Robert Barnes is Chief Executive of Turquoise, the pan European multilateral trading facility majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group in partnership with the user community. Prior to his joining in August 2013, he worked at UBS from February 1994, gaining experience as yellow jacket on the Liffe derivatives trading floor and most recently as CEO of UBS MTF and Managing Director, Equities. His industry roles include serving as Chairman, 2004-2009, of the Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association and participating on key advisory and policy groups within the financial services sector. Robert holds a BA from Harvard, a PhD from Cambridge, and is a Chartered Fellow and Board Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Elina Ribakova has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial industry and policy making. Prior to joining DB, Elina held senior roles in economic research and strategy in asset management covering US, LatAm and Russia at Pioneer Investments and cross-EM at Avantium Investment Management. She has always maintained a focus on Eastern Europe, however, including as a Chief Economist for Russia and CIS at Citigroup (2008-2013). Prior to moving to the private sector, Elina worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (1999 - 2008) focusing on fiscal and macro-financial stability issues. She was a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is a graduate of the University of Warwick and occasionally lectures in international macroeconomics with policy and finance applications. Elina joined Deutsche Bank as expert on EMEA in August 2016.

Róbert Ésik is an economist and a finance & investment analysis expert. He graduated at the Corvinus University of Budapest and earned a master’s degree at the Université Panthéon Assas in Paris. He spent almost 15 years in various positions at the largest ICT companies of the world, such as Alcatel, Siemens, Nokia and Amazon. As the country director of Nokia Solutions and Networks he played a key role in the Hungarian subsidiary becoming one of Nokia’s most important technology development centres. Since October 2014 he has been directing the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA). Róbert’s professional, as well as personal ambition is to further promote his homeland as a favourable investment location and by so doing contribute to Hungary’s economic and social development.

James Baugh is European Head of Market Structure for Citi’s equity business, responsible for developing its liquidity strategy. Previously, he spent more than 11 years at London Stock Exchange, where as head of equity sales he was directly responsible for initiatives like Turquoise Plato Block Discovery™. Other roles included Head of Client management for Baikal, the dark book initiative initially developed in partnership with Lehman Brothers and was made Director of Client Management at Turquoise when LSE acquired the business in 2010. A graduate of Newcastle University, Baugh began his career as a commodity analyst before spending the next six years at Dow Jones in a variety of roles including the management of their European Power Index business.

Peter McStay is co-head of Liquidnet’s Emerging Markets business, and also responsible for Sell-Side interaction for Liquidnet’s business in EMEA. Since 2008, Peter has held several roles at Liquidnet within Project Management, Product and Sales. He joined from HSBC Investments where he spent 4 years, prior to that he had several roles on the buy side. Peter holds a BSC in Economics from City University.

Sal joined Instinet Europe Limited 2 years ago and runs the electronic and program trading businesses. He is also a member of the European Executive Committee. He joined from Citigroup where he spent 5 years in a similar role. Sal started his career at Morgan Stanley where he worked for 10 years as a high touch sales trader. He has also held similar roles at Goldman Sachs and UBS.

Bartosz holds a MSc in Finance and Banking with a specialization in Investment Simulations and Corporate Finance from Koźmiński Academy, post-graduate studies in Investment Banking from Warsaw School of Economics and Leadership Development Program from ICAN Institute. As Head of Business Development he is responsible for the “on-boarding” process of new clients and developing and maintaining relations with Erste’s business partners, marketing as well as revenue generating projects. Before joining Erste, Bartosz was Head of Market Development at the Warsaw Stock Exchange and responsible for the product development, sales and relationship management with WSE’s clients including exchange members, proprietary traders, liquidity providers and market makers. He worked with investment product issuers, ISVs and telco providers, and was responsible for pricing. He started his career as an equity trader and investment advisor at CDM Pekao SA Securities (Unicredit Group).

Scott Bradley is the Head of Sales and Marketing, LSE Cash Secondary Markets and Turquoise with responsibility for business development in Equities, ETF and FIxed Income trading, promoting growth and development within both existing and new markets. Scott joined the Group in March 2017 having spent the previous 17 years of his career in various roles more broadly within execution services with a number of Investment Banks and Global Brokerages including Instinet, Nomura, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and ITG. Having been actively involved in the early days of electronic trading and the development of analytics tools and services, Scott initially started out as a trader and then sales trader with ITG, before joining Goldman Sachs. As Managing Director of International Algorithmic trading at Bear Stearns, Scott was responsible for the build out of electronic sales trading in London before moving into senior sales positions as Head of Electronic Client Solutions, EMEA at JP Morgan and most recently Head of EMS and Analytics Sales at Instinet. For a number of years, Scott has been actively involved within the FIX Trading community and is currently co-chair of the Global Membership Services committee representing the EMEA region. Scott holds a BA(Hons) Finance from the University of Manchester and is currently part way through his MBA at Warwick Business School.