EMEA Trading Conference Speakers

18 SEPTEMBER 2020

Keynote Speaker

Paul Tang

Paul Tang is Member of the European Parliament for the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) since July 2014, sitting in the Group of Socialists and Democrats. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam and worked for the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs and the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis before entering the Dutch parliament in 2007. Here, Paul Tang was spokesperson...

Speakers

Alex Ings

Alex Ings, Co-Chair European Consolidated Tape Working Group – Equities Fixed Trading Community, Executive Director, Agency Trading, Client Access Product Manager, UBS  Alex Ings recently joined the Agency Trading Digital Platforms team at UBS, based in London. As Client Access Product Manager, Alex owns the global, cross-asset client interface for Agency Trading, and is responsible for improving clients’ experience of the execution stack. Alex joined UBS...

Alex McDonald

Alex McDonald, CEO, EVIA Alex McDonald joined the association as CEO in 2009. Prior to joining EVIA, Alex has spent his career in Banking and Fund Management. He has over twenty years of experience as a macro trader and portfolio manager, most recently he was a senior portfolio manager at BSAM Global Alpha Fund and prior to that a portfolio manager in global macro, at...

Alex Wolcough

Alex Wolcough, Co-Chair European Consolidated Tape Working Group – Fixed Income, FIX Trading Community, Founder and CEO, GreenBirch Group Ltd GreenBirch is a specialist Capital Markets consultancy looking at the changing markets and regulation and seeking innovative solutions – whether that is a new target operating model or leveraging new technologies such as cloud – to deliver real value. A current theme is looking at...

Alison Hollingshead

Alison Hollingshead, Chief Of Staff, Trading Platform & Core Technology, Man Group Alison Hollingshead is Chief of Staff, Trading Platform & Core Technology, a role she took up in March 2019. Alison helps manage a broad, 200-person department that is responsible for the delivery of the technology supporting the entire trading lifecycle from order management and execution, to settlement and regulatory reporting, as well as...

Andrew Falco, Global Head of FX & Fixed Income Trading, Fidelity International

Ben Collins

Ben Collins, Head of Sales (EMEA), BMLL Technologies Ben Collins, Head of Sales (EMEA) has over 20 years’ sales management experience working with major enterprises supporting their market data, analytics and execution needs. Prior to joining BMLL, he was Managing Director (Europe) for ACTIV Financial, where he ran ACTIV’s sales and business development activities in EMEA. Prior to ACTIV he was Global Sales & Marketing...

Byron Cooper-Fogarty

Byron Cooper-Fogarty, CEO, Neptune Networks Ltd. Byron started in Fixed Income sales covering asset managers and other buy-side accounts with Royal Bank of Canada and ran Bond sales teams at Commonwealth Bank before moving to the UK and working in asset management with Gartmore (now part of Janus Henderson). From there he moved in to the eTrading arena with MTS (now part of the LSE)...

Cathy Gibson

Cathy Gibson, Head of Dealing, Royal London Asset Management 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...

Charlotte Sickermann is senior policy officer in the trading unit of ESMA since 2014 and is focussing on transparency and market structure issues of MiFID II. She started her career at the German Bundesbank in 2007, working in particular in the financial stability department. From 2011-2014 she joined the European Commission (DG MARKT) as a national seconded expert working on financial services policy, in particular,...

Chris Hollands

Chris Hollands, Head of European Sales and Account Management, TradingScreen Chris Hollands is TS’s Head of European Sales and Account Management and is responsible for all of TS’s client-facing activities in Europe, managing a team based in each of its office locations in London, Paris and Geneva. On a day-to-day basis, Chris oversees TS’s major broker relationships and buy side accounts in the region and...

Christoph Hock

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...

Commissioner Rostin Behnam

Rostin Behnam was nominated by President Trump as a Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on July 13, 2017, was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on August 3, 2017, and was sworn in to serve as a Commissioner on September 6, 2017 for term expiring in June 2021. Prior to joining the CFTC, Mr. Behnam served as senior counsel to U.S. Senator...

Constantinos Antoniades

Constantinos Antoniades, Co-Chair European Consolidated Tape Working Group – Fixed Income, FIX Trading Community, Chief Operating Officer – International, Trumid Constantinos is the Chief Operating Officer – International for Trumid and leads the firm’s European expansion. He is also the Co-Chairman of the FIX Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Working Group. Prior to Trumid, he was the Global Head of Fixed Income at Liquidnet. He joined...

