Agenda

Shawn Donnan leads the FT’s coverage of trade, globalisation, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank from his base in Washington. He previously served as World News Editor, coordinating the FT’s international economic and political news coverage. In that role he oversaw the paper’s award-winning coverage of major news events including the Eurozone crisis and the Arab spring.

Enrico Camerinelli is a senior analyst at Aite Group specializing in wholesale banking, cash and trade finance, and payments. Based in Milan, he brings a strong European focus to Aite Group’s Wholesale Banking practice.

Mr. Camerinelli has been widely quoted by publications ranging from American Banker to the Financial Times. He has contributed editorial content to publications such as Supply Chain Europe, serves as a consulting editor with gtnews, and is the author of Measuring the Value of the Supply Chain, a book about linking financial performance to the supply chain. He has spoken at leading trade shows and conferences in Europe, including Sibos and EuroFinance.

Mr. Camerinelli has extensive experience within his areas of coverage as well as in providing research and consulting services to clients. Most recently, he served as a senior analyst with Celent, focusing on the financial supply chain and Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Prior to that, he was the European director and chief analyst at the Supply Chain Council, a non-profit serving the logistics and supply-chain industry. In that capacity, Mr. Camerinelli provided independent research and advisory services as well as business development and budget control for the organization. Before that, he was a vice president and research leader at META Group’s Electronic Business Strategies service, tracking trends in supply chain management, product life-cycle management, e-procurement, and sourcing. He also spent 10 years working as a supply chain manager at various manufacturing and automotive companies.

Leanne Kemp is a highly decorated entrepreneur with 20 years’ experience in emerging technology. Founding Everledger in April 2015, Leanne has applied blockchain technology to the diamond industry by building a distributed ledger to track and trace a diamond’s provenance throughout the supply chain. By having the ability to verify authenticity various stakeholders across the pipeline, including banks and insurance companies, benefit from an overall reduction of risk and fraud in the marketplace.

In 2016 alone, Leanne won over seven awards for her work, including Best Blockchain Company (European Fintech Awards), Innovator of the Year (Penrose Awards) and Best B2B Startup (Digital Top 50 Award presented by Google, Rocket Internet and McKinsey). With a rich history in innovation, Leanne has also introduced and patented a wealth of transformational technology ideas such as Fastcards (a smart card with managed identification services) and commercialised Multicard (credential verification for consumer, governments and corporations) alongside various solutions to streamline inventory & supply chain operations.

Gerard Hartsink is the Chairman of the GLEIF Board. The GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, a Swiss not for profit organisation) was established by the Financial Stability Board in June 2014 and is tasked to support the implementation of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) for the benefit of the users of the public and private sector. The LEI data are free of charge made available for any user on www.gleif.org. The LEI is a high quality legal entity identifier for regulatory reporting and supply chain processes.

Mr Hartsink is the Chairman of the Board of the CCV Group, a payment institution and European card acquirer. He is active in organizations promoting e-commerce (member of the ICC Digital Economy Commission) and e-government (member of the Forum Standardisatie of the Dutch Government).

He has a broad experience in the payments, securities and forex industry. He served as the Chairman of CLS Bank International, the European Payments Council and of the RMG of ISO 20022 and as a Board Member of SWIFT, LCH Clearnet Group, Euroclear Netherlands, Euro Banking Association and Electronic Commerce Platform Nederland.

As former Senior Executive ‎Vice President of ABN AMRO he has over thirty years experience in sales, product development, regulatory affairs, information management and operations. He holds MA degrees ‎in political economy from the University of Amsterdam and in law from the Free University in Amsterdam.

Alexander R. Malaket, CITP, is President of Canadian consultancy OPUS Advisory Services International Inc., established in 2001, focusing on international business, trade and investment with a specialism in trade finance. Alexander has undertaken a range of consultancy assignments, from operational and tactical to technology, to global strategy, for clients around the world and has developed and delivered training seminars and programs in numerous markets including Toronto, New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and Taipei among others.

