Archives: Speakers

Dr. Carlos Mejia

Carlos is a Partner at Rothschild & Co and joined the company in 2012 from Investec Bank, where he was the Chief Investment Officer and Head of  Portfolio Management between 2010 and 2012.

From 2005 to 2010, Carlos worked for UBS AG as Head of Investment Strategy and Portfolio Construction (London) and as Head of Asset Allocation for discretionary portfolios (Zurich).

Between 2000 and 2005, Carlos worked for Goldman  Sachs (London) advising institutional investors, first as an  Equity Strategist and then as the co-head of the Tactical  Asset Allocation Advisory team.

Carlos has a Master of Science and a Doctorate degree in Interdisciplinary Mathematics from the University of  Warwick (England) in addition to two first degrees from the National University of Mexico, one in Actuarial Sciences and one in Mathematics.

Carlos is member of the Responsible Investment Committee and the Balance & Inclusion Committee for the Rothschild & Co group and regularly publishes articles or interviews in local and international newspapers and social networks.

 

Peter Hunszinger

Peter Hunszinger is a registered professional engineer with over 35 years of project management and engineering expertise including leadership roles at Chevron and Worley. He has 20 years of sustainable fuels and carbon capture project experience. Peter is Worley’s Global CCUS Project Delivery Lead. In this role he leads the activities of Worley’s CCUS Communities of Excellence to further grow Worley’s technical capabilities and capacities covering the complete CCUS value chain. Peter has strong values in reducing the cost and risk of CCUS projects to accelerate their implementation.

Dr. Maryam MKhani

Dr. Maryam MKhani is a registered professional engineer with 25 years of research, concept, technology and business development expertise in sustainable process technology at energy companies and energy-intensive industry, start-ups, and academia. She has diverse carbon capture experience both in Direct Air Capture and point source CO2 capture technology development, technology scouting, evaluation and implementation across multiple industrial sectors with both commercial and emerging/ leading-edge technologies. In her current role as Director at Worley, Maryam is working on technical and commercial aspects of CCUS portfolio to integrate innovative solutions across the value chain. She also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor appointment at Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, where she contributes to teaching graduate courses such as CO2-capture – Science, Engineering and Society.

Clare McCaffery

Clare McCaffery, Atto’s Chief Commercial Officer, is passionate about financial inclusion and enabling consumers, worldwide, to access the services they need, in an affordable way. She embarked on her 20 + year career in risk management when she became a founding member of the team at Callcredit, now owned by TransUnion. After four years working on the commercial strategy at Callcredit she joined the emerging markets team at FICO, where she delivered some key products that are now at the heart of scoring and cross border risk assessment.
In 2012, after recognising the struggle ‘thin file’ and financially vulnerable consumers have when accessing credit, Clare became Managing Director at VisualDNA, the market leader in providing psychometric data for risk decisioning. As well as growing the business by sector and geo she also oversaw the exit to a global credit bureau.
Clare regularly speaks at industry events and is a valued panellist and advocate for financial inclusion and fairness in accessing affordable services.

Mark Croman

Mark Croman is a qualified lawyer with a Masters in IT & Telecommunications Law. He is an accredited mediator, qualified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Leader and Prince 2 PM Practitioner with external certifications in Climate Change Transformation and various AI related topics including the EU AI Act and AI Governance.

Mark joined NWG in 2004 gaining banking, regulatory, operational, transformation and risk experience across several roles and business areas including Legal (Litigation, M&A & Secretariat), Retail & Wealth, Transformation, Comms, Marketing and Public Affairs, before joining NatWest Depositary Services as Chief Operations Officer in 2019.

In his present role, Mark is responsible for wide range of activities across the UK and Luxembourg depositary businesses including strategic direction and partnerships; budgets and investment cases; outsourcing; client onboarding and in-life changes; financial crime; product governance; and business continuity. Mark is a member of the NWG Gender Network’s Allied Men committee and an active MentorHer coach.