Mouha began his career with Axa as an asset liability manager before joining Amundi (formerly Credit Lyonnais Asset Management) as a structurer and fund manager. Mouha took part in the creation of Amundi Investment Solutions before becoming head of structuring for French Networks.
 

Mark has worked in the structured products industry for over 20 years delivering solutions and managing platforms for the issuance of complex and flow products. Mark is an experienced leader of derivatives and structured products teams at a number of leading investment banks and has operated across London, New York, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Zurich.
 

Mikael started his career as an analyst at Merrill Lynch Investment Banking in London.

In 2004, he moved back to his native Sweden, heading up E*TRADE’s push into structured products in the Nordic countries in co-operation with Merrill Lynch. In 2007, he founded and became CEO of Oak Capital, which by the time of his departure was a leading distributor of structured products in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Mikael joined Garantum in 2010 to oversee and expand the company’s international operation. He was promoted to Deputy CEO in 2012 and took over as CEO in 2015.

Mikael holds an MSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics
 

Henning, a lawyer and banker, has been CEO and member of the board of directors of the German derivatives association (Deutscher Derivate Verband, DDV) since March 2019. He previously served as the association’s managing director from October 2017.

From 2008 to 2017, Dr Bergmann headed the capital markets law division of the German savings banks association (Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband, DSGV.) Here, he was responsible for representing the interests of the association’s members at the national, European, and international levels, as well as the implementation of legislation throughout the German Savings Bank Financial Group (Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe), including the DSGV Mifid project. From 2004 to 2008, he worked at the Lower Saxony Savings Banks Association (Sparkassenverband Niedersachsen), and, in his final position there, headed the investments division and was managing director of a subsidiary.

Henning has authored a number of publications on banking and capital markets law, and was long-standing member of the Consultative Working Group of the Investor Protection and Intermediaries Standing Committee (IPISC) at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).
 

Lars Brandau has been managing director for the German Derivatives Association (Deutscher Derivate Verband, DDV) since it was established. He also represents DDV in the working groups of the European umbrella association, EUSIPA.

He is a proven communications expert. Before joining DDV, he held a number of senior roles at the news broadcaster n-tv - among others, the position of main news anchor. He reported from war zones and other crisis-hit areas, commented on many regional and national elections in Germany, and moderated the Telebörse stock market information service for a period of three years.

Lars studied German linguistics and political sciences.
 

Patrick joined Chebanca as head of Product Structuring and Investment Solutions in October 2017 with the mission of developing tactical investments.  Chebanca offers various type of investment products, fixed-income linked securities, equity-linked “investment certficates” and structured investments funds (UCITS).

Before joining Chebanca, Patrick worked, for 17 years across various international investment banks in Munich, Milan, London and Brussels.

He holds a graduate degree in business administration and financial markets from Bocconi University.
 

Tim is a partner in Ashurst’s financial regulation practice. He specialises in providing financial services regulatory advice to a range of, investment managers, brokers and banks.
Tim has previously worked in the FSA's (as it then was) markets and infrastructure department and HM Treasury on Mifid II; his experience covers many aspects of European and UK financial regulation, including advice on Mifid II, BRRD, AIFMD, the market abuse regime, regulatory capital, client money and custody issues.
 

Jean-Philippe, is senior strategic advisor at Société Générale  and has been an active member of the AFPDB legal and regulatory committee since 2014 when he joined SG. Before that, Jean-Philippe spent 9 years at the French Financial Markets Authority – the AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers)- where he coordinated, through a Steering Committee, the five European regulators of Euronext on market rules. Jean-Philippe also contributed to several IOSCO (International Organisation of Securities Commissions) task forces (e.g., Internet regulations, rules governing intermediaries etc.). Subsequently, Jean-Philippe joined Viel-Tradition interdealer brokerage in Paris as their Secrétaire Général, managing several functions including compliance and AML, and the coordination of industry initiatives in those areas.
 
[Jean-Philippe Cavrois graduated from Sciences Po Paris (Institut d’Etudes Politiques) and holds an Master in Business Administration of the Paris Sorbonne University (IAE).]
 

