Mark Gem has been with Clearstream for over 20 years and a board member since 2007, focusing on network management, primary markets activity and compliance. He was responsible for Clearstream’s T2S strategy. He currently chairs Clearstream’s Risk Committee, amongst many other things oversaw the post-Brexit organisation of Clearstream’s UK business and Clearstream’s overall response to the COVID-19 crisis and to the war in Ukraine. He represents Luxembourg on the board of SWIFT. He has been on the board of ECSDA since 2002 and served as Vice-Chairman under Joël Mérère until 2013. In May 2024, Mark was re-elected ECSDA Chair.

Mark has a first class degree from Oxford University in Modern History.

Mairead McGuinness is the European Commissioner for financial services, financial stability and
Capital Markets Union.
The Commissioner’s vision for the portfolio is focused on ensuring the financial sector’s strength and
stability, so that it can deliver for people, society and the environment.
Before joining the Commission in October 2020, Ms McGuinness was First Vice-President of the
European Parliament. She served as an MEP from Ireland for 16 years, and was a Vice-President of
the Parliament since 2014.
As Vice-President, she oversaw relations with national Parliaments, led the Parliament’s dialogue
with religious and philosophical organisations, and had responsibility for the Parliament’s
communication policy.
During her time in the Parliament, Ms McGuinness sat on a range of committees, covering agriculture, environment, public health, budgets, petitions and constitutional affairs. Her legislative work included leading for the EPP Group on the European Climate Law, the revision of medical devices legislation, and CAP reform post-2013. As an Irish MEP representing the border region, she was outspoken on Brexit and the consequences for the EU and Ireland.
In 2006-2007, Ms McGuinness chaired the Parliament’s investigation into the collapse of the Equitable Life assurance company which identified issues around weak financial regulation.
In 2024, Ms. McGuinness was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by University College Dublin (UCD), in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a member of the EU Commission and her contributions to the Agri-Food sector in Ireland and the European Union.
Prior to becoming an MEP, she was an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and commentator.

Ilse Peeters, Director, is the Head of Government Relations and Public Affairs at Euroclear SA/NV. Government Relations was part of the Euroclear Corporate Strategy Division until 2017. It is now part of the Compliance, Regulatory Management and Public Affairs Division.

Ms Peeters works closely with key EU public policy stakeholders on relevant industry issues, while ensuring the effective external communication of Euroclear’s strategy. Over the last ten years, she has been involved in the main regulatory initiatives that have shaped the post-trade industry. Her recent focus is on technological innovations such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and ICOs and their regulatory and legal challenges.

Director of Financial Markets (FISMA-C)
Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA), European Commission, Brussels
Masters Degree – Political science/International Affairs
Masters Degree – Philosophy
He started his career at the French Treasury in the Department of International Monetary and Financial Affairs.
He then joined the Commission and since then has worked consistently across the various domains of Financial Services including positions in the Commissioner’s Cabinet, as Head of Unit coordinating
Financial Services Policy and as Director Banking, Insurance and Financial Crime until his current position as Director of Financial Markets.
He represents the Commission on the Board of Supervisors and the Management Board of the European Securities Market Authority.

Philip Brown is CEO of Clearstream Banking S.A., a member of the Executive Board of Clearstream Holding AG, and Head of Global RM, Sales & Client Services at Clearstream. Prior to this he has occupied roles as CEO of Clearstream Holding AG and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Clearstream Banking S.A. He moved to his position as Co-CEO from the London office in 2008, where he was General Manager and headed Client Relations for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Nordics, and the Americas. He joined the company in July 2005 after twelve years in the custody and clearing business, in a variety of front office sales and relationship management positions. Prior to joining Clearstream, he spent 7 years at The Bank of New York, latterly as Managing Director and Head of European Sales, 2 years at Morgan Stanley International and 7 years at Barclays PLC. He holds a degree in Banking, Insurance and Finance from University College North Wales, Bangor.

Jesús Benito is Head Domestic Custody & TR Operations, SIX. He is also IBERCLEAR C.E.O. since 2006 and REGIS-TR Chairman since 2022.

