Our Trainers

We source the training talent so that you can focus on running your business.

Our carefully selected network of trainers allows us to react swiftly to your business education needs.

All our trainers have practical, in-the-field experience of their subject areas and meet our high standards of teaching style and presence. This contributes to the well-known focus of our approach and helps keep client costs down by ensuring that the training is clear, relevant and real world.

Furthermore, as your business grows and training needs develop, we will always have the training resources on-hand to support your employees and clients.


Robin Brown
Robin was a founder member of the London Inter-bank Currency Options Market (ICOM) and sat on the BBA/Bank of England ICOM Committee. He has held various positions in Treasury, FX, Fixed Income and Equity Investment departments at numerous financial institutions, including Head of Private Client Investment Desk for a major Middle Eastern Bank. Since 1986, Robin has delivered training programmes internationally to major global investment and commercial banks on the subjects of Asset & Liability Management, Capital Markets, Risk Management & Value at Risk, Credit Derivatives and Financial Market Products.  Robin is an active trader in the Equities, FX and Fixed Income Markets for his own account.

Tim Brown
Tim has worked in the City of London since 1969 when he joined Williams Deacons Bank Limited (now The Royal Bank of Scotland). He enjoyed a wide exposure to key areas of business management within the banking industry, including internal audit and the settlement function. In 1993, Tim joined the Compliance and Internal Audit department of the Fund Management company INVESCO. This provided indepth Compliance experience across both Retail and Institutional business operations. In 1999, he joined Cogent (the third party custody and administration firm) and set up its Compliance and Business Risk Department. Latterly, Tim has built up his own Compliance Consultancy with the intention of providing support to FSA Regulated firms. He works primarily with the private equity, investment banking and fund management sectors.

Robert Conlon
Robert specialises in leadership training for sales & service managers and solution selling skills. His own sales management career was grounded in such blue chip organisations as Sainsbury’s, Barclays Bank and Axa Finance. For Barclays Wealth, he was fundamental in the creation of their global relationship management training programme. He delivers courses internationally to a diverse range of clients including Dell Computer, Heineken, Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole and a number of private banks. Robert has recently completed the renowned Business Development course at Babson Business School, Boston USA and also been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing.

Clare Flynn Levy
Clare has 15 years of experience in fund management, spanning long-only funds, hedge funds and hedge fund technology.  Well-known in the London hedge fund community, Clare managed funds for Deutsche Asset Management and Avocet Capital Management, before serving as President of Beauchamp Financial Technology and Managing Director of Tisbury Capital Management. Clare is currently Managing Director of Elsworthy Associates Ltd., a specialist business advisory consultancy offering analysis, advice, project management and project execution to hedge funds and hedge fund investors.

Heather Lightbody
After graduating in economics at Bristol University, Heather worked for five years at Esso Petroleum as an internal finance and audit analyst. In 1985, after an MBA at London Business School, she joined The Wallace Smith Trust Group where she was involved in competitive analysis, strategic finance evaluation and implementation of corporate divestments/acquisitions. In 1990, Heather joined the Corporate Finance division of Yamaichi International (Europe) with responsibility  for the marketing & execution of debt and equity issues. She specialised in equity issuance through the 1990’s. Heather follows the markets for corporate and private equity transactions (with a direct interest as an investor in private equity funds), analysing valuation of deals, structure and impact on the market. She has delivered courses in all areas of corporate finance, company valuation, private equity for financial institutions in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Sheridan Mangal (SFM Founder & CEO)
Sheridan has worked in the capital markets for over 30 years. He started his career with 16 years at the London Stock Exchange, where he was directly involved in key financial market changes including deregulation (Big Bang), dematerialisation and the growing use of technology to drive market systems. Sheridan then went on to hold influential roles within the front, middle and back offices of major investment and retail banks in the UK, USA and Europe. Sheridan also authored and lectured (University of East London) on the subjects of Business Systems & Data Management. Related work includes the implementation of large-scale process change programmes and key initiatives at Reuters and BP. For the past six years, Sheridan has specialised in alternative investments and is often called upon to explain new financial concepts and advise on operational risk within financial institutions.

Paul Meadows
Paul had a 16 year career as an Analyst and Fund Manager working for Royal Insurance Asset Management, Lloyds Private Banking and Bank of Butterfield. He worked with both Institutional and High Net Worth clients. In 2001, he switched to Training full time and joined DC Gardner Training – a wholly owned subsidiary of Euromoney. There he ran the Investment Management/Private Banking business stream, designing and delivering worldwide courses to a range of audiences from Investment Banks and Fund Managers to Central Banks and regulators. In 2004, he set up Chadley House Training and now specialises in Capital Markets, Wealth & Portfolio Management, Hedge Funds and Technical Analysis training. Clients have included Man Investments, The FSA, HSBC, Citigroup, Barclays Global Investors, Hoare & Co and Renaissance Capital.

Eugene O’Connell
After an initial period at Sandhurst and soldiering in some of the world’s hot spots, Eugene embarked on a 15 year career in investment banking. Initially a bond salesman with EF Hutton, he later moved across to the proprietary trading desk.  Following spells in Asia and the US, he moved to Tokai International in London where he spent seven years running the proprietary trading team and was part of the risk management committee. He then worked at Greenwich Capital where he ran portfolios of European securities. Latterly he has combined this extensive capital markets expertise with an MBA in Finance and a career in the training arena. He is also a qualified coach mentor and a member of the European Coaching and Mentoring Council.

Jon Swainson
Jon is a Data Architecture expert with over 24 years direct involvement in financial services IT. His investment banking experience is considerable and includes working with Citigroup in Paris and for Nomura in London and Luxembourg. Recent directorships include Beauchamp Financial Technology (DBA and Hosted Services Director) and Linedata Services (Technical Services Director for Northern Europe). Jon has worked closely with Oracle for over 20 years, supported in excess of 250 Hedge Fund production trading systems and built six ASP trading platforms at data centres around the world. Jon is also a BCS certified “Green IT” practitioner.

Caroline Wild
In her 14 years in the City, Caroline has covered most aspects of operational risk management in the hedge fund, fund administration and institutional sectors. In addition to holding fund administration roles at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Morgan Stanley, she implemented trading and real-time valuation infrastructures within the Alternatives division of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers/BlackRock and cross margining and process automation at Merrill Lynch Prime Brokerage. Most recently, she served as Director of Operations at Tennyson Fund Solutions, a fund administration and middle office outsourcing provider.