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18th May to 20th May 2021

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This flagship event for the receivables finance industry attracts delegates from across the globe, bringing together both market experts and new entrants. It provides an essential update on the latest invoice financing trends, market challenges and innovations.

The receivables finance sector continues to evolve rapidly. Covid-19 has meant a significant shift in market attitudes. Some of these will be permanent; some will disappear over time. Many expect a rapid rise in receivables finance business coming out of the pandemic as government-imposed restrictions are eased. But navigating to that point could be tricky as the financial support provided by governments will expose many SMEs to terminal positions.

RFIx 2021 will take a deep dive into the impact of the pandemic and global geopolitics on market trends and risk. It will explore how practitioners can become fitter, leaner, and better in this new world through innovative product development, technology and new markets, and discover the new challenges around ESG, regulatory and legal issues. Being a virtual event, it provides a chance to network with an even wider circle of industry peers. 

Join senior receivables finance executives at the 21st annual RFIx Convention and ensure the right direction for your business.

Çağatay Baydar
General Manager, TEB Faktoring A.Ş. & Chairman, FCI
Çağatay Baydar has 35 years of professional experience in financial institutions, such as banking, factoring, leasing, real estate development and auditing. He has been working for the factoring industry for over 30 years, being one of the pioneers who introduced factoring to Turkey. Presently, he is leading TEB Factoring, the largest export factor of Turkey, one of the biggest of the world and a joint venture of a world wide financial group, BNP Paribas. TEB Faktoring has been chosen seven times “The Best Export Factor” of the year by the members of FCI. Çağatay Baydar is the former chairman and actually the member of the Executive Committee of FCI, the biggest factoring chain of the world.
Simon Bessant
Board Director, Global Head of Insurance, The Texel Group
Simon is a Board Director and the Global Head of Insurance at The Texel Group (“Texel”). Texel was established over 20 years ago is a privately owned and independent insurance broker specialising in the field of credit and political risk insurance and reinsurance. We are focused purely on arranging, structuring and negotiating CPRI to provide clients with credit and concentration risk mitigation, balance sheet and regulatory capital solutions. Our company represents commercial, investment and multilateral banks as well as development financial institutions, using non-payment insurance to allow them to conservatively grow their lending book.
Michael Boguslavsky
Head of AI, Tradeteq
Michael Boguslavsky is Head of AI at the London based fintech company Tradeteq. His team is building machine learning models to bring transparency to trade finance exposures. Michael has been working in financial industry for over 20 years. Before joining Tradeteq, Michael worked as an advisor for Blackstone, and was Head of EMEA Pension and Insurance Structuring at Bank of America Merrill Lync. Michael is an expert in machine learning, large data analysis, derivatives valuation and hedging, and portfolio optimisation. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from University of Amsterdam, and a Master degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Moscow University.
Daniela Bonzanini
Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee presso FCI

Daniela has a long career background in international trade and factoring and almost 40 years’ experience in international factoring. Her knowledge of the factoring industry has been of great contribution to the development and implementation of new projects mainly focused on innovative products and services. She was International Manager at Factorit for twenty years and in 2002 she joined Banca FIS to start the international activity. She is Head of International, responsible for the development of business and international network. She is also directly involved in the management of the bank’s foreign activities as a Member of the Board of IFIS Finance Sp. z.o.o and IFIS Finance I.F.N. S.A., the daughter companies of Banca IFIS in Poland and in Romania. Until April 2017 she was Director of India Factoring and Finance Solutions Pvt. Ltd., the JV established in India in 2009. From 2006 until 2015 she has been a Member of the Board of A.I.C.E., Associazione Italiana Commercio Estero in Milan.

She is a speaker at international conferences as well as at FCI Seminars and a lecturer at Universities. After serving Factors Chain International as Chairman of the Education Committee, Member of the Executive Committee and Vice Chairman, she was appointed as Chairman of FCI in June 2013. At the end of the Chairmanship mandate, she has returned to chair the Education Committee. She is also Vice Chairman of FCI Executive Committee.

