Mark Gem has been with Clearstream for over 20 years and a board member since 2007, focusing on network management, primary markets activity and compliance. He was responsible for Clearstream’s T2S strategy. He currently chairs Clearstream’s Risk Committee, amongst many other things overseeing the post-Brexit organisation of Clearstream’s UK business and Clearstream’s overall response to the COVID-19 crisis. He represents Luxembourg on the boards of SWIFT and sits on the board of Regis-TR, the Luxembourg-based trade repository. He has been on the board of ECSDA since 2002 and served as Vice-Chairman under Joël Mérère until 2013. In May 2021, Mark was elected ECSDA Chair.

Mark has a first class degree from Oxford University in Modern History.

Paul Symons is Group Chief of Staff for Euroclear SA/NV, providing advice and support to the Euroclear SA/NV Chief Executive and the Euroclear SA/NV Management Committee. He was appointed to this role on 1 September 2020.
In addition, Mr Symons was appointed Chief Sustainability Officer for the Euroclear Group in September 2021.
He also sits on the Board of Euroclear UK & International (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Euroclear SA/NV) as a Non-Executive Director.

From 2018-2020, Mr Symons was the Head of the Euroclear SA/NV Corporate Secretariat Division and Secretary to the Euroclear SA/NV Board of Directors.
From 2002 – 2018, Mr Symons was Group Head of Government Relations at Euroclear ,responsible for managing Euroclear’s relationships with those stakeholders who influenced the regulatory and political context in which Euroclear operated.
He has been a board member of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) and chaired the Association’s Policy Group until March 2018.
He has also been a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) Post-Trade Consultative Group, and a variety of other European post-trade Committees.

Mr Symons joined Euroclear in 2002, following the merger with CRESTCo (now Euroclear UK &International), the central securities depository for UK securities.
Previously, Mr Symons spent seven years at the Bank of England in a variety of roles, including a period working as the Private Secretary to the Executive Director of the Banking Supervision and Banking Departments.

Francisco Béjar Núñez is Head of the CSD Services of SIX BME group.

Mr. Béjar has 30 years of experience in post-trading, mainly in areas such as Settlement and Custody, Cash and Treasury and Corporate Trust, from a double point of view, as custodian and as market infrastructure. He is member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of ECSDA (European Central Securities Depository Association), and member of various market committees and expert groups at national and international level, such as the Clearing, Settlement and Registration Experts Group chaired by the CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores), the Post-Trading Standing Committee´s consultative Working Group of ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority), the Harmonisation Steering Group chaired by the ECB (European Central Bank)

Olga Cantillo is the Executive Vice President and CEO of Latin American Stock Exchange (Latinex). She has over 30 years of professional experience in the financial services industry.

Ms. Cantillo is currently also President of the Ibero-American Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIAB), Director of the Central Securities Depository Association of the Americas (ACSDA), Secretary of the Association of Capital Markets of the Americas (AMERCA), Member of the Independent Advisory Committee of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative (SSE), Independent Director of BI-Bank Panama, and Director of Fundación Calicanto.

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.

Vojtěch Belling has been Executive Director of the Department of Financial Regulation and International Cooperation in the Czech National Bank, the integrated authority for financial market supervision in the Czech Republic, since 2018. Before that, he served as Director of the EU and International Affairs Division in the Czech National Bank (2014-2018), as State Secretary for EU Affairs (2011-2014), and held various positions in the Czech Civil Service since 2002.

Mr Belling is a member of the Board of Supervisors of ESMA, a member of the International Relations Committee of the European Central Bank and an alternate member of the Economic and Financial Committee of the EU. He was also a member of the Management Board of ESMA until September 2022.Mr Belling is active in the academic sphere, lectures law and political science at Charles University in Prague and Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí and Labem. In the past, he was also a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. He holds a Master’s degree in Law from Charles University in Prague, a PhD degree in Political Science from Charles University in Prague, and Associate Professor degree from Masaryk University in Brno. He published several academic books and many articles, including in the European Law Journal, the International Organizations Law Review and the Zeitschrift für Öffentliches Recht.

