Philippe Buhannic

Philippe Buhannic revolutionized the trading space with the introduction of the industry’s first execution management system (EMS) 14 years ago – he coined the term for this type of platform on his personal blog in 1998. Since then, Philippe built TradingScreen® into a universal platform for global trading, which includes the largest EMS in the world.

Philippe has kept the focus of TradingScreen on finding innovative ways to make global markets simple. In 2011, TradingScreen launched another product breakthrough in this vein, with the introduction of TradePrime®.

TradePrime is a platform that incorporates all the key workflows needed to operate a hedge fund – from execution management (EMS), position collection, to risk, pricing, compliance services and OMS – right out of the box, delivered via a cost-effective software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. TradingScreen’s TradePrime is revolutionizing the alternative asset management industry by resolving one of the most difficult challenges hedge funds face: the complexity of integrating the trading-focused EMS, the position- and performance-focused OMS, and the administrator information into a seamless, intuitive workflow.

Philippe serves as Director of Futures Industry Association, and he has more than 20 years of management, marketing and technical industry experience and is a widely recognized authority on electronic trading and customer information systems.

Prior to TradingScreen, Philippe served as a Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in New York. While at CSFB, he worked in the fixed income unit, where he handled listed derivatives, prime brokerage and e-commerce. Buhannic was also responsible for creating and implementing CFSB’s e-commerce products including the “Prime Family” that includes PrimeTrade, PrimeClear, Prime Brokerage and PrimeFund –all of which received industry acclaim as the first successful attempt at global distribution of electronic, multi-asset asset class transaction processing via the Internet.

Prior to joining CSFB, from 1993 to 1995, Philippe was Chairman and CEO of Fimat Futures USA Inc., a subsidiary of Societe Generale of France, and a member of the board of the Fimat Group. Philippe redeveloped the firm by combining innovative marketing and leading edge technology products, establishing Fimat as a major, profitable player in the US market. From 1987 to 1993, he was the deputy Chief Financial Officer of Credit Commercial de France, where he oversaw the global marketing of short-term FX and interest rate products.