Buford Scott is CIO of the C-View Stelrox Systematic Currency Strategy, an emerging FX strategy managed by C-View Limited, which is scheduled to begin trading in September 2014.  The Stelrox strategy is the culmination of Mr. Scott’s 28 years of trading experience, spent at top-tier financial institutions, including JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and Goldman Sachs. Prior to founding Stelrox, Mr. Scott was Managing Director at Standard Chartered Bank, where he founded and ran the Alternative Asset Group, an elite quantitative trading group focused on futures and currencies. Over his ten-year tenure at Standard Charted, the Alternative Asset Group managed over $2bio, and won several industry awards for excellence in investment management. Mr. Scott also served on the board, and investment committee, of the Standard Chartered Bank Pension Fund.

David is  Head of FX at AHL/MSS, a division of Man Group plc, with responsibility for systematically managing the multi-billion dollar FX portfolios they run there that form part of a number of quant funds (AHL Diversified, Evolution, Dimension). He is also responsible for directing the research of the FX team based in London.

David has recently reopened the AHL Currency Fund and moved this away from including only the traditional FX styles of momentum and carry, adding to it new short-term, alternative and fundamental strategies.

His biggest challenge is to direct a research team that has the opportunity to explore the available data yet remain focussed on utilising the research undertaken to add profitability through successful implementation of their ideas, i.e. a constant battle between research innovation and implementation.

Michael and his team are responsible for FX, interest rate and cross asset strategy for State Street Global Markets. His main area of expertise lies in developing tools to help analyze the market regime and in integrating measures of investor behaviour and inflation into an investment strategy.

His team is consistently voted as providing some of the best capital flow research by industry surveys. They conduct more than a thousand client meetings per year with the world’s largest portfolio managers and official institutions. They also work closely with State Street Associates in the development and application of State Street’s unique measures of investor behaviour and inflation.

Having trained as an economist at Cambridge University, Michael has spent eighteen years as a macro strategist covering both developed and emerging markets. He is on the CFA’s designated speaker list, is a regular presenter at industry conferences and has recently had a talk published on TED.com. A frequent commentator in the financial media, he has had contributions published in numerous industry publications.

Andrew has spent his 20 year IT career in financial services working within some of the largest global firms.  He has also founded two Ecommerce based firms over that period, the first being in 1995.

Prior to joining ADS, Andrew worked for eight years at Barclays Capital as a Senior Director in a variety of management positions.  His responsibilities included building and managing the highly regarded BARX Futures and Options trading platform and managing 250 technologists across Europe.
Andrew holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics.

Fergal is one of Corvil’s founders and a specialist in bandwidth and QoS measurement technologies. He has been involved in the design and development of innovative traffic measurement and analysis algorithms for the past 12 years. Prior to joining Corvil in 2000, Fergal held the position of assistant professor in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where he was a member of Prof. John T. Lewis’ applied probability group which also included Raymond Russell, Corvil’s Chief Technology Officer.

At DIAS, Fergal worked on applications ranging from probability theory and game theory to performance modeling and analysis for networks and real-time computing systems. He has published technical papers on subjects including real-time QoS-aware measurement of network traffic and performance analysis of network queuing and scheduling models.

At Corvil Fergal has been intensively involved in developing key product innovations directly applicable to managing IT system performance. Recently he has been involved in applying these innovations in the Enterprise sector to help our customers realize the full capabilities of the product.

Fergal holds an M.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Applied Probability Theory, both from Trinity College, Dublin.

Virginie is a Senior analyst at Aite Group in charge of post-trade technology coverage including collateral management practices and technology deployment. Her reports scheduled for 2014 include a five-part series on collateral management and optimisation practices in the post-Dodd Frank and EMIR environment, benchmarking both buy-side and sell-side investment, and the technology vendor community. She is a regular speaker on topics including clearing and settlement, post-trade focused regulation, data standards, data management, and collateral at events including Sibos, TradeTech,and FIMA. She has Ten years of experience in tracking financial technology developments in the capital markets sector, with a particular focus on regulatory developments and standards.

Ashwind oversees global liquidity and liquidity distribution at 7Hedge and his specialist FX trading experience within global companies provides a highly customised value-add to 7Hedge clients in their strategic and algorithmic FX approaches. His focus is on optimizing the 7Hedge liquidity pool, and delivering tailored liquidity and execution solutions based on client behaviour and other execution requirements.
 
