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William W. Uchimoto
William W. Uchimoto is Executive Vice President,
General Counsel, and serves on the Board of
Directors of Ashton Technology Group, Inc. (ATG?)
and Universal Trading Technologies Corporation
(UTTC?). Mr. Uchimoto also serves as Chief
Executive Officer and President of NextExchange,
Inc.
Mr. Uchimoto brings substantial legal and regulatory
experience to ATG, UTTC and NextExchange in
developing UTTC's on-line transaction systems and
products. He also will focus on cultivating
international
business opportunities for ATG and its affiliated
companies.
Prior to joining ATG?, Mr. Uchimoto was Senior
Vice President and General Counsel of the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc. (PHLX), the
nation's oldest securities exchange. Mr. Uchimoto
was counsel to the PHLX and its subsidiaries from
1986 to 1997 and served as the PHLX's
representative to the Consolidated Tape Association
from 1991 to 1997.
As an executive officer of the PHLX, Mr. Uchimoto
represented the Exchange and its clearing agency
subsidiaries before all regulatory bodies, including
the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
Commodity Futures Trading Commission and
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Mr. Uchimoto is recognized as an expert on
National Market System (NMS) issues and penned
virtually all of the PHLX's comment positions on
market structure and significant regulatory issues.
He negotiated the PHLX's participation in the
over-the-counter/unlisted trading privileges
(OTC/UTP) Plan and drafted the exchange's
positions respecting options market linkages, and
directed all legal/regulatory work on new trading
systems and listed products. He also advised the
PHLX on international business initiatives, including
discussions between the Exchange and the Hong
Kong Futures Exchange to build a linkage to trade
PHLX foreign currency options virtually around the
clock. He has been the Exchange's representative on
various joint industry associations relating to NMS
facilities such as the Consolidated Tape Association,
Intermarket Trading System and Options Price
Reporting Authority.
From 1981 to 1986, Mr. Uchimoto was an attorney
in the SEC's Division of Market Regulation. While
at the SEC, Mr. Uchimoto worked on market
structure issues such as developing the
Congressionally mandated NMS, and drafted the
OTC/UTP release (permitting exchanges to trade
NASDAQ securities) and permanent approval
orders for the National Securities Trading System,
which was the first fully electronic exchange.
At the SEC, Mr. Uchimoto also drafted the
permanent approval orders for the Intermarket
Trading System (ITS), Cincinnati Stock Exchange's
National Securities Trading System (the first fully
electronic stock exchange), and the National
Association of Securities Dealers' (NASD) Small
Order Execution System. He also provided critical
input and drafted significant releases on the terms
and conditions upon which the Institutional
Networks Corporation could compete with the NASD
in distributing full NASDAQ market maker
quotations to professionals and the public.
Mr. Uchimoto is a frequent lecturer to the
International Law Institute in Washington, DC. He
periodically has been on the adjunct faculty of
several Philadelphia area law schools, teaching
courses in Securities Regulation.
Mr. Uchimoto received his law degree from the
University of California, Hastings College of Law
(1981) and his Bachelor's degree in Economics from
the University of California at Davis (1978). Mr.
Uchimoto is a member of the California Bar and the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Fredric W. Rittereiser
Fredric Rittereiser serves as Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer of Ashton Technology
Group, Inc. (ATG?). He is a co-founder of ATG,
Universal Trading Technologies Corporation
(UTTC?) and Gomez Advisors, Inc. Mr. Rittereiser
has led the product development efforts of UTTC and
is directly responsible for the concepts behind the
volume weighted average price (VWAP®) trading
system (VTS?), electronic auction system (EAS?) and
electronic public limit order book (ePLOB?). Further,
Mr. Rittereiser has been responsible for ATG's
strategic initiatives concerning the Chinese market,
E.Com and the conceptualization of the Electronic
Market Center (eMC?). In addition to his strategic
responsibilities, Mr. Rittereiser has led all of ATG's
financing, marketing and executive recruiting efforts.
Prior to the founding of ATG, Mr. Rittereiser
served as a special consultant to Booz*Allen and
Hamilton Inc.'s technology practice where he
focused on the financial services industry's use of
encrypted online transaction systems.
Mr. Rittereiser has over 30 years of experience in
the financial services industry having served as the
President of Sherwood Group, Troster Singer, and
Instinet. During his career as a senior executive on
Wall Street, Mr. Rittereiser raised capital for over 20
companies and served on the Board of numerous
private and public companies. From 1972 through
1980, Mr. Rittereiser was active on numerous
committees of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. including: National Market System,
Ethics, Options, Arbitration and Corporate Finance.