Mr. Malaket is an internationally recognized expert in international business, trade, investment as well as trade finance and supply chain finance, contributing regularly to industry publications like Trade Finance Magazine, Trade & Forfaiting Review, Global Trade Review, Cash & Trade Magazine and Trade and Export Finance. Alexander speaks and chairs panels at top-tier conferences and events around the world, and is the author of “Financing Trade and International Supply Chains”, Gower/Ashgate Publishing, UK 2014.

Mr. Malaket has been nominated, elected or invited to contribute to various organizations in several capacities, including:

• Member of the Board of Directors and the Board Nominating Committee, FITT Ottawa
• Deputy Head of the Executive Committee, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission, Paris
• Co-Chair of the Academic Committee, ICC Academy (Trade Finance and International Banking), Singapore
• Nominated National Expert, Trade Finance, UN/CEFACT, Geneva
• Member of the Trade, Finance and Development Experts Group, E15 Initiative (World Economic Forum and ICTSD), Geneva
• Canadian Delegate, B20/G20 Consultations for 2015 (Financing Growth Task Force) and 2016 (SME Development Task Force) and Co-Chair, ICC Banking Commission B20/G20 Consultations
• Member of the International Affairs Committee, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Ottawa

David Hennah leads the trade and supply chain finance product management team at Misys having re-joined the company from SWIFT, where he spent eight years driving the industry body’s financial supply chain strategy.

David spent over twenty years in a variety of senior roles at Barclays, spanning all areas of the transaction banking business. He is credited with bringing to market the world’s first international direct debit service.

Outside the UK David has worked in France, Belgium and Germany, including a three year secondment to the Associated Banks of Europe Corporation (ABECOR) in Brussels and was once based literally “overseas” managing the Barclays branch on board RMS QE2.

David has become well known for his work in recent years to bring the ICC Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) to market as an established business practice. David was a member of the ICC BPO Rules Drafting Group and is the author of the best-selling ICC Guide to the Uniform Rules for Bank Payment Obligations. He is a regular speaker at industry events and a regular contributor to industry publications including Trade & Forfaiting Review. He has previously run his own consulting business and is a distinguished Member of the Institute of Financial Services. In 2016 David was appointed Special Advisor to the World Trade Board and Expert Advisor to the trade faculty of the ICC Academy.

David has raised funds for a number of good causes over the years and has served as a regional councillor for Sightsavers. He once walked 1000 miles from John o Groats to Lands End and has completed three London Marathons.

Shawn Donnan leads the FT’s coverage of trade, globalisation, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank from his base in Washington. He previously served as World News Editor, coordinating the FT’s international economic and political news coverage. In that role he oversaw the paper’s award-winning coverage of major news events including the Eurozone crisis and the Arab spring.

Sean Doherty is head of International Trade & Investment and a member of the executive committee at the World Economic Forum. He leads the Forum’s work on trade and investment policy, including the E15Initiative, is the acting director of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation and oversees the Global Future Council on Trade & FDI. He has headed the World Economic Forum’s Supply Chain & Transport, Chemicals and Mining and Metals industry communities. He worked previously as a management consultant and holds masters degrees in aeronautical engineering, molecular biology and business administration.

Bastien Sachet is chief executive officer of TFT (The Forest Trust), an international non-profit that helps companies transform their supply chains for the benefit of nature and people. TFT has offices in 15 countries and an on-the-ground presence in many more, working across commodities including palm oil, pulp and paper, wood, charcoal, cocoa and stone. TFT assists companies to make policy commitments to eradicate deforestation and exploitation from their operations by focusing on innovation and value throughout the supply chain. The organisation then works on the ground to bring about transformation by training suppliers, empowering smallholders, developing landscape initiatives for thriving communities and working with civil society and NGOs to help companies verify that their policies are translating to action in the field.

Prior to becoming chief executive in December 2015, Bastien was director of TFT’s operations in the Americas, Africa and central Europe. He also oversaw the organisation’s palm oil strategy.

Before joining TFT in 2006, Bastien worked for several years in Brazil, Australia, England and Argentina, leading product and sales teams in logistics and agro-business for Group Moullier. Bastien graduated in agricultural engineering from the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (Agro Paris Tech) in 2000 before completing his postgraduate degree in marketing and strategy at the University of Paris IX Dauphine.

