Below you can find the list of confirmed speakers for the ECSDA Conference.
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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.
Ulrich Bindseil is Director General Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank (ECB), a post he has held since November 2019. Previously, he was Director General Market Operations (from May 2012 to October 2019) and head of the Risk Management Division (between 2005 and 2008). He first entered central banking in 1994, when he joined the Economics Department of the Deutsche Bundesbank, having studied economics. His publications include, among others, Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System, OUP, 2014; Central Banking before 1800 – A Rehabilitation, OUP, 2019; Introduction to Central Banking (with A. Fotia), Springer, 2021; Introduction to Payments and Financial Market Infrastructures (with G. Pantelopoulos), Springer, 2023.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
A former Banking Executive with 22+ years of experience, including most recently Global Head of Product Management for Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank, Rhom has developed an interest in creating digital businesses for finance and finance related areas. He brings experience of working across a wide variety of wholesale banking businesses and functions including sales, trading, product management, and technology to his role at Fnality. The majority of his experience has been developing businesses where the product is at the intersection of finance and technology.
Sarah Tarawneh is the Chief Executive Officer of the Securities Depository Center of Jordan (SDC), she has been working with the SDC for over 17 years, during which she was responsible of multiple managerial tasks, including public relations, custody business, drafting rules and regulations, her previous role was director of the Legal Affairs, prior to being appointed the Chief Executive Officer early this year.
Sarah also served on the board of ANNA (Association of National Numbering Agencies) for the term of three years (2019-2021) dedicated to supporting the industry of standardization in capital markets in the region.
Sarah is specialized in Capital market legislation, Depository, Clearing and settlement, compliance with international standards and best practices.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Jordan, and a license of practice from the Jordanian Bar association; she also attained many professional training and certificates in financial services field.
Graduated from the ESSEC business school Robert Ophèle joins the Banque de France in 1981 where he will make the largest part of his professional career in banking supervision, in developing and implementing monetary policy and in financial management of the bank.
Following a secondment to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he took up the position of Director of the Management Control and Budget Directorate, then was appointed Deputy Director General Economics and International Relations, before being promoted Director General Operations. He held the position of Second Deputy Governor of the Banque de France from January 2012 until July 2017; in this role he became a member of the Supervisory Board for the European Central Bank.
On 1st August 2017 he was appointed Chairman of the Autorité des marchés financiers.
Virginie O’Shea is a capital markets fintech research specialist, with two decades of experience in tracking financial technology developments in the sector, with a particular focus on regulatory developments, data and standards. She is the founder of Firebrand Research, a new research and advisory firm focused on providing capital markets technology and operations insights for the digital age.
Most recently, she was a research director with Aite Group, heading up the Institutional Securities & Investments practice and covering data management, collateral management, legal entity onboarding, and post-trade technology. In this role she spearheaded strategy for the practice and managed a team of eight analysts across the globe.
Ms. O’Shea has spoken at industry conferences including Sibos, TradeTech, FISD events, and The Network Forum, and is actively engaged in a number of post-trade industry standards groups.
Prior to Aite Group, she was managing editor of A-Team Group’s flagship publication, A-Team Insight, where she covered financial technology from the front to back office, including trading technology, market data, low latency, risk management, regulatory impacts on IT, and reference data. During her time at the firm, she was heavily involved in planning risk and data management events and creating multimedia offerings, including podcasts, webinars, and video interviews. Prior to this, Ms. O’Shea was group editor of Investor Services Journal and Alternatives magazine, focused on the asset servicing and buy-side communities. Before that, she was editor of STP Magazine and online service stpzone.com, where she focused on financial technology in the capital markets.
Ms. O’Shea holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh.
Mr. Prashant Vagal is Executive Vice President and Heads the Business Development and Products and Investor Education department in NSDL. He has completed Bachelor of Engineering and MBA in finance and over 26 years of experience in Capital Markets. Mr. Vagal has been associated with NSDL for 25 years now and handled various activities viz., Business development, Participant and CC Interface, New Product developments, Settlements, Training, Investor Education, Marketing etc. Mr. Vagal has been a speaker at various forums seminars held Internationally. He has been a member of Committees at SEBI and RBI.
