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...
Profile Category: EMEA 2025 - Speakers
Hanno Klein
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Laetitia Visconti
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
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...
Rachel Przybylski
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...