Hugh Jones is President and CEO of Accuity, joining RBI in 2011 as part of its acquisition of Accuity and NRS and its integration with BankersAlmanac.

Prior to joining Accuity, Hugh spent more than 15 years providing rich data streams to solve difficult business challenges. He was involved in building IntrinsiQ Research into a leading information management company in the oncology market, before moving to a private equity firm Accel-KRR. He has also held positions as Engagement Manager at Deloitte Consulting and Global MD at Datamonitor.

Hugh holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Yale University.

Thomas Verhagen is the Senior Programme Manager – Banking at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He joined CISL in 2015 as Senior Programme Manager, Banking Environment Initiative in the Sustainable Finance team. Prior to CISL, Thomas worked for ten years at ABN AMRO bank. Here he experienced first-hand the necessity of, and opportunities for, change by working in his two main fields of responsibility: credit portfolio management and business model innovation. Thomas has a BSc and a MSc in International Business from Tilburg University.

As Head of Trade, Product Management, Transaction Banking Michael is responsible for the P&L and delivery of the Bank’s Trade Finance capabilities globally in Documentary Trade, Receivables Finance, Supply Chain Finance, and working capital solutions, to all of the Bank’s clients across Corporate & Institutional, Commercial and Business clients. He is also accountable for the Bank’s Trade Finance distribution.

Michael is a member of the BAFT Global Trade Industry Council and the ICC Banking Commission Advisory Board. He chairs the SWIFT Offshore CNY Best Practice Working Group – Cash & Trade Group and in March 2014 he was recognised by The Asset as The Renminbi Banker of the Year in the Industry Achievement Awards of the Triple A Treasury, Trade and Risk Management Awards.

He joined Standard Chartered Bank in 1995 and has worked in Hong Kong, London and Singapore across a number of business areas including Corporate Relationship Management, Cash Management and Trade Product Sales, Investor Relations, Business Planning and Strategy for the CEO of the Consumer Bank, Customer Segmentation and Branding, and Customer Experience Management.

Most recently Michael was the Head of Product Management for Asia, Transaction Banking where he had product oversight and P&L responsibilities across the suite of solutions for Cash Management, Trade Finance, Securities Services and Clearing for the bank’s clients in the region.

He is on the board and the honorary treasurer of KELY support group, a Hong Kong based Charity. KELY is focused on providing education and intervention for youth targeting drugs, alcohol and self esteem issues through peer support.

Susane Chishti is CEO of FINTECH Circle, Europe’s first Angel Network focussed on fintech opportunities and FINTECH Tours, Chairman of FINTECH Circle Innovate and Co-Editor of the Bestseller “The FINTECH Book”​ – the 1st Crowd-Sourced Book on Fintech globally. Susanne is recognised in the European Digital Financial Services ‘Power 50’ 2015, was selected as top 15 FINTECH UK twitter influencers and named “City Innovator – Inspirational Woman 2016”. She is also a University Lecturer at ESCP Europe.

Susanne is an entrepreneur and investor with strong FINTECH expertise. She is a mentor, judge and coach at FINTECH events and competitions such as SWIFT Innotribe, Cambridge Judge Business School Accelerator, Fintech Startup Bootcamp and Barclays Techstars Accelerators. She has more than 14 years’ experience across Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Morgan Stanley and Accenture in London and Hong Kong. Susanne is also co-founder of the FINTECH Book series which will see the launch of The WealthTECH, InsurTECH and RegTECH Books published by Wiley in Jan 2018. You can follow Susanne on Twitter: @SusanneChishti

Todd McDonald is COO and Head of Partnerships for R3. Todd co-founded R3 in 2013 and was one of the first to uncover the promise of distributed ledger technology for financial services. In his current role, Todd focuses on building the partner application ecosystem for R3’s Corda platform. Prior to R3, Todd spent fourteen years at Standard Chartered Bank as a Managing Director in their Financial Markets group where he held positions such as Global Head of Electronic FX Trading and Head of FX for the Americas. Todd holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Colgate University.