Susanne Chishti is the award-winning CEO of FINTECH Circle, Europe’s first Angel Network focused on fintech opportunities & founder of the FINTECH Circle Institute, the leading fintech learning platform offering innovation workshops to C-level executives and online courses. She is also non-executive director of Crown Agents Bank, JLG PLC and Kompli Global.

Susanne is the co-editor of The FINTECH Book - a bestseller which has been translated into ten languages and is sold across 107 countries, as well as The WealthTECH Book and The InsurTECH Book published by WILEY in 2018. In 2020 The PAYTECH Book, The AI Book and The LEGALTECH Book will be launched – all of which Susanne has also co-edited.

After completing her MBA, she started her career working for a fintech company (before the term “fintech” was even invented) in the Silicon Valley 20 years ago. She then worked for more than 15 years across Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Morgan Stanley and Accenture in London and Hong Kong. Susanne is considered a leading global fintech influencer. 
 

Before founding Lynceus Partners, Patrick worked at BNP Paribas where he started his career in 2011 in the global equities and commodity derivatives division where he held different roles regarding structured products such as marketing and sales, focusing on institutional clients in France then in Belgium. 

In 2015, he moved to Switzerland and shortly after, motivated by the challenge to bring together structured products expertise and technology, he created Lynceus Partners and its proprietary platform, Argo.

Patrick studied financial markets at Audencia Business School and the Asian Institute of Management

Pablo is managing editor of SRP News, having joined as a research analyst covering Spain, Portugal and Latin America, and then becoming a senior reporter. Previously, Pablo was a research & publications officer for a UK TUC-supported campaign with trade unions in Colombia and a communications manager for Pan- American Sports Network (PSN) in Miami, which he joined as a news producer.
 

Melania joined Banca Generali (one of largest wealth management players in Italy) as head of BG Certificate HUB in February 2018. BG Certificate HUB aims to develop innovative, tailor-made solutions for its network of over 2000 financial advisors, through a fully open-ended platform integrated by post-sales services. 

Before Banca Generali, Melania worked as head of the private banking sales team at the Exane Group in Italy and Tecino. Here, she implemented new platforms and procedures to improve the commercialisation of products (including the end-to-end development of the Italian website and the usage of listing procedure,) as well as gaining shares in the Italian derivatives market. Melania was particularly active in building new, tailor-made solutions across a wide range of assets. She began her career as a consultant at Credit Agricole.

Melania holds a graduate degree in economics and financial markets from Bocconi University.
 

Kevin has been head of digital platform services at Leonteq Securities since 2015. The team is part of the financial engineering department and is in charge of digital platform solutions for clients and partners.

From 2010 to 2015, Kevin worked as a structurer and took part in the development of the platform automation and the white-labelling strategy.

Kevin holds an MSc in risk and asset management from the EDHEC Business School.

 

Peter is chief executive officer of Quantessence. Quantessence, a Euroclear company, is an agile fintech that brings innovation to the savings and investment market. 
Before joining Quantessence, Peter was managing director at Barclays Capital for eight years, running the bank’s main iCPPI programme. He previously worked for Goldman Sachs, covering large financial institutions, and for JPMorgan, where he had leading roles in trading and sales for over 10 years.
Peter holds an MBA in finance from IAG at UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), as well as an MA in philology from the University of Leuven (Belgium).
 

Veerle joined the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) in 1990 in the supervision of financial information and markets department. During her career with the Belgian financial regulator, she also was a member of the legal department for seven years and a press officer before moving into her current role as the director of the department responsible for the transversal supervision of financial products, such as funds, banking products and insurance products (life and non-life).
 

Oumar has been head of investment structuring, systematic investment, technology and services since July 2018, and was member of EFAMA’s Derivatives Working Group.

In February 2016, he was made head of the structured investment services platform, having been appointed deputy head of the structured products department in 2013. Oumar took lead of structuring, protected active management and quantitative research in 2010, having joined the team as portfolio manager / structurer in 2006. Oumar joined Natixis AM in 2005 as manager assistant in the aggregate fixed income team.

