Javier became CEO of Monex Casa de Bolsa and head of treasury and markets at Monex Financial Group in 2010. It is the largest international payments provider in Mexico and one of the most dynamic financial institutions in the country. He is also a member of the Mexican Committee of Foreign Exchange Markets.

His prior roles include serving as CFO of Mifel Financial Group, deputy CEO of Aeromexico and as deputy general director of financial planning at the Mexican Ministry of Finance.

Javier has a BA in economics from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and is a graduate of Yale University, where he received a PhD in economics.

As the head of applied research, Melissa generates unique insights into risk trends by consolidating and analyzing the vast amount of data on market and portfolio risk maintained by Axioma (now part of Qontigo).

Melissa’s perspectives help both clients and prospects to better understand and adapt to the constantly changing risk environment. As an author of Qontigo Insight: Quarterly Risk Review, she reports on the state of risk in publicly traded equity markets around the globe. In addition, she produces periodic special reports on a broad range of topics of interest to investors and asset owners, is a frequent speaker on the subject of market risk and is often quoted by the financial media.

Prior to joining Axioma (now part of Qontigo) in 2011, Melissa was managing director and head of the institutional business at Wintrust Capital Management. Before that, she spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, most recently as a partner in the quantitative investment strategies (QIS) Group. At Goldman Sachs Asset Management, she worked closely with clients as the senior portfolio manager for GSAM’s US Equity Strategy, before becoming co-head of Client Portfolio Management in the QIS Group. She was previously Director of Quantitative Research at Prudential Securities, where among other things she popularized the idea of the “cockroach theory” of earnings surprise and appeared on Institutional Investor’s “All-Star” list for 10 straight years.

Melissa is a Chartered Financial Analyst. She holds a BS in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in finance from New York University.

Dale Burke is a product manager responsible for the Oneview for Trading product at Numerix.  Dale is a CFA and FRM charterholder and has held a variety of roles working in middle and front office in banking before moving over to work on systems implementation with a focus on front office integration. Dale obtained his undergraduate degree from Trent University in Canada.
 

Chris has over two decades of experience in the financial services industry and has held various positions covering a wide spectrum. As Senior vice president, head of investment products and trading, Raymond James Ltd. (Canada), Chris leads various teams in providing advisors and their clients with access to best-in-class products and services. He oversees the firm’s investment product offerings, which includes mutual funds, ETFs, structured products and alternative investments. In addition, Chris oversees the firm’s cash management business and its fixed income, equity and currency trading platforms.
 

Jerome joined BMO Global Structured Products in 2007. He is Canadian head of sales and a member of its management committee. Global Structured Products is responsible for developing and marketing structured solutions in the retail and institutional marketplace.

Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, Jerome worked in US cash equity sales as well as equity & commodity structured products at CIBC World Markets. Before that, he managed the sales team for a global investment management firm.

Jerome holds a master’s public administration from the University of Exeter, UK.
 

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.
 

Tre is a director in the global markets division of Credit Suisse, based in New York. He leads the bank’s efforts in providing hedging, product development and customised derivative solutions for the US insurance client base.

He joined Credit Suisse in August of 2018 from Bank of America where he focused on insurance derivatives.

Tre holds degrees in business economics, management, and finance from The Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University.

Maggie is Senior Director, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Product Strategy, North America at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). In her role, she assists in the strategy for developing ESG indices for the North American market, from best-in-class approaches like the world-renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Index to broad-market ESG alternatives and core solutions like the S&P 500® ESG Index. She also serves as a global spokesperson for S&P DJI’s ESG Indices, educating the market on the values of ESG investing and our industry-leading ESG lineup.

Prior to joining the ESG team, Maggie was a part of the S&P DJI Financial Advisor Channel team, where she was responsible for educating financial advisors on benefits and strategies for index-based investing through ETFs. Previously, Maggie was the Western U.S. ETF Specialist for American Century Investments. In this role, she was responsible for the education, implementation, and sales of ETFs. Maggie was also director of strategic accounts with Milliman Financial Risk Management in Chicago. She has spent much of her career working with start-up ETF providers and established asset managers looking to enter the ETF space, including Invesco, ETF Securities, and Northern Trust FlexShares.

Maggie holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
 

Nate leads the quantitative development group within Milliman's financial risk management practice in Chicago. He focuses on hedge strategy development and provides quantitative finance support for a number of active hedge programs spanning a range of life insurance products, such as indexed annuities and variable annuities.  His work has also included the development of funds, strategies and indices for products within the insurance space. 
 