Brian Caplen has been Editor of The Banker since 2003. He joined the Financial Times Group from Euromoney in 2000 where he was Executive Editor of Euromoney magazine for five years. He also worked as a business editor and journalist in Hong Kong and the Middle East for 10 years. He has travelled extensively and done numerous high level interviews with prime ministers, finance ministers, central bank governors and senior executives. He has a first-class honours degree in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia.

As the Head of Fintech Partnerships & Strategy, Kaushalya Somasundaram leads the partnership and corporate venturing for HSBC’s core businesses including Global Liquidity and Cash Management, Global Trade and Receivables Finance, Custody and Global Markets. She has led HSBC investments in Fintech companies of strategic importance and the bank’s forays into the world of distributed ledgers. Kaushalya has held a variety of senior roles across HSBC including Strategy & Planning, Corporate Development and Group Audit. Kaushalya has also been recognised in the Brummell’s 2016 list of the most inspirational women innovators in London.

Zaki Manian is a Co-Founder of Skuchain, a fintech dedicated to bringing cryptographic trust to the supply chain. SKUChain uses cryptographic ledger technology similar to BitCoin and similar cryptocurrencies. Prior to this, he was a System Integration Engineer at ReaMetrix. He is very knowledgeable in cryptography, mass surveillance, embedded systems, image analysis and functional programming.

Ghela Boskovich is active in the fintech industry, having spent the last ten years focused on business development for core insurance and banking system solutions, the last half of which has centered on financial services pricing governance functionality, which has leveraged her background in regulatory economics, cost modeling and rate of regulation pricing models. Ghela also founded FemTechGlobal to bridge the gender gap in fintech and the financial services industry. The network is built on the premise that diverse teams create better solutions, and embracing differences fosters creativity. Active in London, New York, Sydney and Singapore, FemTech partners with industry organizations to promote diversity and inclusion, and is a connecting platform for innovators and entrepreneurs. Boskovich is a regular contributor to fintech publications and discussions, specializing in dynamic pricing and customer centricity. Ghela was named one of Brummell Magazine’s 2016 ‘30 Inspirational Women Innovators’, and included in Innovate Finance’s Women in Fintech Powerlist 2016. She also sits on the Banking Technology Awards judging panel, and sponsors the Banking Technology Women In Technology (W.I.T.) Award, as well as the board of the Financial Inclusion Institute.

Rhomaios Ram has more than 22 years of wholesale banking experience at Deutsche Bank. His roles have included European Head of FX, Head of FX Electronic Trading, Head of Global Markets Electronic Distribution, where he traded and sold both cash and derivative products and was responsible for driving the automation of trading in FX. Subsequently, he joined the Transaction Bank, where he was Global Head of Product Management and UK Head of Transaction Banking. Transaction Banking is the business responsible for payments, trade finance, securities custody and clearing and bank agency products. His last role at Deutsche was as a founding Partner of the Digital Bank, where he was developing new banking business models suitable for the digital economy. In addition to acting as mentor to several startups, Rhom is now a partner at Ohalo, a startup enabling secure data permissioning, sharing and tracking using blockchain technology.

The majority of his experience has been developing businesses where the product is at the intersection of finance and technology. Rhom has a BSc. from Imperial College London and a MBA from Columbia Business School.

Dave is the Global Head of Accenture’s Financial Services Blockchain practice as well as a Client Account Lead for two top tier Financial Services firms.

Dave has 20 years of experience in Financial Services split between consulting and industry roles. The early part of his career was primarily focused on Retail Banking, and Cards and over the past 12 years he has focused on Capital Markets.

Dave has experience and expertise in running strategy functions, innovation, strategic cost management, large-scale restructuring, customer relationship management, M&A, outsourcing & offshoring and process excellence.

Michael Froman is a Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the United States Trade Representative (USTR) between June 2013 and January 2017. As USTR, Ambassador Froman was President Obama’s principal advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on international trade and investment issues.

He led the Office of the United States Trade Representative in its work to open global markets for U.S. goods and services, enforce America’s rights in the global trading system, and foster development through trade. Key initiatives that were under his leadership included: conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in the Asia Pacific; negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union, as well as agreements on services, information technology and trade facilitation at the World Trade Organization; and monitoring and enforcement U.S. trade rights, including by bringing a series of systemically important cases at the WTO.

