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James is the Group Treasurer at Chalhoub Group; the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East in retail, distribution and communication services. He is responsible for all aspects of Treasury and led several projects to establish the new function within the firm. Prior to joining Chalhoub in 2014, James was a Senior Manager in the Deloitte Treasury Advisory team based in London. He has worked with Group Treasurers and CFOs at a variety of companies in the UK, Europe, Middle East, North America, Russia and Asia. His particular areas of interest are Treasury Systems, Risk Management and Treasury Strategy. James is a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and a Chartered Management Accountant. He studied at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he completed a BSc in Economics and MSc in Financial and Industrial Economics.
Naresh has spent 30 years in a variety of treasury roles spanning industry and advisory firms. At PwC he was the UK Lead for Cash Management and Payments and helped lead the firm’s work on payments, Brexit, treasury controls, Blockchain, operational resilience and target operating model design and implementation. He won an Innovation award for his proposition around mobile payments. He is an Associate Member of the ACT. Prior to PwC, Naresh spent almost 20 years in industry across a range of organisations including BP, Heron Property, Cable and Wireless and Fujitsu taking on roles such as analyst, dealer and treasurer.
Michael Bach is responsible for consulting on the optimization of treasury structures and processes as well as the implementation of complex structures and guidelines. He has over 20 years of experience in treasury and more than 50 global implementation and consulting projects under his belt. Prior to joining BELLIN, Michael was with Deutsche Bank, focusing on large corporate clients as Manager Trade Finance, Interest and Currency Management, Senior Manager in Corporate Treasury and Risk Management and Senior Manager eFX and Cash Management Solutions. Michael holds a Bachelor of Finance and Management from the Frankfurt School.
Joanna Bonnett, commenced as Group Treasurer of PageGroup plc in March 2017. PageGroup is a world-leading specialist recruitment consultancy it operates across 36 countries and 8,000 employees.
Prior to joining PageGroup Joanna worked across a range of sectors from engineering and manufacturing to running the Group Treasury function at the Australian Department of Defence. She has extensive experience in global cash and liquidity management, debt and risk management.
Sarah has extensive corporate experience with over two decades in industry working in a wide range of finance and treasury roles with companies including Cadbury and Whitbread. A qualified accountant, she now spends her time applying her insights to practical use, enabling others to understand how the corporate financial world works and the relevance of developments in financial markets on their day to day activities. She is an associate Member of the ACT.
Mark Carney is UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26. Mark was previously Governor of the Bank of England (from 2013 to 2020), and before that Governor of the Bank of Canada (from 2008 to 2013). Internationally, Mark was Chair of the Financial Stability Board (from 2011 to 2018), Chaired the Global Economy Meeting and Economic Consultative Committee of the Bank for International Settlements, and was First Vice-Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board. He is a member of the Group of Thirty and the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum. Mark was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1965. He has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard and a master’s and doctorate in Economics from Oxford. After a thirteen-year career with Goldman Sachs, Mark was appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada in 2003. In 2004, he became Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance. He held this position until his appointment as Governor of the Bank of Canada in February 2008.
Kevin is Co-founder and CEO of London-based financial technology company, TreasurySpring. He was previously a Partner and Head of Short-dated Investments at AgFe, a London-based fixed income asset manager that he and his TreasurySpring Co-founders joined in 2013 after selling it their first business, Autumn Capital Partners. Autumn Capital was an FCA-regulated fixed income advisory firm focused on the cash management sector. Kevin started his career in 2002 as a corporate finance lawyer with leading international law firm, Weil before moving on to PCM, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund in 2006. At PCM, Kevin was responsible for structuring and managing short-dated fixed income portfolios, together with his TreasurySpring co-founders. Kevin was named as one of Global Custodian's "30 to Shape the Future" in 2019.
Fiona Crisp has been a member of The Association of Corporate Treasurers since 1984, was made a Fellow in 2006 and was President in 2016/17. Fiona has been an independent treasury consultant for over 25 years. Her consultancy projects and interim roles have been extensive and varied, for companies in the utility, financial services, pensions and leisure sectors. She focuses on corporate finance and risk management projects. Fiona has been a NED for Family Building Society for over 4 years, where she has chaired the Risk Committee and Pension Trustees as well as being on the Audit Committee.
Thomas C. Deas, Jr. is the current Chairman of the National Association of Corporate Treasurers, having also served a previous term as its Chairman from 2011 through 2013. From 2001 until his retirement in 2016, he served as Vice President and Treasurer of FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC), with responsibility for the worldwide treasury function, including financing, treasury operations, pension investments and funding, and insurance and risk management. Prior to joining FMC, he served as Vice President, Treasurer and CFO of Applied Tech Products Corp., of Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG) and of Maritrans Inc. (NYSE: TUG). Prior to these positions, Mr. Deas was employed for 18 years at Scott Paper Company (NYSE: SPP), where he served in various capacities in finance and treasury. Mr. Deas received a BS in Physics from the University of South Carolina. Following service as a destroyer officer in the U.S. Navy, he received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the past Chairman of the International Group of Treasury Associations and is a director of the University of South Carolina Educational Foundation and its Investment Policy Committee. He has served as a member of the Financial Stability Board’s Market Participants’ Group and is a current representative to the Federal Reserve’s Alternative Reference Rates Committee. Both these efforts are charged to recommend changes concerning how LIBOR and other interest rate indexes are determined. Mr. Deas is a member of the steering committee of the Coalition for Derivatives End-Users. He is a frequent speaker at investor conferences and professional forums and has testified on financial reform before numerous Congressional committees.
