Roland Chai, President European Market Services Roland Chai is EVP Nasdaq. Roland also serves as Chair of the Nasdaq Clearing Board since end 2023, and as a board member of the ISSA Board since 2023 and the OCC Board since 2024. Prior to his current role as President European Market Services, Roland led Nasdaq’s Marketplace...
Head of Execution for Equities, Fixed Income and FX at Swedbank Robur. Former sell side trader, 15 years market making SEK Rates.
Asha Patel, Executive Director, Instinet, Board Director, Sustainable Trading Asha Patel is an Executive Director of Global Portfolio Trading and Index Sales at Instinet., a role she has been working in since she graduated. Asha has recently been appointed to the board of Sustainable Trading. Beyond Asha’s work on the trading desk, she leads several...
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...
Imandra is an AI startup pioneering neurosymbolic AI for AI agents that reason logically. Imandra Universe, Imandra’s new ecosystem for neurosymbolic agents and reasoners, brings deep advances in automated reasoning to AI builders, making it easy to add rigorous, scalable and auditable logical AI into your AI agents, products and applications. For more information please...
Financial services institutions (FSIs) require high-performance computing solutions to facilitate faster trading and transactions, expedite access to market intelligence and data-driven insights, and enhance overall customer experiences—all while minimizing TCO, streamlining system management, and maintaining robust security. Low-latency solutions are critical for high-frequency electronic trading, exchanges, and complex trading simulations. Latency needs vary depending on...
Beth Nichols, UK Partnership Lead, Talent Beyond Boundaries Beth is the UK Partnerships Lead at Talent Beyond Boundaries, having previously worked at the Refugee Council. With a background in the refugee sector, social enterprise and corporate partnership building, Beth now leads the growth of the UK employer network hiring through the Displaced Talent Mobility programme.
Ed Balls, Former Economic Secretary to the Treasury & Shadow Chancellor. Ed Balls served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Shadow Chancellor in a political career spanning over two decades. Away from politics he has found a new audience with a surprisingly successful appearance in Strictly Come Dancing, and a revealing exploration of US...
Khalaf Abd, Software Engineer, Iress Khalaf Abd, a software engineer from Syria, brings over four years of experience to his role at IRESS. Khalaf has worked in multiple sectors but especially in mortgages, sourcing, and trading. Matched with IRESS through the support of Talent Beyond Boundaries, he relocated from Lebanon to the UK four years...
