Chartis BuySide Platforms

Mark is the Global Brand Director at Chartis and has over 30 years’ experience in global capital markets, consulting and associated technologies focusing on risk management, front and middle office platforms and data management. Prior to Chartis he has held executive roles in large global financial institutions, consultancies and FinTechs in various positions including platform and software development, solution architecture, large scale program management, vendor selection and implementation and strategy development and execution. With a background covering front, middle and back office Mark brings a holistic view of business, technology and regulatory issues across the enterprise and how these issues can be addressed by leveraging appropriate technology solutions.  His primary focus has been risk technology and includes leading the global teams for risk technology at RBS Capital Markets and AIG, Middle office and front office technology teams at Barclays Capital, extensive consulting experience with major consulting organizations including EY and Deloitte together with extensive vendor experience including time at both Algorithmics and Misys (now Finastra). Mark has an MA from Oxford University and is Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Sid is the Chief Researcher at Chartis Research with more than 20 years of experience in the financial, energy and commodities markets in various functions across the trade and software development lifecycles. He has held various roles in product development, trading, risk management, software development and consulting in banks, hedge funds, and risk advisory and software firms, including Standard Chartered Bank, TCG Group, HCL and Cognizant.

Sid’s specific areas of interest and research include risk data, model risk management, quantitative models in illiquid markets, high-performance analytics, energy and commodity trading risk, market structure design, new computational models, and the use of innovative mathematical methods in various emerging areas of risk management .He has a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and is a qualified Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst CAIA, Financial Risk Manager (FRM) ,Energy Risk Professional (ERP), Member of GARP and CIPM from the CFA institute.

Based in London, Gemma is the global head of the FX Solutions Sales team within HSBC’s Global Markets business. Gemma is responsible for the strategic direction of the team and the origination of new business aswell as the management of clients’ globally across FX Prime Brokerage, FX Overlay and FX solutions for Custody. In her current role, Gemma's client base stretches across the industry, working with hedge funds, financial institutions, asset managers, corporates and asset owners, as well as regulators, vendors and clearing houses. Gemma has helped manage the expansion of the business since she joined HSBC in 2012 and held the position of Global Head of FX Prime Brokerage before her current role.  Prior to HSBC, Gemma spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs, first working in Foreign Exchange sales and FX & Derivatives Prime Brokerage, and then in a broader role covering hedge funds for Listed Derivatives clearing and electronic and algorithmic execution. This wider markets focus provided early exposure to the growth of digitalisation and the changing regulatory environment, which are now significant drivers for our business.

Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. He is working with advocacy groups, policy makers and regulators to follow market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry. He is also leading innovation activities in the capital market space within ING and developing external partnership with Fintech companies. He actively contributes in industry working groups to represent ING Bank.

Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank e-commerce initiatives across all financial market products and to develop the financial market group’s cross-asset ecommerce strategy. Before joining ING, he spent eight years at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC eCommerce, creating an eCommerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market and FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JPMorgan Chase for ten years, serving in different roles in Global FX E-Commerce Business Management and cross-asset eCommerce technology and was based in London and New York.

Stéphane has a strong background in financial markets and understands the need for continued technological development to drive positive change in trading and market structure workflows. He is leading ING Financial Market innovation strategy and working on the implementation of financial regulations that will impact the clients trading activity and transform how trading floor operates.

Stéphane is also an advisor or board member for several Fintech initiatives and trading associations in Fixed income and FX. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial Market Association - an international non-profit organisation that represents the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets. He chaired the ACI FX committee from 2010 for 10 years and joined ACI FMA board in 2020 and became chairman of the board in June 2021. He is also an active member of the ECB FX contact group and a board member of ICMA since May 2023.

James was most recently the Head of Capital Markets at Capitolis, a financial technology firm. In this role he led a business focused on providing technology enabled funding solutions to a broad array of institutional market participants. 

Previously he was the Chief Executive Officer of Currenex, a leading exchange wholly owned by State Street Global Markets. James joined in 2017 to lead that company's transformational efforts with oversight of all business operations. Prior to joining State Street, he served as Senior Managing Director, Head of Foreign Exchange and Macro Sales and Trading at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., a privately held investment bank. A member of the firm’s senior operating committee his responsibility extended to capital management, technology initiatives and strategic investments among others. From 2009-2013 he was the Global Co-Head of FX and Derivatives Prime Brokerage at Morgan Stanley, a business launched within the Fixed Income division. 

