WOMEN IN FINANCE AWARDS ASIA 2019

Ms Azila Abdul Aziz, is Chief Executive Officer / Executive Director & Head of Listed Derivatives at Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd, a Listed Derivatives Brokerage Company based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Azila has been with company for more than 18 years and from the year 2012, she serves as the CEO. An accomplished Executive equipped with leadership, management and entrepreneurship & intraprenuership capabilities. Azila currently leads the overall running of the Listed Derivatives Broking Company that includes both in-bound & out-bound businesses overseeing the entire Front Office Sales to Back Office Operations. She sits on the Board of Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd as an Executive Director, an appointed member of Senior Management Team for the Group Executive Committee and a member of several other committees within the Kenanga Group. Prior to joining Kenanga Futures Sdn Bhd, Azila held the position of Institutional Sales at RHB Securities Sdn Bhd from 1996 - 2000. She was involved in sales role for both regional equities and futures markets with clientele base includes international institutions, banks, global hedge funds, domestic institutions, state funds and various asset management companies.

Azila holds a Bachelor’s Degree (Hons) in Finance and a Diploma in Investment Analysis from Malaysia’s MARA University of Technology (UiTM). In addition to her present role in the company, Azila has diverse industrial participation where she has been appointed for various roles: President of Malaysia Futures Brokers’ Association (MFBA), Member on the FTSE Russell Bursa Malaysia Index Advisory Committee, Member of the Market Participants Committee (MPC), Principal Representative of the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Advisory Group, Committee member of the task force for Professional Certificate Investment and Finance (PCIF) program developed by PNB Investment Institute Sdn Bhd (PNBI/I) and an Associate Member of Palm Oil Refiners’ Association of Malaysia (PORAM).

Ms. Carrie Cheung is currently Head of Electronic Trading, Equity Cash Asia Pacific, Global Markets, BNP Paribas. Carrie is leading the development of BNP Paribas algorithm, DMA and program trading business.

Carrie joined BNP Paribas in 2013 from J.P. Morgan where she was responsible for the sales and marketing of the prime DMA platform. Prior to that, she has worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Japan for 11 years. In her last capacity as Head of Electronic Trading, Carrie was instrumental in building out the equity trading platform and electronic business in the region.

Carrie comes with a diversify culture, worked in multiple locations in Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan.

She is the first female and foreigner co-chair of FPL(FIX Protocol Limited) Japan, which is one of the leading industrial organization for finance, particular in electronic trading.

Carrie majored in computer science and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Managing Director, Citi Global Equities

Andrea Fletcher is a MD at Citi and is the Global Head of Client Strategy for Equities and Prime Finance. Prior to this role Andrea spent 14 years in Equity Research Sales starting in London with UBS before moving to Australia with HSBC.
Andrea has been based in London, Sydney and Hong Kong and with her global role works extensively with the US, Europe and across Asia.

Joel Hurewitz is Managing Director, Head of Sales & Global Head of Broker Dealer Strategy and Product Development for Instinet. He is responsible for sales of the group to buy and sell side clients across the Asia Pacific Region as well as the broker dealer strategy globally. Joel joined Instinet in 2008 to run broker dealer sales, but in the course of his 8 years with the firm has held a number of positions including Head of Product Strategy and Head of Electronic Trading.

With over 20 years equities experience in Asia, Mr. Hurewitz has been an active member, pioneer, and supporter of FIX Trading Community since the early days of electronic trading in Asia.

Prior to joining Instinet, Joel held roles within Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and CLSA where he built electronic businesses, products, and teams.

Co-Chair, Asia Pacific Exchanges and Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, and
Execution Services Sales Asia, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

Execution Services Sales considers the product, strategies and content needed to effectively execute a trade. Jessica has a background in market structure for the region having moved to Hong Kong in 2011. She continues to track developments and publish content on the macro trading environment with regards to regulation, technology and explicit costs.

