2018 Speakers

Lee is responsible for foreign exchange execution globally and also oversees fixed income trading in the UK and Asia. In 1991 Lee joined Sun Life Investment Management (which became part of AXA IM) as a member of the US equities team, moving into the fixed income team in 1994 as an analyst and from 1996 as an investment manager. In 2002, he moved to Trading & Securities Financing (TSF) to help establish fixed income, foreign exchange and money market dealing. In 2006, all pan-European FX trading was incorporated into TSF. Lee also worked with the business to develop electronic systems and oversee transaction cost analysis activities. In 2010, TSF created a desk to handle our global MM business and in 2012 Lee was given responsibility for fixed income execution in the UK and Asia. Lee is Chair of the Investment Association’s FX Working Group and a member of their Fixed Income Trading Stream. He is also a member of the Bank of England’s FX Joint Standing Committee on FX and a member of the Quorum15 Board. Lee left school after A-levels and worked in the equities markets for a number of years before joining Sun Life Investment Management in 1991.

Yann Couellan joined the Global Trading Function (GTF) of BNP Paribas Asset Management in October 2017 as Head of FICC Trading, working to implement innovative trading solutions to optimize trading performances in challenging liquidity conditions. Yann was previously Head of Fixed Income, Money Market & Repo Trading France for Axa Investment Managers. Since July 2007, Yann was overseeing fixed-income trading activities on desks located in Paris, He joined AXA IM in 2004 as a senior fixed income trader & OTC Derivatives. Prior to joining AXA IM, he was a fixed income trader at IXIS AM for 4 years, and previously broker at Cantor Fitzgerald during 3 years. Yann started his financial career in 1992 by joining the French Broker group, Maison Roussin. Yann also co-chair the ICMA Secondary Market Practice committee since 2017.

Antonio has extensive experience in portfolio management and engineering, with a strong knowledge of both managing and trading equities and derivatives. His experience places him in an ideal position to discuss how a top European trading desk is currently managing and adapting to the current regulatory climate and where they are investing to survive.

Anthony Hilton, the chief economics and business commentator for the Evening Standard is one of the longest serving British business journalists having joined Fleet Street in 1968 as a Trainee on the Guardian, with an MA in economics. A multiple award winner for his journalism he last year collected the Journalist of the year award from the British Insurance Brokers Association and in March was given a life time achievement award by the ABI. His most recent success was the Headline Money Award for “ Outstanding Achievement.” He began his public speaking career when he worked for three years as economic commentator for Channel 4’ on The Business Programme in the late 1980s and subsequently went on to devise and co present the Stocks and Shares Show for ITV. Currently he is the finance and business commentator for the Evening Standard and a weekly columnist for The Independent. Anthony will be delivering the keynote ‘An update on Brexit negotiations 18 months on from triggering Article 50: What has been the impact on the economy, EU-UK trade relations and the investment landscape?’ on the 11th September.

Chris White has 18 years of financial services experience with more than 13 years dedicated to fixed income electronic business development. His journey in financial technology began in 2003 when he joined the electronic corporate bond trading start up, MarketAxess. After helping establish the MarketAxess platform, Mr. White transitioned his career to the sell side, working for leading investment banks like Barclays, Lehman and Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for modernizing their respective credit market making businesses. During his time at Goldman Sachs (2010 – 2015), Mr. White invented the GSessions corporate bond trading platform and the first corporate bond IOI. Currently, Mr. White is the founder and CEO of two companies, ViableMkts, an advisory firm that provides strategic guidance on financial technology and fixed income market structure and BondCliQ, a start-up company that is building an innovative central market system for corporate bonds.

Kay was first elected as the Conservative MEP for Wales in June 2009. A successful career in investment banking & fund management has equipped her with in-depth knowledge of the global financial markets and led to her appointment as a Coordinator on the Economics and Monetary Affairs committee (ECON) in the European Parliament. Most recently she was also appointed Vice Chairman on the Economic and Monetary Affairs committee. She has worked on financial reform legislation including EMIR, MiFID II and CSDR and is currently the CoRapporteur for the EU legislation on recovery and resolution of CCPs.

Mr. Mark Whitcroft serves as a Partner and Founding Partner at Illuminate Financial Management LLP. Previously, he was a Principal at the firm. Prior to joining Illuminate, Mr. Whitcroft spent 11 years in various senior capital market roles at Deutsche Bank and HSBC. He was an Executive-in-Residence at StartUpBootCamp FinTech. He has been investing in FinTech companies since 2010 and has worked with a number of FinTech startup accelerators globally. Mr. Whitcroft has been on Industry Advisory Board for ValueStream Labs and a mentor for Deutsche Bank at the Accenture FinTech Innovation Lab. He is a Director of ChartIQ, Inc. He holds a BSc in Human Sciences from University College London

Avtar has a PhD in Theoretical Physics and research experience in quantitative computational engineering. Since leaving academia Avtar has held leadership positions in investment banking and consulting, specialising in financial engineering, quantitative risk management, structuring and product management. Avtar is now the CEO and chief architect in Nivaura, a financial technology company for managing the full lifecycle of financial asset issuance and administration. Avtar is also a director and advisor for a number of startups in finance and healthcare that leverage quantitative methods/analytics and Bitcoin/blockchain across Europe and Asia.

Mark Goodman originally joined SBC Warburg in 1997 and has worked in a variety of Electronic Equity Distribution roles throughout his career with UBS in both London and New York. In 2009 he joined Societe Generale to head their electronic business for Cash Equities and Equity Derivatives. In 2015 Mark re-joined UBS as Global Head of Electronic Trading for agency services across FX, Rates and Credit.

James Wallin is a Senior Vice President in AllianceBernstein’s Fixed Income group. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein, Wallin was at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Evergreen Asset Management Corp. as Senior Counsel and Yamaichi Capital Management Inc., where he served as General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer. Prior to working at Morgan Stanley, Wallin also worked in the legal department of The Dreyfus Corporation and with the law firm of Cole and Dietz. He also had been with Alliance Capital previously, from 1982 to 1986. He is a member of the New York Bar and a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

James Switzer joined AllianceBernstein in 2011 as global Head of Credit Trading, overseeing both investment-grade and high-yield credit trading. Previously, he was a managing director at Société Générale, where he managed the Financial Institutions Credit Trading Desk, and at BNP Paribas, where he managed the Investment Grade Trading Desk from 2000 to 2002. Switzer also formerly served as a sector portfolio manager/trader at UBS Principal Finance (from 2002 to 2005) and at Sigma Capital (from 2005 to 2008). Earlier in his career, he worked at Paine Webber and Co.; Kidder, Peabody & Co.; and Alex. Brown & Sons. Switzer holds a BA in biology from Colgate University.