Daniel Riches, Head of Equities Dealing, M&G Daniel Riches joined M&G in 2001 as an Equities Dealer and was made Head Of Equities Dealing in 2011. Previously Daniel Riches was an Equities Dealer at JP Morgan Asset Management.

David Bullen

David Bullen, Secretary General, Electronic Debt Markets Association – Europe, Founder, Lorgwood David Bullen founded his own independent advisory consultancy in 2012, specialising in capital market electronic trading and market structure change; driven both by regulatory reform and technology.  Prior to this, David led Citigroup’s Global Interest Rates & Corporate Credit e-Commerce businesses for 17 years.  Previously, David managed Citi’s cross-asset class fixed income &...

Dr. Robert Barnes

Dr Robert Barnes, Group Head of Securities Trading & CEO,  Turquoise Global Holdings, London Stock Exchange Group Dr Robert Barnes is Group Head of Securities Trading at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), responsible for Capital Markets’ Securities Trading businesses world-wide for London Stock Exchange plc, including Equities, Exchange Traded Products, Fixed Income and Alternatives, and CEO of Turquoise, the UK Swiss & European share trading...

Duncan Higgins

Duncan Higgins, Founder and CEO, Sustainable Trading Duncan Higgins is the founder and a director of Sustainable Trading, a membership network dedicated to driving positive change on environmental, social and governance (ESG) within the financial markets trading industry. Duncan has 25 years’ experience in financial markets, specialist expertise in trading technology and workflows, market microstructure, and regulation. He previously held long standing sales and product...

Elliot Banks

Elliot Banks, Chief Product Officer, BMLL Dr Elliot Banks is the Chief Product Officer at BMLL. Elliot is responsible for data science, product development and product delivery, working closely with both clients and development teams to deliver BMLL’s analytics and product suite to clients. Prior to joining BMLL, Elliot held a mixture of commercial and technical roles, including roles within the infrastructure private equity arm...

Emma Quinn

Emma Quinn, Chairman of the Board, FIX Trading Community, SVP – Global Co-Head of Equity Trading, Equity Trading AllianceBernstein Emma Quinn was appointed Global Co-Head of Equity Trading in 2014. Previously, she served as head of Asia-Pacific Trading, head of Asia-Pacific Fixed Income and Australia Equities Trading, and head of Trading for Australia and New Zealand. Quinn joined the firm in 2001 as a senior...

Eric Heleine

Eric Heleine, Co-Chair France Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Buy-Side Trading Desk & Overlay Management, Groupama Asset Management

Geoffroy Vander Linden

Geoffroy VanderLinden is a seasoned executive with over 20 years’ experience in financial services and regulatory reporting.  Geoffroy joined MarketAxess in 2012 and was appointed Country Head, Netherlands in 2018. In this role, he looks after MarketAxess’ MTF and Reporting businesses based in Amsterdam, providing services to Continental Europe. Geoffroy is responsible for the management of business support functions, all operational aspects of the country,...

Graham Dick

Graham Dick, Market Structure Analyst, Aquis Exchange Graham works as a part time market structure analyst for Aquis Exchange and is based in Paris. Prior to this role, he was CEO of Aquis Exchange Europe and led the Sales and Business Development team at Aquis Exchange PLC. He is a very experienced equities market structure practitioner and innovator having held a similar role at Chi-X...

Greg Yanco

Greg Yanco, Executive Director, Markets, Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) Greg has primary responsibility for ASIC’s Markets group. In this role, he oversees the Market Infrastructure, Market Supervision, Corporations, Financial Reporting and Audit, Governance and Registered Liquidators teams and works closely with the Markets Enforcement team. Greg’s areas of responsibility also include cyber security, ESG and crypto assets. The Markets group is focused on...

Hank Erbe, Global Head SRM & Public Policy, Fidelity International

Harry Street, Fixed Income Trading Product Manager, Bloomberg

Jason Waight

Jason Waight, Head of Regulatory Affairs and Business Management, MarketAxess Jason Waight is the Head of Regulatory Affairs at MarketAxess and is a member of the management team for Europe and Asia. Mr. Waight is responsible for analysing the impact of regulatory changes on the firm’s credit trading, post-trade and market data businesses. Furthermore, he is also responsible for identifying and pursuing opportunities created by...

