About CameronTec
CameronTec is the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions; its flagship product CameronFIX universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications. It is the only long-established FIX engine that delivers continuous, compelling version upgrades.
CameronFIX has emerged as The Standard for reducing message latency and achieving high throughput.
The outcome of 12+ years continuous investment in performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness, CameronFIX is today used by larger investment firms, brokerage houses, exchanges and regulators in 25 countries on all five continents. Every day CameronFIX routinely processes over 600,000,000+ messages and is relied on to underpin the critical metrics for increasing customers, enhancing revenue streams, reducing market and operational risk as well as costs associated with pre and post trade services.
With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney and Stockholm.
CameronTec is an Orc Software company (SSE: ORC).
Management
Anders Henriksson
Chief Executive Officer
Annie Walsh
Chief Marketing Officer
Steve Christinson
Chief Technology Officer
Max Colas
Chief Product Officer
CameronTec has a dedicated team of seasoned professionals with extensive backgrounds and expertise across all elements of the global financial landscape - trading, sales, product development, customer service and of course, technology.
With over 400+ separate FIX installations worldwide, stability and depth of CameronTec's development team remains critical to our success. So too on the support side, with a mature, proven support framework, which is constantly being refined to ensure consistency and the industry’s most responsive turnarounds.
Anders Henriksson, Chief Executive Officer
Since joining the Orc group in 2000 and prior to taking on the position of CEO for CameronTec, Anders was instrumental in building Orc’s business across the Benelux, Central and Eastern European regions. Prior to joining Orc Software, Anders worked as a management consultant with Andersen Consulting (Accenture), where he consulted to a number of global financial service organizations on major IT projects. Anders was also a Director at E2E Infotech Ltd, initially a joint venture between UBM (investment bank of UniCredit), Orc Software and the Founders. E2E developed from a start-up company with four founders to a global consultancy with 50+ employees in Anders’ tenure as Director.
Anders holds a Master of Science in Engineering Physics from Lund Institute of Technology, and a Master of Science in International Business Administration from School of Economics and Management at Lund University and an Executive MBA from Bled School of Management.
Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer
Annie Walsh has been with CameronFIX since the very beginning. Demonstrating developmental and strategic marketing expertise gained working in major financial markets, Annie has led and managed global marketing for CameronFIX throughout the course of its commercial life, culminating in being voted the world’s number 1 FIX engine. Following Orc Software’s acquisition of CameronFIX and Cameron Systems in 2006, Annie was promoted to the position of Chief Marketing Officer for the Orc group, where she lead development and implementation of Orc’s new global marketing strategy. Over the course of the project, Annie was instrumental in migrating Orc to a customer-centric, solutions-focused business underpinned by localized, strategic marketing in all the major distributed and emerging financial markets.
Annie’s recent move to Chief Marketing Officer for CameronTec is a natural career progression given her close association with CameronFIX market development from day 1. Prior to Cameron Systems, Annie was Head of Communications for APAC e-commerce leader, Wishlist Holdings. Beyond this she has worked for a number of multinationals including News Limited and Reed Elsevier.
Annie’s qualifications and studies include Bachelor of Arts; Communications & Marketing, Victoria University, Graduate Diploma (Defamation), Media Law, Melbourne University, and Bachelor of Arts: Social Anthropology and General & Comparative Literature, Monash University.
Steve Christinson, Chief Technology Officer
Steve joined the Orc Group in 2006 following the acquisition of Cameron Systems. With 18 years experience in commercial software production, Steve’s background includes 6 years working in the financial services sector, specializing specifically in FIX engines, FIX based applications, FIX enabling exchanges and exchange connectivity.
Steve’s deep knowledge of CameronFIX and the FIX protocol was gained working with and developing CameronFIX technology over 5+ years.
Prior to joining Cameron Systems in early 2005, Steve worked in the telecommunications sector, gaining valuable expertise in distributed and real time systems, high speed communications, embedded systems development and GUI development.
Steve holds an Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Degree in Computer Science, University Of Queensland.
Max Colas, Chief Product Officer
Max joined the Orc Group in 2007 as Senior Product Manager for CameronFIX technology. Prior to commencing as Chief Product Officer for CameronTec, Max led Orc’s intensive product management development and implementation for CameronFIX globally. The end result, a best-practice framework delivering enhanced solution scalability and risk management, thereby making CameronFIX the bullet-proof FIX engine it is today, aligned for further strong growth and expansion.
Max commenced working in the financial industry as a software consultant on cash equity sell-side infrastructure in London and New York for the Fidessa group. During this extensive period Max completed professional services and project management assignments at BNP Paribas, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and JPMorgan, where he built and deployed solutions addressing the changing landscape of financial technology; from the emergence of direct market access to regulatory milestones like RegNMS. While at Fidessa, Max held the position of Vice President Marketing and Product Manager for its US direct liquidity access offering. Prior to Fidessa, Max worked on a number of high-technology marketing and publishing projects.
Max studied Economics at the University of Cambridge (England) and is an Ingénieur (MSc) of the Ecole Centrale Paris.
