Panel members

Background 

Clare Woodman is Head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America and Canada, and is CEO of Morgan Stanley & Co. International. She is also a member of the firm’s Global Operating and Management Committees. Previously Ms. Woodman was responsible for Morgan Stanley’s Operations Division globally, and served as Global Chief Operating Officer for Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Group.

Ms. Woodman holds a number of senior positions across industry organizations including Chair of the US-UK Business Council and Chair of the FCA Markets Practitioner Panel.

Ms. Woodman is a Trustee of the Morgan Stanley International Foundation, overseeing the firm’s philanthropic efforts in EMEA. She is also an active sponsor of the firm’s Women's Business Alliance and is Senior Advisor of the FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign.

Ms. Woodman studied at the London Business School, where she obtained her MBA, and in 2020 was awarded a CBE for Services to Finance.

Background 

Mark is a corporate partner at Latham & Watkins who has a particular specialism in capital markets.

His areas of practice include public and private securities offerings of all types, along with mergers, acquisitions and general corporate work across a number of sectors. He regularly advises a range of corporate and investment bank clients.  He advised Lord Hill on the UK Listing Review in March 2021 and in October 2021 was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be the independent Chair of the UK Secondary Capital Raising Review, which reported to the Chancellor in July 2022.  He is a member of the Capital Markets Industry Taskforce (CMIT), the Digitisation Taskforce and also of the LSE's Primary Markets Group, an advisory group to the LSE on capital markets matters.

Sandy Boss is Chair of BlackRock U.K. and a member of the firm’s Global Operating Committee. Previously, she was the Chief Operating Officer for BlackRock’s Global Client Business. She joined the firm in 2020 as the Global Head of BlackRock Investment Stewardship, in which role she was a member of the Global Executive Committee.

Sandy was an external member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee from 2014 to 2020. She was also Senior Independent Director and Risk Committee Chair for the Bank’s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)/Chaps Board. During this period, she served on the Boards of two listed companies (one FTSE 350, the other Nasdaq).

Sandy spent the first 20 years of her career at McKinsey. As a Senior Partner, she led the firm's Corporate and Investment Banking, and Credit and Counterparty Risk Management practices among other leadership roles in both the US and Europe.

Sandy received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Stanford University.
 

Tim is a financial services regulatory partner at Ashurst LLP. He advises global investment banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, trading venues, and listed corporates on the financial regulatory framework/rulebooks applicable to them, including trading, prudential, investor protection, digital finance, and ESG matters. A large part of his practice focuses on cross-border and international work involving EU, US, UAE, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and Australian jurisdictions and interacting with the regulators in those locations. His practice also involves advisory work for international public bodies, such as multilateral development banks. He is a frequent speaker at regulatory conferences, and trade associations. 
 

Background 

Michael is Non-Executive Chair of London Stock Exchange plc. His other Non-Executive directorships include Chair of Morgan Sindall Group plc and Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee of Royal Mail plc. Michael spent some 28 years in investment banking working for firms including Robert Fleming, UBS and Merrill Lynch. He retired from Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2016 where he was Co-Head of Investment Banking for the UK and Ireland, having previously been Co-Head of Corporate Broking. During his career in investment banking, Michael has advised the boards of many leading UK PLCs on a wide range of strategic, financing and governance matters.

Background 

Steven Fine is Chief Executive of the investment bank Peel Hunt. He joined the firm in 2006 and led the management and staff buy-out from KBC bank in 2010. Steven subsequently led the successful IPO for Peel Hunt listing on the Alternative Investment Market in September 2021. Prior to that he was the founder member of D. E. Shaw Securities International, which later became the core of KBC Financial Products. At KBC he managed the Japanese and Asian Equity, Convertible and Derivatives operations in Tokyo.

Steven is a Non-Executive Director for the Quoted Companies Alliance, a membership organisation that champions the interests of medium and small-sized quoted companies. He has been a judge for the Non-Executive Director Awards for over 15 years. Steven has an accountancy degree and also holds a certificate in corporate governance from INSEAD.

Robyn Grew was appointed CEO of Man Group in September 2023. 

Robyn has worked in the investment industry since 1994. She began her career at Fidelity, followed by a move to LIFFE, (now ‘ICE Futures Europe’). She has held senior positions at Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital and GLG which saw her based for periods of time in New York, London and Tokyo. Robyn joined Man Group in 2010, following Man’s acquisition of GLG, and has since served in various roles as General Counsel, Head of ESG, Group COO and President of Man Group. 

Robyn is a qualified barrister and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI).

Background 

Richard joined the Boards of the Capeview Azri Funds in July 2021. Prior to his current role, Richard was the CEO of CapeView Capital LLP from 2017-2020 and was a Senior Advisor and Consultant during 2021.