Jennifer Keser

Jennifer Keser, Director, Head of Market Structure & Regulation, Tradeweb Jennifer Keser is Head of Market Structure & Regulation at Tradeweb. Since joining the firm in 2016, she has taken the lead on financial regulatory affairs efforts in Europe and Asia, focused on the fixed income and derivatives markets. In her role, Jenn advises Tradeweb on the regulatory trajectory affecting the industry, and also proactively...

Jim Kaye

Jim Kaye, Executive Director, FIX Trading Community Jim has worked in the financial industry for 25 years, mostly in equities electronic trading, market structure and regulatory implementation. He has been involved in FIX in various capacities over most of this period, having served as GSC co-chair for eight years, a director for five and as co-chair of various working groups.

Jim Northey

Jim Northey, Co-Chair Global Technical Committee and Co-Chair High Performance Working Group, FIX Trading Community Jim Northey currently serves as a co-chair of the FIX Global Technical Committee and is the Chair Elect of ISO TC68, the ISO Technical Committee for Financial Services. Jim is convener of ISO TC68/SC9/WG1 “ISO 20022 Semantic Models” and is the secretary of ISO TC68/SC8/WG1 “Classification of Financial Instruments Revision”....

John Estrada

John Estrada, Global Head of eMacro, Credit Suisse John Estrada is head of eMacro at Credit Suisse. The team specializes in automated pricing of client trades and relies heavily on recent advances in neural networks and novel hedging strategies to maintain a market-leading product. John has been at Credit Suisse since 2011 working previously at BNP, Sun Trading, and Lehman Brothers in a variety of...

John Marsland

John Marsland, Head of Data Enablement and Trading, Schroder Investment Management John Marsland is Head of Data Enablement and Trading at Schroder Investment Management in London and is responsible for global trading, investment support and the data enablement platform and strategy; currently focussing on the use of ESG data. He joined Schroders in 2006 as a portfolio manager in the QEP quantitative global equities team...

Jonathan Healey

Jonathan Healey, Head of Global Markets eCommerce, BBVA Jonathan Healey has over 30 years of experience in Global Financial Markets, leading projects and business,  initially in Corporate Treasury and subsequently at major banks.   Jon has held senior positions in eCommerce at HSBC, Lloyds and BBVA in FX and eCommerce where he led the creation of end to end digital platforms for FX and other asset classes from...

Joseph Collery

Joseph Collery, Head of Trading, Comgest Joseph Collery joined Comgest in 2017 and works as Head of the Trading Desk. Comgest is an independent, international asset management group with 8 entities globally including Paris, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Boston with an AUM of circa Eur30billion. Joe leverages his almost 20 years industry experience to navigate the new MiFID II world having previously held the positions of...

Julian Allen-Ellis

Julian Allen Ellis, Director, UK Advocacy and Capital Markets, AFME Julian has a broad product background in both fixed income and equities. Before joining AFME, Julian worked for Market Axess/TRAX in a senior sales and relationship management role responsible for market participants utilizing MiFID/MiFIR regulatory reporting and trade matching services. Prior to that, he was in senior relationship management in the prime services teams at...

Larry Tabb

Larry Tabb, Head of Market Structure Research, Bloomberg Intelligence Larry Tabb is the Head of Market Structure Research at Bloomberg Intelligence. Currently Larry is building out his research team to develop research and insight on financial markets infrastructure, technology, regulation, trading practices and industry issues. Prior to joining Bloomberg in June 2020, Larry was the Research Chairman of TABB Group, the financial markets’ strategic advisory...

Linda Middleditch

Linda Middleditch, Chief of Product Strategy and Engineering, Itiviti Linda is the Chief of Product Strategy and Engineering of Itiviti. She joined Itiviti in 2019 and she is responsible for defining and executing the product vision and strategy. Prior to joining Itiviti, Linda held different executive positions at Bloomberg LP, where she was responsible for defining and implementing the strategy of their sell-side equity O/EMS...

