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Moses Ma is the Chairman and CEO of MMG Partners. Dr. Ma has extensive experience in aiding the world's leading exchanges and bulge-bracket investment banks to develop strategic plans regarding exchange membership, alliances, new derivative products, straight through processing, trading services, and information technology. He is also a serial entrepreneur, having been a founding partner of the Mitchell Madison Group prior to MMG Partners.Dr. Ma worked recently with a large stock index company to develop pricing strategies for their market data.Dr. Ma worked recently with a large private equity firm and a venture capital firm to perform due diligence on the NYMEX futures exchange. Dr. Ma worked recently with four broker dealers designing their front end systems Dr. Ma worked recently with a private sell-side firm and the PBOT to develop pricing strategies for their market data.Dr. Ma worked recently with a large sell-side firm reducing their market data spend by $30 million out of a examined cost basis of $100 million Dr. Ma worked recently with a generic pharmaceutical company to reduce its IT expenditures.Dr. Ma worked recently with a private equity firm to perform due diligence on a syndicated loan firm.Dr. Ma worked recently with a large credit card firm to reduce its contract programming spend by over 30%. Dr. Ma worked recently with to one of the top media/market data firms in the world. MMGP is continuously analyzing their market size and share and providing the information for their marketing division.Dr. Ma worked recently on a business plan for the creation of an electronic stock exchange in Dubai. He was able to get approval for 130 million Euro to create this electronic exchange. After one of the partners withdrew we went back in and advised the DIFC which was the best option to pursue.Dr. Ma worked with the largest saving and loan firm and helped reduce their clearing costs for their brokerage unit by 30% by outsourcing the right clearing firm.Dr. Ma worked with a large sell-side firm to document its policy and procedures for their prime services division. Dr. Ma worked on developing a strategy for a large sell-side firm that recently merged with a large retail bank on how to preserve their retail franchise with their large private banking clients and those that have assets just below the private banking threshold.Dr. Ma worked with a large insurance company to optimize its data center by 25%. Dr. Ma worked with a large commercial card company to help them determine whether to outsource their clearing operations for their brokerage company.Dr. Ma worked with a sell-side firm to determine its strategy for order management and order routing. Dr. Ma worked with a large market data/media firm to develop an IOI fixed income product for their current equity IOI product. Dr Ma worked with the largest Life Insurance company and helped reduce purchase costs of over 25% out of an expense base of almost $1 Billion. Dr. Ma worked on designing and evaluating a new trading system for EASDAQ developed by TIBCO. Dr. Ma worked with a high-end brokerage firm on the effects of decimalization. From this he wrote a white paper that was published. Dr. Ma worked with a new internet startup that allowed CFOs to trade derivatives amongst each other through the internet and anonymously. Dr. Ma consulted for one of the top media/market data firms in the world. The first project was to create a high end net worth individual financial internet site. The second project was to estimate the global market demand for all asset classes. The third project was to webify its current multi-media publishing platform legacy systems. Finally the most recent project is to create a personal finance portal for the global investor. The client is spending over 500 million pounds on this project. Dr. Ma has worked with the NASDAQ/AMEX. The first project was acquisition strategy and due diligence on purchasing an electronic options exchange. The second project was to create an ECN to trade NYSE stocks. Dr. Ma worked with the DTC on a strategy to ally with Euroclear.Dr. Ma consulted to the Munich Stock Exchange to develop an order routing and trade management system.Dr. Ma assisted the top ECN firm to develop new alternative products to complement their current trading systems. In addition to this he worked on expanding the product focus to include retail customers. Recently he has worked with the ECN on a strategy to ally with NASDAQ to create a global central limit order book (CLOB). He also put together business plans for eight different types of research products for the head of sales and research at the ECN. Together this strategic work helped to try to reshape the ECN to a full service investment bank.Dr. Ma worked with the California Power Exchange to develop a strategic plan. He also developed a pricing strategy to unbundle their product and services based on market research and customer elasticity of demand for those services. He developed several new derivative products such as day-ahead and month-ahead forwards, basis differential derivatives, futures, and options on electricity. Finally, he worked on a project to get revenue from selling the exchange's market data. This involved selling the data to Reuters, ILX, Bridge and Bloomberg. | 