Judges

Alan moved to the UK in 2004 after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa. Since then, he has held a number of roles in internal audit, management accounting, technical IFRS conversions and then witihn treasury operations at Toyota Financial Services and Anglo American. Alan then moved to SABMIller and again had very different roles from TMS implementation and regional treasury centre rollouts to group treasury controller and then European & corporate treasurer – spanning eight years across six continents.

As part of the acquisition of SABMiller, Alan moved to Asahi International and set up the group treasury function, and then a group financial shared services which also involved recruiting great new talent, and travelling / meeting people from around the world.

Alan has recently moved to Pepco Group Limited as Director of Group Treasury, Tax and Risk and is enjoying working on a great projects alongside some extremely knowledgeable and talented colleagues and advisors.

Lisa is an experienced treasurer, accountant and financial markets professional combining two decades of knowledge in treasury, corporate finance, and risk management expertise with a talent for innovation. As co-founder of Dukes & King, Lisa channels her expertise into helping organisations optimise and manage their financial risk strategies effectively.

A committed advocate for industry best practices, Lisa regularly chairs and contributes to leading conferences, events, and publications. Amongst other non-executive roles, Lisa is a member of the UK’s FX Joint Standing Committee chaired by the Bank of England, the UK’s private sector representative to the Global FX Committee, chair of the Global Committee’s Motivation for Adherence Working Group and is also a member of the ACI UK Executive Committee.

Following 10 years in investment banking, Mark joined BAE Systems Group Treasury in 2004. In his current position, reporting to the Group Treasurer, Mark is responsible for cash management, bank account management, foreign exchange and interest rate hedging and back office activities.

Martyn qualified with the ACT in 1987.  He was elected to Council in 2009 and was President for 2014/15. He was a long-standing member of the ACT’s Programme committee and is now on the Policy & Technical panel.

Martyn trained as a Chartered accountant with Touche Ross in Bristol. He then worked in various Bristol- then London-based finance roles with Tyndall group, Ætna Life, Midland Bank, Grand Metropolitan, Kingfisher and Delta group before joining Dyson in Malmesbury in 2001 as Director of Tax & Treasury.  From 2013 to 2017 Martyn worked for Weybourne Partners (the Dyson Family Office) as Chief Financial Officer, based in Malmesbury.  He now has his own consultancy business and has several roles with not-for-profit organisations.

Paul Watters is Head of Credit Research for S&P Global Ratings in Europe.  He currently chairs S&P’s European Credit Conditions Committee that focuses on emerging global and regional risks.

Prior to his current role Paul has held various senior roles within  S&P’s Leveraged Finance Group since joining S&P in January 2002, that included being a primary analyst for a portfolio of high yield credits in the metals and mining, chemicals and oil and gas sectors.

Previous to S&P, Paul spent almost fifteen years working in debt capital markets in various senior trading and research roles with both Lehman Brothers and Nomura International. 

Paul is a CFA Charterholder, and a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Richard joined Rothschild & Co in 2008 having previously worked at Deutsche Bank for 19 years and prior to that 3 years at HSBC.  Richard has over 25 years of experience in the debt markets where his clients span the full range of the FTSE-100 and FTSE-250, together with private and overseas corporates.  He advises clients on capital structure, financing options and their execution.

The Debt Advisory Group at Rothschild & Co provides independent advice on the raising and refinancing of debt.  This covers borrowers across all sectors, the full credit spectrum and debt market alternatives including advice on credit ratings, hedging and derivatives and liability management.  The Debt Advisory Group undertake approximately 150 completed assignments every year representing circa €100bn of debt raising/refinancing.

Tom started working on treasury audits whilst at KPMG more than 20 years ago and has been hooked ever since. He left practice soon after qualifying and then moved through various industrial sectors; chemicals, beverages and now aerospace. Tom is currently Head of Group Treasury at Senior plc, a FTSE-listed high-technology engineering company serving aerospace, defence, land vehicle and energy markets. Tom has had varied experiences initially in treasury accounting and control, moving into a Treasury transformation project for 4 years, and since then, was in Front Office roles as a Regional Treasurer (based in Asia) and now a Group Treasurer. In 2018, Tom completed his Advanced Diploma in Treasury Management, which is a great way to broaden your exposure to different types of sectors/credits and to think beyond the ‘corporate treasury’ mindset.