Founder at QPQ, building the next generation Digital Financial Network enabled by proprietary smart legal contracts.
Alternative Finance & FinTech veteran – founder of QPQ Limited. Extensive commercial experience in commodities – mining, energy, agribusiness – with particular expertise in trade and production finance.
Professionally qualified in asset management, investment banking and law as a non-practicing barrister.
Christopher Ovenden is the CEO of Omnium Investment Platform and has 24 years experience across blue chip financial services companies.
Chris has gained international experience in Luxembourg, London, Sydney and Dublin working with Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Merrill Lynch and Pershing/BNY Mellon.
Prior to joining Omnium Investment Platform Chris spent 9 years working for Pershing and BNY Mellon in Ireland, heading business development and relationship management for Irish based wealth managers and stockbrokers.
Chris graduated from the University of East Anglia LLB Hons in Law with German, and from the Universität Trier Magister Iuris (M.iur) – cum laude in German and European law.
Chris also has a Diploma in Applied Project Management from UCC, is an IPMA certified project manager and also a QFA.
Prabhu helps Boards of companies worldwide with strategic, structural, operational and market-related issues.
Born and educated in India, he was based for three years in Scotland, for 16 years in England, and for 21 years in Switzerland. He served on the International Board of Advisors of London Business School; and was till recently on the Management Board of the Institute of Management, St Gallen University, Switzerland.
He has been Visiting Professor or has lectured by invitation at universities in India, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Argentina, the USA, UK and several other countries in Europe and the CIS.
For 15 years, he had the unique job of working with people throughout the world to identify new ideas that might bring value to one of the largest banks in the world. This included running Think Tanks on a wide variety of market and global issues, and managing the Distinguished Speaker Series.
He is Executive Director of Relational Analytics Ltd (Cambridge, UK), Honorary Chairman of the Career Innovation Company (Oxford, UK), and is or has been a Freeman of the City of London, and of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; Fellow of the Institute of Directors, of the Royal Commonwealth Society, and of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts Commerce and Manufactures. He was a Member of the International Advisory Panel for the Tomorrow’s Global Company Report by Tomorrow’s Company, UK. Earlier roles include a Governor of the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster), Member of the Council of the British Institute of Management, of the International Federation of Training & Development Organisations (IFTDO), of the Association for Management Education and Development (UK), of the South East Regional Council of the Confederation of British Industry.
Widely featured in the press and media, and an invited speaker at Business Schools, Universities, Rotary and other professional clubs, he is a moderator for international business conferences, a consultant to company Boards, and an independent non-executive Director.
He was the Founder Moderator of stars (Stein-am-Rhein Symposium) as well as of the Zermatt Summit, was invited to Chair the Global Peter Drucker Forum in 2016, and has been a member of the Jury of numerous literary, and cultural competitions in the UK and the Commonwealth, and is included in Debrett’s People of Today http://www.debretts.com.
Simon Parfitt is the Director of Wealth Management with Pyrmont Wealth Management, a fee-based financial planning firm based in Hong Kong.
Pyrmont are dual licensed by the Hong Kong Confederation of Insurance Brokers and the HK Securities and Futures Commission with whom they hold Type 4 (Advising on Securities) and Type 9 (Asset Management) licenses.
Simon has over 10 years of experience helping Private Clients with Life Centred Financial Planning and he is an advocate of fee-based financial planning, behavioural finance and evidence based investment management.
Simon is a regular media contributor and panellist on Financial Planning matters in Hong Kong.
Rick is the Managing Director and Responsible Officer of Private Capital Limited (PCL), a Hong Kong based fiduciary Wealth Management and Financial Planning firm.
Incorporated in 1998 Private Capital is licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to provide Type 4 (Advising on Securities) and Type 9 (Asset Management) regulated activities in Hong Kong.
Rick was Chief Executive from 1998 to April 2019 of the Group Medical Insurance and Protection Planning arm of Private Capital, regulated by the Hong Kong Confederation of Insurance Brokers. Rick is a member of the Hong Kong Securities Institute (HKSI) and was a board member appointed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).
In the UK, Rick is member of both the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) and the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI) and holds the CISI Financial Planning and Advice Diploma (QCF Level 4).
Xavier Porterfield is Head of Research at NewChangeFX an independent data and analytics firm that provides the world’s first regulated and independent real-time Foreign Exchange mid-rate benchmarks.
Xavier’s research work at NewChange FX focuses on market micro structure and benchmarks, providing price transparency and Transaction Cost Analysis services to FX market participants. Xavier has over 20 years experience in FX Markets, working in a variety of research advisory and sales roles, most notably for 11 years with FX Concepts, a New York based currency investment and research firm which closed in 2013. When Xavier joined FX Concepts (in 1998) the institutional FX market was still dominated by FX dealer banks that retained exclusive rights to market rates. Non bank (buyside) firms had no access to identify the market clearing price either to check the fairness of the prices being quoted them, or the ability to trade on interdealer rates.
Technology and credit innovation have gone a long way to diminish the disadvantes that FX consumers face when coming to the FX market, but there is still a long way to go to establish a fair and effiicient FX market.
Xavier became involved with Transparency Task Force at an early stage as the mission of TTF – promoting transparency and fairness in Financial Markets aligns perfectly with Xavier’s personal and business values. Xavier is a CFA charter holder and is a member of CFA France’s advocacy committee as the product specialist for FX.
Raphael Douady is a French mathematician and economist specializing in data science, financial mathematics and chaos theory at the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne.
He formerly held the Frey Chair of quantitative finance at Stony Brook University and was academic director of the French Laboratory of Excellence on Financial Regulation.
He earned his PhD in Hamiltonian dynamics and has more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry. He has particular interest in researching portfolio risks, for which he has developed especially suited powerful nonlinear statistical and data science models, as well as macroeconomics and systemic risk.
Raphael founded fin tech firms Riskdata (risk management for the buyside) and Datacore (quantitative portfolio of ETFs) and is Chief Science Officer of Matrics (AI for the buy-side). Douady is a member of the Praxis Club, a New York-based think tank advising the French government on its economic policy and sits on the board and the investment committee of Friends of IHES, a foundation supporting the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (the French brother of Princeton IAS).
He is an alumni of Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and was awarded a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiads.
Larry is founder of InvestorAdvocates.ca in Canada, which seeks to understand motivations that warp financial systems from being of service to the public, to becoming a dangerous drain upon the public.
Larry Bates is a former banker turned investor advocate, author, and speaker. Larry spent over thirty years in the investment business with prominent institutions in Toronto, Canada and London, England including as Global Head of Debt Capital Markets for RBC Capital Markets.
Over the course of his career, Larry both collaborated with and advised many of the world’s most sophisticated investors and financial institutions.
Larry founded the website wealthgame.ca in 2017 and has written a book, to be published in late 2018, aimed at helping average investors understand how to achieve better outcomes.
Larry is currently a member of the Investor Advisory Panel of the Ontario Securities Commission.
He is also an active member of TTF’s Team Americas.
Paul Bates is a Canadian senior litigation counsel with 35+ years of experience in complex commercial litigation. Paul is also a member of the UK Bar, and professionally associated with Outer Temple Chambers in the London, U.K.
Paul maintains an extensive practice in financial services, including collective redress, with an emphasis on retail and institutional investor compensation for regulatory contraventions by financial institutions and intermediaries.
Paul serves as a member of the Ontario Securities Commission Investor Advisory Panel to assist the Commission to identify investor interests in Canadian regulatory developments. Paul also leads competition claims for consumer redress.
