Mark Preston has spent nearly 25 years in the banking world, with a broad experience base. He spent the early part of his career as a derivatives trader, helping to develop the market from its formative stage in the mid 80’s. He was head of derivatives trading in Europe at Chemical bank, where he developed the trading platform to encompass both clients flow trading needs and also more structured requirements, when he moved to CIBC in 1994 to set up and manage a new derivatives capability in Europe. In 1999 he was appointing CEO of Europe for CIBC, when he directly managed CIBC’s investment banking unit. In 2004 he moved to Lloyds TSB, where he was Co-Head of Corporate markets, having responsibility for Lloyds TSB’s products and markets, which included funding and liquidity. He sat on the banks senior credit committee and Group ALCO., as well as the management committee of the wholesale bank. He left Lloyds TSB in 2008, before the acquisition of HBOS. He has spent an increasing amount of time since then being actively involved in Micro Finance in Africa. Mark holds a BA in Economics and Accounting from University of Kent at Canterbury and qualified as a an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in 1985.
Mark Preston (Principal) has spent nearly 25 years in the banking world, with a broad experience base. He spent the early part of his career as a derivatives trader, helping to develop the market from its formative stage...
Josh Danziger (Principal) has worked in derivatives for over 20. Prior to co-founding Valere Capital he was Head of Structured Products for Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). He joined RBC in 2000 to set up and manage ...
Jean Dulude (Principal) has 18 years of derivatives experience. Before co-founding Valere Capital in 2008, he was co-head of Global Structured Credit at RBC. He oversaw all structured credit activities at RBC...
Gerald Preidl (Principal) has worked in derivatives for 15 years. Prior to joining Valere Capital he was a Managing Director and Head of Northern Europe Financial Products at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) ...
Charles Kassouf (Consultant) has over twelve years of experience in finance and debt capital markets. He worked at the law firm of SNR Denton as a senior paralegal and reviewed mortgage documentation for ...
Jean-Marc Debricon (Consultant) has 16 years of front office experience in Derivatives in the financial industry, spanning Fixed Income, Credit, Equity and Funds. He started his career in the European Bank for ...
Martin Drake (Consultant) has worked in foreign exchange over twenty four years commencing in Sydney in October 1987. He moved to Goldman Sachs Hong Kong in 1995 as lead G10 spot trader and remained to work ...
Bill Hodgson (Consultant) has 20 years of experience in the field of capital markets clearing and settlement. He initially worked on developing software to process OTC derivatives at Merrill Lynch in 1992, in the ...
