David Ummels Email & Phone Number

London, GB

I have been involved with the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce since June 2016. First as a Council Member for a few years, then currently as Head of the Creative Sector and Head of External Relationships. I am also the Cultural Ambassador of Chamber, with a strong remit and passion to build bridges with other jurisdictions and promote Guernsey's country brand.

Guernsey

Art for Guernsey was founded by David Ummels as a direct response to the level of integrity that he found when he moved to the island. Art for Guernsey is a charitable initiative managed by a team of passionate professionals who share a belief in the transformative power of art to bring communities together, provide educational opportunities, promote.

Guernsey

Blue Diamond Group is one of the largest Garden Centre Retail Group in the UK and the Channel Islands, with more than 4,000 employees, a turnover in excess of GBP 300 million and a portfolio of 44 centres. It is a genuine success story and a fast growing company with a great heritage, tracing its roots back to 1904, when it was founded as a grower and.

London, United Kingdom

Astin Capital Management Ltd was set up in April 2002 as an FSA regulated investment manager. We have launched and managed various funds investing in volatility arbitrage, leveraged equity, high yield debts and physical properties.In 2004, Astin diversified its focus and developed capital markets activities specifically dedicated to the financing.

Jersey/London/Dubai/Kuwait/Barhain

Joined in a special situation context caused by a number of events of default, where a new set of institutional investors had the opportunity to acquire on the secondary market USD 500 million of outstanding bonds at deeply discounted prices. The issuer was Oasis Holding Ltd, a Jersey company which controlled the largest equity stake in Aston Martin (41%).

United Kingdom

In 2008, Astin co-founded Alion Capital Partners LLP, a venture advising a number of tier one institutional investors on their choice of electronic algorithms and brokers, overseeing monthly trading volumes of USD 1 billion in various asset classes. We successfully sold our stake in the business in 2010.

United Kingdom

I was part of a special proprietary trading unit being a JV between the equity trading, the convertible bonds trading and the equity derivatives trading. My responsibility was to trade equity derivatives instruments across Europe utilizing the bank’s capital. I had a particular approach to trade within sectors and to arbitrage the capital structure of the.

France

I was in charge of the equity derivatives trading on the Benelux market, index and single stock options, OTC and floor trading, proprietary and market making. Over my time, I significantly developed the presence of the bank in those markets and constituted a team of 5 traders that ultimately became one of the biggest profit centres of the Equity.

Belgium

My role was to trade Belgian shares and index baskets and futures, making prices to clients and taking proprietary positions. I was also involved in syndication and book building with a dozen of IPOs and secondary placements, primarily in Eastern European markets as the Brussels office was the distribution hub of the bank for that region. I also spent a.

Belgium

After my MBA, I was recruited by my Professor of Finance, in order to carry out further research on the subject of my thesis. I studied the correlations between the top European shares and created European sector indices based on that. The results and their rights were subsequently purchased by the Belgian Futures and Options Stock Exchange as they used my.