His career in FX started in 2007. Prior to joining 7Hedge, he has worked on setting up his own FX company by leveraging valuable experience gained from a number of FX firms, including TraderMade, a leading technical analysis company where he focused on e-commerce and be-spoke solutions, and contributed to launching the company’s FX research offering. His personal interest in algorithmic trading led him to develop trading algorithms based on pattern recognition to test new trade ideas in the market.
                                                                                                                              
Ashwind holds a Diploma from the Society of Technical Analysts (UK), an MBA from the University of Birmingham, an MSc Financial Management from the University of Greenwich, and a B.Eng(Hon) Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Mauritius.

Carl James is MD for Dealing Services UK and also Global Head of Fixed income and FX for Dealing Services.
   
 With his global team he manages the dealing flow for  BNP asset management and external clients, (total AUM EUR550B).

His previous roles include;
Global Head of Dealing for all assets, and responsible for the security lending program at Fortis Investment Management (AUM EUR270B); Global Head of Dealing for all assets at Henderson Global Investors.

Mr Felix Adam is the founder and CEO of ACT Currency Partner, the Hedge Fund Manager with 20 years of history in working with institutional clients.
The prior focus of ACT is generation of alpha in currency, option and precious metals, which is reflected in an average performance of 7.6% for the last 8 years. ACT is serving family offices and pension funds with execution and advisory. ACT Incubation business model is offering investment professionals the possibility to run their own Hedge Fund strategy.
During his career in Citibank and J.P. Morgan Felix Adam gained a deep experience in providing Alpha with currencies. In 1992 he established ACT, which is today a well-known currency and global macro specialist.

Saeed is currently publishing ground-breaking quant strategy notes at Thalesians Ltd., drawing upon nearly a decade of experience both creating and running systematic trading models successfully with real cash. Independently, he is also a systematic FX trader, running a proprietary trading book trading liquid G10 FX. He is currently also writing a book on trading which is due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan (preliminary title: Trading Thalesians - What the ancient world can teach us about trading today)

Saeed started his career at Lehman Brothers. He worked on the FX desk developing systematic trading models for both G10 and EM and was part of the team who developed the MarQCuS suite of models. He was also responsible for a systematic FX prop trading book and conducted research around high frequency FX including economic events. Later he was at Nomura as an Executive Director in Quantitative Strategy, also in FX, developing their model infrastructure and also running systematic FX prop risk. He graduated from Imperial College with a first class honours master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Marshall Bailey is the President of the largest global financial markets association, the ACI - The Financial Markets Association. The organisation represents almost 13,000 members involved in the regulated wholesale financial markets.
Based in London and Paris, Marshall is responsible for leading the ACI and its extensive and diverse membership world-wide. He assists the ACI in working closely with regulators, central banks and all sections of the market to improve conduct and behaviour. He is the first full time President of the ACI in their sixty-year history.

Marshall began his career in Geneva as an equity derivatives trader with AMAS, then as an FX and fixed income trader at UBS in Toronto in 1991, before moving to RBC Capital Markets, where he served as Head of Institutional FX Sales in Toronto. He held a variety of senior roles at RBC over a period of more than a decade, including Managing Director and Head of Client Coverage for FIG in EMEA & Asia, and on the European Board of BAFT-IFSA. At State Street Global Markets in London, Marshall served as Chief Operating Officer, as well as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for State Street Global Markets International Limited and Director on the Board of State Street Bank Europe Ltd.
In addition, Marshall serves on the Board of CIBC plc in London and has been appointed as an Independent Director on UK Financial Investments (UKFI), the government body overseeing the UK government's ownership of RBS, Lloyds Banking Group and UK Asset Resolution.

Marshall holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Winnipeg in Canada, and an MA in International Affairs and History from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Additionally, Marshall is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), has completed the FT Non-Executive Directors' Diploma course. In his spare time, Marshall has completed the advanced certificate in Wine Studies from the WSET, and is a qualified Ocean Yachtmaster with the RYA. He buys himself a new putter each year in his endless pursuit of lower golf scores.

Yoav has developed  the ‘orbits’ theory and algorithm to trade G10 currencies, gold, silver and oil for six years. The strategy identifies the start of major price cycles with exceptional probability of 90%. He is managing money and consulting to various firms around the globe.

Prior to that, Yoav worked for IBM and Oracle Corp. in the Silicon Valley, CA, USA between 1988-1992,. He also held various roles in the hi-tech industry in Israel, including Formula, Israel’s largest IT group between 1998-2001.

