CQG CEO and leadership

Visionary executive experienced in designing and implementing trading systems who leads by example utilizing strong technical and analytical skills. An execution oriented problem solver with an eye towards developing the vision and delivering via strategic planning and project management.Adept at low level communications protocols as well as high-level Object Oriented designs. Focused on performance engineering in order to build the most stable, scalable and low-latent systems. Equally comfortable working in a Windows environment as well as a Unix/Linux environment. Primarily focused on C/C++ languages.- Strong Information Technology experience with a focus on Enterprise Systems Development in the financial industry.- Hands-on technically with a proven history of staff development and leadership skills.- Individual contributor as well as team leader to develop complete systems from end to end in Market Data delivery, Order Routing and Call Center Interaction Management, which include business logic, infrastructure messaging, systems management and deployment.- Adept at architecting large systems, designing for performance and scalability, as well as coding and debugging.- Complete software development life cycle management experience in ISV and IT environments using waterfall, as well as utilizing mixtures of extreme methodologies.Specialties: Trading systems, Market Data, Systems Management, Infrastructure and messaging systems.

Rod Giffen is a Chief Experience Officer at CQG. He has worked as President:APAC at CQG.