Staffan is the head of Collateral+ offering collateral services to State Street clients. Collateral+ provides tri party, collateral administration and collateral analytics to the market. The services are modular based tailored in particular to the buy side community. This unit is part of the Financing and Collateral Solutions team within State Street Global Markets.

Staffan joined State Street from BNY Mellon where he ran the international tri party business. He joined BNY Mellon in 1998, playing a major role in the build-out of its tri party business as well as managing the clearing business for EMEA. Prior to BNY Mellon, Staffan worked at Northern Trust in their Investment Manager Liaison Group.

Staffan has a master’s degree in economics from Umea University and postgraduate degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics. He has also spent time at the Norwegian School of Economics.

Patrick is currently responsible for Securities Lending Trading at Morgan Stanley in EMEA, overseeing single name inventory generation across synthetic and secured financing markets for its prime brokerage and market making businesses.

Over his 17 year tenure at the bank Patrick has sat on sales and trading desks covering equity and credit financing, delta 1 and corporate actions trading and has championed the firms expansion into new markets and e-trading.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley Patrick studied Economics at the University of Manchester.

Ahmet Gökhan is currently working as a Specialist at Capital Markets Board of Türkiye. He is experienced at policy making and supervising investment services including securities financing transactions. He joined the finance industry as an internal auditor at Ziraat Bank where he spent 5 years. He subsequently moved to Turkish capital markets regulator in 2014. He holds a Masters’ degree in Finance.

Jon started his career in 1999, working in various Sales and Trading roles at Lehman Brothers, subsequently moving to Nomura in 2008 where he ran the Equity Finance and Delta 1 trading business.  He joined J.P. Morgan in September 2018 to create a new global group within Securities Services focusing on leveraging the agency architecture to build platform funding products, structure bespoke financing solutions and implement inventory optimisation strategies.  The business engages a wide spectrum of institutional clients, from corporates and hedge funds to asset managers, pension funds and government entities.

Jon holds a Batchelor of Science degree from the University of Birmingham.

Miles has been Global Lead of the IT Business Analysis team for Regulatory Reporting at Credit Suisse Investment Banking since the early days of Dodd-Frank, delivering Derivatives reporting across all major jurisdictions, as well as MiFID II/MiFIR for all products.

Hands-on experience of turning legalistic regulatory text into unambiguous logic and data definitions inspired him to search for a clearer approach.

He made significant contributions to the FCA/Bank of England DRR pilots in 2018 and 2019, leading the Derivatives work stream and demonstrating real-time regulatory logic change. He also contributed to the Business Case and Mortgages Data Modelling deliverables.

In 2022 he is active on the Bank of England’s “transforming Data Collection” initiative, sitting on the Design Advisory group, and contributing to the design of solutions for Derivatives and Commercial Real Estate Reporting.

He currently sits on the ISDA CDM Architecture and Review Committee, the Global Derivatives DRR Oversight Committee, and the Global Derivatives DRR Architecture Working Group. He is also coding using ISDA CDM as part of the Global Derivatives DRR EMIR Refit Pilot.

Michal is currently leading the development of listed equities content at the PRI where he is part of the Investment Practices team. He joined the investment industry in 1995 as a sell-side analyst at NatWest Markets in London. He subsequently moved to asset management where he spent 10 years, mostly as equity fund manager at New Star Asset Management. More recently he worked as curriculum director at CFA Institute where over 5 years he developed curriculum readings across topic areas. He holds a degree in economics from the London School of Economics. He subsequently obtained his Masters in Finance degree from the London Business School. He is also CFA charterholder.

Vijayesh Chandel is an Executive Director within the Global Markets Data Models & Governance team at Goldman Sachs. Currently leading the New York team, his role has involved building and governing the internal data models for derivative products. Since joining the firm five years ago, he has led strategic model creation across many different domains, participated in ISDA Common Domain Model forums, and has facilitated the open sourcing of the firm’s proprietary data management software ‘Legend’ having led various industry projects through the platform to collaborate on the build of new standards.

Tamara is a counsel in the financial services regulatory team in London, specializing in ESG. She is a member of the City of London’s EU Regulation Standing Committee, as well as its Global Regulatory Committee. She is on the UK Financial Markets Law Committee’s ESG working group, and a cross sector committee working to develop industry guidance on key ESG topics for advisers, managers, platforms and insurers. She is also on the City of London’s ESG and Taxonomy Committees, and regularly speaks at events on ESG and climate change related topics. Tamara began her career at a regulator, working for the general counsel of the financial services regulator in Australia.