Yoav graduated the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology with a BSc in Computer Science. He also studied Marketing and Strategic Planning at the Santa Cruz University, California as well as Finance and Capital Markets at the Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Philippe has been involved in the financial markets for over thirty years and managing money globally for twenty-eight years across multiple asset classes and trading strategies. He has built a number of successful businesses including the Cedar Fund and Cedar Diversified Macro Fund which were sold to Erste Bank in mid-2007; and Cedar Partners, the external investment advisor to Commerzbank for alternative investments; an investment business that grew over 600% during this period. Prior to founding Cedar, Philippe ran a proprietary trading and advisory firm specialising in global macro trading. This business had evolved from the international activities of a risk arbitrage firm established by former Kidder, Peabody & Co. colleagues. Philippe began his financial career at Kidder, Peabody in New York as an international corporate finance analyst. He then became responsible for international equity investment for Kidder, Peabody's London-based investment management business where he managed investments for institutional clients including the BHP Pension Fund. Philippe has a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Economics from the School of International Service, The American University, in Washington DC. While attending university Philippe was employed as an International Trade Specialist, at the US Department of Commerce where he conducted research and prepared policy reports liaising with the US Congress and US Special Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President.

Mr. Bonnin is the CEO and Founding Partner of John Locke Investments SA, a company which was set up near Paris, France in 2001. JLI investment programs are based on the systematic application of computerized trading strategies, with a particular focus on the dynamic management of risk. The strategies are purely quantitative in nature and are based on in-depth analysis of market price movements. Since the beginning of his investment management career, Mr. Bonnin has always held the belief that sustainable returns are only achievable through a commitment to disciplined and rigorous quantitative research. This belief permeates all aspects of the research effort within the firm and is also ingrained in the corporate culture of John Locke Investments.

Prior to creating John Locke Investments, Mr. Bonnin was in charge of Research and Alternative Investments at ING France from September 1998 to June 2001. Between March 1992 and September 1998, Mr. Bonnin was Managing Director and Founding Partner of CAP STARDEX SA, a French AMF regulated asset management company, specializing in alternative systematic strategies. From September 1989 to March 1992, Mr. Bonnin was a director of the convertible bonds trading desk at RAFE SA. Mr. Bonnin graduated from the Institut Superieur de Gestion in 1986.

Joe set-up The Coneybury Partnership in June 2013 as a platform for the incubation, development and execution of new ideas and IP across Financial Services.

 Previously Joe was MD at Lloyds Banking Group, Head of E-Commerce for Wholesale Businesses and responsible for developing an OTC clearing business as well as heavily involved in shaping the response to ICB, EMIR, D-F and the PCBS.
Immediately prior to joining Lloyds, Joe was Global Head of Rates Intermediation and Clearing at Deutsche Bank, where he set up and ran Deutsche's Global OTC clearing business, as well as contributing heavily to the broader business strategy post-D-F.  His career spans 20+ years in Managing Director and senior roles with well-known financial services firms and consultancies, including Nomura International, Business Control Solutions, Lehman Brothers, OSI Group (FI Group / Xansa), and Barclays.  While working at Barclays in the 90's, Joe was seconded to the G20 Group of Banks to project manage the initial business requirements and proof of concept for Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS).

Paul Chappell is Chief Investment Officer of C-View Limited, which he established in 1996, launching the C~View Currency Managed Account Program,  which has produced consistent risk adjusted returns since inception . In 2008 C-View launched the C-View Emerging, Developing and Minor Currency Program to capitalise upon the Company’s particular expertise in minor and developing currency FX. In February 2013 the C-View Global Macro Interest Rate Program was launched, expanding that expertise further into interest rate opportunities. C-View has in excess of  US$ 300mio in Assets Under Management.
An industry veteran Mr Chappell  was at Bank of America for eleven years as Global Manager for Foreign Exchange prior to establishing C-View. He worked previously at Chemical Bank and Hambros Bank. He was inducted into the Profit and Loss FX Hall of Fame in 2010

Upon leaving University, Christopher Cruden attended The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and was commissioned into The Gordon Highlanders in 1975.
In 1980, he began his business career as a gold analyst with an investment bank in South Africa. In 1983 he joined Dean Witter, Reynolds Inc. as a securities salesman based in the U.S. and it was during this period that he became involved with the Alternative Investment Industry.

In early 1988 he returned to the U.K. and became a Director of Adam, Harding and Lueck Asset Management Ltd (AHL). This firm is now amongst the largest and best known systematic, trend-following hedge fund managers in the world. After the sale of this firm to Man International in 1990, he became Head of Managed Futures and Options for a major U.S. investment bank in London and founded the Derivative Strategy Group within the ASH Group of Prudential Securities in New York.

Mr. Cruden became Managing Director of Tamiso & Co. LLC in New York during 1993.  He was responsible for currency management products, research and trading. During this period he substantially enlarged the firm’s foreign exchange activities and co-developed the Currency Overlay Program. In 1999 Tamiso and Man International established a joint venture based around the currency trading system of Tamiso.

He established Insch Capital Management SA in Switzerland during 2004.

