Bio

I have worked within the financial services industry for 35 years and specialised in Product Development, Business Development and Innovation roles while playing a major part in the development of the European futures and options industry with LIFFE, DTB and Eurex. In my last major corporate role I was an Executive Board member and Chief Innovation Officer at Eurex (part of Deutsche Boerse Group), where I was responsible for championing and ''brokering'' new ideas, both internally and externally, and looking for new opportunities within the changing market environment, either organically or through investments, particularly in the related FinTech space. I am currently advising, mentoring and investing in a range of Capital Market FinTech companies that are developing new ideas around changing market structure, regulation and technology while consulting more generally in the Exchange Traded Derivatives space. In addition, I have recently lectured on FinTech strategy as a core module for an MBA course at the University of East London and co-authored FinTech for Dummies and authored Investing in ESG for Dummies. I am currently associated with iPushPull, Fregnan, Hub Exchange, Limeglass, Kalyp Technologies, Neotas, Coriolos Technologies and Waymark Tech. Specialties: ''Joining the dots'', Product Development, Business Development, strategic thinking, Innovation management, FinTech start up scene, targeted sales and marketing, electronic trading etc.