Liz Callaghan, Secondary Markets, ICMA Liz’s background is in fixed income & equities electronic trading (Investment Banks, Brokers and MTFs). In the past few years, Liz has focused on market structure strategy (combination of sales/trading experience and knowledge of trading related regulations). Liz’s (CF30) market practitioner’s approach emphasizes: electronic trading product innovation, business line rationalisation and restructuring, best execution and business development. Liz is one...

Liz Carter

Liz Carter, Managing Director, Tradeweb Liz Carter is Managing Director at Tradeweb, responsible for the firm’s trade reporting and clearing strategy. Since joining Tradeweb in October 2004, Liz has been instrumental in developing trade processing initiatives in Europe with a primary focus on client clearing and MiFID II transparency reporting developments. Liz is currently the business lead for Tradeweb’s new Approved Publication Arrangement (APA). Prior...

Marc Berthoud

Marc Berthoud, Head Exchange Data Strategy, SIX Swiss Exchange Marc currently serves as Head Exchange Data Strategy for SIX, one of the leading securities market operators in Europe. Securing high quality data is a central focus area of Marc’s portfolio. Marc drove the modernization of SIX Swiss Exchange market data dissemination infrastructure, improving latency, scalability, timestamping accuracy as well as data content. He recently completed...

Mark Montgomery

Mark Montgomery, Strategy & Business Development, big xyt  Prior to joining big xyt Mark worked at Barclays Capital as Director of Electronic Trading Sales and Alliance Bernstein where he was responsible for establishing a European portfolio and electronic trading desk. Responsible for sales and trading from the launch of ITG in Europe, Mark worked directly with clients exploring electronic trading and transaction costs for the...

Mark Watters

Mark Watters, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, AxeTrading Before co-founding AxeTrading, Mark had over 17 years’ experience at Bloomberg, including senior roles in Fixed Income electronic trading. Mark has specialist experience in selling and implementing bond auction systems, trading platforms, and primary and secondary market Fixed Income trading systems in developed and emerging markets. He has worked with national treasuries, issuers, and the Buy- and...

Matthew Bumstead

Matt Bumstead, Senior Solutions Architect for Exchanges & Data Model (EDM), Bloomberg L.P. With 25 years of experience in exchange market data (six years at Reuters and 19 years at Bloomberg), Matt has global responsibility for designing and developing exchange data solutions and feature sets that nourish all Bloomberg products and services. Prior roles include global Product Manager for the Market Data Feed (B-PIPE), and...

Matthew Coupe

Matthew Coupe, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee & EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community. He advises the Markets division on future regulatory change, forms the advocacy position of the markets division on areas of regulatory change, and engages with politicians, trade associations, regulatory bodies and clients to make sure this is articulated effectively. Matthew was Director of Regulation and Market Structure EMEA at Nice Actimize with...

Merlin Rajah

Merlin Rajah, Head: Electronic Sales Trading, Absa Merlin Rajah is Absa’s Head of Electronic Sales Trading and has been with the Absa team since May 2020 responsible for all electronic new business and client relationships. Prior to Absa, Merlin spent almost a decade at the JSE as their Business Development Manager for Electronic Trading. At the JSE he headed up the Colocation Sales, global International...

Natalie Westerbarkey

Natalie Westerbarkey, Director and Head of EU Public Policy, Fidelity International Natalie Westerbarkey is Director and Head of EU Public Policy at Fidelity International based in Luxembourg. She joined Fidelity in November 2017 and has over 15 years of professional experience. In August 2018 she was appointed as Board Director of FIL (Luxembourg) S.A., is a Deutsche Börse certified Board Director and Luxembourg ILA Independent...

Neil Joseph

Neil Joseph, Managing Director, European Head of Equity Trading, J.P. Morgan Asset Management Neil Joseph, Managing Director, is European Head of Equity Trading for J.P. Morgan Asset Management.  An employee since 2002, Neil was previously responsible for the Program Trading Desk.  Prior to joining the Trading Desk in 2010, Neil led the Trading Technology Team having initially worked within Investment Banking Technology.  Neil obtained a BSc...

Neill Penney

Neill Penney, Managing Director and Global Head of Trading, Refinitiv Neill Penney is Co-Head of Trading at Refinitiv where, together with Michael Chin, he is responsible for the Trading business at Refinitiv.  The Trading business provides market data, pre-trade insight, execution capabilities, and transactional workflow solutions for the sales, trading, and research of foreign exchange, rates, credit, equities, and other exchanged-traded instruments.  Refinitiv is one...

