Rich Handler Chief Executive Officer Jefferies Financial Group

Chief Executive Officer and Director of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF) Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Jefferies Group LLC Rich Handler has been with Jefferies since 1990 and has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2001, making him the longest serving CEO on Wall Street. Mr. Handler also serves as Chairman of the Global Diversity Council at Jefferies. In addition he is Chairman and CEO of the Handler Family Foundation, a non-profit that focuses on many philanthropic areas, including providing 4-year all-inclusive fully-paid college educations each year to 15 of the most talented and deserving students coming from challenging backgrounds and circumstances. The foundation also works to protect the environment by protecting endangered species. Prior to Jefferies he worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the High Yield Bond Department. Mr. Handler received an MBA from Stanford University in 1987. He received his BA in Economics (Magna Cum Laude, High Distinction) from the University of Rochester in 1983 where he also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Masih Yazdi Chief Financial Officer SEB AB

Masih Yazdi is Chief Financial Officer of the SEB Group since 2020. He is a member of the Group Executive Committee.

Mr. Yazdi worked at the Swedish FSA in 2005-2010 with the implementation of Basel 2 and macroprudential supervision during the financial crisis, including the stress testing of the Swedish banks. He was a Banks Research Equity Analyst in 2010-2012 at Erik Penser Bank and Credit Suisse, before joining SEB Equity Research in 2013. Mr. Yazdi was appointed Head of Group Financial Management in 2016, with responsibility for optimizing SEBs balance sheet. He was appointed Finance Director in May 2018 and Chief Financial Officer in January 2020.

Masih Yazdi holds a Master of Business Administration and also a Bachelor in Economics from Stockholm University and is a Certified European Financial Analyst from Stockholm School of Economics.

Peng Fong Ng Head of Credit, Asia Schroders

Peng Fong is the Head of Credit, Asia. He is a Portfolio Manager responsible for Asian credit strategies.

Peng Fong has over 16 years of investment experience, with 14 years at Schroders across the Singapore and Hong Kong offices. Peng Fong joined Schroders in 2008 as a Credit Research Analyst responsible for Pan Asian Financials, Oil & Gas, and Conglomerates. Prior to joining Schroders, he worked for Aberdeen Asset Management Asia as a Credit Investment Analyst.

 Peng Fong graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Business Management (Finance) from Singapore Management University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), holds the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, and a Certificate in ESG Investing by CFA UK.

Johanna Fager Wettergren Head of Sustainable Finance Swedish Financial Services Authority

As head of sustainable finance at Finansinspektionen, Johanna Fager Wettergren is leading the authority’s work on ESG. She is also actively engaged in sustainable finance internationally, within the International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO) and within the EU. She joined Finansinspektionen at 2019 as Deputy Executive Director at the Markets section. Previously, she was Head of Department at the National Debt Office, responsible for Financial Stability and Consumer Protection. She joined the Swedish Central Bank in 2006 and held, during a period of about 10 years, several different managerial positions within the field of Financial Stability and Asset Management. Johanna started her career in Nordea Bank.

John Hourican CEO NewDay

John Hourican is currently CEO of NewDay Limited, a Board member of UK Finance and Board member of Atradius Crédito y Caución S.A. de Seguros y Reaseguros. He was Group Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Cyprus from 2013 to 2019 and Chief Executive of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s (RBS) Investment Bank (Markets & International Banking) from 2008 to 2013. Between 2007 and 2008, he served on behalf of a consortium of banks (RBS, Fortis and Santander) as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Management Board of ABN AMRO Group. He joined RBS in 1997 as a leveraged finance banker. John held various senior positions in RBS’swholesale banking division, including on the division’s Board as Finance Director and Chief Operating Officer. He also an the bank’s leveraged finance business in Europe and Asia. He started his career at Price Waterhouse here he held various Corporate Finance and Audit roles in Dublin, London and Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. John graduated in Economics and Sociology from the National University of Ireland and in Accounting from Dublin City University.