Gabriele is an open source executive and technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm or a non profit foundation. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, as Executive Director Gabriele grew the Fintech Open Source Foundation FINOS from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster, leveraging open source as a model of collaboration. Gabriele holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation and advises open source startups. He’s a passionate soccer fan, reggae music connoisseur and special needs dad and advocate wannabe.

Valentina has been with Euroclear since 2018, based in London. As a Product Specialist for Collateral Management, she advises both internal and external stakeholders in defining, prioritising and launching new products, as well as managing changes to the existing Euroclear offerings in Collateral Management. Valentina has 15 years of experience in the sector, having covered a variety of roles across the market, including a sell-side bank, a clearing house and an agent lender. She holds a Masters’ degree in Finance and Accounting.

Michael Cyrus is Head of Collateral Trading and FX at DekaBank. Collateral Trading at DekaBank encompasses Fixed Income Repo, Securities Lending, Equity Finance, Structured Collateralised Solutions and FX. He joined DekaBank from RBS London, where he was global Co-Head of Short Term Markets and Financing responsible for Repo, collateralised Funding, FX and Interest Rate Prime and ETD. Before RBS, Michael was Head of Credit Financing and Collateral Trading (CFCT) at Dresdner Bank in London focusing on Emerging Market Repo, Equity Finance, Tri-Party Repo and synthetic financing in fixed income and credit markets. He started his career at Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt as a Business Manager. Michael has a wealth of experience in the short term money-, repo- and securities lending and financing markets as well as in treasury operations. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Hamburg.

Ernst is responsible for ensuring the team maximize revenue generation and optimize funding for funds and clients by using Securities Financing techniques (Stock Lending, Repo and Reverse Repo) – Book of more than €250Bn lendable assets. His role is also to support the investment management activity by increasing market information transparency and facilitating specific fund / clients management strategies.

Ernst joined AXA IM in 2006 as Senior Quantitative Analyst. He gradually took different responsibilities as Senior Risk Manager, Senior Structurer between 2006 and 2013. He became Head of Structuring and Solutions Development in 2013, focusing on multi-assets, alternatives investments and OTC derivatives solutions.

Ernst holds a Msc. in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from University Lyon II and a Msc. Financial Engineering from ESLSCA Paris.

Laura is a Senior Associate in the financial regulation group at Clifford Chance in London, specialising in financial markets law and regulation. Laura advises a range of financial institutions on regulatory reform projects, financial product structuring, day-to-day regulatory compliance and regulated M&A. Laura’s areas of practice include MiFID2, EMIR, SFTR, AIFMD, CSDR, FinTech and payments regulation, governance and conduct-related issues, including ESG-related regulatory requirements. She was seconded to the regulatory team at an international bank in 2013 where she advised the bank on matters relating to regulation of clearing and settlement, financial collateral, securities financing transactions and payment services.

Andy joined ISLA in 2013 and took over as Chief Executive in mid-2016. As well as leading our advocacy efforts with policymakers and regulators, he is also responsible for defining the aims and objectives of the Association and ensuring that we meet the needs and requirements of our member firms across Europe, Middle East & Africa. He regularly participates in panel discussions at conferences and events, representing the interests of the industry and advocating the importance of securities lending to the efficient functioning of the broader capital markets.

Prior to joining ISLA, he held senior product and account management roles across the securities finance industry including Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Prudential M&G and IHS Markit (formerly Data Explorers).

Before joining the world of capital markets, Andy worked in commercial and corporate finance banking including aerospace finance.

Alexa is a product strategist in BlackRock’s Securities Lending team based in London. She is managing securities lending client relationships across Institutional, Retail and iShares ETF clients in EMEA. She also leads ESG integration and sustainability initiatives for the team globally. Alexa holds a BSc degree in Financial Economics from the University of St. Andrews and is a CFA Charterholder.

Francis Gross is Senior Adviser in the Directorate General Statistics of the European Central Bank.

