| About Speakers |
| Shilpa Amin Senior Associate Counsel Winton Capital Shilpa Amin is Senior Associate Counsel at Winton. Shilpa joined Winton in 2014. Previously, she held a number of legal and front office roles at investment banks, including Merrill Lynch (now BAML) and JP Morgan, supporting equity derivatives and fund structuring. In 2000, Shilpa joined Merrill Lynch as Senior Counsel in Equity Capital Markets, before moving to Nomura in 2004 with a team from Merrill to set up Nomura’s European equity derivatives business. While at Nomura, Shilpa was responsible for setting up and running fund platforms, including UCITS and alternative platforms. Shilpa began her career as a solicitor in private practice, specialising in corporate finance and M&A. She graduated in Jurisprudence from Oxford University. | |
| Michelle Bedwin Head of Compliance, EMEA BTG Pactual UK Michelle is an experienced Risk and Compliance Professional with over eighteen years compliance experience in Asset Management, the last twelve years being in management roles. She has been a member of the UK Board and an FCA/FSA Approved Person for the CF1 (Director), CF10 (Compliance Oversight) and CF11 (Money Laundering Reporting) functions. She has also been the registered MLRO for an Irish UCITS Money Market Fund and nominated Compliance Officer for an Irish UCITS IV Management Company. She has strong experience of working in both retail and institutional compliance with working knowledge of fixed income, equity and Alternative Investments (Hedge Funds, Private equity and Real Estate). She has detailed knowledge of the FCA rules and practical experience in working with the regulations of other jurisdictions including the SEC (US), CSSF (Luxembourg) and Central Bank of Ireland (Irish) especially in relation to Funds. | |
| James Bennett CCO Marathon Asset Management James Bennett is Chief Compliance Officer at Marathon Asset Management LLP, an investment management business which manages equities for a globally diverse client base. James has over 17 years experience working in financial services; having held a number of senior legal, risk and compliance roles within the asset management industry as well as roles in enforcement and supervision at the FSA (now FCA). He was called to the Bar in 2000 and qualified as a practising solicitor in 2004. He is a member of the AIMA Markets Standing Committee. | |
| Gus Black Partner Dechert LLP Gus Black focuses his practice on investment funds (emphasizing private equity, debt and hedge funds), establishing and restructuring international asset management businesses, corporate and commercial transactions in the asset management sector and general UK financial services regulation. In the sphere of private fund formation, Mr. Black has advised sponsors and cornerstone investors on the structuring, re-structuring, formation and investment of numerous funds and other co-investment structures ranging widely in size, strategy and focus (including numerous hedge strategies, hybrid, private equity, public and private debt, emerging markets, clean tech/energy, agriculture, infrastructure, commodities and real estate). He has advised on funds established in various jurisdictions including Jersey, Guernsey, Cayman Islands, BVI, Luxembourg, Ireland, Singapore, Mauritius, Delaware and England. He also advises on a range of portfolio investments, secondaries and other portfolio transactions. Mr. Black is recommended in the area of investment funds by Chambers UK 2016 and is listed as a leading lawyer by Who's Who Legal Private Funds 2016 which notes that he has a "strong reputation in the market for his advice in relation to fund formation and always goes the extra mile for his clients.” | |
| Andrea Bornatico Co-Head of Risk & CCO Argentiere Capital Bio: Andrea Bornatico – Chief Compliance Officer / Co-Head of Risk Andrea joined Argentière in 2015 as Chief Compliance Officer and Co-Head of Risk. Prior to Argentière Andrea spent four years as Head of Risk and Compliance for a Hedge Fund near Zurich. Prior to this role Andrea worked for five years at Man Investments in Zurich and Singapore; lastly as responsible for Hedge Fund Structured Products. Andrea holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen, and a CAS in Financial Markets Law from the University of Zurich. | |
| Jeffrey Bronheim General Counsel Cheyne Capital Jeffrey Bronheim is General Counsel and member of the Executive Committee of Cheyne Capital which he joined in 2007. Prior to Cheyne, Jeff was counsel for the Drawbridge Liquid Market Hedge Fund business at Fortress Investment Group, including participation in Fortress’ ground-breaking NYSE IPO. From 1997 to 2005 Jeff was Vice President and counsel to the Investment Banking Division at JPMorgan Chase in London, Madrid and New York. At JPMorgan he worked with hedge funds, equity and debt capital markets, derivatives, lending and loan trading, research, compliance, prime brokerage, investment management and environmental policy. Jeff was also Investment Banking Counsel at Credit Suisse in New York and London, and started his legal career as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton specializing in International Securities work. Jeff received his bachelor's degree in Finance magna cum laude from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from the Law School at the University of Chicago. Prior to Law School, Jeff ran a consulting business and worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was a founding member of the FSA committee on Market Abuse, and is a Senior Member of the UK Hedge Fund Lawyer’s Association and a member of AIMA Communication and Legal Committees. | |
| Caroline Chang General Counsel & CCO Farallon Capital Europe Ms. Chang joined Farallon in 2008 and is the GC and CCO, as well as a Member of, Farallon Capital Europe LLP. Previously, Ms. Chang worked at Morgan Stanley and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in London. Ms. Chang is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and she sits on the boards of various charitable organisations in the UK with a particular focus on children and animals. | |
| Nicholas Colston Partner Simmons & Simmons Nick Colston is a partner in the Financial Services Regulation group at Simmons & Simmons in London. Nick specialises in advising buy-side firms on all aspects of the UK and EU regulatory regimes. Nick’s primary focus is advising alternative fund managers (both in the UK and globally) on regulatory issues including EU law, compliance with the FCA Rules, client documentation, compliance policies and procedures, anti-financial crime requirements and cross-border business. Nick is at the forefront of advising on the impact of regulatory change on fund managers, including MiFID 2, AIFMD, MAR, and the Short Selling Regulation. He is advising widely on the implementation of MiFID 2 in the UK and EU, including carrying out scoping and impact analysis work for many leading asset management firms, advising on business changes and processes, and drafting updated documentation. | |
| Monica Comyns CCO ISAM Monica is the Chief Compliance Officer for ISAM. She has over 20 years experience in the financial markets having held a number of senior legal and compliance roles both on the buy-side and sell-side as well as with the UK regulator. Prior to joining ISAM, Monica was for 5 years, the Chief Compliance Counsel for credit hedge fund, Lucidus Capital Partners. Following its closure in 2016, she joined private equity firm, Bain Capital as the Head of European Compliance. Latterly, she was the Chief Compliance Officer at Dalton Strategic Partnership. Monica is also a qualified solicitor admitted to the Law Society of Scotland. | |
| Joachim Cour Senior Associate Elvinger Hoss Prussen Joachim Cour joined Elvinger Hoss Prussen in 2008 and became a member of the Luxembourg Bar in 2010. Joachim holds a maîtrise en droit from the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France) and a maîtrise in political science as well as a DU (diplôme universitaire) in philosophy of law from the Université de Montpellier (France). Prior to joining the firm, Joachim worked for a Luxembourg advisory firm as a legal analyst in corporate law. | |
| Ben Dixon General Counsel, Director Systematica Investments Former Legal Counsel, BlueCrest. Before joining Systematica, Ben previously worked for BlueCrest Capital for 9 years as Legal Counsel. He joined BlueCrest in 2005 from McDermott, Will & Emery, where he was an Associate Solicitor in the corporate department. He qualified as a solicitor in September 2003 with Allen & Overy in London, where he worked in the corporate and mergers & acquisitions department. Ben graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge University in 2000 and holds MA (Cantab) Law. He undertook his LPC at Nottingham Law School in 2001. | |
| Reggie Dodge CCO & Legal Counsel Emso Asset Management Reggie started her career in 1997 as an attorney at Anderson, Kill & Olick in New York before joining W.P Stewart & Co in New York, and later in London, in various company secretarial, legal and compliance roles. Following that, she acted as Assistant General Counsel, then General Counsel and Head of Compliance for a variety of boutique financial services firms, with responsibility for ensuring compliance with the rules and regulations of the SEC, FCA, SFC and other key national financial regulators. Reggie now focuses her practice on regulatory law, governance, and ESG matters. Reggie is currently a member of AIMA’s Sound Practices Committee. She joined Emso in 2013. Reggie earned a BA in Philosophy and a JD from the University of Michigan and has an MBA from London Business School. | |
| Adam Donoghue Partner, Investment Funds Maples & Calder Adam is a partner in the Irish investment funds practice of Maples and Calder. His practice focuses on advising UK and European asset managers and counsel on the structuring, establishment and authorisation of a wide spectrum of Irish regulated UCITS and AIFs, regulated AIFMs and UCITS management companies, and unregulated partnership and SPV structures. His practice also covers the corporate governance, financing and cross-border distribution, management and migration of such entities into and out of Ireland. | |
