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The Honourable Caroline D. Pham was sworn in as a CFTC Commissioner on April 14, 2022. Commissioner Pham is a recognized leader in financial services compliance and regulatory strategy and policy. Her substantial experience spans key international issues such as prudential regulation and systemic risk, financial markets, fintech and digital assets, ESG, implementation of global regulatory reforms, and addressing the impact of major disruptions like the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Pham is the sponsor of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.
Previously, Commissioner Pham was a Managing Director at Citigroup where she held various senior roles, including Head of Market Structure for Strategic Initiatives on the Institutional Clients Group Business Development team; Head of Capital Markets Regulatory Strategy and Engagement; Deputy Head of Global Regulatory Affairs; and Global Head of Swap Dealer and Volcker Compliance. She was a member of firmwide governance forums and has held leadership roles in many industry organizations.
Commissioner Pham is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has received various professional awards. She has a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, where she has served on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Business and Finance Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Law, Economics and Finance.
Samuel Riley is the Chief Executive Officer of Clearstream Holding AG and Head of Clearstream Securities Services. Previously, he had a long-standing career at Citigroup, where he most recently served as Global Head of Custody Operations. His earlier responsibilities there included leading the EMEA Service Centers & Shared Services organisation and being an Executive Board Member of Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG. Samuel Riley holds a degree in Business Management from Wolverhampton University.
Javier Hernani took up his role of Head of the Securities Services business unit and he is member of the Executive Board of Six Group, since January 2021, after the takeover of BME by SIX. He is also CEO of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Sociedad Holding de Mercados y Sistemas Financieros, SA, since April 2017. He served as General Manager of BME from December 2012 to April 2017, with the specific role of coordinating the action of business units and corporate areas. Chairman of the Risk and Security Committees as well as Member of the board of several subsidiaries. Previously, he joined BME as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, assuming the role of conducting the integration process of the newly created group and leading the IPO process which took the company public as of 14th July 2006.
Prior to its incorporation to Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Mr. Hernani was Deputy General Manager of the Bilbao Stock Exchange (until 2003), CFO of Norbolsa, S.V.B. (until 1998) and Consultant in Coopers & Lybrand Brussels (until 1989).
Mr. Hernani earned a Degree in Economics and Business by University of Deusto in 1986, a Master’s Degree in European Economic Studies, specialising in Economics, by The College of Europe in Brussels in 1988 and a Master’s Degree in Advanced Management by University of Deusto in 1997.
Guillaume Eliet has been Chief Executive Officer of Euroclear ESES CSDs (Euroclear France, Euroclear Belgium and Euroclear Nederland) since 01 September 2021.
Mr. Eliet was head of Regulatory, Compliance and Public Affairs, for Euroclear group Since 2017.
Prior to joining Euroclear, he worked at the French Stock Market Authority, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), where he was the Deputy General Secretary, heading the Regulation Policy and International Affairs division. Guillaume had previously been head of the Asset Management division within the AMF in Paris.
A lawyer by profession, Mr. Eliet graduated with a postgraduate Diploma in Business Law and Taxation, as well as a Master’s Degree in Business Law at Sorbonne University.
Mr. Kong Qingwen is the General Manager of China Securities Depository
and Clearing Corporation(CSDC). He has worked in Shanghai Stock
Exchange and CSDC starting from 1994, and worked as Deputy Director and
Director of CSDC’s Registration and Depository Department starting from
2002.
In 2010, he was appointed a member of the preparatory group of China
Institute of Finance (CIF), one of CSRC’s programs, and then served as a
member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of CIF from
2012. He then served as a member of Party Committee, Board Member and
Executive Director of CSDC from 2015.
Mr. Kong holds a Master of Science degree.
Vojtěch Belling has been Executive Director of the Department of Financial Regulation and International Cooperation in the Czech National Bank, the integrated authority for financial market supervision in the Czech Republic, since 2018. Before that, he served as Director of the EU and International Affairs Division in the Czech National Bank (2014-2018), as State Secretary for EU Affairs (2011-2014), and held various positions in the Czech Civil Service since 2002.
Mr Belling is a member of the Board of Supervisors of ESMA, a member of the International Relations Committee of the European Central Bank and an alternate member of the Economic and Financial Committee of the EU. He was also a member of the Management Board of ESMA until September 2022.Mr Belling is active in the academic sphere, lectures law and political science at Charles University in Prague and Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí and Labem. In the past, he was also a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. He holds a Master’s degree in Law from Charles University in Prague, a PhD degree in Political Science from Charles University in Prague, and Associate Professor degree from Masaryk University in Brno. He published several academic books and many articles, including in the European Law Journal, the International Organizations Law Review and the Zeitschrift für Öffentliches Recht.
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Olga Cantillo is the Executive President and CEO of Latin American Stock Exchange (Latinex). She has over 30 years of professional experience in the financial services industry.
Ms. Cantillo is currently also President of the Ibero-American Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIAB), Director of the Central Securities Depository Association of the Americas (ACSDA), Secretary of the Association of Capital Markets of the Americas (AMERCA), Member of the Independent Advisory Committee of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative (SSE), Independent Director of BI-Bank Panama, and Director of Fundación Calicanto.
Michele Hillery is General Manager of Equity Clearing and DTC Settlement Service at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). In this role, Michele has direct responsibility for the day-to-day management of equity clearing for trades executed on the major U.S. exchanges and other equity trading venues. She also oversees our ongoing efforts to collaborate with and build industry support for modernizing and transforming DTCC’s core businesses.
Michele has over 20 years in the industry and has held various positions within Product Management, Quality Assurance and Operations. Prior to joining DTCC’s Equity Clearing Product Management in 2013, Michele led the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s Mortgage Backed Securities Division (MBSD) where she managed the operations of the business and had responsibility over project development.
She earned a BBS from University of Limerick, Ireland and a MS from New York University.
Francisco Béjar Núñez is Head of the CSD Services of SIX BME group.
Mr. Béjar has 30 years of experience in post-trading, mainly in areas such as Settlement and Custody, Cash and Treasury and Corporate Trust, from a double point of view, as custodian and as market infrastructure. He is member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of ECSDA (European Central Securities Depository Association), and member of various market committees and expert groups at national and international level, such as the Clearing, Settlement and Registration Experts Group chaired by the CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores), the Post-Trading Standing Committee´s consultative Working Group of ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority), the Harmonisation Steering Group chaired by the ECB (European Central Bank)
Mr Piero Cipollone has been a member of the Governing Board and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy from 1 January 2020. In this capacity, he is also a member of the joint Governing Board of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS). After graduating in Economics from ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome, he obtained an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University. In 2001 he was visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
In 1993 he joined the Economic Research Department of the Bank of Italy, first in the Balance of Payments Office and then as Head of the Labour Market Office. In 2007 he was appointed Special Commissioner of the Italian research institute INVALSI, and then President until 2011. From 2010 to 2014 he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for Italy, Albania, Greece, Malta, Portugal, San Marino and Timor-Leste, as well as Chairman of the Audit Committee. He returned to the Bank of Italy in 2014 and in November he was appointed Head of the Planning and Controls Directorate.
From 2017 to 2019, he was Deputy Director General of the Directorate General for Accounting and Controls, which in September 2017 became the Directorate General for Currency Circulation and Accounting. From September 2018 to September 2019 he was Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister. From 1 October 2019 to 31 December 2019 he was Managing Director responsible for high-level consultancy to the Governing Board on matters concerning the organization of the Bank’s functions and institutional relations.
