Rina is part of the Digital Assets team at Goldman Sachs, focused on the application of blockchain technology to traditional financial assets and activity. Prior to her current role, Rina worked on the Cross Asset Financing team at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo and started her career at the Bank of Japan.

Michael Brown is a partner in the derivatives and structured products practice at Clifford Chance. Michael specialises in securities financing transactions, derivatives and bespoke collateral structures. Michael also advises on a range of related regulatory developments and innovations in the market, such as the use of digital assets.

I have worked at Fidelity International since 2017 were I head up Trade Management Services Securities team in EMA coverings all post trade lifecycle processes including oversight of our Securities Lending Programme. Prior experience has been in on the broker / dealer side where I have held a variety of roles managing teams within Securities Operations and in Change Management functions. I am currently co -chair of the DTCC EMEA Regional Advisory committee, active on several T+1 buy side industry working groups and a member of the Irish Funds Fintech working group.

Ina is EMEA Head of Regulatory Strategy & Industry Affairs for BNY Mellon’s Securities Finance business and Head of ESG for BNYM’s Markets division. She serves in a business advisory role and is responsible for leading the business’ efforts to identify and capitalize on new opportunities in a changing regulatory environment. She is also responsible for the Markets ESG commercial strategy at Bank of New York Mellon. Ina joined BNYM in 2018 from the State Street Bank & Trust Securities Finance business, where she was Head of Regulatory Affairs, EMEA. Prior to that Ina was Managing Counsel for State Street’s Securities Finance business in EMEA and previously, derivatives & securities finance legal counsel supporting the equity finance and money markets desks at Deutsche Bank AG, London. Ina is Chair of the ISLA Board of Directors and co-Chairs the ISLA ESG SteerCo, she is a member of the Bank of England Money Markets Committee, the Bank of England Securities Lending Committee and is Chair of the Bank of England Money Markets Code sub-committee. In addition, she co-leads Women in Securities Finance London.

Adrian joined ISLA in January 2019 as Head of Regulation & Markets group. In this role, he manages the associations work on regulation, technology, and market practices of the EMEA Securities Lending markets.

Adrian has over 30 years of experience in financial services including diverse roles in product development, business analysis, IT development, trading, and operations at BNP Paribas, Barclays and BNY Mellon. Prior to joining ISLA Adrian was head of product development for SFTR at IHS Market.

Caroline Dawson is a Partner in the financial regulation group in Clifford Chance’s London office. Ms. Dawson specializes in advising financial institutions and other market participants on financial market regulation, mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector and securities and derivatives transactions. Ms. Dawson regularly advises leading investment and commercial banks, industry associations and other clients on financial regulation and participates in industry committees and working groups on financial regulatory issues.

Alina Dragomir joined the Post Trading Team at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in 2014, where she has been involved in the elaboration of the CSDR Level 2 measures, as well as in other regulatory and supervisory convergence measures related to CSDs and settlement. Alina coordinates ESMA’s activities related to TARGET2-Securities (T2S). She also coordinates ESMA’s work on the implementation of the DLT Pilot Regime in the EU. Prior to this, Alina worked for the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority for 7 years, where she followed post trading issues. In this capacity, she took part in the Council negotiations of EMIR and CSDR. She also contributed to the work of European Commission expert groups, as well as CESR and then ESMA post trading expert committees. She holds an MSc in Economics from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Alina has extensive experience and expertise in EU policy and regulation covering CSDs and securities settlement.

Andy joined ISLA in 2013 and took over as Chief Executive in mid-2016. As well as leading our advocacy efforts with policymakers and regulators, he is also responsible for defining the aims and objectives of the Association and ensuring that we meet the needs and requirements of our member firms across Europe, Middle East & Africa. He regularly participates in panel discussions at conferences and events, representing the interests of the industry and advocating the importance of securities lending to the efficient functioning of the broader capital markets.

Prior to joining ISLA, he held senior product and account management roles across the securities finance industry including Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Prudential M&G and IHS Markit (formerly Data Explorers).

Before joining the world of capital markets, Andy worked in commercial and corporate finance banking including aerospace finance.

Ruth is responsible for MUFG global client coverage focusing primarily on Rates, Repo and Securities Lending.  Prior to joining MUFG in 2012, Ruth worked in various roles across the global markets business at Goldman Sachs International and Citigroup London.  Having worked in London and Amsterdam, Ruth is expected to relocate to Tokyo in early 2024 as part of a global Rates initiative within the broader MUFG Group.

