About
Consultative Committee
ETS Connect UK’s decision-making is strengthened by a Consultative Committee that plays a key role in guiding our operations. The Committee acts as an external source of expertise and objective advice, offering recommendations on operations of the UK bond CT.
The Committee provides a structured channel for feedback, allowing members to share views and suggestions from their communities directly with ETS Connect UK. For issues that require a closer look – such as data quality – the Committee can form smaller subcommittees to discuss these topics in depth.
The Committee will meet regularly, with ad hoc meetings arranged when urgent issues arise. The Committee is made up of 20 members (including the chair), with membership rules set out in the Committee’s Charter. To keep everyone informed, recordings of their meetings are made public.
Members were selected via an open procedure based on their domain expertise, experience, authority, capacity and ability to make recommendations to ETS Connect UK. The key aim was to ensure a proportionate representation of UK bond CT stakeholders.
The Consultative Committee Charter
Download the full charter for the ETS Connect UK Consultative Committee below.
Consultative Committee CharterDownload
Consultative Committee Voting Members
| User Type | Name | Firm | Position/Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data User | Paul Gover | Amberbrooke Advisers | Director, Chair of the Consultative Committee |
| Data User | Marc Billy | Societe Generale | Head of Market Structure |
| Data User | Laura-Jane Carlyle | BlackRock | Director, Global Fixed Income Trading |
| Data User | Kevin Flood | Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) | Head of Trading & Execution Analytics |
| Data User | Chad Giussani | Citigroup | Director, Global SME, Compliance |
| Data User | Thomas Klocker | Morgan Stanley | Global Co-Head FID Quantitative Strategies and Head of Macro Electronic Trading Strategies |
| Data User | Sinead McGuigan | Goldman Sachs | Global Head of Developed Markets and Emerging Markets Credit Market Structure & Strategic Partnerships |
| Data User | Jason Recordon | Janus Henderson Investors | Head of European Fixed Income Trading |
| Data User | Virginie Saade | Citadel | Head of Government and Regulatory Policy, EMEA |
| Data User | Alexander Wolcough | GreenBirch Group | CEO |
| Data User | Qing Young | Barclays | Credit Electronic Trading Product Strategist |
| Data Contributor | David Barnett | London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) | Director, Market Structure EMEA |
| Data Contributor | Liz Carter | Tradeweb | MD Strategic Initiatives |
| Data Contributor | Eddie Coghlan | TP ICAP Group | Global Head of Regulatory Reporting Technology |
| Data Contributor | Tom Harry | MTS, Euronext | Head of Product |
| Data Contributor | Gary Li | MarketAxess | Head of Regulatory Affairs, EMEA & APAC |
| Vendor | Christopher Jarman | BestX (State Street Bank and Trust) | Head of Fixed Income |
| Vendor | Simon Ng | S&P Global | Executive Director, Global Head of Bond Pricing |
| Vendor | Hugh Taggart | Bloomberg Finance | Exchanges Licensing & Relationship Manager |
| Academic | Giovanni Cespa | Bayes Business School | Professor of Finance |
Consultative Committee Observer Members
| Name | Trade Association | Position/Title |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria Webster | AFME: Association for Financial Markets in Europe | Managing Director, Fixed Income |
| Aniqah Rao | AIMA: Alternative Investment Management Association | Associate Director, Markets, Governance and Innovation |
| Sander Schol | EDMA: Electronic Debt Markets Association | Secretary General |
| Piebe Teeboom | EPTA: European Principal Traders Association | Secretary General |
| Alexander McDonald | EVIA: European Venues and Intermediaries Association | CEO |
| Kenix Lee | IA: Investment Association | Policy Lead, Capital Markets |
| Nina Suhaib-Wolf | ICMA: International Capital Markets Association | Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy |