BEN VAN VLIET

Ben Van Vliet is a Lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business (IIT), where he also serves as the Associate Director of the M.S. Financial Markets program.  At IIT he teaches courses in quantitative finance, C++ and .NET programming, and automated trading system design and development.  Beginning in 2008 he will also teach recurring seminars for The Technical Analyst group in London.  He is vice chairman of the Institute for Market Technology, where he chairs the advisory board for the Certified Trading System Developer (CTSD) program.   He serves also as series editor of the Financial Markets Technology series for Elsevier/Academic Press. Mr. Van Vliet consults extensively in the financial markets industry, primarily on topics related to the mathematics, technology and management of trading systems.

Mr. Van Vliet is the author of three books on trading/investment: "Modeling Financial Markets" with Robert Hendry (2003, McGraw Hill), "Building Automated Trading Systems" (2007, Academic Press).  Additionally, he has published several articles in the areas of finance and technology, and presented at several academic and professional conferences, including most recently the INFORMS 2007 Annual Meeting in Seattle, the American Statistical Association 2007 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Microsoft's Advancements in Quantitative Finance conference in New York, and the Automated Trading 2007 conference in London.

Before joining the Stuart School, Mr. Van Vliet was a registered representative at Olde Financial Corp.  Prior to that he worked at Mid Town Bank/PrimeVest Financial where he established and ran a securities brokerage/financial planning office.  He also co-invented TraderDNA and served as a director of TraderDNA LLC.