Mohamed is managing director, US head of structured products at Forte Securities and a technical advisor to MerQube.com. Prior to joining Forte Securities, Mohamed headed US Dynamic strategies structuring at UBS and equities structuring Americas at Deutsche Bank. He also worked at Merrill Lynch and MSCI Barra. During his career, Mohamed has designed and executed investment solutions with numerous institutional and corporate clients. He holds a Master's of Science from Ecole Centrale Paris. He is also a CFA chartered holder and certified financial risk manager (FRM).
 

Karim is the global head of front office derivatives at Bloomberg. He currently oversees the strategy and development of industry leading systems for derivatives across all asset classes, with a focus on front office players and workflows. Prior to assuming this role, Karim worked as EMEA head of financial engineers, and then as global head of the derivatives library. Before joining Bloomberg in 2010, he worked at Barclays Capital where he launched the quantitative investment strategies business and headed the rapid response team. He supervised quantitative projects and was member of the Equity Steering Committee across all trading desks. Prior to that he worked as a quantitative analyst at BNP Paribas and strategist at Goldman Sachs, developing innovative products, analytics and front office systems for market data, pricing, hedging, life cycle and risk management.

Brandon Igyarto leads J.P. Morgan’s structured investments distributor marketing (SIDM) team for the Americas within the corporate and investment bank (CIB). The team creates and markets cross-asset solutions to distribution clients including private banks, wirehouses, broker dealers and RIAs in the US, Latin America and Canada. Additionally, the team is responsible for education and client service as it pertains to the CIB’s Investable Index suite which is also offered via insurance and asset-managed products.  
 
Brandon joined the bank in 2006 and has an B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago.
 

Shikha is Director and head of structured product distribution for private banks and Latin America at Barclays, based in New York.  Joining the firm in 2010, her main focus has been the distribution of cross-asset structured derivatives linked to equities, rates, credit and FX as well as OTC products.  Shikha brings more than 13 years’ experience in the derivatives space, starting her career at Lehman Brothers, followed by roles at Citigroup and RBS Sempra Commodities.  

She graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with degrees in economics and international relations.
 

Maite has more than 12 years of experience in structured products. Today, she is responsible for the distribution of COEs at XP Investimentos. She joined in 2015, with the responsibility of building the COE division. Before joining XP, she worked in New York for nine years, at various large US and European banks. 

Maite has a bachelor's degree in production engineering from Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo and an MBA from Harvard Business School

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.
 

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.
 

Marco Merino is an Executive director at BBVA Peru. He currently heads the structuring desk in global markets, overseeing the structuring of investment products and risk management solutions for private banking, institutional investors and corporates in Peru. Before joining BBVA, Marco spent 10 years at Citi working in different roles at sales, structuring and DCM, covering different geographies in emerging markets from both the London and Lima offices. 

Marco holds a bachelor degree in economics from Universidad del Pacifico and an MBA from London Business School. He is a CFA chartholder and a financial risk manager by the GARP Association. 
 

Nick joined Alaia Capital m+ funds in January 2019, and is focused on business development and driving the firm’s global client distribution strategy. He has over 30 years of industry experience having worked in capital markets and financial services in both capital markets and wealth management.
 
Nick most recently spent 18 years at Citi where he was co-head of Americas private client solutions and Americas head of private bank capital markets. He planned and executed Citi’s Americas client distribution strategy, including delivering the breadth of Citi’s capital markets platform to retail and UHNW clients. Nick established and spent 10 years expanding Citi’s retail capital markets business across the Americas including Mexico, Brazil, and LAMB. Prior to joining Citi, he spent five years at the Chicago Board Options Exchange where he was director of capital markets focused on business development, working with NY bank origination to create and launch new structured investment products. Nick started his career with Shearson Lehman Consulting Group business developing and delivering fee based products.
 
Nick holds his undergraduate degree and MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. He is a chartered financial analyst and holds securities licences from FINRA in 7, 63, and 24.
 
 
 

Adam Politzer has over 15 years of experience as an actuary in the insurance life industry.  He currently leads the product team at Athene USA where he is responsible for product development, product management, and illustrations.    Prior to joining Athene, he worked as an actuarial consultant, providing support for financial audits and helping insurance companies establish Enterprise Risk Management programs.   
Adam earned his Bachelors of Science of Northwestern University in 1996.  

drhodes@incapital.com

Rafael is the Head of product structuring, origination and UHNW Solutions at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. He re-joined Merrill in December 2018 from Citigroup, where he spent 10 years as the Head of multi-asset structuring and cross-asset advisory within the global markets organization and the private bank. He started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co in the equity derivatives division and later on moved to several senior roles. 