Özkan İlkay Kızıltoprak received his bachelor’s degree from İstanbul University’s International Relations Department at the Faculty of Economics.
He started his carreer at Citibank in 1995 working in the treasury and securities operations then moved to AFinance Plc Dublin in Ireland as the country manager for three years.
He re-joined Citibank in 2002 and managed securities services, treasury, cash services, import and export and brokerage operations as the group manager until 2018.
During his tenure at Citibank he successfully led many local and international projects and took active roles in the Banks Association, Takasbank and MKK working groups.
The integration of SWIFT messaging between Takasbank, MKK and intermediary institution, establishing capital gain tax processes on securities transactions,
implementation of securities dematerialization process, holding fixed income instruments at beneficial owner level at MKK and
elimination of “three zeros” from securities nominals are some of the critical projects that he led.
Before joining MKK he worked at few of the major capital markets solution provider companies where he managed business and product development,
operational excellence and project management units in addition to advisor and trainer roles.
He holds Capital Markets Level 3 and derivatives instruments licenses as well as business intelligence tools certificates.
Mr. Kızıltoprak assigned as the Executive Vice President responsible for Market Operations at Merkezi Kayıt Kuruluşu A.Ş. on 07.10.2020
Andy Hill is a Senior Director in ICMA’s Market Practice and Regulatory Policy team, where he oversees globally the association’s work on fixed income secondary markets, as well as repo and collateral markets.
Andy has authored numerous reports on bond and repo market structure and development, with a particular focus on regulatory impacts.
Prior to joining ICMA in 2014, Andy was a repo and money market trader for seventeen years, for ten years of which he was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs.
He has also worked as a consultant in the Aid and Development sector, primarily based in Cambodia, and previously served on the Board of the Cambodian NGO Education Partnership in Phnom Penh while on a Goldman Sachs Public Service Fellowship.
Andy holds a BSc (Hons) in Business Studies from Cass Business School and an MSc in Poverty Reduction and Development Management from the University of Birmingham.
Inmaculada Navas joined SDX in April 2019 as Head of Legal and Compliance, with a mandate to lead the FINMA licensing approval proceedings, build a legal and regulatory framework, legal advisory for products and initiatives, manage external counsel mandate and build an internal legal team.
Inmaculada has over 18 years of long-standing Legal and Compliance experience partnered with Leadership and Project Management skills gained from a solid work history in the private sector.
Prior to SDX, Inmaculada worked in UBS and Credit Suisse, where she gained expertise in cross-border matters and international law related to financial markets, banking law, financial crime, regulatory affairs, governance, litigation and enforcement.
Francisco Béjar is Head of the CSD Services of SIX BME group.
Mr. Béjar has 29 years of experience in post-trading, mainly in areas such as Settlement and Custody, Cash and Treasury and Corporate Trust, from a double point of view, as custodian and as market infrastructure. He is member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of ECSDA (European Central Securities Depository Association), and member of various market committees and expert groups at national and international level, such as the Clearing, Settlement and Registration Experts Group chaired by the CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores), the Post-Trading Standing Committee´s consultative Working Group of ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority), the Harmonisation Steering Group chaired by the ECB (European Central Bank)
Alexis Thompson is Head of Global Securities Services for
BBVA. He is also responsible for Strategy & Business
Development for Global Transaction Banking within
Corporate & Investment Banking.
He joined BBVA in 2012 as Head of Product in Global
Operations where he was charged with aligning operational
capabilities with the needs of the different business lines.
Prior to that, Alexis worked at Altura Markets for 12 years
as Chief Operating Officer, where he was responsible for
Client Services, Operations and IT.
Mr. Thompson holds a BA (Hons) degree in Hispanic &
Latin American Studies from King’s College London.
Arman Melkumyan has more than 11 years of experience in the financial industry. Mr. Melkumyan is an expert in the financial markets; client, government and international relations; new business processes development and implementation.