Rebecca is considered to be one of Europe's leading industry voices on market structure, regulatory reform, and financial services technology. She has authored a plethora of qualitative research reports and commentary covering the impact of market regulation on all asset classes, changing market structure and developments in dark pools, HFT, and surveillance. She joined Liquidnet in July 2016 to use her 18 years' experience to collaborate and deliver research and insights for both the European equities and fixed income markets. Rebecca is also Co-Chair of the FIX Trading Community’s EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee dedicated to addressing real business and regulatory issues impacting multi-asset trading in global markets. She has held prior roles at TABB Group, Incisus Partners, the British Embassy in Bahrain, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs International and Bankers Trust International.

Leveraging her 30 year career in capital markets as a derivatives trader, exchange executive, NED on a Bank Board, strategic advisor and markets infrastructure specialist Cathryn Co-Founded Seismic Foundry, a discretionary fund investing in early stage capital markets FinTech. Cathryn is known for her deep industry knowledge, positive energy, extensive network, and focus on building new businesses that successfully embed excellent culture and team values. Through her founding Board role for Women In Listed Derivatives (WILD) she has spent 10 years developing networking, mentoring, & educational opportunities for women in Derivatives markets and is passionate about remedying the gender, pay, and power imbalance in capital markets. She has been listed in Financial News 100 Most Influential Women, 100 Women in Fintech, Cranfield FTSE Index 100 Women to Watch, Brummell Most Influential Women in the City and Qantas Australian of the Year UK.

With extensive experience reporting on structured credit, derivatives and fixed income markets in the US and Europe, Radi is now responsible for producing European Fixed Income research at TABB Group, based in London and working alongside the US team to produce research based on interviews with senior figures on the sell-side, buy-side and regulators defining market change. Radi also has six years of experience reporting on financial markets at Euromoney, Risk Magazine, Dow Jones and Bloomberg. His main area of focus has always been the OTC derivatives market and fixed income, and for the last two years has followed the impact of regulatory change on the running of this market to define the likely future shape of the market. He will be sharing his latest research on derivatives reforms to help you prepare for the impact on your trading desk.

Mike is the Head of Fixed Income Dealing for Jupiter having been at the firm since 2005, joining from Barclays Wealth Management. He joined as a trading desk assistant before progressing to trading UK equities covering UK telcos and programme trading. Moving to fixed income trading in 2010, he now heads up a team of three responsible for execution across a number of asset classes including credit, rates, futures and convertibles, in both developed and emerging markets.

Stuart manages a team of 12 Senior Fixed Income Traders with a keen focus on workflow automation to maximise alpha generation opportunity from an experienced trading team. Stuart has over 20 years fixed income experience having previously worked as Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Fixed Income Trading at Invesco from 2001 to 2014 and prior to that was a Fixed Income Trader with Deutsche Asset Management and Morgan Grenfell.

Carl James is an influential buy-side dealer with 30 years’ experience in global multi-asset execution. He has operated successfully at various Global Asset management companies, including in Global Head of Dealing roles. He has overseen the management of more than £1 trillion of assets. Most recently, Carl has taken over as the Head of Fixed Income Trading at Pictet Asset Management. Carl’s experience stands out for its breadth – embracing every aspect of execution, and for its depth – including advising on regulation, risk, process and developing and implementing groundbreaking technology. Highly respected by both buy and sell-side, his opinions are sought by people at the highest level. He demonstrates the kind of vision and incisive, strategic thinking that have seen him inform change and progression for organisations and for the industry as a whole.

Miles is responsible for trading in Equities, Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income and Implementation at Nordea Investment Management. His 25 years of experience is from both buy and sell sides globally. Over the years, his responsibilities have ranged from quantitative portfolio management and electronic market making to trading & execution. He has an academic background in Computer Science, AI & Robotics and Mathematics.

Stuart has been at Wellington Management since 2013, and was previously at Citi. He will be participating in the session ‘Buy Side Leader Interviews: Establishing the buy side needs - What technology and protocols are now essential in a post MiFID II world and how can you establish who to partner with?’ on the FX eTrading Evaluation Day on 10th September.

Erik Tham is responsible for running Fixed Income and Equities e-trading automation at the buy-side trading desk of UBS Wealth Management in Zurich, where in the last years he had built up one of the most advanced global order- and execution management platforms for Fixed Income securities. With more than 19 years experience in the Financial Industry and 12 years in Fixed Income e-trading (sell-side and buy-side) in both trading, market expert and senior management positions, Erik is an industry wide renowned thought leader and expert for electronic trading, smart order routing and execution automation. Erik holds a master’s degree in Physics and is based in Zurich.

Mr. Perryman joined the firm in 2009 and is responsible for all aspects of emerging markets fixed income trading, including cash bonds, currencies and derivatives. He was previously an emerging markets trader at the Standard Bank’s fund management division dealing with hard and local currency bonds, FX and CDS. Prior to that, Mr. Perryman served as a credit team’s portfolio analyst at Morley Fund Management and before that worked at the London Stock Exchange. He holds an Investment Management Certificate and a Diploma in Technical Analysis from the Society of Technical Analysts.

Mikael Björkman is heading a specialist team embedded in the Buy-side trading activities of UBS Global Wealth Management in Switzerland. As owner and driver of the automated execution platform he has one foot in the market and the other foot in various data driven initiatives to create the Buy-side trading environment of the future. Mikael joined UBS Global Wealth Management 5 years ago after working many years as a Senior Software Developer / Project Manager within UBS Investment Bank on the FX side. Mikael is based in Zurich and holds a Master's Degree in Engineering.

The Candriam trading team is a fully integrated multi-asset desk working with one core order management system across various global asset classes: equities, bonds, currencies and derivatives; it is balanced between individual expertise (equities, bonds) and multitasking (currencies, derivatives). Fabien manages a highly experienced execution desk centralizing orders from different business units and various locations. His priorities are to continue multi-asset integration, improve cooperation between traders, find liquidity optimally, use the most appropriate ways to trade different types of orders, strengthen transaction cost analysis, reduce the cost of execution and maintain a high level of trading efficiency for Candriam portfolio managers.