During his tenure he established and managed prime financing desks in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Brazil. 

James spent the first decade of his career at J.P. Morgan in various derivatives sales positions. 

James studied English and American Literature at New York University. He is a lifelong resident of New York City where he lives today with his family.

Luke Colairo is a seasoned operations professional with over eight years of experience in the financial services sector, currently serving as the Head of Operations at Chepstow Lane Capital LLP in London. His expertise spans across various aspects of operations management, risk assessment, and process improvement, particularly within investment management firms.

Prior to his current role, Luke was the Head of Operations at BennBridge UK for nearly two years. In this capacity, he managed a team of four, led the setup of a US Collective Investment Trust, and chaired the firm’s Valuation Committee. He also played a pivotal role in liquidating a boutique and transforming Cayman funds with sanctioned assets into a “zombie” state. His responsibilities extended to writing a white paper for the Global CEO on implementing a Global Order Management System and investigating process efficiencies related to the US move to T+1 settlement.

Before his tenure at BennBridge UK, Luke was an Operations Manager at the same firm, where he co-managed the Operations team, set up the UCITS ICAV platform, and implemented Bloomberg FXGO and TSOX for electronic execution of FX and Fixed Income products. His skills in VBA were instrumental in creating macros for performance reporting and management fee calculations.

Luke’s career began at Credit Suisse, where he held roles including Operations Analyst and Operations Control and Risk Intern. At Credit Suisse, he successfully completed the Cabot Control project, identified process latencies in OTC Documentation, and created Excel macros that saved significant time for his team

Russell J. Newman, CIPM, is a seasoned operations executive with over two decades of experience in the asset and wealth management industry. His career has been primarily on the buy side managing all areas of the business including portfolio accounting, operations, technology, performance measurement, data management, and operational risk. In Russell’s prior role as former Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Rothschild & Co Asset Management US Inc., he has designed, led and implemented a full operational platform transformation from an on-premise to an outsourcing solution to enhance efficiencies, scalability, redundancy while minimizing operational risk. In addition, Russell has been a chair and/or member of many firm committees such as Management, New Product, Trade Error, Vendor Management, Operational Risk Management, Proxy, GIPS, Best Execution and Business Continuity. Russell also worked at Times Square Capital Management overseeing global operations and performance, and, before that, at EMS Capital, L.P., Hawkstone Capital, Bear Stearns Asset Management, Elliot Management and Pricewaterhouse Coopers where he audited clients in the asset management industry.  

Russell has an MBA in Finance from Baruch College and dual Bachelors degrees from the University of Delaware in Accounting, Finance and Operations Management. In addition, he holds the Certificate in Performance Measurement (“CIPM”). Russell is a regular industry speaker, advisory board member and thought leader on operations, performance, client service, data and technology conferences and publications.  
 

Dan has spent his career building and taking to market enterprise software solutions to evolve capital markets technology and improve workflow across the industry. Dan’s passion for data visualization led to his co-founding of ChartIQ (which sold to S&P Global in 2022), and his drive to solve industry app overload led to his co-founding of the interoperability platform, Finsemble, in 2017. Dan is currently President and Co-founder of interop.io, formed from the merger of Glue42 and Finsemble.  

Divay is currently Director, FICC E-Trading & Market Structure at Bank of America. Based in London, Divay is responsible for defining and delivering Bank of America’s strategy on Electronic Trading and Market Structure in FX and Local Currency Trading. Previously, Divay was a Director of FX Products at CME Group managing the exchange’s listed FX franchise in EMEA, with a focus on Emerging Markets and FX Options. Prior to that, Divay held a number of roles on the sell-side in the FX and Derivatives space. Divay holds a Bachelor in Engineering and an MBA from University of Delhi

Jon is the CEO and co-founder of Velox, a fintech focused on delivering the future of front office technology. A future that modernizes the user experience, maximizes the value of data and trade-flows and enables fast change. Prior to founding Velox, Jon was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he held roles as Head of Equities Trading Technology and Head of Operations Technology. 
At GS, he focused on the electronification of the Equities market through the 00’s and then more recently the implementation of Dodd Frank and the large-scale industrialization of the Operations function.
 

