Brook Path Partners: Technology Consulting for the Investment World

Robert Stowsky, President & CEO

Robert Stowsky has been a consultant to the investment industry since 1988 advising buy-side and sell-side firms, custodians and software vendors on implementing technology solutions for front, middle and back office operations. His clients have included J. P. Morgan, State Street Corporation, UBS, National Westminster Bank, Putnam Investments, Thomson Financial and Sungard. His project experience includes the design and implementation of Web and message based architectures for market data distribution, portfolio and trade management and integration of front and back office systems. He currently advises firms on strategic technology issues ranging from implementing straight-through processing (STP) for equity, fixed income and derivative instruments to identifying system requirements for meeting FASB 133 accounting and reporting standards. He also is a frequent contributor to leading industry publications and is a regular presenter at industry conferences.

Robert is a member of the ISDA Financial Products Markup Language (FpML) Standards Committee and is Co-Chair of the FIX Global Derivatives Technical Subcommittee. He also is Co-Chair of the FPL-ISDA/FpML Collaboration Working Group that is focusing on interoperability between the FIX and FpML protocols.

Previous to his work in financial technology, Robert worked for what is now part of Raytheon on target recognition and image-based guidance systems, and for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on reduced instruction set computing (RISC).

Robert is a graduate of the High Technology MBA program at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

Lisa Taikitsadaporn, Executive Vice President & COO

Lisa Taikitsadaporn, known as “Lisa T.” to many who have worked with her, is well respected for her knowledge on issues relating to electronic trading and connectivity. Her experience with the FIX protocol began when she was an integral member of Thomson Financial’s TradeRoute product team. In the ten years since then, she has been repeatedly recognized for her expertise in FIX protocol implementation. She currently advises buy-side and sell-side firms, in addition to product vendors and ATS/ECNs, on FIX implementation and connectivity for equity and fixed income trading.

Lisa is an active participant in the FIX protocol community. She is a contributing member of the FIX Protocol Global Technical Committee, the Global Fixed Income Technical Subcommittee, and the FIX ISO XML Working Group. She co-authored the "Fixed Income Gap Analysis" document that is the foundation of the FIX 4.4 fixed income specification.

Prior to Thomson Financial, Lisa was a Software QA Engineer at Progress Software. She was part of a team of QA engineers responsible for creating and maintaining test automation suites for internal product testing efforts.

Lisa earned her MS in Finance from Bentley College in Waltham, MA, and her BS in Computer Science and Management Information Systems from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, MA.

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