Mr. Cruden is featured in the highly regarded books `Trend Following`, Covel, 2004 and `Investing with Hedge Fund Giants`, Chandler, 1998 and a number of other publications.

Mark has over a decade of experience of trading predominately FX from a macro perspective on both the buyside and sellside. Having started his banking career as an Emerging Markets FX trader at Lehman Brothers, he resigned from his most recent banking role last year as European Head of Hedge Fund Sales at Commerzbank to trade his own capital under MCFXCapital. With a strong focus still on FX, Mark proactively trades around his longer-term macro fundamental views. Mark graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a first class honours degree in Mathematics and Economics.

Jonathan Davies is Head of Currency within the Global Investment Solutions (GIS) team, based in London. His primary responsibility is setting currency strategy both as an overlay component of global portfolios and in Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) strategies.
He is UK Investment Coordinator with overall responsibility for the investment of all UK clients’ portfolios. He chairs the UK Investment Committee and he is also a member of the Asset Allocation and Currency Committee.
Jonathan joined UBS Investment Bank in 1992 as a bond analyst in the London office, specialising in European bond markets. He later moved to Zürich to join the firm’s fixed income division. After the UBS / Swiss Bank Corporation merger in 1998, he moved into his present role, returning to London in 2002.
Prior to joining UBS, Jonathan held positions at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Financial Services Authority.

Former COO IT at Barclays Capital, PJ is the founder and CEO of JWG – a think-tank recognised by regulators, financial institutions and technology firms as the independent analysts to help determine how the right regulations can be implemented in the right way.  He works with executives in top financial institutions, and with their regulators and suppliers, to bring practical insights into the implementation global regulatory reform.  Prior to starting his own company in 2006, he spent 14 years providing IT strategy and implementation services with McKinsey, Booz Allen & Hamilton and AT Kearney.  He is a frequent author and public speaker on topics including EU regulation and financial services infrastructure.  He has served as a Wholesale Banking Technology Innovation Award judge for the Financial Times’ The Banker magazine and the Financial News Awards for IT excellence.

Ian Domowitz is the CEO of ITG Solutions Network, Inc. and a Managing Director at ITG, Inc. Prior to joining the company in 2001, he served as the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Professor of Finance at Pennsylvania State University and previously was the Household International Research Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.  A former member of the NASD’s Bond Market Transparency Committee, he also served as chair of the Economic Advisory Board of the NASD. Mr. Domowitz has held positions with Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Columbia University, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.  He is currently a Fellow of the Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia University. 

Peter Eggleston
Quantitative Solutions and Innovations (QSI)

Peter joined Morgan Stanley in August 2010 and has 22 years of experience in the financial markets.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Peter set up and led the Global Quant Solutions business at RBS, a cross-product client advisory business, for 7 years.  Previous roles involved establishing an equity quant trading business at ABN AMRO and a variety of risk management roles across Europe and Asia.

Peter holds an BSc in chemistry and mathematics from London University. He also holds an MSc in biodiversity conservation, also from London University. 

Patrick Fleur is head of Trading & Execution and a member of the Allocation Committee. His daily responsibilities is managing a desk of traders within liquid markets. He is also running the World Overlay mandate. Patrick Fleur joined PGGM in 2007 after spending 7 years at ABN Amro and 6 years running the trading desk at APG (former ABP). Patrick studied Banking & Finance at the business school of Enschede and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Twente.

Scott Greene is Founder and Managing Partner of Louis Capital FX, the industry pioneer in providing FX intermediary execution and advisory solutions for institutional managers engaged in opportunistic and hedging schemes within the FX options marketplace.

Mr. Greene’s foreign exchange trading and broking pedigree extends back nearly 30 years; he began his career at Bank Julius Baer New York and Zurich, quickly elevated to the role of Chief Dealer/FX. In 1991, Mr. Greene was recruited by AIG International and later appointed Partner in a role that included his oversight of all aspects of their global FX business. In 2001, Mr. Greene left AIG to form the currency hedge fund, Currency Partners LP, which focused on opportunistic and directional global macro “smart alpha’ strategies through the use of FX options. Mr. Greene’s vast experience across both the buy and sell-side inspired his desire to fill an industry void, and through Louis Capital, Mr. Greene has spearheaded one of the industry’s sole platforms dedicated to guiding institutional clients through a superior FX execution process in FX options.

An industry thought-leader, Mr. Greene has been called upon to engage with regulators and government officials to provide insight and guidance in the framing of rules and procedures that have become crucial in the changing foreign exchange regulatory environment.