Christoph Hock is Head of Multi-Asset Trading at Union Investment. He joined Union in April 2014 and, with his team, is responsible for all trading activities associated with portfolio management of cash equities, fixed income, fund and ETF business, FX, listed and OTC derivatives, and securities lending. Christoph graduated with a Diplom-Bankbetriebswirt, and has more than 20 years of international investment banking, trading and management experience, having worked for companies on the sell- and buy-side, most recently as Head of Execution Sales at Barclays Bank and at Alpha Trading. Prior to this, Christoph was founder, partner and co-CEO/Head of Portfolio Management and Trading at Tungsten Capital Management, a hedge fund company (2005-2010). He was Head of Proprietary Equity Derivatives Desk at J.P. Morgan in London and Frankfurt from 1998-2004. Christoph began his career at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Cash Equity Trading.

Cathy is Head of Dealing at Royal London Asset Management, she joined from Deutsche Asset Management where she was Head of FI Trading - UK Asset Management, prior to that she has held a senior trading role at Pioneer Investment Management, she also held various trading roles at Bank of Ireland and KBC Asset Management. Cathy holds a BA in Economics and Master of Economic Science from University College Dublin.

Oscar is Head of Trading at NN Investment Partners responsible for Fixed Income, Equity Derivative and FX trading. The nine traders in his group are mostly based in The Hague, with traders in New York and Singapore ensuring global coverage. Trading activities span both the third party (institutional clients and mutual funds) and proprietary businesses at NN IP. Previously Oscar was fund manager, specializing in derivative focused investment strategies. Oscar started his 21 year old career as proprietary trader in FX and interest rate derivatives at ING Investment Management. Oscar holds an MSc in Economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Julien joined La Banque Postale Asset Management in 2014 as Investments Chief Operating Officer, in charge of transverse and strategic projects for investment division and heading cross asset dealing teams (11 traders based in Paris). He was moreover appointed Chief Digital Officer in November 2016. Julien has previously been working in Amundi for 10 years within the structured products business unit. Prior to that, he acted as a consultant and then as a manager for Softeam Cadextan, a company offering advice and service for the financial markets industry. La Banque Postale Asset Management manages approximatively 220 billion euros assets, of which around 70% are invested in fixed income.

Joined Deutsche Asset Management in 2013 with 19 years of industry experience. Prior to joining, Juan was Head of Fixed Income Trading at Fidelity Investments International, London. Previously, he served as Director of Credit Products, Capital Markets Division at Caja Madrid. Before, he was a Vice President in Debt Capital Markets at Santander Investments in New York and Madrid. Juan started his career in a management trainee program and corporate finance at BBVA in Madrid and New York BA in Economics from Kingston University London; MSc in International Banking & Financial Studies from Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Alex Sedgwick is a market structure analyst in Fixed Income Trading at T. Rowe Price. Mr. Sedgwick is responsible for performing custom research and analysis pertaining to market structure, liquidity, and trade cost/execution analysis across the various fixed income sectors. He is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Mr. Sedgwick has 14 years of investment experience, one of which has been at T. Rowe Price. Prior to joining the firm in 2014, he spent eight years at MarketAxess Corp. in New York, where he was most recently head of research.

Fraser joined Hermes in February 2010 and is lead manager on the Hermes range of credit strategies. Prior to this he was at Fortis Investments, where he was responsible for European high yield credit. Fraser graduated from the University of Aberdeen with an MA (Hons) in Economics, earned an MSc in Investment Analysis from the University of Stirling, and is a CFA charterholder. Having previously featured in Financial News’s ‘40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Asset Management’, an editorial selection pick of the brightest up-and-coming men and women in the industry, in 2015 Fraser was named as one of the top 10 star fund managers of tomorrow by the Daily Telegraph and, in 2016, Citywire Americas namedFraser number one in their global high yield manager review.

Louis runs the investment management team at LNG Capital, leading idea generation across credit markets. As CIO, Louis oversees investment and directs the organization’s investment management decisions. He has over 30 years investment experience with expertise in government bonds, investment-grade, high-yield, distressed, and special situations. As a result of his strong performance Louis and his team have been nominated for numerous awards and honourable mentions from Eurohedge, Investhedge, HFR, Hedge, Barclays Hedge, and others. Besides his duties as CIO, Louis is active in the financial policy and reform debate as a frequent contributor to Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Reuters, Bloomberg, He regularly speaks at major industry conferences, as well as CNBC and Bloomberg television. Louis founded LNG Capital in 2007. Previously he was Head of Fixed Income at RAB Capital, a London-based 7 billion Aum hedge fund. He had overall responsibility for fixed income research trading and investments. Prior to his role at RAB, Louis held senior positions at Goldman Sachs London, J.P. Morgan London, and began his career on Wall Street as a graduate of the highly acclaimed Salomon Brothers international management training program. Louis holds dual majors BS  Finance\International Management from Georgetown University Washington DC,  Exchange Masters Programme at Boccioni University Milan, and holds an MBA from London Business School with distinction.

Mr. Shahzad Hasan is a senior portfolio manager with Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2014. He is a member of the firm’s Emerging Markets Fixed Income team, focusing on hard-currency sovereigns globally. Mr. Hasan has 12 years of investment-industry experience. Before joining the firm, he was an emerging-markets fixed-income strategist at J.P.Morgan and Credit Suisse. Mr. Hasan also worked on the buy side at a macro hedge fund in New York. He has B.Sc. with honors in economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences (Pakistan) and an M.S. in quantitative and computational financial from the Georgia Institute of Technology (U.S.A.).

Brigitte Posch is Head of Barings’ Emerging Markets Corporate Group. Brigitte is the lead portfolio manager for this strategy, as well as the Emerging Markets Debt Short Duration strategy.. Brigitte has worked in the industry since 1992 and her experience has encompassed emerging markets structured credit, investment grade and high yield corporate bonds and loans. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, she was an executive vice president portfolio manager – head of emerging markets corporates at PIMCO. Before PIMCO, she was a managing director and head of Latin America securitization and trading at Deutsche Bank. She was previously a Director with Ambac where she was responsible for developing asset- and mortgage-backed securities in emerging markets. Prior to Ambac, she was vice president and senior credit officer with Moody’s Investors Service where she was responsible for rating asset- and mortgage-backed securities in Latin America. She also held positions in Sao Paulo, Brazil at Banco Inter-Atlantico/Credit Agricole, Citibank and ABN AMRO. Brigitte holds a B.A. from Mackenzie University of Sao Paulo.