Starting October 2018 Mr. Melkumyan assigned as Secretary General of the Association of Eurasian Central Securities Depositories (AECSD). Being the Secretary General the main scope of work is
· Planning and coordination of the activities of the Association
· Organization and holding of events (conferences, seminars, training webinars, working groups, committees)
· Conducting research in various areas
Mr. Melkumyan is a member of different working groups of World Forum of CSDs (WFC) and leading the development of E-learning platform (https://aecsd.org/en/e-learning/) – one of the initiatives of WFC for CSDs’ knowledge exchange.
Philip Slavin is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Taskize. Phil has spent over 25 years as both a user and a creator of financial technology. For the early part of his career, he worked with both buy and sell-side institutions building and deploying banking solutions and running large change management programs. In 1999 he joined Fidessa, a market leading trading software house, where he ran Business Development and Product Marketing building electronic and algorithmic trading solutions across existing and emerging global exchanges. Immediately prior to starting Taskize, Phil led Strategic Alliances in EMEA for Pivotal Software, a specialist in agile software delivery. His belief is that by building sensible solutions you can remove complexity from the system to create tangible, competitive advantage.
Jasmine Ma, senior manager of Strategy and Development Department, China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation. She joined CSDC in 2013 after she graduated from Peking University, holding a master degree in English Literature. She has been engaged in international business of CSDC and ACG affairs over the years.
Sudip Chatterjee is Head of Global Capital Markets at Euroclear. Mr.
Chatterjee is responsible for defining and designing the vision and
strategy, along with aligning all business initiatives across the global
capital markets.
In this capacity, Mr. Chatterjee leads the discussions and partners with
market authorities and regulators in local and international markets
across the world, with the objective of designing solutions that help
market liquidity and borrowing costs, resulting in a stronger
macroeconomic climate and sustainable development.
Mr. Chatterjee has constant dialogue with multilateral financial
institutions, including the World Bank, IFC, European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development and Inter-American Development
Bank. He also maintains relationships with other key capital market
entities, including rating agencies, index providers and the leading
global fund and asset managers, to ensure alignment and facilitate
the sustainable growth of the global capital markets.
Prior to his current role, Mr Chatterjee held a number of senior positions
within Euroclear, including Head of Primary Markets of Product &
Strategy, Head of International Markets in Network Management and
Head of Process Change Management. Prior to joining Euroclear, Mr.
Chatterjee was a management consultant, advising organisations, such
as Bank of America, Axa and Eurocontrol.
Mr. Chatterjee has a degree in Civil Engineering and a post-graduate
degree in Management .
Hanna Vainio is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Euroclear Finland, the Finnish Central Securities Depository. Additionally, she serves in the Board of Directors of Euroclear Finland and is a member of the Extended Management Committee (EMC) of the Euroclear Group. She is based in Helsinki.
Since joining Euroclear in 2006, she has been the sponsor for various strategic and regulatory development initiatives and projects as the Chief Business Officer for Euroclear Finland and Euroclear Sweden and as the Deputy CEO of Euroclear Finland.
Before joining Euroclear, Ms. Vainio worked for six years at the Nordea Bank Finland as the Head of Corporate Actions.
Ms. Vainio is a member of the ECSDA Board. She has also been a member in several national and international working groups within the European financial industry during her career.
Ms. Vainio holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki (Finland).
Jens Hachmeister, Managing Director at Deutsche Börse AG is its Head of Issuer Services and New Digital Markets 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. As Head of Operations and Infrastructure Development in the Xetra division, Jens was 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. As of 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.
Oliver Sigrist is an Adviser at the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub (BISIH). He is working on the use of novel technologies in central banking and is an expert on CBDC. Oliver was involved in projects Helvetia and Jura, which were realised in cooperation with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and additional partners. Before joining the BISIH, Oliver was a senior economist at the SNB and a visiting fellow at the Sveriges Riksbank. Oliver holds a PhD in economics from the University of Basel
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.