Agnes is Treasury Director at Sage. She previously held various roles in Corporate Treasury in several multinational organisation, primarily responsible for risk management, and also worked as a Management Consultant for a short period of time. Agnes has also been part of the ACT Council since 2016 and serves as ACT President starting 1st May 2020; she has also chaired the ACT Future Leaders in Treasury group from 2016 to 2019 and sits on the ACT's Policy and Technical Advisory Panel. Agnes has a particular interest in Financial Risk Management, ESG and the development of the Treasury profession, as well as the skills necessary to successfully lead teams and engage with Treasury's multiple stakeholders.
Alex is responsible for TIPCO’s activities outside the companies’ German-speaking core-markets. Before joining the company in 2017, Alex worked as a treasury consultant for 8 years, helping numerous multinational corporations improve their treasury processes and streamline their treasury system landscapes. Leveraging this experience, at TIPCO, Alex works alongside a team of treasury professionals, developers, BI-experts and solution engineers to find smart digital answers to today’s treasury challenges.
Jessica has overall leadership responsibility for A4S. She has led A4S since 2008, working with the finance community to catalyze a shift to a sustainable economy, with a focus on practical actions and targeted interventions capable of achieving global change.
She is currently a member of the International Integrated Reporting Council Governance and Nominations Committee, the Smith School Global Sustainable Finance Advisory Council, the UN Global Assessment Report Advisory Council and the Global Reporting Initiative.
Previously, Jessica held a number of roles at PwC advising a wide range of companies, governments, investors and not-for-profit organizations.
Jessica is a chartered accountant, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
Paul Harrison leads Grant Thornton’s Treasury Advisory business, often assisting clients to establish new treasury functions from scratch or making existing ones ‘fit for purpose’ following organic or M&A driven change.
With 25+ years’ of experience in a corporate and professional capacity, Paul advises clients on the treasury process and policy matters relating to liquidity management, operational banking, FX risk management, debt compliance and treasury systems.
Paul has worked with a wide variety of large and small clients, including: Atotech, Kuoni, Global Brands Group, SIG plc, Bird’s Eye, Univar, Allnex, The Football Association, Archroma and Expro. Many of these projects have also been successfully undertaken within tight time-scales or other related pressures.
While his geographical focus is the UK and Western Europe, Paul has also assisted clients based in India, North America, Turkey, Israel and Japan.
Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Paul worked at senior level at PMC Treasury, PwC, BAT and Diageo amongst others.
Paul is a qualified Treasurer (FCT by examination) and holds a Bachelors’ degree in Business (Economics) from the Queensland University of Technology and an MBA in Finance from Cass Business School.
Katherine has worked in corporate finance and treasury for over 20 years, including 10 years at Centrica plc where she was Assistant Group Treasurer and then Group Treasurer. She held the position of interim Group Treasurer at Arriva plc, before moving to The AA plc as Group Treasurer in April this year. She has experience in a wide range of corporates and has worked extensively raising debt, liquidity management, maintaining credit ratings and running bank relationships as well as advising on capital structure and financial strategy. She was elected to the ACT Council in 2019.
Ellen is Senior Resident Fellow for the Climate and Energy program at Third Way, a think tank in Washington DC. She is working to move the national debate forward as US transportation transitions to clean energy.
Prior to coming to Third Way, Ellen has worked across the global landscape in the private sector and in public service. Prior to coming to Third Way, Ellen has worked across the global landscape in the private sector and in public service. She established her career working as chief global economist at Ford Motor Company, providing insights and analysis on the global economy and how economic development creates jobs and opportunity for people in all sectors of the economy.
Ellen served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce where she worked on several Administration initiatives improving data quality, measuring the digital economy, and expanding workforce development, manufacturing, trade and investment. Ellen also supported the development of the Administration’s economic forecast.
Matthew joined Mubadala over 10 years ago and is currently the Chief Financial Officer for the Alternative Investments & Infrastructure platform having joined initially as the Group Treasurer. The Platform has assets of approx.$45bn in sectors such as real estate, infrastructure, healthcare and financial investments via the Mubadala Capital platform, which includes the Groups investment in Softbank.
Prior to joining the Company, Matthew was the Group Treasurer of DSG International plc. (formerly Dixons Group), where he developed the company’s treasury framework and strategy to accommodate the Group's overseas expansion. Matthew has worked in the finance & treasury industry for over 25 years in both the public and private sector. He is a qualified member and a Past President of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and was awarded Fellowship status in recognition of his contribution to the profession in 2009. He also holds Fellowship status with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Chartered Group of Management Accountants and is also an elected specialist of the Institute of Risk Management.
In 2018, Matthew was awarded the John Grout award for his contribution to the treasury, risk and corporate finance profession by the Association becoming only the second-ever recipient. Matthew serves as a Board member on several of the Groups assets such as Falcon Private Bank, Anglo Gulf Trade Bank, Hakkasan and Porte Sudeste. Matthew is married and has two daughters who also live in Abu Dhabi.
As Head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics, based in Hong Kong, Louis leads the firm’s macroeconomic research and forecasting for Asia, oversees the team of economists across the region and serves clients globally.
Before joining Oxford Economics, Louis held a number of senior positions in both the public and private sectors, including at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, the World Bank in Beijing and at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong. While with the World Bank in Beijing, he led the well-regarded China Quarterly Update, headed the Bank’s mid-term review of China’s 11th Five Year Plan and led research on China’s saving and investment, rebalancing, and long-term growth and structural change.
