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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Trading Platform space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Edward Glyn
Managing Director, Head of Global Markets, Global Head of Relationship Management of Calastone
Edward Glyn joined Calastone in 2014 and is responsible for managing and developing key client relationships across our global markets. Before joining Calastone, Edward spent nine years at SWIFT, most recently heading up the 100m transaction funds business across EMEA and leading the regional sales team managing SWIFT’s investment management, custody and asset servicing offerings. Prior to this, Edward spent a number of years in key commercial and strategic roles at Investia – former parent of JPMorgan FundsHub, ERI Bancaire, Thomson Financial and Tajan.
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About Calastone: Calastone is a global transaction network for the mutual fund industry.
Tim Cartledge
Executive Director of 24 Exchange
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About 24 Exchange: 24 Exchange renders multi-asset trading platform for professional quants and active traders.
Jean-Louis Jaumin
Director EMEA of Marco Polo New World
Jean-Louis Jaumin, VP of Business Development, after completing his Masters in Business at LSE (London School of Economics) worked in London, Luxembourg, Geneva, Zurich, Lugano and Milano. He has 25 years of experience in private banking and wealth management. Jean-Louis concentrated on start ups and restructuring for over 20 years working for major European banks. He was CEO of Fortis Bank in Italy, Ticino Switzerland, CEO of Krediet Bank Suisse, member of the board of Meespierson Switzerland, and CEO of Banca Commerciale Lugano and Banca Inter Mobiliare. His approach to business development has always been one of building long term relationships with clients. His knowledge of the needs of wealth managers allows him to present Marco Polo as added value for banks and wealth managers around the world.
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About Marco Polo New World: Marco Polo New World provides global brokers, high frequency trading firms.
Darren Callcott
Founder & Director of StreetDots
Darren Callcott is co-founder of StreetDots.
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About CADA Design, StreetDots: StreetDots creates smart street-trading platform.
Luis Garcia Hamilton
Director Inversiones of Agencia Argentina de Inversiones y Comercio Internacional
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About Agencia Argentina de Inversiones y Comercio Internacional: Agencia Argentina de Inversiones y Comercio Internacional providing consulting, information and facilitation services.
Marcus Perrett
Managing Director of Instinet
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About Instinet: Instinet, along with its subsidiaries, provides online security brokerage and electronic trading services.
Paul Gill
Founder, Director – Client Service of C3 Post Trade
Paul Gill has been responsible for product development and client service at C3 since 2008. Paul has worked in financial services IT for over 25 years, starting as a systems engineer within EDS investment banking practice with a focus on operations technology. His career progressed with senior technology management roles at investment banks including Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Nat West Markets, Bankers Trust and JP Morgan Chase through to CTO of iFOX, a VC-funded electronic swap trading pioneer. He also spearheaded SwapsWire’s push into equity derivatives.
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About C3 Post Trade: C3 post trade platform is a web-based solution that easily wraps around both legacy and new systems to deliver efficiency and transparency.
Ishaan Hemnani
Founder and Director of BunkerEx
Ishaan Hemnani is the founder and director of BunkerEx. He earned his degree at Imperial College London.
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About BunkerEx: A new world for Marine Fuel.
Duncan Best
Publising Director of Avid Games
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About Avid Games: Avid Games is a mobile GaaS Publisher specialising in collectibles and digital trading card games.
Nicholas Hallam
Research Director of Traderserve
Nicholas joined Nick Idelson as Chief Model Builder in the Quantitative Analysis and Technical Trading team at HSBC. Together they designed, built and operated one of the most sophisticated quantitative trading environments of its day. With over 20 years’ experience in designing quantitative models, Nicholas is uniquely qualified to direct the ongoing research into TraderServe’s model design and testing systems. Nicholas has a Ph.D. for research on “Logical and Epistemological Problems in Quantum Mechanics”, an M.Sc. (Distinction) in Mathematics from London University and an M.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University.
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About Traderserve: TraderServe is a software and appliance vendor and consultancy firm focused on real-time trading and complex problem applications.
Tony Holder
Operations Director & COO of Traderserve
Tony joined TraderServe in 2000 and following successful roles in both development and production is now responsible for TraderServe global operations and QA. He has over 20 years experience as a consultant in the software industry and has worked for major banks, fund managers, blue chips and financial software companies.
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About Traderserve: TraderServe is a software and appliance vendor and consultancy firm focused on real-time trading and complex problem applications.