Jon was also an MD at RBS where he co-headed Markets Technology and was responsible for building a cross-asset flow trading platform that could be used both internally and directly by clients.
Jon began his career in the late 90’s as developer at Natwest Markets in Asia, building Index Arbitrage systems and holds a BSc in Software Engineering from University of Birmingham.
 

Graham is the CEO of BlueX, he leads the new FX EMS set to revolutionise the market with integrated Pre-Trade analytics, providing real-time insights for informed decisions, resulting in optimal execution efficiency.

As a finance veteran with over 25 years’ experience, Graham’s career spans investment banking, fintech trading platforms, and leading elite sales and relationship management teams.

Graham ran the regulatory board for both Refinitiv and LSEG’s MTF businesses as CEO, and has a deep domain understanding of financial markets and insights from overseeing some of the world’s largest FX platforms.

He has held leadership roles at JP Morgan, Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv, and LSEG and has an MA and LLB from the University of Glasgow.

Christophe Rivoire worked for more than 25 years in the Fixed Income industry and spent more than 20 years working for HSBC in Europe and in the US. Educated at the Paris Dauphine University, Christophe gained a Master degree in Mathematics Applied to Economics in 1992 and the DESS 203 on International Financial Markets which he achieved just a year later in 1993.

Christophe started his career at Louis Dreyfus Finance before joining HSBC in 1998. He was initially based in Paris where he was part of the European Rates team before becoming Head of Euro Rates activity in 2006. In 2010, he moved to the US to take the reponsibility of the North America Rates trading activity before moving to London in 2015 to take the Global responsibility of the Vanilla Rates trading. 

As he has always been interested in innovation and technology, he left the banking industry at the end of 2018 to start being involved in the Fintech ecosystem. He has been working for Opensee (ex ICA) since 2019 which provides an innovative solution to Front Office, Risk departments to visualize, manipulate, aggregate on the fly on any axe on trillions of data points (Risk data, trade data...)
On top of it, he is an investor and BA involved in several projects in the Financial Industry

Hilal's career spans 20+ years in Foreign Exchange and Electronic trading at Standard Chartered Bank, culminating in managing the global eFX trading business. He has extensive experience in algorithmic trading, technology, market structure & liquidity and has a passion for building teams, data science, Innovation  & behavioral economics.

Garth Appelt is a Managing Director, Head of Foreign Exchange at Mizuho Americas. Prior to Mizuho, Garth was a Senior Managing Director at UBS where he was the Global Head of Emerging Markets, Global Head of G10 Foreign Exchange Spot FX, and Global Head of Precious Metals Trading. At UBS, Garth was a member of the FRC Americas Executive Committee and FRC Global Management Committee. Garth also served as a board member for the Emerging Markets Traders Association (EMTA). Prior to joining UBS, Appelt was a Portfolio Manager at Moore Capital Management specializing in G10 and Emerging Market directional and relative value strategies in foreign exchange, interest rates, credit and equities. Over a 25-year career, Appelt has also held positions at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan in New York, Paris and London.

Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. He is working with advocacy groups, policy makers and regulators to follow market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry. He is also leading innovation activities in the capital market space within ING and developing external partnership with Fintech companies. He actively contributes in industry working groups to represent ING Bank.

Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank e-commerce initiatives across all financial market products and to develop the financial market group’s cross-asset ecommerce strategy. Before joining ING, he spent eight years at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC eCommerce, creating an eCommerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market and FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JPMorgan Chase for ten years, serving in different roles in Global FX E-Commerce Business Management and cross-asset eCommerce technology and was based in London and New York.

Stéphane has a strong background in financial markets and understands the need for continued technological development to drive positive change in trading and market structure workflows. He is leading ING Financial Market innovation strategy and working on the implementation of financial regulations that will impact the clients trading activity and transform how trading floor operates.

