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Biography
Jeffrey Birnbaum
Managing Director and Chief Technology Architect, Merrill Lynch.

Jeffrey M. Birnbaum is Chief Technology Architect and Global Head of Architecture and Engineering at Merrill Lynch. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of the core architecture and engineering of the enterprise including compute, network, storage, middleware, database, grid, market data and high availability. Mr. Birnbaum is also heavily involved in emerging parallel application development for low latency messaging and computational finance.

In 2006, Birnbaum founded 60East Technologies which developed "AMPS" (Advanced Message Processing System) which is a highly parallel low latency content based publish/subscribe engine that delivers unprecedented levels of performance on commodity computers and 10GbE networking. Birnbaum's previous experience includes Managing Director, Chief Technology Architect and Global Head of Enterprise Computing at Morgan Stanley (1991-2006). Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr Birnbaum worked as a systems engineer in the aerospace industry and for the CIA. He holds a BS is Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara.


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