She is an active member of the MUFG Alliance Networks with a strong focus on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, Social Mobility, Mentoring and Sponsorship.  She is a MUFG Board Culture representative and spokesperson for the wider MUFG Group.

Externally, she is involved with various ICMA Networks, Women in Security Finance, 100 Women in  Finance as well  as being an active contributing member of the LCH Collateral Advisory Group and the ICMA Bond Market Liquidity Taskforce.

Outside banking, she is a Trustee and the Treasurer for a London based charity that works with young people and adults with learning differences providing mentoring, development programmes, career advice and counselling.   She is also a member of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and the Confrérie du Sabre d’Or.

In her spare time, she is a qualified British Skydiving senior formation skydiving discipline judge and has judged skydiving and wind tunnel competitions worldwide for over 13 years.

Robert Frost is global head of product at Pirum where he and his teams based in New York and London are responsible for all new product initiatives as well as the established products.

He joined Pirum in 2008, following securities finance roles at Goldman Sachs and HSBC and has been pivotal in developing Pirum’s industry leading automated solutions and now is part of the Pirum executive management team.

Charlie is a Senior Adviser at Flint Global the strategic business consultancy. He was a partner at Ashurst for 23 years advising companies and private equity firms on transactions and governance issues across many jurisdictions. He served as Ashurst Senior Partner for five years and was subsequently Chair of Gibson Dunn’s corporate practice in London. Since then Charlie has served on a number of corporate and not for profit Boards and is currently Chair at the University of Surrey.

Ben is a Director at FORVIS Consulting where he works with Financial Services firms to design, build and deliver on their strategic change portfolios. Ben is a member of numerous Industry Working Groups including the UK’s Accelerated Settlement Taskforce considering a move to a T+1 settlement cycle for UK Equities and Bonds. More broadly, Ben has more than 25 years of experience in the Financial Services industry across multiple financial products and support functions. He has broad experience in Business Management and deep knowledge of the Global Custody, Global Treasury and Global Markets industries.

Emma Johnson is an Executive Director and custody product manager within J.P. Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank in London. Sitting in the Securities Services division her core remit is European post trade securities market and regulatory advocacy, market infrastructure and industry developments.

Active in the securities post trade industry, Emma represents the firm through multiple industry committees including co-chairing: the ECB Securities Group (SEG), the AFME Transaction Clearing & Settlement Committee and the AFME Market Settlement Efficiency Taskforce. In addition, Emma is a member of the UK HMT T+1Taskforce, the AGC European Focus Committee, the EBF Post Trade Expert Group and various ISSA working-groups including co-chair of the Custody Risks working group.

Emma joined J.P. Morgan in January 2022 from Deutsche Bank, where she was the EMEA Head of Securities Services Market Advocacy. She previously held various positions within product and operational teams over her 20+ year career in securities post-trade.

Gareth Jones is CEO of Euroclear Global Collateral Ltd and leads several collateral management initiatives on Euroclear’s Collateral Highway in Europe and North America. Gareth is part of the Market Liquidity Product Management team and is responsible for securities settlement at Euroclear Bank as well as heading up Euroclear’s global T+1 initiative.  Gareth has over 25 years’ experience in business and technology roles in the post trade market infrastructure space.

Shikha Kalra is the Market Structure Lead (EMEA) for HSBC’s Securities Financing business and has been with HSBC for past 8 years. In her role, she is responsible for thought leadership for the securities financing busiess and leading new business initiatives and strategic projects. Amongst other things, she has worked with the regulators and exchanges in the MENA region to lead first securities lending and other Industry first transactions. Shikha is actively involved in advocacy initiatives with ISLA and also attends the Bank of England Securities Lending Committee.

Andy has been at Citi since 1989. During his career at Citi Andy has held various management positions in custody operations including agency lending operations, was a trader on the Citi agency lending desk and spent five years in Product Risk Management where he obtained Credit Officer status.

Prior to Citi Andy was at RBS for three years. Since mid-2006 Andy has worked in Citi’s Agency Securities Lending department. Andy is currently responsible for Agency Securities Lending global product development and was previously the Chairman of the International Securities Lending Association board.

Mike Lambert is the Product Director for Securities Lending within the “Securities Finance & Collateral Management” business unit at Broadridge Financial Solutions and has been with Broadridge for 16 years. Mike is responsible for defining the Securities Lending strategy and product roadmap within SFCM.

Mike started his career in Investment Banking and has had time at Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers. It was at Lehman Brothers that Mike made the transition from Operations to IT, on a milestone project to implement a Securities Lending system. Since then, Mike has worked on numerous Securities Lending system upgrades and implementations.

