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London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

We live in changing times. New technologies, regulations and shifting geopolitical realities have the potential to create new opportunities as well as disrupt existing businesses and functions. I bring more that 25 years of experience in the front-line of financial market evolution to assist exco's and divisional leaders in assessing risks and.

London, Hong Kong

• ChinaFICC is a company dedicated to solving the access challenges for international participants to the world’s second largest financial market.International investment in China’s bond and equity markets has been.
• Fundraised $1.5m from VC, Corporate and Angels
• Incubated in HK by the ventures arm/innovation lab of a leading commercial and investment bank
• Built Trade Optimisation, Execution and Allocation Platform on Low-Code No-Code Framework
• Prepared Regulatory Applications for UK and Europe, HK and Sing
• Established relationships across a wide array of Asset Managers, Custodians and Dealers

London, United Kingdom

Regulated Benchmark Data providing arm of EVIA (the European Venues and Intermediaries Association)

• Responsible for the internal and external Strategic Planning, Goal Setting, Synergies and Efficiencies across the companies held within NEX Optimisation (Fintech division), including: Trioptima, Traiana, Reset, Enso.
• Spearheaded New Product Initiatives and Technology Strategy across the division
• Created and led Working Groups across geographically and culturally diverse Product teams
• Created Presentations and Progress Reports for internal and external Stakeholders
• Implemented OKRs

London, United Kingdom

London, New York

• Accountable for the day-to-day operations of the legal entities created to support the CFTC Swap Execution Facility (SEF) rules. Functional responsibilities included: Trade Support, Risk and Compliance, Refinement of.
• Deployed Six Sigma methodology to track and manage data and operations workflow across business lines constituting 50% of all ICAP Group revenues
• Mentored and managed Product, Compliance, Risk and Trade Operations teams
• Industry Spokesperson in media and at conferences

London, New York

Led a group function to prepare ICAP both strategically and operationally for the changes in market structure brought about by changes in market regulation. The first challenge was to coordinate the establishment of ICAP's SEF entities, which developed into the role of Chief Operating Officer.

• Effective Chief of Staff to the Global CEO of Global Broking, I worked across the division during a time of significant regulatory and business change. Responsibilities included: assessing business performance, leading.
• Led the evaluation, planning and implementation of all New Business Initiatives
• Conducted Business Performance Reviews across business lines in all 5 major Asset Classes
• Gathered external Market Intelligence (competitors, clients, and market dynamics)
• Coordinated and Managed the ICAAP and RCSA processes for the division
• Represented the firm and industry to Regulators and Central Bankers

Madrid Area, Spain

Represented ICAP's shareholding on the board of Spain's largest interdealer broker.CNMV registered Board Member

London, England, United Kingdom

• Co-managed FIC desk at the London International Financial Futures Exchange (now ICE). Directly responsible for new product initiatives (design of new contracts - both ‘central order book’ and ‘cleared only’- marketing.
• Delivered and launched new Gilt and EONIA futures contracts, CDS Clearing and relaunched Swap Futures
• Managed liquidity provision schemes with Banks and Proprietary Trading Groups
• Responsible for Desk Budgets and Staff Management
• Industry Spokesperson for Press and Public Speaker at Industry Events

London

• Regional Head of the Global Solutions Delivery team responsible for the rollout and integration of the ICAP, Btec, EBS, WCLK, ETC and Garban (branded) services into ICAP's banking and professional trading.
• Introduced CRM (Salesforce) for use across all software and API deployments and support

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led a team of business and support analysts to validate functional requirements, analyse contract properties, write functional specifications, and project-manage software development, client integration and go-live for.
• Developed and supported trade and data API Solutions across the ICAP customer base
• Built strategic 3rd party relationships with external vendors
• Primary customer liaison

London, England, United Kingdom

• Started as trainee on the Deutschmark Off-Balance Sheet desk at Harlow Butler (acquired by ICAP in 1998). In 1996 founded the South African Interest rates derivatives (IRS, FRAs, Caps, Floors, and Swaptions) desk in.
• #1 South African Off-Balance Sheet desk in London
• Grew the customer base from 0 to 54 clients
• Wrote and distributed weekly market newsletter

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