Our Management Team

Hugh Hughes - Chairman & CEO

Hugh has more than 30 years’ experience in investment banking and the financial services sector. Until October 2005, Hugh was CEO of the London arm of Thales Information Systems, a leading provider of consultancy, systems integration and outsourcing services. Before joining Thales, Hugh held the position of chief executive at SG Securities Ltd (SGS).

Paul Ellis - COO
Paul has more than 16 years’ experience in market data and electronic trading, having originally started his career with Reuters before moving on to become head of UK market data production for ABN AMRO. Paul’s expertise is developing new markets and opportunities around complex data and trading solutions. Prior to co-founding Fixnetix, Paul was head of UK business for Net2s, a French financial services system integrator, and also held a senior position with KPMG developing new business around the application service provider (ASP) market.

Alasdair Moore - Director of Business Development
Alasdair has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry. For the last 10 years, Alasdair was a director of Tullett Liberty Securities & Tullett Liberty Equities. During this period he was instrumental in building the largest network of stock exchange memberships of any independent stockbroker in Europe. Alasdair also built the first team of quants offering algorithmic execution services at an independent stockbroker in the UK.

Jason Mochine - Director of Sales
Jason has over 20 years’ market data experience having recently joined after 14 years from Reuters plc where he had managed the UK & Ireland Account Management operation. Jason was previously engaged in various sales roles at Telekurs A.G. and Quotron Ltd.

David Thompson - Finance Director
25+ years experience in senior financial positions the majority of which has been with IT oriented companies in the financial services sector. David’s first position in the market data arena was international controller of Citibank’s Quotron business.  More recently he was with CWB, a City based IT consultancy and out sourcing company.  Other positions include being FD of Arbat Banking Systems, Excite Europe, Technocom and Line Management Group.

Stuart Willoughby - Chief Technical Officer
Stuart has more than 16 years’ engineering experience in market data and electronic trading. He was global head of engineering for Barclays Capital and previously served with many prestigious companies such as Cazenove, KPMG, ABN AMRO and Reuters. In these positions, Stuart provided engineering services and architected design, and also built support teams around complex leading edge technical infrastructure

Anthony Kingsnorth – Director of Operations
Anthony (Tony) has more than 13 years experience in market data and IT Service Delivery. He was European head of Production Services for Lehman Brothers having previously served as Head of Market Data Infrastructure at the same organisation. During his time at Lehman Brothers, Tony oversaw the implementation of the Bank’s European low latency platform that supported both internal applications and external DMA clients.  Prior to Lehman, Tony has worked at a number of other Investment Banks including JP Morgan, ING Barings and Saudi International Bank.