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As businesses begin to imagine what the end of the pandemic could look like, it is abundantly clear that we are not returning to the old normal. The global pandemic brought about new changes that are felt in every aspect of business and the receivables finance industry is not an exception.  BCR’s annual Consortia returns this autumn to debate better ways to deliver your blockchain enabled trade and receivables finance promise to clients in the “new normal”.
 

The event will be held in London. For those who cannot join us in person, we are also offering an online option. For those who are attending in person, Consortia provides a wonderful networking opportunity during the Drinks Reception, sponsored by Norton Rose Fulbright, at the end of Day One. 

Key topics to be explored this October include:

  • Exploring blockchain’s potential to create ESG in trade networks
  • Developing the business case for technology and platform investments
  • Scaling to solve real problems with real-world products
  • Streamlining KYC and AML processes with blockchain
  • An update on the ICC Digital Standards Initiative (DSI)  
  • Standardisation challenges and what can be done to tackle them
  • Market development in Asia

Speakers
Enrico Camerinelli
Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Enrico Camerinelli is a senior analyst at Aite Group specializing in wholesale banking, cash and trade finance, payments, and Enterprise Blockchains. Based in Milan, he brings a strong European focus to Aite Group’s Wholesale Banking practice. Enrico is also co-founder and former Board Member of the non-profit Supply Chain Finance Community.

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, 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.

Maex Ament
Co-Founder, Centrifuge and Taulia

Serial FinTech entrepreneur, Markus Ament, or Maex as he is known, has led many companies from early-stage startups to global leaders, used and loved by thousands worldwide.

Maex is currently advising several FinTech and Crypto players, including Hypatos, Earnd, Finoa or Novicap, on their journey from early-stage startups to exits and unicorn status.

Besides that, he founded the sustainability startup Pegada, a Green Finance player aiming to provide affordable financing to ESG compliant suppliers.

He is a co-founder and board member of Centrifuge, with the mission to create an operating system for global commerce to fundamentally change how businesses transact and collaborate. Centrifuge built a protocol to tokenize and finance real-world assets on public Ethereum, creating an important milestone for decentralized finance.

Maex is the co-founder of San Francisco-based Taulia and has transformed the company from an idea in 2009 to the market-leading Financial Supply Chain company, connecting businesses to create a more efficient and profitable supply chain. With an enviable list of Fortune 500 clients and over 300 employees, Taulia has quickly become the recognized leader in the financial supply chain and working capital management.

Maex began his FinTech career working for SAP in Germany, developing and deploying payment and banking solutions in the SAP financials market. Maex also acts as an angel investor and mentor for various startups.

Madeline Bailey
Co-Head of Technology Consulting, Norton Rose Fulbright

Madeline Bailey is Co-Head of Technology Consulting based in London. She focuses on digital transformation and strategic change, working with teams to design and support executing plans that exploit disruptive technology so that they can transform for the digital age.

Madeline is an Industry Board Member of the Department of Informatics at Kings College London. Formerly, she was Global Head of Strategic Initiatives at a global financial services firm, exploring the latest mega trends globally in digital, business models and financial services, looking at how established companies can innovate to take advantage of digital disruption. She also held executive positions in the globally located subsidiaries in England, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, the US and Dubai.

Madeline's career started in law and she has extensive experience providing commercially oriented general counsel services to global firms, before she assumed a business facing role.

Steven Beck
Head, Trade and Supply Chain Finance

Steven Beck is the head of trade and supply chain finance at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He has managed exponential growth of the bank’s trade finance business and implemented its first supplychain finance business.

While at the ADB, Steven initiated a tool that maps the entire supply chain for COVID-related goods to address shortages. He initiated the Trade Finance Register of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), which compiles the only industry-wide statistics on trade-finance default and loss rates. These statistics underpinned changes to the Basel III regulations, freeing billions of dollars to support trade in emerging markets. He created the ADB led study that, for the first time, quantified trade finance market gaps and their impact on economic growth and jobs. Under Steven’s leadership, a gender audit was conducted of ADB partner commercial banks to develop specific recommendations to attract, retain, and promote more women in banking. Steven undertook several initiatives to make global trade and supply chains more robust through digitization, including establishing the Digital Standards Initiative in partnership with the Government of Singapore and the ICC. He began his career with roles as a special assistant to the Canadian minister for international trade and as a senior manager at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). He left CIBC to help start up a new multilateral development bank, the Black Sea Trade & Development Bank (BSTDB), which focused on economic development in Turkey, Russia, and countries of the former Soviet Union. Following BSTDB, he took up roles as a senior consultant, including work with the United States Agency for International Development in southern Africa.