Patrick Lee Cluster CEO, Singapore and ASEAN Markets Standard Chartered

As Cluster CEO Singapore and ASEAN Markets, Patrick is responsible for steering and executing business development and strategy for the Bank in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand. These are key strategic markets for the Standard Chartered Bank Group, and Singapore is home to the Bank’s global businesses and Technology & Operations functions.

Before assuming this role, Patrick was CEO Singapore, and Head of Global Banking, Singapore, where he was responsible for the Bank’s corporate and institutional client businesses.

Before joining Standard Chartered in 2012, Patrick was Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia Investment Banking at Nomura. Prior to that, he was Head of Singapore/Malaysia Investment Banking at UBS and Executive Director, Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley. He has over 25 years of experience in the banking industry, including corporate and investment banking, product and sector coverage, and has worked in Singapore, Hong Kong and London.

Patrick is a Co-Founder and Board Director of Leap Philanthropy Ltd, a Singapore-based charity active in Indonesia, Cambodia and Myanmar. He is also a Board Director of Clifford Capital (established as a specialist provider of structured finance solutions). He is an Executive Committee member of Singapore Trade Data Exchange Services Pte Ltd (SGTraDex), and serves on the Board of Climate Impact X Pte Ltd as an Alternate Director.

Patrick graduated with BA (First Class Honors) and MA in English from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Ulrike Brouzi Member of the Board of Managing Directors DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank

Career

As per September 2018

DZ BANK, Member of the Board of Managing Directors

2012 – 2018

Member of the Management Board of Nord/LB: Chief Financial Officer (CFO)/Chief Operating Officer (COO), responsible for Finance and Tax, Organisation, IT, Compliance and Group Security as well as Transaction Banking

2010 – 2012

Nord/LB, Executive Vice President, responsible for the bank’s capital market business

2008 – 2010

Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (Nord/LB), Head of Risk Control Group Division

1990 – 2007

BayernLB, various positions in Organisation and IT Division, Capital Markets Division, Corporate Center, Transaction Service, Balance Sheet Division

1989

Studies in Business Mathematics at the University of Augsburg Degree title: Diploma in Business Mathematics

Responsibilities

- Group Finance, Bank Finance, Group Financial Services, Compliance

- Responsible for the local cooperative banks in Lower Saxony (excluding the Weser-Ems region) and Bremen

Appointments

- Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board, DZ CompliancePartner GmbH, Neu-Isenburg

- Member of the Supervisory Board, Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall AG, Schwäbisch Hall

- Member of the Supervisory Board, R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG, Wiesbaden

- Member of the Supervisory Board, R+V Lebensversicherung AG, Wiesbaden

- Member of the Supervisory Board, Union Asset Management Holding AG, Frankfurt am Main

- Member of the Supervisory Board, Salzgitter AG, Salzgitter

Donal Quaid Group Treasurer NatWest

Donal is Treasurer of NatWest Group with responsibility for all aspects of Treasury, and the Group balance sheet. Donal joined the Treasury function in 2012 as Head of Derivatives & FX and was the Head of Treasury Markets before taking over as Group Treasurer in December 2019. Donal has over 20 years experience in capital markets across various Treasury, trading and risk management leadership roles. 

Donal holds an Executive MBA from London Business School; a Master of Science in Investment & Treasury and a Bachelor of Business Studies degree from Dublin City University. Donal is also a CFA charterholder. Donal is a member of the Bank of England SONIA Stakeholder Advisory Group and he sits on the Advisory Council of the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Standards Board (FMSB).

Eric Lim Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of Group Finance UOB

Mr Eric Lim is the Chief Sustainability Officer at UOB. He leads a dedicated corporate sustainability office that is focused on achieving the Bank's sustainability objectives of helping businesses to advance responsibly, steering consumer wealth to sustainable investments and fostering social inclusiveness and environmental well-being.

Concurrently, Eric is also the Head of Group Finance, where he is responsible for the Bank’s core finance functions spanning financial strategy, capital management, regulatory and financial reporting, tax management, business finance and performance management.