Mr. Kuijs is a well-known observer of the Chinese economy and contributes regularly to the international media.
Paul took on a newly formed role as Head of ESG Research in March 2019 to support the integration of ESG across our strategies. Prior to this, Paul was the Global Head of Corporate Research, Liquid Markets, responsible for managing the firm’s global team of corporate credit and equity analysts. Paul has held senior portfolio manager, client portfolio manager, and senior fixed income strategist roles with Chicago Equity Partners, Aviva Investors North America, Barclays Global Investors, and Munder Capital Management. His career has focused on providing bespoke investment solutions to large institutional clients, and he has worked directly with many of the major pension and sovereign wealth platforms in North America and Asia. Paul holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan and an MBA (Hons) in Finance and International Business from The University of Chicago. He is also a CFA® charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Pascal Lauffer started his career as a developer after his Masters in computer science and mathematics, and an MBA in finance from Columbia University to eventually become CIO/CTO at SG Investment Banking, FIMAT and the NY Stock Exchange. He then expanded his scope to organization transformation. He architected and led the post-merger integration of the broker Newedge, an industry leader with revenue of $1.5 billion. He also co-founded and presided over a turnaround fund, completed 3 acquisitions and business transformations. Today, Pascal is CEO at Onbrane.
Winny graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MPhil Distinction in Management Studies. She started her finance career with professional accountancy firms, including Arthur Andersen and Deloitte, where she completed her ACA training. This provided valuable experience, leading Winny to working for the Global Media Enterprise, Viacom, where she travelled extensively, accumulating further expertise whilst working in different business environments and cultural settings. Fourteen years ago, Winny joined the fast growing pharmaceuticals company PPD, where she contributed to the significant growth of the company. She took on further professional training with ACT and helped PPD set up its current global treasury function. Which has become an integrate part of the PPD strategic function, significant achievements included successful de-list in 2011, Merger and Acquisitions, automation of business processes as well as Initial Price Offering (IPO) with The Nasdaq Global Market in Feb 2020. PPD is now a leading global contract research organization providing comprehensive, integrated drug development, laboratory and life cycle management services. PPD has 23,000+ employees and operates in 100 + countries. In a recent interview, Winny was described as ‘[having] a willingness to up sticks and move to where the action is, plus a strong commitment to the treasury discipline, Winny Li's career has all the hallmarks of the exemplary 21st-century treasurer.
Dr. Monica Malik has over 20 years of experience as an Economist specializing in the MENA region.Monica currently holds the position of Chief Economist at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, where she established the Economic research team.
Previously, Monica was the Chief Economist at EFG Hermes and was the lead person in the Economics team. Before EFG Hermes, she was the Senior Economist for the MENA region at Standard Chartered, Dubai and at Dun & Bradstreet, London.
Monica has authored a number of academic books and articles on Economic Development in the GCC. She has presented at a number of high profile conferences and participated in policy round table discussions, as well as appearing regularly in the international media.
Monica holds a Ph.D. in Economic Development in the Middle East focusing on Private Sector Development in Saudi Arabia from the University of Durham.
Colin heads the Accounting and Financial Risk Advisory team within Corporate Sales at Lloyds Bank. The team provides strategic risk management and accounting analysis to Corporate and FI clients, helping them to understand the potential impacts of market risks on their businesses and to design appropriate hedging strategies to manage those risks. He joined Lloyds Bank in 2014, prior to which he was a Director in the Corporate Advisory team in the Markets & International Banking division of RBS. He is an experienced technical accountant, having qualified with PwC in 2001, and has subsequently held advisory and structuring roles in banking for almost 20 years.
Grainne specializes in effectively delivering large transformation programs at top tier institutions. Grainne is as passionate about enabling productivity and creativity in people as she is about technology so the people agenda is always front and center in her transformation solutions. She assists EY’s clients with major change initiatives across front, middle and back office. Her current focus areas are digital transformation and culture and conduct. She has 25 years of experience in implementing technology, business, and regulatory change programs during her tenure at leading global institutions such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Grainne is regularly sought out by publications such as Forbes, Fortune and Business Insider for her perspective on the transformational power of emerging technologies, from a practitioner perspective. She has advised multiple Fortune 500 clients and frequently presents on the topics of digital transformation and innovation at industry forums including the IIF, AFP, SIFMA, American Banker, and MBA/MISMO. She has been featured on Bloomberg and CNBC for her perspective on blockchain. Grainne is passionate about efforts to transform the lives of women and girls and sits on the Board of the New York Women’s Foundation. She is an active fundraiser and advocate of diversity and inclusion. She launched a campaign to encourage broader participation in philanthropy which she believes builds more authentic and well-rounded leaders. In her “Advice She Wrote’ series, she co-writes articles to empower and inspire career development in others. She has three young children and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Rain Newton-Smith is the Chief Economist at the Confederation of British Industry. She and her team provide business leaders with advice on the UK economic outlook and global risks. Previously, Rain was head of Emerging Markets at Oxford Economics where she managed a large team of economists and was the lead expert on China. Prior to that, Rain worked on the international forecast for the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England and also led a team with responsibility for developing a risk assessment framework for the UK financial system. While at the Bank, she also went on secondment to the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. where she was adviser to the UK executive director. Rain was honoured by the World Economic Forum in 2012 as a Young Global Leader.
Based in London, Brian leads for PwC on the impacts of changing Financial Services (FS) regulation from the European Union. He is also PwC's leader for Brexit issues in FS. He has been advising internationally-active clients in the UK and Europe about regulatory, business and operational strategies for more than 25 years. Brian is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada.
