Tom Whelan is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Instinet Technology Solutions (ITS), and a member of Instinet’s Global Executive Committee. In this role, Tom drives forward the firm’s strategy and delivery of Instinet’s legendary trading technology and software solutions to buy-side and sell-side clients, including the creation of highly customized infrastructures and...
RJ Weiss is a product specialist on the Workflow Technology team at Virtu Financial. He joined ITG in 2015 prior to the firm’s acquisition by Virtu in 2019. Previously, he spent several years at Eze Castle Software. RJ earned his degree in Geography & Geographical Information Systems from Middlebury College.
Jim Northey, Non-Executive Director, FIX Trading Community, Chair, ISO TC 68 Financial Services Jim Northey currently serves as a director of FIX Protocol Ltd. and the Chair of ISO TC68, the ISO Technical Committee for Financial Services. Jim served as the Global Technical Committee Co-chair for the Americas until his election as an FPL director...
Mark Beeston, Managing Partner and Founder, Illuminate Financial Mark Beeston is Managing Partner and Founder of Illuminate Financial, a thesis-driven venture capital firm investing in enterprise fintech and B2B software companies solving problems across financial services. Illuminate is recognised as a trusted partner to multiple banks and industry strategics. Their portfolio includes Curv (acq. by...
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...
Leen Vermeersch, Public Policy Officer, Euroclear Leen is a lobbyist, corporate influencer and strategic storyteller, connector of people and dots, supporter of systemic stability and public policy. She’s a structural optimist with more than 15 years of experience in the world’s largest financial market infrastructure. Leen has about 8 years of experience in managing the...
Jonathan Herbst, Partner / Global Head of Financial Services Regulation, Norton Rose Fulbright Jonathan Herbst is the Global Head of Financial Services Regulation and joined the London practice as a partner in October 2002. He was previously Head of European Law at the UK Financial Services Authority from 2001 to 2002. Jonathan is a leading...
Bim Afolami, MP Bim Afolami was elected as the Member of Parliament for Hitchin & Harpenden in 2017. He spent ten years in the City first as a corporate lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, then as a Senior Executive at HSBC. Through this he helped to advise some of the biggest companies in the...
Paul Squires, Independent Paul Squires was until recently the Head of equities trading: EMEA and APAC for Invesco having also previously managed the Henley Fixed Interest dealing team. He joined Invesco in 2018 from AXA Investment Managers where he held a number of positions, culminating in becoming the Global Head of Trading and Securities Financing in...
Benoît Gourisse, Head of Asia Pacific, ISDA Benoît Gourisse has worked for ISDA for ten years. He has served as Senior director, European Public, from 2011 to 2020, then Deputy Head, European Public Policy and was appointed Head of Asia Pacific in April 2021. He headed European ISDA work streams on Commodities, application of non-cleared...
