Alasdair Were, Director of Environmental Markets, Abaxx Exchange Formerly the Director of Digital Climate Markets at the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) Alasdair was involved in launching Climate Action Data Trust, a metadata layer for carbon markets in partnership with the World Bank and Government of Singapore. Prior to that, he held a number of trading roles across energy and agriculture firms. He currently leads...
EMEA Trading Conference 2025 Speakers
Thursday 6th March
Speakers
Alex Dalley, Head of European Cash Equities, Cboe Europe Alex Dalley is Head of European Cash Equities for Cboe Europe, which operates the largest pan-European stock exchange and equity trade reporting facilities. He was previously Head of Cboe NL, Cboe’s Netherlands-based exchange, which operates pan-European equities and equity derivatives exchanges. In addition, he was also co-head of Cboe Europe’s equities sales division, with responsibility for...
Alison Hollingshead, Chief Operating Officer, Investment Management, Jupiter Asset Management Alison Hollingshead is Investment Management Chief Operating Officer at Jupiter, a role she took up in June 2022. Alison is responsible for managing the operational functions and activities of Investment Management, including line management of Trading and Investment Business Managers. Alison was previously Chief of Staff, Trading Platform & Core Technology at Man Group. Alison...
Andrew Douglas, Chair, UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce Andrew has spent 35 years in the City working in the post trade space. He started at Citibank in the Worldwide Securities Services group where he ultimately managed the European Customer Service team for the Clearing & Custody businesses before moving to Deutsche’s Investment Bank to run middle office for Money Markets and Fixed income. Leaving to join...
Angela Lobo, European Head of E Sales & Sales COO, Jefferies Angela Lobo is the European Head of E Sales & Sales COO at Jefferies. She formerly served as head of Esales & Algo Strategy at Morgan Stanley where she worked for 14 years. She has over 25 years of experience in Fixed income eTrading and has specialized in devising Client & Product strategy around...
Belinda Ellington, Senior Advisor, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) Belinda is a senior legal professional with more than 25 years’ experience in law, regulation, policy and negotiation relating to Banking, Trading and Finance across Global Commodities’ Markets and Sustainable Finance. She recently left Citi Bank, where she was MD and head of legal for commodities and sustainable finance, to focus on driving finance towards the...
Bob Bose, CIO & Head of Product, Carbonplace A technologist who has built a number of fixed income trading systems over a 25yr+ career in the City of London. Bob has worked at brokers such as Brokertec and Tullett & banks including CS, Santander & UBS. Has been involved in the world of FIX throughout.
Carsten Ostermann, Head of the Markets and Digital Innovation Department, ESMA Carsten joined ESMA in 2012, became Team Leader for Secondary Markets in 2014 and Head of the Trading Unit in 2019. Currently he is the Head of the newly established Markets and Digital Innovation Department. The Department is responsible for developing implementing measures and supervisory convergence in the EU for secondary markets, market integrity,...
Christian Voigt, Head of Markets, Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions (BTCS) Christian is Head of Markets at Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions (BTCS) . His most recent roles include Trading Design at Eurex, Senior Regulatory Adviser at Fidessa, and Vice President at Deutsche Börse’s cash market responsible for business development. Christian began his career as a scholar at the European Business School in Germany, where...
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...
Dan Barnes, CEO, Europe, Markets Media Dan Barnes is the CEO, Europe at Markets Media, the home of The DESK, Global Trading, Trader TV, Traders Magazine and Derivsource. He has been a journalist covering capital markets for 25 years.
Dr Robert Barnes, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Founder & MD, BPX, Anopolis Dr Robert Barnes, Chartered FCSI(Hon), Co-CEO of real estate platform, BPX, is an exchange expert of 31 years in financial markets, including as CEO of two successful regulated trading venues, Turquoise (2013-2022) & UBS MTF (2010-2013, while at UBS 1994-2013). Chairman (2004-2009) of the Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association, he...
Eleanor Beasley, Head of Market Structure and COO, Goldman Sachs’ EMEA Equities Business. Ellie is head of market structure and chief operating officer for Goldman Sachs’ EMEA Equities business. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2019 as an executive director and was named managing director in 2023. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ellie spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley, where she held several roles and was...