Helmut Schnabel is Chairman of IGTA, International Group of Treasury Associations, comprised of around 30 member associations from all continents. He is as well Chairman of GEFIU, the Association of Chief Financial Officers Germany. He started his professional career at an industrial corporation in New York, N.Y., USA. He later has worked for many years as Head of Group Treasury of a leading German chemical and pharmaceutical industrial corporation group, and also as managing board member responsible for asset management of a German corporate pension insurance corporation, and subsequently of a European asset management firm. Presently he is active by way of his own asset management advisory firm. He is also teaching in management seminars on financing matters.
Guy Shone is Business Presenter for Euronews - Europe's most watched news channel reaching 400 million homes in 160 countries. Guy presents Talking Business every week on Euronews Tonight. He is also a regular economics contributor to BBC News, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World and a business writer for News Corp (News UK newspapers).
Alongside his busy media career Guy also runs the Economic research agency Explain the Market.
Guy is the previous Head of Global Research for Old Mutual PLC and Head of Research for the Money Advice Service.
Caroline has been Chief Executive of the ACT since Feb 2017. Past roles include VP Finance for Unilever’s Foods Europe (Unilever’s largest contributor in terms of bottom line), Head of Finance for the $23bn pharma division of Novartis, CFO of Save the Children International (a $1bn ‘start-up’ which merged operations across 110 countries) and CFO of the British Council, the UK’s largest charity working in 115 countries. Caroline has worked in c70 countries and speaks 7 languages.
Caroline is also a trained coach and has run leadership workshops for women in the Middle East, Asia and the UK - including for HRH Sheikha Shamma, White & Case in Dubai and Hong Kong, HKUST Business School (for alumni) as well as British Council and Save the Children. She has also run two workshops in 2019 in Brussels on leadership for a mixed-gender audience. Caroline has delivered Strengthsfinder* workshops for a number of organisations including the Banking Standards Board. She combines learnings over her years as one of the senior-most women in some very large organisations and shares the most impactful ones in order to optimise outcomes. The workshops have developed as demand around the world has increased, and this inspires Caroline to share further when she can fit this into her busy schedule.
Jamie is the Commercial & Private Banking Business Lead for LIBOR Transition at NatWest and is the Chair of the Loans Flow Enablement Task Force established by the Bank of England and the FCA to identify and overcome blockers to greater SONIA issuance in the cash market. He has also run the NatWest Syndicated Loans Agency business since June 2017, joining Agency from the Product and Capital Management team where he had responsibility for the Corporate Debt Product set. Before this he was a Senior Director in the Project Finance business with a particular focus in the power and renewables sector. Jamie joined NatWest from Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and started his career in PwC’s advisory business.
Tarek is in charge of EACT’s public affairs and policy advocacy efforts. He represents the interests of corporate treasurers on all aspects of European financial regulation with policymakers at EU – and where relevant – national level. Prior to this Tarek worked at FleishmanHillard – a public affairs consultancy - advising clients on securities markets’ infrastructure and in particular pre- and post-trading issues. Before joining FleishmanHillard, he worked at Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society in Berlin. Tarek holds a dual degree in Political Science and Law from the University of Münster and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He also holds a Master’s degree in Politics and Government in the EU from the LSE.
Mark Tweedie has been with Citi for 21 years and is the UK Corporate Banking Head. Mark has coverage responsibility for key accounts in the UK and is responsible for the health, progress, efficiency and future of the country client franchise. Mark is part of the EMEA Corporate Banking Executive Committee (ExCo) and sits on the UK Country OpCo for Citi. Prior to his current role, Mark was the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) Head of Corporate and Public Sector Sales, for Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) and Marketing. EMEA is the largest region for TTS with a presence in over 50 markets and a multi-billion dollar revenue base. During Mark's career in Citi he has worked in a variety of roles (Sales, Relationship Management, Finance, Procurement, Strategy and Operations) in the US and UK. Mark has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has published several thought-leadership papers in industry publications. Mark has a Master’s degree (with Honours) in History, from Edinburgh University and qualified as an Associate Member of the Corporate Treasurers (ACT) in July 2008. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of BritishAmerican Business. Mark is married with 2 daughters and 1 son. Mark played rugby for Scotland at under 19 and 21 age group level. His interests are hiking, sport and reading.
Currently, Sharon Wang works for Alibaba Group as Director of Treasury. Based in Hong Kong, she has global responsibility for cash and liquidity management, operational risk management, bank relationship management, treasury reporting and digital transformation in treasury services.
Prior to joining Alibaba, Sharon worked for MNC giants like Intel, Honeywell and BASF. She spent more than 18 years in banking and treasury, dealing with treasury operation, cash budgeting, liquidity planning, financial risk management, working capital management, as well as treasury management systems and solutions.
Sharon has a Bachelor‘s degree in International Finance from Nanjing University and a Master’s degree in Economics from Fudan University. She also holds a Chartered Accountancy with CICPA.