Author and co-author of many articles and papers on trade, labour economics and education economics, published in a variety of academic journals, including American Economic Review and Journal of the European Economic Association, he also taught at both the Luiss University in Rome and the University of L’Aquila.
Jennifer Robertson joined the European Commission in 2004 and has worked in DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union since 2005. She is currently a Head of Unit in the unit responsible for financial markets infrastructure. Previously she worked on retail financial services issues and SME finance in various departments of the European Commission.
Before working at the Commission, she worked as a senior economist for 5 years at the European Savings Banks Group on issues ranging from the introduction of the euro to the integration of European financial services markets. Her professional experience also includes working as an economic researcher for a financial communications consultancy in Washington DC, USA.
She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow (UK) and received a Master degree in International Economics and European Studies at the School for Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University (Italy and USA).
Jesus Benito is Head Domestic Custody & TR Operations, SIX.
He was involved in the European CSD Association (ECSDA) as member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Nowadays, He is the T2S CSD Steering Group (“CSG”) Chairman from its inception in 2012.
Jesús Benito has participated in numerous international Groups, among others: the European Commission’s Clearing and Settlement Advisory and Monitoring Expert Group (CESAME and CESAMEII), Monitoring Operating Group (MOG), etc.
Before joining Iberclear in 2000, he worked for Banco de España from 1988 to 2000, as Head of Section responsible for CSD links and securities settlement policy issues.
He has a Business Degree from Complutense University.
Alexandre Kech joined SDX in November 2022 as Head Digital Securities. Over the past 25 years, Alex has constructed a unique career combining finance at BNY Mellon, payments/securities infrastructure and standards at SWIFT, and blockchain and digital assets at Onchain Custodian (ONC). As co-founder and CEO of ONC, Alex led the Singapore and Shanghai-based team that built from scratch a custody and prime brokerage service for crypto and other digital assets. Most recently, he moved to Switzerland to launch and run Citi Ventures’ Blockchain & Digital Asset team to engage across the European ecosystem on emerging use cases for blockchain technologies and digital currencies.
Anna is Secretary General of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA).
She is a lawyer by background and holds a Master in European law and a multidisciplinary Master in Law and Economics and is also trained in managing strategic projects by the University of Oxford Saïd Business School.
Anna combines an extensive post-trade knowledge with the policy-making experience. She started her career at the general secretariat of one of the political parties at the European Parliament. Then having worked in the Business Transformation and Service Excellence department of an ICSD as well as for their group in Strategy and Government Relations. She is leading the European CSD industry association since 2017.
Paul Symons is Group Chief of Staff for Euroclear SA/NV, providing advice and support to the Euroclear SA/NV Chief Executive and the Euroclear SA/NV Management Committee. He was appointed to this role on 1 September 2020.
In addition, Mr Symons was appointed Chief Sustainability Officer for the Euroclear Group in September 2021.
He also sits on the Board of Euroclear UK & International (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Euroclear SA/NV) as a Non-Executive Director.
From 2018-2020, Mr Symons was the Head of the Euroclear SA/NV Corporate Secretariat Division and Secretary to the Euroclear SA/NV Board of Directors.
From 2002 – 2018, Mr Symons was Group Head of Government Relations at Euroclear ,responsible for managing Euroclear’s relationships with those stakeholders who influenced the regulatory and political context in which Euroclear operated.
He has been a board member of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) and chaired the Association’s Policy Group until March 2018.
He has also been a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) Post-Trade Consultative Group, and a variety of other European post-trade Committees.
Mr Symons joined Euroclear in 2002, following the merger with CRESTCo (now Euroclear UK &International), the central securities depository for UK securities.
Previously, Mr Symons spent seven years at the Bank of England in a variety of roles, including a period working as the Private Secretary to the Executive Director of the Banking Supervision and Banking Departments.
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Attila Toth is working for EBRD as Principal in the Capital & Financial Market Development Team since 2018. He is specialized in equity capital market and capital market infrastructure development where he built up a 20-year experience. He started his career at the Hungarian Debt Management Agency in 1997 and joined the Budapest Stock Exchange in late 1999. During his 16-year career at the BSE he was responsible for business and product development, trading and post-trading. Between 2008 and 2016 he was the Deputy CEO of the stock exchange responsible for issuer and trading member relations, product development, trading and business strategy. He was chairman of the Supervisory Board and also the member of the Board of Directors of the Central Depository and Clearing House of Hungary. He took part in international capital market development projects and spent years in the corporate finance and private equity industry specialised for SMEs before joining the EBRD.
Attila is highly devoted to the improvement of financial literacy. He was the Chief Secretary of the Foundation for Financial Self-Awareness, an institution founded by the Budapest Stock Exchange and later the member of the Board of the Money Compass Foundation of the National Bank of Hungary. Attila Toth has a Master Degree in Finance from the Budapest Corvinus University and has a EFFAS/ACIIA International Programme of Investment Analysis Diploma.
A former Banking Executive with 22+ years of experience, including most recently Global Head of Product Management for Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank, Rhom has developed an interest in creating digital businesses for finance and finance related areas. He brings experience of working across a wide variety of wholesale banking businesses and functions including sales, trading, product management, and technology to his role at Fnality. The majority of his experience has been developing businesses where the product is at the intersection of finance and technology.
Jennifer Peve is Managing Director, Head of Strategy and Business Development at DTCC. In this role, Jennifer has overarching responsibility for the firm’s global corporate strategy, digital product development and strategic partnerships and alliances, working across the business, and with clients and third-party providers, to identify opportunities for new product development as well as potential acquisitions, partnerships and mergers to broaden DTCC’s capabilities. She is also responsible for defining the firm’s strategy for new and emerging technology innovation, leading efforts related to the exploration and experimentation of fintech, and working with her colleagues and the industry to advance dialogue on key topics and develop thought leadership. Jennifer is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee.
Jennifer joined DTCC in 2015. Prior to that, she worked at CME Group where she served as Executive Director of OTC Product Management with responsibility for CME’s cleared OTC credit default swaps (CDS) business, including growth strategy, business development, and go-to-market activities.
Jennifer has over 25 years of financial markets expertise, including consulting and practical experience as well as the design, development and deployment of business strategies in a dynamic environment. She has extensive knowledge across the entire product life cycle, including OTC, FX and FX Options, OTC Metals, Stock Lending, OTC Credit Default Swaps, OTC Interest Rate Swaps and Swaptions, OTC Total Return Swaps, F&O, Energy and Equities.
Jennifer currently serves on the Technology Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as well as FINRA’s FinTech Industry Committee and is the former Chair of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)’s Banking Working Group. She is a member of SIFMA’s Blockchain Roundtable and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.
Ondrej Dusilek is a Chief Executive Officer of the CSD Prague He started his professional career in 2005 as an analyst at UNIVYC, a.s., which was a subsidiary of the Prague Stock Exchange, which in 2010 was renamed to Centrální depozitář cenných papíru, a.s. (CSD Prague) and took over securities registration from the Securities Center owned by the Ministry of Finance. In 2012, he completed a City of London Corporation internship, which included a two-month work experience at the London Stock Exchange in the Regulatory Strategy Department. He also participated in 2013 and 2014 as an advisor to a World Bank project to modernize the capital market in Azerbaijan. In 2017, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the CSD Prague and two years later was appointed as the CEO of the CSD Prague and was also elected to the Exchange Chamber (Board of Directors) of the Prague Stock Exchange.
He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at VSB-TU Ostrava with a degree in Finance (2003) and a degree in Euro government (2005). In 2016 he completed the Diploma for graduates in Banking at the University of London.