Rafael has over 17 years of experience in originating, structuring and executing transactions for both institutional and UHNW clients based across the Americas and Europe; with product focus on solutions linked to all asset classes involving securitized and unfunded instruments with embedded vanilla and exotic optionality. He holds Master’s degrees in mathematical finance and economic policy from Columbia University, as well as a Bachelor in business administration.
 

Karan Sood leads product development at Cboe Vest. Under his leadership, the asset management affiliate of Cboe has played a pioneering role in launching several first-ever structured payoffs in novel wrappers such as mutual funds, ETFs, UITs and managed accounts. Prior to founding Cboe Vest, Karan worked at Barclays Capital. Last based in New York, he was responsible for using derivatives to design structured investment strategies and solutions for the firm’s institutional clients in the Americas. Prior to his role in New York, he worked in similar capacity in London with Barclays Capital’s European clients. Karan received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics & Political Science and a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
 

Trevor joined Innovator Capital Management in 2017 and is vice president of sales, responsible for distribution and marketing efforts across the institutional, national wirehouse, registered investment advisor, and regional and independent broker-dealer channels. Prior to joining Innovator, he was SVP – head of sales at Elkhorn Investments and spent time in several sales positions at Invesco PowerShares. Trevor holds a bachelor’s degree from Taylor University and also maintains the series 24, 7, 66 and 63 FINRA licences.
 

Tamiko is head of annuity research for Toronto-based CANNEX. Her focus is the individual and institutional U.S. annuity market.CANNEX has long been known as the leading provider of income annuity pricing and now serves the entire scope of annuity products, including the evaluation of annuities with income guarantees.

Tamiko is a thought-leader, with more than 15 years of experience tracking trends and key issues on retirement income, synthesizing commentary and analysis for broad audiences and specific clients. She is known for her dynamic presentations with a unique perspective on the industry and the forces that are shaping it.

An-Lap has more than 20 years’ experience in the wealth management and portfolio management industry. He graduated from HEC Montreal (University of MTL business school) in finance in 1996 and started his career at the Bank of Montreal. He then joined National Bank financial in 1998 where he founded the VP Wealth Management Group that now has in excess of $2 billions under management and is comprised of 12 finance professionals. The VP Group won several awards within NBF recognition of excellence programme over the years, notably, the inaugural prestigious prize of Best team in Canada and one that is especially dear to An-Lap, the Social Responsibility award.
An-Lap has around 15 years of experience in the field of structured product investments.
 

Dave Walsh is a Vice President on the structured investments team at Morgan Stanley.  He joined the Morgan Stanley team in September of 2018, having previously spent 7 years at JPMorgan.  Dave began his career covering institutional investment managers in Boston before moving to New York in 2013 to join a structuring & origination team within the equity derivative franchise.  He soon made the move to a hybrid sales/structuring role on the structured investments team, primarily focusing on independent broker dealers and registered investment advisors, a role he now continues at Morgan Stanley. 

Dave holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a focus on economics from Boston College, and currently resides in New York City.

Shila Wattamwar oversees Sustainalytics’ strategic partnerships globally. As a trusted and experienced senior advisor, Shila leads on the development of Sustainalytics’ distribution strategy. As part of her role, she works closely with the broader Morningstar organisation, supporting them on integrating Sustainalytics’ data into their various research platforms. She also plays an instrumental role in the enhancement and development of Sustainalytics’ strategic relationships with our passive investment clients as well as FactSet and Bloomberg. Prior to joining Sustainalytics, Shila had over 10 years of experience in business development within the index industry where she worked for FTSE Group as well as Russell Investments.
 

Larry manages the Morgan Stanley North America structured notes sales team, originating and distributing cross-asset structured investments to financial advisors within private banks, wire-houses, regional banks, and independent broker dealers. 

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Larry spent 16 years at J.P. Morgan, 12 of which were spent on the structured investments team, first as a senior sales person, and eventually as the team’s manager.  Under Larry’s leadership, the J.P. Morgan structured investments team rose to the top of the market and is now widely recognized as one of the most developed and successful platforms in the United States.

Larry has a bachelor of science from Oakwood University and a master of business administration from University of Chicago – Booth. Larry is the proud father of three beautiful ladies, Olivia (12), Elisabeth (8) and Lorena (3).

Yinglu is director of third party structured sales (NAM) for Citi’s cross-asset solutions for financial intermediaries, where she leads a team that creates and markets products that help investors reduce the downside risk of risky assets and/or gain exposure to difficult-to-access assets. She has over a decade of financial services experiences and was previously a director in structured product sales at Credit Suisse. Prior to Credit Suisse,  Yinglu was a vice president in the equities structuring group at Deutsche Bank.

Yinglu holds an MBA from the Wharton School and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.