Michael Wilkins is a Managing Director at S&P Global Ratings based in London where he has global responsibility for the firm’s sustainable finance analytical activities, including environmental and climate risk research, ESG and related new products. Michael experience at S&P Global Ratings includes seven years as Head of Infrastructure Finance Ratings, the analytical group within S&P Global Ratings which covers utilities, project finance, PPPs and transportation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Michael was also co-head of the Corporate Securitisation group. He joined S&P Global Ratings in London in January 1994 and has also worked in the Melbourne and Hong Kong offices. Michael’s expertise encompasses the European power, water, environmental, transportation and social infrastructure sectors. Previously, Michael worked for Water UK, the trade body representing the UK water industry. He also worked for four years as a journalist on various UK daily regional newspapers and global business publications. Michael is a frequent guest lecturer at the London Business School MBA programme, Judge Business School, Cambridge University, MFin programme and Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment as well as at UCL and the London School of Economics. He is also a member of the FSB Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group (SFSG), the advisory council of the Smith School Sustainable Finance Programme and the Climate Bonds Initiative. Michael has a Bachelor of Arts degree within Modern Languages at Bristol University. He also holds an MBA in Finance from the Cass Business School and additionally has a Certificate of Carbon Finance & Analytics from the London Business School.
Much of Bill's 40-year banking career has been spent with Barclays, where he was Head of Innovation for Non-Bank Financial Institutions at Barclays Corporate. Prior to Barclays, he enjoyed a lengthy career with Bank of America Global Payments Solutions in London as Senior Vice President and Relationship Manager. He has extensive experience working with multinational corporations and managing treasury system sales. Bill joined Gresham Technologies (Gresham) in 2016 as Senior Strategist, Cash Management Solutions – today he advises firms on how to futureproof their treasury and the emerging importance of a collaborative fintech partner.
Jeff is an experienced events professional with nearly 20 years' media industry experience, having joined GTR in 2009. In his role he is responsible for the output of all GTR conferences, seminars and online event content across the company's global portfolio, as well as playing a key role in wider external communications strategy and planning. Jeff also conducts external consultancy and advisory work on behalf of organisations including the ICC Banking Commission and Coriolis Technologies.
Chris currently works for HSBC in Group Treasury, where he has responsibilities for HSBC’s global “ALCO Course” training and other ALCM/Treasury related topics. Previously he had specific responsibility for Liquidity and Funding Risk, including ensuring the executive board was aware that the liquidity and funding risk appetite of HSBC group was being adhered to. Formerly he was a risk specialist in ALM for the FSA, leading on the setting of Individual Liquidity Guidance for regulated firms and the implementation of FSA liquidity rules. Prior to that he worked as a Money Market and Interest Rate Derivatives trader for Investec, alongside experience in Retail banking in London, Private banking in Switzerland and Off Balance Sheet vehicles.
Chris has a BSc in Economics and Government from the London School of Economics. In addition he is a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, a Chartered Wealth Manager, a Financial Risk Manager and is the Education Director of the UK Asset and Liability Management Association.
Adam is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Etihad Aviation Group, where he is responsible for Group Finance, Group Treasury, Investor Relations, Fleet Planning and the Group Business Support Services division. Adam is an experienced international finance executive with a strong background in international finance gained in the banking, retail and FCMG sectors across the UK, India and UAE. Before joining Etihad Aviation Group in 2014, Adam held the position of SVP Global Markets at First Abu Dhabi Bank. His previous experiences also include senior roles at Tesco Plc, Kimberly Clark and The Royal Bank of Scotland. Outside of Etihad, Adam is a board member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, Air Serbia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi and the British School Abu Dhabi. Adam is a qualified Treasurer, Management Accountant and holds an Executive MBA from the University of Hertfordshire.
Daniel is Commercial Finance Director at UK Finance and also leads the trade association’s LIBOR transition team. His role involves supporting UK Finance members on improving customer relationships, access to finance and enhancing competition, including stakeholder engagement with business groups. Daniel started his career with Deloitte, where he served a range of banking and financial services clients in assurance and advisory engagements. He is a chartered accountant and holds an MA from the University of Cambridge.
Niall runs the Corporate Rates teams covering UK utilities and corporates in the UK, Europe and the US. He has extensive experience aiding utility companies adapting their funding and hedging strategies in response to regulatory changes. In the UK, he has designed and implemented a number of hedging strategies for both Ofgem and Ofwat regulated utilities, for RIIO GD1, ED1 and AMP6. Prior to joining Lloyds Bank, Niall worked for 9-years at Merrill Lynch in both London and New York.
Neil Cotter is Director of Treasury for GVC Holdings PLC, one of the world's largest sports-betting and gaming groups, operating both online and in the retail sector. The company operates in over 20 countries and has over 25,000 employees. The Group owns established brands including bwin, Coral, Ladbrokes, Sportingbet, Gala, and Partypoker. Neil has over 25 years' experience in treasury and has also worked for LogicaCMG, ICI, and Morgan Materials.
Caroline Dawson is a partner in the Financial Regulation Practice in Clifford Chance’s London office, specialising in advising financial institutions and other market participants on financial market regulation, mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector and securities and derivatives transactions. She was seconded to the EMEA equities team at Goldman Sachs in 2009 and to the Bank of England in 2014
Tim is an experienced Director with an excellent track record of P&L growth in both revenue and margin. Tim is currently running Bottomline's Operations for Global Business Solutions: including, Pre Sales, Professional Services, Project Management, Implementation and Support for Bottomline's Cloud Based Payment and Cash Management Solutions.
Tim has extensive Business Process knowledge gained in many different Business to Business environments; including Fin Tech, Manufacturing and Distribution.
Tim has also driven strategic change operationally and major organic growth programs, and managed the successful acquisition and integration of several Businesses internationally.
