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.

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.

Patricia Hostin is the Global Head of Agency Lending at State Street. Patricia is responsible for overseeing the entire business globally and works collaboratively across key business and support functions to ensure State Street delivers a leading securities lending product to meet the multifaceted needs of clients.

Most recently, Patricia was the Managing Director for Financial Resource Management at Blackrock, executing against the firm’s global strategy for optimizing capital & balance sheet consumption with broker dealer counterparties across repo financing, securities lending, prime brokerage financing, cash management, and trading. Ms. Hostin’s service with the firm dated back to 2003, including her years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. During her 20-year tenure at Blackrock, Patricia held a variety of roles within Securities Finance including Head of US Equity & Fixed Income Trading, which included global responsibility for Research and Electronic Trading. Patricia also spent several years in Business Strategy, which was responsible for securities lending and cash research and development and vetting of new strategic initiatives and alternative business models. Prior to this role, Patricia was a trader in BGI’s securities lending group.

Sven is a Senior Vice President and International Head of Regulatory, Industry and Government Affairs. As such, he is responsible for regulatory and government relations as well as policy development across all of State Street’s businesses outside of North America.

He also serves as a member on the board of the Institutional Money Market Funds Association (IMMFA) which represents the European short term MMF industry. Prior to joining State Street in April 2010, Sven was Head of EU Public Affairs, Funds at Prudential plc in London representing the company’s position in asset management related issues. Sven started his career at UBS both in Zurich and in London where he was Associate Director for European Government Affairs.

Sven is a graduate of St. Gallen University in Switzerland with a doctorate in International Affairs.

Michael leads the State Street Global Markets Macro Strategy team, blending more than 20-years of strategy expertise with academic rigor and alternative data.​

His innovative approach analyses investor behaviour, media narratives, and online inflation, earning top ranks in industry surveys and accolades for his contributions to the Journal of Fixed Income and the Journal of Investment Management. ​

Along with his co-authors his recent research on inflation determinants won the Harry M. Markowitz award for best paper in 2023.​

Beyond academia, Michael has shared his insights on money printing and funding climate change in two TED talks, attracting over two million views; demonstrating his ability to communicate complex economic concepts in an accessible and engaging manner.​

A Cambridge economics graduate, he is a fixture in the financial media and at industry conferences. Originally from Newcastle, Michael lives in in London with his wife Veronica and children, Charlie and Pia.​

Rudolf Siebel is responsible for Legal, Statistics & Research and IT at BVI, the German Investment Funds Association.

Mr. Siebel represents the interests of the fund industry on the Technical Committee at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and on the DIN Standards Committee for Finance (NAFin). He is a member of the European Commission Expert Group on European Financial Data Space (EFDSEG) and the associated Open Fincance subgroup. Furthermore he is a member of the Trading, Reporting & Market Infrastructures Standing Committee (TMR SC), Benchmark- and Money Market Funds Working Group of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA). He was appointed to the Product Advisory Committee of the Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTI PAC) and to the Governance Advisory Committee (GAC) of The Derivatives Service Bureau. He is also a board member of the German Asset Management Standards Committee (GAMSC) the Coun-try Sponsor of the GIPS in Germany.

He was a member of the ESMA Post Trade Standing Committee Consultative Working Group (PTSC CWG), the EU Commission European Post Trade Forum (EPTF), and the German SEPA payments council jointly organized by the German treasury BMF and Deutsche Bundesbank. Until April 2019 he served also as Vice Chair of the International Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG).

Previously, he was a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer – with Moody´s Investors Service and responsible for analysing and rating money market, bond investment funds as well as life insurance. Mr. Siebel started his career as counsel for securities investment and international law with BVI.

He is a trained German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) and holds a Master of Law degree from Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

Géraldine joined Societe Generale in 1993 and has been running cash and repo desks on Core European debts for 20 years. After spending a couple of years on a more transverse role as a coordinator for Fixed Income and structured financing, Geraldine moved to the sales side in 2019 to look after the global markets financing solutions. Geraldine is also responsible for optimising the leverage ratio regarding commercial activities. In 2019, she was appointed Head of Financing Solutions for Global Markets Sales and Head of Financing and Client Profitability in February 2023. Géraldine has also been co-sponsor of Women in MARK since 2022.

Travis Whitmore is Head of AI and Trading Analytics at State Street Associates, the partnership between State Street Global Markets® and renowned academics at Harvard Business School, MIT, Boston College and EDHEC. His team is responsible for developing Machine Learning models and innovative predictive analytics for several market making and financing businesses. He is also responsible for driving research initiatives for State Street’s Financing Solutions business.

Travis spent close to three years in Frankfurt where he led State Street Associate’s research initiative in continental Europe, working with institutional clients across the EU 27 to deliver custom advisory projects and quantitative research insights. Prior to his role in Europe, Travis worked closely with Harvard Professor Ken Froot to develop innovative investment applications with State Street’s proprietary custody flows and holdings information. Additionally, he worked with State Street Associate’s academic partners at MediaStats to research how investors can leverage digital media sentiment indicators in their investment decision-making. Travis has developed numerous quantitative investment models, published research in the Journal of Portfolio Management, and is a frequent presenter at research conferences. He was awarded the “Rising Start Under 30” industry excellence award for 2023 from the Securities Finance Times for his research on the securities lending market.

Travis earned a degree in Finance and Computer Science from the University of Vermont.