Speakers
SP Intelligence Europe hosts a diverse range of thought leaders from across the structured products industry.
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President of EUSIPA. Supervisory Board President of Zertifikate Forum Austria
Heike Arbter has been with RCB for over 20 years and has built the structured products business from the ground up. She has developed retail structured products across asset classes into a relevant investment offering and also earnings driver within Raiffeisen Banking Group and made Raiffeisen Certificates a key player in the entire CEE region. As a member of the Managing Team of RBI`s Corporate and Investment Banking Area, she will ensure that Raiffeisen Certificates' leading position will be strengthened.
She also holds a seat on the supervisory board of the Stuttgart Stock Exchange and is a member of the arbitration board of the Vienna Stock Exchange.
Since May 2016, Heike Arbter has also been President of EUSIPA, the European association of certificates issuers. Arbter has been a member of the Management Board of Zertifikate Forum Austria since its foundation in 2006 and joined the Supervisory Board in April 2019.
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Chief Economist, The Swedish Securities Markets Association
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Head of Investment Solutions at Garantum Fondkommission
Mats leads the development and delivery of the firm’s investment products and portfolio solutions. His remit spans the entire lifecycle of cross-asset investments—from initial idea generation to implementation and execution—covering both bespoke private placements and public issues across Garantum’s Nordic distribution network. Mats has been instrumental in introducing innovative solutions to the Nordic market, such as SPV-issued collateralized notes (GAP-products), and has spearheaded the integration of advanced pricing and portfolio analytics software.
Previously, Mats was with Credit Suisse, serving as an analyst focused on structured retail products within a cross-asset mandate for the Nordic region.
Mats holds a Master of Science in Business and Economics, specializing in Finance and Accounting, from Uppsala University. His academic background includes advanced finance studies at the National University of Singapore and studies in Business and business studies at the Albert Ludvig University of Freiburg in Germany.
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Head Structured Products Institutional Sales, Julius Baer
Daniel Espiñeira heads the Structured Products Institutional Sales team in Switzerland which covers asset managers, banks, and family offices globally (excluding Asia). He has 30 years of experience in the distribution and sale of structured products and derivatives at Julius Baer in Zurich, combining in-depth market knowledge with a strong client-focused approach. Throughout his career, he has played a central role in developing and executing sales strategies. Daniel Espiñeira serves as a member of the Public Distribution Working Group of the Swiss Association of Structured Products (SSPA), where he actively contributes to shaping industry standards and promoting transparent, investor-friendly distribution practices.
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Head of Structured Equity Derivatives Sales, UBS Europe SE
Romain Garagnon is Head of Structured Equity Derivatives Sales at UBS Europe SE, with responsibility for distribution across European clients. He has over 20 years of experience spanning derivatives strategy, structuring and sales in both Europe and the United States.
In his current role, Romain leads a team advising insurance companies, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, private banks, corporates and family offices, leveraging the capabilities of UBS Global Markets across regions and asset classes to deliver tailored investment and hedging solutions.
Prior to joining UBS in 2018, where he initially headed the Structured Products and Solutions business for France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Monaco, Romain spent eight years at Citigroup in London in a similar role. He previously served as European Head of Equity Derivatives Structuring at Merrill Lynch, and earlier in his career worked at J.P. Morgan in London and New York as a quantitative researcher.
Romain holds Master’s degrees from École Polytechnique and ENSAE, as well as a postgraduate diploma in Probability and Statistics from the University of Paris VI.
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Managing Director, Head of EMEA Equity Derivatives Structuring, JPMorgan
Mohamed Hemissi is Managing Director and Head of Equity Derivatives Structuring at JPMorgan in London, where he leads a team of financial engineers across London, Paris, and Mumbai. His mandate covers payoff design and structured product innovation across the full client spectrum — hedge funds, retail distributors, and pension and insurance clients — with a focus on EMEA equity-linked solutions.
