Profile Category: EMEA 2023 - Speakers

Paul Besson, Head of Quant Research, Euronext

Joe Scafidi, Global Head of Trading, Brandes Joe Scafidi manages the day-to-day operations and trading strategy for Brandes’ global trading desk. He also oversees the execution of trades for all institutional, private-client and sub-advisory wrap portfolios, as well as program trading. He is a member of the Executive Management Group, which is responsible for the...

Kate Karimson, Chief Commercial Officer, LedgerEdge Kate leads product, sales, marketing, and new strategic opportunities at LedgerEdge, a distributed best-in-class platform that delivers scalable functionality and flexible protocols across fixed income asset classes. Kate has extensive experience building trading platforms and a deep knowledge of the fixed income trading space. Before joining LedgerEdge, Kate was...

Vuk Magdelinic, Founder, Overbond. Before founding Overbond, Mr. Magdelinic’s career spans over 15 years in capital markets and technology. As PwC Risk and Regulatory consulting manager, Mr. Magdelinic led large digital transformation programs at Deutsche Bank and BNY Mellon in New York City. Mr. Magdelinic has played lead roles in several multi-billion dollar digitization and...

Oliver Pratley, Senior Relationship Manager, Invesco Oliver Pratley is the Senior Relationship Manager for Invesco based out of Henley on Thames which runs over $66 billion in active AUM. The Henley Investment Centre is part of Invesco Ltd, a global organisation solely focused on investment management with over $1.5 trillion of AUM and offices all...

Paul O’Brien, Founder & CEO, Glimpse Markets Paul O’Brien is the Founder & CEO of Glimpse Markets (www.glimpsemarkets.com), a financial data sharing platform for institutional bond traders. Launched in June 2022 and underpinned by a “Give to Get” model, participating clients send agreed subsets of their trading data to Glimpse who then aggregate, anonymise, and...

Adam Avards, Principal for Cyber and Third Party Risk, UK Finance Adam Avards joined UK Finance in 2022 as Principal for Cyber and Third Party Risk. He leads UK Finance’s engagement on the Critical Third Party regulatory pathway and chairs a number of forums and committees on Cyber Security, Cloud and Risk. Before joining UK...

Neil Hamburger, Credit Trading, JP Morgan Chase & Co. • Neil is the head of Financial Resource Management for JPMorgan Global Credit Trading with additional responsibility for Clearing, Regulatory Relations, Market Structure, Data and Data analysis. He has held this role for over 10 years. • He is Currently the Chief Data Officer for Global...

Mariya Brown, Head of EMEA Innovation, BNY Mellon Mariya Brown heads EMEA Innovation for BNY Mellon, focusing on accelerating the firm’s digital initiatives, testing and exploring ideas, transforming the way we work, and partnering with clients and the wider ecosystem to develop solutions that service our clients and shape the industry. Mariya has over 25...

Peter Jastreboff, Vice President Client Services, Talos A seasoned financial services veteran, Pete is an exceptional global technology leader with expertise in Cash Equities and Listed Derivatives covering algorithmic trading, alternative liquidity venues and co-location / HFT solutions. He has over 25 years of experience with Fixed Income – FX, Rates, Credit – trading and...