Olivier Dazard is heading the ‘Controls, Programme Evolution and Engagement team’ at SWIFT. This team drives the Evolution to the Customer Security Control Framework (CSCF) and Independent Assessment Framework (IAF) which are the heart of the Customer Security Program (CSP) at SWIFT; CSP helps financial institutions ensure their defenses against cyberattacks are up to date and effective.
Before joining the CSP program in 2016, Olivier was a Lead IT internal auditor for over 10 years involved in many engagements. He was also leading the Service Bureau inspections program at SWIFT. Olivier has been involved in many other IT functions during his 30+ years career at SWFT
Olivier holds a degree in Computing sciences from the University of Namur (Belgium) and is CISA certified.
Biography to follow
Mr. Rahul Pratap Singh is leading business and products for issuer services of NSDL since February 2020, He is a seasoned financial services professional with demonstrated history of working in capital markets industry. Skilled in sales, customer relationship management, equities. Strong business development mindset with a Masters in Business Economics (Finance) and Bachelors in Business administration (Systems).
In a career spanning nearly two decades he has worked on streaming operations for Private wealth management and portfolio management services.
In his previous assignments he has been recognized for operational excellence and strong commitment to execution of tasks given.
DETAILED EXPERIENCE
Vice President, National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) {Feb 2020 – Present}
Senior Vice President (Head Operations), Centrum Wealth Management Limited, {Sep 2015 – Feb 2020}
Successfully streamed lined wealth and PMS operations, helped the firm to grow digitally by launching client mobile application for purchase of mutual funds and to check holdings & transactions online.
Ensured all business product launches are backed by strong operations for faster TATs and transactions are error free.
Helped implementation of client relationship management application for client acquisition team
Prior to Centrum wealth he has worked with Barclays wealth, Birla Mutual Fund, MF Global (Phillip Capital) & Sharekhan where he has worked on portfolio management services operations, trust services accounting, heading PMS dealing desk, managing operations for loan against shares (LAS).
Education:
DAVV university, Indore – Master’s Degree in Economics with distinction
IPSA, Indore, Bachelor’s Degree in Business administration with specialization in system
Advance software diploma from NIIT
Avi has spent almost 40 years as a journalist, copywriter and marketing professional in India, UK, Belgium and Switzerland. Of that, the past 30 have been spent in the worlds of financial technology and financial services – first at SWIFT where he was responsible for marketing their securities services to the global financial community. And then as the Head of Marketing for SIX Securities Services (formerly know as SIS) in Switzerland. Today, he heads marketing for the Swiss Stock Exchange, The Spanish Stock Exchange the SIX Digital Exchange.
Takeshi is Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI). As Deputy Head, he supports CPMI parent committee and represents the CPMI at various international groups.
Before joining the BIS, he served as chief representative in Frankfurt of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) from 2014 until 2016. At the BoJ he spent many years in the areas related to financial market infrastructures (FMIs). His work included BoJ’s FMI policy and oversight issues regarding Japanese and international FMIs. He represented the BoJ at various FMI-related international groups and cross-border cooperative oversight arrangements.
He also led the BoJ’s supervisory team for Japanese banks and broker dealers. He represented the BoJ at supervisory colleges and crisis management groups for G-SIFIs.
Earlier in his career he was a junior representative at the BOJ Frankfurt office. From 2008 and 2010 he was seconded to the BIS as a member of the CPSS Secretariat. He studied law at Kyoto University and economics at University of Göttingen.
Juan Alfaro joined Financial Superintendency of Colombia (SFC) in 2015 as Deputy Superintendent for Risk Supervision. In 2017, he assumed as Deputy Superintendent for Capital Markets responsible for the supervision of the functioning of securities markets and the asset management industry in Colombia.
Prior to joining SFC, Juan Alfaro worked in Fondo Latinoamericano de Reservas (FLAR) for 14 years as Chief Risk Officer, responsible for overseeing the overall asset and liability management strategy, the formulation financial risk policies and ensuring the compliance with the risk management framework.
