Dr Eric Westphal Dr. Eric Westphal has been working in finance for almost two decades. Upon leaving academia with a Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology from Caltech in 1998, he went to work for various groups within Koch Industries, the largest privately held company in the world. Here he carried out a wide variety of projects including rating and hedging crop insurance policies, structuring arbitrage trades based on weather derivatives, providing risk management for trading groups, and selecting and managing a portfolio of hedge funds. Ultimately, Dr. Westphal served as senior researcher and as portfolio manager, creating and trading systematic strategies in a variety of markets including equities, currencies, interest rates, options, and futures. After leaving Koch Industries he served as portfolio manager at IKOS for their systematic futures and currencies products. Dr. Westphal is licensed as a portfolio manager under MiFID. Dr. Hans-Joachim Drescher Dr. Hans-Joachim Drescher has a PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the University of Nantes in France. Later on he worked in several post-doc positions doing research in Particle and Cosmic Ray Physics at New York University, University of Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Research topics among others were the simulation of particle interactions in accelerators and in the atmosphere. Later, he worked for 2 years at IKOS as a researcher in finance working on risk management and algorithmic trading. Hans' research is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented at numerous international conferences. Mr. George Dowdye George Dowdye has been working as a financial services professional for almost 3 decades. He started in investment banking with Barclays de Zoete Wedd Limited in the UK in 1990 and traded futures and options on behalf of the bank in Japan. George specialised in listed and OTC derivatives throughout his career in roles for Morgan Stanley, SBC Warburg, and UBS. He has held directorships for UBS, SBC Warburg and Barclays. After investment banking he became a hedge fund consultant with Albourne Partners. George was appointed as Global Sales Manager of IKOS in 2004 and left IKOS in 2009 and is licensed as an investment adviser under MiFID