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Katherine Heires is a freelance journalist and editorial consultant who reports on innovation and emerging technologies and their impact on both corporations and consumers.

As a correspondent for Securities Industry News, she writes frequently about new developments and technologies that impact Wall Street, including algorithmic trading, complex event processing, low latency technology, the semantic Web, mobile messaging and trading tools, new Web-based technology for hedge funds, wealth management trends and the latest wave of Internet startups and services often referred to as Web 2.0.

Note: Securities Industry News is a subscription-based news site but Katherine’s many stories for this publication and its parent company - Sourcemedia - are available via the Factiva/Dow Jones database. Her articles for Securities Industry News have also been syndicated in several Sourcemedia publications including Financial Planning, Money Management Executive and On Wall Street.

Katherine’s reporting can also be found in the archives of CNNMoney.com, BusinessWeek Online, Institutional Investor, Wall Street & Technology/Advanced Trading magazine, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge newsletter and VCJ/Venture Capital Journal.

Prior to her current assignments, Katherine spent a year as consulting editor at Deloitte Research, where she edited, wrote and contributed to corporate management and technology reports and developed and edited a publication for Deloitte professionals. From 2000 to 2004, she was a senior writer and columnist reporting on venture capital, private equity, M&A and technology topics.

Over the past 15 years, Katherine’s work as a contributing editor and reporter has appeared in a wide array of news outlets. These include Forbes.com, CyberTimes, the New York Post and MIT’s Technology Review. Some of her earlier articles have appeared under the bylines Katherine Cavanaugh and Katherine Goncharoff.

Examples of her articles include:

“Code Green: Goldman Sachs & UBS Cases Heighten Need to Keep Valuable Digital Assets From Walking Out The Door. Millions in Trading Profits May Depend On It.,” Securities Industry News;

“Real-Time Racing: Are Risk Managers Ready for Real-Time Risk?,” Risk Professional/Aug. 2009;

“Facebooks for Financial Services,” Securities Industry News / Financial Planning magazine;

“Algo Arms Race Has a Leader - For Now,” Securities Industry News;

“A Business Model VCs Love,” CNNMoney.com;

“LiquidityBook: IM Trading Tool From NY-Area Brokerage,” Securities Industry News;

“GlobeOp, Administration Master, Looks Beyond Fund Basics,” Securities Industry News;

“JP Morgan Turns to Web 2.0 for Basket Trading Tool,” Securities Industry News;

“Algorithms and Clearing Wrapped Up in One,” Wall Street & Technology;

“BlackBerry Rules Wall Street but Rivals Gain Traction: Survey,” Securities Industry News;

“What Works: Where Job Seekers Pay to Play,” CNNMoney.com;

“2006's Innovative Algorithms,” Advanced Trading;

“By the Dashboard Light,” Wall Street & Technology;

“Podcasting Meets the Elevator Pitch,” CNNMoney.com;

“Buy-side Traders Go Global,” Advanced Trading;

“Does Your Company Belong in the Blogosphere?,” HBS Working Knowledge newsletter;

“China Bound: More young companies are scaling the Great Wall ,” BusinessWeek Online;

“Jim Rogers' Hedge Fund Tips,” RedHerring.com;

“Quest for the Next Great Search Company,” Venture Capital Journal;

“Tracking RFID’s Next Wave to Gain Strategic Advantage,” A Deloitte Research Emerging Technologies Executive Brief, with Ajit Kambil;

“Where to Go Online for Expert Advice,” BusinessWeek Online;

“Venture Well: Gaming the system,” The Deal;

“Sky High on Wi-Fi: Interview With Sky Dayton, Founder of Boingo Wireless, Inc. and Chairman and Founder of Earthlink, Inc.,” The Deal;

Katherine has worked as a freelance correspondent for a range of online and print publications including: Crain’s New York Business, ZDNet and Interactive Week, The Industry Standard, the Commerce, SciTech and Life Sections of MSNBC Online, the CyberTimes section of The New York Times Online, the Tech section of The Star-Ledger, and the Business and Interactive sections of The New York Post. She has also contributed to books about higher education and New York City neighborhoods.

She has experience in related fields, having worked as an editor and writer for a Big Four consulting firm, as a public relations executive for a global communications agency, and as an editorial consultant and creative director for a Web site representing the video-game division of an entertainment conglomerate. Katherine has organized business and technology tours of New York City for foreign consulates and trade commissions.

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