Jesús has been involved in the European CSD Association (ECSDA) as member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee.  Nowadays, he is member of the ECSDA Senior CSD Industry Council.

Jesús has a relevant role in T2S. He is the T2S CSD Steering Group (“CSG”) Chairman from its inception in 2012.
He has participated in numerous international Groups, created by the European Commission, ESMA and the European Central Bank, among others.

Before joining Iberclear in 2000, he worked for Banco de España from 1988 to 2000 and has a Business Degree from Complutense University

Since 2017 Arminta serves as a Vice President of European Markets at Nasdaq, responsible for the Post Trade business unit, which provides stock exchange, central securities depository (CSD) and post trade services in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, and Sweden. She chairs the Supervisory Boards of the regulated entities, including Nasdaq CSD SE, Nasdaq Vilnius AB, Nasdaq Tallinn AS, Nasdaq Riga AS, as well as the BMR Oversight Committee under Nasdaq Copenhagen. In addition, Arminta is the CEO of Nasdaq’s Global Technology and Business Services center in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Arminta has a 25 years’ professional track record in the capital markets. During 2007-2017, she acted as President of the Vilnius Stock Exchange and in 2012-2017 as VP, Head of Nasdaq Baltic Markets, leading the development and integration of the markets in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into a harmonized, well regulated and technologically advanced regional market.

Arminta is committed to advancing sound corporate government, financial literacy and women empowerment. As a co-founder of the Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance and association “Lydere”, a board member of Invest Lithuania, she has been actively engaged in the NGO work with the aim of advancing the economic and societal development in Lithuania and the rest of the Baltic region, recognized with international and national awards for this work.

Dominik Smoniewski is Head of the Surveillance of Financial Market Infrastructures, Payment Services and Cyber Risks Department at the National Bank of Belgium.

The Department is responsible for the supervision and oversight of FMIs, critical payment service providers and cyber risks for all the entities supervised by the National Bank. This includes major internationally active institutions, such as SWIFT, Euroclear, BNY, MasterCard Europe, Worldline, Wise Europe as well as the domestic payment infrastructure and local payment services start-ups.

He has extensive experience in prudential supervision in various sectors (banking, insurance and payments) as well as in different functions (on site, off site, policy and financial stability).

His varied educational background combined with his experience has enabled him to gain in-depth knowledge of the regulated sectors, their underlying risks and interconnectedness.

He has also served on different national and international committees where he has been able not only to acquire professional expertise but also implement winning working strategies and effectively build consensus within a demanding multicultural environment.

Verena Ross is the Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). She took up the role on 1 November 2021 and is responsible for representing the Authority as well as preparing the work of and chairing its Board of Supervisors and Management Board.
Between 2011 and 2021 Verena Ross served as ESMA’s first Executive Director, when she was responsible for building up the organisation and overseeing its day to day running.
Prior to this, Verena held a number of senior posts in the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and was a member of the FSA’s Executive Committee. Verena joined the FSA in 1998 to run the Executive Chairman’s office during the regulator’s start-up phase and was briefly a seconded advisor to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in 2000. She held various positions in the FSA’s Markets Division and was Director of Strategy & Risk Division before becoming Director of the International Division.
Verena is a German national. Following studies in Sinology and Economics in Hamburg, Taipei and London (SOAS) she began her career at the Bank of England in 1994, where she worked as an economist and banking supervisor.

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.

Jesús Sánchez has over 30 years in the industry in different positions, but mainly in the areas of Settlement and Custody.

He chairs the Settlement Working Group of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA), where the ECSDA CSDR Penalties Framework was agreed and with settlement efficiency being one of the key issues, and the Market Settlement Efficiency (MSE) workshop of T2S, where relevant issues regarding efficiency are assessed and support further discussions in national communities. He is also member of various market committees and expert groups at national and international level such as the T2S CSDs Steering Group (CSG), the Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo), the Spanish National Stakeholder Group (NSG).

