Adam Wood, CEO, Turquoise Global, Head Equities Commercial Proposition, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Adam is CEO Turquoise Global and Head Equities Commercial Proposition at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), based in the Netherlands. Adam is responsible for running and growing both Turquoise venues (Europe and UK) with oversight of the Equities trading commercial proposition. Adam relocated to the Netherlands in 2021, post Brexit, as...
France Trading Conference 2025 Speakers
Thursday 20th November
Speakers
Alicia Suminski, Principal Project Manager, EuroCTP Alicia Suminski joined EuroCTP 18 months ago as Principal Product Manager, where she is responsible for the design of the consolidated tape, including functional elements such as the aggregation logic, the data quality controls, in collaboration with EuroCTP’s business development team Alicia also gather requirements from data contributors and potential future users. Alicia has 20 years of experience in...
Anne Gaignard, Chief Executive Director, Place des Investisseurs Anne Gaignard has 40 years of experience in the financial markets sector. Anne started her career at Société Générale before joining Euronext for nearly 25 years where she was Head of Development and Head of Client Relations for Western Europe. Then she spent about ten years supporting the development of start-ups in the financial sector and sustainability...
Charles-Albert Lehalle, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris and Fellow of Institute Louis Bachelier, Paris Charles-Albert Lehalle is currently Professor at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris teaching and researching on liquidity, price formation, and the use of AI on financial markets. Previously, he has been Global Head, Quantitative Research & Development, at ADIA during three years. He started his career being in charge of embedded AI...
David Angel, Co-Chair France Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Continental Europe, Virtu Financial David Angel, Co-Chair France Subcommitee, FIX Trading Community, Managing Director, Head of European Business Development, drives the growth of Virtu’s new Business across all products and services in Europe, including the relationship management of Virtu’s customer base. David also heads-up Virtu’s Paris Branch and RFQ-hub business. Prior to joining Virtu, David...
Deniz Mace-Jones serves as the Global Head of Rates & Credit Product and Electronic Distribution at UBS Deniz is bringing over 15 years of expertise in Fixed Income markets amid an era of rapid electronic transformation. With a deep understanding of evolving trading protocols and dynamic market structures, Deniz plays a pivotal role in shaping the future strategy for Rates & Credit at UBS, alongside...
Eric Heleine, Co-Chair France Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Head of Electronic Trading & Data, AXA Investment Managers
Franck Noel, Director| Strategy, Risk & Transactions, Deloitte conseil Franck has over 25 years of experience in operational management of trading, support or project teams. Before joining Deloitte in 2025, Franck was previously Head of Market Structure & Strategy at AXA IM and has been working at AXA IM for 8 years, and before this, for 18 years, he held various position with Societe Generale...
Hanane Dupouy, Director, Algorithmic Trader, an experienced finance professional, technologist and passionate about Generative AI, LLMs, AI Agents, RAG etc. Hanane has an engineering degree and a specialised master’s degree in finance from French business schools. Hanane managed a team of data scientists and business intelligence professionals in a French bank. Later, Hanane transitioned into algorithmic trading in the equity department, designing and implementing strategies...
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...
Iris Lucas, Head of the Data Intelligence unit at AMF, Iris Lucas, holding an engineering degree from the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECE Paris, France), also earned a Ph.D. in Computational Finance from the University of Le Havre (France). Since January 2021, she has been serving as the Head of the Data Intelligence unit within the Data and Market Surveillance department at the...
Jaafar Amrani – EMEA Head of Liquidity Strategy for Equities, BNP Paribas CIB. He leads equities‑market‑structure advisory, designing liquidity solutions and steering regulatory engagement and implementation. He holds master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and NEOMA Business School.
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.
José Seabra is a Senior Policy Officer at ESMA, José Seabra is a Senior Policy Officer at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), where he focuses on transparency and market structure policy and has been actively involved in the implementation of them MiFIR framework. Prior to joining ESMA in 2017, he worked at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on MiFID II / MiFIR policy....
Julien Nebenzahl is President of eToro Patrimoine Julien Nebenzahl est Président d’eToro Patrimoine, la filiale française d’eToro dédiée aux produits d’épargne. Au cours de ses trente ans de carrière, il a exercé la profession de gérant financier et analyste technique ainsi que des fonctions de direction générale ou de conformité en matière d’épargne. Diplômé de l’Université de Nanterre Paris X en économie monétaire et de...