Jim Turnbull joined EBRD in 2011 and is the deputy director and head of product for the Capital and Financial Markets Development Department (CFMD). He has over 30 years’ experience in investment banking, pensions investment and funds management having managed both debt and equity portfolios. He has also managed foreign exchange, derivatives and treasury exposures in both emerging and developed markets. As MD of Triarii Advisors, Jim acted as an independent advisor to several asset managers and hedge funds specializing in emerging market investment.
Jim led the project team that created and developed the highly successful AsianBondsOnline fixed income portal for the Asian Development Bank in 2003. He has significant “in-country” expertise as team leader for a large number of capital markets technical assistance projects for several international financial institutions including the implementation of the capital markets development master plan in Thailand, as well as other development assignments in the Philippines, Viet Nam, and Serbia. Between 2015-2020 he was an independent board member for the CSD, Depozitarul Central in Romania.
Jim has written extensively on the technical aspects of local capital market development in emerging markets and financial stability and has a B.Com from University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Based in Colombia, Bruce Butterill is the Executive Director of the Americas’ Central Securities Depository Association (ACSDA). He is also an independent Capital Market Infrastructure consultant, and has worked on engagements with Securities Depositories, Clearing Corporations and Stock Exchanges in in 17 countries across the globe.
Prior to becoming a consultant Bruce spent 19 years with CDS, the Canadian Depository for Securities, where at various times was the senior executive responsible for national operations and the product management/development functions.
Holger Neuhaus is Head of the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) Market Innovation and Integration Division in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments. His Division develops the ECB/Eurosystem’s approach in relation to innovation and integration in the field of payments and post-trade services.
Until November 2019 he headed the Money Market and Liquidity Division which provides market analysis of euro area money markets and ensures the execution of monetary policy through the Eurosystem’s open market operations and liquidity management. It also had a lead role in developing and transitioning to a new reference interest rate for the money market.
He previously worked as Counsellor to the ECB’s Executive Board, headed the Financial Markets and Banking Statistics Section and was seconded to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as Senior Policy Advisor.
Before joining the ECB he worked for the Deutsche Bundesbank and a portfolio management company, inter alia in the field of foreign reserve management and financial market research. Holger Neuhaus studied economics at the Universities of Essen and Toronto.
Jim manages the Global Network Management (‘GNM’) division at TM and has over 26 years in the financial services industry. His responsibilities include running a team of 25 analysts and network managers who track custodian and market practice in 104 markets and assess risks in over 300 custodians, 145 CSDs and 27 CCPs worldwide. Jim is a subject matter expert on post-trade infrastructure and has led various strategic consulting projects on market infrastructure. Previously, Jim was a senior analyst within TM Network Management evaluating and selecting local and global custodians for clients as well as supporting a variety of consultancy engagements. Prior to joining TM in 1995, he was at Taylor Nelson Sofres as a Project Supervisor in their Financial division.
Mr. Lukman is a Seasoned professional with more than 30 years of hands on experience in multi-faceted roles acquiring leadership skills, vision and management expertise in developing strategies and executing plans. He has been serving the company as CEO since 2005 and has held seniors positions at other local and multinational companies within Pakistan. He is Fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan “ICAP” and Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan “ICMAP”. He is also a qualified Corporate Secretary and a certified director from ICS.
Mr. Lukman has represented NCCPL on numerous committees both locally and internationally which includes committees formed by Securities Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and Ministry of Finance etc.
He had also served as “Expert Advisor” at the Shanghai Institute For Real Economy (SIFRE), which is a research based institute and a think tank pursuing the objective to promote linkage of Capital Markets to develop business and industry with a special focus on one Belt one Road Project. It includes senior business executives, capital market experts and economists from London, USA, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong and China.
Mr. Lukman has represented National Clearing Company on various committees formed by Capital Markets, Mutual Funds Association of Pakistan (MUFAP) and has also represented the Company on different national and international forums like CCP12, CSD, ICAP. ICMAP, OIC and ACG etc. He is also an alumni of National Defense University (NDU) and actively attending its seminars on different topics.
Charlie Geffen was appointed by the UK Government as Chair of the Accelerated Settlement Taskforce in December 2022.
The Taskforce was established to examine the case for moving the UK to a T+1 settlement cycle and the basis on which this could be implemented.
Charlie was previously the Senior Partner at the international law firm Ashurst and led the Corporate practice of US law firm Gibson Dunn in London. His legal practice focused on corporate finance and M&A.
Since then he has served on a number of corporate boards in the financial services and energy sectors and is a Senior Adviser at the consultancy Flint Global.
He also serves as Chair of Council at the University of Surrey and on the boards of a number of other not for profit organisations.
Abdulla Abdin has Masters in Business Administration from the University of Glamorgan UK, and currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer– Bahrain Clear. He is the Chairman of the Guarantee Fund Committee and Chairman of the African Middle East Depositories Association (AMEDA). Mr. Abdin has over 31 years of experience in Banking and Capital Market structure, regulations and operations.
Mr. Sampson is President of CDS. Kevin has over 20 years of capital markets experience managing high-performing teams across multiple functions and business areas, including sales and business development, operations, customer support and product development. His collaborative, client-centric approach has enabled Kevin to achieve positive business results while building long-term, trusted relationships with peers and stakeholders across the industry. Most recently, Kevin was President, Equity Trading for TMX Group Inc. where he managed the trading businesses of Canada’s premier equity exchanges (Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange and TSX Alpha Exchange).
Olga Jordão is the CEO of Euronext Securities Porto and the Head of Client Service of Euronext Securities, the unified network of Euronext CSDs.
While ensuring a continued strong presence of the Central Securities Depository in Portugal, Olga also oversees the pan-European client service teams to deliver service excellence to local and international clients.
Olga joined Euronext at a pivotal moment in 2021, when the group that operates the third largest CSD network in Europe combined its four CSDs into a new umbrella brand and launched its “Growth for Impact 2024” strategy. She has close to 30 years of professional experience in the post-trade sector and has held multiple roles in Luxembourg and in France heading up middle and back-office operations at a major global custodian, serving sophisticated global asset managers and leading strategic transformation projects. Olga is the former branch manager of State Street Bank International, Paris and also has vast experience in key account management, leading global teams and driving cross-functional initiatives.
Olga is a keen supporter of diversity, inclusion and sustainability initiatives. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Foreign Languages (English & German) from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and an Executive Masters of Business Administration from TRIUM (HEC, NYU, LSE).
Jens Hachmeister, Managing Director at Clearstream Holding AG is Head of New Digital Markets, Data & Issuer Solutions and a member of the Clearstream Management Board. After completing a banking apprenticeship and a degree in business administration, he began his career as a management consultant at KPMG before joining Xetra Market Development at Deutsche Börse AG in June 2000. Jens was Head of Operations and Infrastructure Development and part of the Management Committee Xetra until January 2009. From mid-April 2010 to December 2015, he was the Chief HR Officer of Deutsche Börse AG and in mid-August 2015, he assumed the newly created role of Chief of Staff and Head of Strategic Execution to the Group’s CEO. In April 2018, Jens created the New Digital Markets Area as one of the key pillars of Deutsche Börse’s DLT and blockchain strategy before taking on additional responsibility as Clearstream’s Head of Issuer Services in February 2020 and Data & Connectivity as of October 2022. In his current role he is driving the digitization of the company, its markets solutions, products and services.