Jim Turnbull joined EBRD in 2011 and is the deputy director and head of product for the Capital and Financial Markets Development Department (CFMD). He has over 30 years’ experience in investment banking, pensions investment and funds management having managed both debt and equity portfolios. He has also managed foreign exchange, derivatives and treasury exposures in both emerging and developed markets. As MD of Triarii Advisors, Jim acted as an independent advisor to several asset managers and hedge funds specializing in emerging market investment.

Jim led the project team that created and developed the highly successful AsianBondsOnline fixed income portal for the Asian Development Bank in 2003. He has significant “in-country” expertise as team leader for a large number of capital markets technical assistance projects for several international financial institutions including the implementation of the capital markets development master plan in Thailand, as well as other development assignments in the Philippines, Viet Nam, and Serbia. Between 2015-2020 he was an independent board member for the CSD, Depozitarul Central in Romania.

Jim has written extensively on the technical aspects of local capital market development in emerging markets and financial stability and has a B.Com from University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Abdulla Abdin has Masters in Business Administration from the University of Glamorgan UK, and currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer– Bahrain Clear. He is the Chairman of the Guarantee Fund Committee and Chairman of the African Middle East Depositories Association (AMEDA). Mr. Abdin has over 31 years of experience in Banking and Capital Market structure, regulations and operations.

Giorgi has been working for National Bank of Georgia since 2001, where he occupied various positions, including specialist at International Reserves Management Division, deputy head of Risk Management
division and head of Macroeconomics Department. Since 2006 Giorgi is heading Financial Markets Department. Giorgi’s responsibilities cover areas of Portfolio management, Risk management, International settlements, Domestic monetary operations and operation of GSSS – Georgian Securities Settlement System.

Giorgi has been actively involved in local currency money and capital market development, and has been at the forefront of many important reforms in related areas. In 2019 he has successfully led the implementation of centralized nationwide system for securities settlements, used for CSD operations and central bank collateral management. The project was undertaken jointly with domestic Stock Exchange and in cooperation with Montran. The system was based on an innovative multi-CSD concept and featured state of the art solutions for ease and efficiency of settlement process, dramatically reduced the risks and operating costs for both public and private sector.

The reform has featured as case study in IMF/WB Guidance Note for Developing Government Local Currency Bond Markets and has been awarded by Central Banking Awards as the best collateral management system.

Giorgi Laliashvili holds Master’s degree from Georgian State University in Banking and Finance and MA in Economics from Center for Development Economics, Williams College, USA.

Rares Togan has been with Montran Corporation for 22 years, performing various roles in multiple implementation projects that cover the entire range of Montran products. Coming from a technical background, Rares has gradually transitioned to the business area of the products, currently undertaking the role of Senior Business Analyst, Securities and Trading.

In this capacity, he has been involved in over 30 implementation projects for Central Securities Depositories and Trading Systems around the world, facilitating business analysis of the client capital markets environment, with the goal of producing accurate and comprehensive solution specifications materials, as well as supporting the transfer of knowledge process by delivering formal training.

Jim manages the Global Network Management (‘GNM’) division at TM and has over 26 years in the financial services industry. His responsibilities include running a team of 25 analysts and network managers who track custodian and market practice in 104 markets and assess risks in over 300 custodians, 145 CSDs and 27 CCPs worldwide. Jim is a subject matter expert on post-trade infrastructure and has led various strategic consulting projects on market infrastructure. Previously, Jim was a senior analyst within TM Network Management evaluating and selecting local and global custodians for clients as well as supporting a variety of consultancy engagements. Prior to joining TM in 1995, he was at Taylor Nelson Sofres as a Project Supervisor in their Financial division.

As the Chief Risk Officer for Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear France and Euroclear Nederland, Pierre Paul Stacanov is responsible for enabling the governance of risks and related opportunities in the three entities. With a strong background in audit and risk management, Mr Stacanov is also closely following up all relevant regulatory matters for the organisation. He is currently chairing the European Central Securities Depositories Association’s (ECSDA) Risk Management Working Group.