Before joining Natixis, Oumar began his career in 2004, working as a junior consultant within the risk management / quantitative analysis team of Ernst & Young.

He holds a master’s degree in finance from ESCP-EAP and an undergraduate degree from the École centrale de Marseille.
 

Emmanuel Doumas is senior policy officer in the investment management team of ESMA. He has also been working on Priips since 2014, namely, as chair of the Cost Work Stream of the Priips subgroup, working under the direction of the Joint Committee. He has been also in charge of the work on the third-country AIFMD passport and on the Money Market Fund Regulation.

Before joining ESMA, Emmanuel was deputy head of the savings and financial market division, in charge of asset management related issues, of the Directorate-General of the French Treasury.

He graduated in with a degree in maths and physics from the French École normale supérieure and obtained a PhD in economics.

Hartmut has been at DZ Bank AG since July 2007, and department head of structured products since 2012. Before joining DZ Bank, had been at Dresdner Bank AG for 7 years. From 2004 to 2006, he worked establishing product capabilities and trading market risks. Prior to this, he worked as team leader in the Murex support team for a year before joining business management FX, where he worked on the optimisation of business processes for three years. He joined Dresdner in January 1999 as front office IT.

Hartmut has a Magna cum Laude doctorate from Max Plan Institut in berlin and an undergraduate degree in physics from U Konstanz.

Today, Hartmut lives in Konstanz, Germany with his wife and two sons.
 

Thibaut is a partner at proprietary market making firm, Optiver, and heads up its European Single Stock Derivatives and Equity Delta One divisions. He has extensive experience managing risk during intense volatility, such as single stock market making through the sovereign debt crisis of 2011; setting-up market making in Brazil indices and trading through the elections in 2014; as well as heading the SX5E and V2X flow desk through Brexit and US elections in 2016.

Thibaut holds a master’s degree in engineering from Imperial College in London. He started his trading career in 2010 when he joined Optiver in Amsterdam.
 

Michael is vice president at Credit Suisse in the global markets division, based in London. He is responsible for the development of custom indices and thematic solutions, covering different client segments (e.g. distributors / private banks / insurance companies and pension funds.)

He joined Credit Suisse in 2015 from BNP Paribas where he was a Structurer in the equity derivatives team in New York and London. 

Michael received an engineering degree from Supelec, France, and a master’s degree in mathematical finance from Columbia University, US.

Simon Howard joined UKSIF as chief executive in May 2013. He is a former group chief investment officer, with over twenty years of investment management experience. He worked for Liverpool Victoria and Friends Provident after being managing director of 3i Asset Management. Prior to joining UKSIF, Simon was head of sustainable financial markets at the charity Forum for the Future.
Simon moved into sustainability after being asked to forecast long-term asset class returns. These are likely to be materially different going forward as issues such as climate change, resource depletion and stakeholder rights bite. It is clear that other sectors of financial services will also be affected, such as banking, insurance and personal financial services. Simon now seeks to use the insight and expertise of UKSIF members throughout UK financial services to drive change for the benefit of society.
 

Kirill co-founded Fusion in 2004 and currently oversees all investment activities of the group. 

Prior to founding Fusion, Kirill worked at Chase Manhattan Bank for four years, later JP Morgan Chase. He was responsible for optimal delta hedging and quantitative proprietary trading strategies. In 2002, Kirill was invited to join the equity-linked products group, where he developed cross-asset risk management strategies and co-founded the JP Morgan debt-equity relative value group. Kirill and his team developed the "Credit Risk Reversal" model for hedging credit and equity derivatives, cited as one of the key achievements when JP Morgan won the IFR "Derivative House of the Year" award in 2003. Kirill is chief investment officer of Fusion Asset Management, and a regular speaker and moderator at financial industry conferences, with a special focus on protective investment products and hedging strategies.  

Kirill graduated from Leningrad State University (1992) and holds a PhD in mathematical physics (1994). He has authored more than 40 research papers and the acclaimed monograph “Physics of Finance” (published by Wiley&Sons in 2000.)
 