Evan Canwell, Equity Trader and Market Structure Analyst, T Rowe Price Evan Canwell is an Equity Trader and Market Structure Analyst at T Rowe Price, where he has contributed significantly to the development of the desk’s electronic trading capabilities. With 10 years of experience, his role has grown to include high touch trading, equity derivatives, and ETFs, as well as data analysis to improve execution...
Giulia Pecce, Director, Head of Secondary Capital Markets and Wholesale Investor Protection Policy, AFME Giulia joined AFME in June 2022 and is Head of Secondary Capital Markets and Wholesale Investor Protection. She runs AFME’s MiFID Steering Committee, the Investment Research Policy Group, the Retail Investment Strategy Working Group, and other ad hoc MiFID policy groups, including transaction reporting and order execution. Before joining AFME, Giulia...
Gordon Noonan, Global head of FX Trading and Head of Rates Trading Europe, Schroders 2022 – Global head of FX Trading and Head of Rates Trading Europe 2018 – Global head of FX Trading 2011 –FX Trading 2005 – Joined Schroders BA (Hons) Finance, NUI Maynooth CFA Charterholder
Hanno Klein, FIX Technical Director and Global Technical Committee Co-Chair, FIX Trading Community, Founder and Senior Standards Advisor, FIXdom Hanno Klein works as an independent consultant specialised in the standardisation of electronic interfaces and is the founder of FIXdom – “The Wisdom of FIX” in Germany (April 2019). Previously, he has worked for more than 20 years at Deutsche Börse Group that provides the technology for...
Hayley McDowell, Head of European Market Structure, RBC Capital Markets Hayley is Head of European Market Structure at RBC Capital Markets. She joined the firm in 2021 after almost seven years working as a Senior Journalist and then Editor of London-based buy-side trading publication, The TRADE. Hayley’s focus at RBC is to provide timely insights on key market structure and regulatory developments to clients and...
Hirander Misra, Chairman & CEO, GMEX Group and ZERO13 Hirander has extensive electronic trading and FinTech expertise spanning over 28 years, with successful syndication to investors and substantial exits.He is Co-Founder and Chairman of GMEX Group and its COP28 award-winning climate fintech platform-as-a-service ZERO13. He is one of the Top 10 influential business leaders of blockchain technology in the UK All Party Parliamentary Group reports. He...
Huw Grunow is Head of Dealing at Newton, overseeing all trading for the UK based firm across all asset classes. He joined Newton in October 2016. Prior to that he was Head of Trading, Europe and Asia at Principal Asset Management, with trading roles at Blackrock and TT International Investment Management before that. Huw co-chairs the EMEA Investment Management Working Group for FIX Trading Community,...
Jamie Whitehorn, Head of Trading Venues, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Jamie leads the Trading Venues & Corporate Finance Firms Department within the FCA’s Infrastructure & Exchanges Directorate. Jamie is responsible for supervising UK trading venues and developing the policy framework within which they operate. He joined the regulator in 2010, having served in a variety of regulatory and compliance roles at trading venues.
Jeffrey Mooney is an Associate Director in the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets. He heads the Office of Clearance and Settlement where his responsibilities include developing regulatory standards for central counterparties, central securities depositories and other entities that provide clearance and settlement services. He also represents the SEC in domestic and international policy initiatives. During his tenure, Jeffrey Mooney has served as counsel to former...
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.
Laetitia Visconti, Head of Market Structure, Aquis Exchange Laetitia Visconti has over 20 years’ experience in equities execution, financial services advocacy, and regulatory change management. She joined Aquis Exchange in February 2025 as Head of Market Structure, where she leads the firm’s advocacy and regulatory agenda, and contributes actively to the product innovation and strategy for the firm’s pan-European MTF. Before joining Aquis, Laetitia spent...
Laurie McAughtry, Head of Capital Markets, Euromoney Laurie McAughtry is Head of Capital Markets at Euromoney, responsible for DCM, ECM, M&A and FX strategy across both primary and secondary markets. She joined from global publishing firm Markets Media as Managing Editor of Global Trading, where she oversaw the transformation and consolidation of the firm’s multiple equities titles into a single market-leading platform. She is a vocal...
Madeleine Boys, Director of Programmes and Innovation, Global Digital Finance (GDF) Madeleine Boys is the Director of Programmes and Innovation at Global Digital Finance. In her role, she leads initiatives to support GDF membership and actively engages the broader community to drive the implementation of strategies and innovative programmes aligned with GDF’s mission of thought leadership and best practices, as well as the priorities of...
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...
Marina Kudryavtseva, Senior QA Manager, Exactpro Systems Marina Kudryavtseva is a Quality Assurance Manager and Test Management Consultant with 14+ years of experience in Fintech, DLT / Blockchain, and other FMI projects. Her expertise spans delivering comprehensive testing strategies, leading software testing teams to drive large-scale cost-effective QA transformations, and implementing Agile adoption across global financial institutions, stock exchanges, and central banks.
Mark Freeman, City Wellbeing Strategist, Looking After Me With over three decades of experience in electronic trading, institutional and hedge fund sales, Mark Freeman served as Head of Electronic Sales & Sales Trading for Kepler Cheuvreux, where he led a team covering London and Europe, offering innovative trading solutions for global asset managers and hedge funds, until he retired from the industry in September 2022. ...
Martin Swanson, Founder, Atomic Wire • Former Group CTO for Securities at UBS with 20+ years of expertise in financial services and capital markets. • Led the transformation strategy for UBS’s post-trade environment, with 10,000+ operations staff and annual TCO of CHF 1.5bn. • Introduced Kafka, Flink, Elastic and the firm’s first AI production solution. • Member of the FIX Orchestra subcommittee since 2023.
Matt Johnson, Executive Director, International Strategy and EMEA & APAC Industry Relations, DTCC Matt Johnson serves as an Executive Director for International Strategy and Industry Relations within DTCCs Clearing and Securities Services business at DTCC. Within this role, Matt is responsible for collaborating with his product management peers to develop a robust and comprehensive strategy for the firm’s Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) suite of services...
Matt Bumstead, Product Manager, Content Acquisition, Platforms & Market Data Model, Bloomberg L.P. Matt is a founding member (2011) and Co-Chair of the FIX Market Model Typology (MMT) Technical Committee, a standard for efficiently and consistently describing transactions (“trades”) across European markets and trade reporting services. MMT incorporates and expands upon the trade flags stipulated by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Regulatory...
Matthew Cheung, CEO, ipushpull Matthew Cheung is CEO of ipushpull, a unified data platform capturing and transforming unstructured data into AI-ready data assets for automation, intelligence and control. Customers include NatWest Markets, TP ICAP, Insight Investment and SIX. Matthew is also founder of Work in Fintech, a mentoring project that inspires and guides young people to build careers in fintech. Previously, Matthew co-founded RANsquawk, a...
Matthew Coupe, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee, FIX Trading Community & head of Fixed Income sales and product EMEA for Susquehanna Matthew Coupe is head of Fixed Income sales and product EMEA for Susquehanna, he was formally global head of cross asset market structure, based in London. He advises on the future market structure, forms the advocacy position of the markets division on areas of market...
Matthew Cousens, Founder, Milvus-I Consultancy Matthew Cousens is an industry expert with more than 23 years of experience within equity markets, with particular focus on electronic and algorithmic trading, equity markets infrastructure and the impact of technology and regulation. Most recently, Matthew was Head of Equities EMEA for BestEx Research, a financial technology firm specializing in high-performance execution algorithms. Prior to BestEx Research, Matthew spent 15...
Mike Carrodus, CEO & Founder, Substantive Research Mike launched Substantive Research in 2015, having run the global sales team for one of the largest independent research providers, Ned Davis Research. His idea was that financial institutions would find enormous value from gaining a better understanding of pricing trends and supply in the research and data markets, using a quantitative approach focused on specific use cases...
Mike Poole, Head of Trading, Jupiter Asset Management Mike is the Head of Trading at Jupiter Asset Management, having joined the company in 2005. Previously, Mike managed the Fixed Income trading team for six years, having originally spent over ten years trading equities, bonds, FX and derivatives across Jupiter’s range of funds. An active member of numerous industry bodies, including the Investment Association, Mike is...
