Data Management & Technology Event

Speakers

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  Flo Albu

  Children's Investment Fund Foundation

  EME Director – Technology and Data Analytics

  Flo Albu is a trusted digital leader with proven experience in customer-centric, data-led digital strategies. He has 20+ years of effective digital, data and technology strategy and operations, delivered at global and national levels. Flo has a strong cross-sector experience, having led organisations to success in financial sector, international affairs, logistics, aerospace, biotech, legal, international affairs, renewable energy and regulatory. In CIO, Director and consultant roles, he has delivered digital and data strategies for the Children Investment Fund Foundation, The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Financial Conduct Authority, OFGEM, Westcoast, United Nations, EUMETSAT and Amnesty International. He is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group task force on AI adoption in the Enterprise. He has a BSc in Engineering from UPB and a MSc in Management from Hult Ashridge.

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  Alex Baker

  Orchard Global Asset Management LLP

  Chief Technology Officer

  Alex Baker joined Orchard Global in its London office in November 2019 as Chief Technology Officer. His primary responsibilities are to oversee the technology function at the firm as well as heading the technology team. Prior to joining Orchard Global Alex spent twelve years working at Cheyne Capital Management LLP as Head of Quantitative Credit Analytics. In conjunction with this role, he spent two years managing the Cheyne Capital investment in Novus Partners LLP, a platform that measures trading acumen, defining and extending the existing Novus equity platform to support fixed income and credit analytics. Alex also worked to launch the first ever Credit derivative based ETF on the London Stock Exchange as part of the Tabula Investment Management team. Alex career has included roles at both Morgan Stanley and the Royal Bank of Scotland as a quantitative analyst. Alex holds multiple degrees; including Physics from the University College, London. Alex is an active member of the Institute of Physics and the London Library.

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  Tim Barber

  Exabel

  Chief Revenue Officer

  Tim joined Exabel in April 2021 as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), responsible for the performance, strategy and alignment of all commercial functions within the organisation that relate to revenue generation, including sales, marketing, partner management and customer success.

  Tim brings over 20 years of sales and commercial leadership experience to Exabel in both enterprise software platforms and alternative data insight solutions. Throughout his career Tim has been instrumental in driving the go to market and growth strategies in a series of successful early, mid and mature technology names including; ForgeRock, Experian Decision Analytics, Clarify and Pitney Bowes Software.

  Tim has a 1st class Honours degree in Business Administration from the University of Bath, a Diploma in International Management from Erasmus School of Management, Rotterdam, and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.

  Tim is married with 3 children, and lives in the UK.

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  Simon Bowie-Britton

  Trium Capital LLP

  Chief Technology Officer

  Simon joined Trium Capital LLP in 2020 as the Chief Technology Officer. Before joining Trium, Simon was the Chief Technology Officer for over a decade at WyeTree Asset Management, building and managing systems for structured bond trading. Prior to this, Simon worked in the sell side for Goldman Sachs as a Project Manager and for 10 years at JP Morgan, managing, designing and building systems for equity and exchange traded derivative products. Simon holds a BSc from Loughborough University of Technology, a patent in the field of distributed data processing and is a Member of the IET.

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  Phillip Chapple

  Monterone Partners LLP.

  Chief Operating Officer

  Phillip Chapple is the COO of Monterone Partners LLP. He has been involved in the financial services industry since 1997. From 2010 to 2015 Mr. Chapple was the founder of the London branch of KB Associates where he focused on assisting fund managers to build investor friendly operational infrastructures and prepare for investor due diligence. Prior to joining KB Associates, Mr. Chapple was CFO/COO of Ironshield Capital Management LLP, a European Distressed investment management company. Previously he was COO at IBIS Asset Management, a $10bn family office, and Head of Operations at OLEA Capital. Mr. Chapple had commenced his career at Morgan Stanley before spending a number of years in prime brokerage at both Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Chapple holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours (LLB) from Exeter University.

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  Hinesh Kalian

  Man Group

  Director of Data Science

  Hinesh Kalian is Director of Data Science at Man Group. He is responsible for data strategy, data acquisition, data science and data science engineering across Man Group’s investment
  managers. Hinesh was formerly Head of Data Science and Investment Implementation for Man AHL, where he was responsible for monitoring and verifying activity on the Man AHL trading
  system, new data acquisition and strategy, data management and portfolio implementation. Prior to joining Man Group in 2010, Hinesh spent six years at JPMorgan.
  Hinesh holds an MSc in Finance from the University of London.

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  Waqar Rashid

  Aspect Capital

  Director of Data

  Waqar Rashid is Director of Data at Aspect Capital, having joined the systematic investment manager in December 2006. He is responsible for the entire set of data requirements for all of Aspect’s quantitative programmes.  With over twenty years of experience in the industry, Waqar Rashid has held various roles including: Quantitative Analyst in the Equity Strategy Team at Goldman Sachs; Quantitative Analyst in the Equity Quant-Macro Trading Desk at Nations Bank; Head of Quant Research at IBJ Asset Management and Principal of Equinox Capital Management, where he ran European and US Equity Statistical Arbitrage. Waqar Rashid has an M.Sc. in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Sussex University.

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  Gurprit Singh

  Partners Capital

  Head of Data Management

  Gurprit is Global Head of Data at Partners Capital, an outsourced CIO with $48 billion assets under management. He is responsible for all aspects of data from Data Governance, Data Quality to Data Analytics and Data Science.

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  Piers Thompson

  Neudata

  CTO

  Piers is the CTO of Neudata. Before joining Neudata, Piers held a range of technical leadership roles, most recently for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and UBS. Positions included Head of Research Data technology at UBS and Head of Global Markets Finance technology at BofAML. In addition to leading development teams in the financial services industry, Piers has also built teams and systems in domains including military aircraft, telecoms and network management.

  Piers holds a BEng in Microelectronics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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  Richard Waters

  Systematica

  Manager Internal Data, Risk and Reporting Development