Bryn is the Head of Fixed Income for Rathbones, and is lead manager on the Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund and the Rathbone Strategic Bond Fund. He joined Rathbones in November 2004 from Merrill Lynch, where he managed $2 billion of fixed income assets. Bryn is a member of the Rathbone Strategic Asset Allocation Committee, Non-Executive Chairman of Rathbones' Fixed Income Committee, and an adviser to the Rathbone Banking Committee. He is a WMA representative for the HMT DMO’s (Her Majesty’s Treasury - Debt Management Office) Gilt market consultation process. Bryn appears regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg TV. He also sits on the IA Fixed Income Committee. Bryn graduated from Birmingham University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography in 1995.

As Head of Investments, Luis actively contributes on the formulation of the company's Investment Policy at the Investment Committee at Credito Agricola Gest. Luis is responsible to set up the strategy to implement the Investment Policy in order to maximize returns assuring that all portfolio managers do comply with the risk limits and guidelines defined by the Committee. He closely work with the Institutional Clients department giving market insights to help drawing the Investment Policy and the development of new products for institutional clients: insurance portfolios and pension funds. 

Javier possesses more than 25 years of experience in the investment industry, especially on the equity and fixed income markets where Javier is a pioneer developing investment products platforms in both markets. Javier is Managing Partner at Auriga Global Investors where oversees electronic trading division for equity and fixed income. On the equity side, Auriga has developed a trading engine with highest efficiency and lowest latency that allows Auriga to be one of the references on the Spanish equity industry. At the same time, Auriga is running the first and only Fixed Income online broker in Spain www.aurigabonos.es, where private banking and retail customers can find online trading solutions in the most liquid bonds of the world (more than 2,000 references). Before his assignment at Auriga, Javier was during 15 years the CEO of Interdin, a reputed Spanish investment company. Javier is a regular contributor to several Spanish media, assessing markets evolution and effects of regulatory framework changes. Javier will also share its technical experience and expertise in equity and fixed income when discussing how to overcome issues relating to Fixed Income/trading challenges and how to solve them under MiFID II regulation.

Mary is Global Head Fixed Income in the Global Investment Center of the Private Bank of ABN AMRO and a voting member of the private bank’s Global Investment Committee. Mary is Chairman of the Rente Gilde, the society of Dutch financial professionals working in fixed income markets and is Assistant Professor in the section Finance on Erasmus School of Economics where she is responsible for the educational and research program on fixed income. Mary has spent her entire professional career in fixed income. Starting in 1993 upon the completion of her MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics, she worked the first thirteen years in the dealing rooms of Paribas, DrKW and Lehman Brothers in London as Euro bond strategist and Debt Capital Markets professional. In 2006 she took time out to write her PhD thesis on the integration of European corporate bond markets. She obtained her doctorate in 2011 at Tilburg University, following which she resumed her career in the Netherlands in asset management. She first worked for ING Investment Management (now NN IP) and then for APG Asset Management, both as a Senior Strategist for the fixed income portfolios of respectively the largest life insurer (Nationale Nederlanden) and largest pension fund (ABP) in the Netherlands. She joined ABN AMRO in September 2015, where she leads a team of fixed income specialists globally which is responsible for delivering high performing portfolios and investment recommendations to the private clients of ABN AMRO. Part of this Global team are fixed income specialists of Bank Neuflize in France and Bethmann Bank in Germany. ABN AMRO’s private bank has approximately 190 billion euro assets under management, of which 40% is invested in fixed income.

Thanos is Founder & CIO of ABP Invest, established in 2015 to provide strategic outlook and research on markets, geopolitics, economics and FX.  Previously he had been in asset management for 20 years with Credit Suisse Asset Management and Investec Asset Management across fixed income, emerging markets, currency management and multi-asset. Thanos managed portfolios for a number of FTSE, Dow and DAX pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, local authorities and family offices. His team was presented with the “Currency Manager of the Year" award twice, in 2004 and 2010.  He began his career working as an Economist for the UK Government Economic Service coincidentally amidst the outset of the ERM Crisis of 1992. Thanos was also the Co-Founder and CIO of Equant-Analytics and Founding Partner and strategic advisor to EMFC Loans Syndication. He is a frequent guest on BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg as well as a regular speaker at business and investment conferences. Thanos has been awarded the CFA Charterholder designation and is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He holds an MSc Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in Athens, he has been living in London for over 30 years.

Philippe Guillot was appointed Executive director of the Markets Directorate at the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the national regulator of France on March 2012. The Markets Directorate oversees markets and monitors market infrastructure and stakeholders. Since joining the Autorité des marchés financiers, Philippe has taken a leading role in the market microstructure debate, especially in relation to issues regarding tick size. He actively contributes to various ESMA working groups, focussing on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive Level II. Philippe began his career in finance in 1987 at DKL James Capel (now HSBC), where he held various positions. In 1991 he joined Enskilda Securities as a market maker, first in Paris, then in London. In 1998 he moved to Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux in Paris, taking over as head of Facilitation, before being made Group Trading director in 2006, in Paris and then London. Throughout this time Philippe has played an active role in numerous working groups and market authorities dealing with MiFID issues. He was a member of the Securities Trading Committee of the AFME (Association for Financial Markets in Europe), and represented Cheuvreux with the Regulated Markets and MTF (Multilateral Trading Facilities). Philippe holds a degree in private law from Paris XI University.

In her current role, Elizabeth directs ICMA's efforts with MiFID II/MiFIR bond trading regulatory obligations, and the structural changes that MiFID II is driving is at the core of this role. The focus is creating commercially viable best practices in bond market trading. As the MiFID II deadline approaches, Elizabeth will be sharing her specific knowledge around MiFID II and advise you on how you can best prepare your trading desk for the January 2017 deadline.

Matt oversees a team of over 45 trading professionals as head of the firm's fixed income and commodities trading businesses. Matt has worked in virtually every asset class traded at Jane Street, spanning across domestic equities, international equities, fixed income, and commodities. He is currently based in New York and spent several years in Europe, where he started Jane Street's London ETF trading desk in 2006.  He first joined Jane Street in 2001, a year after the firm began trading.

