Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Capabilities of the custom appliance, such as processing 2 million messages per second with a latency of <80 micro-seconds, are providing their clients with substantial competitive advantages.

The company’s founder and venture capitalist will present how Exegy successfully applied this new technology in the financial services industry.

He was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. Since 1988, he has been in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Washington University where he is the Das Family Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Security Technologies.

He has published more than 50 peer reviewed technical papers and been awarded more than a dozen patents. He has received many awards including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Bush, the Missouri Bar Association Inventor of the Year, the IBM Faculty Development Award, the Washington University Distinguished Faculty Award, the IEEE Centennial Key to the Future Award, and the IEEE Young Professional Award.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, member of the American Physical Society, and many other professional organizations. He has served on many local committees and group activities, is on the board of the FBI InfraGard, chaired sessions and served several international conferences including General Chairman for International Magnetics Conference, was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, President of the IEEE Magnetics Society, and IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Indeck is experienced in accelerated processing of financial market data, heterogeneous computing, magnetic measurements and modeling, physical security and authentication and has consulted to industry and led research in projects of recording physics, magnetic devices, authentication, exploiting financial market data, and data mining in massive databases.

Mr. O’Donnell is a native of St. Louis and holds a B.S.B.A. and M.B.A. in Finance (1974) from Washington University in St. Louis.

Mr. O’Donnell worked in the St. Louis office of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1974-1987), a New York based investment banking firm. In early 1988 Jim left Goldman Sachs to join William H.T. Bush at Bush-O'Donnell & Co., Inc.

Jim currently serves as Chairman of Exegy, Inc., a start-up technology company founded to commercialize certain field programmable gate array technologies developed in the engineering department of Washington University in St. Louis. Exegy’s first product processes market data for Wall Street trading firms.

Jim also serves as a board member of the Missouri Public School Retirement Systems/Missouri Public Educational Employees Retirement System. PSRS/PEERS is a $28 billion retirement system serving 200,000 members and one of the 50 largest defined benefit plans in the United States.

He is active in many programs at Washington University. He is a 1989 recipient of Washington University's Distinguished Alumni Award, a 1997 recipient of the Olin School’s Distinguished Business Alumni Award and the 2005 recipient of the Dean’s Medal from the Olin School of Business. Jim currently serves as vice chairman of the Olin School’s National Council and as a member of the executive committee of the Washington University Board of Trustees.