| Maria Douloubakas Global CCO Andurand Capital Maria Douloubakas joined Andurand Capital Management LLP (“Andurand Capital” the “Firm”) in August 2012 as the Firm’s Global Chief Compliance Officer (CF10) and MRLO (CF11), where she is responsible for the management and oversight of the Andurand’s day to day compliance matters (in the UK, Malta and US) and legal. Prior to this Ms Douloubakas worked within the Business Management Team at BlueGold Capital Management LLP in June 2011 where she focused on the BlueGold’s Compliance and Legal matters. From 2008-2011 Ms Douloubakas was a Consultant at The IMS Group (now Cordium) where she managed the compliance arrangements and undertook a monitoring and advisory role for a diverse portfolio of buy side clients and strategies, ranging from Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Real Estate and Corporate Finance. She also led IMS’s Financial Crime product focusing on Anti-Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing and Anti-bribery. During her time at IMS Ms Douloubakas obtained the Charted Institute of Securities and Investment Diploma in Investment Compliance. Ms Douloubakas graduated from Brunel University with a 2.1 LLB Business Finance Law degree in 2004 and completed the Legal Practice Course at The College of Law, London, in 2005. After completing her legal studies she went on to join DLA Piper UK LLP where she worked within the Risk Management Team. | |
| Emma Dwyer KYC Screening Specialist Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions Emma Birchenough-Dwyer is a KYC and KYV Screening Specialist for Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions. She has eight years’ experience in due diligence, workflow and data for AML, ABAC and Third Party Risk Management working with businesses as diverse as financial services, corporates, online gaming & gambling, law firms, and even premier league football clubs. Emma has successfully implemented clients across UK and Ireland, offshore financial centres (OFCs), Scandinavia, Netherlands and the Middle East. Emma is a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and is a qualified Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). Emma earned her BMus in Classical Music from Goldsmiths, University of London graduating in 2009 in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Inspired, Emma’s passion shifted from music to Risk & Compliance with a particular enthusiasm for ensuring companies are at the forefront of developments in RegTech while maintaining high InfoSec standards. | |
| Ben Ellenbogen General Counsel & CCO City Financial Investment Company Limited Ben Ellenbogen is General Counsel & Deputy Head of Compliance at City Financial. He is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law. Prior to moving into hedge funds he worked as a securities litigator in New York. | |
| Tanya Farrell General Counsel, CCO Coupland Cardiff Asset Management Tanya Farrell is General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Coupland Cardiff Asset Management LLP which is an Asian specialist equity manager with offices in London and Singapore and $1.9 billion of assets under management. Prior to this, she was a partner and General Counsel at Sloane Robinson for 13 years. Tanya has held senior roles at the UK regulator and has sat on the board of several hedge funds. Tanya is qualified as a solicitor in New Zealand, England and Wales and has degrees in Law and Commerce. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Fellow of the Institute of Securities and Investments. | |
| Sebastian Frizzo Head of Regulatory Affairs Lynx Asset Management Sebastian Frizzo (b. 1979) has been Head of Regulatory Affairs at Lynx Asset Management since August 2014. Lynx was founded in 1999 and is one of the world's leading firms within model-based asset management (CTA/Managed Futures). After graduation with an LLM from Stockholm University in November 2004, Sebastian served as a legal counsellor for Finansinspektionen, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. After a few years with Swedbank Robur’s legal department (2007-2009) he was appointed Group Compliance Officer by Brummer & Partners in 2009. | |
| Moderator: Paul Govier Partner Maples & Calder Paul is the Managing Partner of Maples and Calder's London office, and head of the firm's Investment Funds practice group in London. He specialises in the establishment and maintenance of all kinds of investment funds, in particular private equity funds and hedge funds, advising a range of investment managers, intermediaries and financial institutions. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and contributor to journals. Paul has been named in The International Who's Who of Private Funds Lawyers, where he was described as "incredibly knowledgeable on funds" and has been recommended in Chambers Global and Legal 500. Paul has been named as a key individual in Chambers UK and described as, "a real superstar" who offers "practical, helpful and detailed advice." | |
| Ash Gulati General Counsel, Partner Renshaw Bay LLP Ash is General Counsel and a partner of Renshaw Bay LLP, which was established by Bill Winters in 2011 as an independent asset manager focussed on illiquid credit opportunities. Previously, Ash was Global General Counsel of Religare Capital Markets, having earlier spent five years as a funds and derivatives lawyer with each of UBS Investment Bank and Simmons & Simmons. | |
