New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/23/2011 -- High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 is gearing up to provide global audiences in Chicago, October 3-5, Sao Paulo, October 24-26, Singapore, November 21-23, and Hong Kong, December 12-14, the most up-to-date overview of developments and insights to build a competitive advantage in high-frequency trading.

Finance, technology and consulting firms can provide unique insights from their industry exposure to unique audiences looking to maintain their edge in the competitive investment arena. Golden Networking’s forums have been known to raise the profile of both established and emerging firms in finance, technology and consulting. Alternative investments analysts, asset managers, automated traders, chief economists, chief investment officers, chief operating officers, chief risk officers, chief technology officers, developers, financial engineering graduates, fund of funds managers, heads of trading, government regulators, hedge fund managers, high-frequency traders, institutional investors, investment professionals, legal advisors, portfolio managers, proprietary traders, quality directors, quantitative traders, risk managers and statistical arbitrageurs are a few of the titles of attendees expected at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011.

Firms in financial services, technology and consulting are invited to become sponsors of High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 and get access to privileges that not many other forums can provide. For starters, leaders of the industry will be speaking at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011, including keynote speaker Bart Chilton, Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and:

• Mr. Aaron Lebovitz, Managing Director, Infinium Capital Management

• Mr. Adam Afshar, Chief Executive Officer and President, Hyde Park Global

• Dr. Andrew Kumiega, Adjunct Professor, University of Chicago

• Dr. Christian Zimmer, Head for Quantitative Portfolio Management and Research, Itaú Unibanco's Asset Management

• Mr. Christopher Willox, Director of Trading, Fenimore Asset Management

• Mr. Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders

• Dr. Euan Sinclair, Risk Manager, Bluefin Trading

• Mr. James Austin, President, Vertex Analytics

• Mr. James Leman, Principal and Capital Markets Head, Westwater Corp.

• Mr. Jitesh Thakkar, Founder and President, Edge Financial Technologies

• Dr. Jonathan Brogaard, Professor, University of Washington's Foster School of Business

• Mr. Ken Kinkopf, Founder and President, Kinkopf Capital Management, LLC

• Mr. Louis Mak, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, I-Access Group

• Mr. Marvin Kelly, Chief Executive Officer, Quaternion Capital Management

• Mr. Mike Bellafiore, Co-Founder, SMB Capital

• Mr. Milind Sharma is Chief Executive Officer, QuantZ Capital Management

• Dr. Petter Kolm, Clinical Associate Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

• Mr. Will Mechem, Managing Director, Pan Alpha Trading

High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 Chicago, Sao Paulo, Singapore and Hong Kong, is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to contact Golden Networking by sending an email to info@goldennetworking.net