Stéphane is also an advisor or board member for several Fintech initiatives and trading associations in Fixed income and FX. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial Market Association - an international non-profit organisation that represents the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets. He chaired the ACI FX committee from 2010 for 10 years and joined ACI FMA board in 2020 and became chairman of the board in June 2021. He is also an active member of the ECB FX contact group and a board member of ICMA since May 2023.

Maryam focuses on risk-aware accounting and advanced analytics in financial risk management and has been a lead analyst and author on a variety of industry and thought-leadership reports covering areas including insurance risk systems, asset and liability management, and credit risk analytics. She also works on Chartis’ governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) research, focusing on model risk management, and runs Chartis’ production, specializing in visualizations. Maryam holds a first-class BA Honours from the London School of Economics and is currently completing a master's degree in computation and cognition; she also has a certificate in Risk in Financial Services from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Sid is the Chief Researcher at Chartis Research with more than 20 years of experience in the financial, energy and commodities markets in various functions across the trade and software development lifecycles. He has held various roles in product development, trading, risk management, software development and consulting in banks, hedge funds, and risk advisory and software firms, including Standard Chartered Bank, TCG Group, HCL and Cognizant.

Sid’s specific areas of interest and research include risk data, model risk management, quantitative models in illiquid markets, high-performance analytics, energy and commodity trading risk, market structure design, new computational models, and the use of innovative mathematical methods in various emerging areas of risk management .He has a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and is a qualified Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst CAIA, Financial Risk Manager (FRM) ,Energy Risk Professional (ERP), Member of GARP and CIPM from the CFA institute.

Russell J. Newman, CIPM, is a seasoned operations executive with over two decades of experience in the asset and wealth management industry. His career has been primarily on the buy side managing all areas of the business including portfolio accounting, operations, technology, performance measurement, data management, and operational risk. In Russell’s prior role as former Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Rothschild & Co Asset Management US Inc., he has designed, led and implemented a full operational platform transformation from an on-premise to an outsourcing solution to enhance efficiencies, scalability, redundancy while minimizing operational risk. In addition, Russell has been a chair and/or member of many firm committees such as Management, New Product, Trade Error, Vendor Management, Operational Risk Management, Proxy, GIPS, Best Execution and Business Continuity. Russell also worked at Times Square Capital Management overseeing global operations and performance, and, before that, at EMS Capital, L.P., Hawkstone Capital, Bear Stearns Asset Management, Elliot Management and Pricewaterhouse Coopers where he audited clients in the asset management industry.  

Russell has an MBA in Finance from Baruch College and dual Bachelors degrees from the University of Delaware in Accounting, Finance and Operations Management. In addition, he holds the Certificate in Performance Measurement (“CIPM”). Russell is a regular industry speaker, advisory board member and thought leader on operations, performance, client service, data and technology conferences and publications.  
 

Sudipto is the head of investment risk for Principal Asset Management focusing across all asset classes. Sudipto joined Principal in April 2022. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Head of Investment Risk at Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC, an independent, privately held investment management company, where he spent six years developing and executing the investment risk management program across all asset classes. 

Before Lord Abbett, Sudipto spent seven years at Goldman Sachs as a fixed income quantitative strategist focusing on asset backed securities, commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities and real estate. Sudipto has a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA and is also a CFA charter holder.

Julia is an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, CEO of Data4Real, LLC, a Board Advisor to several startups and Chair of Technology Advisory Council of Women Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA). 

She is a recognized thought leader in data driven digital transformation with over 25 years of experience in building technology and business capabilities that enable business growth, innovation, and agility. Julia has led transformational initiatives in many financial services companies such as Voya Financial, Deutsche Bank Citi, FINRA, Freddie Mac, and others. 

Julia is a much sought-after speaker and mentor in the industry, and she has received recognition across the industry for her significant contributions. She has been named to engatica 2023 list of World’s Top 200 Business and Technology Innovators; received 2022 WLDA Changemaker in AI award; has been named to CDO Magazine’s List of Global Data Power Women three years in the row; named Top 150 Business Transformation Leader by Constellation Research in 2019; and recognized as the Best Data Management Practitioner by A-Team Data Management Insight in 2017.

She holds a Master of Arts in Economics from New York University.