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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.

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.

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.

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.

Jane Walshe

Jane is a Member of the Securities Institute and a barrister with extensive experience of international and domestic
regulatory affairs. Jane previously worked as a lawyer in the FSA's Enforcement Division where she worked on changes to
the Approved Persons Regime and on the transposition of MiFID. She is an FSSC Recognised Trainer and has worked as a
compliance consultant and training professional for a number of years. Jane has delivered courses to a wide range of clients
up to Board level within asset management institutions (including hedge funds and private equity), brokerage and trading
          houses, insurance companies and retail banks. She sits on the panel that scrutinises SII Diploma in Regulation & Compliance
and is also a member of the Editorial Panel of the SII Review.