Vincenzo Benghiat Email & Phone Number

Hoboken, New Jersey, US

• Leading, developing and driving forward the Market Data business strategy globally for NICE Actimize’s Cloud Market Surveillance platform across multiple asset classes.
• Responsibility for all commercial, financial, technical and governance of Market Data activity globally, with a current focus to further develop and strengthen capability and coverage in additional asset classes.
• Building, maintaining and managing all exchange, business and vendor relationships. Establishing trusted relationships with key business clients, to drive change, prioritise delivery and challenge existing processes.
• Taking the lead on all Market Data vendor contract negotiations, new requirements and tenders (RFI/RFP), working closely with Procurement, CFO and COO as necessary, creating leverage, forming strategic partnerships and.
• Ensuring business continuity of all internal market data systems and external vendors. Overseeing vendor performance and managing issues and escalations within SLAs.
• Undertaking regular reviews and analysis of existing vendor, exchange and business relationships to mitigate the risk of financial exposure, ensure contractual obligations and satisfy the ever-changing regulatory.

Hoboken, New Jersey, US

Sippy Downs, Queensland, AU

• Lead engineer, architect and project manager for implementation of all network IT infrastructure to new and existing facilities.
• Worked closely with builders and architects from an early stage to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practice for infrastructure in new buildings.
• Redesigned the existing Layer 2 network to become Layer 3 and project managed the selection and purchasing of equipment and deployment of the infrastructure.
• Business analysis of current and future user and faculty requirements to aid design and capacity planning.

Edinburgh, Scotland, GB

• Three-month contract to project manage the delivery of the bank’s hosted suite of software and provide remote technical training to end users.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Providing second- and third-level technical support of Reuters Market Data Systems (Triarch/RMDS/TREP) to IT and market data support teams at major financial institutions and first-line Reuters Support teams.
• Providing comprehensive technical advice on the design and upgrade of RMDS hardware and software with a view to reducing latency, maximising throughput and building in high levels of redundancy.
• Technical project lead on the design, implementation and testing of market-data systems and ultra-low latency high-frequency trading systems, using unicast and multicast (Tibco Rendezvous).
• Providing support for hardware (SPARC, x86) and software (Red Hat, CentOS, Solaris, SUSE, Windows).
• Providing advice and support of virtualisation technologies (Solaris Zones/Containers, VMWare).
• Modifying BASH scripts to match customer requirements.

New York, NY, US

• Installing, configuring and supporting the bank’s suite of desktop, server, Terminal Server and browser-based electronic commerce software. Installing and supporting SQL servers and clients.
• Preparing and delivering customer training for individuals and groups, including senior management, IT staff and end users. It was tailored to their business requirements and delivered in English and Italian.

• I was the youngest manager in the South London District, managing a team of eight staff which provided benefits advice and processing services to the public. As the first manager of this newly-created section, I.
• One of my major achievements was to drive an increase in mortgage benefit accuracy from 37% to meet and exceed the nationally set target of 92%.

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