Andrew Harvey is Managing Director, Europe, of the Global FX Division of GFMA (Global Financial Markets Association, whose member associations include SIFMA, AFME and ASIFMA).  The Division was formed in June 2010 to support efforts to promote an efficient FX market, monitor regulatory developments that could affect the market and assist the industry in building out the infrastructure of the future.  Its members currently comprise 23 global FX market participants, collectively representing more than 90% of the FX market.  While focused on Europe, Andrew has responsibilities for global initiatives as the Division seeks to harmonize evolving rules for FX across jurisdictions.

Previously, Andrew was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he worked for seven years initially as European Head of FX and Cash Fixed Income.  Within this role Andrew co-chaired the GFXD Operations Committee and was an active member of the Bank of England Operations Committee.  Post this role, Andrew ran the Global Emerging Markets Rates and Credit groups before moving to be the Global COO for Derivative Operations.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, Andrew worked at Goldman Sachs for nine years within the Foreign Exchange group.

Rebecca joined TABB Group in March 2011, bringing more than 15 years’ experience in e-trading and financial services.  Rebecca has held various sales and trading positions with Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs, and most recently Credit Suisse, where as Vice President she was instrumental in launching the successful AES product to hedge funds from its inception in 2002 until 2008.  Prior to this she was the first electronic trader at Credit Suisse to be registered for all electronic European cash equity markets and covered sales trading into Asia and then Europe between 1997 and 2000.  More recently, Rebecca was based in the Middle East from 2008 to 2010.  There she was employed by the British Embassy in Bahrain where she successfully launched the UK Government’s financial services strategy and set up the Bahrain Financial Services Roundtable, which remains a key source of information for the UK Government today, especially in relation to Islamic finance.  Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish & Latin American History & Politics from the University of London.  At TABB Group, Rebecca has authored European Equity Trends 2013; European Equity Trading 2012/13: Changing the Rules of Engagement, FX in Transition: Taking the Quantum Leap; MiFID II and Fixed-Income Price Transparency: Panacea or Problem: Market Surveillance in Europe: Under Starter’s Orders, European Equity Trading 2011/12: Looking for Allies in the Face of Adversity, European Algorithms: The Evolution and Trading in the Middle East: Looking for Mecca.  Rebecca has contributed a number of articles regarding European financial regulation and was invited to give evidence to the House of Lords session on the financial transaction tax in March 2013.

Marcus Hooper is a director of Agora Global Consultants Ltd.  Agora provides services in strategic business development for trading / MTF / Exchange businesses Agora also runs projects in related business areas including trading systems, market structure strategy, process management, new regulations & risk mitigation and business process management / enhancement. 
Prior to this Marcus was the Chief Executive Officer of the European division of Aritas Financial.  Marcus established Aritas from the ground up as both an MTF (Multilateral Trading Facility) and an investment firm offering algorithmic and electronic trading solutions. 
Marcus has spent over 27 years in financial services including 17 years in senior asset management trading roles.  He was the manager in charge of trading operations for the Investment Management divisions of HBOS, Allianz Dresdner and AXA.  Throughout his career he has worked in the fields of market microstructure and the deployment of electronic trading technologies. 
Having been actively involved in financial services industry working and advisory groups Marcus has made contributions in the areas of electronic trading, financial markets regulation, market structure, transaction cost analysis and the development and application of trading technology.  He has worked on financial markets projects undertaken by The European Commission, The UK Treasury, The FSA, The Investment Managers’ Association, The British Banking Association, The London Investment Banking Association and The London Stock Exchange.
  Marcus is proud to have lectured executive MBA programs in the UK and USA, and was a nominated speaker for the USA’s Association of Investment Management and Research education program.

Hendrik Klein is an expert in Investment Strategies like Relative Value, Event Driven and Global Macro Strategies, alternative investments and the Head Portfolio Manager since 2004 at Da Vinci Invest AG, an independent asset manager, based in Zurich, Switzerland, which runs their own successful Event Driven hedge fund as well.

He started his career as a derivatives trader at MTH Midas Trading House from 1996 to 1997, which became the largest trader on the DTB at that time. He subsequently held trading and brokerage positions at Fimat International Banque S.A. (1997) and Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (1998 to 2000), before becoming the Head of Trading and a director and partner of Frohne & Klein Wertpapierhandelshaus GmbH in 2000. He held this position until 2004, during which time he specialised in listed options trading on EUREX.

Mr Klein holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Mittweida.

Ronald joined APG Asset management in 2002 as a junior trader. Since then Ronald traded most of APG’s asset classes like money market products, FX, commodities, equity derivatives and became responsible for the management of the spot FX book in 2006. In 2008 Ronald moved to NYC for a 3 year period to start the US trading desk for local trading in commodity and equity derivatives and the management of the FX, FI, MM trading books in the US time zone. In 2011 Ronald moved back to the Amsterdam office to continue management of the spot FX book. Ronald holds degrees in Financial Analysis (CEFA, University of Amsterdam), Business Economics (MSc University of Maastricht) and Business Engineering (Bachelor, Eindhoven Business School).