Prior to joining Iberclear in 2006, he worked at Citibank for 14 years, being the head of respective Equities and Fixed Income Settlement departments.
He has a degree in Economics and Business by Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and an Executive Master of Business Administration.

Andrea Gentilini has been Head of Financial Market Infrastructures division of the
Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) since February 2017. He is also ESMA Internal Coordinator within the CSSF and represents the CSSF in several ESMA Standing Committees (MSC, RSC, CCP PC). Since March 2023, he has been appointed Chair of the ESMA Post Trading Working Group and co-Chair of the T2S Cooperative Arrangement. In May 2023 he joined the ESMA Board of Supervisor as Alternate Member for the CSSF.
Andrea Gentilini has been Chair of the CEMA EMIR Task Force, responsible for the
development of EMIR risk indicators, to promote data driven supervision and supervisory convergence, as well as knowledge sharing and peer learning.
Andrea Gentilini joined the CSSF in 2014 and has been working in the Financial Market Infrastructure Division ever since, contributing to the development of the CSSF’s authorisation process for CSDs under CSDR and support the work of the CSSF in the policy activity related to CSDR, EMIR and SFTR. Before joining the CSSF in 2014, he worked 15 years in the financial sector in Luxembourg (Senior Manager at PwC Luxembourg, portfolio manager in a Luxembourg based management company) and in China (Head of international business in a Chinese fund management company, based in Shenzhen).
Andrea Gentilini was born in Milan, Italy and studied economics at Bocconi University, where he obtained also a Master’s degree in economics. He is Lecturer at the IAE Nancy School of Management on post-trading and market infrastructures.
Andrea is married with 1 child. He holds Italian and Luxembourgish nationality

Euronext Securities Milan Chief Executive Officer and General Manager – Mar 2024
Accountable for sales targets and client satisfaction , delivery of Euronext Securities projects that will ensure organic growth Responsible to maintain operational incidents within the threshold defined in accordance with the risk profile of a regulated market infrastructure Building diverse and strong succession plan Develop 2025-2027 strategy

Euronext Securities Milan Director – Head of Operations| Milan | Feb 2021 – Feb 2024
Accountable for the successful delivery of five core functions as leading market infrastructure : Asset Services , Settlement , Operational Readiness, Network Management and Client Solutions . Shaping and leading the business operations roadmap for the integration of Euronext Securities Milan within the Euronext network of CSDs and expansion of the investor-CSD model Entrepreneurial leadership style to foster collaborative problem solving and to push boundaries adapting to fast-changing stakeholders needs.

Monte Titoli Director – Head of Asset Services| Milan | Apr 2016 – Jan 2021
Manager of 30 skilled professionals operating across three units : Domestic Custody, International Custody and Fiscal Services. Acting as escalation point for any production issues affecting the operational resilience of the organization while overseeing the proper and timely execution of income and corporate actions events of all eligible instruments issued though Monte Titoli. Representing the Italian post trade community in several T2S industry working groups; appointed by the ECB as chair of the Collateral Management Task Force Asset Servicing Expert Group in preparation to ECMS

Clearstream Banking – Deutsche Börse AG Luxembourg | Jul 2004 – Mar 2016 
Joined Clearstream in 2004 as a junior officer, quickly evolving into more senior roles and covering leadership positions. A professional carrier entirely built on a genuine client-centric mind-set, a natural propension for a servant leadership style and a strong “pull-up the sleeves” attitude. Since 2008, covered 24/7 shifts in Business Duty Manager functions, coordinating the communication to clients in case of major incidents impacting their activities.

Alessio can speak Italian (Native), English (Business fluent) and French (Business fluent)

Susan joined EFAMA in May 2021 where she is Deputy Director for capital markets regulation (MiFID/MiFIR, EMIR and CSDR) as well as digital finance regulation.

Susan has a solid background in EU financial services regulation.  Her experience, both in-house and in Brussels-based trade associations, spans FMI, banking prudential and securitization regulation.  Susan started out her career in London representing the British insurance industry.  She led efforts by the sector to obtain improved market access through WTO negotiations and bilateral regulatory dialogues.