| Meekal Hashmi Senior Global Counsel AMG Meekal Hashmi oversees AMG’s global regulatory and compliance team supporting the AMG’s global distribution offices in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Australia. Prior to joining AMG in 2015, Mr. Hashmi was General Counsel, EMEA and Latin America, and Board Director at Neuberger Berman Europe Limited, and was previously General Counsel at Old Mutual Asset Managers. Mr. Hashmi holds an LL.M. Degree from the London School of Economics and a B.S. from Edinburgh University. | |
| Kate Haswell CCO Chenavari Investment Managers Kate Haswell joined Chenavari in 2015 as Chief Compliance Officer & MLRO. Prior to this, she Head of Compliance and the MLRO for CQS and was responsible for all regulatory matters across all CQS Funds and regulated entities. Prior to joining CQS in 2006, Kate worked for A.G. Edwards & Sons for five years in a similar role, overseeing European and US clients for Money Laundering and Compliance related matters. Before this, she worked in a compliance and trading role at Australia’s oldest stock broking firm, Joseph Palmer and Sons. Kate is a Chartered Fellow (FCSI) of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, and a Senior Associate (SAFin) of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. She holds a B.Comm in Economics and Finance from the University of Western Sydney; a Postgraduate Diploma in Advance Investment and Finance from Financial Services Institute of Australasia; a Graduate Diploma in Regulation and Compliance from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment of England; a Diploma in Money Laundering from the International Compliance Association, and a MSc (Regulation) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. | |
| Thomas John Holton Partner Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP John Holton is a partner in the investment management practice of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Mr. Holton’s practice is concentrated on advising on U.S. regulation of investment managers, and launching and restructuring hedge funds, private equity funds and real estate partnerships. He has extensive experience on the international application of SEC and CFTC regulations and advises numerous non-U.S. asset managers on compliance with these rules. Mr. Holton is a global leader in emerging markets funds and has advised clients with numerous funds targeting Asian, African, South American and Middle Eastern markets. Mr. Holton also handles a wide range of other business, financing and commercial work for both U.S. and non-U.S. clients. He has assisted several non-U.S. asset managers on the setup of their U.S. operations. | |
| Adam Jacobs-Dean Director, Global Head of Markets Regulation AIMA Adam Jacobs-Dean joined AIMA in February 2013 and is Global Head of Markets Regulation. Prior to joining AIMA, he worked at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), where he focused on European regulatory initiatives dealing with OTC derivatives markets, notably the review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Adam started his career at the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA), where he worked in both policy and supervisory roles. He also undertook a number of projects for the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR). In 2009 he was seconded from the FSA to the European Commission in Brussels, where he worked on Solvency II. Adam has an MA in German and French from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in European Policy and Management from Birkbeck. | |
| Kalika Jayasekera Head of Regulatory Affairs & Compliance, EMEA The Blackstone Group Kalika Jayasekera is a Senior Vice President in the Legal & Compliance Group. Ms. Jayasekera is responsible for regulatory and compliance matters for Blackstone in the EMEA region and is Blackstone’s FCA registered Money Laundering Reporting Officer. Before joining Blackstone in August 2015, Ms. Jayasekera acted as a General Counsel and Head of Compliance in the hedge fund industry in London for over 10 years. Ms. Jayasekera was a co-founding member of the Hedge Fund Lawyers’ Association in London. Prior to that, Ms. Jayasekera headed up the derivatives legal team for ANZ Investment Bank in Melbourne. Ms. Jayasekera received a first class Master of Laws (Corporate and Securities Law) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Japanese and History) from The University of Melbourne. In 2016, Ms. Jayasekera was appointed as a governor of the LSE’s Court of Governors and a member of the LSE Investment Committee and Nominations Committee. She was a co-founder and co-editor of the Melbourne Journal of International Law. Ms. Jayasekera is admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales and has also been admitted as a Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. | |
