Niki Beattie is CEO of Market Structure Partners, a firm she founded in 2008 which provides strategic advice on financial market structure issues to global exchanges, clearing houses, technology firms and market participants. As well as being an expert on financial market structure, Niki has been instrumental in creating competition and change in the European trading environment throughout her career.In addition to her consulting work, Niki has considerable experience of the Boards of both listed and private companies, as well as serving on regulatory committees. She is currently:• a Non-Executive Director of FMSB (FICC Market Standards Board), a standards setting body for fixed income markets• the Non-Executive Chairman of XTX Markets Limited, a leading, quantitative-driven electronic market-maker• the Non-Executive Chairman for Aquis Exchange, a Pan European MTF, listed on the UK AIM market• a Non-Executive Director of IRESS, a listed Australian financial technology company• a Non-Executive Director of Kepler Cheuvreux International Ltd, a French brokerage• a member of the Secondary Markets Advisory Committee of the European Securities Markets AuthorityShe was also previously:• a member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (2012 – 2018)• a Non Executive Director of The Moscow Exchange whilst it went from IPO to the largest free float stock in Russia (2012 -2016).• a Non Executive Director of Borsa Istanbul, Turkey’s main Exchange (2016-2019)Niki began her career in financial markets in securities technology at Security Pacific/Bank of America and went on to work at Merrill Lynch for 14 years where she became Managing Director and Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa Market Structure. At Merrill Lynch, Niki became a member of the European Equity Management team up and Head of Market Structure. Prior to that her experience included European, Middle East and Africa business development, implementing trading floor systems and running Merrill Lynch’s first electronic trading desk in Europe.In her role as Head of Market Structure, Niki was responsible for the firm’s relationships and developments with the stock exchanges, multi-lateral trading facilities (MTFs) and clearing houses, all related cost management as well as advising the firm and their clients on the changes in equity and derivatives market structure. She was also responsible for identifying and implementing Merrill’s strategic investments in market structure and technology related companies.Niki’s work at the forefront of industry transformation came from spearheading the development of the trade reporting system BOAT and the Trade Ideas Monitor, acting as a key founder of Virt-x and Turquoise, as well as working closely with the UK and European regulators and regulated firms on the evolution of both MiFID 1 and 2. With experience across US, European and emerging markets, she has built a strong buy and sell side following for her knowledge and opinions on the subject of exchanges, clearing and electronic trading.Since founding Market Structure Partners, clients have included some of the world’s leading trading venues and clearing houses, global and regional investment banks, high frequency trading firms, hedge funds, asset managers, private equity firms and government bodies.Niki has a first class honours degree in Information Systems and Management.

Chris Hollands is TradingScreen’s Head of European and Americas Sales and Account Management and is responsible for all of TradingScreen’s client-facing activities in Europe, managing a team based in each of its office locations in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Zurich. On a day-to-day basis, Chris oversees TS’s major broker relationships and buy side accounts in the region and supervises all sales and marketing initiatives.He rejoined TS in October 2016 following a two- year stint heading up Proposition Management for Equities at Thomson Reuters in Europe across its transactions, desktop and feeds businesses, and including its approach to MiFID II. Chris originally started at TradingScreen (TS) in 2001 at the inception of its European operations to play a pivotal role in its evolution into a leading, multi- asset Execution Management System. Prior to joining TS, he worked in a buy-side business development role at the London Stock Exchange working at Fimat (now Newedge) sales trading equity derivatives.Chris holds an MBA from Warwick Business School and a BSc. in International Management and Modern Languages from the University of Bath.

Matt McLoughlin is a Partner & Head of Trading at Liontrust Asset Management, the £28Billion AUM specialist fund manager, where he manages the execution across all asset classes. He started his career in the UK government’s economic and finance ministry, HM Treasury, before moving to AIG Investments, where he managed Fixed Income funds. He then spent six years as a Senior Trader at Hedge Fund RAB Capital before moving to Legal & General Investment Management where he traded Global Equities and Derivatives prior to his 2015 shift to Liontrust to run the Trading Desk. Matt is a Director of the Plato Partnership, a member of The UK Investment Association’s Buyside Trading Committee and his desk have won numerous awards including being named Mid-Cap Trading Desk of the Year.

Ben joined Independent Franchise Partners, LLP in July 2015 and has 15 years of investment experience. Before joining the Firm, Ben worked as a strategist across a number of trading desks at Morgan Stanley. He helped capture additional revenue and improve efficiencies for these desks by building automated trading engines and developing analytical tools. Prior to this, Ben was part of a team within Morgan Stanley’s investment management business responsible for developing and implementing a multi-asset portfolio management system, used by portfolio managers, traders and operations personnel. Ben received a MEng (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Warwick and is a CFA® Charterholder.

Dan Eisemann is a Quantitative Trading Analyst at MFS Investment Management. His responsibilities include measuring and improving execution quality in trading by partnering with traders and portfolio managers to optimize the process as well as trading systematically generated orders. Dan joined MFS in 2019. Previous experience includes 9 years at Goldman Sachs where Dan was a Vice President in the Electronic Trading team. As part of the team, he was responsible for working with users of the GS Algorithmic trading suite to optimize their trading experience as well as developing content on trends in Market Structure and Trading Strategies. He was also on the team that built the data platform used to carry out Execution Cost Analysis, Routing Analysis and Execution Research to improve execution outcomes.

Michael is global head of Quantitative Execution Services. He is responsible for the research, development and implementation of quantitative processes for portfolio and electronic trading, as well as the management of the firm's relationships with the quantitative client-base across regions. Michael manages a variety of teams globally, spanning algorithmic research, portfolio quants, client solutions, analytics and quantitative content generation. He joined the firm as a managing director in 2017.Prior to joining the firm, Michael spent eight years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a variety of senior roles in London and New York, including the centralisation of risk for the bank’s equities flow, quantitative liquidity management processes and in the last few years running the global agency portfolio trading and quantitative equity businesses. Earlier in his career, he spent more than a decade on the buy-side (most notably BGI and Winton) building quant stock-selection models and managing global market neutral equity portfolios. Before that, Michael was a Financial Econometrics lecturer at City University (CASS) Business School in London. He has a wide range of academic, peer-reviewed and practitioner journal and book publications on a host of finance topics, as well as numerous presentations in global quant and industry conferences.Michael received a bachelor's degree in Economics & Econometrics from the University of Nottingham, a master's degree in Finance and a PhD in Behavioural Finance from City University (CASS) Business School in London.