Steven is on the governing board of the Digital Standards Initiative, International Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Working Group for Trade Finance. He has an M.A. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, USA and a B.A. from Queen’s University, Canada.

John Bugeja
Managing Director, Trade Advisory Network

John Bugeja is a highly experienced trade, supply chain and invoice finance specialist with more than 40 years’ experience in senior leadership roles with HSBC, NatWest, RBS, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group. John is now Managing Director of Trade Advisory Network Limited, a trade, supply chain and invoice finance advisory network, delivering product development and innovation, operating model design and implementation, training and education and deal structuring and placement solutions to banks, alternative finance providers, fintechs, technology service providers and corporates. John is often called upon to act as expert witness when trade and supply chain finance related disputes go to tribunal or court. Key areas of expertise include origination, risk and governance, product management and development, business development, organisation design, change management, process facilitation, training and management development. John is passionate about promoting the development of supply chain finance in all its forms and was a member of the drafting group that wrote the ICC rules for Uniform Rules for Digital Trade Transactions (URDTT). John is also co-author of LIBF’s Certificate in Supply Chain Finance, FCI’s Supply Chain Finance online learning module and the  ICC Academy’s Advanced Supply Chain Finance online course, a core module of their CTCP programme.

André Casterman
Managing Director, Casterman Advisory, Chair of Fintech Committee, ITFA

André Casterman is an independent consultant, advising financial institution and fintech clients on data management, trade finance, and capital markets innovations. André spent 20+ years at SWIFT, leading various innovations in the inter-bank payments, corporate treasury, and trade finance markets. During that time, he established an institutional partnership between SWIFT and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and created the first digital trade settlement instrument. André chairs the Fintech Committee of the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA), with a focus on helping banks take advantage of fintech innovations to automate trade finance operations and establish the business as an investable asset class through use of data analytics and artificial intelligence. André holds a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from ICHEC Brussels Management School, and two Master’s degrees in Computer Sciences and Management from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

Gilbert Cordier
Head of Sales of we.trade

Gilbert Cordier, is the Head of Sales of we.trade, a secure digital platform that makes it easier for buyers and sellers to trade globally. Gilbert has a wealth of experience across financial services, trade finance and energy industry sectors. Starting out his career in the energy trading markets Gilbert, an entrepreneur at heart, eventually moved into managing his own consultancy firm in Brazil and Switzerland! Over the last few years he has been working within the financial services industry as the appointed we.trade Sales and Product manager in Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB, France. Gilbert has recently been appointed Head of Sales for we.trade to leverage his expertise to further scale we.trade’s network by helping new banks open up new revenue opportunities for them and their clients, via the we.trade platform.

Gilbert has a natural flare, a work ethic that is second to none and is well regarded by his peers and clients. Gilbert has helped many clients understand their business needs and has helped them simplify their trade operations offering solutions via the we.trade platform! Building More Trust and More Trade, one conversation at a time.

Stella Cramer
Global Co-Head of Technology, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright (Asia)

Stella Cramer is a technology and innovation lawyer based in Singapore. She is global co-head of technology and also co-leads the intellectual property and technology practice for Europe, the Middle East and Asia and the FinTech practice for South East Asia.

Stella has extensive experience in complex, digital and transformational technology and commercial transactions, outsourcings, related regulatory issues and global compliance programs for global financial institutions and major corporates across all industry sectors in the region, including disruptive technologies such as AI and blockchain. She has acted for clients on significant FinTech projects, including the set-up of industry sandboxes. She also leads cyber and data breach issues for clients, co-ordinating the management of the breach and regulatory investigations across multiple jurisdictions.

Stella is recognized for her strong capabilities by The Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and Who's Who Legal. She is an elected member of the firm's Partnership Committee.

Mark Cudden
Acting CEO of Ireland based, we.trade Innovation DAC

Mark Cudden, is the Acting CEO of Ireland based, we.trade Innovation DAC, a secure digital platform that makes it easier for buyers and sellers to trade globally.

Mark has held multiple leadership roles within organisations around the world and has guided multi-disciplinary teams in transformation, cost optimisation and operational improvements initiatives. He leads organisations towards sustainable growth and through instilling a high-performance culture.

At present, he executes the technology strategy, designs operating models with leading the Product Delivery and Technology teams in we.trade, and is currently a member of the Hyperledger Trade Finance Special Interest Group (SIG).

Furthermore with over 23+ years gaining a wealth of experience from Engineering through Architecture into Leadership crossing a multitude of vertical sectors including, but not limited to; Finance, Education, Government and Telecommunications. Mark holds a master’s degree in Web Technologies and is an International speaker in Dublin, Paris, Tokyo and New York and online.