Prior to JPMorgan, Mohamed spent nearly a decade at Morgan Stanley in equity structuring, and earlier held roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Natixis Assurances, and Merrill Lynch International. He began his career at Société Générale.
Mohamed holds degrees from École Polytechnique, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and Université de Marne-la-Vallée.
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Managing Director, Equity Derivatives Sales, Barclays Zurich
Florian is responsible for the EQD/Solutions distribution in Switzerland and the EQD Indirect Retail Franchise in Germany/Austria, Italy and the Middle East.
Florian joined Barclays in 2009 in the Investor Solutions Team and holds a degree in Business Administration from University of St. Gallen (HSG).
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Senior Legal Counsel - Sustainable Finance and Capital Markets law, BSW – Bundesverband für strukturierte Wertpapiere (the German Structured Securities Association)
Juliane Holl is a senior legal counsel at BSW focusing on sustainable finance and capital markets law.
She is a German qualified lawyer with 13 years of experience in capital markets and financial services. Before joining BSW in 2023, she worked in major law firms, international banks and for a global asset management company. She studied law at Philipps-University Marburg (Germany), University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), and holds an LL.M. from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (France).
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Deputy CEO and Head of Securities, Strivo AB
Björn Johansson holds a Master of Science in Business and Economics from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg and has worked with securities and securities trading since 2006. He has been with Strivo since 2011 and is a member of the management team.
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IMI CIB Legal Advisory, IMI Corporate & Investment Banking Division, Intesa Sanpaolo. Secretary General at ACEPI
Fulvia Lucantonio is an Italian lawyer with many years of experience in finance and banking depts of Italian law firms. Fulvia worked in-house in an American investment banking in London.
Fulvia joined Intesa Sanpaolo in 2016 as head of Compliance Foreign Network. Since 2022 she moved to IMI CIB Legal Advisory within IMI Corporate & Investment Banking Division where she leads the legal team working on the offering documents and issuances documentation for certificates, bonds and other structured products.
She has been appointed as ACEPI Secretary General in February 2025.
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Global Head EQD Structuring - EMEA Head Structured Products Sales, BNP Paribas
Azad Mahavar joined BNP Paribas in 2006 as a structured products sales, focusing on Swiss Private Banks. He relocated in 2009 from Paris to London for nearly a decade, covering Institutional Investors from the UK, Northern Europe and Emerging Markets for the overall Equity Derivatives products suite, flow and structured. He moved to Equity Derivatives Structuring early 2023.
Azad currently runs both the Equity Derivatives Structuring team globally and the structured products sales teams in EMEA.
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Partner, AG Advokat
Anders Malm joined AG Advokat in 2021 as a partner. Anders has been working with banking & finance, capital markets and regulatory aspects within the wider financial sector during more than 25 years. He has experience from all types of assignments within his area of expertise. During his career, Anders has also worked with M&A, acquisition finance, corporate finance, general company law and litigation. The structured products practice under Anders Malm was awarded the Best Law Firm Award at the SRP Nordic Structured Products and Derivatives Conference in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015.
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Head of Treasury Sales – Structured Products & FX, Van Lanschot Kempen
Marcel has over 20 years’ experience in the structuring and sales of structured investment propositions for private investors. In 2017 he joined Van Lanschot Kempen where he is currently working as Head of Treasury Sales – Structured Products & FX.
Van Lanschot Kempen manufactures structured investment solutions for the private clients of Van Lanschot Kempen in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland and for external private wealth managers, retail banks, asset managers, family offices and investment boutiques. Products are manufactured with both Van Lanschot Kempen as issuer and several selected 3rd party Issuers.
After completing his master’s degree in economics in 1996, Marcel started his career in structured products at Robeco Asset Management as a portfolio manager for several structured investment funds. Before joining Van Lanschot Kempen he worked for 12 years at ING Financial Markets as director of structured product sales for the Dutch, Nordics, UK and Irish market.