 

David Bullen founded his own independent advisory consultancy in 2012, specialising in fixed income electronic trading and market structure change; driven both by regulatory reform and electronic efficiency.  Prior to this, David led Citigroup's Global Rates & Credit e-Commerce businesses for 17 years.  Previously, David managed Citi's cross-asset class FICC e-Commerce businesses in Europe and was also heavily involved in the launch of the FIX protocol to the Equities market whilst at Salomon Brothers in the late-90's. He has a genuine cross-asset class appreciation of e-trading in capital markets. More recently, David’s clients, on both buy-side and sell-side, span areas as diverse as regulatory-driven futurisation in OTC interest rate space, efficiency changes in fixed income primary markets, a technology network utility-driven initiative in European credit markets, a global investment management company’s e-strategy and advising a regional investment bank on ecommerce and regulatory reform strategy.  David has also advised technology start-up companies through their development to launch and beyond. David is currently the Secretary-General of the Electronic Debt Markets Association (EDMA); the trade association focused on (cash and derivative) market regulations for European fixed income MTFs. David also co-ordinates the SI Registry Data Group of seven of the leading Approved Publication Arrangements (APAs). Frequently, David develops, chairs and contributes to leading financial industry conferences, roundtable discussions and workshops. David is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment and was a Trustee Director of a ~£4bn pension scheme for 10 years.

John Greenan is a commercially aware and creative technology disruptor, strategist, business analyst, developer and manager. He combines market knowledge, commercial/financial savvy, relationship building skills and an enviable contact list. He has considerable experience of buy-sides, sell sides, execution venues and exchanges. He is the driving force behind FIX Orchestra, the next version of the FIX protocol. He works with multiple asset classes (fx, fixed income, equities, futures, options, money markets) building out electronic trading and the necessary workflow and business process changes. He has specialisations in: digital transformation, fixed income trading, strategy for trading systems/processes, market microstructure, OMS & EMS integration, ecosystem integration, connectivity, project management, business analysis, real-time systems and vendor relationship management.

Julia is the Founder & CEO of Streets Consulting, the UK and US business development, marketing and communications consultancy working with a wide range of financial services and technology clients. Prior to founding Streets Consulting in 2008, Julia was global head of communications at NYSE Technologies, serving on the Executive Committee and European head of marketing and sales development at Instinet. In 2013, Brummell Magazine named Julia one of their 30 Inspirational Women on Boards and in 2014 one of their 30 Inspirational Women Entrepreneurs. This year they listed her as one of their 30 Insprirational Women City Influeners. In the past three years Innovate Finance has listed Julia one of their Leading Women in FinTech and one of SWIFT's Global Power Women in FinTech. Julia is proud to serve as a trustee of the charity 'Children in Crisis' and is a Fellow of the British American Project.

.Brett has direct responsibility for five traders domiciled in Copenhagen. In Brett’s team, they are responsible for trading credit bonds, rates, CDS’s, IRD’s, repos, deposits and they manage money market portfolios, where they service several of Nordea’s portfolio managers scattered across the Nordic region. The overall goal of Brett’s team is to bring (and document) the best returns to their clients who have entrusted Nordea IM with their funds. Brett’s experience includes over two decades of European managerial sell-side experience - primarily in the interest rate derivative and bond space. Recently, Brett has been heavily involved with committees bringing various market participants together (Project Neptune, ICMA’s response on MiFID II to ESMA, and numerous pre-trade and trading platforms.)

Dan Barnes is the award-winning editor of bond trading magazine, The DESK. He has written about trading, investment, banking and financial technology for 18 years, he regularly contributes to 10 other publications, presents Trader TV, and writes as a contributing editor for FT Group and Risk magazines.

David Saab, Managing Director, is a member of the Private Bank’s manager selection team. Based in London, he is the Global Head of Fixed Income and Absolute Return funds. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2011, he was working as a Portfolio Manager at Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild. He headed their Fixed Income and Absolute Return fund research as well as their broader multi-manager team, developing expertise in High Yield, Leveraged Loans and Emerging Markets debt. David was a member of the investment committee at BPERE and had built tailored asset allocation solutions for high net worth clients. He started his career at J.P. Morgan where he worked on the Masterswap desk. David holds a master’s degree in Finance from Audencia Nantes Business School and has attended the MBA program of Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.

Christoph Hock is Head of Multi-Asset Trading at Union Investment. He joined Union in April 2014 and, with his team, is responsible for all trading activities associated with portfolio management of cash equities, fixed income, fund and ETF business, FX, listed and OTC derivatives, and securities lending.

Christoph graduated with a Diplom-Bankbetriebswirt, and has more than 20 years of international investment banking, trading and management experience, having worked for companies on the sell- and buy-side, most recently as Head of Execution Sales at Barclays Bank and at Alpha Trading.

Prior to this, Christoph was founder, partner and co-CEO/Head of Portfolio Management and Trading at Tungsten Capital Management, a hedge fund company (2005-2010). He was Head of Proprietary Equity Derivatives Desk at J.P. Morgan in London and Frankfurt from 1998-2004. Christoph began his career at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Cash Equity Trading.

Stephanie is a Senior Fixed Income Trader at Baillie Gifford where she has worked since 2008. Stephanie is responsible for executing a range of instruments for the Credit, Rates & Currency and Multi Asset Investment Teams including multi-currency IG and HY bonds, CDS, EM local and Hard Currency bonds, EM and G10 IRS, Futures and Currency Forwards.  Prior to joining Baillie Gifford, Stephanie worked in a Credit Sales role at an agency broker for 10+ years.

James is Founder & CEO of KiteEdge, a Fintech company focused on tackling inefficiencies within the institutional research market. Prior to founding KiteEdge, he was a Director at BCA Research, the leading Independent Macro Research firm. Knowledge Management (KM) is rapidly emerging as a key competitive differentiator for asset managers. Kiteedge combine Asset Management specific knowledge graphs (developed through interaction with domain sector experts) with AI and Search technologies.  

Mark Yallop is the Chair of the FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) and as well as an external member of the Prudential Regulation Committee. Mark was UK Group CEO for UBS from 2013-14. Prior to this he was Group COO for ICAP plc from 2005-11 and spent 20 years at Deutsche Bank from 1984-2004 where he was instrumental in building their investment banking business and served as Group COO from 2002-04. He has been a member of numerous financial services industry bodies.

Richard Kelly is the Head of Global Strategy, providing investment and strategic advice for both external and internal clients on G10 FX, non-US rates, commodities, and Emerging Markets as well as top-down global macro analysis, assessing the common trends in major economies and implications for markets. Rich more recently worked as Head of European Rates and FX Research for TD Securities in London. Prior to this, he worked as the Senior International Economist for TD Economics, responsible for forecasting the global economy. He has also worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C., where he analyzed emerging market economies and the IMF’s response to financial crises, as well as several other economic development organizations. Rich earned a B.A. in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies and an M.A. in International Development from The George Washington University in Washington D.C., as well as an M.A. in Economics from the University of Toronto.