Bhaskar Dasgupta
Head of Market Infrastructure, Digital and VC/FinTech

Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta is responsible for market development, new product & eco-system development, developing go-to-market strategies, managing new initiatives and delivering a significant increase in the number of firms listed in ADGM and AUM. Sectors include Exchanges and Market Infrastructure, Virtual/Digital Assets, Digital Banking, Broker / Dealers, Venture Capital, FinTech, Sustainable Finance, Transaction Banking, Commodities. He is also responsible for South Asia, GSIB's, Sales & Business Development Transformation Initiatives.

Prior to joining ADGM in 2019, Dr Dasgupta was the Chief Operating Officer of UK Export Finance at the Department of International Trade in the UK Government. His 25 year career included senior level leadership, business development and transformation roles in investment banking, transaction banking, technology and consulting in firms such as HSBC, ABN AMRO, Citigroup and PwC.

Dr Dasgupta holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Bhopal, an MBA in Finance from Indore University, a PhD in Financial Modelling & AI from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in Politics from Kings College London. He is currently completing his third PhD in Food History from Brunel University, UK.

Eva Degenhart
Partner MH Corporate Finance GmbH

Eva is a senior Supply Chain Finance (SCF) specialist with over 20 years of banking experience in various management and expert positions at major Austrian financial institutions. As shareholding partner at MH Corporate Finance GmbH, she heads the SCF consulting services. Being among the first to develop and successfully introduce SCF products in an Austrian bank she led multiple rollouts of new SCF solutions in Austria and CEE, including multi-funder structures. In collaboration with IFC/WBG she currently advises commercial and development banks in MENA, West Africa, Europe and Asia, enabling SCF strategy building, business modelling, product program set-up and IT projects. Knowledge is an important ingredient for quality results, for both her clients and herself. She loves to innovate, continuously captures developments in the SCF community and likes to share and discuss the findings as author of publications around the subject matter, such as the Guidebook on Supply Chain Finance by Development Banks and Public Entities recently issued by IFC/WBG. She is a beknown speaker and trainer at international SCF conferences and holds a Master’s degree in business administration from Vienna University of Economics and Business as well as a CEFA diploma.

Sudhir Dole
CEO, Trade Information Network

Mr. Dole is the CEO of Trade Information Network Limited since January 2020. Mr. Dole has worked for 27 years as a banker. He started his career with ANZ Grindlays Bank in 1992 and has also worked with Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC and ICICI Bank. His domain experience started with trade finance, and includes cash management, fund raising and financial institutions. He was the first head of the transaction banking business for ICICI Bank (2006-2009). He has experience of working across multiple geographies including Hong Kong, UK and India. He has been in Chief Executive roles since 2008 and more recently, he was the CEO of ICICI Bank UK plc for six years.

Brian Edmondson
Global Head, Trade and Working Capital Finance, Finastra

Brian is the global head for trade and working capital finance at Finastra. Brian has worked in Trade and Working Capital Finance solutions since 1992. He was formerly Executive Vice President at China Systems (Eximbills) based in Asia-Pacific where he was responsible for Product Management eventually moving to MD in 2000. Brian then moved to Europe to become the Vertical Sales Lead for Financial Services at IBM. In 2009 Brian joined Finastra and has been instrumental in the development of the Model Bank concept for transaction-based banking and the application of the global processing solution for large international banks. Brian has been the lead Solution Architect for global projects for banks such as Commerzbank, Barclays and ING.

Emmanuelle Ganne
Senior Analyst, World Trade Organisation (WTO)

Emmanuelle Ganne is Senior Analyst in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) where she leads WTO work on Blockchain. She is the author of a recently published WTO book entitled "Can Blockchain Revolutionize International Trade?". Ms. Ganne is also WTO's lead on micro, small and medium side enterprises. Prior to this, she held the position of Vice-President and Managing Director for Europe at the Allam Advisory Group (AAG), a team of former C-level executives and senior diplomats that specializes in helping businesses expand their operations globally. Before joining AAG, Ms. Ganne held various positions at the WTO, including in the Information and External Relations Division where she briefed journalists on WTO negotiations, as Counselor to Director-General Pascal Lamy, and in the Accessions Division where she assessed trade policies of governments wishing to join the WTO and advised them on how to improve their business environment. Before joining the WTO in 2002, Ms. Ganne worked for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, putting in place the Stability Pact Anti-Corruption Initiative, which assisted South Eastern European states curb corruption. Ms. Ganne is a 2009 Yale World Fellow.

