Continuum Analytics Inc. is a global software development and consulting company, based in Austin, Texas, that makes tools to help businesses analyze large amounts of data. We also incubate, promote, and provide service contracts on key open source projects like NumPy, Pandas, Blaze, Bokeh, Numba, and IPython. Areas of expertise include finance, aerospace, business and marketing analytics, geophysics, bio-informatics, fluid-dynamics, and medical imaging.The company is also notable for developing data analytics and improvement of the Python language for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Founded in 1965, SFU is home to the first Executive MBA (EMBA) program in Canada, and is now the largest business school in Western Canada.I teach a week-long seminar and workshop in Market Risk Management from the perspective of a derivatives trader.

OpenGamma was founded in 2009 to develop an open source java platform for analytics and risk management for the financial services industry. The company's flagship technology product, the OpenGamma Platform, is designed to allow financial services firms to unify their calculation of analytics across the traditional trading and risk management boundaries.OpenGamma aims to become the new standard for Quantitative Finance, radically democratising the financial services industry and making it more transparent. We focus on the part of the technical infrastructure firms have in common, eliminating duplication in the non-proprietary parts of their operations. Making a common solution available to all helps reduce cost and improve the overall quality of risk control throughout the industry.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in the United States, with total assets of US$2.515 trillion.

QuIC provides the world's leading financial organizations with bespoke solutions to power their risk management, pricing and financial analytics. With the advanced vectorized technology of the QuIC Engine, our solutions perform highly complex, large-scale calculations. From intra-day portfolio analysis to rapid implementation of new models and financial instruments, our technology allows industry leaders to stay ahead of the market and ahead of the competition.QuIC was acquired by financial information services provider, Markit, in January 2011.