Larry Fondren is a respected veteran of the insurance and securities industries, where he has worked to develop and promote efficient and equitable markets. He has served the insurance industry in capacities ranging from agent to senior officer and shareholder of domestic and international insurance and reinsurance companies. In the securities industry he developed the first SEC-regulated electronic market for trading corporate and municipal bonds and other credit instruments. More available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fondren

In 1990s Mr. Fondren launched the first Internet-based facility for single-price auctions of new asset-backed securities. He also developed a secure global network through which corporate buyers and sellers could anonymously outline their business interests, and receive mutual notifications as potentially complementary interests are entered by counterparties meeting their respective matching requirements.

Mr. Fondren has testified before Congress and other regulatory bodies regarding the need for greater transparency and access to order, pricing and transaction information in the U.S. capital markets. He is the inventor of a variety of inventions relating to insurance, market price discovery, risk mitigation, smart contracts, securities and other financial products and processes.

Lee Bartholomew was appointed Head of Derivatives Product R&D Fixed Income in December 2016.

He is responsible for developing the existing portfolio of products and the evaluation as well as implementation of new products and services within FIC. He is responsible for leading the next phase of product innovation by building and managing Eurex product FIC research and development business.

Prior to joining Deutsche Börse, Lee was responsible for building out the flow structured rates trading business at Royal Bank of Canada. Before RBC, he was at Lloyds Banking Group where he held a number of senior trading positions within its Global Derivatives Trading business, responsible for market making GBP, EUR and USD vanilla and exotic interest rate derivatives to its clients.

Lee Bartholomew holds a Bachelor of Business and Economics degree from the University of Lancaster.

Philip Simons has 30 years experience in the financial industry where he started life as a swaps trader before moving in to the clearing world, initially heading up the clearing business at UBS followed by Cargill. Philip later moved into the custody and collateral management space at J.P.Morgan before joining Deutsche Börse Group.

Philip initially joined as head of the Clearing Sales and Relationship Management Section and is now Global Head of Fixed Income Derivatives Sales & Business Development for the Trading & Clearing of both listed and OTC products. This covers the Eurex Exchange and the Eurex Clearing House. Philip is responsible for building strong relationships with clients, attracting new trading and clearing members as well as the development and promotion of new products and services.

Matthias took responsibility for Cross Market Strategy for Deutsche Börse AG in March 2016 and is a Member of the Executive Board of Eurex Clearing AG since August 2014. In his Cross Market Strategy function he is in charge of strategy for Eurex Clearing and Clearstream. From April 2013 until February 2016 he established and developed as Chief Client Officer and Global Head of Clients & Markets a dedicated client facing organizational unit of Eurex Clearing. Before that he took responsibility as Head of Clearing Initiatives for the implementation of Eurex Clearing’s strategic project portfolio and regulatory affairs. Since joining the Deutsche Börse Group in 2001, he has held a number of leadership and project management positions at Deutsche Börse and Eurex for various strategic projects, amongst others, the introduction of EurexOTC Clear as well as the merger and integration of the International Securities Exchange. Matthias holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in North Carolina.

As Global Head of Sales at MTS, Frank is responsible for growing the company’s interdealer and dealer-to-client electronic fixed income markets.  Prior to joining MTS, Frank held the role of Managing Director and Co-Head of the International Credit Business at Jefferies International, where he was responsible for its fixed income trading, research and sales. Frank began his career as a trader at Salomon Brothers in New York and went on to spend nearly twenty years at Credit Suisse in London. At CS, Frank ran European Credit Sales, served on the Credit Operating Committee and was a trustee of the Credit Suisse EMEA Foundation. Frank holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School

Ruben Costa-Santos is the head of FX at ITG, a leading independent broker and financial technology provider, where he oversees foreign exchange activity across the Analytics, Execution, and Workflow Technology divisions. Previously Ruben worked at Deutsche Bank, where among other roles he served as head of FX Client Platforms for the Americas, responsible for technology enabled FX solutions for institutional clients and for the cross border payments’ platform. Ruben has a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics. Prior to working in Finance, he conducted research in discrete quantum gravity and statistical mechanics and taught at Utrecht University and at Stony Brook University.

Josh has over 20 years of capital market experience. Prior to joining OpenDoor, Josh founded Fina Technologies, Inc., a financial technology consulting company, primarily in the Fixed Income/Rates/Volatility, Futures, FX and Equities markets. He previously worked for major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs International, Deutsche Bank, and Countrywide Capital Markets, where he traded U.S. Treasuries and Agencies, Swaps, FX and related products. He has technical expertise in building statistical and Term-Structure valuation models for off-the-run and high-coupon securities. While at Countrywide Capital Markets, Josh architected the entire trading infrastructure and helped establish a U.S Treasury Primary Dealership. Josh received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Giuseppe Nuti is the head of US Rates Trading for UBS Americas, a team focused on trading linear and non-linear products in the USD Fixed-Income markets, specializing in high-velocity assets. Prior to this role, Giuseppe was an algorithmic trader at UBS - New York - specialized in fixed income and foreign exchange. He has worked as a trader for over fifteen years, initially in the interest-rates options and swaps market and, since 2006, in the European and US Government bond markets. He has experience working both within the primary dealer community and in the high-frequency environment (at KCG and Citadel.) At UBS, he has run the eTrading desk within FRC in the U.S., with particular focus on electronic market-making. Giuseppe holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science with particular focus on Markov Decision Processes applied to finance from University College London and an MSc in financial mathematics from City University, London. He has taught various courses, including Financial Computing at UCL and has supervised a number of Ph.D. students - both at UCL and CASS Business School. His research interests are in algorithmic trading, numerical solutions to Bayesian inference, and interaction between market participants in price-setting microstructure. Giuseppe currently lives in Larchmont (NY) where he spends most of his free time enjoying his young family and dog.

Bill is a Senior Managing Director of SSGA and Head of Investments for EMEA and currently serves as a member of the European executive management committee as well as the SSGA Investment Committee. In his role as Head of Investments for EMEA he provides leadership and governance to SSGA investment management activity including trading and research throughout the region. Previously Bill was Global Head of Fixed Income Alpha Strategies, with oversight of the global teams delivering active strategies in North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.He joined SSGA with a wealth an experience in the fixed income, currency and derivative markets at Unicredit (formerly Hypovereinsbank HVB), BGB International Capital Markets, London and the USD swap and option portfolios for Commerzbank and Banque Indosuez (Calyon). He joined Morgan Guarantee Trust (JP Morgan Chase) as a graduate in 1993.