Steve Box
Deputy Chair & Head of Origination, Channel Capital / Founder and Managing Director, Kata Executive Consulting Limited

Steve Box serves as Channel’s Deputy Chair with a focus on client activities/strategy, origination, marketing, and branding. He also serves on Channel’s Risk Advisory Council to help identify emerging risks and ensure risk-based issues are well appreciated within the client activities and teams.

Steve has extensive experience in working capital in global markets including serving as the Global Head of Receivables Finance at HSBC, CEO of Europe/Asia and North America at Bibby Financial Services and Head of Europe at Falcon Group. Steve is also a Chairman and/or strategic advisor to CEO and executive boards of five other NBFI Fintechs operating domestically and internationally within the working capital space.

Eugenio Cavenaghi
Managing Director, Head of Working Capital Solutions, Continental Europe Banco Santander
Eugenio is responsible at Santander for the full set of trade, receivables and supply chain finance products in Continental Europe. He was formerly regional Product Head of Trade and Working Capital for Barclays in Europe. Prior to this, he has also worked as Global Head of Trade Product Development and Sales Facilitation at UniCredit and as Global Product Manager in the Trade and Cash Divisions at Deutsche Bank. Before entering the field of banking, he gathered direct experience in the corporate world working for multinationals like Procter & Gamble and Chicco-Artsana Spa.
Renaud Chalmet
Deputy Head of Corporate Receivables Securitisation, BNP Paribas
Renaud is the deputy head of the Corporate Receivables Securitisation team and is based in London. He joined the business management securitisation team in 2001 and then the structuring team in 2006. He led the arrangement and the management of numerous corporate securitisation transactions financing different type of assets (trade receivables, equipment leases, car fleet and insurance premium funding). He graduated from the Dauphine University (Paris) where he completed a financial and banking degree, and from Telecom Management (Paris), a business school focused on new technologies, where he specialised in finance.
Jonathan Croft Jonathan Croft
CIO, Société Générale Factoring
Jonathan Croft started his IT career in 1991 with a French IT consultancy firm working in the banking sector. 1996 marked his first factoring experience with solution integrations and Y2K migrations. Over the last 30 years Jonathan has played many different IT roles across Europe from development and production to IT governance and strategy. He has led factoring teams through migrations, integrations, joint venture creations and most recently agile infrastructure and digital transformations. In February 2017 Jonathan joined Société Générale heading up the Business and Information Solutions Directorate as CIO and member of the Société Générale Factoring’s Executive Committee.
Tim Davies
Head of Financial Design, Blackstar Capital Europe
For the past six years, Tim has applied his 20 years experience in capital markets securitisation to helping leading edge working capital firms apply ‘Fin’ to the ‘Tech’. He has built several capital markets-facing programmes allowing alternative finance companies and institutional investors to safely access the working capital funding markets. He also advises several start-up FinTechs in the space. With Blackstar he is designing and building unique, innovative funding programmes for several global e-invoicing platforms.
Kevin Day Kevin Day
CEO, HPD Lendscape
HPD Lendscape’s CEO, Kevin Day, is committed to make the company the technology partner of choice for banks and independent funders operating in the invoice finance, factoring, supply chain finance and asset finance markets. He began his career more than 25 years ago as a software developer at HPD, holding positions as a business analyst, product manager, product director, board member and COO. Kevin’s has deep knowledge of the complex nature of secured lending products and the dynamics of an ever-changing market, where digitalisation, open architectures and cloud computing drive new technology innovation. HPD Lendscape has a programme of continuous R&D and investment, working closely with its growing client-base to ensure its products deliver simplified SME finance solutions. This focus on investment has enabled significant company growth with the company employing a global team of 150.
Bertrand de Cominges
Managing Director, Global Head Trade Finance Investments & Global Investment - Illiquid Alternative Investments, Santander Asset Management

A renowned industry expert, Bertrand is currently the lead portfolio manager for the global Trade Finance strategy at Santander Asset Management.