Before taking up his current position, he was a senior member of Euroclear Bank’s Network Management division, in charge of maintaining CSD links and managing relationships and improving services with Euroclear Bank’s network of securities and cash service providers. Prior to this, he was Chief Operating Officer of Euroclear Belgium and a member of its Management and Operational Committees. Previously, Mr Stacanov was a member of Euroclear’s Internal Audit division, heading a team responsible for auditing a number of Euroclear divisions and subsidiaries. Before this, as Product Manager for international securities, he developed Euroclear’s new issues services and closely followed the emergence of new currencies into the Eurobond market.

Mr Stacanov received degrees in Law from Ghent University, in Belgium and the European University Center in Nancy, France before joining Euroclear in 1990. He has a Master’s degree in Internal Auditing from the University Antwerp Management School (UAMS) and is a Certified Internal Auditor from the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Ekrem ARIKAN earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi University and his MBA from Yeditepe University. Currently, he is working on his PhD thesis at Istanbul Commerce University. He speaks English, German, and beginner-level Arabic.

He started to work for Microsoft as a Support Engineer in 1998, a Program Specialist in 1999, and a Program Manager in Windows International Product Development Group from 2000.

Then he started to work at Ziraat Technology (Fintek Financial Technology Services A.Ş., which is the IT company of biggest governmental bank Ziraatbank of Türkiye) as IT Architecture Manager from year 2007, Project Management Office Manager from 2009, IT Security Manager from 2011. In year 2013, he appointed as the Corporate Development Director.

In 2014, he assigned as the Information Technologies and Corporate Development Group Manager accountable for IT departments, Customer Services and Call Center, HR and Support Services at Ziraat Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş. which is life and pension insurance company owned by Ziraatbank.

In 2015, he moved to newly founded Energy Exchange Company EPİAŞ (Enerji Piyasaları İşletme A.Ş.) as an Advisor to Chairman and then appointed as the Strategy Development Director.

In year 2016, he started to work in CIO position by being EVP at Takasbank, which is the Central Counterparty of Türkiye, within the Borsa Istanbul Group.

Since April 2019, he has been working in CEO position as the General Manager and Board Member at MKK, which is the Central Securities Depository and Trade Repository company of Türkiye.

Oleksii Yudin joined National Depository of Ukraine (NDU) as a Chairman of the Board in June 2021. His main objectives in the role are digitalization, risk management and strategy execution.

Prior to NDU Oleksii was employed by UBS Investment Bank in London where he was taking leading role in Global IT and was responsible Equity Swaps platform development.

15+ years of Oleksii’s professional experience is an amalgam of software development, project management and investment banking focused on the post-trade accounting systems.

Oleksii graduated from Faculty of Electronics at National Technical University of Ukraine with a Master degree in Electronics.

Jens Hachmeister, Managing Director at Clearstream Holding AG is Head of New Digital Markets, Data & Issuer Solutions and a member of the Clearstream Management Board. After completing a banking apprenticeship and a degree in business administration, he began his career as a management consultant at KPMG before joining Xetra Market Development at Deutsche Börse AG in June 2000. Jens was Head of Operations and Infrastructure Development and part of the Management Committee Xetra until January 2009. From mid-April 2010 to December 2015, he was the Chief HR Officer of Deutsche Börse AG and in mid-August 2015, he assumed the newly created role of Chief of Staff and Head of Strategic Execution to the Group’s CEO. In April 2018, Jens created the New Digital Markets Area as one of the key pillars of Deutsche Börse’s DLT and blockchain strategy before taking on additional responsibility as Clearstream’s Head of Issuer Services in February 2020 and Data & Connectivity as of October 2022. In his current role he is driving the digitization of the company, its markets solutions, products and services.