Susan is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian, and can carry a conversation in Swedish and Russian.  Susan holds degrees from the University of Ottawa (BA with Honours in Politics), and an MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics.

Isabelle Delorme is Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Markets and Issuer Access services.

She joined Euroclear in April 2019, as Chief Business Officer of ESES and sponsor of the Strategy, Product development, Innovation and Commercial dimensions. Among other projects, she took responsibility of the new shareholder identification product launch, the digital transformation of ESES communication tools and the ‘Central Bank Digital Currency’ experimentation.

Engineer by background, Isabelle, started her career in 1996 at Bouygues Telecom where she held the roles of Project and Marketing Manager, working on network rollout, product development in the B2B markets and finally managing the technical and operational integration of a newly acquired company, Club Internet.

As of 2008, she joined Allianz Trade where, after 3 years, she moved from Head of Marketing to Group Marketing & Product Management Director across 40 countries. Going through the global financial crisis, she took actions entailing the retention of clients while reducing risk-exposure, the acceleration of product innovation and the positive increase in the company’s reputation.

As of 2015, Isabelle moved to Allianz Partners and took charge of the Group Marketing & Products leadership, contributing to the restructuring of the Group, before becoming Sales Director France & Southern Europe in 2016. In this role, she was in charge of a book of more than 1 billion euros B2B insurance business.

Jens Hachmeister, Managing Director at Clearstream Holding AG is Head of New Digital Markets, Data & Issuer Solutions and a member of the Clearstream Management Board. After completing a banking apprenticeship and a degree in business administration, he began his career as a management consultant at KPMG before joining Xetra Market Development at Deutsche Börse AG in June 2000. Jens was Head of Operations and Infrastructure Development and part of the Management Committee Xetra until January 2009.
From mid-April 2010 to December 2015, he was the Chief HR Officer of Deutsche Börse AG and in mid-August 2015, he assumed the newly created role of Chief of Staff and Head of Strategic Execution to the Group’s CEO. In April 2018, Jens created the New Digital Markets Area as one of the key pillars of Deutsche Börse’s DLT and blockchain strategy before taking on additional responsibility as Clearstream’s Head of Issuer Services in February 2020 and Data & Connectivity as of October 2022. In his current role he is driving the digitization of the company, its markets solutions, products and services.

Holger Neuhaus is Head of the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) Market Innovation and Integration Division in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments. His Division develops the ECB/Eurosystem’s approach in relation to innovation and integration in the field of payments and post-trade services. In this context he coordinates the Eurosystem internal work and chairs a market contact group on settling wholesale financial transactions in central bank money in the presence of new technologies like DLT.

Until November 2019 he headed the Money Market and Liquidity Division which provides market analysis of euro area money markets and ensures the execution of monetary policy through the Eurosystem’s open market operations and liquidity management. It also had a lead role in developing and transitioning to a new reference interest rate for the money market. He has also worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Deutsche Bundesbank and in the private sector.

David Newns, a finance professional with over 25 years of experience, joined SIX Group as Head of SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) in 2021. With a deep knowledge of DLT applications in financial services, David advocates for wholesale CBDC as a foundational component for the successful deployment and leveraging of the full potential of DLT and blockchain technology within the global capital markets. Having an extensive background in traditional finance, he understands the importance of investor protection, robust control environments, a clear governance framework, and adherence to regulatory obligations when applied to the digital asset space. David led SDX to achieve significant milestones, including issuing the first digital bond and tokenizing equity shares. In 2023, SDX made history by settling securities transactions in wholesale CBDC.

With 30+ years of experience in financial services, Alan is currently Chief Product Officer DLT Solutions at Delta Capita. Prior to Delta Capita, Alan was Head of Market Infrastructure and Custody Solutions at SETL. Alan also has held senior positions within Barclays and Penson Financial Services.