Christoph Gugelmann
CEO and Co-Founder, Tradeteq

Christoph is CEO and Co-Founder at Tradeteq. He was a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, leading distribution in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also held senior management positions in sales and trading at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in London, Frankfurt, and New York. He further served as investment manager in multiple structured credit funds. Christoph holds a Master's degree from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

John Ho
Global Head of Legal, Financial Markets, Standard Chartered

John Ho is the Head of Legal, Financial Markets for Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), overseeing and providing legal advisory, transactional and documentation support for Financial Markets (FM) business globally for Standard Chartered Bank. John is the co-chair of the ISDA’s South East Asia Legal and Regulatory Committee and has been deeply involved in financial markets and regulatory reforms initiatives. John plays an active role in supporting digitisation and adoption of new or innovative technology initiatives such as blockchain, distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. He is an active participant in the industry’s fintech and blockchain events and has shared insights on the legal and regulatory framework relating to development of fintech and digital assets. He is the chair of FIA Fintech and Digital Assets Study Group and co-chair of Financial Services SIG, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). He is a mentor of UK FCA Digital Sandbox, R3 and LongHash, both global incubator networks which provide, amongst other things, a full range of support for start-ups working on distributed ledger technology related projects. John is qualified as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore and he received his law degree from the National University of Singapore.

Hans Huber
DLT Trade Finance Innovation R&D, Commerzbank

Hans Huber has 25 years of experience in Logistics, Marketing and the Financial Industry. He has worked in Germany, Japan and the UK and is currently working on Trade Finance innovation projects in the DLT Lab of Main Incubator, a subsidiary of Commerzbank AG

Michael Hyltoft

Michael Hyltoft is an accomplished Transformation Director and Consultant with over fifteen years of experience in all aspects of supply chain finance. He has significant experience in both design and implementation of SCF, and through these have grown an in-depth knowledge of all relating issues, from internal buying in the buying organisation, structuring the financing of the programme, to successfully on-boarding the supplier base. He supports the SCF process end to end, from initial strategy development to supply on-boarding and ongoing maintenance/optimisation of live programmes, with a proven track record of delivering successful programmes. With his knowledge of procurement, transactional finance, treasury and IT, he is capable of bringing together parts of the organisation, which may not have past experience of working together. As a regular speaker at international conferences on SCF, Michael is recognised in the market as one of the top thought leaders. Michael has a Masters in Information Technology and Economic Control and though originally from Denmark, has lived in the UK for the last twenty years. He has worked internationally and has an acute appreciation of what is required to get the job done often in challenging environments.

Angela Koll
Senior Business Expert for Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Commerzbank, Co-Founder, Marco Polo Initiative

Angela Koll has joined Commerzbank AG in 1990. Since then, she has been engaged in Trade Finance, working in Documentary Business departments in Frankfurt and London, Transaction Banking, Sales Strategy International and Product Management. In 2010 Angela also started to get involved in Supply Chain Finance. She was part of working groups in the Euro Banking Association (EBA) and Global SCF Forum to publish Standard Definitions for Supply Chain Finance and implemented the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) in Commerzbank as a first digital solution in Trade Finance. With members of R3, Commerzbank DLT and other members of banks Angela founded the Blockchain Trade Finance initiative Marco Polo in 2017. For the Marco Polo Payment Commitment she is chairing the working groups of Product Users and for Key Features and is co-chairing the Rulebook Working Group. Angela is part of the ICC initiative for Digital Trade, with focus on the Uniform Rules for Digital Trade Transactions (URDTT).

Joshua Kroeker
Chief Product Officer, Contour

Josh Kroeker is the Chief Product Officer of Contour, a network to lead a global adoption of blockchain-based trade solutions.

Josh has 15 years of experience in Hong Kong and Canada in senior positions across trade finance business development, learning and development, trade finance product management and corporate banking innovation at HSBC, one of the world’s leading trade finance banks.

Josh’s passion is to increase the accessibility of trade finance through technology and has been involved in a majority of the industry’s trade digitisation efforts in the past decade, particularly in regards to traditional trade products. Most recently he has led a global innovation team pioneering the use of blockchain to provide a breakthrough for trade and trade finance, a notoriously difficult to change industry.

Globally recognised as a leader in this space including being named one of Forbes Blockchain Top 50, Josh is keen to help banks, corporates, and the wider trade ecosystem on their journey to a digital trade future.

Kirsten Kunz
Global Head Trade Flow Product Management

Kirsten joined Deutsche Bank in 1986 after an apprenticeship with a regional German savings bank. She holds a degree as Dipl. Bankbetriebswirt (Certified Professional in Management & Leadership) from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and a Masters degree from City, University of London / Ashridge Business School. Over the course of her career at Deutsche Bank, Kirsten worked in credit & risk management, corporate relationship management, and Trade Finance Structuring before taking the current role. She worked in Stuttgart, New York, and Frankfurt. Kirsten is at the Board of Directors of the Trade Information Network and represents Deutsche Bank at the International Data Spaces Association, Berlin, which in close cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Software- and System technic ISST is dedicated to achieving digitally networked industry.