Paul joined Insight in September 2012 as Head of Currency within the Fixed Income Group with responsibility for currency allocation across all ex-UK funds. Prior to joining Insight, he worked for UBS Global Asset Management as Head of Currency. Paul began his career in 1990 at the Bank of England where he was an Economist covering international financial markets. This was followed by six years at UBS as a Strategist. In 1998, Paul joined Citi Bank as Euro Head of FX Strategy covering G10 and emerging market foreign exchange. This was followed by six years at Deutsche Asset Management as Global Head of FX Management. In 2006, Paul progressed to become a Partner and Head of Macro Strategies at Polar Capital. Paul graduated from the University of Warwick in 1990 with a BSc in Economics.

Brigitte Le Bris joined Natixis Asset Management in September 2010 as Head of Currency and Global Fixed Income.Prior to this she was holding the same position at Societe Generale Asset Management now Amundi ; she successfully developed the expertise on Global Fixed, Absolute return and more specifically on Forex. She was the dedicated fund manager for  large Asian central bank mandates .Brigitte Le Bris has 25 years of professional experience: she began her career in 1987 at Credit Lyonnais London before becoming a trader at the BBL in Paris in 1989. In 1993, she joined CDC Asset Management where she successively held money market and fixed income portfolio management positions. In 2000, she joined Société Générale Asset Management (now Amundi), where she became in 2003, Head of currency and global fixed income.Brigitte Le Bris post graduated as a civil engineer from the ESTP School, a French leading institution. She also holds a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Paris Panthéon Sorbonne.

Victor Lebreton manages the strategies and the portfolio for Quant Hedge a prop-trading fund. Prior, he was a consultant for trading and operations for major investment banks. In 2007 he moved to electronic trading to develop his own trading strategies based on cutting edge approach, delivering a liquid Absolute Return investment (Sharpe >2, +158% since 2009). Today, he is also a teacher for electronic and quantitative trading for ECE Paris engineer schools. His investment research is based on systematic and algorithmic trading developed through innovative algo-optimisation processes. He is also a Research Assistant at ENSRF and speaks at various international conferences and business forums. In 2012, he was appointed Expert for the European commission. He shares a passion for contemporary art and cultural asset investment.

Pierre is an independent consultant. Prior to this he was Head of Currency Management at Aviva Investors from April 2010. to July 2012. Prior to this, Pierre was CIO currencies at Fortis Investments (ABN AMRO Asset Management legacy business) From March 1999 to March 2010. Pierre began his career in 1987 with Banque Nationale de Paris, London branch, where his last role was Head of the Quantitative Research and Trading Desk. Pierre, born 1961, is a graduate in International Trade from ISTEG (1983) and holds a diploma of the Forex Association (1990). He was an Associate Researcher at the Centre for International Banking and Finance of Liverpool Business school. He is an active contributor to academic and practitioner conferences and is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Derivatives & Hedge Funds and also acted as an expert reviewer for the European Commission.

Benjamin is responsible for Developing systematic FX trading strategies for a major CTA, globally across DM and EM universes.

Peter Lundgreen is the CEO and founder of Lundgreen's Capital. The client segments are funds, corporations, municipalities, trusts and high net worth individuals based in northern Europe.
Based on his 25 years of thorough experience gained in the international financial markets, Peter Lundgreen is also an international columnist. You will find Peter Lundgreen on TV and in leading written media like the prestigious Chinese magazine Caixin (online), the biggest Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, occasionally   in the biggest German magazine Der Spiegel (online).
Lundgreen's Capital publishes a widely read 28-page quarterly magazine about the global financial markets, a 28-page quarterly magazine about China plus weekly newsletters. Peter Lundgreen has an extensive network in China and to ensure the optimal insight about China and Asia, Lundgreen’s Capital has its own research unit in Hong Kong.

Alex McDonald joined the association as CEO in 2009. Prior to joining WMBA, Alex has spent his career in Banking and Fund Management. He has over twenty years of experience as a macro trader and portfolio manager, most recently he was a senior portfolio manager at BSAM Global Alpha Fund and prior to that a portfolio manager in global macro, at OLEA Capital Partners and at BlueCrest Capital focusing on commodities, fixed-income and currencies worldwide.

Additionally, he was a Director, in charge of Emerging Markets and currency trading at CSFB for eight years, and prior to that he was Executive Director at Goldman Sachs on their fixed-income proprietary trading desk. He joined JP Morgan in 1988 and subsequently traded with and managed their futures, fixed income arbitrage and FX teams. He holds an MA from Cambridge University in Geophysics/Geochemistry.