Marc’s global team spans three locations, with people in US, London and Tokyo to provide real asset managers with commentary, analysis and trade ideas in fixed income, equities and FX. Marc actively advises clients on key challenges with in fixed income, including low negative interest rates, the latter of which is unprecedented, and more volatile exchange rates, which makes hedging more expensive.

Simon is Head of ETF Advisory at Bluefin Europe. He is responsible for all aspects of sales and business development across EMEA and has over a decade of buy and sell side experience within the ETF industry having held sales and trading roles in London. Prior to joining Bluefin in April 2014, he worked for BlackRock iShares raising seed capital and spear heading market making and distribution initiatives with clients in the UK, Germany and Switzerland. Simon has also held equity sales and program trading roles at Tradition and Barclays Capital in London. An associate member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), Simon is a keen amateur rugby player and fan of English cricket. He Lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and three children.

Lee is the Head of Trading of Bluefin Europe. After graduating from Harvard in 1999 he joined the graduate programme of the Helios Group, which was subsequently bought by Bear Stearns in 2001. After 2 years as an Associate Director, he ran the fixed income options market making desk. In 2003 he left Bear to co-found Medway Capital Management, a leading Market Making firm specializing in listed fixed income and equity options, trading primarily in Eurex and LIFFE listed options. In 2007 Lee was part of the merger between Medway Capital and Bluefin, and was a founder of the new entity, Bluefin Europe LLP. He has remained as the head of Bluefin Europe, and has helped to grow out the ETF Market Making franchise across multiple asset classes.

A former footballer, Lee now spends his time watching England Test Matches or his beloved Fulham. He lives in Greenwich with his wife and three daughters.

Mark Betteridge is the Global Head of Fixed Income and Currency Analytics at Bloomberg. He is responsible for Bloomberg’s core debt, treasury, bond, syndicated loan and currency analytics, as well as credit analytics and league table products across the Bloomberg Professional service. Prior to his current role, Mr. Betteridge was responsible for the business development, design, build and rollout of Bloomberg's league tables and syndicated loan products globally. Before joining Bloomberg in October 2009, Mr. Betteridge spent eight years with Fortis – most recently as Director of Secondary Loans – where he managed the team responsible for all secondary loan activity and investor relationships in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Prior to that, Mr Betteridge held a variety of positions at NatWest, within the firm’s Structured Finance division. Mr Betteridge holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics from Cardiff University

Before joining BlackRock in 2013, Mr. Pybus worked at UBS Global Asset Management from 2008-2013 as a fixed income investment specialist focused on global, currency and high yield strategies. Prior to that he worked for Lehman Brothers Asset Management from 2005-2008. Mr. Pybus started his career at Morgan Stanley Investment Management as part of the Strategic Planning and Product Development group from 1999-2005.Mr. Pybus holds an MSc in Economics from University College London and a BSc in Economics from the University of Southampton. He is also a CFA charter holder.

Tom is Head of Client Trading Coverage at Invesco PowerShares EMEA. The client trading team helps Invesco PowerShares investors implement ETFs into their portfolio and trading strategies for buying or selling in the most cost effective and efficient way as possible. As technical ETF experts the team is driven to deliver a superior investment experience for investors and traders to leverage ETFs for their specific market access needs. Previously, Tom worked for Source ETFs Capital Markets team prior to the takeover by Invesco PowerShares. Tom holds a Masters in Investment Management from Cass Business School.

Gherardo Lenti Capoduri is Head of Banca IMI’s Market Hub. He started his career in Financial Control, before moving into Trading at Citigroup. Here he gained extensive experience of both trading and quantitative research, and from 1999 became heavily involved in trading platforms and specializes in online trading, electronic trading platform, and institutional investors sales in both brokerage & execution. Gherardo is board member of ASSIOM FOREX and holds a degree in Business Administration and Management at Bocconi University in Milan.

Henri joined Bluefin in April 2017 to work on all aspects of sales and business development across EMEA, having spent the last 5 years working for 2 leading ETF providers. Firstly at ETF Securities and then WisdomTree covering institutional clients. Prior to this, Henri worked at Tradition as a structured products specialist. Henri holds an Msc in Quantitative Finance from Paris Dauphine University, and is a CFA and CAIA charter holder. Henri is a keen football player and enjoys reading 19th century philosophy and history books.

Nicholas Bean is the Head of Trading Venues at Bloomberg since February 2018. He is responsible for the strategy and operations of Bloomberg's trading platforms and products for fixed income instruments, FX and derivatives, and related direct connectivity services, on the Bloomberg Terminal. The solutions he oversees include the Bloomberg SEF and MTF, the fixed income trading platform FIT, the FX trading platform FXGO, and Bloomberg's execution management systems (EMSX, FXEM and TSOX). He joined Bloomberg in 2014 as Global Head of the Fixed Income electronic trading product. Prior to that, Bean spent 17 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked across the firm's fixed income electronic trading business. 

Raphael set up and manages Invesco’s ETF portfolio management team in EMEA. The team is currently building out a broad range of passive Fixed Income ETFs. Invesco ETFs are known for their innovative products. Previously, he worked at DeAM as a senior ETF portfolio manager and at Vanguard as a Fixed Income portfolio manager and trader. Prior to moving to London, he worked as an analyst at Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs in New York. Raphael is a CFA charter holder and holds an MBA from Emory University. 

Chris is a globally experienced former UK Government Hostage Negotiator/Crisis Manager who has lived or operated in Europe, the US, Middle East, Africa and others. He has trained Governments, private organisations and NGO’s in effective communication and negotiation and has corporate experience as Head of Global Operational Security/Intelligence for FTSE 100 ‘Blue Chip’ companies in the UK and overseas. He was a lead trainer on the UK National Hostage Negotiation Course at New Scotland Yard is a graduate the FBI Crisis Intervention Course at Quantico, Virginia. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and a member of the International Security Managers Association (ISMA) Executive Leadership Programme. Chris now works with individuals and businesses to increase the effectiveness of communication in business, in the public sector and private life. He is in demand as a mentor; a speaker at corporate events on topics such as motivation, leadership and how advanced negotiation skills can translate to business. He is currently studying clinical psychotherapy.