Vipin Y.S Mahabirsingh holds a B.Tech (First Class, Hons.) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Mauritius, an M.Phil in Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics from the University of Cambridge and an MBA (with distinction) from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University. He joined the Central Depository & Settlement Co. Ltd at its inception in 1996 as Systems Manager and was appointed General Manager in July 1997.

He was then appointed as Managing Director in November 2005. In his capacity as Managing Director of CDS, he also provides consultancy services to African stock exchanges and central depositories. He was the systems vendor’s Project Director in the implementation of trading and depository systems at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (2004/2006), Bank of Ghana (2004), Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (2006), Botswana Stock Exchange (2008/2012), Lusaka Stock Exchange (2008) and Bolsa de Valores de Mocambique (2013). He supervised the implementation of an automated trading system at the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in 2015 and has spearheaded the replacement of the trading and depository systems at the Lusaka Stock Exchange which went live in December 2017.

He is a member of the Technical Committee that has been set up by the African Stock Exchanges Association (ASEA) to drive the implementation of the African Exchanges Linkage Project (ALEP). He is also a member of the Ratings Committee of CARE Ratings Africa. Vipin has been appointed as member of the Product Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF). DTIF’s mission is to provide the golden source reference data for the unique identification of digital tokens based on ISO’s new standard for digital assets, ISO 24165.

Andreas Lundell is the Head of Product for Nasdaq’s CSD technology offering at Nasdaq Market Technology, responsible for developing the long-term vision for Nasdaq’s CSD technology product portfolio, while leading a team of post-trade technology professionals in their work to ensure high-quality and efficient delivery of CSD solutions tailored for the needs of tomorrow. Andreas is based in Stockholm, Sweden and has over 20 years of experience in the post trade industry. Prior to joining Nasdaq in 2015, Andreas held various position within Euroclear Sweden

Alexandre Kech joined SDX in November 2022 as Head Digital Securities. Over the past 25 years, Alex has constructed a unique career combining finance at BNY Mellon, payments/securities infrastructure and standards at SWIFT, and blockchain and digital assets at Onchain Custodian (ONC). As co-founder and CEO of ONC, Alex led the Singapore and Shanghai-based team that built from scratch a custody and prime brokerage service for crypto and other digital assets. Most recently, he moved to Switzerland to launch and run Citi Ventures’ Blockchain & Digital Asset team to engage across the European ecosystem on emerging use cases for blockchain technologies and digital currencies.

Glen Fernandes is the Head of Digital Business Design for the Euroclear Group. He is responsible for helping shape the transition of Euroclear’s business into a future model driven by digital and data.

Mr Fernandes has previously held senior roles in the Euroclear’s Strategy and Product Division where he was responsible for heading the Fixed Income Primary markets business and leading strategic business development and fintech investment opportunities, to help shape Euroclear’s overall strategic and innovation direction.

Mr Fernandes also co-founded and chairs an industry working group of Central Securities Depositories (CSDs), Custodian banks & Fintechs under the International Securities Services Association (ISSA) to help create a common market understanding for the adoption of Digital Assets and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) in capital markets.

Mr Fernandes has over 19 years of experience in capital markets and financial technology across  America, Europe and Asia Pacific. He joined Euroclear in 2014 having earlier worked for securities services business lines at JP Morgan, Nomura, and Lehman Brothers where his work spanned key product/service launches and technology development.

Mr Fernandes holds a Masters in Business Administration from Vlerick Business School Belgium, in addition to Bachelors studies in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.

Martin Watkins is the Chief Executive of Montis Group where he is building digital CSDs and applying for regulatory approval to settle natively digital and non-native digital securities tokens using innovative blockchain technology, alongside conventional equity and debt. Montis Group was founded and is majority-owned by Archax, the first ever FCA regulated digital securities exchange that also has FCA brokerage, custody, and crypto-asset permissions.

Prior to Montis, Martin was at Ernst & Young (EY) for 7 years where, as EMEIA Lead for Exchanges and FMIs, he worked on multiple blockchain initiatives with fnality, Paxos, Euroclear, R3, DTCC, STRATE, Euronext, The Royal Mint/CME and TMX.