Before joining Santander, Bertrand was for 8 years at HSBC and in his last role he was responsible for the European Business Development activities for Global Trade & Receivables Finance. In this role he was responsible for all Global Corporates, Commodities, Financial Institutions and SME’s trade finance activities in the region.

Previously, with teams located in 5 continents, he was HSBC’s Global Product Head of Structured Solutions for the organization and, Global Head of Solutions Structuring.

Before HSBC, Bertrand worked at JP Morgan where he launched and led the EMEA Structured Trade Advisory business and for RBS, where in his last role he was Head of Trade for the EMEA region.

Bertrand is a member of the ICC’s Banking Commission Steering Committee for transforming Trade Finance as an Asset Class, and a Subject Matter expert in the ICC’s of Global Supply Chain Finance initiative.

Bertrand is a Chartered Actuary, has a full-time MBA from the London Business School and an MSc degree in Economics and Business Sciences from UCM. On the private side, Bertrand is a trustee of educational charities and is a single father of five young children.

Michael Dietz
Managing Director, Global Head Trade Finance Flow, Corporate Bank, Deutsche Bank AG
Michael Dietz is Deutsche Bank’s Global Head of Trade Finance Flow business and Regional Head Trade Finance EMEA. Over the time of his career at Deutsche Bank Michael covered various senior positions in Corporate Coverage functions across Germany, Switzerland as well as the United States of America. Prior to joining the current role, Michael has developed the EMEA Coverage for Commodity Traders as well as Swiss Corporates for Deutsche Bank in Zurich. Michael has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Economics at Darmstadt University, Germany. He is a certified Dodd-Frank Securities Trader.
Sean Edwards
Chairman, ITFA, UK and Head of Legal and Special Adviser to the Global Trade Finance Department, SMBC
Sean Edwards is an English solicitor, formerly with Clifford Chance, and is now Head of Legal and Special Adviser to the Global Trade Finance Department at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited. He is Chairman of the International Trade & Forfaiting Association (ITFA). He was a member of the drafting group of the Uniform Rules for Forfaiting (URF) (ICC Publication no. 800), a joint initiative of the ITFA and ICC and published by the ICC. Sean has written articles on trade finance, particularly on forfaiting, for all the major trade finance magazines and is on the editorial board of Global Trade Review (GTR). He is a frequent presenter at trade finance conferences dealing with a range of subjects.
Matthew Gamser Dr Matthew Gamser
CEO, SME Finance Forum, International Finance Corporation
Matthew Gamser is CEO of the SME Finance Forum, the world’s leading centre for knowledge exchange, good practice promotion and networking for the finance industry in this field. The SME Finance Forum is managed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, for the G-20 countries’ Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion. The SME Finance Forum has over 170 banks, fintech companies and development banks, operating in over 190 countries, as its members and industry partners and serves as a key partner for the G20, APEC, OECD and other multilateral institutions in small business financing. Dr. Gamser has over 40 years’ experience in private enterprise and financial sector development. He has worked for IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, for 16 years in various positions from Washington, DC, and Hong Kong, where he has focused on SME finance and on financial sector development. Prior to that he spent 25 years in management consulting and in senior leadership in an international NGO. He holds A.B. and A.M. degrees from Harvard University, and M.Sc. and D.Phil degrees from Sussex University (UK), where his work focused on the management of technological change.
Ben Grant
Head of Alliances and Partnerships, Aronova
Ben is the commercial lead at Aronova. Aronova specialise in the creation of technology solutions which drive improvements in working capital finance. They are a leading innovator in invoice finance with nearly 20 years of experience providing technology-driven compliance, risk and process solutions to funders, insurers and corporates.
Dirk Hagener
Director Strategy and Corporate Development

Dirk Hagener is Director Strategy & Corporate Development for Atradius and. He is as well Member of the Board of the Atradius Insurance Holding N.V, the Atradius Information Service B.V, the Atradius Participation Holding S.L and the Atradius Finance B.V.

