The trainer offers a wealth of investment banking and training experience and delivers training courses that cover a broad range of front office topics.
After graduating from Cambridge with a degree in History, he started his banking career in corporate finance with County Bank in London in the early-1980s before moving to Tokyo for County to help build its securities and investment banking business in Japan. He spent nine years in Japan working in corporate finance, debt capital markets and structured products and, finally, equity derivatives trading. He was a member of the Japan management committee and headed a twenty-person team running trading books in convertibles, warrants, futures and options and the firm’s sizeable index arb and basket trading business.
In the mid-90s he moved to Hong Kong and joined HSBC to build up its north-east Asia equity capital markets business, working on origination of equity and convertibles transactions in Taiwan and Korea. After the 1997 Asian crisis he was promoted to MD and asked by HSBC to head its Regional Corporate Finance & Advisory business, running a business with over 50 professionals working from Taiwan to India.
The trainer was headhunted by SocGen and asked to move to London in 2000 where he was appointed Co-Head of SG Securities London ECM business, with a specific focus on building the bank’s convertibles practice outside the French markets. By 2002 SG won the prestigious IFR Convertibles Bank of the Year award on the back of its successful growth in non-French business. The trainer was then approached by ING Barings and recruited to be Global Head of Equity-Linked Origination for the firm. In his first year in the role, revenues from new issue convertibles increased 500%.
He today provides advisory and training services to financial institutions across the globe.