Jonathan Lombardo is a member of the Deutsche Boerse FIC Derivatives & Repo Sales team. Jonathan is Global Head of Business Management for FIC Sales and is responsible for running all sales support procedures for FIC centrally across OTC, ETD and funding & financing instruments supervising all daily activities, oversight of business productivity, efficiencies, and organizational agendas. Jonathan has over 25 years’ experience in the securities lending market and has had previous roles at Citi, Secfinex and Pirum. Jonathan was formally Chairman of the ISLA board and is now serving as Ex – Offcio.

Grant joined BNY Mellon in 2007 from JPM. In 2023 he was appointed EMEA Head of Securities Finance Trading, Grant has over 25 years’ experience in securities finance, previously working at Prudential Portfolio Managers, ING Bank NV & Cargill investor Services. His background covers all aspects of the business including, Operations, collateral management, product management, project management and trading.

Gabi Mantle is Global Head of Post-Trade Solutions at EquiLend, where she is responsible for post-trade client engagement, aiding product development and management of a team of product specialists which provides SME support to EquiLend’s new and existing clients. She also serves as the global spokesperson for all post-trade matters at EquiLend. Gabi has 23 years of finance industry experience, primarily in securities finance.

Prior to joining EquiLend in 2019, Gabi held positions at Deutsche Bank, UBS and Bank of America spanning all areas of securities lending and client asset operations. She has an extensive knowledge of securities lending operations processes as well as a strong industry network. Gabi has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management and Operations from Kingston University.

Colette McIntyre is an Executive Director in the Shared Service Banking Operations (SSBO) division and is currently the EMEA Head of Asset Servicing. In addition to her BAU responsibilities, Colette is also the Executive sponsor for the Morgan Stanley Glasgow Charity Committee.

Colette joined Morgan Stanley in 2015 as a VP in EMEA Securities Settlements, she also spent some time in a change role on secondment to the Operations Brexit project team. She returned to the line in 2019 as Glasgow Head of Asset Servicing where Colette was promoted to Executive Director in 2020.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Colette spent 4 years at Barclays Glasgow, having returned from a lengthy career in London where she worked for State Street, Deutsche Bank and a few others. She has spent periods of her career working in India and the USA but is now settled back home in her native Scotland.

Colette’s Passion for giving back has seen her volunteer as a far afield as Africa, India and Hong Kong whilst also supporting charities in her local communities. She is currently a Trustee and Board member for Glasgow based charity, The Food Train. Colette loves to spend with her family and friends and let’s not forget her other passion, football. As an avid supporter of Glasgow Rangers, Colette follows home and away on the continent with her friends and her partner Colin.

Tim McLeod is Head of Securities Lending & Liquidity Operations and Head of EMEA Investment Operations at BlackRock, with his service at the firm dating back to 2001. Tim has held a number of Sec Finance positions within this time covering Operations, Product Development, Product Strategy and Market Structure. Tim sits on the Bank of England Securities Lending Committee and previously the Bank of England UK Money Markets Code of Conduct Committee; and is a member of the Equilend Product Committee. He is currently chairing the SLC’s Working Group on Settlement Efficiency.

Sachin Mohindra has over 18 years of extensive experience at Goldman Sachs, where he has held a variety of cross-product post-trade roles including securities settlement, client middle office and post-trade business development. Sachin currently works in the Client and Market Solutions team at Goldman Sachs, with a focus on global post-trade efficiency, regulatory strategy and accelerated settlement. Sachin is the co-chair of the AFME Post-Trade Transaction, Clearing & Settlement Committee and AFME Market Settlement Efficiency Taskforce. Sachin is an active member of the UK HMT T+1 Taskforce and SIFMA US T+1 working group. At AFME he has co-authored the T+1 Settlement in Europe paper, lead the publication of the industry-wide TARGET2-Securities (T2S) and Partial Settlements recommendation papers. Sachin holds an Honours degree in Computer Science and Management from the University of Edinburgh.

Barney is CEO and founder of the ValueExchange – a global market research house that specialises in helping to make the case for meaningful transformation in the world’s capital markets.

Working with an international team of experts, Barney’s attention is focused on delivering actionable, statistical insights on key market dynamics – with an emphasis on digitisation, post-trade processing, asset servicing innovation and on supporting growth in key emerging markets.