Francis’ main interest lies in developing vision, conceptual design and strategy for sustainable digitalisation of the economy, with a focus on effective measurement. His immediate aim is to design and drive concrete, feasible measures with transformational power, e.g. global, public-good digital infrastructure to make the system adequately measurable and more efficient. Starting in 2006 he initiated the movement that led to the G20-backed Global Legal Entity Identifier System, where he serves on the Regulatory Oversight Committee.

Before joining the ECB in 2001, Francis spent fifteen years in automotive, eight at Mercedes, working on globalisation.

He holds an engineering degree from École Centrale, Paris, and an MBA from Henley Management College, UK.

After graduating from the Faculty of Business Administration of Istanbul University in 1993, Güzhan Gülay completed Ziraat Bank Banking School and worked as a specialist in the Capital Markets Directorate of the same bank. He joined Borsa İstanbul family as an assistant specialist in the Equity Markets Directorate in 1995, became a specialist in 1998 and a manager in 2014 in the same department. He was appointed as the Business Development Director in 2018 and as the Precious Metals and Precious Stones Director in 2019. He has acted in many projects by taking fundamental positions in designing, configuration, testing, legislation and development for the improvement of the markets and infrastructure of Borsa Istanbul. After his master’s and doctorate education, he acted as a visiting lecturer for a year at the City University of London Cass Business School and taught part-time at various universities.

After graduating from the University of Innsbruck in his native Austria in 2005, Florian started as a trader in Prime Services at Lehman Brothers London. Since October 2008 he has been working at Barclays in trading roles across Corporate Actions, Financing and Delta1 in both London and Singapore. Florian is currently responsible for Equity Financing Trading for Barclays Prime Services in Europe spanning Secured Financing across all products, Securities Lending, Corporate Actions trading and Capital Optimisation.

Bertrand joined FleishmanHillard Brussels in 2010, where he advises many clients across several regulatory and reputational issues arising from Europe’s financial services, digital, taxation and macro-political agendas. He is also a Vice-Chair of Amcham EU’s Financial Services committee. Between 2004 and 2010, Bertrand ran European Public Affairs for the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) in London. Between 1995 and 2004, Bertrand worked as a capital markets transactional lawyer at Bankers Trust, then Deutsche Bank, in London and Paris. Bertrand started his career as a UK solicitor with the international law firm Linklaters in 1992. He holds a Master Degree in English and French Law (Honors) from King’s College, London, and Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris. Bertrand is a French national and speaks fluent English.

Ilan joined Citi’s Global Government Affairs team in February 2015.

An expert in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) regulation and policy, Ilan regularly writes and speaks on ESG developments, creating Citi’s thought leadership and representing Citi at client, trade association and policymaker events.

Ilan is currently Vice Chair of the Financial Services Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union and Co-Chair of the International Regulatory Strategy Group’s (IRSG) Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Working Group. He is also an alternate member of the Green Technical Advisory Group (GTAG), an official body providing independent advice to Government on implementing a UK sustainable finance taxonomy.

Prior to joining Citi, Ilan spent over eight years in a variety of roles at GE, where he was responsible for Government Affairs and Policy for GE Capital across Europe.

Gesa Johannsen is the EMEA Head of Clearance and Collateral Management Business at BNY Mellon reporting the CEO of the Business. She joined BNY Mellon in 2013 as a leader in the product management for the Collateral Management Business.

As a member of the Clearance and Collateral Management ExCo, Gesa leads the business strategy for the triparty collateral management business, with a collateral franchise of more than $5 trillion assets on the platform, as well as the strategy for the International Clearance Business of BNY Mellon. Her product strategy team drives the business strategy as well as the product implementation roadmap with technology.

Gesa is a key leader in the Clearance and Collateral Business and was appointed the EMEA Business Head in September 2020. Since then, she is responsible for driving growth in the EMEA region where she leads the sales and relationship management team as well as the governance & controls team. In her role as EMEA Business Lead, Gesa maintains critical oversight of the business’ regional regulatory obligations, operating in BNY Mellon SA/NV and the BNY Mellon London Branch.

Gesa has over 25 years industry experience. Prior to joining BNY Mellon in 2013, she worked at Eurex Clearing, Europe’s largest central counterparty clearing house (CCP), where she was Head of Derivatives Clearing Business Development and with responsibility for the Business and Product Strategy of the clearing house across listed and OTC-Derivatives. Through her role at Eurex Clearing, she has extensive experience in collateral management and segregation solutions for centrally cleared products. Gesa has also previously held senior roles at KPMG and Deutsche Bank.

