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Howie Epstein
Howie Epstein
Director of Product Management | GM & Strategy Lead, Data, API & Services
Howie Epstein is Director of Product Management at LexisNexis, where he leads core product strategy and development for the Data, API, and Services segments. He also oversees go-to-market and commercial strategy across these segments, operating in a hybrid GM and product leadership capacity. His role spans end-to-end ownership—from vision and roadmap to market delivery and growth acceleration.
Before joining LexisNexis, Howie held senior product roles at Kroll, where he focused on innovation in the risk, compliance, and investigations space. There, he played a key role in modernizing digital offerings and scaling global product lines. His work bridged product, engineering, and client-facing teams to deliver high-value solutions tailored to enterprise needs.
With a background in technology, operations, and cross-functional leadership, Howie excels at aligning diverse teams, translating market insights into actionable strategy, and driving adoption through clear, differentiated positioning. He is known for his customer-first mindset, ability to simplify complexity, and consistent track record of delivering measurable business impact.
Aneek Akram
Konstantina Kapetanidi
Samed Bouaynaya
Samed has been joint portfolio manager for ADAF since January 2022, a director of Altana UCITS Funds since 2017 and PM for the Global Billionaires Fund from 2020-23. Prior to joining Altana in 2014, Samed was a Derivatives Trading Analyst at SocGen, a Credit Quant Analyst at JP Morgan and an Associate Director at RBC Capital Markets where he covered senior quantitative and risk roles supporting derivatives trading. Samed is a CFA® charter holder and holds an MSc. in financial and mathematical engineering from Polytechnic Federal School of Lausanne, Switzerland. He also holds an Msc in computer science and applied mathematics from ENSIMAG (French engineering school ‘Grande Ecole’) in Grenoble.
Angelina Johnson De Wet
Fares Triki
Alex Brenig Jones
Alex is responsible for bank-wide data-led insights, executive risk reporting, risk assessments and MI strategy in NatWest Group Financial Crime Risk. Previously led the Group’s efforts to tackle tax evasion: responding to the Criminal Finances Act as well as wider tax transparency (FATCA, CRS) risk management.
Before this Alex was at Barclays, where he supported the front office and managed client and corporate tax risk, across Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, Investment Banking, and in-house mergers & acquisitions.
His Experience includes leading RBS’s response to the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (risk assessments, training, designing and implementing controls), M&A tax from conception to post-completion, including sale of Wealth Asia business and sale of UK trusts business, managing tax risks associated with a wide range of FS products and services including structured notes, prime brokerage, real estate financing, and secured funding (securitisations and covered bonds). He has significant experience working with Financial Crime on tax evasion risk and corporate tax compliance roles.
Grace Fan
With two decades of on-the-ground experience across the Americas (including Brazil and Mexico) and China, Grace has worked at TS Lombard since 2007 and specializes in energy, political risk, infrastructure and industrial/tech policy, plus their intersection with emerging new technologies as key research themes. She previously led Latin America research at TS Lombard and has broad sector expertise in core areas spanning clean energy, oil & gas and agriculture alongside trade and tech issues. Prior to TS Lombard, she worked as an EM journalist with articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Dow Jones Newswires among other publications. She is a graduate of Harvard University and has an MBA from Brazil’s Getulio Vargas Foundation.
David Otudeko
David Otudeko leads the regulation directorate which is collectively responsible for the ABI’s policy work on prudential regulation, conduct regulation, tax, financial and corporate reporting and environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.
David joined the ABI in June 2021 as Head of Prudential Regulation from AmTrust International where he was part of the Risk Management function and was instrumental in establishing a Shared Services Risk Function at the Insurance Group. Prior to this, he had spells working in the Insurance Risk and Regulation Practice at PwC, the Prudential Regulation Authority’s Major Life Insurance Groups Supervision Department and in various roles at RBS over a 10-year period.