Natasha Benson, COO, CFO, Ownera Natasha Benson is a recognized leader in the financial services industry with over 25 years of experience, particularly in the emerging fields of Tokenization and Digital Markets. She is currently COO/CFO of Ownera, a company at the forefront of building interconnected infrastructure for tokenized solutions. Before Ownera, Natasha founded and led several successful ventures. She was the CEO of Fintech...
Nazed Mannan, Head of Quantitative Products, BMLL Technologies With over a decade of experience in the financial services industry, Nazed is an expert in low touch execution trading. Prior to his current role, he was a Director at Barclays Investment Bank, where he was the EMEA Product lead for the low touch execution desk and cash equities trading platform. Nazed began his career in the...
Ozgun Unal, Executive Director – Head of e-FX Distribution UK, UBS Ozgun is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in electronic FX sales, strategy, and product development. Having joined UBS Investment Bank in 2010, she played a pivotal role in expanding the bank’s electronic footprint, driving automation, and enhancing client relationships across Institutional clients. She currently leads the UK eFX regional team...
Patrick Lucas, Founder, Atomic Wire • Former Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Yelp with 15+ years of expertise in big tech. • Previously Senior Data Engineer at Ververica and an original team member responsible for developing the Ververica Platform. • Member of the FIX Orchestra subcommittee since 2023.
Paul Brennan, Chief Strategy Officer at, Imandra Paul Brennan is an accomplished business leader with over 20 years of industry experience and a proven history of driving innovation and executing initiatives that maximise stakeholder value. Currently serving as Chief Strategy Officer at Imandra, an AI company serving the financial markets, Paul unlocks transformative opportunities at the intersection of people, artificial intelligence and financial markets.
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...
PJ Di Giammarino, CEO & Founder, RegRisk Legal Solutions Limited PJ Di Giammarino is a leading independent authority in RegTech (Regulatory Technology) with a background in system development and top-tier management consulting, including time at McKinsey, Booz Allen and Barclays Capital where he served as COO of Technology. In 2006, PJ founded JWG Group, now part of RegRisk Legal Solutions where he continues to pioneer...
Rachel Przybylski,Chief Product Officer, SIGMA A markets and technology professional with specialist knowledge of regulation and market structure with over 15 years experience gained across buy-side & sell-side firms. A team builder focused on strategy, business development and product delivery of multi asset-class, trading technology and data. Rachel is an active member of Industry bodies and has worked at firms such as Nasdaq, Nomura, Saxo...
Rebecca Healey, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee, 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 of fintech in capital...
Richard Young, Industry Affairs, Regulation and Symbology Strategist – Data, Bloomberg Richard joined Bloomberg in September 2015 in an industry relations role in the Bloomberg Data business. This role includes industry and regulatory outreach on data standards issues covering; trading and post trading across asset class, including digital assets. Richard chairs the BSI TC68 committee, which covers ISO financial identifier and messaging standards, such as...
Rob Cranston, Global Head of Equities Product, Liquidnet Rob has worked in product management in electronic trading for over 20 years, accumulating a wealth of knowledge predominately in Equities. In his current role he is responsible for the global diversification and evolution of the Liquidnet equity products. Prior to his time at Liquidnet, Rob was the Head of Equity Product Management at SIX Swiss Exchange....
Robin Green, Carbon Market Development, Nasdaq Robin has led solution delivery teams in Capital Markets for many years working across Blockchain, AI and Payments, and was part of the core team that created Carbonplace – a multi-bank platform designed to scale access to the Voluntary Carbon Market. Robin is now helping Nasdaq build out their market infrastructure to further support the efficient operation of the...
Rugi Gahramanli, Business Development Manager, Equities Trading Sales, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Rugi has over 7 years of experience in financial services, including 4 years in Primary Markets at the London Stock Exchange (LSE), where her focus was IPOs and follow-on listings. She joined the LSE’s Equities Trading team in 2021 as a relationship manager for some of the leading trading member firms on...
Samuel Livingstone, Head of Quantitative Strategies and Risk, Ambienta Sam joined Ambienta in 2024 as Head of Quantitative Strategies and Risk – he is based in London. Prior to Ambienta, Sam held a number of senior buy-side roles, most recently as the Head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Jupiter Asset Management. Previously, he was a data scientist in Global Equities (now International Equities)...
