Our Speakers
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Dr. Neil Dodgson Prof. Dr. Sylvester C.W. Eijffinger Peter Farley Torben Gregers Friis Dr. Andrew Hilton Rudy Hoskens Nancy Masschelein George Möller Philippe Poulain Prof. Dr. Peter Praet Dr. Daniel Thorniley Conny Dorrestijn, Conference Chairman and Content Director |
 Dr. Neil DodgsonNeil is responsible for Oracle’s Risk & Compliance solutions for Financial services in EMEA. Prior to joining Oracle, Neil spent 8 years with Algorithmics UK. Neil holds a 1st class honours degree in applied mathematics and a PhD in Theoretical Fluid Dynamics both from the University of Sheffield, England. |
 Prof. Dr. Sylvester C.W. EijffingerSylvester Eijffinger is Professor of Financial Economics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Financial and Monetary Integration at Tilburg University, as well as Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. He has also been a Visiting Professor at University of Johannesburg, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, and the University of Munich. Professor Eijffinger has a keen interest in monetary and fiscal policy and European economic and financial integration, and was Visiting Scholar at the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Bank of Japan, the Banque de France, the Bank of England, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as well as Special Advisor to the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission. Professor Eijffinger's articles are widely published in prestigious economics journals, such as the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, the Open Economies Review, and the European Journal of Political Economy. He is editor of several professional journals and newsletters, as well as Programme Director of the European Summer Institute of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. He is one of the founding fathers of the newly established European Banking Center in Tilburg. Sylvester Eijffinger has been a member of the Council of Economic Advisers of the Dutch Parliament for three years, and is still a member of the Monetary Experts Panel of the European Parliament for the Monetary Dialogue with the ECB. |
 Peter FarleyPeter Farley is responsible for all Financial Insights’ research, sales, marketing and conference activity in the EMEA region. His principle activities are working with analysts to identify the key issues affecting technology decision-making by financial services firms. These are translated into added-value analysis to enhance clients’ business decision-making capabilities, which ensure clients derive the maximum benefit from both FI research programs and our ability to customize these for individual business development needs. After more than 20 years following and writing about the activities of the global financial markets, initially as an economic journalist and then as a capital markets analyst and independent consultant to suppliers of information products, he focuses on the use of technology in European financial services. This embraces all the main issues driving business today in financial institutions, particularly key current challenges such as regulation and compliance, enterprise performance management, outsourcing and off-shoring, payments processing, cash management and customer and business information management. He is a regular keynote speaker, panel moderator and workshop leader at events organized by industry associations, financial institutions and vendors as well as a range of large and small conferences organized by parent company IDC. The 15 years as a financial journalist in a variety of global business centers, included time as a correspondent for real-time news services such as Reuters and AFX, as well as a period as Investment Editor of The Star newspaper in South Africa. He later spent several years in senior positions delivering and managing research and analytic services that covered the capital markets and asset management for divisions of Standard & Poor’s and Thomson Financial. Financial Insights – An IDC Company Financial Insights is the financial services research and consulting subsidiary of IDC, dedicated to working with financial services firms and the IT vendors that serve those companies around the world. FI currently has over 195 clients in 35 countries, and analyst teams in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. IDC is the premier global market intelligence and advisory firm in the information technology and telecommunications industries. IDC analyzes and predicts technology trends so that its clients can make strategic, fact-based decisions on IT purchases and business strategy. Over 900 IDC analysts in 65 countries provide local expertise and insights on technology markets. Financial Insights provides independent research services to users and providers of financial industry technology. |
 Torben Gregers FriisTorben Gregers Friis is a Danish Citizen (1979) with financial “buy and sell”-side experience of more than 10 years. Fluent in Danish, English, German, with a strong working knowledge of Swedish and Norwegian. Strong sales experience in margin traded products from larger retail clients over SME asset managers to tier one banks. Career History: Joined Saxo Bank in 2001, offering sell side trading services (FX, CFDs, Futures and Equities) to retail clients and SME Asset Managers. Leveraging the success of Saxo Bank, joined an Institutional client of Saxo Bank based in Lugano, Switzerland in early 2004 prior to being headhunted to eSpeed (Cantor Fitzgerald) in London at the end of 2004. Following an eventful period at eSpeed (Interbank FX and Futures), joined IG Markets (FX, CFDs and Futures) in late 2005 (part of IG Group, IGG.L) to assist establishment of European presence with main focus on SME Asset Managers. Following appointment to Institutional Sales Director, was seconded to Düsseldorf to set up the Germany subsidiary in 2007. After successful secondment joined a larger IG client: SVS Securities PLC in London (FX and CFDs) in early 2008 to head up the derivatives division. Market conditions enabled Torben and his team to move from SVS to Activtrades PLC (FX and Futures) joining on December 1st 2008. Having increased performance at ActivTrades PLC by more than 200% during 2009 as Chief Operating Officer, personal matters required leaving the company and moving to Dusseldorf, Germany in February 2010. With the transition to Germany he assumed Executive responsibility at Wilde & Sinclair Ltd versus previously Non-Executive Director. |
 Dr. Andrew HiltonAndrew Hilton is Director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI), a non-profit think-tank, supported by 65 City institutions, that looks at the future of the global financial system. He has worked for the World Bank in Washington and has run a financial advisory service for the Financial Times in New York. Dr. Andrew Hilton is a board member of the Observatoire de la Finance in Geneva. He has a PhD from the University of ¨Pennsylvania, an MBA from Wharton and an MA from New College, Oxford. He was awarded an OBE in 2005. |