Born in Germany Dirk has a background as a strategy consultant and e-commerce specialist. He started his career in Atradius in 2002 in Germany and worked in several commercial support functions reporting to the Regional director Central and Eastern Europe. In 2007 he moved to the headquarter in Amsterdam to take over the Head of Programme Management role and in 2010 the Head of Corporate strategy role. In 2012 he has been appointed Director Strategy and Corporate Development. Next to his focus on the group-wide strategy of Atradius he is as well responsible for the Atradius Innovation agenda. Furthermore he is member of the Atradius Risk Strategy Management Board and chair of the Group Product Committee in Atradius.
David Henig David Henig
Director, UK Trade Policy Project at European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)
David Henig is one of the UK’s leading authorities on trade policy. He is Director of the UK Trade Policy Project at the think-tank European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and has written extensively on the trade implications of Brexit, but also looks more widely at global trade issues such as USA-China tensions, the future of the WTO, and EU trade agreements. David regularly discusses trade issues in the media, and advises global business on the implications. He previously worked for the UK Government on EU-US trade negotiations and China-US issues in particular, in business as a consultant, and graduated from Oxford University.
Daniel Huszár
Head of Sales, EFCOM
Daniel Huszár is Head of Sales at efcom, a technology company focused on the receivables finance market. Coming from the business and distribution side of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mr Huszár founded his own advertising agency, before joining efcom in 2012. As Head of Sales, he supports efcom's international business expansion, by defining a global marketing and sales strategy. Mr Huszár is a regular speaker at international conferences hosted by FCI, BCR Publishing and numerous European Factoring Associations. His main interest and driving force is to add value to the industry through insight about future technologies.
Salman Khan Galindo
Portfolio Manager, Illiquid Alternative Investments, Santander Asset Management

Salman has over 10 years of professional experience having started his banking career at Santander C&IB in 2013, in the Global Trade Finance & Working Capital Solutions team in Madrid. He moved to Santander C&IB UK in 2015 and has progressed through roles in Structured Receivables Finance & Trade Asset Distribution, and more recently Working Capital Advisory being responsible for the origination of Working Capital Solutions within the Mining and Commodities sector.