Mike O'Hara started his career as a junior trader on the LIFFE floor with UBS in the mid-1980's. He spent most of the 1990's working for SunGard, before leaving to set up the UK operations of Iris Investment Support Systems and Alysis Technologies. He founded Voices in Business, his social media and business development consultancy firm, in 2006.Mike created the High Frequency Trading Review in early 2010, to discuss the players, the technology, the news stories, the controversy and everything else that makes HFT such a fascinating topic. Since then, the HFT Review has gone on to become one of the top-ranked websites worldwide for information related to HFT and algo trading.A keen musician in his spare time, Mike works out of an office and studio in the Kent countryside.

Michael Petley is Chief Investment Officer of The ECU Group plc (“ECU”) and Chairman of its Global Macro Investment Committee.  Michael has 25 years of experience in managing FX mandates and presided over the highly successful management of all ECU's core currency products for 19 years until Nov '07.   Founded in 1988, ECU became established as the UK’s leading currency debt management firm and one of the fastest growing and most profitable private businesses in the country.  ECU provides Global Macro and Currency Management Services for corporates, family offices, pension funds and UHNW private clients. www.ecugroup.com

Ciara Quinlan joined UBS to run the eFX Quant group in November 2013 from State Street where she was Global Head of eFX Quantitative Trading. Prior to State Street she was co-Head of eFX Quantitative Analytics at Barclays. Quinlan started her career at Dresdner bank as an eFX Quant having completed a PhD in Digital Signal Processing from UCD, Ireland.

Sandra Ro is Executive Director, Global Head of Foreign Exchange (FX) Research and Product Development of CME Group.  She is responsible for the development of FX solutions within listed and cleared OTC products, as well as CME Europe, a new exchange based in London, launched in April 2014.

Ro brings her client advisory, structuring and trade execution experience in OTC FX forwards and options to CME Group. Prior to joining CME Group in 2011, Ro led the EMEA FX and interest rates mergers & acquisitions advisory group in connection with hedging derivatives in large cross border transactions, as well as in IPOs, bond issuances, and special situations.

Before that, Ro worked at Deutsche Bank as a FX structurer on the London trading floor, providing hedging solutions for corporates as well as REITS and private equity clients.

Ro holds a M.B.A. in Finance from London Business School and a double B.A. Degree in History and Studies in the Environment from Yale University with a concentration in the Proliferation of Chemical and Biological Weaponry in the 20th century.

Head of FX and MM for AXA IM in Paris and London after 10 years as an Investment Manager, Lee Sanders moves over to trading to help set up an execution function for FI and FX and MM and this has slowly been rolled out to a more a global role. Concentrating on making trading desk s more efficient Lee Sanders has embraced changes in E commerce and market structure and by doing so has helped make the desks he manages more efficient. Lee also has worked on TCA projects and also many initiatives to improve the quality of execution in all the asset classes  he oversees. He has been with AXA IM for 22 years 

Peter is a Lecturer at ZHAW since 2013. Peter does quant research about rule-based investment products in the fixed income, FX and commodities space together with asset managers. Prior to joining ZHAW, he was a partner at Fortinbras Asset Management from 2009 to 2013 and previously he was a Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Research at Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. from 1999 to 2009. Currently, Peter focuses on the influence of correlation regimes on trading models.

 Francesco is responsible for managing the company’s day-to-day operations and the portfolio management function. He ensures that the investment objectives and investment policies are being adhered to at all times and as a voting member in the Investment Committee he actively contributes to the monitoring and the review of the investment strategies.
RTFX Fund management obtained its license from the MFSA in August 2013 and since January 2014 is the Investment Manager of the Algo K Currency Fund SPC, a Cayman island registered Fund. As Investment Manager to the ALgo K Currency Fund SPC, RTFX Fund Management adopts a unique approach to the currency market, using a set of algorithms specifically created to suit the currency market, without using derivatives instruments and without taking overnight positions.

James has been involved in the financial markets since the late 1970s. He has a Degree in Economics, a Masters in Finance (Exon.) and PCIAM. He is also a published author ‘Foreign Exchange the Complete Deal’ (Harriman’s 2012). His early career was geared towards financial analysis and wholesale lending but from 1980 his role was treasury based. Jim’s range of experience is extraordinary and is unlikely to be replicated. He has worked in the US and the Middle East where he was responsible for the region and interbank/central bank relationships. He has combined positions of chief dealer, trader and foreign exchange sales but it is in the latter that Jim has focused on and where he has run a number of desks. The range of institutions he has worked for has been global, including: US, Japanese, Scandinavian and UK. He has dealt with an array of counter-parties including, banks, corporates, central banks, funds and multinationals. In recent years he completed ‘the hand’ and dealt with high net worth individuals in addition to corporates at a leading private bank.