| Boura Kym Tomlinson Cann Chief Legal & Compliance Officer Polar Capital Boura joined Polar Capital in October 2007. She is responsible for the legal and compliance functions within the group companies. Before joining Polar Capital she spent nearly 8 years at the Financial Services Authority as an Enforcement manager bringing disciplinary cases against investment firms and as a manager supervising wholesale & derivatives firms. Prior to joining the FSA she was a manager at Metropolitan Securities and Life. Boura is an attorney and solicitor admitted to practice law in California (1996) and in England and Wales (2002). | |
| Moderator: Anna Maleva-Otto Partner Schulte Roth & Zabel Anna Maleva-Otto joined SRZ’s London office in 2014 as a partner in the Investment Management Regulatory & Compliance Group. A leading financial regulatory lawyer, Anna concentrates her practice on advising asset managers on a range of UK financial services regulatory matters, including the impact of EU directives and regulations, such as MiFID II, PRIIPs, MAR, the Short Selling Regulation, Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, EMIR and SFT Regulation. Her recent experience includes advising asset managers on the establishment of regulated businesses, insider dealing controls, trading compliance, investor disclosure obligations, and implementation of MiFID II. The Legal 500 United Kingdom has recognised Anna as a leading lawyer. In 2017, she was named as one of The Hedge Fund Journal’s ‘50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds.’ Anna frequently speaks and writes on topics related to her areas of expertise. Most notably, she recently worked with AIMA to produce MiFID2 – A Guide for Investment Managers. Anna received her JD from Emory University School of Law and her MA from Saint Petersburg State University (Russia). | |
| Ian Manson Managing Director Duff & Phelps Ian Manson joined Duff & Phelps in January 2015 from Kinetic Partners. As a result of Duff & Phelps’ acquisition of Kinetic Partners, Duff & Phelps created a dedicated Compliance and Regulatory Consulting Practice. In the compliance consulting team, Ian specializes in providing regulatory advice to clients with a particular focus on Private Equity firms and Hedge funds. He has 15 years experience providing regulatory advice both in-house and consulting. During this time, he has developed a detailed knowledge of the practical application of FCA rules for alternative investment firms. Ian also undertakes bespoke projects for clients drawing on both his regulatory knowledge and previous roles in internal audit and operational control roles for major UK and US banking and broking groups in the UK and overseas. | |
| Moderator: Ian Meade Partner Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Ian Meade provides advice to asset managers, focusing on the structuring and establishment of investment funds, negotiation of managed account structures and regulatory issues. Mr. Meade has significant experience advising asset managers, particularly hedge fund managers, on a broad range of issues relevant to their businesses. He provides advice to asset managers on the negotiation of investments in funds and other products by institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies and a range of other institutional investors. Mr. Meade also advises clients on transactions involving asset management businesses and financial services regulatory matters. He is recognized as a leading lawyer by the Legal 500 and is recognized as a Leading Individual by Chambers UK and Chambers Europe in the area of Investment Funds. | |
| Moderator: Penny Miller Partner Simmons & Simmons Penny is a partner in the financial services regulation practice at Simmons & Simmons. Penny specialises in a wide range of UK and EU regulatory matters, including advising financial institutions on product regulation and the impact of current and future regulation on transactions relating to derivatives, structured finance and retail structured products. In addition, Penny is advising extensively on MAR, PRIIPs, the Benchmark Regulation and MiFID2 as well as regulating people under the Senior Managers Regime and managing related conduct risk and culture issues. | |
| Moana Moore Global Head of Compliance CQS Moana has worked in financial regulation since 1995 and over the course of her career has worked for the Investors Compensation Scheme in London and the Competition Regulator and Securities Regulator in New Zealand. In 2007, Moana moved into alternative asset management where she worked at Sloane Robinson before taking up the Head of Compliance role at to Arrowgrass Capital Partners LLP. She joined CQS (UK) LLP, a global multi strategy asset management firm, as Global Head of Compliance in 2014. | |
| Rena Morjaria Group General Counsel & CCO Amber Capital Rena Morjaria joined Amber Capital in 2017 as Group General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to Amber, she was an Executive Director and Senior Counsel at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Management Division, where she led the funds legal team for Goldman Sachs Asset Management in EMEA, focusing on UCITS, hedge funds, private equity and alternative investments. Prior to joining Goldman in 2010, she was senior legal counsel at the hedge fund CQS and Vice President at Merrill Lynch where she was the lead lawyer for the Structured Solutions, Funds and Alternative Investments Group. Rena begin her career at Linklaters, where she qualified into the Derivatives and Structured Products Group, working in London and New York. She earned her BA(Hons) in Law from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University. | |
