Neha Coulon – Vice President Commodity Solutions, JPMorgan
Title: Cross-Asset Risk Premia
Neha is a Vice President in the Commodity Solutions team at JPMorgan, London, focusing on sales and structuring of commodity derivative products. She has extensive experience in covering many of the largest asset managers and pension funds across USA and Europe, developing new client relationships and expanding the group's product range of systematic risk premia strategies. Prior to her current role, Neha was a manager in the Corporate Development team of Australia's largest supply chain company, Toll Holdings where she was involved in strategic planning and executing a number of acquisitions and divestments across Asia. Her educational background includes a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters in Finance from Princeton University and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Moorad Choudhry – CEO, HBZ UK
Title: Competition, Regulation and the Future of Banking
Moorad has over 25 years’ experience in banking in the City of London, most recently as the newly appointed Chief Executive for the UK business of Habib Bank Zurich. Prior to this he was: IPO Treasurer at the Royal Bank of Scotland; Head of Treasury at RBS Corporate Banking; Head of Treasury at Europe Arab Bank; Head of Treasury at KBC Financial Products; and vice-president in structured finance services at JPMorgan Chase Bank. He is also the founder of the Bank Treasury Risk Management (BTRM) certification, editor of the Review of Financial Markets and author of numerous books on credit, fixed income and financial institutions. His round table will be linked to his textbook The Principles of Banking (John Wiley & Sons, 2012)

Bernard Minsky – Chief Operating Officer, Callisto Asset Management, Solo Capital Partners
Title: Risk and Margin Finance
Bernard is a partner and COO of Callisto Asset Management LLP, the Investment Management arm of the Solo Group. He originally joined Solo in 2012 as the Chief Risk Officer for Solo Capital Partners LLP. From 2004 to 2012 he was Head of Portfolio Analysis and Risk Management at International Asset Management, where he was responsible for developing risk management policies and the day-to-day control of investment risk.He spent ten years at Goldman Sachs International, latterly as Manager of Margin Risk in the Prime Brokerage team from 2000 to 2004, overseeing the lending policies for hedge fund clients, and previously as co-head of the Risk Department in Europe from 1996 to 2000. Bernard has a BSc in Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Sussex and an MSc in Mathematics from the University of London.He has co-authored papers on portfolio optimisation, performance measurement and investment risk and is now an Honorary Reader in Mathematics at Sussex.

David Murphy – Senior Policy Advisor, Bank of England
Title: Financial Regulation and the Regulated David Murphy is the Senior Policy Adviser in the Market Infrastructure Directorate of the Bank of England. David's work revolves around OTC derivatives policy, research and supervision issues. He is the author of three books and numerous papers in risk management and regulation, notably OTC Derivatives: Bilateral Trading and Central Clearing (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). Before coming to the Bank, he was Global Head of Risk at ISDA, and he has held a number of senior roles at Merrill Lynch and Banque Paribas. He holds a PhD in theoretical computer science, and Master’s degrees in Physics and Computation

Andrew Scourse – Executive Director, Asset-Backed Finance, Santander
Title: Debt Markets and Structured Finance
Andrew is an Executive Director focussed on securitisation and asset backed finance. He has extensive experience across Europe in the consumer asset and commercial real estate sectors having led many first time and innovative public securitisation and private deals. Prior to joining Santander he worked at ABN AMRO where he was one of the senior members of the Structured Real Estate Capital business focussed on conduit CMBS, after which he moved to RBS in the Real Estate Finance business focussing on structured and syndicated commercial real estate finance.

Aanand Venkatramanan, Vice President Systematic Trading Strategies and Indices, Barclays Capital
Title: Systematic Trading Strategies
Aanand graduated from Sri Sathya Sai Institute, India with first class Honours in Mathematics. As a Felix scholar he obtained a distinction on the MSc in Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations at the University of Reading. He obtained his PhD on analytic approximations for multi-asset option pricing in 2010, supervised by Carol Alexander and then worked for three years in structured products for Goldman Sachs, London. After two years as Lecturer in Finance at the University of Sussex he recently returned to the city of London as VP Systematic Trading Strategies and Indices for Barcap.

Anca Dimitriu – Executive Director Business Development, Millenium Partners
Title: Quantitative Trading
Anca holds an MSc from DOFIN Bucharest (2000) and a PhD from the ICMA Centre (2004). During her doctoral research she published many papers on quantitative hedge fund strategies, notably in the Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Alternative Investments and Quantitative Finance. After almost 5 years in the equity quant trading team at Goldman Sachs, in 2009 she joined a large quant trading team at Millenium Partners in London, where her focus is on business development.