Eric holds positions in other key UOB management committees, including Chairperson of the Group Sustainability Committee. He is also a member of the Asset and Liability Committee and the Management Committee, and holds directorships in UOB affiliated companies.

Prior to joining UOB, Eric was Managing Director and Head of Wholesale Banking Finance, Singapore and Southeast Asia for Standard Chartered Bank, responsible for driving the strategic partnership between the wholesale business and finance teams.

During this time, Eric was responsible for the finance functions covering commercial banking, financial markets and investment banking. Eric began his career with GE Capital where he took on various executive positions in the areas of financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, audit and controllership. He lived and worked in more than 20 countries, with particular focus in the USA and Japan during that time.

Eric holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University and an Executive Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Julia Haake Managing Director - Market Strategy Moody's ESG Solutions

Julia Haake, a trained economist with a PhD from Versailles University in France, is Managing Director, Market Strategy at Moody’s ESG Solutions. She has joined Moody’s in December 2021, joining from ISS and formerly oekom research (acquired by ISS in 2018), where she was part of the ESG business unit’s leadership team and, over the last ten years, held various positions in business development, client coverage, stewardship and engagement. Julia has been working in Sustainability, CSR and ESG since 1993, when she started as a researcher, first at the German Wuppertal Institute and then at Versailles University in France, where she completed her PhD thesis in Environmental Economics. She later joined the French consulting firm O2 France as a consultant advising corporates on environmental and sustainability strategy and environmentally friendly product design. From 2003 to 2008 she contributed to building and rolling out the French postal operator Groupe La Poste’s CSR strategy, before joining the global environmental NGO WWF, where her role was to lead the Paris-based team in charge with managing corporate relations, sustainability partnerships and corporate fundraising.

In 2019, Julia has been elected member of the board of the French Sustainable Investment Forum (FIR) and appointed member of the French market regulator’s (Autorité des Marches Financiers) Sustainable Finance Commission. She is also co-author of the book "L'Entreprise Légère", written with Basile Gueorguievsky, published by Delachaux & Niestlé in 2010.

Dan Fairclough Group Treasurer Barclays

Dan is responsible for all areas of Barclays' Treasury activities including oversight of the Group's capital and funding position, the investment of the Group's liquidity portfolio and its structural hedging activities.  Dan also provides Treasury and prudential input into the Group's work on digital currencies.

Dan has held a number of previous Treasury roles including Head of Group Balance Sheet Management and Head of Group Capital.  Dan was also Treasurer of Barclays "non ring fenced" bank and international operations through the covid stress period.

Prior to working in Treasury, Dan spent over 15 years in Barclays' investment bank.  Roles in this period included Head of UK and Ireland Financial Institutions and Head of Australia and New Zealand Financial Institutions.  Dan has a background in capital structuring and was involved in the early development of both hybrid capital securities and contingent capital securities.

Dan started his career in the UK regulatory sector and spent periods supervising European and Japanese banks and securities firms at the PRA, a predecessor regulator to the Bank of England.

Dan is married with 2 children and lives in Bristol.  He enjoys the outdoors and is a keen long distance runner, surfer, dog walker and sandcastle builder.

Iker Arteagabeitia Financial Director Kutxabank Group

Financial Director - Kutxabank Group, secretary of the Steering Committee. He has developed his career in auditing and banking consultancy (Deloitte) and in the financial, solvency and risk areas of Kutxabank. He has coordinated regulatory stress exercises, strategic plans and integration processes. He is in charge of the Climate Technical Office, which works to cover regulatory and supervisory requirements in the area of Climate Risks. He is Financial Risk Manager (GARP) and Spanish Certified Accountant (ROAC).

Ana Arsov Managing Director, Global Banking Co-Head Moody’s Investors Service

Ana Arsov is a Global Managing Director, co-heading of the banking rating franchise for Moody’s Investor Service which includes rating coverage for banks, securities firms, specialty finance and market infrastructure.