In addition to her executive leadership roles in the Clearance & Collateral Business, Gesa has joined the Board of ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association) in January 2021, taking an active role to support ISDA’s strategic goals to foster safe and efficient derivatives markets.

In Europe, Gesa represents BNY Mellon in the Eurosystem Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral where she is Chair of the Collateral Harmonisation Task Force for Europe. She has happily taken the lead for this mandate as she is passionate about the European Capital Markets Union project and has been actively involved in cross-industry working groups with European regulators for many years.
Gesa is passionate about BNY Mellon’s Diversity and Inclusion agenda and is the Co-Lead for GenEdge Germanys well as a member of the Women’s Initiative Network. Gesa is engaged in mentoring of next generation executives within BNY Mellon and the financial services industry.

Gesa is an economics and business graduate of the University in Cologne, Germany. She is based in Frankfurt, playing a global role in the Clearance and Collateral Management Business. She is mother of two wonderful girls, ages 13 and 16. As time permits, she is passionate about outdoor sports such as Mountain-Biking, Hiking and Skiing.

Mark Jones is a Senior Vice President and Head of Securities Finance for the EMEA region at the Northern Trust Company in London. He is responsible for the Securities Finance business in EMEA encompassing oversight of Relationship Management, Sales, Product Management, and Trading.

Mark has twenty years of experience in financial services and previously acted as Head of International Product Management for the Securities Lending business. He has been with Northern Trust for twelve years and prior to this held operational management, project management and product development roles at HSBC and J.P. Morgan. He has been involved in securities lending since 2003

Mr. Khemdoudi oversees the Global Regulatory Reporting products at S&P Global. He has driven the implementation of the highly successful SFTR solution at S&P Global along with acquired and integrated Catena and Cappitech creating an industry leading Global Transaction reporting product suite. He has a proven track record in securities finance and DeltaOne internationally, delivering customizable, timely and accurate solutions for the investment management community. Mr. Khemdoudi spent ten years at BNP Paribas Arbitrage in a number of senior positions across Paris, New York, Tokyo and London prior to joining our company in February 2013. These included, head of London securities finance trading and head of Tokyo securities lending. He began his career working in aerospace engineering.

Anastasia is Head of Programmes and Content at GDF, where she develops and delivers programmes around key themes and community priorities, as well as supporting the development of reports and engagement on standards and the GDF Code of Conduct.

Global Digital Finance (GDF) is an industry membership body that promotes the adoption of best practices for cryptoassets and digital finance technologies, through the development of conduct standards in a shared engagement forum with market participants, policymakers and regulators. Over 120 global organizations are members of GDF and over 350 industry professionals from around the world have worked on developing the GDF Codes of Conduct, the only global standard in this emerging sector.

Anna is Secretary General of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA).

She is a lawyer by background and holds a Master in European law and a multidisciplinary Master in Law and Economics and is also trained in managing strategic projects by the University of Oxford Saïd Business School.

Anna combines an extensive post-trade knowledge with the policy-making experience. She started her career at the general secretariat of one of the political parties at the European Parliament. Then having worked in the Business Transformation and Service Excellence department of an ICSD as well as for their group in Strategy and Government Relations. She is leading the European CSD industry association since 2017.

Jonathan is an expert in a number of regulatory regimes in the transaction reporting, trade reporting, liquidity reporting and prudential supervisory space and spearheads Kaizen’s SFTR quality assurance services. 

He has 20 years of front-to-back investment banking experience including 11 years at JP Morgan. Jonathan’s focus over the past seven years has been on the emergence of new regulations covering securities financing, money market reporting and collateral reuse. In this capacity, he has been closely engaged with the FSB, ESMA, ECB and Bank of England and has been at the forefront of educational and advocacy efforts for the Securities Financing Transaction Reporting (SFTR) reporting regime.

Jonathan is a former chair of both the ICMA ERCC SFTR Taskforce and the AFME Primary Dealers Reporting group.  Jonathan has also developed and delivers Kaizen’s SFTR reporting core training courses.

