Hanweck Associates Founder And CEO Gerald Hanweck To Explore Hardware Acceleration And Pre-Trade Analytics And Modeling At A-Team Insight Exchange

Online, April 22, 2010 (Newswire.com) - WHAT: Hanweck Associates, a financial-services provider specializing in risk management systems and technology for institutional investors, today announced that founder and CEO, Gerald Hanweck, will be speaking at the A-Team Insight Exchange Conference in New York City on Monday, April 26. Hanweck will be featured on two panels, "Changing the Trading game Through Hardware Acceleration," and "Powering Pre-Trading Analytics and Modeling."

In the panel titled, "Changing the Trading game Through Hardware Acceleration," Hanweck will join moderator Geno Valente, VP, Sales and Marketing, XtremeData, as well as panelists Cliff Maddox, Technical Sales and ISV Relationships, ACTIV Financial Systems; Mark Skalabrin, Founder and CEO, Redline Trading Solutions; and Barry Thompson, Founder and CTO, Tervela. Together they will examine how hardware acceleration is driving innovative computation, data management and messaging applications by enabling firms to meet the extreme information demands of contemporary financial markets.

Hanweck will also participate in the panel, "Powering Pre-Trading Analytics and Modeling," where he will discuss the growing demand for constantly faster, more complex front-end analytic processing. Other panelists include Nancy Turbe, Executive, Core Trading & Settlement Services, Accenture; Jason Gross, Co-Founder, RNA Networks; Satyam Kancharla, Senior VP, Client Solutions Group, Numerix; and Jason Stowe, Founder and CEO, Cycle Computing, as well as moderator Peter Harris, Americas and Editor-at-Large, A-Team Group. The group will consider and compare whether HPC, grid computing, hardware acceleration, cloud computing or some combination is the best solution to meet individual analytics requirements.

Attendees of both panel discussions will benefit from Hanweck's vast expertise in the financial services industry, with over 15 years of experience in derivatives research, strategy and technology innovation.

WHEN: Monday, April 26, 2010
11:30 a.m. EST - Changing the Trading Game Through Hardware Acceleration
3:15 p.m. EST - Powering Pre-Trade Analytics and Modeling

WHERE: A-Team Insight Exchange
Roosevelt Hotel
New York City

CONTACT: Contact Laura Anderson to schedule a media or analyst briefing:
[email protected] or 212.255.0080, ext. 11

About Hanweck Associates
Hanweck Associates, LLC, is a premier financial-services provider specializing in high-performance risk management and trading solutions for institutional investors. As an established leader in high-performance financial computing, Hanweck Associates pioneered commercial GPU-based computing solutions for the financial industry with products such as Volera™. The Hanweck Associates' team of seasoned traders, strategists, researchers, developers and mathematicians unites decades of hands-on expertise in financial markets and technology services at major financial institutions with experience spanning all major asset classes and markets. For more information, please visit www.hanweckassoc.com.