Scott Hernandez, Managing Director of CFS, Xpansiv Scott Hernandez is Managing Director of Xpansiv’s Carbon Financial Services (CFS), where he oversees the portfolio, market advisory and trade services in voluntary carbon, renewable energy and low carbon fuels. Prior to CFS, Scott led the commercial development and growth of environmental products at CBL Markets, focusing on voluntary carbon, California Carbon Allowances (CCAs), Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative...
Simon Dove, Managing Director and Head of Liquidity, EMEA Instinet Simon Dove joined Instinet in December 2020. In his role as Head of Liquidity for the EMEA region, he is responsible for the firm’s European liquidity strategy, which includes supervision of Instinet’s BlockMatch MTF, as well as, the firm’s market-leading liquidity aggregation strategy. Simon ensures that Instinet successfully anticipates changes in the liquidity landscape and...
Simon Forster, Global Co-Head of Digital Assets, TP ICAP Simon Forster is the Global Co-Head of Digital Assets at TP ICAP where he is responsible for setting the firms cryptoasset and tokenisation strategy and managing the portfolio of solutions launched within the Digital Assets business. TP ICAP Digital Assets provides broking services to global clients across cryptoasset derivative products and offers spot trading through an...
Stéphane Malrait, Chairman, ACI Financial Market Association, Independent Chair of the Consolidated Tape Stakeholder Group, eTrading Software Stéphane Malrait is ACI FMA Chairman since June 2021 and was previously ACI FMA Working Groups and Committees Representative at the Management Board. Stéphane has been effectively engaged with ACI FMA for more than 15 years, contributing to different projects. Since the creation of the ACI FMA FXC...
Stuart McDowell, UK CIO, Société Générale London Branch Stuart is the UK CIO at Société Générale London Branch, where he is responsible for the oversight and leadership of the UK IT Community, developing and supporting the Global IS Strategy, and ensuring the delivery of business-critical technology and core infrastructure. He also has responsibility for the UK Digital Office, working with business units in the digital...
Tanith Johnson, European Head of Operations, Instinet In this role, Tanith has been instrumental in the seamless implementation, management and evolution of Operations throughout her career; including time spent at both Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Latterly material challenges have included a broad spectrum of complex regulatory and business requirements across Europe. In addition, she has been a key architect in the delivery of new...
Tanya Panova, Head of Securities Markets Unit at DG FISMA, European Commission Tanya Panova is the Head of the Securities Markets Unit in DG FISMA. Previously, she has been developing the capital markets strategy as the Head of the Capital Markets Union Unit and served in the private office of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis where she was responsible for Capital Markets Union, securities markets, asset management,...
Tom Doris, Head of Alpha Capture, Carlson Capital Tom leads Alpha Capture at Carlson Capital and brings over 20 years of experience in tech, quant, and data science. He began his career as an R+D engineer with Intel and holds patents for his work on optimizing compilers for multicore processors. Having worked at Marshall Wace in optimizing alpha capture and quant trading, in 2011 he...
Tom Harry, Head of Cash, Derivatives and Regulation – Product Management, MTS Markets Tom is Head of Cash, Derivatives and Regulation – Product Management at MTS, part of the Euronext Group. Tom is focused on developing the fixed income trading functionalities of the interdealer MTS Cash and dealer-to-client trading BondVision platforms as well as following regulatory matters across the MTS trading platforms.
Vincent Grandjean, Founder & CEO, Propellant Digital Vincent is the founder of Propellant Digital, a fintech that organises publicly available markets data along with clients’ internal proprietary data to empower advanced analytics and provide critical business insights. He has extensive front-to-back experience in electronic trading through his positions in Front Office eCommerce and in Information Technology. He played a key role defining Fixed Income market...
Virginie Saade, Managing Director, Head of Government & Regulatory Policy, EMEA, Citadel Virginie Saade is Head of Government and Regulatory Policy for Citadel in EMEA. She is responsible for engaging with policymakers and regulators across EMEA on legislative and regulatory initiatives that are significant to the financial services industry. Prior to joining Citadel, Ms. Saade was Head of European Regulatory Affairs and Strategy for KCG...