As one of BELLIN’s Consulting Directors, Katja Franz provides consulting for customer projects around the world. Her main focus is on project management and process consulting. Before joining BELLIN in 2014, Katja served as the in-house expert for payment system implementation in a private bank and was able to gain valuable experience in cash and risk management at a custodian bank. She studied International Business in Trier and Dublin
Olivier Gayno is CIO Wealth & EMEA Liquidity of HSBC Global Asset Management (France). Olivier joined HSBC in 1989 and held a number of different positions in the asset management business of the group since 1991 including CEO & CIO of HSBC Asset Management Japan. Olivier also worked as Deputy Chief Investment Officer at T&D Taiyo Daido Asset Management and as Chief Investment Officer at Taiyo Life Gamma Asset Management. He graduated from the engineering school Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussèes.
Dr. Rebecca Harding is an independent economist specialising in trade and trade finance and CEO of Coriolis Technologies, providing data as a service to the trade and trade finance space. She is the co-author of the acclaimed “The Weaponization of Trade: the Great Unbalancing of Policy and Economics" and “Gaming Trade: Win-Win Strategies for the Digital Era.” She frequently appears on Ian King Live, Sky News, BBC World and BBC Radio 5 live, Newsnight and Radio 4 and is cited in the Broadsheet press, including recent articles in the Financial Times, Telegraph and CityAM, and citations in the Telegraph, the Times and the New Scotsman. She is a regular guest anchor on CNBC’s Squawk Box. She has written 11 books and over 200 academic articles and public policy reports.
Rebecca is a member of the World Trade Board and is well-known in the trade and trade finance sector for her work on global trade. She is a strategic adviser to the Council of the Society of Professional Economists and until February 2017 was the Chief Economist of the British Bankers’ Association. Her senior roles in business and academic institutions include Founder and CEO of Delta Economics, CEO of Equant Analytics, Senior Fellow at London Business School, Global CEO of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Head of Corporate Research at Deloitte, Chief Economist at the Work Foundation, Senior Lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, and Reader in Economics at the University of Brighton. She is currently a Fellow at Offenburg Institute for Trade and Innovation. She was a Specialist Advisor to the Treasury Select Committee and Chief Economic Advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship.
Sam is the head of economic and market insights for Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, having spent the last ten years working in various roles as an economist and market strategist. Prior to this Sam was a fixed income fund manager, with a specialist focus in the Gilt market.
Francis Ho is responsible for CLP Group Treasury & Project Finance including corporate funding, structured and project finance, financial risks management, credit ratings, provident fund management, debt investors and bank relationships as well as compliance of treasury activities.
Prior to the assignment at Group Treasury & Project Finance, Francis was a project financier at CLP Power Asia, specializing in structured and project finance, investment appraisal and financial risks management for CLP’s overseas investments in China, Australia, India, and South East Asia. Francis held various management positions in investment banking before he joined CLP.
Francis serves as a member in the Executive Board of Treasury Market Association (TMA), which is sponsored by the Hong Kong Monetary Association. The principal functions of TMA include promoting co-operation and synergy among market practitioners to enhancing professionalism and overall competitiveness of the treasury markets in Hong Kong, thereby maintaining the role as an international financial centre. In addition, Francis is the Convenor of the Hong Kong Association of Corporate Treasurers and a founding member and the Chairman (Membership) of the International Association of CFOs and Corporate Treasurers (China). Their objectives are to promote the treasury and finance profession in China and Hong Kong.
Courtney is the Group Treasurer for Logicor, a pan-European Logistics property company with over EUR 13b asset value spanning across 17 countries. Courtney is responsible for leading Logicor’s 10-person Treasury team, as well as the business’s debt portfolio and Investor Relations workstreams. In 2018, Courtney founded the Logicor Women’s Forum, Logicor’s first diversity group, created to provide a supportive and collaborative environment for women to share ideas and develop their careers. Previous to joining Logicor, Courtney worked in Treasury across various sectors including Consulting, Oil, and Outsourcing. In 2017, she was named by the Association of Corporate Treasurers as one of their ‘Ones to Watch’ as well as the ACT Mentee of the Year. She currently acts as the Deputy Chair for the ACT’s Future Leaders in Treasury group and was elected to ACT council in 2019.
Rhodri is a Director in the Large Corporate FX Sales team at Lloyds Bank, having joined in 2014. Prior to this, he held similar positions at Deutsche Bank and HSBC. He is responsible for managing the sector team looking after FX, commodity and deposit requirements for Services, Higher Education and Charities and TMT clients, as well as acting as primary product coverage for a diversified group of large cap clients ranging from retail to airlines and utilities.
Wilson currently heads group treasury at Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super app, managing all aspects of financial risks for the group. Based in Singapore, he has >20 years of experience across various finance disciplines including corporate finance, accounting, auditing, FP&A and treasury functions starting with Ernst & Young, then BP in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore before joining Grab.
He currently serves as an Exco Member of the ACT Singapore, member of the Asia Panel of ACT UK and is also an elected member of the ACCA Singapore members’ panel. Through the various activities of the professional bodies, Wilson is able to learn, serve and advocate thought leadership in finance. He also chairs the ACCA GenNext interest group which allows him to create a positive impact on the next generation of leaders.
Wilson holds an MBA from Nottingham Trent University and has also completed a Grab-Harvard Business School Executive Leadership Program in early 2019.
Wolfgang Koester is the Chief Evangelist at Kyriba, and former CEO and co-founder of FiREapps. He has more than 30 years of extensive experience in currency markets and working with global Fortune 1,000 companies and government entities.