Ana joined Moody’s in 2013 with an extensive experience in analyzing financial institutions and managing credit professionals. Prior to joining Moody’s, Ana’s most recent role was at UBS, where she spent the last several years as Executive Director in Credit Risk, responsible for financial institutions including North American banks, broker dealers, exchanges and clearinghouses. Prior to UBS, she was Head of Global Portfolio Management-Credit Risk Management at Morgan Stanley, focusing on comprehensive coverage, identification and analysis of risks across the firm’s trading and lending businesses as well as leading key risk management initiatives for Morgan Stanley Bank N.A.

Ana began her career in Credit Risk Management at Lehman Brothers in various credit risk roles, ultimately heading up the North American Financial Institutions and Structured Finance team, and subsequently worked on Lehman’s bankruptcy resolution.

Ana holds a master’s degree in Management (with a specialization in Financial Services and Banking) from Boston University, and a bachelor’s degree in Business from Pace University, New York. Ana also holds certificate on board governance from Harvard Business School.

Janet Kim Assistant Treasurer, Head of Corporate Finance Coinbase

Janet Kim is the Assistant Treasurer and Head of Corporate Finance at Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the US. She leads the corporate finance and corporate risk management needs of the company and focuses on capital raising, risk management, strategic capital planning and allocation as well as the management of the crypto investment portfolio. Prior to joining Coinbase in 2022, Janet spent 30 years on Wall Street where she built and led highly successful equity linked capital markets businesses at several leading international banking platforms including BNP Paribas, Citibank, and Deutsche Bank. Janet has structured and executed tens of USD billions of structured financing and hedging transactions over her career working with corporate and institutional clients. She has a BA from Washington University and has attended the J.L Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Bruce Van Saun Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

Bruce Van Saun is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Financial Group, Inc. 

Van Saun joined CFG in October 2013 – after serving as Group Finance Director and as an executive director on the RBS Board from 2009 to 2013 – and led Citizens to a successful initial public offering in September 2014, and full independence from RBS in October 2015.  He has more than 30 years of financial services experience.

From 1997 to 2008, Van Saun held a number of senior positions with Bank of New York and later Bank of New York Mellon, including Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer.  Earlier in his career, he held senior positions with Deutsche Bank, Wasserstein Perella Group and Kidder Peabody & Co.

Van Saun has served on a number of boards in both the U.S. and the U.K. He is currently a director of Moody’s Corporation, sits on the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston board, and is Audit Chair of the Bank Policy Institute.  He is a member of The Clearing House Supervisory Board (since 2013) and serves on the board of the Partnership for Rhode Island.

Nana Otsuki Senior Fellow Pictet Japan

She graduated from Tokyo University and received an MBA from London Business School. She also received Doctoral Degree of Management Administration from Hitotsubashi University. She has worked as a researcher at financial institutions such as Standard & Poor’s, UBS, Merrill Lynch, and Monex. has been highly rated in analyst rankings by various media types. Since September 2022, she has been working as a senior fellow at Picted Japan, Inc. where she analyzes domestic and international financial markets and the macro environment.

Dr. Otsuki is also the Vice Chairman of the Cabinet Office’s Council for the Promotion of Regulatory Reform, and a member of the Council on Financial System and London Stock Exchange Advisory Group.

Major publications

The innovation in retail finance (Kinyu Zaisei Jijo, 2017)       

Hodoshima, J., & Otsuki, N. (2019). Evaluation by the Aumann and Serrano performance index and Sharpe ratio: Bitcoin performance. Applied Economics, 51(39), 4282-4298.

Japanese banks’ interest margin after BOJ’s negative interest rate policy (Securities analysts journal 58 (7), 31-41, 2020-07

Kenichi Nagayoshi President & CEO Minna Bank

Kenichi Nagayoshi is a President & CEO of Minna Bank. He is responsible for initiating the zero-based design and construction of Minna Bank digital banking project.

 In 2016, he started iBank Marketing Inc. as an internal venture of Fukuoka FG, and released "Wallet+", the first neobank in Japan.