Prior to joining CapeView as COO/CCO in 2011, Richard held similar positions at Montrica (2006 to 2011), OCH Johnson Capital (2005 to 2006) and ABN AMRO (1999 to 2005) where he was also Global Head of Asset Management Compliance for 18 months and Kemper / Zurich / Scudder (1995 to 1999) where he was the Finance Director and Head of Compliance in London. Richard trained with Deloitte Haskins & Sells before joining James Capel in 1987, where he was Head of Compliance / Company Secretary. He joined Solomon Brothers Asset Management in 1993 where he was Compliance Officer and Business Unit Manager. Richard is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds a BSc Hons in Management and Chemical Sciences from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

Kirstie MacGillivray, Aegon Asset Management UK plc CEO, is responsible for managing the change, growth and performance of the UK business. Kirstie’s nearly three decades of asset management experience spans the hedge fund industry, derivatives risk management and equity derivative sales. She held positions at Barrie & Hibbert, BCS Asset Management, Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank. Kirstie has been in the industry since 1995 and started with the firm in 2008. She received her law degree from University of Glasgow.  

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David Livingstone was named Citi's first Chief Client Officer in September 2023. In this capacity, David is responsible for driving the delivery of Citi's coverage and capabilities to clients and enhancing the client experience globally. David is a member of Citi's Executive Management Team, which he joined in 2019.

Previously, David served for almost five years as Chief Executive Officer of Citi's activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Under his leadership, Citi grew all of its businesses in the region, including expanding the Commercial Bank. He also helped Citi to navigate the pandemic and led the firm's response to the war in Ukraine and the resulting sanctions against Russia. From 2016 to 2019, David was Citi Country Officer for Australia and New Zealand and a member of Citi's Asia Pacific Executive Management Team.

David joined Citi in 2016 from Credit Suisse, where he was Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking and Capital Markets Division and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for the EMEA region. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Australia from 2010 to 2013. David joined Credit Suisse in 2007 from HSBC, where he was Head of EMEA Investment Banking Advisory. Prior to that, he worked at the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. for over 16 years in a variety of senior roles in the investment banking division.

David holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Economics from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and a Master of Arts degree in Law from Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.

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Cécile Nagel is the Global Head of Corporate Trust, BNY.  BNY Corporate Trust is the premier corporate trust provider with market leadership positions in a range of products including straight debt, catastrophe bonds, asset backed securities and loans servicing $14.1 trillion (as of June 2024) in debt across conventional to the most complex transactions. Cécile also holds the Head of Overseas Branch Function (SMF19) for BNY’s London Branch under the UK Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR).

Previously, Cécile led the EMEA business for BNY Pershing, which provides leading custody, clearing, settlement and trading solutions provider to wealth managers and other financial institutions. 

Prior to BNY Pershing, Cécile was Chief Executive Officer of EuroCCP (now Cboe Clear). Under her leadership, EuroCCP consolidated its position as the leading pan-European cash equities central counterparty, providing clearing services to 47 trading venues across Europe. Cécile also oversaw the launch of equity derivatives clearing service and EuroCCP’s acquisition by Cboe Global Markets in July 2020. 

Cécile held several senior roles with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), including head of LSE Markets Global Product Development and Exchange Traded Products and group head of Strategic Planning. She also led Equities and Commodities at LCH, LSEG’s multi-asset clearinghouse. Earlier in her career, Cécile was with Oliver Wyman, a financial services strategy consulting firm, and the Financial Services Authority. 

Cécile holds a master’s degree in Management & Finance from ESCP Business School and is a CFA charter holder.

Chris Rhodes is President of ICE Futures Europe, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s (NYSE: ICE) London-based global futures and options exchange. Previously, Rhodes served as Chief Operating Officer of ICE Clear Europe.

Between 2019 and 2021, Rhodes was Chief Risk Officer at financial trading firm Tyler Capital. In this role, Rhodes spearheaded efforts to adopt ‘High Reliability’ principles to strengthen enterprise-wide operational resilience in the context of AI based technologies.

Rhodes first joined ICE in 2016, becoming Global Head of Derivatives, responsible for ICE’s interest rate and equity derivatives complex. During this time, Rhodes led product development efforts to transition LIBOR products to their ARR equivalents. Rhodes has more than 14 years’ trading experience in the derivatives market, including as a founding partner at Arc Derivatives and senior trader at Investec Bank UK.

Rhodes holds a first-class honours degree in Economics.

James is Head of Investment Banking at Deutsche Numis as well as heading their IPO business. He has over 20 years of UK ECM, Broking, Corporate Finance and FCA Sponsor experience, having worked for HSBC Investment Bank between 2000 and 2007, before spending 9 years at JP Morgan Cazenove as Head of their UK IPO and ECM Execution Team.

He joined Numis in September 2016 and was appointed Co-Head of Investment Banking in March 2019, before becoming Head of Investment Banking for Deutsche Numis following Deutsche Bank’s acquisition of Numis in 2023. Through his banking career, James has gained a broad experience of equity fundraisings, M&A and FCA Sponsor transactions, in addition to leading numerous UK IPOs.

Prior to joining HSBC in 2000, James qualified as a chartered accountant with E&Y.