Establishing Robust and Sustainable Foundations for Your Hedge Fund

Jonny Tang

New Business Development, London Buyside

Bloomberg L.P.

Jonny joined Bloomberg in 2014 from Lazard's Private Equity Fundraising team and has looked after key relationships in the London hedge fund community. He is now focused on developing new connections with emerging managers across the London Buyside. Please contact him on jtang201@bloomberg.net if you wish to understand more about the services and solutions that Bloomberg can bring to your firm across terminals, product and data.

Andrea Mosconi

Global Head of Equity, Research and Listed Services Product

Bloomberg L.P.

Andrea Mosconi is Global Head of Equity,Research and Listed Services Product at Bloomberg LP — the world's most trusted source for connecting decision-makers to a dynamic network of real-time and historical financial data, news, research and analytics. Based in London, Mr. Mosconi oversees business development of the Bloomberg Terminal and key client relationships across the EMEA region. His expertise covers equity derivatives, structured products and convertible bonds.

Mr. Mosconi joined Bloomberg in 2009 as an Equity Derivatives and Structured Products Specialist, and was responsible for its derivatives product development. In 2012, he became Head of Sales for Southern Europe — covering Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. From 2015 he ran the sales group for ASEAN out of Singapore, before taking up his current role in 2018, as head of Sales for EMEA.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr. Mosconi was the Head of Structured and Equity Exotic Options desk at Abaxbank. He started his career as an Equity Derivatives Trader with Unicredit.

Mr. Mosconi graduated from the Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematical and Financial Economics.

Anil Ahmed

Head of London HF business

Bloomberg L.P.

Anil joined Bloomberg in 2008 after completing his Masters in Finance. He has been looking after the hedge fund community for the past decade. In 2018, he became a manager for the hedge fund sales team covering London-based clients. His current responsibilities include overseeing business development and managing cornerstone relationships.

Martin Deurell

Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager

Kersley Street

Martin founded Kersley Street Capital in February 2021 and is the Chief Investment Office and portfolio manager. Martin was a founding partner and senior portfolio manager at Abaco Asset Management, which managed the Abaco Financials Fund. Abaco was founded in 2003 along with two other co-founders. During his time there, Martin was a key member of the investment committee and had overall responsibility for investments across banks, insurance and diversified financials. Prior to that, Martin began his career with Swedbank as a prop trader in its Equity & Equity-derivatives division. Martin read Business and Economics at the University of Stockholm and Uppsala University.

Sajni Thakrar

EMEA Capital Advisory Group

JP Morgan

Sajni is part of the Hedge Fund Consulting team within J.P. Morgan’s EMEA Capital Advisory Group. Sajni works with a number of hedge fund managers with a primary focus on assisting new launches with various pre- and post-launch considerations.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

George Ralph

Global Managing Director

RFA

As Global Managing Director and CRO of RFA, George is a technology and business leader with a proven track record of strategic alignment, process improvement and guidance. Having been both a COO and a CTO of his own technology firms over a nineteen-year period, he looks to provide transparent guidance to every business he serves and the people he leads. George has extensive delivery and technical experience in cloud and data architecture, large-scale migrations utilising leading technology brands and IaaS offerings.

An Assessor for the British Computer Society (The institute of IT) and a Certified IT professional, George is keen to ensure that the RFA gives its clients the highest levels of service.

Tom Cole

Managing Director – UK & Europe

Abacus Group

As managing director of the UK and Europe regions at Abacus Group, Tom leads strategy, client service, technology infrastructure and business development in the UK and European markets. Abacus is a global IT services firm for alternative asset management firms, providing an enterprise technology platform specifically designed to meet the unique needs of the financial services industry. Abacus currently provides managed services to over 600 firms globally.

Tom is an expert in critical technology topics for hedge funds and investment management firms, such as cybersecurity, managed cloud solutions and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Abacus, Tom was the Chief Technology Officer for a multibillion global macro hedge fund, responsible for technology strategy, cybersecurity practices and group business continuity planning. Tom was awarded distinction for MSc studies from the University of Liverpool.

John Bryant

Chief Technology Officer

Options IT

Options’ Chief Technology Officer joined in 2008 with his initial focus on the revamp of our low-latency market data product portfolio in addition to managing the company’s global data centre expansion program. In addition to leading our engineering practice, John advises clients and prospects on industry best-practice design. With over 20 years Capital Markets experience, John has a wealth of knowledge stretching across technologies such as ultra-low latency trading infrastructure, application architecture and cyber security. Prior to working for Options, John was IT Director for Insinger de Beaufort, a wealth management firm, where he deployed turn-key voice and data network solutions as well as overhauling front, middle and back office architecture (STP).

Neeraj Mawkin

Director Prime Services

Credit Suisse

Neeraj is a Director within the Credit Suisse Prime Services sales team. He joined CS in 2011 and has over 9 years of Prime Services experience having held numerous roles across Prime Client Services, Delta One Sales and Prime Brokerage Sales.

Neeraj focuses much of his attention on hedge fund start-ups in addition to covering established hedge fund managers on the platform. He is also responsible for distributing the EMEA Delta One Index and Custom Basket product to hedge funds and asset managers. Neeraj graduated from University College London with a degree in Economics & Geography.

