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 Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association, he founded Anopolis, advising market structures, in 2013. Since 2021, he is a member of the National Timing Centre programme Steering Committee led by the National Physical Laboratory. His peers voted him The TRADE’s first Industry Person of the Year at its Leaders in Trading Awards, and he received the European Markets Choice Award for Individual Market Recognition in 2022. FCA selected him in 2022 for a two-year term on FCA’s Secondary Markets Advisory Committee and appointed him in 2023 to its Sub-committee on Market Outages. In 2023, the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment awarded him its highest accolade, an Honorary Fellowship. In 2024, he earned the CISI Certificate in Ethical Artificial Intelligence and is a contributor to Global Digital Finance’s Policy & Regulatory Working Groups. Robert holds a PhD from Cambridge and BA from Harvard. www.linkedin.com/in/robertbarnes888/