Friday, August 10, 2007

Work & Life Balance :-)

This is a private blog dedicated to covering the activities of the Asia Equity Derivatives Technology team a Lehman Brothers.








This is where the Tokyo based team works: The Roppongi Hills Mori Tower

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November 9, 2007 - London Meetings

Kiu went to London for a series of planning meetings the week of November 5th. Outside of work, there was time to visit the sites between the Lehman Brothers London office and the Hilton hotel in Canary Wharf. That was pretty much it :-) Here are some pictures.


View of the Lehman building from the South Quay









Another view from the South Quay









Dino Scouras, the EDOS project manager, having lunch at Wagamama








Time to head to Heathrow on the way back to Tokyo









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September 29, 2007 - IT BBQ by the Tama River

Bjorn, our IT Finance guy, and Kiu enjoying some food with biiru









Moon Wang with husband









Raj, the Equity Technology resident comediant. According to Raj, the BBQ used to be much better when he was one of the organizers.







Vija, our Change Manager, was in charge of the vegetarian grill









Robin Hunt was the grill master in the meat section








Bjorn and girlfriend










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July 25th, 2007 - Farewell dinner for Mythili Malladi

The Tokyo team went out to dinner at a nice Indian restaurant in Roppongi to bid farewell to the beloved veteran of the team, Mythili Malladi or MM for short. MM is moving to London to head up the development effort of the technology for the Middle Office for Equity Derivatives. She's following her hubby who'll be studying his MBA at the London School of Economics. For the period while the hubby is in school, Mythili will be the sole provider. He'll ower her big time when he gets out of school.

Here MM is with manager Tony Ziman





The designate party planner this time around: Dharmender Rai





The Malaysian/Australian consultant who has a real high tech professional background, Nick Hew, and the veteran of 7+ years of Lehman Brother Japan, Andrea Caloini




The quite skinny brainy Dickman Law with new arrival Anil Reddi





An also relatively new addition to the Lehman Equity Derivatives Technology team who spent a few years at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo: Manu Datta. He had a bit of trouble with his high end digital camera, but it got sorted out later in the evening.




One of the many french speaking guys in the Tokyo office: Sebastien Verreault. This one is of the Canadian breed.





Group photo





Dylan Wade, the Californian, Sebastien and Will Watts, aka WW.

WW is an ex-marine who loves hard liquor. Here's a picture of him after downing two shots of vodka. Looking very happy.




Vince on the right of Andrea. Sports a goatee to attract the many young women from Minato-ku.





Group photo #2





Manu, Leon Adeoye (the Englishman from Liverpool), Sean Blaire, Yulei Zhang and Dharmender.