Andrew Walton

Partner

Tourmaline Partners

Andrew Walton is the head of European Business at Tourmaline Partners. In addition to providing trading coverage for UK and internationally domiciled clients, he focuses on the development and supervision of all business activity at the firm for the EMEA region. He has more than 20 years of experience in financial markets, having been trained on the Salomon Smith Barney Training Program. He oversees the ongoing build-out and expansion of Tourmaline’s presence and trading team in the EMEA region.

Prior to Tourmaline, Andrew served as a director at BTIG serving to build out the firm’s European platform. He began his career at Salomon Brothers in London, as an analyst on the European Government Bond Sales desk. Andrew earned his BSc (Hons) in Accounting & Financial Management from Loughborough University.

Steve Blackburn

Chief Executive Officer

CF Global Trading

Steve opened the CF Global office in London in 2002, joining from Marathon Asset Management where he worked as a global equity trader. He is now CEO of CF Global UK and European Head of Trading. Steve has more than 20 years’ trading experience on both the buyside and sell side.

Ben Danso

Director

Optima Partners

Benjamin is one of Optima’s Directors where he oversees compliance relationships across a range of hedge fund and private equity firms of varying structures and strategies with a combined AUM in excess of $300bn. He has a strong focus on US regulation from a UK perspective and has lead on both mock and live US regulatory examinations.

Prior to joining Optima Partners, Benjamin worked at the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) in the Authorisation and Supervision teams. Whilst at the FCA Benjamin was responsible for assessing authorisation applications and monitoring Firm behaviors.

Before joining the FCA, Benjamin provided external compliance assistance to the Royal Bank of Scotland where he monitored staff conduct to ensure it was in line with FCA COB standards. Preceding his tenure at the FCA, Benjamin worked for Deloitte assisting with the large remedial projects to ensure its clients were in line with their respective regulatory obligations.

Nancy King

Partner

Portman Compliance

Nancy has been working in regulatory compliance for almost 20 years both in house and as a compliance consultant. She has seen over 200 FCA regulated firms including Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Fund of Funds, Broker Dealers, Private Equity and Property Fund Managers. Prior to starting Portman, Nancy worked at Bear Sterns (and subsequently JP Morgan) where she project managed the launch of several new Fund Managers and she also has a unique understanding of Prime Brokerage.

Nancy has worked at a variety of Asset Managers and Banks including HSBC, Russell Investments and National Bank of Dubai where she held the Compliance Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer positions. Nancy has been asked to speak on the Compliance Panel at the Bloomberg Hedge Fund Start-Up Conference multiple times.

Nancy started Portman Compliance in 2013 and the company has prospered under her leadership.

Libbi Ross

Bloomberg Mandates EMEA

Bloomberg

Libbi Ross is responsible for Bloomberg Mandates in EMEA, a service connecting Bloomberg's network of alternative fund managers to allocators to assist in capital raising and manager research. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Libbi worked at RBS in Hedge Fund Markets Relationship Management and Hedge Fund Rates Sales. She initially started her career in Capital Introductions at Newedge (now Societe Generale). In her spare time, Libbi serves on the 100Women in Finance European FundWomen Conference committee and London Education committee organising events to spotlight diverse investment talent.

William Bryant

Head of Advisory

NorthPeak Advisory

William Bryant is the head of advisory at NorthPeak Advisory, a boutique advisory firm supporting asset managers integrate ESG into their investment processes and businesses. Prior to NorthPeak Will spent 15 years in the alternative investment space at the global consultant Albourne Partners. Will worked in Europe and the US supporting investors with their alternative asset allocation needs. Will co-led Albourne’s initiative to support investors integrating Responsible Investment into their alternative portfolios and assessing managers active in the Responsible Investment area. Will has had articles published in industry publications around the topic of ESG and data. Will has spoken at PRI, SBAI, AIMA and other events on the topic of ESG within the hedge fund space.

Will graduated from Durham University, UK with a degree in Geography. Will is a CFA charterholder.

Kristen Eshak Weldon

Global Head of ESG and Impact Investing

Partners Capital

Kristen joined Partners Capital in February 2021 as Global Head of ESG and Impact Investing. Previously, Kristen was on the Executive Committee of Louis Dreyfus Company where she launched the sustainability-focused investment fund management group, Louis Dreyfus Ventures, and led the company’s venture and growth equity investment activities in the ag-tech and food technology industries. She was Head of Food Innovation and Downstream Strategy, focusing on investments in alternative proteins, aquaculture and speciality commodities. Prior to that, Kristen was a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and Co-Head of the London office for Hedge Fund Solutions, where she led the commodity strategy across customised and commingled portfolios.

As Co-Head of the London office for Hedge Fund Solutions, Kristen was responsible for the investment team including sourcing early stage managers. Kristen also previously worked at JPMorgan in London and New York, and currently sits on a number of boards including Cambridge University Endowment Fund and Stable Asset Management, an investment firm focused on building strategic partnerships with early stage investment managers. Kristen is an independent Non-Executive Director at Carr’s Group plc and Castleton Commodities International. She served as Founding Board Member of 100 Women in Finance Ltd., holds a Sloan Fellowship Masters degree from London Business School and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.