As Head of DMA, Sergei Sinkevich oversees Otkritie Capital’s Direct Market Access service for institutional investors in Russia, UK, Europe and the US. Based in Moscow, he directly manages a team of 15, including sales professionals, account managers, analytics, and more extended team responsible for development of the electronic trading product line. Team is based between London, Moscow and New York locations. Sergei’s department implements technology platforms that provide direct access to the LSE and Moscow Exchange and liaises directly with global institutional investors to help them gain speed advantage in trading the Russian market. Since joining Otkritie in January 2013, Sergei has spearheaded the development of low-latency connection to the Russian market  to help international investors capitalise on new opportunities present by the Russian government’s push to open up the markets.

Managing Director and Head of Global e-Commerce Solutions Group. The group offers electronic pricing and trading services to internal and external clients for
fixed income, currencies and commodities. Prior to joining CIBC in June 2009, Takis was head of FX e-Commerce sales and trading at Merrill Lynch, and was responsible for the FX e-trading operation of Bank of America Merrill Lynch after the merger. Prior to that he run the FX e-trading business at Dresdner Kleinwort, and was a quantitative analyst at HSBC working on equity derivatives, interest rate swaps, convertible bonds and FX options. He was the research co-ordinator of the business school of the University of Hertfordshire. Takis holds a degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Sunderland and a Ph.D. in Bayesian Decision Support Systems.

Paul Tivnann is the Global Head of FX and Commodities Electronic Trading at Bloomberg L.P. where he focuses on managing the combined efforts of sales and product in the design and implementation of the company's electronic solutions.

At Bloomberg L.P. since 2000, Mr. Tivnann has held various senior level management positions before moving into FX in 2012, where he has overseen considerable growth in the company's robust FX platform, particularly Bloomberg's multi-bank FX trading platform, FXGO.

Mr. Tivnann began his career as an Interest Rate and Bond Option Broker, having worked for Tullett and Tokyo and later FIMAT. A graduate of Bristol University, Mr Tivnann holds a Bachelor of Science in physics.

Jon is the Founder and CEO of R5, a new Interbank Liquidity pool for eNDF's and EMFX, which focuses on leading the market change from voice to screen in BRICS and N-11 currency trading. R5 is an electronic liquidity pool which provides a faster, more efficient alternative for anyone 'FX trading in the New World'.

Jon is a FinTech Entrepreneur, Investor and Advisor - always working with new financial technology in its early days. From executing in the first trades of Reuters Matching  and the launch team of Currenex, to developing FXCMpro in Europe and the creation of Barclays Retail FX platform. Jon co-founded and  globally built the low latency trading network - FXecosystem, as well as the FX trading community- LetstalkFX. He acts as an advisor to a number of early stage FX FinTech firms.  He sits on the advisory board of Fair Trading Technology and FSwire and is also a mentor at FinTech incubator  Level39

Achim Walde  has  a 20 year+ track record in FX and FI management incl. 15 years of leadership responsibility. He has comprehensive experience with mutual funds, segregated accounts and CTA platforms (running an alpha curreny programme with an excellent performance record), as well as various client segments: institutional, private, retail, ultra-high net worth individuals. Achim was Managing Director and Head of Global Fixed Income and Currency Management with Oppenheim Asset Management. Previously, he worked for Oppenheim Research as an interest rate and currency strategist, where he established the currency analysis and the currency process for Oppenheim Research. Prior to working for Oppenheim, Achim was consultant to the Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband in Düsseldorf in the area of interest rate forecasts and risk management. In addition he lectured at the Rheinische Sparkassenakademie and published several essays in professional journals. Achim holds a Masters degree in economics from University of Mannheim and he is Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

Andy heads up the specialist sales team for Colt Capital Markets. He has held a number of client facing roles since joining Colt in 2003, working with financial services customers across the globe to identify technology strategies to provide the fastest access to liquidity.  He started his working life as an FX broker at Harlow Butler before moving into the technology vendor space. In his current role, Andy has worked very closely with a number of Sell Side firms to help them deploy their global eFX platforms.Andy heads up the specialist sales team for Colt Capital Markets. He has held a number of client facing roles since joining Colt in 2003, working with financial services customers across the globe to identify technology strategies to provide the fastest access to liquidity.  He started his working life as an FX broker at Harlow Butler before moving into the technology vendor space. In his current role, Andy has worked very closely with a number of Sell Side firms to help them deploy their global eFX platforms.