Joseph Collery, Head of Trading, Comgest

Joseph Collery joined Comgest in 2017 and works as Head of the Trading Desk. Comgest is an independent, international asset management group with 8 entities globally including Paris, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Boston with an AUM of circa Eur30billion. Joe leverages his almost 20 years industry experience to navigate the new MiFID II world having previously held the positions of Head of Trading & Securities Lending at Anima Asset Management and COO at Dexia. In both former roles Joe was responsible for the establishment of the trading desk and the implementation of multi asset OMS & EMS.

Sakeena Lalljee, Director Business Development, Aquis Exchange PLC

Sakeena is a Director of Business Development at Aquis Exchange, the subscriptions-based pan-European equities trading venue and technology firm. She joined Aquis in 2013 ahead of the Company’s successful launch in November of that year, and is part of the team that has grown Aquis from a start-up project to a listed Company with over 5% market share of pan-European equities trading.

Sakeena started her career at Instinet before spending five years at Chi-X Europe and, subsequently, BATS Trading (now trading as Cboe Europe). Her experience spans Business Development, Sales & Marketing, Compliance and Market Data.

She is also a founding member of the FIX NextGen steering committee, which aims to increase participation from younger members of the FIX community and opportunities for those individuals to develop their knowledge of the FIX Protocol. She holds a Certificate in Investment from the CISI, for which she received an Outstanding Achievement Award, and a BA in English from Queen Mary, University of London.

Alison Hollingshead, Chief Of Staff, Trading Platform & Core Technology, Man Group

Alison Hollingshead is Chief of Staff, Trading Platform & Core Technology, a role she took up in March 2019. Alison helps manage a broad, 200-person department that is responsible for the delivery of the technology supporting the entire trading lifecycle from order management and execution, to settlement and regulatory reporting, as well as the infrastructure that underpins the whole firm.

Alison joined Man GLG in 2004 as a Trading Systems Technologist, before becoming an Equity Trader in 2006, specialising in algorithmic and program trading in European markets. In 2011, Alison became the Business Risk & Strategy Manager for Man GLG. In 2015, Alison was appointed Head of Investment Management Services at Man Group and, in this role, she ran a change management and business management team reporting into the Group COO and led the MiFID II implementation globally for the firm. In 2018, post the MiFID II delivery, Alison became Head of Transformation, leading a change management team across the front office technology landscape.

Alison holds a BSc in Mathematics with European Languages from University College London.