 Rudy HoskensRudy Hoskens is a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he is responsibile for fraud prevention, detection and investigations, risk management, anti money laundering and corporate intelligence. Rudy Hoskens also worked at the Federal Police (BOB) from 1984 until 2000. Rudy was a team leader in one of the first Fraud Investigation Bureaus in Belgium. |
 Nancy MasscheleinNancy Masschelein is Head of the Capital and Risk Management Team at FinArch. She is responsible for FinArch’s products in the risk area and launching research and development activities around financial risk management. She is responsible for managing and coaching the capital management team members. Prior to joining FinArch, Nancy was a senior financial economist in the Research and Analysis group in the Financial Stability Department at the National Bank of Belgium. She was a member of the Basel Committee’s Research Task Force and has represented the National Bank of Belgium in a number of its subgroups such as that on Concentration Risk and on Integration Market and Credit Risk. Her duties involved carrying out policy and research work on financial supervisory and stability issues, in particular on the Basel II Framework and on economic capital modeling. She has had articles published in several academic journals, working paper series and policy reports and has presented her work at various international conferences. She has also served as a consultant in the Financial Supervision Division of the European Central Bank. She has been teaching courses on financial risk management at Euromoney training, at the Financial Stability Institute and the University College Brussels. Prior to joining the National Bank of Belgium, she held a research position at the University of Antwerp. Nancy holds a Master of Science in Economics from Warwick University. |
 George Möller George Möller is President of the Supervisory Board AFM (Regulator) and specialist in Financial Ethics. He is the former CEO of Robeco and before joining Robeco George Möller was the CEO of Euronext Stock Exchange, Amsterdam. |
 Philippe PoulainPoulain is the Director of Risk Assurance Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and a member of the European Market Risk Management Group. Before joining PWC, Philippe was the Global Head of Market Risk Management at the Generale Bank. He also worked as a business advisor in the Management Control Department of the Generale Bank. |
 Prof. Dr. Peter PraetPeter Praet was appointed executive director of the National Bank of Belgium in 2000 and is responsible for financial stability. In 2002, he was also appointed to the Management Committee of the Belgian Banking, Finance, and Insurance Commission (CBFA), where he is responsible for prudential policy for banking and insurance. Before joining the National Bank, Mr. Praet served as chief of cabinet for the Belgian Minister of Finance from 1999-2000, as chief economist of Générale de Banque and Fortis Bank from 1988-1999, as professor of economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles from 1980-1987, and as economist at the International Monetary Fund from 1978-1980. Mr. Praet received his Ph.D. in economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1980. He currently lectures on money and banking at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and from 2001-2004 he held the Chair of Business Ethics at the Faculté Polytechnique and the Solvay Business School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Mr. Praet serves on several high-level international committees, including the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, the Committee on the Global Financial System, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors, and the Banking Supervision Committee of the ESCB as Chair. He is an alternate director of the Committee of G10 Governors and the International Monetary and Financial Committee. He is also co-chair of the Research Task Force of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Mr. Praet is also a board member of the Bruegel European think tank (Brussels European Global Economic Laboratory). |
 Dr. Daniel ThornileyDanny has exceptional skill sets in global business strategy, business in emerging markets and CEMEA, and hands-operational knowledge of business operations, distribution, partnerships, investments and human resource issues. He has worked on a personal basis with 250 companies operating in emerging markets for 23 years and has personal contacts with most senior western MNCs operating in the CEMEA region and beyond. He makes frequent presentations at CEO and Board level (over 100). He has personal friendships with leading executives in Coca Cola, Procter & Gamble, Raiffeisen, Robert Bosch and many others. His professional contacts in the CEMEA region number over 7,000 executives. He holds and has held a number of non-executive and advisory Board memberships. Major global companies such as Ernst & Young have invited him to speak at their meetings and events some 25 times in recent years. Other companies such as P&G and many others have invited him more than 20 times. Many companies use his services as an adviser and keynote speaker on an annual basis. During the past 20 years, he has spoken to over 40,000 executives (including one event for Oracle with the CEO and 5,000 executives). He can provide excellent references and recommendations from hundreds of senior executives regarding his skills and professional credentials. |
 Conny DorrestijnConference Chairman and Content Director Conny Dorrestijn has worked for nearly twenty years in the field of financial services, new technology and marketing. She started her career in this field with a long spell in the City of London, where she was marketing director at ACT Financial Systems, now part of the Misys Group. In 1996, she returned to the Netherlands, focusing on importing knowledge about Internet technology and banking into Europe as a partner of the world’s Atlanta (US)-based Internet bank (Security First Network Bank). In 1996 she co-founded the company Contacts Communications BV, which later became Shiraz Partners, operating from both London and the Netherlands, concentrating on positioning and communications issues for players in the field of technology and finance. Her early virtual finance study trips brought many financial institutions from Europe to early adopters in the US and South Africa. In the Netherlands, she established The Virtual Finance Monitor in co-operation with research company Trendbox and Roccade Finance. She also established “Beyond the Square Mile”- a UK debate cycle on “outside” issues relating to the financial services industry. In 2008, Shiraz Partners and the European Centre for the Experience Economy initiated a study into the authenticity of the Dutch Financial Services industry (Motivaction). The results were presented at a number of events, including a keynote delivery at BAI’s Retail Delivery in Orlando together with Joseph Pine II. Conny often speaks on this topic at events and is also an independent consultant, working for clients across the globe, debate leader and narrator on a broad range of topics relating to the international financial services industry. |