David has 20 years’ experience in delivering short-term trade and working capital assets to institutional investors. Before joining Levantor in 2017, David led Citi’s sales finance business in London, which originated sales finance transactions for sale to investors. His prior experience also includes origination and distribution for State Street’s asset backed commercial paper conduits in the Americas and Europe and advising financial institutions as a McKinsey consultant.

Dave is responsible for managing all facets of the business, including strategy, operations, product innovation and the firm’s go-to-market platforms. Dave is focused on helping companies achieve their vision and orienting them towards action. Dave has more than 20 years of experience building and operating fintechs around the world, and has managed core development teams that both launched and innovated software platforms. Dave began his time in the financial technology space at Morgan Stanley and then Citibank, the latter as North American Head of Supplier Finance.

Ulla is a Client Portfolio Manager in the alternative credit team of NN Investment Partners. She is responsible for maximising the commercial success of the alternative credit strategies through attracting and retaining clients in partnerships with sales, marketing and product management. As CPM, Ulla has a bridging function between the investment engine, clients, client teams and distribution channels.

Aidan has been active in trade and commodity finance markets since 1980, building up related banking businesses for the likes of HSBC, Barclays, ABN Amro and UBS, and more recently as a consultant providing professional guidance, training and thought leadership. Aidan presently offers management consulting to the trade and financial services industry through Bankingwise Limited covering strategy, risk and operations, with a niche covering all aspects of trade and commodity finance. He is an advisor to various alternative credit funds operating in the trade and commodity finance space.

Martin Opfermann is a senior portfolio manager within Allianz Global Investors alternative asset management team and is leading the firm’s trade finance activities. Martin joined the firm in 2017 from Allianz Investment Management SE, where he was Head of Credit and in charge of Allianz Group’s credit allocation. In 2009, he spearheaded Allianz’s strategic shift into private markets and executed several debt investment strategies. Prior to this, Martin worked in the Fixed Income team of Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG.

Dale is Founder and CEO of Deliberate Capital, an impact investment manager and sustainable finance advisory group created to help solve critical development challenges through the conscientious and intentional deployment of capital along with value-added services. Prior to founding Deliberate Capital, Dale was COO and created the conservation finance group at Rare, an international NGO focusing on scaling solutions that benefit people and nature. Dale also has worked in a variety of consulting and financial services firms, and was CEO of two start-ups.

Daouii is Head of ESG and Sustainable Finance at Channel. In her role, Abouchere is responsible for implementing Channel’s ESG framework and driving the sustainable finance strategy across the Group, working with clients to develop and execute new ESG and sustainable financing solutions. Daouii is a member of the World Economic Forum, Royal Society of Arts, and is a Senior Advisor at the International Economic Forum of the Americas.

Shannon is the Editorial Director of GTR, and a freelance financial journalist, editor and consultant with 12 years of experience reporting on and producing print and online publications for the global trade and trade finance sector. Shannon has extensive experience in moderating discussions, and has hosted numerous roundtables and webinars.

Mead has unique experience in trade and commodity finance, emerging market fixed income asset management, and emerging market structured finance. He is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Head Portfolio Manager at Octagon Asset Management, a niche asset manager that specialises in structured trade and commodity finance, which launched in 1997. Prior to Octagon, Mead worked at Cargill Financial Services International as one of the original members of the emerging markets, trade and structured finance group.

Marilyn is the Global Head of Trade Finance for AIG and in that role also leads the development of new products including portfolio solutions enhanced by data for bank and alternative investors, Basel/capital risk mitigation solutions and trade finance-related technology applications. Marilyn joined AIG in 2015, having previously worked as a lawyer in the international banking and finance practice for global law firm Hogan Lovells in London and New York, where she serviced numerous bank clients as well as corporates.

A renowned industry expert, Bertrand is currently the lead portfolio manager for the global trade finance strategy at Santander Asset Management. Before joining Santander, Bertrand was for 8 years at HSBC, responsible for European business development activities for Global Trade & Receivables Finance. Bertrand is a member of the ICC’s Banking Commission Steering Committee for transforming trade finance as an asset class, and a subject matter expert in the ICC’s Global Supply Chain Finance initiative.

Christoph is Co-Founder and CEO of Tradeteq. He previously was a portfolio manager at the Trafigura-owned Galena Asset Management in Geneva. Prior to that he was a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he headed all public and private side market solutions teams for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to that he held various management positions at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in London, Frankfurt, and New York. He graduated in finance and business administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 1996.

Ian has been involved in all aspects of international finance for over 30 years including banking, corporate finance, insurance and asset management. Ian has covered global and emerging markets in origination, structured trade & commodity finance, syndications, asset management & portfolio management, credit risk, asset valuation and asset recovery/ restructuring across all commodity groups, financial institutions  and industrial sectors. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and the Islamic Finance Qualification.

Federica is a senior banking and finance professional with 20+ years’ experience in originating, advising and structuring corporate and trade finance solutions for global clients. Before WCA, Federica was in Citigroup for nearly 10 years, with her most recent role as Regional Cluster Head for the entire Citigroup suite of trade finance services and solutions for multinational clients. Before Citigroup, Federica worked for global FIs both in advisory and principal roles, after starting her career as a corporate and capital markets lawyer with Magic Circle law firms.

Jason is the Chief Commercial Officer of Arc Ratings Agency based in the UK. Having spent his career facilitating trade finance with banks, Jason has joined Arc to build out the structured finance rating business. Of particular interest is to bring subject matter expertise to the trade finance asset class to help restore confidence and facilitate liquidity in this sector.

Jeff is an experienced events professional with nearly 20 years’ media industry experience, having joined GTR in 2009. In his role he is responsible for the output of all GTR conferences, seminars and online event content across the company’s global portfolio, as well as playing a key role in wider external communications strategy and planning. Jeff also conducts external consultancy and advisory work on behalf of organisations including the ICC Banking Commission and Coriolis Technologies.