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Managing Director and Head of EMEA Equity Structuring for Third-Distribution, Bank of America
Bernard Rogier is a Managing Director and Head of EMEA Equity Structuring for Third-Distribution at Bank of America in Paris. He joined the firm in London in 2017 and has 26 years of experience in equity derivatives, structured products and exotic equity structuring. He previously held senior leadership roles including Head of Equity Structuring APAC in Hong Kong at Société Générale and Head of Equity Structuring EMEA & APAC at UBS and RBS in London. Bernard holds master’s degrees in Applied Economics from the Faculty of Applied Economics and in Finance from CETFI, in Aix-en-Provence, France.
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Head of Equity Derivatives Sales for EMEA at HSBC
Véronique Sabbah has over 20 years of experience in Investment Solutions and Derivatives in Europe. Since she joined in September 2004, HSBC has significantly expanded its Equity Derivatives franchise across EMEA and has been shortlisted for the “Rising Issuer” Award by SP Intelligence Europe in 2026.
Before joining HSBC, Véronique spent 18 years at Société Générale, where she held various management roles across Europe on both the Sales and Structuring sides.
Over more than two decades, she has been a key player in the development of the derivatives markets across
EMEA, in Benelux, the UK, and France.Véronique began her career in 2002 at Crédit Lyonnais in Paris and later moved to New York to join the Structuring team at Calyon.
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Managing Director & Global Head Wealth Solutions Group, CIBC Capital Markets
Elliot Scherer is Managing Director & Global Head of CIBC Capital Markets’ Wealth Solutions Group. His team is responsible for originating and distribution structured notes, market-linked GICs, CDRs, fixed income, foreign exchange, financing and hedging solutions to investment advisors, private bankers and their high-net-worth investors around the world. Elliot holds over 20 years of experience with CIBC Capital Markets, is a board member for the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation, and is on CIBC’s Children’s Foundation Donations Committee. Elliot also recently won the 2025 Champion of Change Award from VersaFi in recognition of his efforts in promoting an inclusive workforce.
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Head of Structured Trading, Nordea
Henrik Segerberg is a seasoned financial leader and the Head of Structured Trading at Nordea Markets in Stockholm. With over 25 years of experience in derivatives, he specializes in structuring complex equity and credit products.
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Head of Strategy & Digital Asset Indices, Product Development, STOXX
Thomas Shuttlewood is Head of Strategy & Digital Asset Index Product Development at STOXX. He leads the design and evolution of innovative index solutions, focused on both the structured product and the ETF markets. His work spans decrement, leverage and risk control indices, to volatility and derivative strategies.
Before his current role, Thomas worked as a Quant Developer in the White Label Index team, before transitioning to the branded index development team, where he ultimately managed the research and development of the STOXX Alternative Strategy Index suite.
Thomas holds a Master of Sciences Degree in Physics, Particle Physics and Cosmology from the University of Birmingham.
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Team Leader - Client Treasury & Capital Markets, Abanca
Carlos Traquino holds a degree in Business Management from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and is a leading figure in Iberian financial markets, specialising in structured notes and treasury management. He currently leads Client Treasury & Capital Markets at ABANCA in Portugal, where he has built a track record defined by technical innovation and strong institutional relationships.Under his leadership, ABANCA has been recognised as “Best Distributor in Portugal” at SPi Europe for three consecutive years (2023–2025).
Carlos is known for his collaborative, values-driven leadership style, combining innovation with integrity. His expertise spans financial engineering, risk hedging strategies, and long-term partnership development, consistently delivering sustainable value to clients and stakeholders.
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Secretary General, EUSIPA - European Structured Investment Products Association
Thomas is the Secretary General of EUSIPA the European association for the issuers of structured investment products, a role he covers since 2012.
He is also a member of the board in the Towards Sustainability Central Labelling Agency, the Belgian financial sector ESG label awarding institution and general manager of BELSIPA, the Belgian issuer association of our industry. Thomas, a lawyer by training, headed the Western European Business development function of major global law firm Linklaters before taking his current role. He is married with two children and lives in Brussels.