 For 10 years until 2015, he led the corporate communication field, including inner and outer corporate brand strategy planning, CSR, and IR, as well as promoting alliances with various partners, such as cooperation between banks and securities firms, the establishment of a regional revitalization, regeneration and activation network of nine provincial banks, and local development projects. He has also promoted alliances with various partners.

From 2005, he worked in the Corporate Planning Division, where he focused on the initial stages of examining the business integration of regional financial institutions, the establishment of Fukuoka Financial Group in 2007, and the subsequent Post Merger Integration (PMI) work.

 He started his career in 1995 at The Bank of Fukuoka. In the Credit Department, he was assigned to work on the revitalization and disposal of non-performing loans of large lenders, and then engaged in the launch of the real estate securitization business.

Yusuke Morishima Partner Bain & Company

Yusuke Morishima is a partner in Bain & Company's Tokyo office. He is an expert in Bain’s Financial Services, Industrial Goods & Services, Retail and Customer Strategy & Marketing practices.

Yusuke works with multinational and Japanese clients across a variety of industries, including financial sectors (especially banks, securities, insurance and credit cards), consumer-centric industries, food & beverage, merchandising, healthcare and investment funds. He has extensive experience in advising B2C clients on a wide range of topics, including corporate strategy, customer strategy, digital strategy and new business development.

Yusuke earned his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from The University of Tokyo.

Tatsuya Tsunoda Managing Executive Officer, ESG JERA Co., Inc. (JERA)

PROFESSIONAL CAREER:

Apr 2022 Managing Executive Officer, ESG, JERA Co., Inc. (JERA)

Jul 2021 Senior Supervisor, Corporate Strategy Department, Finance & Accounting

Department, JERA

Apr 2021 Advisor, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (Mizuho Securities)

Apr 2017 Executive Officer, Global Investment Banking Division, Mizuho Securities

Apr 2016 Head of Markets Strategic Intelligence Department, Mizuho Securities

Apr 2012 Global Head of Energy Sector Coverage, Investment Banking Group, Mizuho

Securities

Apr 2011 Joint Head of Group Affiliates Management Department, Mizuho Securities

Apr 2006 General Manager / Senior Analyst, Equity Research Department, Mizuho

Securities

Aug 1999 Dispatched to Mizuho Securities (then IBJ Securities Co., Ltd.)

Apr 1988 Joined The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited

Koji Oomachi Managing Director, Chair Japan Sustainability Campion and CO-head of Debt Capital Markets Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc

1990年野村證券株式会社に入社。 個人営業に従事した後、 1992 年金融市場営業部に異動、中央機関投資家セールスとして生損保、系統上部、都銀、地銀、年金（信託 、投資顧問）などを担当。

1997年金融市場部シンジケート課にて、国内外債、証券化商品、 MTN デスク等を担当。

2000年デット・キャピタル・マーケット部に異動後は、日本政府機関、地方自治体をはじめ海外の公的機関を担当。

2004年日興シティグループ証券株式会社に入社。デット・キャピタル・マーケット部在籍。
2008年よりデット・キャピタル・マーケット統括本部共同責任者に就任。
2019年よりデット・シンジケート本部長を兼務。資本市場統括本部での職責に加え、2018 年よりシティ・ジャパンにおける ESG/ サステナビリティについてクライアントビジネスでの取り組みを中心に推進。
2022年４月より現職

東北大学工学部卒業。
ピッツバーグ大学大学院にて経営学修士取得。

Michiyo Morisawa Japan Director CDP

Dr. Michiyo Morisawa is Japan's senior lead in the signatory relation of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and PRI has expanded ESG investment since establishing the Japan Network in 2010.

Also, she is as Japan Director of CDP, guiding the initiative since CDP’s global expansion in 2006.

She chairs the Japan Times ESG Consortium and has been a member of several committees under the Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, FSA, Ministry of Forestry and Nikkei Decarbonization.

. She has experience in international business development of financial services that worked to alleviate the risk of settlement in Citibank and others.

She has a PhD in Environment from the University of Tokyo.