Before EY, Martin was a member of senior management at Euroclear (CRESTCo) in London and was elected Chairman of the Euroclear Group Operations Task Force focused on harmonising and restructuring services. This followed several years in Paris as an Executive member of AtosEuronext, running all LCH.Clearnet SA IT services across Europe, clearing €1.7 Trillion of equity, fixed income, and derivative transactions per day.

Martin is a former Board member and Trustee of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI), where he was Founding Chairman of the International Regulations Forum and Chairman of the FinTech Forum. He is responsible for the Archax group relationship and participation in the International Securities Services Association (ISSA).

Martin is a Chartered Honorary Fellow of CISI, a Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors. He sits on the Court of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.

Jennifer Peve is Managing Director, Head of Strategy and Business Development at DTCC. In this role, Jennifer has overarching responsibility for the firm’s global corporate strategy, digital product development and strategic partnerships and alliances, working across the business, and with clients and third-party providers, to identify opportunities for new product development as well as potential acquisitions, partnerships and mergers to broaden DTCC’s capabilities. She is also responsible for defining the firm’s strategy for new and emerging technology innovation, leading efforts related to the exploration and experimentation of fintech, and working with her colleagues and the industry to advance dialogue on key topics and develop thought leadership. Jennifer is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee.

Jennifer joined DTCC in 2015. Prior to that, she worked at CME Group where she served as Executive Director of OTC Product Management with responsibility for CME’s cleared OTC credit default swaps (CDS) business, including growth strategy, business development, and go-to-market activities.

Jennifer has over 25 years of financial markets expertise, including consulting and practical experience as well as the design, development and deployment of business strategies in a dynamic environment. She has extensive knowledge across the entire product life cycle, including OTC, FX and FX Options, OTC Metals, Stock Lending, OTC Credit Default Swaps, OTC Interest Rate Swaps and Swaptions, OTC Total Return Swaps, F&O, Energy and Equities.

Jennifer currently serves on the Technology Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as well as FINRA’s FinTech Industry Committee and is the former Chair of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)’s Banking Working Group. She is a member of SIFMA’s Blockchain Roundtable and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Ondrej Dusilek is a Chief Executive Officer of the CSD Prague  He started his professional career in 2005 as an analyst at UNIVYC, a.s., which was a subsidiary of the Prague Stock Exchange, which in 2010 was renamed to Centrální depozitář cenných papíru, a.s.  (CSD Prague) and took over securities registration from the Securities Center owned by the Ministry of Finance. In 2012, he completed a City of London Corporation internship, which included a two-month work experience at the London Stock Exchange in the Regulatory Strategy Department. He also participated in 2013 and 2014 as an advisor to a World Bank project to modernize the capital market in Azerbaijan. In 2017, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the CSD Prague and two years later was appointed as the CEO of the CSD Prague and was also elected to the Exchange Chamber (Board of Directors) of the Prague Stock Exchange.

He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at VSB-TU Ostrava with a degree in Finance (2003) and a degree in Euro government (2005). In 2016 he completed the Diploma for graduates in Banking at the University of London.

The Honorable Caroline D. Pham was sworn in as a CFTC Commissioner on April 14, 2022. Commissioner Pham is a recognized leader in financial services compliance and regulatory strategy and policy. Her substantial experience spans key international issues such as prudential regulation and systemic risk, financial markets, fintech and digital assets, ESG, implementation of global regulatory reforms, and addressing the impact of major disruptions like the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Pham is the sponsor of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.

Previously, Commissioner Pham was a Managing Director at Citigroup where she held various senior roles, including Head of Market Structure for Strategic Initiatives on the Institutional Clients Group Business Development team; Head of Capital Markets Regulatory Strategy and Engagement; Deputy Head of Global Regulatory Affairs; and Global Head of Swap Dealer and Volcker Compliance. She was a member of firmwide governance forums and has held leadership roles in many industry organizations.

