Irfan Amanat

Employment background:

• Tradescape Technologies, CTO and co-founder, 1996-2003 (bought by ETrade for $280 million) http://www.tradescape.com
• Computer Clearing Services, Advisor, 2003-2005 (bought by Penson Financial Services for 600% ROI within 2 years) http://www.ccls.com
• Structural Arbitrage Hedge Fund Manager, 2005-current

Expertise:

• Financial trading technology (equity, commodity, derivatives)
• Market Microstructure and Arbitrage
• Exchange, ECN, and Trading platform development

Industry References:

• Patent: "Load Balancing in Automated Securities Trading Systems http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/IPDL-CIMAGES/view/pct/getbykey5?KEY=02/17559.020516
• Patent : "Method and apparatus for automated cancellation of orders for securities" http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6532460.html
• Patent pregrant: ""Method and system for multi-path routing of electronic orders for securities" http://cxp.paterra.com/uspregrant20020103732.html
• Tradescape ECN competitive analysis http://www.people.hbs.edu/aperold/resource/ISR/Teaching%20Note/AKS%20-%20ECN%20Research%202.doc
• Smart Order Routing Technology http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/jan01/newroles.html
• Electronic Markets Liquidity, Transaction Costs http://www.ny.frb.org/newsevents/events/research/2001/NY_Fed_2001.pdf
• Tradescape http://irfanamanat.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/TradescapeInfo

Other:

• Sec Decision http://irfanamanat.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SecDecision
• Won initial decision in SEC case http://www.sec.gov/litigation/aljdec/id304lam.pdf
• Irfan Amanat SEC Initial Decision http://www.beurs.nl/nieuws/artikel.php?id=83498&taal=US
• Omar Amanat http://omaramanat.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• Lava Trading http://irfanamanat.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/LavaTrading
• Instinet http://irfanamanat.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/InstinetCto

Educational Background:

• Graduated: Johns Hopkins University, BS in Biomedical Engineering, 1989-1993
• Graduate research in Bioinformatics and Rehabilitative Medicine, 1993-1995