I am an inspirational and astute leader with 30 years’ experience of advising and managing systemically important businesses. During this period, I have held high profile executive management (practitioner and advisory roles) in London, New York, Paris, Brussels and Frankfurt with leading Exchange groups, FMIs, Big Four audit and global technology firms.Now Chief Executive of Montis Group, building DLT-based digital CSDs, I have 15 years’ Board level experience. Former EMEIA Lead for Exchanges and Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) at EY and Non-Executive Director of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.Career achievements:o Awarded CISI Honorary Fellowshipo Globally ranked #1 in the Exchange Invest “Eminences Grises” category 2017/18 – www.ei1000.com “The world’s most influential people in market structure”: Exchange Invest Top 1,000 rankingo Providing subject matter expertise, impetus and industry contact for EY to secure market pre-eminenceo Appointed as a ‘Key Individual’ and member of senior management at Euroclear UK & Ireland (CF1/CF2 equivalent) o Engaging global standard setters, EU, ESA, national regulators, embassies and politicianso Building and inspiring an EMEIA Exchanges and FMI Network of 150 high performing multidisciplinary staffo Leading AtosEuronext Clearing with 100 staff to generate €50 Million p.a. and double net operating profito Managing teams clearing €1.7 Trillion and settling £2 Trillion of financial transactions per dayo Winning and delivering the Liffe Technology Partnership; increasing shareholder value by £150 MillionMy career centres on 3 pillars: i) building and running companies, ii) wholesale finance and iii) technology. I focus on executing strategy, implementing strong governance, transforming regulated markets, operational resilience, FinTech, digital securities and (since 2015) DLT/blockchain innovation.o Fellow of the Institute of Directorso Fellow of BCS, The Chartered Institute for ITo Chartered Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and InvestmentAuthor of influential reports and research on Brexit, Capital Markets Union, EU FTT and funding UK corporates that were presented to the UK Government including the Chancellor of the Exchequer, House of Lords Brexit Committee, HM Treasury, Bank of England and European Commission DG-FISMA.Have worked with Exchanges and FMIs globally including Archax, AIFC, Bloomberg, Cboe, Clearstream, CME, Deutsche Börse, Eurex, Euroclear, Euronext, HKEX, ICE, LCH, LME, LSE, Nasdaq, SGX, SIX, STRATE, SWIFT, TradeWeb.