Andrew is head of EMEA, global research and design at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). The team provides research on global index strategies across all asset classes and is responsible for the conceptualization and design of new indices.

Prior to joining the global research and design team in 2016, Andrew worked in S&P DJI’s custom index development group. Before that, Andrew worked in various sell-side roles in portfolio strategy and equity research.

Andrew graduated from Loughborough University with a bachelor of engineering (Hons) in automotive engineering.
 

Tom Karlsson is options sales trader at Susquehanna International Group (SIG) in Dublin. Susquehanna is a leading global market maker and liquidity provider in options and etfs, acconting for 11% of the total listed options volume traded across all European exchanges, covering over 750 single stocks and all major indices, as well as over 3,700 ETFs.

Tom joined Susquehanna’s European headquarters in Dublin after 11 years in London working for Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and HSBC. He has experience in various derivatives sales roles, covering institutional clients mainly in the Nordics, UK and Benelux.

Tom started his career in his home country of Finland working at the Helsinki Exchange in 2001.
 

Willem is managing director – head of ESG and thematic solutions at STOXX / Qontigo.

Willem is responsible for ESG and thematic solutions of the index business of Qontigo at STOXX with a track record of creating innovative, integrated flagship families of indices. The indices serve as underlying instruments for tier 1 institutional clients, asset owners, retail investors, ETF providers as well as derivative products.

Prior to joining STOXX Ltd in 2015, Willem spent more than ten years as head of quantitative and systematic trading in investment banking.

Willem holds a master of economics in finance from the University of the Free State in South Africa.

 

Abdess is a product manager for cross-asset derivatives at Bloomberg. He is responsible for derivatives workflows including pre-trade pricing analytics as well as post-trade lifecycle, risk management and valuation. Abdess oversees structured products globally, leading Bloomberg development and strategy to deliver solutions to clients on sell-side investment banks and buy-side hedge funds, private banks and asset managers.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Abdess spent 9 years in investment banking. He was a director at Barclays, where he held various roles. He ran the equity, converts and hybrid quant team responsible for pricing and risk managing derivatives. He also helped develop Barclay's electronic pricing platform for structured products.

Abdess holds a master’s in quantitative finance from French engineering school l' École des Mines de Paris.
 

Gurpreet started his career at ABN AMRO following studying economics at University College London. He spent 8 years at ABN AMRO and subsequently RBS in various structuring roles in the structured products team.

He joined JPMorgan in 2014 where he has been responsible for platform development across the equity derivatives business focusing on new business initiatives and driving automation and connectivity with clients for structured products.

Gurpreet lives in Kent with his wife and son.
 

Amélie is SRP’s global head of content, based in London. Before joining the company in January 2018, she was managing editor of International Financial Law Review, a Euromoney publication focused on the global financial regulation sector. She previously worked at Centaur Media in various management and editorial roles. She holds an LLM degree from the London School of Economics as well as a master’s degree in European law from the University of Rennes, in France. Amélie regularly speaks at and moderates events in London on financial regulation, having previously spoken about EU bank resolution in particular.
 

John has more than 15 years of wealth management and financial market experience spanning across structured products, rates, credit, foreign exchange and equity. His role involves making financial products accessible and helping wealth management clients to understand their relative risk and rewards. He is skilled in people development and knowledge transfer, often participating in industry conversations, building strong partnerships and simplifying advisory delivery. Leading a team of passionate and highly skilled wealth management professionals, his business approach is always portfolio- and client-centric with the vision towards sustainable growth both for clients and the bank.

Roberto Lazzarotto is senior managing director and global head of sales at Stoxx. He is responsible for the distribution and promotion of new Stoxx and Dax index concepts across all asset classes to institutional investors.

Lazzarotto previously worked at SBC Warburg, Merrill Lynch and as global head of equity derivatives sales at Unicredit Bank.

