Advisory Board

Chad Giussani leads the Operations and Transaction Reporting Compliance team at Standard Chartered bank covering post-trade operations and global trade and transaction reporting obligations. He has been involved with regulatory trade and transaction reporting since 2006, covering MiFID, Dodd-Frank, EMIR and more recently many other G20 risk reporting and prudential jurisdictional requirements. Chad originally worked in the transaction reporting vendor area before moving into a leadership role within investment banking technology, then onto business change and more recently into compliance.

Chad represents Standard Chartered at the trade and transaction reporting industry working groups with various trade associations including ISDA, BBA and FIA on the emerging rules and regulations , chairs the GFXD Post Trade Regulations working group and is the former Chairman of the Regulations Business Unit at ISITC Europe

M. Berkan Sesen, PhD, is an executive director and quantitative portfolio manager in the Quantitative Beta Strategies group at JPMAM. His current focus areas are machine learning, alternative data, systematic investing and efficient trade execution. Prior to JPMAM, Berkan worked as an algorithmic trading quant at Citigroup and co-led the firm’s global data analytics group. Berkan holds a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Oxford and specializes in the applications of machine learning and statistics to finance.

Naomi has over 30 years experience in working within asset managers, investment banks, pension funds and insurers at CEO, COO and senior level, delivering business operating models that maximise value from data and improve the way work gets done. She has in-depth knowledge of the data used within the financial sector, how it needs to be governed and the data architectures supporting the modern data-driven approach necessary for data science and analytics to succeed.

She is currently Chief Data Officer for HUB, a new venture bringing PIMCO, Man Group, State Street, IHS Markit, Microsoft and McKinsey together to build a new operating infrastructure for asset management. It will adopt a data first strategy in an open, modular, flexible and low-code manner. The partnership brings together market leading expertise and methodology from across asset management, data and technology. Naomi has an M.A. from the University of Oxford.