Commissioner Pham is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has received various professional awards. She has a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, where she has served on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Business and Finance Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Law, Economics and Finance.

Holger Neuhaus is Head of the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) Market Innovation and Integration Division in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments. His Division develops the ECB/Eurosystem’s approach in relation to innovation and integration in the field of payments and post-trade services.

Until November 2019 he headed the Money Market and Liquidity Division which provides market analysis of euro area money markets and ensures the execution of monetary policy through the Eurosystem’s open market operations and liquidity management. It also had a lead role in developing and transitioning to a new reference interest rate for the money market.

He previously worked as Counsellor to the ECB’s Executive Board, headed the Financial Markets and Banking Statistics Section and was seconded to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as Senior Policy Advisor.

Before joining the ECB he worked for the Deutsche Bundesbank and a portfolio management company, inter alia in the field of foreign reserve management and financial market research. Holger Neuhaus studied economics at the Universities of Essen and Toronto.

Mr Piero Cipollone has been a member of the Governing Board and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy from 1 January 2020. In this capacity, he is also a member of the joint Governing Board of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS). After graduating in Economics from ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome, he obtained an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University. In 2001 he was visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.

In 1993 he joined the Economic Research Department of the Bank of Italy, first in the Balance of Payments Office and then as Head of the Labour Market Office. In 2007 he was appointed Special Commissioner of the Italian research institute INVALSI, and then President until 2011. From 2010 to 2014 he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for Italy, Albania, Greece, Malta, Portugal, San Marino and Timor-Leste, as well as Chairman of the Audit Committee. He returned to the Bank of Italy in 2014 and in November he was appointed Head of the Planning and Controls Directorate.

From 2017 to 2019, he was Deputy Director General of the Directorate General for Accounting and Controls, which in September 2017 became the Directorate General for Currency Circulation and Accounting. From September 2018 to September 2019 he was Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister. From 1 October 2019 to 31 December 2019 he was Managing Director responsible for high-level consultancy to the Governing Board on matters concerning the organization of the Bank’s functions and institutional relations.

Author and co-author of many articles and papers on trade, labour economics and education economics, published in a variety of academic journals, including American Economic Review and Journal of the European Economic Association, he also taught at both the Luiss University in Rome and the University of L’Aquila.

A former Banking Executive with 22+ years of experience, including most recently Global Head of Product Management for Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank, Rhom has developed an interest in creating digital businesses for finance and finance related areas. He brings experience of working across a wide variety of wholesale banking businesses and functions including sales, trading, product management, and technology to his role at Fnality. The majority of his experience has been developing businesses where the product is at the intersection of finance and technology.

Olga Jordão is the CEO of Euronext Securities Porto and the Head of Client Service of Euronext Securities, the unified network of Euronext CSDs.

While ensuring a continued strong presence of the Central Securities Depository in Portugal, Olga also oversees the pan-European client service teams to deliver service excellence to local and international clients.

Olga joined Euronext at a pivotal moment in 2021, when the group that operates the third largest CSD network in Europe combined its four CSDs into a new umbrella brand and launched its “Growth for Impact 2024” strategy. She has close to 30 years of professional experience in the post-trade sector and has held multiple roles in Luxembourg and in France heading up middle and back-office operations at a major global custodian, serving sophisticated global asset managers and leading strategic transformation projects. Olga is the former branch manager of State Street Bank International, Paris and also has vast experience in key account management, leading global teams and driving cross-functional initiatives.

Olga is a keen supporter of diversity, inclusion and sustainability initiatives. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Foreign Languages (English & German) from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and an Executive Masters of Business Administration from TRIUM (HEC, NYU, LSE).

Jennifer Robertson joined the European Commission in 2004 and has worked in DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union since 2005. She is currently a Head of Unit in the unit responsible for financial markets infrastructure. Previously she worked on retail financial services issues and SME finance in various departments of the European Commission.