Ondrej Dusilek is a Chief Executive Officer of the CSD Prague  He started his professional career in 2005 as an analyst at UNIVYC, a.s., which was a subsidiary of the Prague Stock Exchange, which in 2010 was renamed to Centrální depozitář cenných papíru, a.s.  (CSD Prague) and took over securities registration from the Securities Center owned by the Ministry of Finance. In 2012, he completed a City of London Corporation internship, which included a two-month work experience at the London Stock Exchange in the Regulatory Strategy Department. He also participated in 2013 and 2014 as an advisor to a World Bank project to modernize the capital market in Azerbaijan. In 2017, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the CSD Prague and two years later was appointed as the CEO of the CSD Prague and was also elected to the Exchange Chamber (Board of Directors) of the Prague Stock Exchange.

He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at VSB-TU Ostrava with a degree in Finance (2003) and a degree in Euro government (2005). In 2016 he completed the Diploma for graduates in Banking at the University of London.

As the CEO of Euroclear Sweden, Roger Storm holds a central position in Swedish financial infrastructure. He is an experienced speaker on topics related to the development of the financial industry and the need for harmonization with the European market, as well as the question of the Euro. Roger has a range of academic qualifications in economics and extensive international experience in financial corporate management, strategy, regulatory issues, risk management, business development, and leadership.

Jean-Paul Lambotte is product manager at Euroclear, in charge of the communication channels. He has a large experience in messaging standards (ISO15022, ISO2022) gathered during more than 20 years working for multiple financial institutions, including several (I)CSDs.

He is member of the SMPG (Securities Market Practice Group) where he represents the Eurobonds (XS) market since 2018. Thanks to its involvement in important market initiatives such as T2S, SRDII, SCoRE standards, CPBR+, Mr Lambotte has built a transversal view on current trends regarding ISO standards evolutions. He is currently chairing the ECSDA Messaging Task-Force.

Jean-Paul has a degree of Civil Engineer in Computer Sciences and a Master in Financial Risks Management from UCLouvain

Juliette joined SWIFT in 2004 and is currently Global Head of Standards.
SWIFT Standards covers diverse financial business areas including international
payments, asset servicing, securities settlement, treasury and trade finance and are used
by 11,500+ financial institutions around the world. Before joining SWIFT, Juliette spent
several years in the industry working at Morgan Stanley in London, Société Générale in
Paris and Clearstream in Luxembourg.
Prior to her current role, Juliette has held several other senior management positions at
SWIFT, including Head of Capital Markets and FX, and Head of Market Infrastructures.
Juliette is based at SWIFT’s headquarters in Brussels and holds a dual French and British nationality.

Alex Dockx, Executive Director, JP Morgan Corporate and
Investment Bank, is the head of the Custody Industry
Development unit, which is responsible for steering
industry development, market infrastructure and regulatory
changes for JP Morgan’s Securities Services Custody
business.
As a leading figure in the securities post-trade industry he
sits on various market committees including Vice Chair of
the AFME Post Trade Board, member of the ECB AMI SeCo,
ISSA Operating Committee and the Association of Global
Custodians (AGC).
In addition to actively progressing the European
harmonisation agenda including striving for operational
efficiency to meet EU policy and growth objectives, Alex is
actively engaged in DLT regulatory and market
developments.

André Nortjé has been Strate’s Chief Executive Officer since 2018. André’s priority is to ensure that Strate, as South Africa’s principal central securities depository and central collateral platform, serves the financial market. Under his leadership, Strate has put the appropriate building blocks in place to maintain an efficient, robust and sustainable financial market infrastructure. Andre has over 20 years of executive management experience across multiple financial services disciplines and across multiple jurisdictions with a deep understanding of financial markets from both the buy and sell side perspectives. Before joining Strate, Andre held a wide variety of executive roles ranging from Treasurer of a commercial bank to multiple Chief Operating Officer positions of Investment Management businesses both in South Africa and in the United Kingdom.

Mark Gem has been with Clearstream for over 20 years and a board member since 2007, focusing on network management, primary markets activity and compliance. He was responsible for Clearstream’s T2S strategy. He currently chairs Clearstream’s Risk Committee, amongst many other things oversaw the post-Brexit organisation of Clearstream’s UK business and Clearstream’s overall response to the COVID-19 crisis and to the war in Ukraine. He represents Luxembourg on the board of SWIFT. He has been on the board of ECSDA since 2002 and served as Vice-Chairman under Joël Mérère until 2013. In May 2024, Mark was re-elected ECSDA Chair.