Vipin Y.S Mahabirsingh holds a B.Tech (First Class, Hons.) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Mauritius, an M.Phil in Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics from the University of Cambridge and an MBA (with distinction) from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University. He joined the Central Depository & Settlement Co. Ltd at its inception in 1996 as Systems Manager and was appointed General Manager in July 1997. He was then appointed as Managing Director in November 2005. In his capacity as Managing Director of CDS, he also provides consultancy services to African stock exchanges and central depositories. He was the systems vendor’s Project Director in the implementation of trading and depository systems at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (2004/2006), Bank of Ghana (2004), Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (2006), Botswana Stock Exchange (2008/2012), Lusaka Stock Exchange (2008) and Bolsa de Valores de Mocambique (2013). He supervised the implementation of an automated trading system at the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in 2015 and has spearheaded the replacement of the trading and depository systems at the Lusaka Stock Exchange which went live in December 2017. He is a member of the Technical Committee that has been set up by the African Stock Exchanges Association (ASEA) to drive the implementation of the African Exchanges Linkage Project (ALEP). He is also a member of the Ratings Committee of CARE Ratings Africa. Vipin has been appointed as member of the Product Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF). DTIF’s mission is to provide the golden source reference data for the unique identification of digital tokens based on ISO’s new standard for digital assets, ISO 24165.
Mark Gem has been with Clearstream for over 20 years and a board member since 2007, focusing on network management, primary markets activity and compliance. He was responsible for Clearstream’s T2S strategy. He currently chairs Clearstream’s Risk Committee, amongst many other things overseeing the post-Brexit organisation of Clearstream’s UK business and Clearstream’s overall response to the COVID-19 crisis. He represents Luxembourg on the boards of SWIFT and sits on the board of Regis-TR, the Luxembourg-based trade repository. He has been on the board of ECSDA since 2002 and served as Vice-Chairman under Joël Mérère until 2013. In May 2021, Mark was elected ECSDA Chair.
Mark has a first class degree from Oxford University in Modern History.
Andreas Lundell is the Product Manager for Nasdaq’s CSD solution and eVoting solution within Nasdaq Market Technology, based in Stockholm. As the product owner, Andreas is responsible for the general development of the solutions, including functional coverage, as well as how to adopt and leverage emerging technologies.
With over 20 years of experience in the post-trade area of the financial markets, Andreas possesses unique knowledge in the evolution of CSD-related products and topics. Prior to joining Nasdaq, he held various positions within the Swedish CSD, Euroclear Sweden, for example, within product management with responsibility for the business development of a wide range of products and services. Andreas has also represented Euroclear Sweden in several industry-wide initiatives, including ECSDA Working groups, the corporate action joint working group, and the joint working group on general meeting processes. Currently, Andreas is representing Nasdaq in ISSA’s global working group on Distributed Ledger Technology – Principles for Industry-Wide Acceptance.
Philip Brown is Chief Executive Officer of Clearstream Banking Luxembourg S.A., member of the Executive Board of Clearstream Holding AG and Head of Global RM, Sales and Client Services. He joined the company in July 2005 after twelve years in the custody and clearing business, in a variety of front office sales and relationship management positions. Prior to joining Clearstream, he spent 7 years at The Bank of New York, latterly as Managing Director and Head of European Sales, 2 years at Morgan Stanley International and 7 years at Barclays PLC. He holds a degree in Banking, Insurance and Finance from University College North Wales, Bangor, is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and is currently Chair of the International Securities Services Association (ISSA).
Manmohan Singh is a senior economist with the IMF. He writes extensively on topical issues including collateral velocity (a term he coined), rehypothecation of collateral, monetary policy and collateral, role of global custodians, and why some EM collateral should be part of global plumbing, and (recently) digital money, stablecoins and access to central bank reserves. His new book, Collateral Markets and Financial Plumbing, looks at all the above topics from the lens of financial collateral. Manmohan has led workshops for the IMF to official sector policy makers on the impact of regulations on financial markets. He holds a Ph.D. and M.B.A. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. from Allegheny College. His recent articles are available at https://sites.google.com/view/msinghdc/home
Glen Fernandes is the Head of Digital Business Design for the Euroclear Group. He is responsible for helping shape the transition of Euroclear’s business into a future model driven by digital and data.
Mr Fernandes has previously held senior roles in the Euroclear’s Strategy and Product Division where he was responsible for heading the Fixed Income Primary markets business and leading strategic business development and fintech investment opportunities, to help shape Euroclear’s overall strategic and innovation direction.
Mr Fernandes also co-founded and chairs an industry working group of Central Securities Depositories (CSDs), Custodian banks & Fintechs under the International Securities Services Association (ISSA) to help create a common market understanding for the adoption of Digital Assets and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) in capital markets.
Mr Fernandes has over 19 years of experience in capital markets and financial technology across America, Europe and Asia Pacific. He joined Euroclear in 2014 having earlier worked for securities services business lines at JP Morgan, Nomura, and Lehman Brothers where his work spanned key product/service launches and technology development.
Mr Fernandes holds a Masters in Business Administration from Vlerick Business School Belgium, in addition to Bachelors studies in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.
Ilse Peeters, Director, is the Head of Government Relations and Public Affairs at Euroclear SA/NV. Government Relations was part of the Euroclear Corporate Strategy Division until 2017. It is now part of the Compliance, Regulatory Management and Public Affairs Division.
Ms Peeters works closely with key EU public policy stakeholders on relevant industry issues, while ensuring the effective external communication of Euroclear’s strategy. Over the last ten years, she has been involved in the main regulatory initiatives that have shaped the post-trade industry. Her recent focus is on technological innovations such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and ICOs and their regulatory and legal challenges.
Oleksii Yudin joined National Depository of Ukraine (NDU) as a Chairman of the Board in June 2021. His main objectives in the role are digitalization, risk management and strategy execution.
Prior to NDU Oleksii was employed by UBS Investment Bank in London where he was taking leading role in Global IT and was responsible Equity Swaps platform development.
15+ years of Oleksii’s professional experience is an amalgam of software development, project management and investment banking focused on the post-trade accounting systems.
Oleksii graduated from Faculty of Electronics at National Technical University of Ukraine with a Master degree in Electronics.
Giorgi has been working for National Bank of Georgia since 2001, where he occupied various positions, including specialist at International Reserves Management Division, deputy head of Risk Management
division and head of Macroeconomics Department. Since 2006 Giorgi is heading Financial Markets Department. Giorgi’s responsibilities cover areas of Portfolio management, Risk management, International settlements, Domestic monetary operations and operation of GSSS – Georgian Securities Settlement System.
Giorgi has been actively involved in local currency money and capital market development, and has been at the forefront of many important reforms in related areas. In 2019 he has successfully led the implementation of centralized nationwide system for securities settlements, used for CSD operations and central bank collateral management. The project was undertaken jointly with domestic Stock Exchange and in cooperation with Montran. The system was based on an innovative multi-CSD concept and featured state of the art solutions for ease and efficiency of settlement process, dramatically reduced the risks and operating costs for both public and private sector.
The reform has featured as case study in IMF/WB Guidance Note for Developing Government Local Currency Bond Markets and has been awarded by Central Banking Awards as the best collateral management system.
Giorgi Laliashvili holds Master’s degree from Georgian State University in Banking and Finance and MA in Economics from Center for Development Economics, Williams College, USA.
Rares Togan has been with Montran Corporation for 22 years, performing various roles in multiple implementation projects that cover the entire range of Montran products. Coming from a technical background, Rares has gradually transitioned to the business area of the products, currently undertaking the role of Senior Business Analyst, Securities and Trading.