Previous to Santander, Salman worked for QBE Insurance Europe for 3 years in Madrid.
Robert Koopman Dr Robert Koopman
Chief Economist and Director of Economic Research and Statistics Division, World Trade Organization (WTO)
Robert Koopman is Chief Economist and Director of Economic Research and Statistics Division at the World Trade Organization. In this post Bob provides the Secretariat and Member Countries with analysis and information that promotes a deeper understanding of trade and trade policy's role in economic growth and development. Prior to this, he served as the Director of Operations and Chief Operating Officer for the United States International Trade Commission. Bob oversaw the Commission’s trade policy research and negotiation assistance to the President, the U.S. Trade Representative, and Congress; antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard; investigations; intellectual property investigations; maintenance and analysis of the Harmonized Tariff System, as well as the agency’s strategic planning and performance measurement initiatives. He also previously served as Chief Economist at the USITC, and various leadership positions at the Economic Research Service of USDA. He is also currently a visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
Veronika Koroleva
Partner, gunnercooke
Veronika Koroleva is a partner at a challenger law firm gunnercooke llp. She has extensive experience in a wide range of structured commodity finance transactions, trade finance, receivables finance and supply chain finance. Veronika has previously led trade and commodity finance practice at the world’s largest law firm and was recognised as a leading practitioner in trade and commodity finance and in emerging markets finance by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
Danae Kyriakopoulou
Chief Economist and Director of Research at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum
Danae Kyriakopoulou is Chief Economist and Director of Research at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), based in London. She also Chairs OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute.
Søren Larsen
CEO, Midt Factoring A/S
Søren started in risk management at Midt Factoring A/S in October 2000 and after only a short period of employment he was appointed Head of Risk Management, a position he held for approximately 10 years. Subsequently he was appointed Business Line Manager, and on 1 January 2013 he took over the position as CEO of the company.
Juliette Lascoux
Head, Emerging Markets Country Risks and Correspondent Banking Team, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
Juliette Lascoux is currently the Head of Emerging Markets Country Risks and Correspondent Banking Team at SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB) in Sweden. She has had over twenty-years experience in the area of international trade finance and corporate banking with on-the ground experience from both Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Merisa Lee Gimpel
Managing Director, Head of Working Capital Innovation & Trade Transformation, Lloyds Bank
Merisa Lee Gimpel is responsible for trade solution development, innovation and customer journey at Lloyds Bank. She has over 14 years of experience in commercial banking, with a focus on product development and improving customer journeys in trade finance and cash management. She runs a portfolio of customer-centric core, incremental and transformational projects, in collaboration with a network of strategic partners, which includes fintechs, banks, consortia and importantly customers. Merisa and her team engage customers along the entire solution development cycle, from understanding their biggest pain points (jobs to be done) through to designing and implementing solutions and ensuring these stay relevant through continuous feedback. She sits on the ITFA Fintech Committee, the ICC UK Banking Committee representing the Sustainable Trade Finance Working Group and the BAFT Innovation Council. Prior to joining Lloyds Bank in 2018, Merisa was most recently Product Head of Supply Chain Finance at Citi for the European, Middle East and African region. Merisa holds certificates in International Treasury Management and International Cash Management from the ACT, as well as a BSc. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
David Loseby
MCIOB Chartered, FAPM, FCMI, FCIPS Chartered, FRSA, Director for Procurement (Group CPO), Rolls Royce

David has over 30 years’ experience at senior executive/director level driving value and change through procurement and organisational transformation. David’s varied background enables him to draw on not only his various global experiences, sector diversity and responsibilities within many public bodies as well as FTSE 100 companies but also the experience gained in the construction and property sectors at the beginning of his career. He therefore has a real feel for the commercial and business drivers of the corporate customer and the private trader. He also understands what it takes to deliver sustainable bottom line results in the optimum time frame.

He is currently the Director for Procurement at Rolls Royce (Group CPO). David’s role is part of Global Business Services (GBS) and a member of the leadership team spanning that group. The GBS procurement population is c.180 within GBS, with a total group indirect spend is c.£2.7bn and total group purchasing population of circa 900, and Group Spend of c £8bn.

