Speakers

In June 2016, Andrew became the CEO of the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) after serving 3 years as their Chief Operating Officer. Previously, Andrew held the role of Director Specialist Sales and Head of Account Management, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Data Explorers, now Markit Securities Finance, where he was instrumental in the development of the group’s securities lending risk services as well as day to day responsibility for the groups business in Europe. Andy joined Data Explorers from Prudential M&G, where he was Head of Business Development and Risk for Securities Lending with responsibility for sales, marketing and product development. He was also directly responsible for Risk and the management of the team’s discrete IT resources. All aspects of legal and compliance also fell within his area of responsibility. Prior to his appointment at M&G Prudential Andrew had worked at Deutsche Bank for ten years. During his time at Deutsche he held senior marketing and product development positions within the Agency Securities Lending Business and also spent four years as Repo Product Manager where he was instrumental in the development of the banks fixed income repo franchise including the deployment of front-office risk management tools. He was also was heavily involved in the deployment of e commerce solutions for both clients and counterparts. He joined Deutsche in 1992 from HSBC, where he had previously worked extensively in the commercial bank and corporate finance areas of the business.

Katie is responsible for Agency Lending & Collateral Management Sales clients in EMEA. She joined J.P. Morgan in 2004 and has worked in various roles across the Investor Services business. Her product and market responsibilities expanded thereafter, culminating in her taking on leadership for Securities Lending sales in 2018. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Katie worked in various roles for Swiss Re Asset Management, both in Zurich and London. She hold a B.A. (Honours) in International Relations from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Bertrand Huet is Partner and Co-Head of Financial services at Fleishman Hillard Brussels. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the financial sector, including 13 years in public affairs, advocacy, government relations, reputation management and political intelligence and analysis. He joined FleishmanHillard in 2010 from the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) in London where he ran EU public affairs for 6 years. Between 1995 and 2004, Bertrand worked as a derivatives and securities financing lawyer at Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank in London and Paris. He started his career as a UK solicitor with the international law firm Linklaters in 1992. Bertrand holds a Master’s Degree in English and French Law (Honors) from King’s College, London, and Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris.

Ismail Ibrahim is the EMEA Head of OpenCollateral, a product offering in Citi’s Futures, Clearing and Collateral business which sits within the Investor Services Franchise. In this role, Ismail is responsible for delivering a comprehensive suite of services to Citi’s institutional clients including: Collateral Operations, Collateral Optimisation, Analytics and access to Liquidity and Collateral Transformation solutions which help client’s meet their evolving collateral funding requirements. Prior to his appointment in 2017, Ismail worked in Futures and OTC Clearing Sales and Relationship Management covering European Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Broker Dealers and Commodity clients.
Ismail has over 13 years of experience in derivatives execution, clearing and collateral management and is an active member of the financial services industry.

Ismail holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with Business Finance from University College London and the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree in Finance from the London Business School.

Adrian Whelan is a Senior Vice President of Regulatory Intelligence at Brown Brothers Harriman. He is based in Dublin.

efore joining Regulatory Intelligence, Adrian was the Head of Depositary for BBH Trustee Services (Ireland) Limited. Adrian joined BBH in 2011, prior to which he ran a regulatory consultancy firm. Adrian is an active participant in industry groups, including Irish Funds and ICI Global. He frequently appears at conferences discussing the impact of regulation on the asset management industry.

Adrian graduated from Dublin City University Business School with a degree in Business Studies.