With over 27 years in the securities finance and collateral management industry, David has extensive experience across Lending Agents (large and small) and technology companies, including a well-known and successful start-up data provider. An extensive knowledge of the industry, combined with the breadth of experience in client facing roles, allows David to bring a unique perspective to the securities finance market. Now with FIS’ Securities Finance Trading and Collateral Business, David continues to work across client and technology boundaries to help move the industry forward. As part of the FIS team driving our developments in the securities finance trading and collateral market, David is heavily involved in representing the industry publicly through his data research and thought leadership pieces as well as involvement with working groups at multiple industry associations.

Jonathan Lombardo is a member of the Deutsche Boerse Fixed Income Funding & Financing Sales team. Jonathan is Head Of Unit for Northern European responsible for sales and relationship management across OTC, ETD and funding & financing instruments at Eurex. Jonathan has over 25 years’ experience in the securities lending market and has had previous roles at Citi, Secfinex and Pirum. Jonathan is presently serving as Chair of ISLA.

Shane is Head of Securities Finance Sales at WeMatch where he joined in 2021. Wematch is a multi asset platform focusing on the digitalisation of the financial markets. Shane has over two decades of experience in running Client Financing trading teams within Prime Finance platform’s, most recently at JP Morgan and prior to that at Deutsche Bank where he spent sixteen years starting in 2002. In particular, Shane spent a large part of his career specializing in Securities Lending and flow swap business’s covering Asset Managers, Pension Funds and Hedge Funds across the Corporate and Investment Bank at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank. He holds a Batchelors of Economics and a Master of Economic of Science from the University of College Dublin.

Neil McLeod has over 20 years’ experience within the financial markets industry, across multiple asset classes, including Credit Trading, Money Markets, Interest Rate Trading and XVA. He is currently head of Group Treasury Markets within Erste Group Bank AG, one of the major financial groups specialising in the CEE region. Group Treasury Markets includes the FX, Interest Rate Derivative, Money Market, and Collateral Trading (including Security lending), focusing on development of these products within the CEE region. Neil is a former member of the ECB Money Market Contact Group and an active member of the EUR Risk Free Rate Working Group. Neil has a Masters in Finance (MiF) from the London Business School and a BA(Hons) in Economics from Sheffield University.

Daniel is heading the Treasury FRONT Office. The Treasury FRONT-Office is responsible for the Investment Strategy of the OeNB and the Implementation of the Monetary Policy. Daniel is also member of the Eurosystem Market Operations Committee. He has over 20 years’ experience in the financial industry.

Until 2011, Sarah worked at Aviva Investors, the asset manager of one of the largest European  insurance and pension companies, for over 25 years.  Sarah’s role at Aviva Investors as Global Director of Securities Finance meant she was responsible for trading desks and operational teams across the globe.

During this time Sarah worked with  the insurance and pension board members and trustees to establish risk budgets and appropriate trading stategies in line with fund objectives and performance requirements.  Sarah also developed policy frameworks for a number of business lines within the company which ensured a consistent and risk controlled delivery across all markets and products.

It was during this time that Sarah gained extensive knowledge of securities finance,  collateral management, securities and derivative operational processes and risk management.

Alongside representing the company at numerous associations such as the NAPF and the IMA, Sarah was a board member of ISLA, the European wide trade association for securities finance, for over twelve years.

As well as providing broader market consultancy, Sarah continued to work for ISLA until 2019 as an independent consultant, liaising with market participants to establish regulatory responses and market practices.

As a director of the Consolo Training Academy, Sarah now provides industry training for financial services and fund management and includes investment banks, beneficial owners, and asset managers as past and present clients.

Mike Norwood is Director, Global Trading Product Owner at EquiLend. Norwood is responsible for determining and delivering the product roadmap, vision and strategy for EquiLend’s trading solutions, including NGT and Collateral Trading, as well as managing a team of business analysts and product strategists. Before becoming Global Trading Product Owner, Norwood led EquiLend’s Post-Trade Services team in North America. Prior to joining EquiLend, he spent 12 years at Brown Brothers Harriman, where most recently he was Head of Securities Lending Product Development and Business Technology. He has a B.A. in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross.