Before working at the Commission, she worked as a senior economist for 5 years at the European Savings Banks Group on issues ranging from the introduction of the euro to the integration of European financial services markets. Her professional experience also includes working as an economic researcher for a financial communications consultancy in Washington DC, USA.

She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow (UK) and received a Master degree in International Economics and European Studies at the School for Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University (Italy and USA).

Andrea Gentilini has been Head of Financial Market Infrastructures
division of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) since February 2017. He is also ESMA Internal Coordinator within the CSSF and represents the CSSF in several ESMA Standing Committees (MSC, SSF Market, RSC, DSC). Since March 2023, he has been appointed Chair of the ESMA Post Trading Working Group and co-Chair of the T2S Cooperative Arrangement.
Andrea Gentilini has been Chair of the CEMA EMIR Task Force, responsible for the development of EMIR risk indicators, to promote data driven supervision and supervisory convergence, as well as knowledge sharing and peer learning.

Andrea Gentilini joined the CSSF in 2014 and has been working in the Financial Market Infrastructure Division ever since, contributing to the development of the CSSF’s authorisation process for CSDs under CSDR and support the work of the CSSF in the policy activity related to CSDR, EMIR and SFTR. Before joining the CSSF in 2014, he worked 15 years in the financial sector in Luxembourg (Senior Manager at PwC Luxembourg, portfolio manager in a Luxembourg based management company) and in China (head of international business in a Chinese fund management company, based in Shenzhen).

Andrea Gentilini was born in Milan, Italy and studied economics at Bocconi University, where he obtained also a Master’s degree in economics.
Andrea is married with 1 child. He holds Italian and Luxembourgish nationality

Jesus Benito is Head Domestic Custody & TR Operations, SIX.

He was involved in the European CSD Association (ECSDA) as member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee.  Nowadays, He is the T2S CSD Steering Group (“CSG”) Chairman from its inception in 2012.

Jesús Benito has participated in numerous international Groups, among others: the European Commission’s Clearing and Settlement Advisory and Monitoring Expert Group (CESAME and CESAMEII), Monitoring Operating Group (MOG), etc.

Before joining Iberclear in 2000, he worked for Banco de España from 1988 to 2000, as Head of Section responsible for CSD links and securities settlement policy issues.

He has a Business Degree from Complutense University.

Ilse Peeters, Director, is the Head of Government Relations and Public Affairs at Euroclear SA/NV. Government Relations was part of the Euroclear Corporate Strategy Division until 2017. It is now part of the Compliance, Regulatory Management and Public Affairs Division.

Ms Peeters works closely with key EU public policy stakeholders on relevant industry issues, while ensuring the effective external communication of Euroclear’s strategy. Over the last ten years, she has been involved in the main regulatory initiatives that have shaped the post-trade industry. Her recent focus is on technological innovations such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and ICOs and their regulatory and legal challenges.

Attila Toth is working for EBRD as Principal in the Capital & Financial Market Development Team since 2018. He is specialized in equity capital market and capital market infrastructure development where he built up a 20-year experience. He started his career at the Hungarian Debt Management Agency in 1997 and joined the Budapest Stock Exchange in late 1999. During his 16-year career at the BSE he was responsible for business and product development, trading and post-trading. Between 2008 and 2016 he was the Deputy CEO of the stock exchange responsible for issuer and trading member relations, product development, trading and business strategy. He was chairman of the Supervisory Board and also the member of the Board of Directors of the Central Depository and Clearing House of Hungary. He took part in international capital market development projects and spent years in the corporate finance and private equity industry specialised for SMEs before joining the EBRD.

Attila is highly devoted to the improvement of financial literacy. He was the Chief Secretary of the Foundation for Financial Self-Awareness, an institution founded by the Budapest Stock Exchange and later the member of the Board of the Money Compass Foundation of the National Bank of Hungary. Attila Toth has a Master Degree in Finance from the Budapest Corvinus University and has a EFFAS/ACIIA International Programme of Investment Analysis Diploma.