Prior to FiREapps, he served as President of GFTA Trendanalysen Inc., a quantitative currency management company. Koester has been named as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Finance” by Treasury & Risk magazine and is regularly included in Global Finance’s annual “Who’s Who in Foreign Exchange.” He is a regular commentator on CNN, CNBC, Fox Business and Bloomberg as well as a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. His work has appeared in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Treasury & Risk and AFP Exchange among other industry publications. Koester earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University and a Master’s degree in International Management from Thunderbird – The Garvin School of International Management. He is a board member of ACI International, The Financial Markets Association and is a former member of the editorial board of the AFP Risk Newsletter.
Sam is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform. He is a member of the British government's Strategic Trade Advisory Group (2019-). He is also a visiting research fellow at The Policy Institute, Kings College London and a co-founder of the UK Trade Forum. He works on trade issues, with a focus on Brexit, customs and regulatory barriers, and trade in services. He regularly briefs businesses, government officials, politicians and European institutions, including Parliamentary select committees and the European Central Bank. Sam often appears in the media, including the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, The Financial Times, The Times, Politico, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and Sky News.
Peter Matza is Speakers’ Chair, acting as Chair at selected ACT events and responsible for content development on a part-time basis. Peter joined the ACT in September 2006, was appointed Head of Publishing in May 2008, Engagement Director in February 2012 and moved to his latest role in July 2016. Peter is a Fellow of the ACT (having been a member since 1992) with over 30 years of treasury and banking experience.
Rob is the Group Treasurer for Associated British Foods plc (ABF), a diversified international food, ingredient and retail group with operations in 52 countries. At ABF Rob has developed the treasury function from a basic level to one which endeavours to meet the needs of a global business with diverse funding requirements and extensive currency and commodity risks.
Originally a Mechanical Engineer at degree sponsor British Steel and subsequently W.S.Atkins, Rob then gained a PhD in quantitative finance at Imperial College while working for his sponsors Cable & Wireless in corporate finance. He subsequently spent five years working in investment banking at BZW initially in equity capital markets. Having developed the book building model for BZW, he then worked on primary and secondary share offerings, before moving to convertible bond sales and then to structured capital markets where he developed structured products for international corporate clients. Rob performed a similar role at CSFB for 18 months before moving to ICI where he fulfilled a number of roles in corporate finance (primarily working on disposals of legacy businesses), long-term funding and risk management.
David McNally leads Deutsche Bank’s LIBOR transition programme in its Corporate Bank. Prior to this, Mr McNally has experience in managing other large-scale market structure and regulatory change and has also held positions in Capital Markets business management and equity derivatives structuring.
Rich Moore is Corporate Treasurer which he has held since January, 2016. In this role, Rich leads a team of treasury professionals at the company headquarters in Illinois as well as at Regional Treasury Centers in Switzerland and Singapore. Prior to becoming Treasurer, Rich was Director of Investor Relations. Rich joined Caterpillar in 1987 as a Finance Analyst in Corporate Treasury. He has held a series of increasingly responsible roles in the company’s treasury and financial management areas at Caterpillar’s headquarters. From 1994 to 1998 served internationally in the Latin America Division offices in Santiago, Chile and Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2001, Rich was named Sr. Funding Manager at Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation located in Nashville, TN and in 2005 Rich became European Treasurer in Geneva, Switzerland. Rich received a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Southern Illinois University and has an MBA from Bradley University.
Subas Roy is a Partner in Oliver Wyman with over twenty years of digital risk and compliance consulting experience. He has led the design and delivery of a number of next-generation risk and compliance functions utilising combinations of digital, analytics and automation tools.
Before Oliver Wyman, Subas was a Partner at a Big4 Professional Accounting Firm where he led the EMEA advisory practice for Risk and Regulatory Technology-led transformation. He leads the Future of Risk and Compliance and the RegTech propositions at Oliver Wyman.
Subas has been an adviser to the UNCDF on the design of digital identity data architecture which has been deployed in 7 South-east and 4 African countries.
Subas has also led the RegTech initiative in the UK including working closely with the UK regulator (FCA) on designing and delivering data ontologies for machine-readable regulations.
Subas is also the Chairman of the International RegTech Association which is a premier body representing the Regulatory Technology industry, academias and researchers, and large financial institutions on the future of Financial Services and Future of Compliance.
He holds a Masters and PhD on Computational Mathematics and is also a Chartered Accountant.
Adrian combines a passion for sustainable finance with deep knowledge of Treasury disciplines and extensive experience in building, developing and managing Treasury teams. His career spans over 20 years in senior roles at a variety of financial services companies – UK start ups, international banks and global asset managers. As Founder and Managing Director of ESG Treasury, Adrian firmly believes treasurers are at the heart of every organisation and uniquely positioned to help the transition to a sustainable economy.
Edwin Schooling Latter is Director of Markets and Wholesale Policy at the Financial Conduct Authority, where his responsibilities encompass policy in relation to primary and secondary markets, trading venues, trading conduct, benchmarks, asset management, and pensions. From 2011-2014 Edwin was head of the Financial Market Infrastructure Directorate at the Bank of England, responsible for supervision of CCPs, securities settlement systems, and systemically important payments systems, and for the Bank’s input to policy making on central clearing and OTC derivatives reforms. Prior to appointment as head of MID, Edwin worked in the Bank’s Financial Stability area for several years, including as secretary to the Bank Financial Stability Committee. Edwin was also previously Managing Director of UK payment system, LINK Interchange Network Ltd.