Ed is Managing Director, Product Development at eSecLending (Europe) Ltd. and is responsible for leading the company’s product development efforts focused on new markets, collateral and liquidity solutions and regulatory initiatives. Ed joined eSecLending in 2010 having begun his financial services career in 1988. Prior to joining eSecLending, Ed held positions at Data Explorers (now acquired by IHS Markit), Northern Trust, Baring Asset Management and Lloyds Bank. Ed is also on the Executive Committee of the Pan Asia Securities Lending Association (PASLA) and is a Board Member of the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA).

Nicholas Pfaff is a Deputy Chief Executive and at the Head of Sustainable Finance at the International Capital Market Association (ICMA). He is the Secretary of the Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-linked Bond Principles and a member of the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF). He also oversees ICMA’s Paris office. Nicholas is a senior banker with extensive international experience in investment banking and capital markets, as well as in development banking. He has worked previously at Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Tom Pikett is Vice President of Product Development in Trading Services at J.P. Morgan. Trading Services is comprised of Agency Securities Financing and Collateral Services businesses, which sit in the Securities Services division of the CIB.

Tom is currently responsible for digital initiatives, ranging from the use of DLT to achieve zero break processing in Agency Securities Financing, through to digital and tokenized assets to be used as collateral. Prior to focusing on digital strategy, Tom was responsible for delivery of the SFTR reporting solution within Agency Securities Financing.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Tom held roles across product, sales and operations at MarketAxess, Natwest and Euroclear.

Tom holds a BA Hons in Politics from Sheffield University.

Alasdair Pitt is Head, Legal of Zodia Custody, a FCA-registered cryptoasset custodian established by Standard Chartered and in association with Northern Trust. Before joining Zodia Alasdair ran the Greater China and North Asia Financial Markets Legal team at Standard Chartered in Hong Kong. Prior to this he worked in Equity Capital Markets origination for Citigroup in Tokyo and as a lawyer for Credit Suisse after qualifying with Clifford Chance. He has worked in London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Pablo is a Managing Director in AFME’s Public Policy and Advocacy Division. His main focus is market analysis and regulatory development across Europe on securities markets and banking areas, having led AFME’s advocacy work in various regulatory debates and cross-cutting projects. Pablo is responsible for AFME’s work on the Capital Markets Union project. He is a Member of the Board of the European Capital Markets Institute.

Prior to joining AFME, he was engaged with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, where he worked on financial reporting, auditing and financial sector issues. His experience includes roles in European organisations and the United Nations. He holds a BSc Econ (first class) from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and a Masters Degree (with distinction) from the London School of Economics.

David joined ISLA as a consultant in 2020 to lead the pilot study of a securities lending transaction through a Common Domain Model (CDM).

The success of this initial study has led to a strategic focus by ISLA into the future digitisation of our industry and David joined the team as a permanent member of staff in January 2021 to lead these efforts.

As part of Regulation and Market Practice team, David is responsible for the development and implementation of a Securities Lending Common Domain Model, digital infrastructure, and the ongoing transformation and monitoring of the digital landscape of the Securities Lending market.

Prior to joining ISLA, David held roles in technology and infrastructure at State Street, Barclays and UBS.

Consultant to INTERNATIONAL SWAPS AND DERIVATIVES ASSOCIATION, INC. (ISDA)
Ian Sloyan, South Cardinal Advisors Ltd., is a consultant to ISDA on Data and Digital matters, having previously held the role of Director for Market Infrastructure and Technology, leading ISDA’s CDM project. He joined ISDA in May 2014. From 2008 to 2014 he held was various roles in Equity, Credit, and Interest Rate Derivative Operations at RBS. Prior to that he was an Executive in Structured Capital Markets at Barclays and worked in Equity Derivative Operations at UBS.

Mr. Sloyan holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Trinity College Dublin, Master of Science degrees in Electronic Engineering from King’s College London and Mathematical Trading & Finance from Cass Business School.

James is a Developed Market Economist, and leads ING’s coverage of the UK economy, Brexit and the Bank of England. He graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in Economics and joined ING in August 2015.

Guido Stroemer (Co-founder and CEO of HQLAᵡ) is a financial market veteran with over 30 years of professional work experience in a variety of trading, risk management and senior leadership positions. Prior to co-founding HQLAᵡ , Guido was global head of repo trading at UBS.

Steve Sullivan is currently the MD of Strategic Relationships & Business Development for SETL, one of the fastest growing DLT / Blockchain businesses in financial services Globally.

