Board Members

Philip Bille

Degroof Petercam

Philip Bille is Head of Buy-side Dealing & Market Structure at Degroof Petercam. With his team, he is responsible for all trading activities for the Institutional Asset Management and Private Banking entities of the Group.
In addition to his senior management role within the Group, including the ownership of strategic projects, he particularly focuses on counterparty selection, business relationship and market structure topics. He is a regular speaker at leading industry conferences and professional forums. After qualifying in economics (Ms. Economics, Belgium) and obtaining an MBA (San Diego, USA), Philip has spent over 15 years in the sell-side equity business before building the Buy-Side Dealing Desk for Petercam in 2007 and taking his current position when Bank Degroof and Petercam merged in 2015.  
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Eleni Coldrey

Equnix

Eleni leads Equinix’s business development in financial services across the EMEA region, focusing on Capital Markets. In this role, she helps Equinix’s financial customers to navigate an industry beset by constant disruption from regulation, new technologies, and unpredictable economic conditions.
Her work touches all elements of the trading value chain – exchanges and trading venues, sell- and buy-sides, technology vendors – giving her a real insight into today’s financial markets trends, opportunities and challenges.
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Chiara Ginty

BTIG Limited

Chiara Ginty is the EMEA Head of Operations at BTIG Limited responsible for the firm’s post execution services for both Equities and Fixed Income. With almost 20 years of experience in the financial industry, Chiara is driving the operational automation at BTIG whilst also leading the Diversity & Inclusion Group focused on promoting the importance of cultural diversity.
Prior to joining BTIG, Chiara spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs International managing Operations teams across Equity products. In 2024, Chiara was one of the finalists in the European Women in Finance Award for Excellence in Operations. Chiara graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures in Italy and speaks three languages.
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Duncan Higgins
Duncan Higgins

Sustainable Trading

Duncan Higgins is the founder and CEO of Sustainable Trading, a membership network dedicated to driving positive change on environmental, social and governance (ESG) within financial markets trading.
With 25 years’ experience in financial markets, specialist expertise in trading technology and workflows, market microstructure, and regulation, he previously held long standing sales and product positions at the agency broker and trading technology provider ITG (acquired by Virtu Financial) and within UBS Investment Bank. Duncan was also part of the team that successfully launched the Turquoise MTF.
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Frank Loughlin

AllianceBernstein

Frank Loughlin is Global Head of Execution Services for Equities. In this role, he oversees the equity execution platform globally, with responsibility for strategy, technology and infrastructure, talent management, and external partnerships.
Previously, Frank was global co-head of equity trading for eight years. Since joining the equity trading team in 1993, he has led or co-led various equity trading desks and held senior level roles within equity trading. Frank joined the firm in 1990 as an associate portfolio manager in equities. He holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of both the CFA Institute and CFA Society New York. Frank has previously served on numerous industry advisory bodies and is currently a member of the New York Stock Exchange Institutional Trading Advisory Committee and the National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP). He serves on the board of directors of Queens Community House and Tennessee Innocence Project and formerly served on the advisory board of the Gabelli School at Fordham University.
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Asha Patel

Instinet

Asha Patel is an Executive Director on the Equity Sales Trading desk at Instinet where she spearheads several corporate initiatives including ‘Career Pathways’ which is designed to facilitate engagement between senior and junior team members and to encourage the expansion of business networks and knowledge.
Asha is a previous winner of the Nomura “Gender Equity Champion Awards in EMEA” for her positive influence in a male-dominated industry. She also led Instinet’s collaboration with ‘Perfectly Imperfect Prints’, an initiative that provided an opportunity for a young disabled woman to develop graphic designs used by Instinet in internal and external communication campaigns. Asha is also a charity ambassador and regular blogger for ‘Little Lives UK’ a children’s charity supporting disabled and disadvantaged children and young people to help them build stronger futures.
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Ebrahim Patel

Rand Merchant Bank

Ebrahim Patel is an investment banker specialising in Financial Innovation, Sustainability, and Islamic Finance. In his role in RMB (Rand Merchant Bank) Markets division he is responsible for Future Markets and Sustainability.
With more than 20 years experience in investment banking, 13 in a financial markets and trading environment, Ebrahim is a pioneer of Ethical/Islamic Finance and ESG, and in the past 5 years has chaired a number of RMB’s ESG, Shared Value and Sustainability Working Groups/Forums. He has also led various multi-disciplinary projects and teams looking at the development and application of ESG policies within new product development resulting in several innovations in South African and world-first financial product offerings.
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Sustainable Trading board member - Etienne Phaneuf (ArchES)
Etienne Phaneuf

ArchES

Etienne Phaneuf is the President and CEO of ArchES. As an experienced executive at the intersection of
technology and finance, he oversees the firm’s culture and strategic direction; delivering cutting edge technological data and execution solutions tailored to client’s needs Prior to joining
Arches, Etienne was CEO of ITG Canada, now Virtu-ITG Canada, a provider of electronic trading services, transaction cost analysis and trading software. Over the course of his 19 years at ITG, Etienne held a number of leadership roles, helping build ITG into the leading electronic trading provider to the institutional community. Etienne holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
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