From 1995 to 2001, he worked at the Banking Superintendency of Colombia, where he participated in the teams in charge of the adoption of the Basle II Capital Agreement and in the design of new regulation for treasury activities and risk management for the Colombian banking industry.
Juan holds a MSc. in Finance from London Business School and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá Colombia.
Paolo, as a Post Trade Technology Services CTO of the Euronext Group, has the responsibility of the IT organizations of the 4 CSD – Euronext Securities Porto, Oslo, Copenhagen and Milan – and of the CCP – Euronext Clearing –
He spent more than 20 years working in the FMI world, recovering managerial roles in Monte Titoli, where he was appointed as a CTO in 2017 and in the LSEG, where he covered the role of the CIO for the Post Trade Italy Division.
Debbie is a Director in Securities Services managing sales and franchise clients investing in the U.S. She is the Chair of the Association of Global Custodian where she leads market collaboration and advocacy to facilitate more resilient and efficient global post trade execution markets.
In her prior immediate role, she was the U.S. Securities Country Manager where she managed over 6 trillion in assets under custody for clients domiciled in over 30 markets. She set the strategy, managed the U.S. Custody business and created a competitive product enabling client growth and increased market share. Debbie held multiple leadership roles in Industry Associations where she had a stellar track record to proactively initiate and lead market initiatives which fundamentally changed the market infrastructure and mitigate market risk.
Debbie joined Citi in 1997 as Citi Transaction Services Global Risk Manager in New York and was subsequently promoted to Operations Project Manager in Dublin to oversee Euro Implementation for Cash Management, Client Executive in American Depository Receipts servicing clients in the Middle East, Global Custody Marketing Manager and U.S. Custody Product Development Manager.
Prior to joining Citi, she was the Assistant Treasurer at IBM. She pursued a dual major in finance and accounting at the City University of New York where she graduated with honors and an M.B.A. in executive management from St. John’s University. Debbie holds several Board Membership positions including Women’s Diversity Network and New York State Midwifery Association. She is a proud “military wife,” mom of three, and is very passionate about volunteering.
Victor van Hoorn is the Executive Director of Eurosif, the European Sustainable Investment Forum, the leading pan European Sustainable and Responsible Investment association advocating for a more sustainable financial system. It works as a partnership of European national Sustainable Investment Forums (SIFs). SIF members include institutional investors, asset managers, index providers and ESG research and analysis firms totaling over €8 trillion of assets under management, as well as other stakeholders such as NGOs, trade unions, think-tanks and philanthropic foundations. Eurosif is also a founding member of the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, the alliance of the largest SIFs around the world.
Prior to Eurosif, Victor was Head of Financial Services at Hume Brophy, a leading EU public affairs consultancy, advising asset managers and asset owners on their engagement with EU policymakers. In that role he closely followed the EU sustainable finance since its inception.
Victor is and attorney-at-law admitted to the New York and Amsterdam bar. He holds the French and Dutch citizenship.
Executive Director, Eurosif
Biography to follow.
After a 42-year career with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Henne Schuwer focused on the European Union and transatlantic relations, Ambassador Schuwer joined Kreab as a Senior Advisor in 2020. During his career, Henne was involved in all Dutch EU Presidencies, the last one as Deputy Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the EU and Chair of Coreper I. After this, Henne served as the Director of the Private Office of the Secretary General of NATO. Mr Schuwer also has extensive knowledge of US politics and trade issues due to two assignments in the US, including a stint as the Dutch Ambassador to Washington DC in 2015-19.
Senior Advisor, Kreab
David has a portfolio of senior management roles in the European public affairs industry, and has advised over 50 of the world’s largest financial institutions and trade associations on their public affairs strategy, stakeholder engagement, and reputation management activities across Europe, the UK and globally. He leads Kreab’s Financial Services Practice and is the Senior Partner of the Financial Policy Advisers Network. David has worked at the European Commission, the Financial Services Authority, McKinsey & Company, and Campbell Lutyens.
Senior Partner, Head of The Financial Policy Advisers Network, Kreab
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