| Milos Naumovic General Counsel, Europe Millennium Capital Partners Milos Naumovic is General Counsel, Europe, at Millennium Capital Partners LLP. Milos was a securities litigator in private practice in New York, prior to joining the financial sector in 2007. He joined Millennium in 2015, following several years working for Man Group. Milos is a graduate of Columbia University and New York University School of Law | |
| Philip Niel General Counsel & CCO Egerton Capital Philip joined Egerton in 2013 and is the firm’s General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, a member of the Management Committee and a partner. He started his career at Linklaters, where he trained and qualified as a lawyer. | |
| Donnacha O'Connor Partner Dillon Eustace Donnacha has over 15 years’ experience in structuring, establishing and advising Irish regulated investment funds and in providing regulatory advice to financial services firms operating in Ireland. His clients include privately-owned and institutional investment managers representing a wide range of asset classes – including fixed income, equity, credit, hedge, managed futures, real estate, private equity, commodities and insurance linked securities. Donnacha advises regulated financial services and market infrastructure firms, including market makers, multilateral trading facilities, order routers, prime brokers, derivative dealers, investment managers, Alternative Investment Fund Managers, UCITS management companies, investment advisers, fund administrators and fund depositaries. Donnacha has held in-house counsel posts at a hedge fund manager in Paris and a securities services firm in Dublin. | |
| Michael Regan General Counsel Citco Fund Services Michael Regan is the General Counsel of Citco Fund Services responsible for all legal and regulatory matters. Prior to joining Citco in 2005, Mr. Regan was the General Counsel of the Alternative Fund Services division of HSBC in New York and was previously senior in-house legal counsel for HSBC securities services group in Hong Kong. Mr. Regan has over 20 years experience in the financial services sector having previously worked in the investment management practices of Stephenson Harwood and Paul Weiss before joining HSBC. | |
| Max Rijkenberg Head of Legal | EMEA & Direct Trading PAAMCO Max Rijkenberg, LLM is Head of Legal - EMEA & Direct Trading. As a member of the Legal & Investment Structuring Group, Max is responsible for the structuring, negotiation and ongoing monitoring of investments with underlying managers, and providing counsel to each of the firm’s various departments on legal matters, including compliance with applicable laws and regulations. He also acts as legal counsel to PAAMCO’s direct trading division, which manages long-only equity portfolios in select emerging markets. In addition, Max oversees compliance for PAAMCO’s London office. Prior to joining PAAMCO, Max was an associate in the investment funds group of Akin Gump in New York. Max graduated from the University of Amsterdam with JD-equivalent degrees in Dutch Law and European & International Public Law, and received his LLM from New York University School of Law. Max also spent time at Columbia University Law School and at the École de Droit of the Sorbonne. He is admitted to the Bar in New York. | |
| Lisa Roitman Business Development & Marketing Specialist Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions LISA L. ROITMAN is a marketing and business strategist for Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions with a focus on regulatory compliance technology including Bloomberg’s Entity Exchange. Previously she served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Litespeed Management LLC, an SEC registered Investment Adviser and has held multiple business, legal and compliance positions both on the buy-side and on the sell-side throughout her career. Ms. Roitman experienced first-hand the largest US bankruptcy as Managing Director at Lehman Brothers in 2008. Ms. Roitman then spent three years running teams tasked with working on the unwind of Lehman's derivative assets and setting up a claim and valuation process for defaulted Lehman bonds before leaving the bankrupt estate to join the hedge fund industry as a General Counsel of the Kenmar Group a Fund of Hedge Funds and managed account platform. In addition to being a member of the Board of Directors of the Hedge Fund Association, Ms. Roitman is a member of Women in Derivatives and 100 Women in Finance. Ms. Roitman has been active in the Managed Futures Association and has spoken at Hedge Fund Association, Operations for Alternatives, Fund Finance Association and Hellenic Banking Association events. Ms. Roitman earned her LLM in International Banking Law from the Morin Center for Banking Law Studies at Boston University School of Law; her JD from New England Law and her BA from Mount Holyoke College. She is an active mentor having lectured at Barnard College and at Pace Law School and currently mentors active service men and women looking to transition to the private sector through American Corporate Partnership. | |
