Edgar
Perez, Author, 'The Speed Traders' and 'Knightmare on Wall Street',
and Course Director, The Speed Traders Workshop 2012, Joins Thought
Leaders at CME Group's Global Financial Leadership Conference, Nov.
12-14, The Ritz Carlton, Naples Beach Resort, FL.
New
York City, NY, USA (August 29, 2012) -- Edgar Perez, author of
The Speed Traders, An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency
Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World
(http://www.TheSpeedTraders.com),
will join global thought leaders at CME Group’s Global Financial
Leadership Conference (GFLC), Nov. 12-14, 2012, at the Ritz-Carlton
Beach Resort in Naples, Fla. The GFLC is an exclusive event that
brings together decision-makers from the world's leading financial
institutions to discuss emerging geopolitical trends, debate critical
economic issues and provide perspectives on future developments in
the financial marketplace.
Keynote
speakers for this year's conference include Sir Richard Branson,
Founder, Virgin Group, and Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
(2005-2009). Additional featured speakers include Madeleine Albright,
former U.S. Secretary of State; James Carville, Political Strategist;
Richard Kauffman, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy; Ted
Koppel, award-winning journalist; John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing
Director, IMF (2006-2011); Karl Rove, former U.S. Deputy Chief of
Staff to President George W. Bush; and Jimmy Wales, Founder,
Wikipedia.
Previous
GFLC events have hosted opinion leaders and luminaries such as
President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States and
founder of The William J. Clinton Foundation; President George W.
Bush, 43rd President of the United States of America and Founder of
the George W. Bush Foundation; David Gergen, CNN senior political
analyst; and Katie Couric, Award-Winning Journalist and Author. Other
featured speakers include Arianna Huffington, President and
Editor-in-Chief of Huffington Post Media Group; Robert Merton, Nobel
Prize Winning Economist and Professor of Economics, MIT; Myron
Scholes, Nobel Prize Winning Economist and Chairman, Platinum Grove
Asset Management; Paul Tudor Jones, Founder of Tudor Investment
Corporation; Michael Lewis, best-selling author of Liar's Poker,
Moneyball and The Big Short; Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury
Secretary; and Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer prize-winning author and
authority on international politics, economics and energy. To access
previous GFLC video, photo and press highlights, as well as 2012
conference information, visit the conference website at
http://www.gflc.com.
About
CME Group
As
the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME
Group (http://www.cmegroup.com)
is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset
classes, including futures and options based on interest rates,
equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities,
metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers
together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its
trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates
CME Clearing, one of the world's leading central counterparty
clearing providers, which offers clearing and settlement services for
exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter
derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and
services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate
counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter
derivatives markets.
About
Edgar Perez
Edgar
Perez's first book, The Speed Traders. published in English by
McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), in Mandarin by China Financial Publishing
House (2012), provides "a clear and informative read that can be
useful to both seasoned industry professionals and those who are only
exploring the financial industry" and has confirmed him as the
preeminent global expert in the specialized area of high-frequency
trading. Perez has led The Speed Traders Workshop 2012, How High
Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in
Equities, Options, Futures and FX
(http://www.TheSpeedTradersWorkshop.com),
Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York,
Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Moscow,
Ho Chi Minh, New York, Dubai and Chicago, and was Adjunct Professor
at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he taught
Algorithmic Trading and High-Frequency Finance. He contributes
regularly to The New York Times and China’s International Finance
News.
Perez
has been interviewed on CNBC Cash Flow, CNBC Squawk Box, BNN Business
Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com, Leaderonomics, GPW Media,
Channel NewsAsia Business Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities. In
addition, Perez has been featured on Sohu, News.Sina.com, Yicai,
eastmoney, Caijing, ETF88.com, 360doc, AH Radio, CNFOL.com, CITICS
Futures, Tongxin Securities, ZhiCheng.com, CBNweek.com, Caixin,
Futures Daily, Xinhua, CBN Newswire, Chinese Financial News,
ifeng.com, International Finance News, hexun.com, Finance.QQ.com,
Finance.Sina.com, The Korea Times, The Korea Herald, The Star, The
Malaysian Insider, BMF 89.9, iMoney Hong Kong, CNBC, Bloomberg Hedge
Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Dallas
Morning News, Valor Econômico, FIXGlobal Trading, TODAY Online,
Oriental Daily News and Business Times.
Perez
has been engaged to present to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (Washington DC), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities
Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York
University, University of International Business and Economics
(Beijing), Hult International Business School (Shanghai) and Pace
University (New York), among other public and private institutions.
In addition, Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences,
including Harvard Business School’s Venture Capital & Private
Equity Conference (Boston), High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New
York, Chicago), MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference
(Cambridge), Institutional Investor’s Global Growth Markets Forum
(London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia
(Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul) and Private Equity
Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London).
Perez
was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a
strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Perez has
an undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de IngenierÃa,
Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN,
Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master of Business Administration from
Columbia Business School, New York, with a dual major in Finance and
Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society.
Perez resides in the New York City area and is an accomplished salsa
and hustle dancer.
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