Mark has a first class degree from Oxford University in Modern History.

Javier Hernani took up his role of Head of the Securities Services business unit and he is member of the Executive Board of Six Group, since January 2021, after the takeover of BME by SIX. He is also CEO of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Sociedad Holding de Mercados y Sistemas Financieros, SA, since April 2017. He served as General Manager of BME from December 2012 to April 2017, with the specific role of coordinating the action of business units and corporate areas. Chairman of the Risk and Security Committees as well as Member of the board of several subsidiaries. Previously, he joined BME as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, assuming the role of conducting the integration process of the newly created group and leading the IPO process which took the company public as of 14th July 2006.

Prior to its incorporation to Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Mr. Hernani was Deputy General Manager of the Bilbao Stock Exchange (until 2003), CFO of Norbolsa, S.V.B. (until 1998) and Consultant in Coopers & Lybrand Brussels (until 1989).

Mr. Hernani earned a Degree in Economics and Business by University of Deusto in 1986, a Master’s Degree in European Economic Studies, specialising in Economics, by The College of Europe in Brussels in 1988 and a Master’s Degree in Advanced Management by University of Deusto in 1997.

Samuel Riley is a member of the Executive Board and CEO of Clearstream Holding AG, Clearstream Securities Services. Sam joined Clearstream in 2019 and became Head of Investor Services & Financing in 2020. Previously, he had a long-standing career at Citigroup, where he most recently served as Global Head of Custody Operations. His earlier responsibilities there included leading the EMEA Service Centres & Shared Services organisation and being an Executive Board Member of Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG. Samuel Riley holds a degree in Business Management from Wolverhampton University.

Peter Sneyers is CEO of Euroclear Bank and has responsibility for Euroclear Bank’s Operations, Commercial, Client Service, Banking and Network Management divisions worldwide.

Before being CEO he was Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for the Euroclear group.

As CRO, Mr Sneyers gave independent assurance that the relevant risks taken to achieve Euroclear’s business objectives and vision were identified and strictly controlled according to the organsiation’s risk appetite. He reported directly to the CEO and had access to the Chairman and members of the Board’s Risk Committee.

Previously, Mr Sneyers was Managing Director, Chief Auditor of the Euroclear Group.

Prior to this role which he started in 2011, he was Chief Operating Officer of Euroclear Bank, Chairman of its Operating Committee and a member of the Euroclear Group Management Team.

Before this, he was head of Corporate Actions and Tax operations between 2005 and 2007. This position was preceded by three years as Chief Executive Officer of Euroclear Nederland, where he was responsible for the entire operational, commercial and client-facing aspects of the Dutch central securities depository.

Mr. Sneyers joined JP Morgan in 1992 and held a variety of positions there. Mr. Sneyers started his career as a cost accountant at Dow Chemical, after which he was involved in teaching, before entering the banking world with JP Morgan.

Mr. Sneyers holds a degree in Commercial Sciences from Limburgs Universitair Centrum (Belgium) and a Masters in Controllership from the Vlerick Leuven/Gent Management School.

Olga Jordão is the CEO of Euronext Securities Porto and the Head of Client Service of Euronext Securities, the unified network of Euronext CSDs.

While ensuring a continued strong presence of the Central Securities Depository in Portugal, Olga also oversees the pan-European client service teams to deliver service excellence to local and international clients.

Olga joined Euronext at a pivotal moment in 2021, when the group that operates the third largest CSD network in Europe combined its four CSDs into a new umbrella brand and launched its “Growth for Impact 2024” strategy. She has close to 30 years of professional experience in the post-trade sector and has held multiple roles in Luxembourg and in France heading up middle and back-office operations at a major global custodian, serving sophisticated global asset managers and leading strategic transformation projects. Olga is the former branch manager of State Street Bank International, Paris and also has vast experience in key account management, leading global teams and driving cross-functional initiatives.

