Peter Solaski

Mr. Peter Solaski has over 25 years experience in information technology. Most recently he was SVP of Fixed Income Databases for Reuters America Inc. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has executive management training from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. He is also a member of the ACM.

Mr. Solaski was responsible for the leadership, teambuilding, product development and strategic guidance for a number of key product areas for Reuters. In the areas of Fixed Income Trading, Retail Equities and Reuters New Media he drove architectural vision and technology innovation for new products. Mr. Solaski provided the supportive environment to enable the successful introduction of XML/XSL, ActiveX and Content Syndication technologies in these product areas. He provided the long term technology vision and direction required to achieve the resulting major successes.

Peter has held a number of senior technical management positions at Reuters. Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, supplying news, content, pricing, analysis, trading, and messaging capabilities to media and financial services organizations worldwide. In these roles he had direct responsibility for parts of a global technical infrastructure for the collection, processing and distribution of financial information and news. These large scale, high performance networks were comprised of both custom and off the shelf systems using a wide range of technologies. He was also responsible for the development and support of a number of financial information products including Reuters Datascope, a reference data and pricing feed, and Fixed Income Views a web-based product for display of bond data.

During his tenure at Reuters Peter also worked in support of acquisition activities. He worked directly on the acquisition by Reuters of American Realtime Inc., Quotron Inc., Bridge Information Systems and Multex Inc. His responsibilities included technical due diligence, architecture and design for infrastructure integration and overall program management for integration projects.

As Director, Head of North American Real-time Data, Peter directed a staff of 65 responsible for the development and support of North American Quotations systems and News systems. He managed the development of Small Dish Satellite distribution products. He had overall technical responsibility for time critical, high availability systems, which processed 50+ separate feeds from financial exchanges and brokers in the U.S., Canada and South America for distribution to Reuters customers worldwide.

As part of his management responsibilities Peter was responsible for the coordination of several, large, international technical projects. Mr. Solaski led multiple analysis and technical integration projects with development teams in London, St Louis, and Hauppauge, to reduce duplication in the overall Reuters infrastructure. Restructured Reuters Global Fixed Income database development teams in the U.S. to eliminate duplication. He relocated product development and support functions to Bangkok, Thailand.

Prior to joining Reuters Peter was a development manager with Industrial Programming Inc. specializing in real-time embedded systems.