Alfred Eskandar is a proven business leader and technology entrepreneur who has dedicated nearly 20 years to introducing new levels of innovation and customer value to the global capital markets community. As CEO of Portware, Eskandar has passionately worked to fundamentally change the trading technology landscape. Appointed CEO in 2012, Eskandar recognized the pervasive need for decision support tools that would help advance a collaborative environment between portfolio managers and traders. Months later he spearheaded the acquisition of the technology assets of Aritas group to create Portware Alpha Vision, the first and only algorithmic optimization solution that uses quantitative predictive analytics and machine learning to continuously optimize algorithm selection. By injecting artificial intelligence and commission optimization tools into the trading process for the first time, Portware has created a new type of multi-asset, thinking EMS that can bring measurable efficiencies and workflow automation to global trading desks trading across asset classes--equities, fixed income, FX, futures, options, and more--giving traders and portfolio managers the highest level of real-time color, TCA, and execution capabilities on their orders.