Green Shoots & Global Scale: Unlocking Europe’s Potential

Nii Saka Addo is a Senior Index Equity Portfolio Manager at Vanguard in London. Mr. Addo joined the Global Equity team in London during 2025 from Vanguard’s Malvern office where he managed index equity portfolios and played a key role in advancing the firm’s trading infrastructure, portfolio management capabilities, and governance frameworks. Earlier at Vanguard, he led a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists responsible for enhancing equity indexing technology and investment workflows.
Prior to joining Vanguard in 2021, Nii Saka spent more than 15 years in senior algorithmic trading, electronic trading, and platform engineering leadership roles at Bank of America, Credit Suisse, and JPMorgan.
Nii Saka holds a B.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Computer Science, both with honors, from Swarthmore College.

Rosa Armesto is Director General of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), the trade association of exchanges in Europe.
Before becoming Director General of FESE, she served as Deputy Director General. Previously, she was part of Insurance Europe as a Member of the Management Team and Head of Public Affairs and Communications. Earlier in her career, she was Head of Public and Regulatory Affairs at FESE and had various roles before rejoining FESE. She began her professional career at Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Commission, in Luxembourg.
Rosa has 20 years of experience in EU financial services. She specialises in capital markets and concretely in financial regulations like MiFID/MiFIR, and strategies like the Savings and Investments Union (former Capital Markets Union), Sustainable Finance, and Digital. Furthermore, she has expertise in insurance-related policies.
Rosa is a member of the ESMA Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (ESMA SMSG) and lectures on financial market infrastructures at Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management (Belgium). She is a member of the Board of Directors at the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum (EPFSF), Board member at CEPS-ECMI, and Co-Chair of the Advocacy Community at the European Society of Association Executives (ESAE).
She holds a Master of Science in Economics with a major in Econometrics from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and the University of Groningen (Netherlands), a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and a professional degree in Piano from the Music Conservatory of Teruel (Spain). She speaks English, French, and Spanish.

Vincent Boquillon is Head of Equity Trading at Euronext, within the Cash Equity & Data Services division. He is responsible for the design and performance of Euronext’s cash equity trading model across its European markets, from product design to liquidity management, across both the institutional and retail segments. He has spent his career at Euronext, moving from operations to market surveillance and product development before taking overall responsibility for the equity trading franchise. He has been closely involved throughout in the industry’s engagement on market structure developments.

Nick Fowler is a Managing Director and Co-Head of European Equity Advisory at Lazard. He has worked in Equity Capital Markets for over 20 years and has worked on international mandates in numerous sectors, both in the public and private markets.

Since the Global Financial Crisis, he has completed ECM-related mandates in every major European jurisdiction, including over 40 IPOs, 30 placings (public and private), and numerous M&A transactions.

As part of his role, he retains close contact with the main opinion-leading European Institutional investor community, and he has been involved in fundraisings totaling over $50bn in the last seven years.

Some of the most high-profile deals being the IPOs, and in many cases, the subsequent placings of Galderma, Allegro, Darktrace, Orsted, Worldpay, Neoen, Exclusive Networks and Azelis, as well as providing capital markets advice on numerous restructurings.

Over his career, has executed over 80 ECM transactions, raising proceeds of more than $80bn, across the UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa markets.
Significant experience of working with companies through the cycle from private to public and into the aftermarket, including capital raisings, shareholder engagement, register evolution and market messaging.

Fahed is Co-Head of Global Research at Rothschild & Co Redburn and Head of the Fintech research team, with over 20 years in financial services. The majority of these have been at Rothschild & Co Redburn within equity research covering Banks, Wealth Managers and Fintech across the US and Europe. He began his career as a chartered accountant at EY, and holds a First Class BSc in Economics from University College London.

Scott Lesser is Head of Trading Solutions and Data Analytics at Winterflood Securities, the UK’s largest Retail Service Provider, recently acquired by Marex Group from Close Brothers. He owns the strategy, delivery and daily operation of Winterflood’s proprietary trading, connectivity and analytics platform, which serves 450 clients and counterparties across retail, market-making and institutional workflows. He chairs the firm’s Execution Quality Committee and sits on its Technology Committee.

Scott designed and ran the UK retail execution for the SpaceX IPO — a first for the UK market — through the Winterflood Retail Access Platform (WRAP), which opened primary market transactions to retail brokers and wealth managers. He also launched Winterflood Retail Intelligence (WRI) which gives tailored insight into UK-listed equity and ETF retail trading. Scott began his career at Instinet Europe, where he spent fifteen years, latterly as Head of Execution Services and Head of European Product Management.

Anish joined Optiver in August 2022 as Head of European Equity Market Structure, where his responsibilities include managing exchange relationships, steering advocacy efforts and government relations. Prior to joining Optiver, Anish was Head of European Market Structure at Rosenblatt Securities, responsible for the firm’s European market structure reports and events. Anish is a frequent speaker at industry events across the globe and in 2021 he was awarded the Plato Partnership’s MI3 Market Structure Award for Excellence. Prior to joining Rosenblatt, Anish was a journalist covering market-structure topics for over seven years.

Jordan Sinclair is the President of Robinhood UK, launching the company’s first international brokerage market in 2023. He is also the General Manager of Bitstamp UK.

Prior to joining Robinhood, Jordan was Managing Director, Europe at Freetrade – where he launched Freetrade’s first international brokerage market – and Director, Corporate Development & Strategy at Barclays. Jordan has wide-ranging financial services experience and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Jordan holds a BCom from the University of Cape Town and a MSc from the University of Edinburgh.

Richard Worrell joined Barclays in March 2026 as a Director, EMEA Electronic Sales. Prior to this he was Co-Head of Equity Trading for the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), where he worked from 2024. He was also Head of EMEA Equity Trading at Janus Henderson Investors between 2017 and 2024. As well as other roles during his near thirty year career, Richard was also previously a Plato Partnership board member and Chairman of the Investment Association’s Buyside Trading Committee.

Julie is Director of Cboe Europe B.V.,Cboe’s Netherlands-based exchange, and Head of Continental EU Sales for Cash Equities at Cboe Europe, which operates the largest pan-European equities exchange by market share and value-traded, the largest pan-European equity trade reporting services, as well as low-cost European equity market data and benchmark equity indices.
Prior to joining Cboe, Ms. Zhou was an Account Manager for MSCI, covering its Hedge Funds and Broker Dealer clients. She began her financial services career with Thomson Reuters on its graduate programme, including roles as a business development manager, strategy analyst and in its enterprise solutions division.  She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Tsinghua University in China.

Deniz Besiroglu is a market structure research analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence in London covering European equities with a focus on market structure, financial markets infrastructure, technology and regulation.

Charles is the European Equity Capital Markets Editor for Bloomberg News, he writes about initial public offerings, additional capital raising, exchange health and market structure.