Carl Johan is a highly respected strategic business and IT consultant with extensive international line management, program management and program director experience working in the Central Banking, Financial Services, Securities and Stock Exchange Domain, virtual-Commerce, Energy and Government sectors.

Carl Johan has acted as Program Director for several central banking projects (RTGS, ACH and GSRS) as well as payment and clearing systems, CSD and e-payments, smart cards, EFTPOS, he established the world’s first interoperable mobile payment system.

Carl Johan has held posts as General Manager of Unisys in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Prior to that he was General Manager of Logica UK and Logica Far East. Carl Johan has also published numerous articles on IT and Business areas since 1989 to the present day.

Mark is a seasoned financial market professional with career in broking, investment banking, asset management and regulation with over 30 years of experience. He specialises in market development, drafting legislation and regulation and training. Mark has consulted to securities commissions, financial market regulators and market participants in more than thirty transition, emerging and developing markets. He has been a trainer for UK Investment Management Association. Mark is the author of the renowned, standard textbook on mutual funds ‘Managing Collective Investment Funds’ (Latest edition 2013).

Koen is a member of the Brussels and Luxembourg bar and has 25 years of experience as a lawyer specialising in capital markets infrastructure and financial services including investment funds.  Koen has extensive knowledge of EU and international best practices and regulatory evolutions in developed and emerging markets.  Koen has advised on the largest IPO in Belgium to date as well as on strategy and public policy development programs at government level, advocacy at the EU and for top tier financial institutions. His resume includes Partnerships at DLA Piper and at a PWC associate law firm. Koen’s EU regulatory financial services practice is ranked tier one by legal 500.

Sin Keat has held demanding Executive positions in the central markets environment in major international markets. He oversaw the multi-year development of the high successful Malaysian infrastructure and operations as well as NASDAQ Dubai and Borse Dubai. Sin Keat successfully transferred his knowledge and approach to the consulting world and is bringing about business change in rapidly developing markets, he has played a pivotal role in the business and risk process re-engineering to prepare the Sri Lankan market institutions to create a CCP. Sin Keat’s senior roles included:

• Managing Director, Borse Dubai Limited.
• Head of Clearing and Risk Management NASDAQ Dubai.
• Head of Market Operations New Zealand Exchange.
• Head, Exchange, Clearing, Settlement & Depository, Bursa Malaysia.

Peter is a highly experienced Legal and regulatory consultant to financial markets specialising in securities exchanges and clearing & settlement regulations, procedures and internal organizations, banking law and corporate law.

Peter takes an expert legal as well as business view of legal and regulatory change needed to support infrastructure development affecting central institutions as well as market participants.

Peter has advised a wide variety of central market institutions in a number of legal consulting assignments around the world.

Simon spent 17 years developing and operating markets especially for smaller and medium enterprises. He has run two of the UK’s equity markets. Under his leadership, The London Stock Exchange’s AIM became probably the most successful growth market in the world attracting more companies than all the other growth markets in Europe combined and raising around US $100 billion.

Simon also created the first, new full stock exchange in London for two hundred years in PLUS Markets plc. He has also been a CEO of a publicly traded company and an adviser to companies as well being a stock exchange chief. Simon, therefore, has experienced the markets both as a market operator and as director of a quoted company.

Simon is a qualified Advocate.