In this capacity, he has been involved in over 30 implementation projects for Central Securities Depositories and Trading Systems around the world, facilitating business analysis of the client capital markets environment, with the goal of producing accurate and comprehensive solution specifications materials, as well as supporting the transfer of knowledge process by delivering formal training.
Martin Watkins is the Chief Executive of Montis Group where he is building digital CSDs and applying for regulatory approval to settle natively digital and non-native digital securities tokens using innovative blockchain technology, alongside conventional equity and debt. Montis Group was founded and is majority-owned by Archax, the first ever FCA regulated digital securities exchange that also has FCA brokerage, custody, and crypto-asset permissions.
Prior to Montis, Martin was at Ernst & Young (EY) for 7 years where, as EMEIA Lead for Exchanges and FMIs, he worked on multiple blockchain initiatives with fnality, Paxos, Euroclear, R3, DTCC, STRATE, Euronext, The Royal Mint/CME and TMX.
Before EY, Martin was a member of senior management at Euroclear (CRESTCo) in London and was elected Chairman of the Euroclear Group Operations Task Force focused on harmonising and restructuring services. This followed several years in Paris as an Executive member of AtosEuronext, running all LCH.Clearnet SA IT services across Europe, clearing €1.7 Trillion of equity, fixed income, and derivative transactions per day.
Martin is a former Board member and Trustee of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI), where he was Founding Chairman of the International Regulations Forum and Chairman of the FinTech Forum. He is responsible for the Archax group relationship and participation in the International Securities Services Association (ISSA).
Martin is a Chartered Honorary Fellow of CISI, a Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors. He sits on the Court of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.
Andrea Gentilini has been Head of Financial Market Infrastructures
division of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) since February 2017. He is also ESMA Internal Coordinator within the CSSF and represents the CSSF in several ESMA Standing Committees (MSC, SSF Market, RSC, DSC). Since March 2023, he has been appointed Chair of the ESMA Post Trading Working Group and co-Chair of the T2S Cooperative Arrangement.
Andrea Gentilini has been Chair of the CEMA EMIR Task Force, responsible for the development of EMIR risk indicators, to promote data driven supervision and supervisory convergence, as well as knowledge sharing and peer learning.
Andrea Gentilini joined the CSSF in 2014 and has been working in the Financial Market Infrastructure Division ever since, contributing to the development of the CSSF’s authorisation process for CSDs under CSDR and support the work of the CSSF in the policy activity related to CSDR, EMIR and SFTR. Before joining the CSSF in 2014, he worked 15 years in the financial sector in Luxembourg (Senior Manager at PwC Luxembourg, portfolio manager in a Luxembourg based management company) and in China (head of international business in a Chinese fund management company, based in Shenzhen).
Andrea Gentilini was born in Milan, Italy and studied economics at Bocconi University, where he obtained also a Master’s degree in economics.
Andrea is married with 1 child. He holds Italian and Luxembourgish nationality
Miguel Espinoza is the Head of Product for Montran’s CSD solution and the Solution Delivery Manager of the Securities and Trading division. He has been actively involved in the development and implementation of over 25 Central Securities Depositories around the world. Coming from an IT background, Miguel has been combining his technical and business knowledge to provide Montran
clients with the best possible CSD solution adopting best practices and focusing on settlement optimization and efficiency.
As head of product, Miguel is responsible for the general development and the definition of the product roadmap of the Montran CSD solution. With his team, he is constantly reviewing and researching the implemented processes, new initiatives, and emerging technologies to determine possible enhancements and the way forward for Montran’s CSD product.
Alina Dragomir joined the Post Trading Team at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in 2014, where she has been involved in the elaboration of the CSDR Level 2 measures, as well as in other regulatory and supervisory convergence measures related to CSDs and settlement. Alina coordinates ESMA’s activities related to TARGET2-Securities (T2S). She also coordinates ESMA’s work on the implementation of the DLT Pilot Regime in the EU.
Prior to this, Alina worked for the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority for 7 years, where she followed post trading issues. In this capacity, she took part in the Council negotiations of EMIR and CSDR. She also contributed to the
work of European Commission expert groups, as well as CESR and then ESMA post trading expert committees.
She holds an MSc in Economics from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Alina has extensive experience and expertise in EU policy and regulation covering CSDs and securities settlement.
Barnaby has worked for over 15 years in the post-trade capital markets space: leading transforming custody and cash businesses to the point of market leadership. Until 2018, he led Standard Chartered Bank’s custody business in Asia and prior to that he launched BNP Paribas’ custody business in Asia.
Throughout Barnaby’s career, he has focused on market structure and connectivity as a key theme. Having helped to launch clearing and back office outsourcing solutions in Asia-Pacific, he has since worked with regulators, global exchanges, clearing houses, brokers and investors to ensure that new technologies (such as DLT, AI and others) can be smoothly deployed as players reach for ever improving levels of efficiency.
This connectivity continues at #theValueExchange, where Barnaby’s attention is now focused on delivering actionable, statistical insights on key market dynamics. Leveraging unique benchmarking and insight technologies, Barnaby is now helping market participants to make the right decisions and giving sales organizations the data and tools they need to maximize their revenues in changing times.
Sheikh Saif bin Abdullah Al Thani is a highly accomplished financial expert with extensive experience in capital markets and financial regulatory matters in Qatar. He has held numerous positions and served in several major financial institutions in the country.
Sheikh Saif began his career in the financial industry at the Ministry of Finance, where he worked as a Budget Manager and later as a Projects Director. As part of a team responsible for launching an information technology system for government financial departments in Qatar, he directly contributed to the smooth management of the government’s budget. Later, Sheikh Saif joined Qatar Financial Center Regulatory Authority where he worked for more than 8 years developing and implementing regulations and policies that helped to promote transparency, stability, and efficiency in the capital markets.
In 2016, Sheikh Saif joined Qatar Central Bank to work with a team of experienced professionals to oversee and manage stability in financial markets. In mid-2022, the Governor of Qatar Central Bank appointed Sheikh Saif bin Abdullah Al Thani as CEO of Edaa.
Throughout his journey in the financial and banking sector in Qatar, Sheikh Saif gained diverse experiences in executive management, financial regulations and policy development, financial market management, dealing with global uncertainties, understanding market needs and mechanisms, as well as understanding the needs of local and global investors.
Sheikh Saif bin Abdullah Al Thani holds a master’s degree in business administration from HEC Paris, a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Qatar University and completed the Leadership Program at the Qatar Leadership Center.
Stephen is responsible for driving direction and growth in the Americas and U.K. region, further strengthening strategic customer relationships, supporting customers as they work to transform the cross-border payments experience for their end clients, and working with securities players to improve the efficiency of post-trade processing.
Prior to this, Stephen held the position of Executive Vice President at Mastercard, leading the development and commercialisation of its global Cross-Border Services business. His career spans more than 20 years, with previous roles at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Citi. Stephen has a degree in Economics from the University of East Anglia.
Alina Dragomir joined the Post Trading Team at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in 2014, where she has been involved in the elaboration of the CSDR Level 2 measures, as well as in other regulatory and supervisory convergence measures related to CSDs and settlement. Alina coordinates ESMA’s activities related to TARGET2-Securities (T2S). She also coordinates ESMA’s work on the implementation of the DLT Pilot Regime in the EU.
Prior to this, Alina worked for the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority for 7 years, where she followed post trading issues. In this capacity, she took part in the Council negotiations of EMIR and CSDR. She also contributed to the
work of European Commission expert groups, as well as CESR and then ESMA post trading expert committees.