He has over 30 years’ experience working for the likes of JPM, Robert Flemings, Nat West Mkts and Hoare Govett within Equities & Derivatives in senior leadership roles. Bringing business and market experience to SETL to help shape the innovative solutions that DLT has and is uncovering. Responsible for the growth of the business globally.

Marcello Topa is responsible for Market Policy and Strategy within Citi’s EMEA Securities Services team. He covers Citi’s external representation in various European trade associations and regulatory fora in the securities post-trading industry (primarily as Chairman of EBF’s “Post Trade Working Group” and as member of AFME’s “Post Trade Executive Committee”).

Marcello’s expertise at Citi spans over 25 years in multiple roles within Direct Custody and Clearing (sales, product management and risk management). He is member of the ECB’s “Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral” (AMI-SeCo), member of the T2S “Harmonisation Steering Group” (HSG) and of the Collateral Management Harmonisation Task Force (CMH-TF), and chairman of the T2S “DCP Group” (DCPG). In March 2016 he was appointed by the European Commission as member of the “European Post-Trade Forum” (EPTF) and was among the four co-editors of the EPTF Report on post-trade barriers to efficient capital markets in Europe.

Jacqueline Waller is a Senior Vice President and Head of Client Relationship Management EMEA for eSecLending. Based in London, she has over twenty-five years of financial markets experience across a variety of roles including business development, relationship management and portfolio management and has previously worked at Brown Brothers Harriman and Northern Trust. Jacqueline holds a Joint Honours BA in Economics and Government.

Travis Whitmore leads Securities Finance Research and is a senior quantitative researcher at State Street Associates, State Street’s research arm. Based out of Frankfurt, he drives global research initiatives for the Securities Finance business and works with clients in continental Europe across State Street Associate’s entire research offering.

Travis has worked extensively with securities lending, ESG, and alternative data sets to develop alpha-generating quantitative models and publish numerous securities lending thought leadership pieces. In addition to leading securities lending research, he works with Professor Ronnie Sadka and Gideon Ozik of MKT MediaStats, a firm specializing in Natural Language Processing, to help investors leverage digital media indicators in their decision-making. Before taking his role in Frankfurt, Travis worked closely with Harvard Professor Ken Froot to develop investment applications with State Street’s proprietary flows and holdings information. Travis is a frequent presenter at industry events and research conferences.

Travis earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and Computer Science from the University of Vermont.

Anna de Winton is a Senior Manager in Prime Services at BNP Paribas, leading a number of regulatory programmes. Anna has 20 years’ experience in the sector covering roles in the private sector and at the Financial Services Authority and Bank of England, and joined BNP Paribas in 2017. Anna holds a degree in Economics from Durham University. Anna is also chair of the ISLA Regulatory Steering Group.

Valentino (Val) Wotton is Managing Director of Product Development and Strategy, Repository and Derivatives Services at DTCC where he is responsible for overseeing the firm’s multi award-winning Global Trade Repository (GTR) service, DTCC Report Hub and Trade Information Warehouse (TIW). Within this role, Val leads efforts to identify opportunities to enhance the services to meet the evolving operational and regulatory compliance needs of DTCC’s global client base as well as helps the firm to innovate around the core principles of automation, standardization and utilization.

Additionally, Val is the Regional Administrative Manager for DTCC EMEA, and Chairman of the DTCC EMEA Operating Committee. In this role, he oversees employee engagement, corporate social responsibility, DTCC brand awareness and execution of a variety of employee initiatives. He is also the Executive Sponsor of DTCC’s Women’s Initiative for Networking and Success (WINS).

Prior to joining DTCC, Val served as Global Head of Markets Post Trade Services and Europe Markets Operations at Barclays, with oversight for derivatives, securities, futures and clearing. There, he was responsible for the implementation of a strategic global operational model to provide improved service capabilities to clients and internal businesses as well as the design and delivery of an enhanced strategic architecture to achieve automation, process improvement and risk management objectives. Val also was co-chair of Barclays Multigenerational Network. Previously, Val held several senior roles at Citigroup.

During his career, Wotton has served on several Boards and committees, including DTCC’s Deriv/SERV Board, LCH OTC Deriv Net, and the International Swaps & Derivatives Organization’s (ISDA) Market Infrastructure & Technology Committee. Val holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Nottingham Trent University.