David is currently studying a PhD at Norwich Business School (Social Sciences Faculty) in Behavioural Science & Applied Cognitive Psychology: Behavioural Procurement. David has always enjoyed an active sports life through cycling as well as being a certified SCUBA Instructor (PADI 641325), Rescue Diver & Divemaster.
Mark Mandula
National Sales Manager, United Capital Funding
Prior to joining United Capital, Mark was Principal and Shareholder in an investment banking firm that completed over 200 bank industry mergers and acquisitions in a 13-year span. Following that, he was owner and CEO of a leading credit industry business and was nominated as an Entrepreneur of the Year. He currently manages strategic marketing and sales for his firm, including client lifecycle management, new client marketing, client retention, and business development. Mark is constantly seeking out new ways to better serve and reach entrepreneurial clients nationally. He holds a MBA and BBA in Finance and is a 2012 graduate of the Certificate in Private Capital Markets from the Graziadio Graduate School of Business at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. He has been actively involved in multiple non-profit boards including Eckerd College, Tampa Bay Research Institute and others. Mark is a regular speaker at international conferences and has had over 100 articles published online and ABA Banking Journal, Mergers & Acquisitions and other Industry publications.
Sunil Mascarenhas
SCF Relationship Manager, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Mr. Mascarenhas leads ADB’s Supply Chain Finance initiative. Prior to joining ADB, he was a consultant with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and led the deployment of Supply Chain Finance Advisory solutions for IFC’s client banks in South Asia. He is a career banker with extensive banking experience gained in the course of 15 year association with HSBC with senior roles in Commercial Banking, Trade & Supply Chain and Risk Management.
Robert Meters
Head of Marketing and Sales, Global Business and Financial Services, SCHUMANN
Robert studied Business Administration and International Management at the University for Economics and Management in Essen. At SCHUMANN he is active in international business and financial services. He advises and takes care of customers in the automation of credit decisions and the implementation of a fully integrated workflow system that also supports KYC processes.
Andy Moylan
CEO and Founder, EFCIS Trade Credit Insurance Brokers, CEO and Founder, The Export Hub
A plain-speaking entrepreneur, London born Andy Moylan is the founder of multi-award winning EFCIS Trade Credit Insurance Brokers and The Export Hub. In the last 30 years, Andy has helped many small businesses and household brands to export; from identifying the risk in their export plan to raising finance and protecting their sales ledger using a range of online tools developed by his team. 6 months ago, disenchanted with the negativity surrounding Brexit, Andy created the Export Hub; a non-profit making website with the sole purpose of helping small businesses export with confidence and certainty. Andy is a keynote speaker on the international scene having been a headline speaker at events in Taiwan, Australia, South Africa and Europe. At each event he shares hard won insights, practical case studies and experience on exporting. Expect to be inspired and motivated by Andy’s passion and his unorthodox approach.
Peter Mulroy
Secretary General, FCI
Peter Mulroy is Secretary General of FCI, the world’s largest association and network of factoring and receivables finance companies, with its headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Peter was previously Managing Director and International Regional Manager of CIT Commercial Services, having served on the Management Committee, supporting the global growth strategy of the company. Peter 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 his role and introducing the concept of factoring. He addresses audiences around the world on the subject of receivables finance and international trade and is generally regarded as a ‘global ambassador for the factoring industry’.
Jens Noffke
Working Capital Lead, Global Procurement, F. Hoffmann-La Roche
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.
Amitji Odedra
Investment Director, Qbera Capital
Amitji is responsible for Qbera Capital’s direct private credit investments and portfolio management. He joined Qbera Capital in 2018, bringing significant experience in Natural Resources and Commodities, Trade Finance and Portfolio Management from HSBC. Amitji has structured over US$3bn of transactions to date across debt and equity. He has extensive experience in Special Situations, Commodities and Structured Trade Finance and Portfolio Management and Distribution. During his time in Special Situations at HSBC, Amitji managed the turnaround and recovery process for multiple corporates across the globe, including major transactions such as Jessops and Game. Amitji then moved to lead the strategy and planning for the Commodity and Structured Trade Finance (CSTF) division globally, and subsequently transitioned to a deal structuring role in CSTF Europe, with a focus on oil majors, metals, mining and agricultural corporates. In 2016, Amitji joined the Portfolio Management and Distribution desk covering the European Trade and Structured Trade Finance book. Amitji was responsible for primary syndication, secondary distribution, and general portfolio management (via real and synthetic solutions). Amitji holds a BSc. (Hons). In Economics, Finance and Management from Queen Mary, University of London.