She holds an MSc in Economics from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Alina has extensive experience and expertise in EU policy and regulation covering CSDs and securities settlement.
Ekrem ARIKAN earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi University and his MBA from Yeditepe University. Currently, he is working on his PhD thesis at Istanbul Commerce University. He speaks English, German, and beginner-level Arabic.
He started to work for Microsoft as a Support Engineer in 1998, a Program Specialist in 1999, and a Program Manager in Windows International Product Development Group from 2000.
Then he started to work at Ziraat Technology (Fintek Financial Technology Services A.Ş., which is the IT company of biggest governmental bank Ziraatbank of Türkiye) as IT Architecture Manager from year 2007, Project Management Office Manager from 2009, IT Security Manager from 2011. In year 2013, he appointed as the Corporate Development Director.
In 2014, he assigned as the Information Technologies and Corporate Development Group Manager accountable for IT departments, Customer Services and Call Center, HR and Support Services at Ziraat Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş. which is life and pension insurance company owned by Ziraatbank.
In 2015, he moved to newly founded Energy Exchange Company EPİAŞ (Enerji Piyasaları İşletme A.Ş.) as an Advisor to Chairman and then appointed as the Strategy Development Director.
In year 2016, he started to work in CIO position by being EVP at Takasbank, which is the Central Counterparty of Türkiye, within the Borsa Istanbul Group.
Since April 2019, he has been working in CEO position as the General Manager and Board Member at MKK, which is the Central Securities Depository and Trade Repository company of Türkiye.
A former Banking Executive with 22+ years of experience, including most recently Global Head of Product Management for Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank, Rhom has developed an interest in creating digital businesses for finance and finance related areas. He brings experience of working across a wide variety of wholesale banking businesses and functions including sales, trading, product management, and technology to his role at Fnality. The majority of his experience has been developing businesses where the product is at the intersection of finance and technology.
Sarah Tarawneh is the Chief Executive Officer of the Securities Depository Center of Jordan (SDC), she has been working with the SDC for over 17 years, during which she was responsible of multiple managerial tasks, including public relations, custody business, drafting rules and regulations, her previous role was director of the Legal Affairs, prior to being appointed the Chief Executive Officer early this year.
Sarah also served on the board of ANNA (Association of National Numbering Agencies) for the term of three years (2019-2021) dedicated to supporting the industry of standardization in capital markets in the region.
Sarah is specialized in Capital market legislation, Depository, Clearing and settlement, compliance with international standards and best practices.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Jordan, and a license of practice from the Jordanian Bar association; she also attained many professional training and certificates in financial services field.
Graduated from the ESSEC business school Robert Ophèle joins the Banque de France in 1981 where he will make the largest part of his professional career in banking supervision, in developing and implementing monetary policy and in financial management of the bank.
Following a secondment to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he took up the position of Director of the Management Control and Budget Directorate, then was appointed Deputy Director General Economics and International Relations, before being promoted Director General Operations. He held the position of Second Deputy Governor of the Banque de France from January 2012 until July 2017; in this role he became a member of the Supervisory Board for the European Central Bank.
On 1st August 2017 he was appointed Chairman of the Autorité des marchés financiers.
Virginie O’Shea is a capital markets fintech research specialist, with two decades of experience in tracking financial technology developments in the sector, with a particular focus on regulatory developments, data and standards. She is the founder of Firebrand Research, a new research and advisory firm focused on providing capital markets technology and operations insights for the digital age.
Most recently, she was a research director with Aite Group, heading up the Institutional Securities & Investments practice and covering data management, collateral management, legal entity onboarding, and post-trade technology. In this role she spearheaded strategy for the practice and managed a team of eight analysts across the globe.
Ms. O’Shea has spoken at industry conferences including Sibos, TradeTech, FISD events, and The Network Forum, and is actively engaged in a number of post-trade industry standards groups.
Prior to Aite Group, she was managing editor of A-Team Group’s flagship publication, A-Team Insight, where she covered financial technology from the front to back office, including trading technology, market data, low latency, risk management, regulatory impacts on IT, and reference data. During her time at the firm, she was heavily involved in planning risk and data management events and creating multimedia offerings, including podcasts, webinars, and video interviews. Prior to this, Ms. O’Shea was group editor of Investor Services Journal and Alternatives magazine, focused on the asset servicing and buy-side communities. Before that, she was editor of STP Magazine and online service stpzone.com, where she focused on financial technology in the capital markets.
Ms. O’Shea holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh.
Mr. Prashant Vagal is Executive Vice President and Heads the Business Development and Products and Investor Education department in NSDL. He has completed Bachelor of Engineering and MBA in finance and over 26 years of experience in Capital Markets. Mr. Vagal has been associated with NSDL for 25 years now and handled various activities viz., Business development, Participant and CC Interface, New Product developments, Settlements, Training, Investor Education, Marketing etc. Mr. Vagal has been a speaker at various forums seminars held Internationally. He has been a member of Committees at SEBI and RBI.
Özkan İlkay Kızıltoprak received his bachelor’s degree from İstanbul University’s International Relations Department at the Faculty of Economics.
He started his carreer at Citibank in 1995 working in the treasury and securities operations then moved to AFinance Plc Dublin in Ireland as the country manager for three years.
He re-joined Citibank in 2002 and managed securities services, treasury, cash services, import and export and brokerage operations as the group manager until 2018.
During his tenure at Citibank he successfully led many local and international projects and took active roles in the Banks Association, Takasbank and MKK working groups.
The integration of SWIFT messaging between Takasbank, MKK and intermediary institution, establishing capital gain tax processes on securities transactions,
implementation of securities dematerialization process, holding fixed income instruments at beneficial owner level at MKK and
elimination of “three zeros” from securities nominals are some of the critical projects that he led.
Before joining MKK he worked at few of the major capital markets solution provider companies where he managed business and product development,
operational excellence and project management units in addition to advisor and trainer roles.
He holds Capital Markets Level 3 and derivatives instruments licenses as well as business intelligence tools certificates.
Mr. Kızıltoprak assigned as the Executive Vice President responsible for Market Operations at Merkezi Kayıt Kuruluşu A.Ş. on 07.10.2020
Andy Hill is a Senior Director in ICMA’s Market Practice and Regulatory Policy team, where he oversees globally the association’s work on fixed income secondary markets, as well as repo and collateral markets.
Andy has authored numerous reports on bond and repo market structure and development, with a particular focus on regulatory impacts.
Prior to joining ICMA in 2014, Andy was a repo and money market trader for seventeen years, for ten years of which he was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs.
He has also worked as a consultant in the Aid and Development sector, primarily based in Cambodia, and previously served on the Board of the Cambodian NGO Education Partnership in Phnom Penh while on a Goldman Sachs Public Service Fellowship.
Andy holds a BSc (Hons) in Business Studies from Cass Business School and an MSc in Poverty Reduction and Development Management from the University of Birmingham.
Inmaculada Navas joined SDX in April 2019 as Head of Legal and Compliance, with a mandate to lead the FINMA licensing approval proceedings, build a legal and regulatory framework, legal advisory for products and initiatives, manage external counsel mandate and build an internal legal team.
Inmaculada has over 18 years of long-standing Legal and Compliance experience partnered with Leadership and Project Management skills gained from a solid work history in the private sector.
Prior to SDX, Inmaculada worked in UBS and Credit Suisse, where she gained expertise in cross-border matters and international law related to financial markets, banking law, financial crime, regulatory affairs, governance, litigation and enforcement.
