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Anna Leahy
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR – SUSTAINABILITY
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Anna is Associate Director – Sustainability Analyst. She has recently completed her MSc in Environment and Resource Management, specialising in Energy Resources at VU Amsterdam. She has a background in finance, where she has worked as a Deal Origination Analyst for Sovereign Capital Partners, a mid-market Private Equity company, for just under two years. Prior to this, she has worked for several sustainable finance organisations, including the Impact Investment Advisory Group at the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and The Environmental and Technology Fund (ETF) Partners. Anna also has an MA in Geography from the University of Edinburgh.
Anthony Martin
Co-Founder
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Anthony is a co-founder and our portfolio management lead. He has a wealth of experience in ETF implementation, portfolio management and capital markets. Anthony was previously Head of ETF Portfolio Management at Legal & General Investment Management, and prior to that, at ETF Securities, where he was responsible for managing the offering across fixed income, commodities and equity ETFs.
Rahul Bhushan
Co-Founder
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Rahul is a co-founder and our investment strategies lead. He has a wealth of experience in systematic strategies, indexing and ETF strategy. Rahul played an instrumental role in the build-out of the thematic capability at ETF Securities. He was previously Co-Head of ETF Investment Strategies at Legal & General Investment Management, and played a pivotal role in building the AUM of the Canvas ETF business at ETF Securities.
Stuart Forbes
Co-Founder
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Stuart is a co-founder and our product lead. He is highly experienced in the full life-cycle development and management of ETF platforms. Stuart is a qualified solicitor and was previously Head of ETF Product Development at Legal & General Investment Management, and prior to that, at ETF Securities, where he was responsible for ETF development / structuring, platform management and legal.
Tom Barker
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR – PRODUCT SPECIALIST
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Tom is Product Specialist and CAIA Charterholder. He previously worked as a product strategist at Invesco where he was responsible for product management and sales strategy for EMEA ETFs. Prior to this Tom was a marketing specialist at Jupiter Asset Management and has also worked as a senior research analyst at alternative assets data provider Preqin. Tom enjoys anything fitness related especially running and trekking.
Ekaterina Tretyakova
Senior Research Analyst
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Ekaterina Tretyakova is a Senior Research Analyst at Euromonitor International, specialising in food and nutrition. She focuses on Eastern European markets, analysing developments across the food and ingredients industries as her core responsibility. Ekaterina is in regular contact and ongoing discussion with the leading market players, which gives her keen insight into industry activity and both current and future trends. Collaboration with Euromonitor’s analysts from other regions enables her to compare markets across the globe.
Kendrick Sands
Global Head of Consumer Finance Research
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Kendrick Sands is Global Head of Consumer Finance Research at Euromonitor International with a focus on consumer finance. Based in Chicago, he has more than 10 years of experience in the industry. Kendrick leads the consumer finance research program for 47 researched markets and analyses global development of payment systems, payment regulation and innovation in the payment and financial services space. Kendrick advises clients across a range of industries on global payment and financial service trends. Kendrick holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Trinity College Dublin.
Liseth Galvis
Senior Research Analyst
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Liseth Galvis is a Senior Research Analyst at Euromonitor International, based in London, with a focus on food and nutrition. She focuses on market research projects on the packaged and fresh food industries of the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese markets and contributes to the content creation on global company profiles. She has a deeper interest in consumer insights around pet care and snacks, and has a special interest in sustainability. Liseth holds a MSc in Investment and Finance from Queen Mary University of London.
Maxim Hofer
Senior Consultant
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Maxim is a Senior Consultant at Euromonitor International with a focus on retailing and consumer finance. Based in Düsseldorf, he has more than five years of experience in these industries. Maxim is also responsible for the analysis of the local political economy within Euromonitor’s Düsseldorf research team and has a special interest in the risks and opportunities for businesses investing globally; activity that flows from politics. Maxim advises clients across a range of industries on how consumers shop and pay, particularly in view of the transforming impact of digitalisation.
Michelle Evans
Global Lead for Retail and Digital Consumer Insights
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Michelle is Global Lead for Retail and Digital Consumer Insights at Euromonitor International. Based in Chicago, she has more than 10 years of experience in the industry. Michelle drives the firm’s retail and digital research strategy, providing actionable insights into where and how consumers shop as well as the evolving path to purchase. Clients across a range of industries tap into her in-depth knowledge of digital transformation, ecommerce and tech innovation to accelerate growth strategies. Recognised as a thought leader, she was named a top 100 retail influencer by RETHINK Retail in 2021 and a Woman to Watch by retail social think tank Remodista in 2018 and 2019. She has shared her expertise across industry events, including the National Retail Federation’s Big Show, CES, Shoptalk, Money20/20, Finovate, Mobile World Congress, Seamless and Forum Ecommerce Brasil in the capacity as a speaker, chairperson or juror. She has a reoccurring column in Forbes and is regularly quoted in publications globally.
