Christopher D. Clack

Affiliations

• CEO, Res Novae
• Chartered Engineer, The Engineering Council
• Member, The British Computer Society
• Director, Athena Systems Design Ltd.

Previous Affiliations:

• Member of the LSCITS National Stakeholder Board
• CEO, The Centre for Financial Computing
• Founder and Director, FS-Net and the Financial Services KTN
• Founder member, IFIP WG2.8 (Functional Programming)
• CEO, The Settlement Solutions Company Limited
• Chairman, The Symbian Academy
• CTO, Legistics Ltd.
• Founder, MemWise
• Executive Board, The London and South-East Centre for High Performance Computing (SEL-HPC)

Technology Transfer:

• ICL/Fujitsu:
  The Fujitsu parallel database server uses technology derived from parallel functional programming research in the 1980s, including amongst others my work on the GRIP project
• Andersen Consulting (now Accenture):
  Functional programming techniques to prototype object-oriented designs in financial applications (incorporated into worldwide operations knowledge base)

Awards and Prizes

• Finallist: Commercial Deal of the Year Award 2008 (The London Knowledge Transfer Awards)
• Winner: UCL Enterprise Partner of the Year Award 2008 (UCL Enterprise Awards)
• Best Paper Award: Real-World Applications - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2007 ("GECCO")

 

Conference and event invitations: Chair, Advisory Committee, Panellist and Talks:

2011

1. "Is your trading and risk data good enough for regulatory reform?":
   • Invited Panellist (12/07/2011)
2. CIFEr 2011:
   • Invited Speaker and Invited Panellist (15/04/2011)
3. Trade Tech 2011:
   • Invited Speaker, Panellist and Session Chair (14/04/2011)
4. Financial Services Club:
   • Invited Panellist "Cloud Computing" (10/03/2011)

2010

1. Financial Services Club:
   • Invited Panellist "This house believes the nuts and bolts of systemic risk control are in our toolbox"
2. GECCO 2010:
   • Invited Tutorial "Financial Evolutionary Computing"
   • Programme Committee member
3. Trade Tech Architecture 2010:
   • Session Chair
   • Invited Talk "Using Computer Simulations to Study and Predict the Global Financial Markets"
4. Trade Tech 2010:
   • Invited Talk
5. Third annual conference of the Cass-Capco Institute Paper Series on Risk:
   • Panel Chair
6. Thought Leadership Workshop on Trading Technology:
   • Local Arrangements Chair and Session Chair
7. Focus group on Market Simulation:
   • Chair
8. Focus group on Historical Data Sets:
   • Chair
9. HIFREQ TRADE Conference:
   • Invited panellist

2009

1. FS-KTN/CSFI/Cass Round-table on Behavioral Finance, 11th December 2009 (London):
   • Co-chair and speaker
2. Trade Tech Liquidity 2009 (London):
   • Chair for two roundtables
   • Invited Panellist
3. GECCO 2009:
   • Invited Tutorial "Financial Evolutionary Computing"
   • Programme Committee member
4. Trade Tech (Paris) 2009:
   • Invited Talk "Evolutionary Financial Computing - Survival of the Fittest in Trading and Investment"
   • Invited Panellist
5. Trade Tech Architecture 2009:
   • Conference Co-Chair
   • Invited Talk "Applying Tomorrow's Technologies to Today's Capital Market Challenges"

2008

1. City#Grid 2008:
   • Keynote presentation "Challenges in Grid Computing"
   • Panel chair
2. GECCO 2008:
   • Invited Tutorial "Financial Evolutionary Computing"
   • Workshop Chair "Financial Evolutionary Computing"
   • Session Chair "Genetic Programming"
   • Programme Committee member
3. Trade Tech (Paris) 2008:
   • Invited Panellist
4. Dealing With Technology DWT 2008:
   • Panel Chair "Cross Asset Trading: From Pipedream to Production"
5. Wealth Management Symposium 2008:
   • Keynote speaker
6. Trade Tech Architecture 2008:
   • Conference co-chair
   • Advisory Board
   • Panel chair "Interactive Grid 2012: Uncovering The True Possibilities Of Future Grid Technologies "
   • Roundtable chair
   • Invited Talk "Sex, Death and Profit: a Darwinian View of Stock Selection"

2007

1. Fast Financial Algorithms 2007: Panellist

2006

1. GECCO 2006: Session Chair
2. RASC06: Programme Committee member

2005

1. ECAL05: Programme Committee member

1999

1. IFL99: Programme Committee Co-Chair and Proceedings Co-Editor

1998

1. IFL98: General Chair and Proceedings Co-Editor

1997

1. IFL97: Programme Committee Chair and Proceedings Co-Editor
2. ET97: General Chair

1996

1. ET96: General Chair