Olga is a keen supporter of diversity, inclusion and sustainability initiatives. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Foreign Languages (English & German) from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and an Executive Masters of Business Administration from TRIUM (HEC, NYU, LSE).

Dimitri Pattyn is Deputy Director General of Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank. Prior to that, he was Head of the Market Infrastructure Development Division in the same directorate, where he was responsible for developing new and maintaining the existing Eurosystem services in the area of market infrastructures. Formerly, Dimitri worked for Euroclear, where he was acting as programme manager responsible for the internal and market readiness of the three ESES CSDs for the migration to Target2-Securities.

Daniela Russo is currently Senior Adviser to the Executive Board of the European Central bank, based in Frankfurt am Main, after having been the Director General of the Payments and Market Infrastructure Directorate General for 5 years and she has been an ECB Senior Manager for more than 20 years.

She chaired or participated in several working groups or committees working in the field of payment and settlement systems, both at European and global level. Some of these groups involve only central banks (e.g. PSSC, CPSS, CLS and SWIFT Oversight). Other groups involve central banks and securities regulators (ESCB-CESR, CPSS-IOSCO, T2-S Oversight and Derivatives Regulators Forum). Other groups also involve participation of the industry (COGEPS, COGESI, CESAME, MOC, SEPA High Level Group and EPC).

She has been involved in FSAP (e.g. US and Japan), implementation monitoring assessments (E.g. Brazil and Turkey) and technical assistance (e.g. Switzerland, Rwanda, and South Africa).

She has been the co-chair of the CPMI-IOSCO Policy Standing Group who released a number of important reports in the field of CCP recovery and resilience (Guidance on resilience, Guidance on recovery, Framework for supervisory stress testing, Report on Effective Practices for Auctions, Supervisory Stress Testing and Client Clearing). She currently chairs the PSG Group on Stablecoins and the Group of Data Expert (DEG) of the FSB that is working on definition and implementation of for repomarkets database that would support financial stability needs.

She is also member of many international groups (such as the CPMI, the CPMI-IOSCO Steering Group, the FSB-CPMI-IOSCO fmi-CBCM – dealing with recovery and resolution issues – the IOSCO group on deference, the CPMI-IOSCO-BCBS Group on Margins and at European level the Working Group on CCPs and the Working Group on Interdependencies of the European Systemic Risk Board. (ESRB).

Emma Johnson is an Executive Director and custody product manager within J.P. Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank in London. Sitting in the Securities Services division her core remit is European post trade securities market and regulatory advocacy, market infrastructure and industry developments.

Active in the securities post trade industry, Emma represents the firm through multiple industry committees including co-chairing: the ECB AMI-SeCo Securities Group (SEG), the AFME Transaction Clearing & Settlement Committee, the AFME Market Settlement Efficiency Taskforce, the AGC European Focus Committee and the DTCC EMEA Regional Advisory Council. In addition, Emma co-leads the US Lessons Learned workstream within the UK HMT T+1Taskforce Technical Group, is a steering committee member of the EU T+1 Industry Taskforce and is an active member of various ISSA working-groups including chair of the Custody Risks working group.

Emma joined J.P. Morgan in January 2022 from Deutsche Bank, where she was the EMEA Head of Securities Services Market Advocacy. She previously held various positions within product and operational teams over her 20+ year career in securities post-trade.

Attila Toth is working for EBRD as Principal in the Capital & Financial Market Development Team since 2018. He is specialized in equity capital market and capital market infrastructure development where he built up a 20-year experience. He started his career at the Hungarian Debt Management Agency in 1997 and joined the Budapest Stock Exchange in late 1999. During his 16-year career at the BSE he was responsible for business and product development, trading and post-trading. Between 2008 and 2016 he was the Deputy CEO of the stock exchange responsible for issuer and trading member relations, product development, trading and business strategy. He was chairman of the Supervisory Board and also the member of the Board of Directors of the Central Depository and Clearing House of Hungary. He took part in international capital market development projects and spent years in the corporate finance and private equity industry specialised for SMEs before joining the EBRD.

