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SENIOR PERSONNEL
Stuart Chandler
Chairman
A career banker, Stuart spent 22 years with the Bank of England, including a two-year secondment to the Cabinet Office. This was followed by eight years at National Westminster Bank encompassing a range of senior management roles, culminating in the role of Deputy Chief Executive from 1994 - 1996. From 1997 to his retirement in 2004, Stuart worked firstly for Hambros Bank, as Chief Operating Officer, until their sale to Societe Generale in 1999. Then, after taking full responsibility for integrating Hambros with SocGen, Stuart became Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive of SocGen from 1999 - 2004.
Stuart's professional positions are as follows:
Chairman, SG Defined Benefit Pension Trust Co Ltd (1998 - date)
Chairman, SG Money Purchase Pension Trust Co Ltd (1999 - date)
Chairman, Charity Aid Foundation (CAF) Bank Ltd (2003 - Oct 2008)
Trustee, Charity Aid Foundation (CAF) (2003 - Oct 2008)
Russell Catley
Partner
Russell was previously Head of UK & Ireland Retail Equity Derivatives at Citigroup, joining in early 2004. Together with Andrew Lakeman, he successfully established Citigroup as a leader in the provision of private placement structured products to institutional and professional asset managers in the UK. The Symphony Structured Products (Jersey) Limited series of preference shares are now a popular holding within many UK portfolios and funds.
Prior to joining Citigroup, Russell was Director of Retail Sales at AXA Investment Managers, with responsibility for the sales of proprietary retail investment funds, multimanager and alternative investment products from AXA Group companies and Alliance Capital Management. Russell's appointment with AXA in 1999 was preceded by 1 year in institutional asset management and 11 years in pensions and investment consultancy.
Russell's professional positions are as follows:
Non-Executive Director, Downing Protected Opportunities VCT 1 plc
Andrew Lakeman
Partner
Well known as a Director within the Equity Derivatives business at Citigroup, Andrew had responsibility for securitised product sales to UK asset managers. Working with Russell Catley he was responsible for the sales and service of the Symphony preference share series. Andrew is also well regarded for his specialist derivatives product training, having delivered programmes for many of the larger discretionary asset management firms over the last few years.
Prior to joining Citi in early 2005, Andrew worked for AXA IM as Investment Sales Manager for London and the South East. Prior to this, he was responsible for strategic alliances at Threadneedle Investments. Andrew started his career in sales at John Govett, which specialised in closed end funds as well as derivative based open ended funds.
Tom May
Partner
As Head of the European Securitised Equity Derivative and Secondary Market Trading teams at Citigroup between 2005 and 2008, Tom was responsible for a team trading all securitised derivative products on both primary and secondary markets. During this time of significant growth for derivatives markets, Tom was instrumental in establishing Citigroup as a leader in both primary market innovation and secondary market trading for the UK private placement market. Prior to this, Tom was part of the Structured Equity Derivatives Trading team at Citi, with specific responsibility for Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance and Delta 1 Trading.
Roy Thompson
Head of Retail
Roy was a Key Account Director at AXA Winterthur Wealth Management and was responsible for managing the tactical and strategic relationships with AXA's leading customers. The product suite focused on Offshore and Onshore planning, Retirement solutions, Corporate pensions, Investment management and wrap. Prior to this Roy was the London (West End) sales manager having orginally joined Sun Life Assurance Society in 1991 as a business development manager
Alan Glass
IT & Trading Systems Consultant
Alan owns and runs a successful systems consulting business and is responsible for the design, implementation and upkeep of our IT, website and trading systems. Previously, Alan was a founder of the consultancy services and software solutions business, Tikit Group plc. Tikit is the leading European provider of IT services to the Legal and Accountancy profession and was listed on AIM in 2001.