Throughout Barney’s career, he has focused on market structure and connectivity as a key theme. Having been intimately involved in the design and launch of the Hong Kong – China Connect programmes, he has since worked with regulators, global exchanges, clearing houses, brokers and investors to ensure that new technologies (such as DLT, AI and others) can be smoothly deployed as players reach for ever
improving levels of efficiency.

Prior to the ValueExchange, Barney worked for over 20 years in the post-trade capital markets space. Until 2018, he led Standard Chartered Bank’s custody business in Asia and prior to that he launched BNP Paribas’ custody business in Asia.

Simon Nottage is the European Head of Financing Solutions Product Innovation and Strategy at State Street. In this capacity, he overseas bringing new products, regulation and technology to the Financing Solutions business and its clients. Simon is part of the Global Markets management team and is engaged in a number of risk and governance forums. Simon is engaged across a number of the ISLA working groups focused on Market Structure, new technology initiatives and regulation impacting the securities lending market.

Simon has over 15 years’ experience in the securities lending industry in a number of roles in securities lending and prime brokerage, across product development, relationship management & business development.

Prior to joining State Street, he worked within the Prime Services division in various roles in EMEA at Barclays Bank plc.

Thomas (Tom) Pikett is Leading Digital Asset Product Management within Trading Services at J.P. Morgan. Trading Services is comprised of Agency Securities Financing and Collateral Services businesses, which sit in the Securities Services division of the CIB. Mr. Pikett is currently responsible for digital initiatives, ranging from the use of DLT to achieve zero break processing in Agency Securities Financing, through to digital and tokenized assets to be used as collateral. He is also leading the development of the Tokenized Collateral Network, an application which sits on the Onyx Blockchain.

Prior to focusing on digital strategy, Mr. Pikett was responsible for delivery of the SFTR reporting solution within Agency Securities Financing. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, he held roles across product, sales and operations at MarketAxess, Natwest and Euroclear.

Mr. Pikett holds a BA Hons in Politics from Sheffield University.

Neelam joined Goldman Sachs in 2021 in Securities Lending Operations to work on business transformation and regulatory driven initiatives. In her current role as a Securities Lending Product Engineer she works with business stakeholders, software engineers, vendors and market participants to help drive Goldman Sachs’ strategic decisions on workflows, delivering high quality design and functional solutions.  Neelam has over 10 years of relevant industry experience having previously worked in a Product Development role at State Street for the agent lender and prime broker business, along with her consultancy background, she has deep knowledge on the key drivers and constrains for the borrower and prime broker community. She has previously been involved in initiatives such as SFTR, CSDR, Collateral Optimisation and Target Operating Model design where she has led the end to end implementation. Neelam holds a BSC Honours in Business Information Systems from the University of Westminster.

Jamie Rush has been Chief European Economist at Bloomberg in London since 2015. He leads a team of experienced research economists analysing and forecasting the economies of the UK, the euro area, the Nordics and Russia. He also managed the Middle East and Africa teams for five years and led the development of {SHOK}, Bloomberg’s in-house model of the US, Euro Area and UK economies.

Jamie holds a PhD in economics from the University of Sheffield and has published papers on fiscal and monetary policy coordination, measuring economic slack and forecasting. He regularly appears in print media, online and on television, has given evidence to the British Parliament on forecasting and is an occasional guest lecturer at University College London.

Before joining Bloomberg Economics, Jamie was a Senior Economist at the UK Office for Budget Responsibility, producing the government’s official economic and fiscal forecast. Before that he was a Senior Economist at the New Zealand Treasury, advising the government’s Chief Economist. His career began at the UK Treasury in the macroeconomic prospects team.

With two young children and a hospital doctor for a partner, Jamie’s spare time is limited. On the rare occasion he gets a moment to himself he can be found using his hands – making something, fixing something, or sailing a boat.

Laetitia Visconti is Head of EMEA Equities Market Structure and Market Connectivity Product at Barclays. She has more than 15 years’ experience in managing electronic execution products with a focus on market structure, liquidity and market access. She joined Barclays Quant Prime Services in 2010 where she managed the impact of key structural changes on Barclays equities executions services, such as Short Selling, transaction taxes and MiFID II. She also took various Product Management responsibilities for the desk, ranging from real time risk management to low latency market access. In 2018, she became the Head of EMEA Equities Market Structure focusing on Brexit and MIFID III impacts on Equities liquidity access and execution services. In 2020,  she extended her remit to lead Barclays’ Equities Market Connectivity Product for EMEA. She is the Barclays standing member at the AFME Equities Board, at the Plato Partnership Ltd Advisory committee. In 2023 she joined the AMF Exchanges & Markets Consultative Commission. Prior to joining Barclays, Laetitia led Sungard (now FIS) change management and implementation for MiFID I in Paris, before moving to London in 2008 where she soon joined their newly formed Agency broker Sungard Global Execution Services, responsible for market access and execution services. She holds a master’s degree in engineering from INSA de Lyon and a Master in Marketing from HEC Paris.