Attila is highly devoted to the improvement of financial literacy. He was the Chief Secretary of the Foundation for Financial Self-Awareness, an institution founded by the Budapest Stock Exchange and later the member of the Board of the Money Compass Foundation of the National Bank of Hungary. Attila Toth has a Master Degree in Finance from the Budapest Corvinus University and has a EFFAS/ACIIA International Programme of Investment Analysis Diploma.

Mr. Sampson is President of CDS. Kevin has over 20 years of capital markets experience managing high-performing teams across multiple functions and business areas, including sales and business development, operations, customer support and product development. His collaborative, client-centric approach has enabled Kevin to achieve positive business results while building long-term, trusted relationships with peers and stakeholders across the industry. Most recently, Kevin was President, Equity Trading for TMX Group Inc. where he managed the trading businesses of Canada’s premier equity exchanges (Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange and TSX Alpha Exchange).

Chris Elms is the Chief Executive Officer and an executive director of Euroclear UK & International (EUI). He is chair of the EUI Management Committee and a member of the Group Leadership Council.

Prior to assuming this role, Mr Elms was EUI Deputy Chief Executive Officer and a member of the EUI Management Committee with responsibility for Public Affairs & Regulatory Relations, Operational Resilience, 1st Line Financial Crime Prevention, Client Admissions, and 1st Line Risk Management.

Mr Elms was also Interim Chief Executive Officer and executive director of EUI from August 2019 to October 2020.

Following university, Mr Elms began his professional career as an Auditor specialising in IT Audit within public and private bodies. He joined CRESTCo in 1996 and has held a number of senior roles in Euroclear including CRESTCo Head of Internal Audit and Euroclear Head of Group IT Service Control where he was responsible for the day-to-day delivery of first line IT services to the Group entities (Euroclear Bank, EUI and the ESES CSDs). Following this Group role, Mr Elms became Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Euroclear’s joint venture with DTCC (DTCC-Euroclear Global Collateral Ltd) before rejoining EUI as Head of the CEO Office responsible for strategic programme delivery and regulatory relations.

Dr. Arıkan earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University and his MBA at Yeditepe University. He received his PhD degree from Istanbul Ticaret University in Business Administration. He speaks advance level English and German, also beginner-level Arabic.

He began his career as a computer engineer at Microsoft as an International Program Manager, focusing on Windows operating system development for Turkish markets.
Dr. Arıkan held various managerial positions at Ziraat Teknoloji A.Ş. and Ziraat Insurance Company, providing IT services for Ziraat Finance Group, the largest governmental bank of Türkiye. His career path includes pivotal roles at the EPİAŞ (Energy Exchange – Enerji Piyasaları İşletme A.Ş.) , which was founded in year 2015 as the energy exchange company of Türkiye, where he contributed to the establishment of the Transparency Platform, strategic planning, and international collaborations.

In 2016, he joined Borsa Istanbul Group at Takasbank A.Ş. as the Executive Vice President for Information Technology.
Since April 2019, he has been working as General Manager and Board Member at MKK which is Central Securities Depository and Trade Repository of Türkiye. Here, he has been instrumental in launching numerous products and services, enhancing the organization’s capabilities and range of services.
Dr. ARIKAN, has assumed the Chairmanship of the Association of Eurasian Central Securities Depositories (AECSD) starting from September 2023. By virtue of this duty, he has become a Board Member of the World Forum of CSDs (WFC).

Chiara Rossetti is a distinguished expert in the field of Financial Market Regulation, with over 14 years of experience in the sector. She is Senior Manager Regulation and Government Affairs at Euronext and she is also the Chair of the ECSDA Policy Working Group focusing on post trading and innovation advocacy.

Financial Lawyer, in 2021 she also graduated at Politecnico di Milano Business School.

Throughout her career, she has been members of numerous industry working group, delivering report that were also referred to in policy documents and legislative acts.

Chiara will enrich ECSDA conference with her talkative and innovative approach, sharing knowledgeable insights in the field of financial policy and regulation.