Jacco Verpoorte heads the Institutional Trading department at Flow Traders. His team covers the relationships with over 700 European buy side counterparties as well as all European ETF issuers. Jacco Verpoorte joined Flow Traders in 2006 as an ETF trader, where he was responsible for setting up the European Sector ETF desk. After trading European Sector Equity ETFs for 4.5 years, he moved to the Emerging Markets Equity desk in the spring of 2011, to help grow the trading activity and product coverage. In the summer of 2014, the position as head of the Fixed Income desk opened up and Jacco switched from trading Equity ETFs to Fixed Income ETFs. Currently, the Fixed Income desk is market maker, liquidity provider and/or designated sponsor in over 650 Fixed Income ETF Isins on the major European Exchanges. After heading the Fixed Income desk for over 3 years, Jacco moved from the trading side to the sales side of the organization early 2018.

Matthew York has been working in the financial services industry for 23 years initially within Investment Management at INVESCO Global and Investec Asset Management followed by 13 years building the OMS provider thinkFolio which was acquired by IHS Markit Group in 2013. thinkFolio was established as the first truly cross asset OMS with a particular focus on Fixed Income and OTC products. His focus throughout his career has been on cross-asset Order and Execution management. He has considerable experience of the full buy-side workflow re-imagining electronic trading and the associated business process changes. Matthew’s joined FlexTrade in 2016 as Product Owner for Fixed Income to extend the FlexTRADER Multi-Asset EMS for the Fixed Income asset class.

BAS is Director Capital Markets at Grupo Caja de Ingenieros.  Bas is responsible for the Capital Market team. With respect of the activity in the Fixed Income market, his teams manages the ALM portfolio, the trading book and advises institutional clients in the portfolios with government debt and credit products.

Daniel Mayston, PhD, FRM, Managing Director, is Head of the Market Structure and Electronic Trading team in EMEA within BlackRock's Trading and Liquidity Strategies Group. Mr. Mayston is responsible for BlackRock's market structure and electronic trading strategy in EMEA, capturing market opportunities and delivering risk-controlled performance. He works closely across BlackRock's modelling, risk management and investment teams to provide thought leadership on liquidity and liquidity risk. In this role Mr. Mayston is also Global Head of Trading Research and globally responsible for trading cost modelling, market microstructure and execution research across all asset classes. 

Maya Beyhan, Investment Strategist, is responsible for building bespoke strategic solutions through asset liability modelling and producing analysis to support recommendations for Kempen’s UK clients.

Before joining to Kempen’s UK team in 2016, Miss Beyhan worked as a Fiduciary Manager for Kempen’s Dutch clients advising on strategic asset allocation. She then also created, used and maintained models to calculate the expected risk and return of potential investment strategies, monitor and project funding levels, attribute risk and return, hedge liabilities and create proxy liability cashflows.

She started her career as an investment consultant within Aon Hewitt Amsterdam’s investment strategy team, advising clients on asset allocation, liability hedging solutions and introducing new asset classes. Miss Beyhan earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from VU University Amsterdam and a MSc degree in theoretical physics from Groningen University in the Netherlands.

Richard M. McVey has been Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors since our inception. As an employee of J.P. Morgan & Co., one of our founding broker-dealers, Mr. McVey was instrumental in the founding of MarketAxess in April 2000. Prior to founding MarketAxess, Mr. McVey was Managing Director and Head of North America Fixed-Income Sales at J.P. Morgan, where he managed the institutional distribution of fixed-income securities to investors. Mr. McVey led MarketAxess through the Company’s IPO in 2004, and since that time, MarketAxess has been one of the fastest growing financial technology companies in the U.S. public markets, with industry leading total shareholder returns. Mr. McVey was named the Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year for financial services in 2012, and he has been named to the Institutional Investor Tech 40 list 15 times. Mr. McVey is a member of the SEC’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee, for which he chairs the Technology and Electronic Trading Sub-Committee. Mr. McVey serves on the Board of Directors of Miami (Ohio) University Foundation, as well as the Board of Trustees of Colby College. He previously served on the board of directors of Blue Mountain Credit Alternatives L.P., an asset management fund focused on the credit markets and equity derivatives markets. Mr. McVey received a B.A. in Finance from Miami (Ohio) University and an M.B.A. from Indiana University.

Arvind Chari has 14 years of experience in the Indian fixed income markets as a dealer, analyst, and portfolio manager. Arvind joined Quantum as a Research Analyst to build the fixed income and macroeconomic research function and to help develop fixed income products for the Quantum Mutual Fund. He was appointed Fund Manager in 2007. Prior to joining Quantum, Arvind gained two year’s experience at Tower Capital and KJMC Capital Markets as a dealer in the Indian government bond markets.

Karim is European Head of Fixed Income Trading at Invesco where he has been since the end of 2015, he is in charge of a team that trades IG, HY, EM, IRS, CDS, swaptions and inflation swaps, he is also on the board of the FMSB as the representative for Invesco. Karim has worked with Credit Derivatives since 2001, starting from Emerging Market CDS and moving on to running Goldman's EM Structured Credit Trading business in 2004, and then on to Credit Hybrids at JPM where he ran the Asia Credit Exotics business from 2008 to 2012 before moving to a Multi Asset sales role. Karim has a keen interest in MOOC learning and has completed courses in Neural Networking, Machine Learning, Cryptography and Data Analytics. Karim holds a D.Phil. in Organic Chemistry from Oxford and an M.A. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge.

Prior to joining Algomi, Scott was the COO of MarketAxess Europe and Trax. He was formerly Global Head of Emerging Markets Trading with UniCredit. Before that he held a variety of senior leadership roles within credit trading and structuring at ABN Amro, RBS, Deutsche Bank and UBS.

Daniel was appointed Chief Executive Officer, LCH Group in October 2017. As CEO Daniel is responsible for achieving new business growth, maintaining and building existing customer relationships, and driving innovation and efficiency across the Group, while ensuring LCH’s risk and resilience is fully safeguarded. Building on his strong track record of innovation, delivery and control, Daniel is also responsible for the development of an integrated global product strategy and its execution.Prior to being appointed as CEO, Daniel was most recently Group COO. Daniel joined LCH in 1999, and during his 16-year career at LCH, Daniel has had involvement in, and responsibility for, risk management, default management, product management, regulatory strategy, programme delivery, sales, marketing and operations across LCH’s SwapClear service. In 2014, after returning from four years in the US, where he started and built out LCH’s North America operations and led SwapClear’s client clearing franchise, Daniel took on the role of Global Head of SwapClear and subsequently took responsibility for LCH’s ForexClear and Listed Rates services, and the initiation of LCH’s SwapAgent service. Previously, Daniel worked at JPMorgan from 2005 to 2008 before returning to LCH on 1 September 2008, where he was immediately responsible for the successful trading and unwinding of Lehman Brothers’ LCH-cleared bond and repo portfolio.