Thierry de Vergnes is the Former Global Head of Debt Fund Management of Lyxor Debt Fund Management activities: a business ( fka Egret Management LLP) that he founded and managed for Société Générale Group until its sale in January 2017. Mr de Vergnes joined Societe Generale in April 2004 as Managing Director of Projects and Development within the Leveraged Finance team. In 2005, he initiated the formation of Egret Management LLP, now Lyxor AM UK, which, since its formation, has raised more than 1 billion € invested in sub investment grade loans and bonds through a CLO and debt funds. Prior to this Mr de Vergnes was co-head of Indosuez Capital, the US based Merchant Banking and Asset Management arm of Credit Agricole Indosuez (currently known as Credit Agricole Corporate Investment Banking) that he had joined in 1995, and was Head of the Merchant Banking activity. As co-head of Indosuez Capital, Mr de Vergnes participated in management and served on investment committees of five CDO funds totaling more than $2 billion in aggregate (75% leveraged loans, 25% High Yield bonds). Mr de Vergnes began his career in Paris at Indosuez in the Credit Department before transferring to the Equity Capital Department and moving to London in the Corporate Finance activity. He has particular experience in the Cable, Healthcare Services, Waste Management Services and IT sectors. Mr de Vergnes is French, has a degree in Mining Engineering, an MBA degree from the Institut Français du Petrole and is registered with the FCA.

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.

Andy Ross is the CEO of Curve Global. In his current role, he is responsible for the management of Curve Global, its build of open interest, product innovation and key stakeholder management. Andy’s aim is to build Curve Global into a best in class fixed income futures derivative exchange. Andy joined Curve Global in 2016. Andy was previously a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley where he was the Global Head of Listed Electronic Execution & European Head of Derivatives Clearing. Andy joined Morgan Stanley in June 1998 as an analyst in Operations, serving in a variety of roles with increasing responsibility. Following a short stint at Deutsche Bank, Andy returned to Morgan Stanley in June 2004, with promotion to Vice President in Operations. After a diverse career in Operations, Andy moved to the Counterpart Portfolio Management where he was promoted to an Executive Director. Andy then lead the OTC clearing business in Europe and was promoted to Managing Director. Andy was responsible for listed and OTC clearing in Europe and global electronic listed execution in his last role at Morgan Stanley. Andy earned a Bachelor of Science degree (2.1) from the University of Edinburgh. Andy is a known industry expert, and heavily involved in a number of key industry initiatives in the listed, OTC and counterparty risk management space; including having previously served on CCP risk committees and industry association boards. Based in London, Andy resides in Buckinghamshire, with his wife Sam, their daughter Lottie and his twin boys Elliott and Jackson.

Nathalie Masset is Head of Fixed Income at Euronext, and since 2011 has been in charge of developing the retail regulated market as well as the institutional MTF offer. Nathalie has over 20 years of experience in European market infrastructures; she started her career at Matif SA, the French futures exchange and since then, held several positions of increasing responsibility at Euronext Group in an international environment. Prior to joining the stock exchange, Nathalie worked as a business and IT consultant at organizations such as Capgemini and Axime/Logica where she managed various projects and audits in the financial markets space. Nathalie holds a Master’s degree from Paris-X University; she is a member of the ICMA Regional Committee for France & Monaco and Vice-Chairman of the FESE Fixed Income Committee.

Gerben Everts is Board Member of the AFM, starting in 2011. His main areas of responsibility are: regulation of capital markets, infrastructure, asset management, financial reporting, corporate governance and auditing. He is a member of the IOSCO, ESRB and IFIAR Boards and Chair of the Monitoring Group. He came from Dutch asset manager APG and held several ancillary (inter)national positions in the field of financial reporting, auditing and corporate governance for representative organizations of institutional investors. From 2002 to 2006 he worked in Brussels for the European Commission, DG Internal Market. There he was directly involved, inter alia, in the coordination of the Financial Services Action Plan of Commissioner Frits Bolkestein. Everts worked from 1998 to 2002 at the Dutch Treasury where he was involved in the introduction of independent public supervision on financial reporting, market abuse legislation and EU Council negotiations on IFRS and takeover bids. Everts studied both Economics and Law from 1989 to 1996, started as an auditor at Price Waterhouse, and became CPA in 1998.

Erik Tham is heading the Fixed Income electronic order execution / buy-side trading desk of UBS Wealth Management in Zurich, one of Europe’s leading buy-side houses for Fixed Income securities.

Erik joined UBS in 2005 and has since then been working in Fixed Income on different positions for both the UBS Investment Bank and UBS Wealth Management. He's been with the Fixed Income execution desk since 2008. Before joining UBS, Erik has been a business consultant with Accenture for 6 years, where he was engaged in numerous capital market projects, mostly for stock- and derivatives exchanges.

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.   

Louis Gargour is the founding partner of LNG Capital LLP where he is currently CIO, and a member of its investment committee. LNG Capital LLP is a London based hedge fund that operates in the European liquid credit market on a long/short strategy. The company was founded in 2006 by Louis and has recently launched its LNG Europa Credit Fund. Louis has 25 years corporate bond experience including15 years portfolio management experience. He began his career in 1985 and grew to hold several senior positions at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Salomon Bros, RAB Capital. Louis graduate from Georgetown University with a BS in Finance and from London Business School with an MBA.

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.).

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 Execution for agency services across FX, Rates, Futures and Credit.

Brian Oliver is the Head of FICC Sales and Relationship Management – Europe & Asia at Citadel Securities. This business includes interest rate, credit and FX asset classes, encompassing both derivative and cash products. Mr. Oliver and his team are responsible for client acquisition, relationship management and voice execution services. Mr. Oliver has more than 20 years of experience in financial services, working in Chicago, New York and London. Prior to joining Citadel Securities, Mr. Oliver served as the EMEA Head of Derivatives Clearing and Collateral Management Sales at J.P. Morgan where he was responsible for listed derivatives, OTC cleared derivatives and third-party agency collateral management services. He previously served as a Managing Director of OTC New Business Initiatives at CME Group in Chicago where he launched CME’s OTC clearing business in 2008. Mr. Oliver received a master’s degree from Northwestern’ s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.

He is the global head of fixed income and absolute return funds This is including 40act and UCITS vehicles. 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

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.