Ayal Leibowitz is the chief innovation officer and a member of the global executive committee at LPA. After founding and managing Modelity and reaching a recognised market leader position in technologies for structured products, Modelity has decided to join forces with LPA, to form the leading technology company for the capital markets industry. Since its establishment in 1999, LPA has enabled financial institutions around the world to grow their businesses, increase revenues, reduce costs and meet regulatory requirements. Today the company is a market leader in capital market technologies, employing 350 programmers, quants and financial experts, with 12 offices around the globe.
 

Lukáš is head of investments, products and digital at Unicredit CEE Private Banking. He is responsible for product development and implementing the digital agenda across CEE countries. He is also responsible for group investment strategy. 

Isabelle has held various roles within markets activities Société Générale, notably chief operating officer for the cross asset structured products activity in New York. Isabelle has been a financial product engineer in charge of developing cross asset investment strategies and index structuring for the SG Index franchise. Isabelle started her career in 2001 at Capgemini Consulting. 

Danila manages the structured products business at Alfa Capital, which he has worked at since he joined as a junior trader in 2011. Since then, he has implemented a lot of features and ideas which have become standard within Russia’s structured products market.
Danila’s team is responsible for the design and development of structured products for various clients, across retail, corporate and high-net-worth individuals. His desk is among the leaders in Russia’s structured products market.
 

Frédéric Pelèse is deputy executive director of the AMF’s regulatory policy and international affairs directorate.
Between 2014 and 2017, he was seconded to the European Commission in the security markets unit of the Directorate‑General for financial stability, financial services and capital markets union (DG FISMA.)  Here, he contributed to the elaboration of the Prospectus Regulation, the development of the Level 2 measures of MiFID II, as well as the review of the Short Selling Regulation.
He was appointed deputy to the head of this division in 2013, in which capacity he was closely involved in the French implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and the reform of money market funds.
Before this, he worked in the Regulatory Policy and International Affairs Directorate as senior advisor in the asset management regulation division. He joined the AMF’s corporate finance directorate in 2005, where his responsibilities included controlling takeover bids and contributing to the development of French takeover law.
Frédéric began his career in 2000 in the mergers and acquisitions advisory department of Crédit Agricole Indosuez in Paris. He is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris and the London School of Economics.
 

Antoine is a senior equity trading strategist at Citi. His role is to lever fundamental content and derivative parameter dislocations to express trade ideas and cross-asset views at index, sector and single stock levels. He designs investment solutions for directional, arbitrage and hedging purposes. Before joining Citi, Antoine spent four years at BNP Paribas in a similar role. He started his career in 2006 at HSBC, where he held a number of roles in equity derivative trading, including Europe flow trader, head of CCEEMEA equity derivative trading, and co-head of single stocks exotic trading.
 

Christian Probst is the European head of product structuring at Munich Re Financial Solution, where he is responsible for the joint design, structuring and hedging of capital market-linked savings and retirement products. Munich Re Financial Solutions provides its clients with a modular risk-transfer approach including capital markets risks, insurance risks and the associated cross risks. Furthermore it can provide both in-house and external investment content as well as white-labelled digital front-end tools for direct and assisted sales.

Prior to joining Munich Re in 2018, Christian held various institutional and retail structuring positions in Citigroup, Bank or America Merrill Lynch and started his career in private investor products structuring at ABN Amro.
 

Taras is head of investment solutions at Fusion Group and is responsible for a number of key digital initiatives within the group. Having a broad managerial and commercial skill-set, Taras is working to inspire and facilitate growth in asset allocation-based investing and rule-based, systematic investment solutions. He is particularly interested in how technology is shaping the future of wealth and asset management.

At Fusion, Taras is working closely with private banks, wealth managers and family offices helping them to deliver long-term returns for their clients while protecting the downside. Prior to joining Fusion, Taras was a managing director at the investment advisory firm, Investcap Group, where he was responsible for capital raising, origination and project delivery and worked closely with China state-owned banks, state-owned entities and large institutional investors.

Taras holds a master’s degree in economics from Ukraine State University and enjoys dedicating personal time to boxing after spending over 7 years competing professionally.

