2010. Prior to that, Stewart served in executive business development positions targeting Wall Street, major accounts and the financial industry for Force10 Networks, Nortel Networks, and Motorola's Internet and Networking Group, where he was responsible for delivering smart access technologies to connect people and organizations in a world of converged communications. Stewart has a Master of Science in Telecommunications Management and a Ph.D. (ABD) from Stevens Institute of Technology.

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