Senior Global Financial Services Professional with proven skills in Public & Private Financial Markets, Marketing & Sales & Trading & Distribution Strategy Globally. Investor, Board Member & Adviser. Focused on scaling start-ups. Former Chairman of BANSEA. Speaker at Early stage business Forums. * Significant experience in sourcing, structuring, investing & managing early stage businesses. * Over 20 years of leadership roles in Financial Services. Wide ranging expertise ranging from sales,trading, distribution & capital markets of Asian equity and equity linked derivative solutions to global institutional investors as well as early stage venture investing. Expertise in in all US & Asian markets and ability to devise and market solutions for hedge funds and long only institutions working across multiple strategies in equities as well as other asset classes such as commodities, forex and fixed income. Proven experience in integrating cash equities and flow derivatives platform to build integrated coverage sales and distribution models for asset managers, pension funds and hedge funds. *Experienced commodity trading professional having traded agri-commodities such as animal feeds. * FMCG business management experience right from manufacturing to sales and distribution. Building businesses. Specialties: Equity, equity derivatives, hedge funds, prime brokerage, marketing, distribution management, risk management, sales and trading, product marketing, relative value & event driven strategies, investment management and advisory, angel investing/early stage investments