Francisco Béjar is Head of the CSD Services of SIX BME group.
Mr. Béjar has 29 years of experience in post-trading, mainly in areas such as Settlement and Custody, Cash and Treasury and Corporate Trust, from a double point of view, as custodian and as market infrastructure. He is member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of ECSDA (European Central Securities Depository Association), and member of various market committees and expert groups at national and international level, such as the Clearing, Settlement and Registration Experts Group chaired by the CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores), the Post-Trading Standing Committee´s consultative Working Group of ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority), the Harmonisation Steering Group chaired by the ECB (European Central Bank)
Alexis Thompson is Head of Global Securities Services for
BBVA. He is also responsible for Strategy & Business
Development for Global Transaction Banking within
Corporate & Investment Banking.
He joined BBVA in 2012 as Head of Product in Global
Operations where he was charged with aligning operational
capabilities with the needs of the different business lines.
Prior to that, Alexis worked at Altura Markets for 12 years
as Chief Operating Officer, where he was responsible for
Client Services, Operations and IT.
Mr. Thompson holds a BA (Hons) degree in Hispanic &
Latin American Studies from King’s College London.
Arman Melkumyan has more than 11 years of experience in the financial industry. Mr. Melkumyan is an expert in the financial markets; client, government and international relations; new business processes development and implementation.
Starting October 2018 Mr. Melkumyan assigned as Secretary General of the Association of Eurasian Central Securities Depositories (AECSD). Being the Secretary General the main scope of work is
· Planning and coordination of the activities of the Association
· Organization and holding of events (conferences, seminars, training webinars, working groups, committees)
· Conducting research in various areas
Mr. Melkumyan is a member of different working groups of World Forum of CSDs (WFC) and leading the development of E-learning platform (https://aecsd.org/en/e-learning/) – one of the initiatives of WFC for CSDs’ knowledge exchange.
Philip Slavin is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Taskize. Phil has spent over 25 years as both a user and a creator of financial technology. For the early part of his career, he worked with both buy and sell-side institutions building and deploying banking solutions and running large change management programs. In 1999 he joined Fidessa, a market leading trading software house, where he ran Business Development and Product Marketing building electronic and algorithmic trading solutions across existing and emerging global exchanges. Immediately prior to starting Taskize, Phil led Strategic Alliances in EMEA for Pivotal Software, a specialist in agile software delivery. His belief is that by building sensible solutions you can remove complexity from the system to create tangible, competitive advantage.
Jasmine Ma, senior manager of Strategy and Development Department, China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation. She joined CSDC in 2013 after she graduated from Peking University, holding a master degree in English Literature. She has been engaged in international business of CSDC and ACG affairs over the years.
Sudip Chatterjee is Head of Global Capital Markets at Euroclear. Mr.
Chatterjee is responsible for defining and designing the vision and
strategy, along with aligning all business initiatives across the global
capital markets.
In this capacity, Mr. Chatterjee leads the discussions and partners with
market authorities and regulators in local and international markets
across the world, with the objective of designing solutions that help
market liquidity and borrowing costs, resulting in a stronger
macroeconomic climate and sustainable development.
Mr. Chatterjee has constant dialogue with multilateral financial
institutions, including the World Bank, IFC, European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development and Inter-American Development
Bank. He also maintains relationships with other key capital market
entities, including rating agencies, index providers and the leading
global fund and asset managers, to ensure alignment and facilitate
the sustainable growth of the global capital markets.
Prior to his current role, Mr Chatterjee held a number of senior positions
within Euroclear, including Head of Primary Markets of Product &
Strategy, Head of International Markets in Network Management and
Head of Process Change Management. Prior to joining Euroclear, Mr.
Chatterjee was a management consultant, advising organisations, such
as Bank of America, Axa and Eurocontrol.
Mr. Chatterjee has a degree in Civil Engineering and a post-graduate
degree in Management .
Hanna Vainio is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Euroclear Finland, the Finnish Central Securities Depository. Additionally, she serves in the Board of Directors of Euroclear Finland and is a member of the Extended Management Committee (EMC) of the Euroclear Group. She is based in Helsinki.
Since joining Euroclear in 2006, she has been the sponsor for various strategic and regulatory development initiatives and projects as the Chief Business Officer for Euroclear Finland and Euroclear Sweden and as the Deputy CEO of Euroclear Finland.
Before joining Euroclear, Ms. Vainio worked for six years at the Nordea Bank Finland as the Head of Corporate Actions.
Ms. Vainio is a member of the ECSDA Board. She has also been a member in several national and international working groups within the European financial industry during her career.
Ms. Vainio holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki (Finland).
Jens Hachmeister, Managing Director at Deutsche Börse AG is its Head of Issuer Services and New Digital Markets and a member of the Clearstream Management Board. After completing a banking apprenticeship and a degree in business administration, he began his career as a management consultant at KPMG before joining Xetra Market Development at Deutsche Börse AG in June 2000. As Head of Operations and Infrastructure Development in the Xetra division, Jens was part of the Management Committee Xetra until January 2009. From mid-April 2010 to December 2015, he was the Chief HR Officer of Deutsche Börse AG and in mid-August 2015, he assumed the newly created role of Chief of Staff and Head of Strategic Execution to the Group’s CEO. As of April 2018, Jens created the New Digital Markets Area as one of the key pillars of Deutsche Börse’s DLT and blockchain strategy before taking on additional responsibility as Clearstream’s Head of Issuer Services in February 2020.
Oliver Sigrist is an Adviser at the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub (BISIH). He is working on the use of novel technologies in central banking and is an expert on CBDC. Oliver was involved in projects Helvetia and Jura, which were realised in cooperation with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and additional partners. Before joining the BISIH, Oliver was a senior economist at the SNB and a visiting fellow at the Sveriges Riksbank. Oliver holds a PhD in economics from the University of Basel
Isabelle Delorme is Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Markets and Issuer Access services.
She joined Euroclear in April 2019, as Chief Business Officer of ESES and sponsor of the Strategy, Product development, Innovation and Commercial dimensions. Among other projects, she took responsibility of the new shareholder identification product launch, the digital transformation of ESES communication tools and the ‘Central Bank Digital Currency’ experimentation.
Engineer by background, Isabelle, started her career in 1996 at Bouygues Telecom where she held the roles of Project and Marketing Manager, working on network rollout, product development in the B2B markets and finally managing the technical and operational integration of a newly acquired company, Club Internet.
As of 2008, she joined Allianz Trade where, after 3 years, she moved from Head of Marketing to Group Marketing & Product Management Director across 40 countries. Going through the global financial crisis, she took actions entailing the retention of clients while reducing risk-exposure, the acceleration of product innovation and the positive increase in the company’s reputation.
As of 2015, Isabelle moved to Allianz Partners and took charge of the Group Marketing & Products leadership, contributing to the restructuring of the Group, before becoming Sales Director France & Southern Europe in 2016. In this role, she was in charge of a book of more than 1 billion euros B2B insurance business.
Olivier Dazard is heading the ‘Controls, Programme Evolution and Engagement team’ at SWIFT. This team drives the Evolution to the Customer Security Control Framework (CSCF) and Independent Assessment Framework (IAF) which are the heart of the Customer Security Program (CSP) at SWIFT; CSP helps financial institutions ensure their defenses against cyberattacks are up to date and effective.
