BIDFX - Key Persons
Alan has over 25 years' experience in international financial markets, trading, business systems and associated technology. Alan was originally a trader and broker in London before spending 12 years at Bloomberg, where he helped build their successful FX trading and analytic platform FXGO. Alan is the original inventor on 2 registered patents that relate to their FX trading platform.
In recent years, Alan has led the strategy, sales, design, build and integration of several electronic trading platforms. Alan was the AsiaPac Head of OTC at TradingScreen before moving to the COO role.
Jean-Philippe is the CEO of BidFX, Singapore Exchange's subsidiary focused on providing solutions to the Foreign Exchange market.
John is the Chief Revenue Officer at BidFX. Prior to joining BidFX John was the Sales Manager for Institutional Business at 360T and before that head of EMEA Buyside E-Trading Sales at Bloomberg LP - a global business and financial news service. John has spent nearly 20 years at the forefront of e-trading.
In his spare time John coaches and manages grassroots football teams and is an Academy Scout for Manchester United FC.
John was educated at the University of Portsmouth.
Paul is the Chief Technology Officer of BidFX. He has 30 years of experience delivering high performance software, with 20 years building electronic trading systems.
Paul specialises in designing the distributed systems, protocols and frameworks that form the backbone of global trading platforms. In 16 years with TradingScreen he led the London development group and was responsible for architecting much of the back-end, everything from real-time price feeds, exchange connectivity, FIX connectivity, historical tick data, bespoke peer-to-peer messaging and security systems.
Previously, Paul developed trading systems at Credit Suisse and Nomura. He also served nine years in the defence industry building weapon simulations and war games.
Roger is the Head of Sales for EMEA at BidFX. Roger was formerly the Head of Hedge Fund Sales (EMEA) at TradingScreen. Prior to joining TradingScreen, Roger spent his career at a series of investment banks starting at Deutsche Bank running the middle office functions of various credit derivative trading desks before moving onto Salomon Brothers where he focused 5 years on the birth and growth of Salomon's Rates & Credit electronic distribution. He spent a further 6 years at Citibank where he worked for the Global Head of eFX Sales and was responsible for Citi's European eFX Sales capability across banks, hedge funds & asset managers.
Roger studied at Dulwich College, followed by further education at Queen Mary's, University of London, majoring in modern languages.
Job Titles:
- Head of Sales for the Americas and Has Been With
- HEAD of SALES, AMERICAS
Scott is Head of Sales for the Americas and has been with BidFX since the initial launch.
Scott started his career at Fidessa where he covered clients on listed asset classes including futures, equities and options. From there, he spent over 3 years at BidFX's parent company, TradingScreen, where he was Head of the Account Management team in NY before transitioning into a Sales role in his move to BidFX. Scott has over 10 years of e-trading experience across many asset classes and has seen the industry grow and change over that time.
In his free time, Scott plays basketball and golf and in the winter he enjoys both skiing and snowboarding. In addition, Scott is an avid sports fan of the local New York teams. Scott holds a Bachelor's of Science in Finance from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Job Titles:
- HEAD of ASIA PACIFIC
- Head of FICC ECommerce Sales
Wai Kin is the Head of Asia Pacific of BidFX, Singapore Exchange's subsidiary focused on providing solutions to the foreign exchange market. He is responsible for sales team leadership, driving sales growth in the region as well as general management responsibilities across APAC.
Prior to BidFX, Wai Kin was the Head of Asia Pacific Distribution for XTX Markets, a leading quantitative non-bank market maker. He has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience, which began when he started his career at JPMorgan/Guaranty Trust Global Markets FICC as a developer. Next, he moved to Barclays Capital to provide cross-product Futures & Options, Equities and FICC development, client services and support.
Wai Kin then joined Morgan Stanley as the Head of FICC eCommerce Sales to run their electronic FX business for Asia Pacific, where his expanded role covered FICC and oversight into eFX trading & sales, FX Prime Brokerage, and voice sales into banks, corporates and intermediaries for the whole Asia Pacific region.
Wai Kin is an advocate of cultural & environmental awareness through film, technology, sports and travel. He founded a regional bicycle related non-profit organisation to promote the development of youth in sports at the local grassroots community level.