Lanre Oloniniyi Lanre Oloniniyi
Co-Founder, Orbitt
Lanre has over 15 years' investment experience doing business between Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to co-founding Orbitt, Lanre was involved in originating investment ideas and raising the required capital to grow start-ups in Africa, including Sankuru, First African Gold and Tranergy Capital. He also worked at BP, Subsea 7 and Citi in the UK. Lanre holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Ado, an MSc degree in Energy Economics from the University of Dundee, UK and an MBA from University of Cambridge, UK.
Martin Opfermann Martin Opfermann
Senior Portfolio Manager Alternatives, Allianz Global Investors
Martin Opfermann is a senior portfolio manager within Allianz Global Investors alternative asset management team and is leading the firm’s trade finance activities. Martin joined the firm in 2017 from Allianz Investment Management SE, where he was Head of Credit and in charge of Allianz Group’s credit allocation. In 2009, he spearheaded Allianz’s strategic shift into private markets and executed several debt investment strategies. Prior to this, Martin worked in the Fixed Income team of Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG. Martin graduated from University of Mannheim as a Diplom-Kaufmann in 2002. He is also a CFA charterholder.
Mathieu Saadati
Managing Partner, Fitracor
Mathieu is the founder and Managing Partner of Fitracor, a Paris-based advisory and arranging boutique dedicated to the African trade finance space. Prior to establishing Fitracor, he was notably responsible of the Correspondent Banking relationships of East-Africa and Middle-East in Société Générale - Paris serving the commodity traders portfolio of the bank. Mathieu holds 15 years of experience in banking, mainly in the commercial bank, trade finance and emerging markets. Mathieu graduated from University of Paris-X in Banking, Finance and Insurance.
Dr. Gabriele Sabato
CEO and Co-Founder, Wiserfunding
Gabriele is an experienced risk management professional who has worked for several financial institutions and consultant companies across the world in the last 18 years. Before founding Wiserfunding together with Professor Altman, he was Head of Risk Appetite Portfolio Decisioning for the Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest. Prior to this role, Gabriele was Head of Credit Risk Portfolio Management for Ulster Bank and Global head of Credit Risk Analytics for ABN AMRO. In his roles, Gabriele was responsible for ICAAP, stress testing, risk models, portfolio management and risk appetite. He has provided support and oversight in risk management to banks and subsidiaries in Asia, North and South America and Europe. He started his career working for Experian in Italy and Eastern Europe helping banks in enhancing their consumer and SME risk management capabilities and capital optimisation. Gabriele holds an M.Sc. and a PhD. in Finance from La Sapienza University in Rome. He was a visiting Scholar at the Stern School of Business of the New York University under the supervision of Professor Altman with whom has published several academic papers on risk management and SME lending in top ranking academic journals, including the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Services Research and the ABACUS.
Andreas Schlütter
Senior Underwriter Trade Credit/Trade Finance Europe, Multinational and Strategic Accounts General Insurance, AIG Europe
Since 2020, Andreas Schlütter has been developing trade credit insurance solutions for international companies and financial institutions for AIG Europe S.A.. Previously, he held various positions in the area of commercial, risk management and financial controlling within the Coface Group in Germany. Andreas is a qualified banker and studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. In addition to his work, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Coface Poland Factoring Sp. z o.o.
Lorna Strong
Deputy General Counsel, Global Trade and Receivables Finance, HSBC Bank
Lorna acts as the primary legal advisor for GTRF's operations globally; advising GTRF and playing a role in shaping HBSC's contribution to regulatory and policy debates on trade finance. She provides global oversight, coordination, and training for legal counsel in over 40 jurisdictions. Lorna has been instrumental in advising innovative digital solutions for trade finance, leading HSBC’s Legal team who advised the first trade block chain transactions: the award winning we.trade and Contour.
Laurent Tabouelle
COO, CODIX Group

