Anthony Modisane, Senior Equity Sales Trader at Absa Anthony Modisane is a Senior Equity Sales Trader at Absa. He has worked in the finance industry and more specifically global markets for 13 years. At Deutsche Bank, he worked on the Delta One desk looking after various delta one products ranging from ETFs to Warrants. He looked after the inventory management booked and the dual listed...
Africa Trading Conference 2025 Speakers
Wednesday 15th October
Speakers
Davita Reddiar, Securities Services Technology Head, RMB Davita has been working for RMB for over 11 years.
Elile Olutimayin is the Executive Director of CardinalStone Partners Limited. She oversees the Asset Management, Securities Trading and Trustees Businesses.Prior to her current role, she was the Managing Director/CEO of CardinalStone Securities Limited for 6 years. She grew the business from a relatively new market entrant to be the leading securities firm in Nigeria. Before joining CardinalStone, she worked at Investment One Financial Services Limited,...
Erica Bruce, Managing Director, Stockbroker in Control, Navigare Securities Stockbroking has been part of my life for four decades. I began my career in 1985 at Ferguson Brothers in equity settlements and soon moved to Kaplan and Stewart, where I advanced to managing the administration office. My early involvement with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) included consulting on the development and rollout of the Broker...
Gary Clarke, Head of Legal and Regulation at A2X Gary Clarke is an admitted attorney with over 30 years of experience in legal practice, compliance, regulation, and governance across listed and non-listed environments. With more than 26 years in the stock exchange sector, Gary specializes in regulation, compliance, governance, and strategy within financial markets. His career spans both established, traditional exchanges and innovative, disruptive start-ups,...
Helina Andhee is the Head of Trading at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Helina Andhee is the Head of Trading at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). In her position, Helina manages the secondary markets team across the different asset classes in the Capital Markets division of the JSE. Helina’s experience in the South African financial markets expands over 17 years. Prior to her current role,...
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.
Keith Thompson, Head of Market Data (SA) at Iress Keith Thompson has been involved in financial markets for over 20 years. His time has been largely split between being an Equity Sales Trader and working on the Fintech side. Over his career, he has held senior roles at Macquarie Securities, Bloomberg, Absa Capital and Iress. He is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Masters in...
Kevin Brady, co-founder and CEO of A2X Markets Kevin is a co-founder and the CEO of A2X Markets. A2X is a licenced Stock Exchange regulated by the Financial Services Conduct Authority and Prudential Authority of South Africa. In 2014, Kevin partnered with Sean Melnick and Ashley Mendelowitz to create a new South African stock exchange. The goal was to bring healthy competition to the South...
Kevin Houstoun, Board Director, FIX Trading Community, Executive Chairman, Rapid Addition Kevin leads Rapid Addition, a company specialising in Financial services software that delivers high-performance, low-latency electronic trading software. Rapid Addition provides messaging platform that works with FPGA hardware and software to support electronic financial messaging for applications such as price dissemination, order routing, smart order routing, sponsored DMA and many other electronic trading applications....
Mark Randall, Director of Information Services at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Mark Randall is the Director of Information Services at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and is responsible for the governance, management and monetisation of the exchange’s data assets. His current focus is on driving the implementation of the JSE’s data cloud strategy, which is modernising the way that the exchange delivers data to information subscribers...
Martin Koch, Head: Trading Operations at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Martin Koch is currently the Head: Trading Operations at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). With over 15 years of stock market and financial services experience, Martin Koch has held various senior positions at the JSE. In his current role, Martin strategically positions the JSE trading landscape and products to ensure operational stability across all JSE...
Mohamed Ismail, Head Electronic Execution, Standard Bank Mohamed heads up the Equities digital business which includes all electronic execution capabilities for the franchise. Mohamed joined Standard Bank Prime Business in 2018 with the mandate to redesign and future proof the electronic execution capabilities. His expertise spans FPGA, FIX, optimization of electronic execution infrastructure and software. Mohamed’s contribution has helped the business catapult up the JSE...
Nasheen Sharma, Technical Account Manager │Capital Markets at Johannesburg Stock Exchange Nasheen Sharma is currently the manager of the Connectivity and Executive Services business at the JSE. Responsible for Business Development of services and new trading clients. He is currently in this role for 2 years. He has worked at the JSE for 18 years in a number of different roles across Business, IT and...
Scott Charity, Head of Market structure, Berenberg, Co-Chair Global Member Services Committee, FIX Trading Community Scott Charity is a Head of Market structure currently working at Berenberg, a well-known international investment bank and asset management firm. Scott has been involved with the FIX Trading Community for over 6 years and most recently as a Board member and co-chair of the Global Steering Committee.
Shreelin Naicker, Departmental Head: OTC Markets, Issuers and intermediaries at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority. Shreelin Naicker is the Departmental Head: OTC Markets, Issuers and intermediaries at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority. He has worked in investment banking for Barclays and the Johannesburg Securities Exchange before joining the hedge fund industry. He has worked in various roles including Quantitative Analysis, Market Risk Management and Structuring....
Stuart Campbell, Head of Commercial at Iress With nearly three decades of experience in financial markets, Stuart leads the commercial division at Iress. His expertise is extensive, covering key sectors from trading and market data to wealth management, investment products, and financial administration.
Tebalo Tsoaeli, CIO at Johannesburg Stock Exchange Tebalo Tsoaeli is an experienced CIO with a demonstrated history of working in the Asset Management, Stockbroking (Institutional and Retail), Capital Markets and financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) industries. He is skilled in Technical Solution Design, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Project Management, Cyber Security, Software Development Engineering, Digital transformation, Legacy modernization, Cloud technologies, IT budget...
Tokelo Khambule, Head of Equities Cash & Liquidity Provisioning, Standard Bank Tokelo Khambule is a seasoned financial markets professional with deep expertise in equities trading, liquidity management, and market microstructure. As the Head of Equities Cash & Liquidity Provisioning, Tokelo leads strategic initiatives to optimize liquidity across cash equity markets, ensuring efficient execution and robust risk management.
Tom Minney, CEO African Growth Partners, Tom is the CEO of African Growth Partners, focused on strategy and organizational development for securities exchanges and capital markets participants. His 30 years’ experience in Africa and worldwide includes as Project Manager for the African Exchanges Linkage Project, General Manager of the Namibian Stock Exchange, investment banking, and many projects including strategy plans, demutualization, boosting listings, training,...
Tshepo Maseko, Director and Group Chairman of Peresec Group Tshepo Maseko started his IT career at a Life Insurance firm Sage Life back in the year 2000. He joined Peresec in 2005, then Peregrine Holdings, where he has served in different operational roles as a project lead. These include heading up electronic trading, transition from JSETS to MIT, implementation and adoption of the colocation services...
Uwa Agbonile is the CEO & Chief Software Architect of InfoWARE Limited InfoWare Limited is the fintech behind one of Africa’s most widely used capital-markets platforms—spanning portfolio & funds management, execution/order management (EOMS), and market-data delivery. At InfoWARE, he leads the design of AI-driven decision support, low-latency connectivity (FIX), and explainable analytics that fit tightly within Nigerian and regional regulatory frameworks. Uwa previously served in...
Valdene Reddy, Director: Capital Markets, Johannesburg Stock Exchange Valdene Reddy is the Director of Capital Markets at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. In this capacity she is responsible for capital raise across primary markets and secondary market trading. This includes the sourcing of new listings at the exchange across equity, debt and structured products, as well the development and management of all secondary market trading in...