Nozomi Hariya
Consultant
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Nozomi Hariya is a Consultant at Euromonitor International with a focus on food and nutrition industries. Based in Tokyo, she has over two years of industry experience. Nozomi mainly covers dairy and staple foods in Euromonitor’s packaged food research and has a special interest in plant-based food trends. Nozomi advises clients across food and nutrition on range of hot topics in the industry, discussing fast moving consumer trends both locally and globally. Prior to joining Euromonitor, she experienced merger and acquisition research in Hong Kong and credit investment research in Japan.
Rabia Yasmeen
Senior Consultant
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Rabia is a Senior Consultant at Euromonitor International with a focus on services and payments. Based in Dubai, she has more than five years of industry experience. As part of her role, Rabia has led Euromonitor International’s Travel and Tourism research globally. More recently, she co-leads the Digital Consumer research. She is also increasingly involved in development of cross-industry regional and global insights-based content. Rabia advises clients across retailing, travel and tourism, consumer finance and digital commerce and payments. She is also an internal consultant across teams, providing support on key client facing projects, such as market analysis on IPOs. She has a keen interest in areas of public-private partnerships, and financial and digital inclusion in emerging economies.
Patrick Brothers
Co-CEO and Co-Founder
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Patrick Brothers is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of HolonIQ, the global education intelligence platform. Patrick is a longstanding member of the B20 and World Economic Forum Education and Employment Task Force and is passionate about transforming the way the world learns. Prior to HolonIQ, Patrick held a variety of senior appointments in mission focused public-private roles including Education, Infrastructure and Defense across Asia, Europe and North America. Patrick holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of New South Wales and is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon.
Giadha A. DeCarcer
Ex-Founder
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Giadha A. DeCarcer was the Founder of New Frontier Data and CEO & Founding Member of Ctrust. She is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in business execution, management and strategic business development. Giadha has worked in finance, research and analysis, intelligence collection and reporting, and as a senior strategic consultant in multiple industries across both commercial and government sectors in the U.S. and abroad. Having launched and operated four successful data-driven businesses, DeCarcer and her work have been featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Fox News, CNN Money and other top news outlets.
John Kagia
Ex-Chief Knowledge Officer
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John Kagia was the former Chief Knowledge Officer at New Frontier Data and is currently the Director of Policy at New York State Office of Cannabis Management. He is one of the first analysts globally to focus exclusively on legal cannabis, and has been delivering market-leading insights into the industry’s growth and evolution to investors, business owners, and governments since 2015. John used to lead an exceptional team of economists, market analysts, consumer intelligence experts and data scientists. The team has produced the most comprehensive estimates for global cannabis demand to date, redefined the archetypes of cannabis consumers, established benchmark forecasts for the industry’s sales growth and economic impact, and correctly forecasted some of the industry’s most disruptive trends. He is a frequent and sought-after speaker, lecturer, and advisor on the intersection of business, policy, culture, and innovation in cannabis.
Félix Boudreault
Managing Partner
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Félix A. Boudreault is managing partner at Sustainable Market Strategies and Nordis Capital. Félix has 20 years of professional experience in energy, environmental policy and sustainable finance. He was previously the Director of International Climate Change Negotiation at Environment and Climate Change Canada. In this role, Félix led Canada’s negotiating team in the lead up to the Paris Agreement in 2013 and 2014. Before co founding SMS in 2018 , Félix has acted as a strategic advisor to think tanks, private companies, and international organisations such as the OECD and IFC on issues related to the economic opportunities created by the transition to a low carbon economy.
Lenka Martinek
Managing Partner
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Lenka is managing partner at Sustainable Market Strategies and Nordis Capital with experience in research and capital markets. She was a strategist and managing editor for the US Investment Strategy service at BCA Research, the leading provider of independent global macro investment research. She was also portfolio manager at one of Canada’s largest pension funds. She courageously left the corporate world to complete her master’s in Management and Sustainable development at HEC Montréal due to her desire to be better equipped to effect positive change while pursuing a financial career.
Chris Versace
Chief Investment Officer and thematic strategist
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Christopher (Chris) Versace is the Chief Investment Officer and thematic strategist at Tematica Research. The proprietary thematic investing framework that he’s developed over the last decade leverages changing economic, demographic, psychographic and technology landscapes to identify pronounced, multi-year structural changes. This framework sits at the heart of Tematica’s investment themes and indices and builds on his more than 25 years analysing industries, companies and their business models as well as financial statements. Versace is the co-author of “Cocktail Investing: Distilling Everyday Noise into Clear Investing Signals” and hosts the Thematic Signals podcast. He is also an Assistant Professor at NJCU School of Business, where he developed the NJCU New Jersey 50 Index.
Mark Abssy
Head of Indexing
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Mark Abssy is Head of Indexing at Tematica Research focused on index and Exchange Traded Product development. He has product development and management experience with Indexes, ETFs, ETNs and listed derivatives. In his 24 year career, he has held product development and management positions at NYSE|ICE, ISE ETF Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments and Loomis Sayles. He received a BSBA from Northeastern University with a focus in Finance and International Business.
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