Oswald Kuyler
Global Head of Strategy, MonetaGo

Oswald Kuyler is the Global Head of Strategy for MonetaGo, the world's foremost fraud prevention technology provider to prevent domestic and cross-border duplicate financing. Oswald currently holds multiple advisory positions on the international stage. He is the Digital Standards Adviser to the International Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom. He also is an Adviser to the International Chamber of Commerce Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) Governance Board. Oswald has joined the MineHub Board of Advisors to help accelerate the transition from paper to digital, helping mining companies unlock their ESG potential. He is the Co-Chair of the OASIS Origin BX group, advancing open source product and trade data standards for facilitating digital tax and trade attestations. Oswald is the former Managing Director for the International Chamber of Commerce DSI. He defined strategy, focused on a partnership and convened the global community around digital standards. Before the ICC, he was the Global Head of Data Strategy of BHP, the world's largest diversified mining company. He has worked on multiple technology initiatives covering blockchain, electronic documentation in trade, data and analytics and automation. A technologist at heart focusing on accelerating the digitisation of trade, Oswald is driven by the opportunity for the financial services ecosystem to serve more customers as digitisation produces more efficiencies, products and risk mitigations.

Juliane Löbig
Director, Finance & Accounting, Kuraray Europe GmbH

Juliane started her career at Kuraray in 2001 as a member of finance and administration department. At that time Kuraray acquired the PVA/PVB-business from Clariant and she was one of 150 employees starting up the company. Since then she has had helped deliver Kuraray’s steady growth within Europe and was involved in several projects mainly focusing on integrating the new businesses into the existing SAP environment. Until 2008 Juliane was leading the team responsible for profit and loss accounting. In 2016 she was appointed Director for Finance and Accounting.

Samuel Mathew
Managing Director, Head, FI & Documentary Trade, Product Management, Transaction Banking, Standard Chartered

Samuel Mathew heads up the FI & Documentary Trade products at Standard Chartered Bank He is also the Chief Product Owner (CPO) for the trade platform transformation project at Standard Chartered Bank. In his current role Samuel’s team is in charge of leading the Bank’s Documentary Trade capabilities, vision, P&L, as also leading the trade digitization efforts leveraging fintechs & 3rd party platform providers. His previous roles include Regional Head of Sales- ASEAN for Local Corporates & Commodity clients, Global Head - Trade Solutions Structuring, Regional head of Product Management for SEA , Global Head of Collections & A/R product solutions, Regional Product Manager in charge of Receivables solutions etc. Samuel has over 25+ years of transaction banking experience with leading banks such as Standard Chartered Bank, Citibank N.A and Deutsche Bank. A graduate of Bombay University, Mumbai with 1st Class Honors in Engineering, Samuel also an MBA from the Nanyang Business School in Singapore.

Peter McBurney
Co-head of Technology Consulting, Europe, Middle East and Asia, Norton Rose Fulbright

Peter McBurney is the Co-Head of Technology Consulting based in London.

He is Professor of Computer Science and a former Head of the Department of Informatics at King's College London, where he undertakes research on blockchains and distributed ledger technologies (DLT), cryptocurrencies and token economics, and AI. Peter is part of a team providing management consultancy advice to clients across different industry sectors who wish to take advantage of the opportunities created by the adoption of new and disruptive technologies.

As a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the UK Financial Conduct Authority, Peter advises on the use of AI and distributed ledger technologies in financial regulation.

Authari Megele
Director, Sales and Account Management, Marco Polo Network

Authari Megele is in charge of sales and account management for Marco Polo Network Operations (Ireland) Limited in the DACH region. Before that, Authari worked for the multibank SCF platform „PrimeRevenue“ and the consulting firm „Deloitte“ within its Corporate Finance team.

Vinay Mendonca
Managing Director; Global Head, Product and Structuring, Trade and Receivables Finance (GTRF), HSBC

Vinay is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the Group’s trade, receivable and supply chain finance solutions, overseeing their development and ongoing management. He also runs the client solutions & implementation group that structures tailored client offerings. He is overseeing the design and delivery of the Group’s new trade technology stack and is accountable for the innovation and digitisation agenda within Trade.

Vinay and his team are part of several global and local trade industry forums. They front several Trade FinTech engagements and are Directors on boards of firms where the Group has strategic interests. Vinay is on the Board of R3 – a Distributed Ledger Technology enterprise firm and represents HSBC at various client, industry and media forums. HSBC and Vinay are listed on the Forbes Blockchain 50 2021.