| Steve Sabatier General Counsel Chenavari Financial Group Steve Sabatier is the Managing Director of Chenavari Investment Managers Luxembourg Sarl and the General Counsel of Chenavari Group. Steve has over 18 years of experience in Derivatives, Structured Finance and Alternative Asset Management. Prior joining Chenavari, from 2006 to 2009 Steve was senior legal counsel with AXA IM in London, dedicated to the Hedge Funds and Funds of Hedge Funds business. Previously from 1999 to 2006, Steve worked for Societe Generale in Paris, as a Derivatives legal adviser in the legal department and then two years supporting the Alternative Management Platform of the Societe General’s subsidiary Lyxor Asset Management before spending two years as Deputy Head of the Debt Instruments Legal Department covering the Structured Credit business. | |
| Stephanie Shepard Cobb MD, Head of European Compliance Ares Management Ms. Shepard Cobb is a Managing Director and Head of European Compliance in the Ares Compliance Group. Prior to joining Ares in 2016, Ms. Shepard Cobb was General Counsel at Napier Park Global Capital. Previously, Ms. Shepard Cobb was General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Stanhope Capital LLP. In addition, she served as General Counsel for New Amsterdam Capital and Counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP’s London and Amsterdam offices. Ms. Shepard Cobb began her career in private practice in the United States. Ms Shepard Cobb serves as a Trustee of the London Children’s Ballet. Ms. Shepard Cobb holds a B.S. from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce in Finance and Marketing and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Ms. Shepard Cobb is a member of the Massachusetts Bar. | |
| Edward Shuttleworth Partner & Counsel BlueCrest Capital Edward joined BlueCrest in 2011 and is responsible for the legal and regulatory affairs of the firm's trading operations globally. He became a partner of the firm in 2013. Prior to BlueCrest, Edward was a senior associate in the Banking & Structured Finance group at Fried Frank, London and spent two years on secondment to Goldman Sachs during the peak of the financial crisis. Edward trained at Ashurst Morris Crisp, where he qualified as a solicitor in 2004, and holds an LLB (Hons) in Law from the University of Nottingham. | |
| Pawel Szopinski Head of IT Operations Sequoia Capital Pawel Szopinski is a senior technology manager with over 15 years of experience including the last 9 years spent at Sequoia Capital LLP and Sequoia Capital Fund Management LLP as the Head of IT Operations supporting their market making and fund management activities. Prior to Sequoia he held a number of senior engineering roles, working for large managed IT infrastructure providers. He is a strong believer in cloud and distributed computing, and automation to improve compliance, risk management and operational processes, business continuity and to maximise value. Pawel holds an MBA in Technology Management from OUBS with hands-on experience and qualifications covering the entire IT stack. He specialises in the financial technology and IT infrastructure supporting traders and fund managers across all asset classes from trade floor to HFT strategies and algorithmic trading as well as strategic and financial planning, cyber security, regulatory and business compliance. | |
| Ryan Taylor Group Head of Compliance Brevan Howard Ryan Taylor is a partner and Group Head of Compliance for Brevan Howard. Ryan is also a member of the AIMA Council, as well as a number of the AIMA policy groups and is also a member of the joint AIMA/MFA Global Steering Group. Prior to joining Brevan Howard in September 2011, Ryan was a Director in the compliance department at Barclays Capital (2002 - 2011), during which he had compliance oversight of a number of different business areas and offices. Prior to Barclays Capital, for the period 1997-2002, Ryan was an Associate at the Bank of England having joined the Bank on the graduate program; his role later moved to the FSA when banking supervision was transferred to that organisation. During this period at the FSA, Ryan moved to the team in the Markets and Exchanges Division that was responsible for the implementation of the first UK market abuse regime and he was one of the UK representatives to the Forum of European Securities Commissions (“FESCO”) team that advised in relation to the scope and implementation of the first EU Market Abuse Directive. While at the FSA he was also seconded to the UK Takeover Panel. | |
| Darren Tingley Head of IT Lansdowne Partners Darren joined Lansdowne Partners in 2008 and was appointed the Head of IT in 2013. Prior to joining Lansdowne Partners Darren was with Insinger de Beaufort for 5 years and has worked in the finance sector for Sixteen years. Darren is Microsoft, Novel, ITIL and Prince2 qualified. Previous to joining the financial sector Darren served for 5 years with the 1st Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery and a number of years carrying out various roles in motorsport. | |
| 0 | Safraz Zavahir Founding Partner, General Counsel, CCO AlbaCore Capital |