Nick Dutton

Nick Dutton, Chief Regulatory Officer, Cboe Europe

Oliver Chapman

Oliver Chapman, Director, Execution Sales, Barclays Capital

Oliver Gilvarry

Oliver Gilvarry, Head of Markets, Investment Funds & CMU, Irish Ministry of Finance Oliver Gilvarry is Head of Markets, Investment Funds and CMU in the Irish Ministry of Finance. In his role he is responsible for domestic and European policy development in those areas. Oliver has had a number of roles in the area of capital markets including in Lloyds Banking Group and KBC. He...

Paris Pennesi

Paris is Head of Quant Strategies for Spot FX & Commodities for the electronic trading team, eRisk, at HSBC. Previously, he has worked at MAN AHL, JP Morgan and RBS, creating systematic investments strategies and algorithms for market making and execution across FX, Equities and Futures markets. He is also Honorary Associate Professor at UCL where he teaches Market Microstructure and had academic positions at...

Patrik Karlsson

Patrik works as a policy officer in the investment management team at ESMA since April 2019. He contributes to investment fund policy development, focusing on sustainable finance, fund liquidity and leverage risks. Previously he worked at the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), Prudential plc, and the British Banker’s Association in EU Government Affairs and policy development on investment fund, insurance and banking issues.

Paul Clarke

Paul Clarke, Head of FX Venues, Refinitiv

Philippe Guillot

Philippe Guillot, Managing Director, Markets Directorate, Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) Philippe Guillot, Managing Director, took responsibility of the Data and Markets Directorate at the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) in December 2020. The Data and Markets Directorate supervises markets, monitors market infrastructure and stakeholders, and data usage. Since joining the AMF in March 2012 as Executive Director, in charge of Markets, Philippe has played a leading...

Global Head of Trade Automation & Analytics, Bloomberg

Rebecca Healey

Rebecca Healey, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee & EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Founder, Redlap Consulting Rebecca is considered to be a leading industry voice on market structure, regulatory reform, and financial services technology. Writing research over the last decade, Rebecca has authored a plethora of qualitative reports and commentaries covering the impact of market regulation on all asset classes, the impact of the rise...

Richard Young

Richard Young, Industry and Regulatory Affairs – Global Data, Bloomberg  Richard joined Bloomberg in September 2015 in an industry relations role in the Bloomberg Data business.  This role includes advocacy for Bloomberg’s Open Symbology initiatives, covering instrument and entity identifiers.  Richard also undertakes wider industry and regulatory outreach on the data aspects of Bloomberg’s services, including those related to regulatory driven initiatives, ESG and digital...

Ross Barrett

Ross Barrett, Senior Policy Advisor, The Investment Association Ross Barrett is a Senior Policy Advisor at The Investment Association, the trade association of the UK’s £7.7 trillion investment management industry. Overarching responsibility for the MiFID II and EMIR regulations at the Investment Association. ACAMS certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). Member of the Bank of England Money Markets Committee. Ross has more than 19 years’ experience...

Rudolf Siebel

Rudolf Siebel, Managing Director, German Investment Funds Association (BVI) Rudolf Siebel is Managing Director at BVI, the German Investment Funds Association. He represents the German investment fund and asset management industry views on law and regulation, value chain standardisation and market research issues.

Sakeena Lalljee

Sakeena Lalljee, Director Business Development, Aquis Exchange PLC Sakeena is a Director of Business Development at Aquis Exchange, the subscriptions-based pan-European equities trading venue and technology firm. She joined Aquis in 2013 ahead of the Company’s successful launch in November of that year, and is part of the team that has grown Aquis from a start-up project to a listed Company with over 5% market...

Sapna Swaly

Sapna Swaly, Sales Director, Vela Trading Sapna Swaly is a Sales Director at Vela responsible for helping financial institutions in EMEA and APAC find cost-effective solutions to solve their challenges in the areas of market data, execution and automated trading. She specialises in selling some of Vela’s core solutions including market data feeds, feed handlers, execution gateways, direct market access and options trading platforms. Prior...

