Shariq is a seasoned financial services professional with over 20 years of international experience in the US, Netherlands, Switzerland and UK. His work experience spans credit risk, credit portfolio management, credit research, investment management, loan sales, loans structuring, private equity, project/change management, process implementation, consulting and treasury.

He started his career at BlackRock in New York and has worked for companies such as ING, ABN AMRO, Citigroup, and Premark International (Illinois Tool Works) in various senior roles. Some of his career highlights include sitting on the Advisory Board of Monaco based Waterstone Consulting and Managed Change Process aligning commercial rationale with risk framework for FM’s derivatives portfolio. Advised CVA trading function on PM aspects to pro-actively manage credit risk and P&L using Credit Risk models (LGD,PD,PFE&EAD).

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Osman has more than 10 years of progressively responsible experience within the industry, directing employees in companies and accumulating an impressive revenue portfolio. He has sourced deals on a national and international scale leading these companies through start-up, survival, turnaround and growth modes.

Throughout his career, Osman has had extensive exposure to critical areas imperative to secure a good investment which include and are not limited to – due diligence, risk management and the provision of adequate collateral.

In his role at Investa, Osman is responsible for managing the company’s operations to ensure continued business growth and development whilst encouraging clear thinking with a focus on customer acquisition, product diversification, improving productivity and increasing profitability and market share. Osman has established a solid team and has meticulously collaborated with global industry professionals to bring Investa to the forefront of the financial advisory market.

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Commercially aware lender and entrepreneur with broad business skills. I have built one of the largest P2P lending platforms in the UK from start up to £400m+ of lending whilst delivering profits and cash generation. I have a knowledge of FCA regulation. I have knowledge of equity and institutional funding structures, as well as the contract law around them.

I am a strong business developer and relationship builder, able to negotiate difficult contracts. Having worked with Royal bank of Scotland as Corporate Manager, Global Restructuring Group for a number of years I moved on to co found Asstez Capital a leading peer to peer lender. I have strong knowledge of financial management and governance, holding Chartered Accountant status. This has led me to have extensive range of skills and abilities.

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24 years in advisory roles. Macroeconomics, quant strategy and equity research/sales. Emerging and Developed markets. Multi asset expertise advising hedge fund PMs such as Alfredo Viegas of Castlemaine with whom the track record for CNMNX is shared. Built out many quant models during time at Deydun Markets and in prior roles with proof of real time alpha.

Ranked and voted in surveys. During his career Kasim has held various roles as Equity Sales/Research specialist in GEMs through to Quant Sales. Starting with BZW Asia (Hong Kong and London), through CEEMEA specialist in SocGen, then in contiguous team move from RZB Austria to UnicreditBM. Hedge fund-focused Sales/Research at Nomura. Head of GEMS and Quant Sales at Liberum. Co-founder of Cetas Consulting, a boutique macro and stock advisory firm catering to Long-only and Long- short PMs. Kasim is currently an Operations Partner at Next Gen Capital LLC. Next Gen is a VC startup that invests in innovative technology companies that have solutions to key problems that the world faces.

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Joe is currently the Managing Director of Mollitium Capital Ltd., his Private Investment Company. Mollitium Capital Ltd. has a number of investment interests, all within the Financial Services sector. These include an Investment Management firm, regulated Pension Scheme and regulated Consumer Credit Company.

Joe has over 25 years of business experience within banking and financial services, having worked, both in London and Switzerland. He started his career with Citi Bank, London, on the Equities Brokerage floor, moving to an Investment Manager Di Credito Securities in Lugano, Switzerland, where he was Head of Trading and managed the Equities Derivatives Business.

During his career, he managed Hedge Funds for a joint venture between FMG Geneva and MCC Global NV, where he was responsible for both the London and Geneva Portfolio Managers. This included overseeing Investment Strategy, Risk and Operational integrity.

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David is the founder and Managing Director of Bell Rock Group in the Cayman Islands, a CIMA regulated professional director firm. David provides independent director services to alternative Investment Funds, such as Hedge Funds , funds of funds, private equity funds, real estate and infrastructure funds. He has over 17 years of international finance and legal experience.

Prior to founding Bell Rock in 2012, David worked for the fiduciary group of a leading law firm in Cayman for approximately four years, providing independent director services to a range of alternative investment funds. He was formerly a Director and Structurer at Citi Investment Bank in London , on the Sales and Trading desk, covering clients in EMEA, Asia and the United States. He was responsible for structuring a wide range of multi-strategy products, investment funds and cross-border offerings for institutional and wealth management clients. He acted as an Investment Advisor to FX, structured credit, equity and fixed income derivative strategies and structured several new UCITS funds. He was also a member of the Global Senior Management Risk Approval Committee for new investment products.

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