He has 20 years of experience in wholesale and transaction banking covering product, structuring, strategy, sales and relationship management. Prior to his present role, he was running strategy for HSBC’s global trade business. He moved to London from Hong Kong in 2015, where he was the Global Head of Documentary Trade solutions.

Before moving to Hong Kong, Vinay headed Product Management for HSBC’s Trade franchise in India. In his earlier roles within HSBC India, he managed the payables product suite.

Prior to joining HSBC in April 2006, Vinay was a Senior Consultant with Infosys Technologies, based in Amsterdam. He previously worked with BNP Paribas and Reliance Industries Limited in India.

Vinay holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and a Master’s degree in Management Studies in Finance from the University of Mumbai.

Peter Mulroy
Secretary-General, FCI

Peter Mulroy is Secretary General of FCI, the world’s largest network of factoring companies, with its headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Peter was previously Senior Vice President, International Regional Manager and Managing Director with CIT. He is a past Chairman of FCI, and has served on the FCI Executive Committee for over a decade. Peter has an MBA from Thunderbird, School of Global Management in Arizona. As Secretary General, Peter assists banks, regulators and governments in introducing the concept of and educating people about the role of factoring. He addresses audiences around the world on the subject of factoring and international trade and is generally regarded as an ambassador for the factoring industry.

Sean Murphy
Partner, Global Head, FinTech, Head, Technology and Innovation, EMEA, Norton Rose Fulbright

Sean Murphy is a corporate lawyer based in London. He is the global head of our FinTech practice and is head of our Technology and Innovation practice in EMEA.

Sean advises on a broad range of corporate matters including public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity buy-outs and venture capital and growth equity investments.

Sean has extensive experience of advising on investments in, and acquisitions of, technology businesses. He has worked in Silicon Valley and is very familiar with the unique dynamics of transactions in the technology sector.

Sean also advises on the development and deployment of financial services technology and on investments, acquisitions and joint ventures in the FinTech sector. He advises clients across the FinTech ecosystem including start-ups and mature technology companies, VC and PE firms, financial institutions, consortia and industry associations. He is widely regarded and recognized for his FinTech experience and is the co-chair of the US Chamber of Digital Commerce's Smart Contracts Alliance. Sean is frequently sought after to speak at conferences in the UK and the US and for commentary in the press.

Samir Neji
Founder and CEO, dltledgers

A sought after global speaker in business blockchain, digital transformation, dltledgers logistics Apps, Business model innovation for industry transformations. He has build two platforms for transforming global trade and extended supply chain in blockchain.

Over 22 years of building mature and sustainable business models in APAC, Orchestrating hybrid solution skills across disruptive digital business platforms, Blockchain apps for early adoption in large enterprise. Initiating and driving these transformation models into business for industry level leaderships. He has consulted with more than 100 + global fortune companies and 300+ Asian conglomerates.

Start up enthuse, advisory, entrepreneurial approach, problem solving mindset, attitude and ability to build cross functional teams and execute. Proven track record in building several business from conception to maturity.

Apart from his day job as Founder/CEO of the most acclaimed business blockchain company in Singapore, he is researching and speaking on Industry specific business model innovations and "Next Gen disruptions" in blockchains, network concepts in extended supply chains, business modelling.

Jens Noffke
Working Capital Lead, Global Procurement, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

Jens H. Noffke joined Roche in Basel, Switzerland in 2001. He supported the rollout of Roche’s global Treasury system for 3 years and subsequently joined Group Treasury where he spent 8 years in Cash Management and FX Trading.

He relocated to the US in 2012 and has held various roles in both Finance and Procurement at Roche/Genentech. Currently, he is leading Working Capital projects within Roche’s Global Procurement organisation. Jens graduated from the University of Applied Sciences in Koblenz, Germany with a degree in finance and controlling.

Andrew Raymond
CEO, Bolero

Andrew was appointed CEO of Bolero International in March 2019 after joining the business in September 2017 as the Global Head of Sales. Andrew’s mission at Bolero has been to bring to market new and innovative solutions which leverage Bolero’s capabilities and address current and emerging market opportunities and technologies.

Andrew has more than 20 years of global sales and client management experience with leading solution providers such as FIS / SunGard, Algorithmics and SmartStream, and has a background of innovation and client delivery in transaction banking and capital markets.

Jordane Rollin
Regional Head of Trade, Americas

Jordane started his career leading online payment gateways and B2B portals in Europe, before moving to China in 2005 to lead Business development and Partnerships for Groupe BPCE Oney Banque. He has held various trade finance roles at Standard Chartered in Singapore since 2010, including leading global Trade digital initiatives for three years, and the bank investment in Contour (a multi-bank owned open network, leveraging distributed ledger technology to revamp documentary trade). He is based in New York since 2019, and is currently Head of Trade & Working Capital, Americas for the bank. Jordane holds a Master of Engineering from École Centrale de Lyon (France) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from INSEAD.

David E Rutter
Founder, CEO, R3

David E Rutter is the founder and CEO of R3, an enterprise software company empowering the next generation of blockchain innovation through its flagship platform, Corda. Since 2015, he has grown the company of over 250 employees in 13 countries to become the leading enterprise blockchain provider and has built a thriving ecosystem of more than 300 diverse firms building on and supporting the platform globally.

David is a longtime creative thought leader in financial technology with over 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions. He has invested in and founded a number of startups including R3 (above) and LiquidityEdge LLC, a successful UST treasury broker dealer that was recently sold to MarketAxess. He continues to invest in and support several startups with a primary focus on further development of the Corda ecosystem.

David is recognized for having played a significant role in the adoption of electronic trading in the global OTC derivatives and securities industry. David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world's largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane. David is active in a number of charities through his charitable trust—most notably, he is a well member of Charity Water, which pays administration expenses of the charity, so 100% of contributions go to providing clean water to those that need it the most.

Parm Sangha
Partner, Enterprise Strategy, IBM Consulting

Parm’s focus is to create strategy and execution plans to unlock the value of innovative technology including Blockchain, Generative AI, IoT and Metaverse. The aim is to prepare organisations to anticipate the opportunity and risks of web3 and the token economy. With a focus on financial services and public sector markets around the globe, including Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Europe and the UK, Parm regularly interacts with governments, regulators, industry associations, academia and technology start-ups to review the value new technology can bring to economies as well as the methods by which to overcome adoption challenges. Out of office hours, Parm is involved in coaching several start-ups in the education, financial and charity software markets as well as mentoring several Duke of Edinburgh Award students. He follows Arsenal Football Club, Formula 1, squash and has an awful golf handicap.

Billy Sebell
Head of Ecosystem Development, XinFin Fintech, Executive Director, XDC Foundation

Billy has spent 25+ years in manufacturing and consumer products dealing with the challenges businesses face in capital markets and international trade. Billy discovered the XinFin XDC Network through his interest and exploration into blockchain technology and cryptocurrency back in early 2018, and quickly wove himself into the community and ecosystem. His focus on educating the community, speaking to the intricacies of the technology behind the XDC Network and the focus of XinFin Fintech, allowed Billy to emerge as a community leader. Ultimately, his service led to an official role as the XinFin Head of Ecosystem Development in early 2021, where he worked to efficiently build out the ecosystem, cooperating with the XinFin team and longtime community members. During this time, Billy has worked closely with Tradeteq to help bring about the first of its kind tokenisation of trade assets on the XDC Network. He has been acknowledged for his work by being selected as a finalist for an Enterprise Blockchain Award for Corporate Leadership.

Mirka Skrzypczak
Head of Working Capital & Trade Products, RBS

Mirka is an experienced Product Head with 14 years’ experience in the banking industry; currently leading Open Account product suite for RBS covering Supply Chain Finance, Invoice Finance and Overdrafts. Her team manages all stages of the product lifecycle including new product development, product strategies, pricing, distribution and servicing of existing products. She joined RBS in 2010 having previously worked for GMAC and GlaxoSmithKline. Mirka has Masters Degree in Economics from University of Economics, Poznan, Poland.

Lionel Taylor
Managing Director, Trade Advisory Network

Lionel Taylor is a trade, supply chain and invoice finance specialist with more than 30 years experience in senior leadership roles with major financial institutions including RBS, Rabobank, Citibank and Lloyds Banking Group and with non-bank independents.

Now Managing Director of Trade Advisory Network Limited, which specialises in the strategic development of global supply chains, trade and invoice finance with a client base of regional banks, independent finance providers, fintechs and technology providers, his key areas of expertise include new business strategy, turnaround, organisation design, new product design, product management, marketing, origination, credit, team building and training.

He has extensive experience of operating in Asia where he led the cooperation on trade and supply chain finance between RBS and Bank of China, established an independent finance company facilitating trade between Asian and Western SMEs and assisted in the development of the Chinese factoring industry. Today, he continues his close involvement in the region, working with government agencies, banks, independent funders, investors and others who are looking to promote and extend trade and supply chain finance in the region.

He currently is a Non-Executive Director of a growing UK-based fintech, sits as the independent credit committee member for another non-bank finance provider and is also co-author of the ICC Academy’s Advanced Supply Chain Finance online course, a core module of their CTCP programme.

He continues to be engaged in advising a number of financial institutions, fintechs and technology providers on the development of their trade and supply chain finance businesses and is frequently invited to comment and write for specialist international trade publications as well as chairing and speaking at international events.