Séverine Vandelanoite

Séverine Vandelanoite, Senior Vice President, Market Structure & Regulation, Deutsche Börse AG Séverine is market structure expert for equity markets at Xetra and focuses on regulatory topics which impact the EU equity trading landscape including MiFID II/MiFIR, SSR, MAR and domestic regulations. She supports her institution and Deutsche Börse’s clients in their analysis and understanding of the related obligations and requirements. She is member of...

Simon Steward

Simon Steward, Director & European Head of Equity Trading, Capital Group Simon Steward is a Director & European Head of Equity Trading at Capital Group. He has 22 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 20 years. Prior to joining Capital, he worked in the client relationship division of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics...

Stéphane Malrait

Stéphane Malrait, Chairman, ACI Financial Market Association (ACI FMA), Managing Director and Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets, ING Bank Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. Stephane is working with advocacy groups, policy makers and regulators to follow market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry....

Stephen Grady

Stephen Grady, Managing Director, Head of Market Structure and Strategy, IHS Markit Grady comes to Ipreo with more than 20 years of industry experience, most recently at Legal & General Investment Management, where he was Global Head of Trading. While at LGIM he was Founding Chairman of the UK Investment Industry Association Fixed Income Trading Committee, member of both the FX & Heads of Trading...

Stephen Hanks

Stephen Hanks, Manager, Trading Policy, Financial Conduct Authority Stephen Hanks worked on the original negotiations on MiFID whilst at HM Treasury. He then joined the FCA’s predecessor organisation at the end of 2006 since when he has worked mainly on wholesale markets issues. He is currently involved in work on the Wholesale Markets Review, mainly focused on work on a consolidated tape.

Tilman Lüder

Tilman Lüder, Head of Securities Markets, European Commission Tilman Lüder holds a doctorate in law from the University of Tübingen. Before joining the European Commission in 1999, Tilman was as an associate in Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP. He worked on European and German antitrust and merger control issues. His first job in the Commission was that of a case manager dealing with antitrust...

Tim Kreutzmann

Tim Kreutzmann is Vice President Legal at BVI, the German Fund and Asset Management Association. He is responsible for open-ended funds, investor-specific regulation of credit institutions, insurance companies and pension schemes as well as trade and market regulation. Tim is an attorney at law, holds a master degree in international trade law from the University of Stellenbosch/South Africa and is a specialist lawyer for German...

Tom Stenhouse

Tom Stenhouse, Head of Product, LSE Cash Secondary Markets and Turquoise, Capital Markets, London Stock Exchange Group Tom Stenhouse is Head of Product for London Stock Exchange Cash Secondary Markets and Turquoise. Tom is responsible for the development and implementation of the range of trading services on the two London-based markets, including a number of recent successful initiatives such as non-displayed Large In Scale midpoint...

Torun Reinhammar

Torun Reinhammar, Associate Director, Capital Markets Europe, CDP Torun Reinhammar is Associate Director, Capital Markets Europe, at CDP, the global non-profit helping companies, financial institutions and policymakers to measure and reduce their environmental impact. Torun is responsible for CDP’s efforts to engage and enable European banks and investors to help mitigate environmental risks and push forward the low-carbon transition. With 25 years of experience from...

Ty Gallasch, Executive Director, Healthy Markets USA

Vernita Exum

Vernita Exum, CFA, Principal, Head of Equity Index, Europe, Vanguard Vernita oversees the portfolio management of Vanguard’s European domiciled equity index funds, and equity execution in the European, African and the Middle Eastern markets. She began her career at Vanguard as a senior portfolio manager on the US equity trading desk in 2016. Before joining Vanguard, Vernita was an Equity Market Specialist for Bloomberg L.P.,...

Vicky Sanders

Vicky Sanders, Chief Commercial Officer, Agency Execution Vicky is the Chief Commercial Officer for TP ICAP Group’s Agency Execution division. In her role, she is responsible for overseeing the commercial strategy of the Liquidnet and Coex Partners Agency Execution businesses, helping to define, develop and implement the go-to-market strategy. Vicky co-founded RSRCHXchange in 2014 as an aggregator and marketplace for institutional research, a disruptive market-focused...

Vincent Dessard

Vincent is responsible for various legal domains related to capital market issues e.g. (i) MiFID II; and (ii) European Regulation on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (EMIR); and (iii) Market Abuse; and (iv) Risk Management at EFAMA. He is heavily involved in legislative proposals and amendments on MiFID II with the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission and advising on...