Prior to becoming USTR, Ambassador Froman served at the White House as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs. He served as the U.S. Sherpa for the G20 and G8 Summits, and staffed the President for the APEC Leaders Meetings. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Ambassador Froman served in a number of roles at Citigroup and in the Clinton Administration, including as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Ambassador Froman received a bachelor’s degree in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University and law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Lady Barbara Judge CBE is the National Chairman of the UK Institute of Directors, as well as Chairman Emeritus of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, having been its Chairman from 2004-2010. She is also currently Chairman of the Energy Institute of University College London and Deputy Chairman of the Tepco Nuclear Reform Committee. In addition, she is a UK Business Ambassador. She is also a member ofthe UAE Advisory Board for the Development of Peaceful Nuclear Energy and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Association of Consultancy and Engineering (ACE). In addition she is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University.

In June 2016 she completed two terms as Chairman of the UK Pension Protection Fund. Earlier in her career she was appointed as the youngest ever Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Thereafter she was appointed as the first woman Executive Director of Samuel Montagu and News International.

In 2010 Lady Judge was awarded Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List and in 2015 she received a Sunday Times Non-Executive Director Award for her chairmanship of the Pension Protection Fund.

In 2014 Daniel Blockert was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the WTO in Geneva. He is the current Chairman of the EIF Steering Committee and the Chairman of the Committee on Trade Facilitation. In 2016, Mr Blockert chaired the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements and in 2015, the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration.

In 2011 Mr Blockert returned to the Department of Trade Policy at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, where he served as a Director and Deputy Head of Department. In 2009, Mr Blockert took up the post as Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission at the Swedish Embassy in Singapore. In 2003 Mr Blockert transferred to the Department of Trade Policy at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and in 2007 he became head of the WTO unit in the same department. After the Swedish Presidency of the EU, Mr Blockert then worked with trade related issues at the Ministry of Agriculture, mainly in connection with international organisations such as WTO, OECD and FAO. After finishing his studies in 1999 he got a position as an EU coordinator at the Ministry of Agriculture. He has a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Political Science, and a Master’s Degree in International Relations, all from the University of Stockholm.

Clive Myrie is a multi award winning journalist, one of the BBC’s most experienced foreign correspondents and a recognised face as a BBC News presenter. As well as regularly presenting on the BBC News Channel and the 1pm and 10pm news bulletins on BBC1, Clive continues to make features and programmes for Panorama, Newsnight and Radio 4.

Clive became a full time foreign correspondent in 1996, first being posted to Japan. Since then he has held some of the most important posts in foreign newsgathering including Washington Correspondent, Europe Correspondent, Asia Correspondent and Africa Correspondent. Clive has reported from more than 80 countries on some of the most important news events over the last 20 years including the wars in Croatia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

He has won awards in Monte Carlo, citations in the United States (from the EMMY committee) and the UK (a Screen Nations award.) . Clive has also been twice nominated for France’s prestigious Bayeaux War Correspondent award and was part of the BBC team nominated for a BAFTA for coverage of the devastating floods in Mozambique in 2000. In 2016 he was nominated for an EMMY award in the US for coverage of the Nepal earthquake.

In 2016 Clive was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Staffordshire for services to journalism.

As President, Simon has responsibility for the entire Misys go-to-market organisation including sales, pre-sales, partners and marketing. Simon joined Misys in June 2015 and brings more than 15 years’ sales, management and leadership expertise to the company.

Simon came to Misys from SAP where he held a number of senior sales and leadership positions including Global Head of Banking and Global Head of Financial Services. He was then appointed President of Strategic Industries and served most recently as President Industry Cloud with responsibility for driving SAP’s global go-to-market efforts for its applications portfolio across 25 industries and two core lines of business. He was also responsible for driving SAP’s simplification efforts around strategic pricing, solution marketing and solution management; and specific business development / co-innovation.

Simon was formerly a senior consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Simon holds a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the INSEAD Business School in France and a bachelor’s degree in business & European languages from the European Business School.