Through data analytics, the impact of such changes on the microstructure are researched to see where the character of liquidity is impacted. Where impact is observed, these findings are fed back into the Morgan Stanley service offering helping clients minimise implicit costs and maximise volume capture be it through the Sales Trading, Electronic or Programme Trading teams.

Jessica re-joined Morgan Stanley in November 2017 having originally worked in the London Compliance team from 2006-2009. Between those dates, Jessica ran the Deutsche Bank Market Structure team in Hong Kong. Jessica holds a MA in Law from Cambridge University.

Head of Asia Electronic Trading, Cash Equities, Macquarie

Stuart is Head of Asia Electronic Trading at Macquarie, based in Hong Kong. He was previously Executive Director JP Morgan in Hong Kong and Head of European Electronic Trading at RBC in LONDON. He drove the internal discussions for THOR to Europe and oversaw the build, release and distribution to clients. In that role he spent significant time in the US and Canada advising clients on European execution. He is an “A” Director of FIX Protocol Limited and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Trading. Stuart served on the AFME Securities Committee for three years and was a founding Quorum 15 Board member in Australia (2011) as well as being a long term Q15 member in London (2008). Stuart holds an undergrad from Southampton University (UK), two Masters degrees, one from Durham University (UK) and one from the London School of Economics (UK), with majors in decision sciences, information technology, innovation and technology. He holds the ACE from MIT Sloan in Innovation and Technology Management and is studying part time at Stanford University (USA) on Advanced Technology in the Military and Nuclear Weapons.

Emma Quinn
Global Co-Head of Equity Trading
AllianceBernstein

Emma Quinn was appointed Global Co-Head of Equity Trading in October 2014. Previously, she was Head of Asia Pacific Trading from 2011. Before that she was Head of Asia Pacific Fixed Income and Australia Equities Trading from 2010, and Head of Trading for Australia and New Zealand from 2009. Quinn joined the firm in 2001 as a senior trader. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein she worked as an equity trader at AMP Henderson Global Investors. Quinn holds a BBus in finance and law from the University of Technology, Sydney. She was Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Regional Committee and is currently a Director of FIX Trading Community.

Managing Director, Head of Trading, Asia-Pacific, State Street Global Advisors

David has over 19 years of experience in the industry, over a decade of which has been spent in the Asia-Pacific region. He worked for nearly 13 years on the sell side in various Equity Program and Electronic Trading functions, starting his career at Goldman Sachs in London before working for UBS in multiple locations including Tokyo and Hong Kong. After running Deutsche Bank’s regional Asia PT business, David moved to Fidelity Management & Research (HK) to set up their new trading desk, being responsible for Electronic Trading, TCA, market structure and platforms.

At the start of 2017 he joined SSGA as their new Head of Trading for the Asia-Pacific region, having oversight for Fixed Income, Equity, Currency and Derivatives execution. A member of the firm’s Senior Leadership Team and SFC Responsible Officer, he is an active participant in a number of industry groups and advisory boards in the region, such as Asia Trader Forum and ASIFMA.

Educated in the UK, he holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Reading and an MSc in Automotive Design from Cranfield University, doing a Summer internship at Williams Formula One team as part of the latter. A keen long-distance runner, David sits on the HK Board of global literacy program WGI, and is a member of The Women’s Foundation Male Allies Program.

Market Development Director, Buyside Trading, Asia

Ms. Ryan became part of Refinitiv in October 2018 focused on the growth of the exchange traded business across Asia Pacific. Formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv is a new company built on a unique open platform, high performance products and best-in-class data.

Laura joined Thomson Reuters as the Sales Director of Buyside, Asia Pacific. She has over 15 years of experience in global financial technology supporting Asia’s Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Family Offices.  Laura was previously Head of APAC Sales at Eze Software Group & Tora Trading. Her career began at Cantor Fitzgerald/BGC Partners where she focused on FX interdealer brokerage and fixed income trading platforms. Laura holds a bachelor degree in Business Management from Bucknell University.