Anna de Winton is a Vice President at BNP Paribas, leading a number of regulatory and change programmes for the equity finance and prime business. Anna has 20 years’ experience in the sector covering roles in the private sector and at the Financial Services Authority and Bank of England, and joined BNP Paribas in 2017. Anna holds a degree in Economics from Durham University. Anna is also chair of the ISLA Regulatory Steering Group.

Valentino (Val) Wotton is Managing Director and General Manager of DTCC’s Institutional Trade Processing (ITP), where he oversees the firm’s global middle-office trade processing solutions including ALERT, CTM and Settlement Instruction Manager. Working closely with market participants, industry organizations and his peers, Val focuses on growing businesses, enhancing services, and delivering increased value to international clients, enabling them to meet evolving operational and regulatory compliance demands such as the move to T+1 in the US and accelerated settlement globally.

Additionally, Val is the Regional Administrative Manager for DTCC EMEA, and Chairman of the DTCC EMEA Operating Committee. In this role, he oversees employee engagement, corporate social responsibility, DTCC brand awareness and the execution of a variety of employee initiatives. He is also the Executive Sponsor of DTCC’s Women’s Initiative for Networking and Success (WINS) Employee Resource Group.

Prior to this role, Val was Managing Director of Product Development and Strategy, Repository and Derivatives Services, where he was responsible for overseeing the firm’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) service, DTCC Report Hub and Trade Information Warehouse (TIW). Within this role, Val led efforts to identify opportunities to enhance services to meet the needs of the firm’s global client base while supporting DTCC’s goals and continued focus on automation, standardization and client experience.

Before DTCC, Val served as Global Head of Markets, Post-Trade Services and Europe Markets Operations at Barclays, with oversight for all post-trade processing including U.S. and internal securities settlement and asset servicing. There, he was responsible for the implementation of a strategic global operational model to provide improved post-trade service capabilities to clients and internal businesses as well as the design and delivery of an enhanced strategic architecture to achieve automation, process improvement and risk management objectives. Val also was co-chair of Barclays Multigenerational Network. Previously, Val held several senior roles at Citigroup.

During his career, Val has served on several Boards and Committees, including DTCC’s Deriv/SERV Board, LCH OTC Deriv Net, and the International Swaps & Derivatives Organization’s (ISDA) Market Infrastructure & Technology Committee (MITOC). Val holds a Bachelor of Law (with French) degree from Nottingham Trent University.

Gary is one of the founding members of ISITC Europe and is currently a Director of Industry Affairs at ISITC Europe CIC, which is a registered not-for-profit community interest company. He has recently completed a 9 month academic research study on ‘Industry Preparedness for Accelerated Settlement’, published by the SWIFT Institute and a subsequent ISITC Europe paper ‘Accelerated Settlement – Global Trend, Local Challenges.

Gary been in the finance industry since 1969, holding senior positions within several major financial institutions. He participated in many industry committees including setting the CISI Operations Management exam papers and has been a guest lecturer at Reading University and at the ICMA. Gary has also undertaken a range of consultancy assignments as well as working in an advisory and industry relationship capacity for a number of leading suppliers, enabling him to understand problems from both the buyer’s and seller’s perspective.

Gary is highly sought after for his views and advice on the impacts on business and operations of market and regulatory changes. He has run many industry workshops, training sessions and roundtables and chaired, moderated a considerable number of conferences. His blogs, articles, whitepapers, and reports are published world-wide, and he is an accomplished speaker and commentator on the many changes in the financial services marketplace.

Olivier Zemb joined CACEIS in September 2019 as Head of Equity Finance & Collateral Trading in Luxembourg.

He is focusing on maximizing revenues, mitigating risks and optimizing collateral for clients in Principal and Agency lending.

He has over 16 years of experience in the Securities Finance industry.

Prior to joining CACEIS, Olivier worked for almost 10 years at BNP Paribas Securities Services in London where he was Head of Global Trading Strategies for the Agency Lending department.

He started his career in Paris at Fortis Investment Management as a Securities Finance Trader executing Repo/Reverse Repo and managing the securities lending activities.

Olivier holds a Master 2 Research (DEA) in Markets and Financial Intermediaries from the Toulouse School of Economics.