Before joining the CSP program in 2016, Olivier was a Lead IT internal auditor for over 10 years involved in many engagements. He was also leading the Service Bureau inspections program at SWIFT. Olivier has been involved in many other IT functions during his 30+ years career at SWFT
Olivier holds a degree in Computing sciences from the University of Namur (Belgium) and is CISA certified.
Biography to follow
Mr. Rahul Pratap Singh is leading business and products for issuer services of NSDL since February 2020, He is a seasoned financial services professional with demonstrated history of working in capital markets industry. Skilled in sales, customer relationship management, equities. Strong business development mindset with a Masters in Business Economics (Finance) and Bachelors in Business administration (Systems).
In a career spanning nearly two decades he has worked on streaming operations for Private wealth management and portfolio management services.
In his previous assignments he has been recognized for operational excellence and strong commitment to execution of tasks given.
DETAILED EXPERIENCE
Vice President, National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) {Feb 2020 – Present}
Senior Vice President (Head Operations), Centrum Wealth Management Limited, {Sep 2015 – Feb 2020}
Successfully streamed lined wealth and PMS operations, helped the firm to grow digitally by launching client mobile application for purchase of mutual funds and to check holdings & transactions online.
Ensured all business product launches are backed by strong operations for faster TATs and transactions are error free.
Helped implementation of client relationship management application for client acquisition team
Prior to Centrum wealth he has worked with Barclays wealth, Birla Mutual Fund, MF Global (Phillip Capital) & Sharekhan where he has worked on portfolio management services operations, trust services accounting, heading PMS dealing desk, managing operations for loan against shares (LAS).
Education:
DAVV university, Indore – Master’s Degree in Economics with distinction
IPSA, Indore, Bachelor’s Degree in Business administration with specialization in system
Advance software diploma from NIIT
Avi has spent almost 40 years as a journalist, copywriter and marketing professional in India, UK, Belgium and Switzerland. Of that, the past 30 have been spent in the worlds of financial technology and financial services – first at SWIFT where he was responsible for marketing their securities services to the global financial community. And then as the Head of Marketing for SIX Securities Services (formerly know as SIS) in Switzerland. Today, he heads marketing for the Swiss Stock Exchange, The Spanish Stock Exchange the SIX Digital Exchange.
Takeshi is Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI). As Deputy Head, he supports CPMI parent committee and represents the CPMI at various international groups.
Before joining the BIS, he served as chief representative in Frankfurt of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) from 2014 until 2016. At the BoJ he spent many years in the areas related to financial market infrastructures (FMIs). His work included BoJ’s FMI policy and oversight issues regarding Japanese and international FMIs. He represented the BoJ at various FMI-related international groups and cross-border cooperative oversight arrangements.
He also led the BoJ’s supervisory team for Japanese banks and broker dealers. He represented the BoJ at supervisory colleges and crisis management groups for G-SIFIs.
Earlier in his career he was a junior representative at the BOJ Frankfurt office. From 2008 and 2010 he was seconded to the BIS as a member of the CPSS Secretariat. He studied law at Kyoto University and economics at University of Göttingen.
Juan Alfaro joined Financial Superintendency of Colombia (SFC) in 2015 as Deputy Superintendent for Risk Supervision. In 2017, he assumed as Deputy Superintendent for Capital Markets responsible for the supervision of the functioning of securities markets and the asset management industry in Colombia.
Prior to joining SFC, Juan Alfaro worked in Fondo Latinoamericano de Reservas (FLAR) for 14 years as Chief Risk Officer, responsible for overseeing the overall asset and liability management strategy, the formulation financial risk policies and ensuring the compliance with the risk management framework.
From 1995 to 2001, he worked at the Banking Superintendency of Colombia, where he participated in the teams in charge of the adoption of the Basle II Capital Agreement and in the design of new regulation for treasury activities and risk management for the Colombian banking industry.
Juan holds a MSc. in Finance from London Business School and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá Colombia.
Paolo, as a Post Trade Technology Services CTO of the Euronext Group, has the responsibility of the IT organizations of the 4 CSD – Euronext Securities Porto, Oslo, Copenhagen and Milan – and of the CCP – Euronext Clearing –
He spent more than 20 years working in the FMI world, recovering managerial roles in Monte Titoli, where he was appointed as a CTO in 2017 and in the LSEG, where he covered the role of the CIO for the Post Trade Italy Division.
Debbie is a Director in Securities Services managing sales and franchise clients investing in the U.S. She is the Chair of the Association of Global Custodian where she leads market collaboration and advocacy to facilitate more resilient and efficient global post trade execution markets.
In her prior immediate role, she was the U.S. Securities Country Manager where she managed over 6 trillion in assets under custody for clients domiciled in over 30 markets. She set the strategy, managed the U.S. Custody business and created a competitive product enabling client growth and increased market share. Debbie held multiple leadership roles in Industry Associations where she had a stellar track record to proactively initiate and lead market initiatives which fundamentally changed the market infrastructure and mitigate market risk.
Debbie joined Citi in 1997 as Citi Transaction Services Global Risk Manager in New York and was subsequently promoted to Operations Project Manager in Dublin to oversee Euro Implementation for Cash Management, Client Executive in American Depository Receipts servicing clients in the Middle East, Global Custody Marketing Manager and U.S. Custody Product Development Manager.
Prior to joining Citi, she was the Assistant Treasurer at IBM. She pursued a dual major in finance and accounting at the City University of New York where she graduated with honors and an M.B.A. in executive management from St. John’s University. Debbie holds several Board Membership positions including Women’s Diversity Network and New York State Midwifery Association. She is a proud “military wife,” mom of three, and is very passionate about volunteering.
Victor van Hoorn is the Executive Director of Eurosif, the European Sustainable Investment Forum, the leading pan European Sustainable and Responsible Investment association advocating for a more sustainable financial system. It works as a partnership of European national Sustainable Investment Forums (SIFs). SIF members include institutional investors, asset managers, index providers and ESG research and analysis firms totaling over €8 trillion of assets under management, as well as other stakeholders such as NGOs, trade unions, think-tanks and philanthropic foundations. Eurosif is also a founding member of the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, the alliance of the largest SIFs around the world.
Prior to Eurosif, Victor was Head of Financial Services at Hume Brophy, a leading EU public affairs consultancy, advising asset managers and asset owners on their engagement with EU policymakers. In that role he closely followed the EU sustainable finance since its inception.
Victor is and attorney-at-law admitted to the New York and Amsterdam bar. He holds the French and Dutch citizenship.
Executive Director, Eurosif
Biography to follow.
After a 42-year career with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Henne Schuwer focused on the European Union and transatlantic relations, Ambassador Schuwer joined Kreab as a Senior Advisor in 2020. During his career, Henne was involved in all Dutch EU Presidencies, the last one as Deputy Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the EU and Chair of Coreper I. After this, Henne served as the Director of the Private Office of the Secretary General of NATO. Mr Schuwer also has extensive knowledge of US politics and trade issues due to two assignments in the US, including a stint as the Dutch Ambassador to Washington DC in 2015-19.
Senior Advisor, Kreab
David has a portfolio of senior management roles in the European public affairs industry, and has advised over 50 of the world’s largest financial institutions and trade associations on their public affairs strategy, stakeholder engagement, and reputation management activities across Europe, the UK and globally. He leads Kreab’s Financial Services Practice and is the Senior Partner of the Financial Policy Advisers Network. David has worked at the European Commission, the Financial Services Authority, McKinsey & Company, and Campbell Lutyens.
Senior Partner, Head of The Financial Policy Advisers Network, Kreab
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