Robert is currently Relationship Manager for MUFG Bank in Sydney working in the Global Subsidiary Banking team covering MNCs. Originally from the UK, he moved to work in Australia in August 2019. Prior to MUFG, Robert spent 9 years at Barclays Bank working in various roles, and most recently was a RM covering the banks NBFI clients mostly the global general and life insurance companies. Prior to this role, he was an RM covering UK parented Global Corporates. Robert obtained the Diploma of Professional Banking Practice and Management through The London Institute of Banking & Finance in 2015 and through the ACT, he completed the CertT in 2017 and am currently studying for his AMCT.
Jean-Marc Servat chairs the European Association of Corporate Treasurers (EACT), a not-for-profit grouping of 23 national treasury associations active in 19 EU countries. Jean-Marc has a 25-year diverse career in treasury and finance departments of multinational corporations in both technical and managerial roles. In his last corporate role, he was the head of Treasury for Cisco Systems in EMEA and Asia Pacific. Between 2001 and 2005, he was with Nokia in global financial risk management roles and prior to this, was 10 years with Dow Chemical in various financial positions in Europe. He also has some sell-side experience with Citigroup and commodity experience as the head of Treasury of an oil trading company before joining Cisco. Is now active in consulting practice and provides expert advice on legal matters with his combined corporate experience and knowledge of derivatives.
Jean-Marc holds a MSc. in Management from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris. He is a regular speaker at international treasury conferences. Mr. Servat represents the European Treasurers in the ECB’s European Retail Payment Board (ERPB, formerly SEPA council) and ESMA’s Securities and Markets Stakeholders’ group (SMSG).
Brian Shanahan is the leader and founder of Informita and TermCheck.com He has worked on more than 250 assignments in 38 countries across 4 continents in the fields of working capital and procurement. In the media, Brian has been quoted many times in the financial press in such publications as The Financial Times, CFO Magazine Belgium, CFO World, The Manufacturer, The Grocer, Finance Director, Euromoney, Accountancy Age, Financial-i and The Evening Standard. He has also appeared on CNBC Europe’s Power Lunch to discuss working capital trends and is the author of five booklets that are all available on Amazon.com: The Working Capital Handbook, The Procurement Leader's Handbook, Working Capital - What Next?, Achieving Change and Working Capital - In Pursuit of Zero.
At SITA, Andrea Sottoriva is responsible for Global Treasury, being based in Geneva which is where SITA has its Head Offices.
The global presence of SITA implies retaining bank accounts in 153 Countries, paying employees in 137 Countries and in 98 different currencies and having suppliers in 205 countries. Treasury encompasses cash management, trade finance, debt management, risk management, competition reporting, banks’ management, working capital optimisation.
After completing his degree in Economics, Andrea first job was at Ernst &Young. Afterwards, he moved first to Banca Intesa and then to Salomon Brothers (Citigroup). In 2000 he joined General Electric Capital where he worked till 2007. Andrea has been working in SITA for the past 12 years, changing roles from Regional Finance Manager for South Europe to Cash Management for Europe to end up in Global Treasury
Roshun Tulkens is the Group Treasurer for Mantrac Group; an authorized Caterpillar dealer, selling across three continents with revenues close to $1.5bn. Originally from the UK, Roshun has lived in the UAE since 2014. Prior to Mantrac, Roshun was Head of Treasury at RB covering 60+ countries across LATAM, Africa, ME and APAC, responsibilities included all areas of international treasury and risk management. Prior to this Roshun was based in the UK, working for Burberry, with front, middle and back office responsibilities. Previous companies include Rexam where he supported the roll out of a TMS, for which they won the Large Cap Treasury Team of the Year award. Roshun is a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, he became AMCT qualified in 2012 and obtained his MCT Diploma in February 2015.
Claus Vistesen has several years’ experience in the independent macro research space, as a freelancer, consultant and, latterly, as Head of Research of Variant Perception, Inc. He holds Master’s degrees in economics and finance from the Copenhagen Business School and the University of Hull.
At Pantheon, Claus focuses on the Eurozone, with particular emphasis on the core economies of Germany and France, and on ECB policy. He is keen to argue that the Eurozone still has a business cycle, despite its manifest structural problems, and that investors who focus only on the long-term fundamentals run the risk of missing significant investment opportunities. Claus also specialises in demographics, growth and the interaction between asset markets and monetary policy.
Paul Wilde is Group Treasurer of Shawbrook, a specialist UK lending and savings bank focussing on Buy-to-Let; SME and consumer loans whose loan book has grown rapidly from £1.7bn when he joined in 2016 to £4.4bn in 2019. He is also Immediate Past President of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and a Visiting Professor at the LIBF. Paul has previously held roles as Treasurer of Itau BBA International, the European subsidiary of one of Latin America’s largest banks; at SG Newedge, a global derivatives broker. He has a diverse professional experience across a range of financial institutions, including advising RBS on the integration of ABN Treasury; heading a securitisation team at BAML; funding at Egg plc and global financial restructuring at Lloyds of London. He holds an MBA from London Business School.
James joined the ACT Policy & Technical team in September 2019 with 30 years’ experience of international finance, most recently within Group Treasury of Royal Dutch Shell plc as Head of Regulatory Affairs, Head of Compliance and Controller of Group Pensions. James is a qualified accountant (ACMA/CGMA), with a degree in Law & Politics, who has worked in UK, Africa, South America & Middle East. He has been CFO/Finance Manager of various entities in the energy, commodities, technology and not for profit sectors. James enjoys engaging with stakeholders and has contributed to many working groups, including the FSB’s Market Participants Group on reforming interest rate benchmarks.
this virtual event took place on 11-14 May 2020.