Mr. Kong Qingwen is the General Manager of China Securities Depository
and Clearing Corporation(CSDC). He has worked in Shanghai Stock
Exchange and CSDC starting from 1994, and worked as Deputy Director and
Director of CSDC’s Registration and Depository Department starting from
2002.

In 2010, he was appointed a member of the preparatory group of China
Institute of Finance (CIF), one of CSRC’s programs, and then served as a
member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of CIF from
2012. He then served as a member of Party Committee, Board Member and
Executive Director of CSDC from 2015.

Mr. Kong holds a Master of Science degree.

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.

Michele Hillery is General Manager of Equity Clearing and DTC Settlement Service at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). In this role, Michele has direct responsibility for the day-to-day management of equity clearing for trades executed on the major U.S. exchanges and other equity trading venues. She also oversees our ongoing efforts to collaborate with and build industry support for modernizing and transforming DTCC’s core businesses.

Michele has over 20 years in the industry and has held various positions within Product Management, Quality Assurance and Operations. Prior to joining DTCC’s Equity Clearing Product Management in 2013, Michele led the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s Mortgage Backed Securities Division (MBSD) where she managed the operations of the business and had responsibility over project development.

She earned a BBS from University of Limerick, Ireland and a MS from New York University.

Charlie Geffen was appointed by the UK Government as Chair of the Accelerated Settlement Taskforce in December 2022.

The Taskforce was established to examine the case for moving the UK to a T+1 settlement cycle and the basis on which this could be implemented.

Charlie was previously the Senior Partner at the international law firm Ashurst and led the Corporate practice of US law firm Gibson Dunn in London. His legal practice focused on corporate finance and M&A.

Since then he has served on a number of corporate boards in the financial services and energy sectors and is a Senior Adviser at the consultancy Flint Global.

He also serves as Chair of Council at the University of Surrey and on the boards of a number of other not for profit organisations.

Miguel Espinoza is the Head of Product for Montran’s CSD solution and the Solution Delivery Manager of the Securities and Trading division. He has been actively involved in the development and implementation of over 25 Central Securities Depositories around the world. Coming from an IT background, Miguel has been combining his technical and business knowledge to provide Montran
clients with the best possible CSD solution adopting best practices and focusing on settlement optimization and efficiency.

As head of product, Miguel is responsible for the general development and the definition of the product roadmap of the Montran CSD solution. With his team, he is constantly reviewing and researching the implemented processes, new initiatives, and emerging technologies to determine possible enhancements and the way forward for Montran’s CSD product

Javier Hernani took up his role of Head of the Securities Services business unit and he is member of the Executive Board of Six Group, since January 2021, after the takeover of BME by SIX. He is also CEO of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Sociedad Holding de Mercados y Sistemas Financieros, SA, since April 2017. He served as General Manager of BME from December 2012 to April 2017, with the specific role of coordinating the action of business units and corporate areas. Chairman of the Risk and Security Committees as well as Member of the board of several subsidiaries. Previously, he joined BME as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, assuming the role of conducting the integration process of the newly created group and leading the IPO process which took the company public as of 14th July 2006.

Prior to its incorporation to Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Mr. Hernani was Deputy General Manager of the Bilbao Stock Exchange (until 2003), CFO of Norbolsa, S.V.B. (until 1998) and Consultant in Coopers & Lybrand Brussels (until 1989).

Mr. Hernani earned a Degree in Economics and Business by University of Deusto in 1986, a Master’s Degree in European Economic Studies, specialising in Economics, by The College of Europe in Brussels in 1988 and a Master’s Degree in Advanced Management by University of Deusto in 1997.

Samuel Riley is the Chief Executive Officer of Clearstream Holding AG and Head of Clearstream Securities Services. Previously, he had a long-standing career at Citigroup, where he most recently served as Global Head of Custody Operations. His earlier responsibilities there included leading the EMEA Service Centers & Shared Services organisation and being an Executive Board Member of Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG. Samuel Riley holds a degree in Business Management from Wolverhampton University.