Dr Robert Barnes, Strategic Advisor Dr Robert Barnes, Chartered FCSI(Hon), is an exchange expert of 32 years in financial markets, serving as CEO of successful trading venues, Turquoise (2013-2022 – awarded Outstanding Equities Trading Venue 2021) & UBS MTF (2010-2013, while at UBS 1994-2013) and Co-CEO BPX (2023-2025) achieving FCA authorisation in 2025. Chairman (2004-2009) of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