Mr. Rittereiser is considered a pioneer in the field of
electronic trading systems for the financial markets.
While President of Instinet, Mr. Rittereiser was
responsible for Instinet's two most successful
products - a liquid trading system for NASDAQ
securities and the first crossing network. In addition,
Mr. Rittereiser introduced Instinet to a number of
domestic and international exchanges. Mr.
Rittereiser was responsible for Instinet's strategic
acquisition by Reuters.
Fred S. Weingard
Fred Weingard is currently a director of Ashton
Technology Group, Inc. (ATG?) and Universal
Trading Technologies Corporation (UTTC?). Mr.
Weingard also is President and Chief Operating
Officer of UTTC. He serves as chief technology
advisor to both companies and leads the design and
implementation of their strategic systems.
Mr. Weingard provides management and technology
leadership for internal, out-sourced, and joint
development projects and performs technology due
diligence of strategic plans, partnerships and
acquisitions. He also supports marketing, selling,
training, and operations with respect to the
implementation of new products, services and
systems.
At UTTC, Mr. Weingard assisted in recruiting
world-class technology, systems and Internet
professionals to support a requirements, design,
implementation, and testing process that he
restructured and led to final development of UTTC's
flagship Volume Weighted Average Price Trading
System (VTSÔ).VTSÔ was successfully completed in
April 1997. In connection with the project, he led a
combination of out-source and in-house efforts that
produced a state-of-the-art security infrastructure
for VTSÔ and for future UTTC and ATG products
that include: advanced encryption, authentication,
multilevel firewalls, B-2 & C-2 level trusted
subsystems, and proprietary access control
mechanisms. For ATG and UTTC, Mr. Weingard
works on concepts and designs for future products;
briefs and demonstrates the products to a diverse
spectrum of audiences; designs advanced financial
analytical tools; and acts as a liaison with the PHLX
on technical and business matters.
Prior to joining ATG and UTTC, Mr. Weingard
was a Principal at Booz*Allen and Hamilton Inc.
During his eleven years at Booz*Allen, he founded
and directed the Advanced Computational
Technologies Practice (ACTP) which grew to over 50
professional (technology and systems) staff in the
Washington, DC area, Colorado Springs, and
Sunnyvale, CA. Over this period, Mr. Weingard and
his staff were directly responsible for marketing,
selling, and successful performance on over $45
million of federal and commercial contract work
involving complex system design and
implementation, and application of advanced
computational technologies. Application domains
included: military; intelligence community;
financial; marketing; law enforcement; biometrics;
health care/medical; and manufacturing.
Application areas included: pattern recognition; risk
assessment; tracking and prediction; information
and concept representation; filtering, fusion and
analysis; modeling and simulation; autonomous
decision systems; multimedia and intelligent
databases; parallel and distributed processing
systems; information compression and security; and
speech, signal, image, text processing and
recognition. Technology areas included: artificial
intelligence (AI); neural networks; advanced
statistics and mathematical modeling; parallel
processing; and client-server, middleware and
database technologies.
In 1991, Mr. Weingard and several of his staff won
the highly coveted Booz*Allen Professional
Excellence award that was presented and received in
Paris, France. Just prior to leaving Booz*Allen, Mr.
Weingard headed a cross-cutting team to recruit,
challenge, and retain world-class technology and
systems professionals at Booz*Allen.
Prior to joining Booz*Allen, Mr. Weingard spent
five years as a senior intelligence analyst for the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington,
DC. Prior to DIA, Mr. Weingard spent five years as
a lead Nuclear Engineer for a respected
architectural engineering firm in New Jersey.
Mr. Weingard is a nationally recognized expert in
the field of neural networks and has been an invited
panelist and lecturer for government, industry,
academia, and professional societies. He has
authored or co-authored over 12 scientific papers
and publications. Mr. Weingard is a National
Science Foundation (NSF) national mathematics
award winner. He has held US government
clearances above top-secret for over 16 years. He
has Professional Engineering (PE) licenses in
mechanical engineering from New York State and
Washington State. He is the sole inventor of two US
patents in the field of neural networks and is
accredited with inventing five Booz*Allen
proprietary technologies/products.
Mr. Weingard received his Bachelor's degree in
Physics and his Master's degree in Nuclear
Engineering from Cornell University in New York,
and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the
George Washington University in Washington, DC.
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