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Sean has been the CEO of PayPal Europe since June 2020. In his role, he leads on ensuring that the company meets all its regulatory requirements. As a partner to and enabler of PayPal’s business, Sean is contributing to PayPal serving its customers and partners across Europe.

Previously, Sean served as the chief operating officer for PayPal Europe. He was responsible for credit, governance, change management, outsourcing and technology. During his 17 years at PayPal, Sean had various roles in the areas of compliance, controllership as well as financial and strategic planning and has worked in Luxembourg, Dublin and Shanghai.

Prior to PayPal, Sean was Head of Operational Risk for Daiwa Securities, and Finance & Risk Manager at NatWest. Sean is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, and a graduate of the University of Limerick and University College Dublin.

Claire Calmejane began her career in 2006 in the Technology Transformation department of Capgemini Consulting, where she supported companies and especially financial institutions in their technological and digital transformation. Contributing to a study on the digital transformation of large companies led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011, she joined the London office of Capgemini to lead the digital centre of the Financial Services sector.

Recruited in 2012 by Lloyds Banking Group as Head of Digital Delivery in the Online Services Department, she was appointed Innovation Director and set up the Innovation Labs and the Digital Academy before being appointed Risk Transformation Director at Lloyds Banking Group.

In September 2018, Claire Calmejane joined Société Générale as Group Chief Innovation Officer and is a member of the Group Management Committee. Claire Calmejane studied IT Engineering with a degree from the École pour l’informatique et les techniques avancées (EPITA) and a Masters degree from the HEC French school of management.

Edward Glyn joined the talented management team at Calastone in January 2014 to lead global client strategy.

Calastone is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial organisations. Our mission is to help the asset management industry transform by creating innovative new ways to automate and digitalise the global investment funds marketplace, reducing frictional costs and lowering operational risk to the benefit of all. Through this, we generate the opportunity for the industry to deliver greater value back to the end investor. Over 2,600 clients in 47 countries and territories benefit from Calastone’s services, processing £200 billion of investment value each month.

Mr Glyn has spent the last 20 years leading teams and delivering game-changing, high value corporate deals in funds distribution, securities servicing and financial technology. He has particular expertise in platform distribution, securities market infrastructures and the asset management sector, together with their associated technologies.

Prior to joining Calastone, Mr Glyn 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. Before SWIFT, Mr Glyn spent a number of years in key commercial and strategic roles at Investia – former parent of JPMorgan FundsHub, ERI Bancaire, Thomson Financial and Tajan.

Outside of various business interests, and a busy family life with three young children, Mr Glyn also collects rare watches and scotch whisky. He is heavily involved in the charity sector and acts as a trustee or board member for several charitable organisations.

Chris Hollifield is head of business development at Luxembourg for Finance, where his work involves advising FinTech and financial companies looking to develop cross-border activity through Luxembourg-based platforms. He also advises on the development of the ecosystem in Luxembourg and on synergy creation with other key financial centres, with a focus on East Asia.

Prior to working at Luxembourg for Finance, Chris worked in the strategy department of Clearstream Banking SA, an International Central Securities Depository that facilitates the settlement of interbank transactions in over 50 markets worldwide. Here, his work focused particularly on strategic projects concerning distributed ledger technology and other FinTech topics.

Anders la Cour is a hands-on leader of the multi-award-winning provider of mission-critical financial services infrastructure, Banking Circle. Previously a technology and financial M&A lawyer, Anders la Cour identified a flaw in how the FinTech sector is serviced by the banks.

Launching Banking Circle, Anders brought to market a solution that has genuinely disrupted the previously accepted status quo of cross border payments. The unique suite of solutions offered by Banking Circle is helping businesses transact across borders in a way that was not previously possible.

Anders was appointed as inaugural Chair of the non-profit business association, Emerging Payments Association EU in February 2020, having been on the EPA Advisory board since 2016. He is regularly invited to speak and present at global industry events, including Money20/20 Las Vegas, Oracle OpenWorld, BankInno, Innovate Finance and Money20/20 Europe, has won multiple awards and had thought leadership articles published in a range of industry publications.

Sherry Madera joined LSEG via Refinitiv as the Chief Industry and Government Affairs Officer in March 2019 from City of London where she was Economic Ambassador to Asia and Special Advisor.  After the merger of Refinitiv and London Stock Exchange Group, Sherry now leads a team across all the LSEG divisions including Capital Markets, Post Trade and Data & Analytics.

Sherry is a unique combination of ex-investment banker and ex-diplomat.  Previously, as Minister-Counsellor at the British Embassy in Beijing, Sherry was responsible for promoting trade and investment between the UK and China. She has focused on Financial and Professional Services and Technology, as key industries of international growth.  She played a leading role in the regular UK-China and UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogues, and Prime Ministerial Summits, and helped develop policy objectives as well as inward and outward investment opportunities between the UK and Asia.

Sherry holds various leadership roles including a position as a Non-Executive Director/Council member at the University of Nottingham, Advisory Board member of Hong Kong Cyberport, Chair of International at IBDE (International Business & Diplomatic Exchange), and is the Chair of the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance.

Karen O’Sullivan is Head of the Innovation, Payments, Market Infrastructures and Governance at the CSSF.

She coordinates the activities of this department which is responsible for financial innovation, both the application process and on-going prudential supervision of payment institutions and electronic money institutions, market infrastructures and the oversight of remuneration and governance practices and policies implemented within financial institutions.

Being the department in charge of financial innovation means that Karen and her team are the privileged contact and point of entry to the CSSF for the FinTech industry.

She represents the CSSF on an international level through participation in various working sub-groups and as speaker at several conferences, covering payment services, remuneration policies and corporate governance matters at both national and international level

Karen is both an Irish and Luxembourgish qualified chartered accountant. Prior to joining the CSSF in September 2012, Karen was an audit director at PwC Luxembourg specializing in the audit of investment funds.

Nasir Zubairi is CEO of The LHoFT – The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology, a public/private sector initiative to drive fintech innovation in Luxembourg.

He sits on the IMF’s High Level Advisory Group on Finance and Technology and the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board. He has been a Non-Executive Board director at a “traditional” bank, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) S.A. Nasir has worked in Financial Services for 22 years. He spent 13 years working within Capital Markets at RBS, ICAP, HSBC and EBS.  He has been immersed in the Fintech and startup sector since 2011.

As an entrepreneur, Nasir has built multiple Fintech businesses across verticals. He has advised the boards of leading financial institutions, central banks and governments. Nasir is included in the “Top 40 innovators shaping the future of financial services -2014” by The Wall Street Journal/Financial News.

Nasir has a BSc from the London School of Economics and is a Sloan Fellow from London Business School.