Laurent is COO of CODIX Group, an international commercial finance software provider, editor and integrator of the iMX solution, which supports all flavors of corporate/commercial finance, including PO finance, Factoring (international/two-way, reverse/NAFIN, classical, etc.), Invoice Discounting, Asset-Based Lending, Supply Chain/Inventory Finance, Leasing, as well as sophisticated Debt Collection capabilities.

With a staff of 750+ business and technical experts located in 12 countries, CODIX delivers its iMX solution worldwide to clients of various sizes from SMEs to international groups, and always with a comprehensive suite of services including system customization, on-site training and assistance, as well as expert level business recommendations and project management.

Laurent’s entire career has been in IT for the financial/SCF industry, first in the Business/Systems analysis space, then Projects & Products Management, evolving into Management roles (and Group COO since 2010).

Diego Tavecchia
Head of Research, Technical Committees and International Affairs Department, Assifact
Diego Tavecchia graduated in International Economics and Finance from the University of Milan, where he also obtained his PhD in Business History and Corporate Finance with a dissertation about the effects of factoring on Italian businesses. Since 2007 he has been working at Assifact, the Italian Association for Factoring, where he is currently Head of the Research, Technical Committees and International Affairs Department. He established and chaired the Economics and Statistics Committee of the EUF, the European Federation of Factoring, for several years and is currently Chairman of the Prudential Risk Committee of the Federation.
Lionel Taylor
Managing Director, Trade Advisory Network
Lionel is a trade, supply chain and invoice finance specialist with more than 30 years of experience in senior leadership roles with major financial institutions including RBS, Rabobank, Citibank and Lloyds Banking Group and with non-bank independents. Today, in his role at the Trade Advisory Network, his key areas of expertise include new business strategy, turnaround, organisation design, new product design, product management, marketing, origination, credit, team building and training.
Federico Travella
CEO, NoviCap
Federico is a Belgian-Italian technology entrepreneur and co-founder-CEO of NoviCap, a venture capital-backed financial technology platform that is building the operating system for working capital. Federico was previously a Managing Director at Rocket Internet where he was pivotal in scaling technology ventures in Asia Pacific and Africa. His most notable involvements were in Lazada (acquired by Alibaba; NYSE: BABA), Jumia and The Iconic. He holds a Master’s Degree in Marine Geology from Ghent University and is a Young Talent Fellow at IESE Business School. Federico also advises the EU Commission on its innovation and entrepreneurship agenda.
Geoffrey Wynne
Partner, Sullivan & Worcester
Geoffrey Wynne is head of the Trade & Export Finance Group and Sullivan & Worcester’s London office. He has extensive experience in banking and finance, specifically corporate and international finance, bank mergers, acquisitions, conversions and restructurings, trade and structured trade and commodity finance, structured finance, asset and project finance, syndicated lending, equipment leasing, workouts and financing restructuring, leveraged and management buy-outs and general commercial matters.
Michael Young
Founder and CEO, Photon Commerce
Michael Young is Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Photon Commerce. Photon Commerce accelerates customer acquisition for fintech leaders by automating invoicing, categorisation, reconciliation, and payments using AI. Partnered with Brex, Microsoft, and Nvidia, it processed $11B in orders last year. After dropping out of the Stanford PhD programme, Michael led advanced R&D programs funded by the Department of Defense, created hundreds of jobs, raised $50M across his venture-backed start-ups, and took them to acquisitions. Reach out at: hello@photoncommerce.com
Igor Zaks
President, Tenzor Ltd.
Igor Zaks, CFA, founder and the President of Tenzor Ltd., focusing on all aspects of working capital management and financing. Igor is a seasoned finance professional, combining experience in banking, blue-chip corporate, and consulting. Igor started his career in 1990, first in consulting and then as Finance Director for a high-tech company. He subsequently moved to Citibank, initially working in project finance before setting up and running its first research department in Russia. After moving to Citibank London in 1996, Igor established market strategy research for Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In 2000 Igor moved to Dell to design many innovative structures, working with credit insurers, banks, and other finance providers. Igor then moved as a director to Eurohypo / Commerzbank, undertaking traditional public finance transactions and driving expansion into new asset classes, such as receivables, leases, and export credit agencies. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Managing Partner in SCF Capital, a specialized boutique in supply chain financing and its applications. He set up Tenzor Ltd. in 2009, firstly in the UK and then Toronto. Igor has Sloan Fellowship MSc (with distinction) from London Business School and Global Professional LLM from University of Toronto.

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