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...
Laurent Clavel, Global Head of Multi-Asset, AXA IM Laurent has been leading AXA IM’s Multi-Asset & Quant Solution since 2022, a team managing ca. 30bn€ of assets. Laurent joined AXA IM in 2015 as International Economist and then became Head of Macroeconomic Research in 2016, then Head of Research early 2019. In October 2019, Laurent was appointed AXA IM’s Head of Quant Lab, a team set...
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...
Marie Heraud, Sales Director for European Equities at Cboe Marie brings 17 years of experience in the financial industry and currently serves as Sales Director for European Equities at Cboe Europe, which operates the largest pan-European equities exchange by market share, along with the leading equity trade reporting service, cost-effective equity market data solutions, and benchmark indices across Europe. In her role, Marie manages relationships...
Mathilde Le Roy is Head of Capital Markets Regulation at the Association Française de la Gestion Financière (AFG). She is responsible for monitoring and analysing regulatory developments in capital markets and market infrastructures, and for shaping AFG’s positions and recommendations on key topics such as EMIR, CSDR/T+1, MiFIR, BMR, FiDA. In this capacity, she works closely with peer trade associations and contributes to representing the...
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...
Senior execution trader in Société Générale Luxembourg.
Patrice Aguesse, Head of the Market Regulation Division, Regulatory Policy & International Affairs Department At Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) He represents the AMF at the Market Standing Committee of ESMA which encompasses financial markets and post-markets topics. After a year at Banque Hervet, he joined the trading room at Sovac Bank in January 1992, where he was actively involved in the bank’s refinancing and...
Philippe Rizzo, Institutional Sales at Optiver Based in Amsterdam, Philippe Rizzo is an Institutional Sales at Optiver, specializing in cash equities and ETFs. With over 15 years of experience in global markets and trading, he partners with institutional clients to deliver efficient, data-driven execution. Prior to joining Optiver, Philippe was a Sales Trader at Instinet in Paris, focusing on high- and low-touch execution. He previously...
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...
Robert Miller, Global Head of Equity Execution Sales, Kepler Cheuvreux He has over 20 years of experience in equity execution, market structure and data analytics. Prior to KCx, Robert worked as Head of International Trading Analytics and Strategy at Vanguard. KCx is the No1 independent European equity broker and was voted 2024 Best Electronic Equities Trading winner by Market Choice Awards.
Roland Prevot, Head of Retail – ETFs, Derivatives, Structured Products & Clearing, Euronext Roland is responsible for managing and developing relationships with retail brokers across multiple asset types, including ETFs, Futures & Options, and Warrants. His current priorities include strengthening cooperation with retail intermediaries across Europe, enhancing execution quality for end investors, and supporting education for retail investors. Prior to this role, Roland held several...
Sassan Danesh, CEO, Etrading Software Ltd. Sassan Danesh has 20 years’ experience assisting capital markets institutions to grow their OTC market franchise by optimising the business performance of their technology offerings. Sassan’s more recent focus is on the role of technology in addressing industry-wide issues. Passionate about the benefits of industry collaboration in providing technology solutions that optimise inefficiencies in market structure, Sassan is leading ETS’s...
Stéphane Giordano, Chairman, AMAFI, Deputy Head of Public Affairs, Société Générale Stéphane Giordano joined SG Public Affairs team in late 2013. He is currently deputy head of the department, responsible for Wholesale and Financial Markets Activities. Stephane has been elected as chairman of AMAFI’s (the representative body for professionals working in the securities industry and financial markets in France) board in October 2014. He also...
Valérie Nannette-Dan, Head of Execution – EUR & CHF Credit, AXA Investment Managers
Vincent Boquillon, Head of Equity Trading, Euronext Vincent Boquillon is Head of Equity Trading at Euronext, overseeing the largest equity market in Europe with operations across Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Milan, Oslo and Paris. He is responsible for the group’s cash equity revenues, liquidity strategy, market structure & product development. With over 13 years of experience across global exchanges, Vincent has led initiatives to enhance...
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...