New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/19/2011 -- Mr. Morris is the Chief Executive Officer of HAGIN Investment Management, Senior Managing Partner of 57th & Irving LLC, Partner of Indo-US Growth Opportunities Fund, Inc, and a Partner in Monument Global Resources, Inc.

He has 15 years of investment experience and began his career at Pillette Investment Management. He continued his career at Deutsche Bank, Pulse Trading, and Natixis. His experience includes quantitative research, analysis, marketing, and sales. He has a BA from Syracuse University and a Masters in Political Communication from Emerson College. He is an expert commentator on hedge funds and has been featured in numerous financial media outlets, such as HFM Week, Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, and Fox Business News.

Mr. Morris is also a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Professionals (ACFE), Professional Association for Investment Communications Resources (PAICR), the Amsterdam American Business Club and he is a founding member of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE). He holds FINRA series 7, 30, 63, and 65. In addition, Mr. Morris is the executive producer and film financier of independent films, American Teen, The Cake Eaters, I Bring What I Love and August.

Distinguished practitioners and experts at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 include:

• Mr. Bart Chilton, Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

• 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. Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders

• Dr. Euan Sinclair, Risk Manager, Bluefin Trading

• Mr. Frank Pendle, VP of North American Sales, Bleum

• Mr. James Austin, President, Vertex Analytics

• 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. Marcos Carreira, Director of Derivatives, BM&FBOVESPA

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

• 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

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