FTEN Hires Top Barra Sales Executive.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Financial technology enterprise software provider FTEN FTEN Forum des technologies de l'écosystem numérique FTEN Financial Technology Exchange Network (trademark of FTEN, Inc.) , Inc. (www.FTEN.com) today announced that Bryan Lewis Bryan Lewis (b. Alliston, Ontario) is a Canadian municipal politician and a former referee and Director of Officiating for the National Hockey League. His first NHL experience was in the 1966-67 NHL season. , a top sales executive at leading risk management technology provider Barra, Inc. (www.barra.com; NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MWD MWD Metropolitan Water District of Southern California MWD Measurement While Drilling (oil drilling) MWD Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (stock symbol) MWD Molecular Weight Distribution MWD Military Working Dog ) has joined FTEN as Vice President of Sales to lead global sales for MultiXchange(TM) and Intraday RiskXposure(TM) and to contribute to the firm's strategic direction of trading systems development through proactive customer interaction and participation in industry and regulatory forums. Mr. Lewis served as the head of global sales for Barra, a publicly-owned financial services/risk company that helps portfolio managers, brokers, banks and private investors manage their assets and financial risk. Mr. Lewis joined Barra in 2000 and was most recently head of global sales, support and education, where he managed over 75 sales professionals in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He began his career as a municipal bond broker before becoming sales director at Technimetrics, an investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. firm. He was recruited to Bloomberg in 1989 where he spent 10 years educating and training a domestic sales force and selling equity and fixed income information products. By 1999, Mr. Lewis was managing a 40-member sales team as global sales manager. FTEN, Inc. (www.FTEN.com) provides software and application services that enable financial securities firms to manage all aspects of their business on an integrated basis to maximize profits without requiring radical changes to established back-end processes. FTEN clients, located cost-to-coast and worldwide, use FTEN's technology to process over 1.2 Million transactions a day in more than five countries. FTEN began deployment of pre-trade risk management capabilities with MultiXchange(TM), FTEN's end-to-end securities trading platform, in 1998 with DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive Merrill Lynch. FTEN began development of Intraday RiskXposure(TM) in 2003, as a stand-alone, Web-based ASP offering to meet the needs within the financial securities industry for true real time intraday risk management. |
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