Richard Tynan
Co-Founder, Marco Polo Network

Richard is the co-founder of Marco Polo Network (formerly TradeIX). He brings over 25 years of investment banking experience in both fixed income and capital markets to the team. Richard was Head of Debt and Equity Syndication at RBS, Head of Corporate Debt Syndication at Morgan Stanley, and ran Private Placements at Lehman London. Before co-founding Marco Polo Network, Richard established PrimeRevenue Capital Market in London: a capital management business that successfully raised a significant institutional balance sheet focusing on origination and distribution of trade assets.

Kris Van Broekhoven
CFO, Komgo

Before joining Komgo as CFO in 2020, Kris has been a banker for more than 26 years, and was previously the Global Head of TTS Commodity Trade Finance at Citi and a member of the bank’s Global Trade Exco. He joined Citi in 2012 to set up the business, offering trade solutions to commodity traders, processors and producers worldwide. Prior to joining Citi, Kris spent 10 years at Deutsche Bank where he helped build a Structured Commodity Trade Finance business, most recently as EMEA head. He started his career at KBC Bank in various roles involving commercial banking and trade finance in Belgium and London.

Carl Wegner
CEO, Contour

Carl Wegner is the Chief Executive Officer of Contour, a network to lead a global adoption of blockchain-based trade solutions.

Carl has over 30 years’ experience in Asia Cash Management, Institutional Banking, Financial Supply Chain and Distributed Ledger Technology. Carl served as R3 Managing Director for Asia, where he was instrumental in the business growth and market penetration of Corda solutions with Central Banks, Financial Institutions and Corporates. Carl’s prior experiences include Managing Director and Head of Global Transaction Banking, Greater China of Deutsche Bank, and Managing Director of Transaction Banking for Standard Chartered Bank in Taiwan. He was also Head of Asia for TradeCard (now GTNexus) building their network in 14 countries.

Carl has held the post of Treasurer at Taipei American Chamber of Commerce and is an Appointed Board Member of Taipei American School. Fluent in Mandarin, he holds a B.S. in both Chinese Language and Chinese History from Georgetown University.

Andrew Wood
Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Andrew Wood is a banking lawyer based in London. He has extensive experience in structured finance transactions with a particular focus on all areas of trade and commodity finance including pre-export and pre-payment finance, ownership finance and borrowing base, inventory and receivables transactions and commodity sale and purchase arrangements. Andrew advises lenders, trading companies and producers in cross-border transactions in emerging and developed markets.

Andrew also has extensive asset finance and general banking finance experience.

Andrew is named as a Next Generation Lawyer for Trade Finance by Legal 500 UK 2017.

Geoffrey Wynne
Partner, Sullivan & Worcester

Geoffrey is Head of Sullivan & Worcester’s London office and also Head of its award-winning Trade & Export Finance Group. Geoff is one of the leading trade finance lawyers. He has extensive experience in many aspects of banking and finance, specifically trade, structured trade and commodity finance, and related legal and compliance issues. Geoff has recently been involved in a number of initiatives for trade finance in the digital world including digital payment obligations. He is currently Co-Chair of the ICC Committee which wrote the recently published Uniform Rules for Digital Trade Transactions (URDTT). Geoff sits on the editorial boards of a number of publications and is a regular contributor and speaker at conferences. He is also the editor of and contributor to The Practitioner’s Guide to Trade and Commodity Finance published by Thompson Reuters. He is General Editor and contributor to A Guide to Receivables Finance, a multi-authored publication co-published by Sullivan, Deutsche Bank and the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA). The team which Geoff leads has won numerous awards, including Best Trade or Supply Chain Finance Law Firm at the Global Trade Review (GTR) Leaders in Trade Awards 2022, and Best Trade Finance Law Firm by Trade Finance Global (TFG) in its International Trade Awards 2022. Geoff is ranked both in Chambers UK 2023 in Tier 1 as a Leading Individual for Commodities: Trade Finance and included in the Hall of Fame by The Legal 500 UK, 2023.

Patrik Zekkar
CEO, Enignio AB, Board Member, we.trade

Patrik was global head of trade finance and working capital management at Nordea prior to his recent appointment as CEO of Enignio.. During his career in he has held positions in various banks, as global head of sales and working capital advisory, head of supply chain finance, head of trade and supply chain finance, global head of trade finance, client executive and vice president Singapore Branch, vice president structured trade finance, and vice president export and project finance. Prior to his banking career, Patrik helf various position in Telia Financial Services International and Swedish Export Credit. Patrik is a board member in the trade blockchain platform company we.trade Innovation DAC, who are developing and licensing a commercial block chain trade platform.

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