 

Taras joined BCS Global Markets 9 years ago as head of derivatives. His team was instrumental in setting up several EMTN programmes for the company, launching a diversified line-up of structured products and coming up with new structured payoff types geared towards Russian and European markets. This allowed BCS to become the leading manufacturer in the Russian market.
Taras joined BCS from ECM structured solutions at Citigroup, where he had served as a director. Before that, he held various sales and structuring positions in equity and commodity derivatives, at NG Barings, Commerzbank, J.P.Morgan and Société Générale. He began his career in derivatives risk management at Morgan Stanley in New York.
Taras holds a Ph.D. from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Moscow State University.
 

Patrick Stettler joined SIX Digital Exchange in May 2019 as senior sales. He has started out in financial markets in 1994 as a stocks and derivatives market-maker with UBS. Throughout his career he held various positions at renown institutions both as senior product expert and sales in sophisticated financial product solutions. Patrick has successfully conceptualized and co-developed several large-scale platforms that centre around the instant design and securitisation of customised investment products, most of which are still market-leaders in their respective fields today.
 

Diana van Maasdijk is co-founder and chief executive officer at Equileap, the leading organisation providing data and insights on gender equality in the corporate sector.

Equileap aims to accelerate progress towards gender equality in the workplace, with products and services tailored to companies, governments and investors. Equileap’s Gender Equality Scorecard is a comprehensive methodology that scores and ranks corporations and offers investors numerous tools, including gender equality indices, company reports and a database scoring over 3000 companies. 
 
Previously, Diana was head of philanthropy at ABN AMRO Private Bank and was the director of development at Mama Cash, the world's oldest international grant-making organization for women’s rights.  Diana is also the author of Goed Geven- a Dutch guide to effective giving.

She has a BA in liberal arts from Hamilton College and an MA in international development from American University. She is of both Dutch and Ecuadorian background and lives in Amsterdam with her 3 sons and husband. 
 

Kurt is product development manager at KBC Asset Management, where his activities are mainly related to structured products for the Belgian and Central European core markets of KBC.

Kurt also teaches a banking course at the University of Antwerp - the university from which he himself achieved a PhD in finance in 2015. 

Ferran Vila joined MoraBanc as a head of structured product desk in June 2012. The structuring desk is cross asset and originates structured products for all the business branches in MoraBanc (retail, personal banking, private banking, corporates and asset management).  During 2017 he was appointed also as head of the flow desk, taking the responsability of the execution of equities, fixed income and listed derivatives. Prior to joining MoraBanc, Ferran was working 10 years in CaixaBank in different teams in the treasury department (money market, forex and structured products)

He studied business administration at the University of Catalonia,  and holds a quantitative master at AFI and a program for management development at IESE.

Andrea joined Bank J. Safra Sarasin’s sustainable investment research team in November 2013. She is responsible for the implementation and advancement of the Bank’s sustainable investment methodology and the integration of sustainability considerations along the investment processes of different investment strategies. She also coordinates the bank’s active ownership activities and conducts sustainability analysis for external funds. Prior to joining the bank, Andrea gained relevant experience in the area of corporate sustainability at a large global insurance company as well as at the institute for economy and the environment at the University of St. Gallen.

She studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen and holds a master’s degree in management, organization studies and cultural theory. In 2018, Andrea participated in the Sustainable Finance Programme at the University of Oxford. She is a CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) charterholder.
 

Deborah Zandstra joined Clifford Chance in 1992 and has been a partner since 2009. She has worked in the firm's capital markets, banking and derivatives groups in London, New York and Madrid and secondments on Citibank, London and Barclays Capital (legal departments).

Deborah is currently a member of the firm's finance group with special focus on sovereign related work, structured products and derivatives. Clients include major international commercial and investment banks, sovereigns, insurance companies and industry bodies. The majority of Deborah's work is highly structured and innovative and she represents both providers and users of financial products. She is able to draw upon her very broad finance, capital markets and derivatives experience to craft bespoke solutions for particular objectives. Deborah regularly leads educational seminars on sovereign debt restructuring issues, ISDA documentation and EU matters including financial stability for clients and internally.