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

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.

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.
 

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.
 

Diana is the co-founder & CEO of Equileap, an enterprise aiming to accelerate progress towards gender equality in the workplace.

Headquartered in Amsterdam, Equileap is the leading provider of data and insights on gender equality in the corporate sector. Equileap researches and ranks over 3,500 public companies around the world using a unique and comprehensive Gender Equality Scorecard™ with 19 criteria, including the gender balance of the workforce, senior management and board of directors, as well as the pay gap, parental leave, and sexual harassment. To date, over 25% of all gender-lens investments globally are powered by Equileap data.

Diana has significant experience in philanthropy and social impact investing. Prior to launching Equileap, she worked as head of philanthropy at ABN AMRO Private Bank and director of development at Mama Cash, the world's oldest international women's fund.

She has a BA from Hamilton College and an MA in international development from American University.

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.