Archives: Speakers

Adam McConkey: Adam joined the Lombard Odier’s Volantis team at Gartmore in 2002 to specialize in smaller companies.

Adam has been head of the team since 2010 at Gartmore, Henderson and, since April 2017, at Lombard Odier Investment Managers.

Adam is the co-lead Portfolio Manager of the 1798 Volantis Fund which was set up in 2002 and co-leads on the 1798 UK Small Cap Best Ideas Fund which he and Rob Giles launched in 2006.

Prior to a career in UK smaller companies he worked on European equity desks at both Gartmore and the Co-Op bank.

Adam has a PhD in International Relations, sits on the board of the AIM Advisory Group and is Chair of the Quoted Companies Alliance.

Grant Parkinson is the Head of Consumer, Private and Business Banking for Europe.

He joined Standard Chartered in 2020 as Head of Private Banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and shortly moved into his current role.

Based in London, Grant is responsible for the region’s Priority and Private Banking business operations in Jersey, the United Arab Emirates and UK that serve emerging markets clients across Africa, the Middle East, UK and Turkey.

Grant has over 25 years of financial services experience. He joined Standard Chartered from Brewin Dolphin where he was Chief Operating Officer and led development of technology solutions for client-facing colleagues and digital.

Prior to that he worked at Coutts, also as Chief Operating Officer, where he successfully ran multiple business development, change and remediation programmes.

Earlier in his career, Grant worked at Barclays Wealth and McKinsey & Company.

Lisa brings extensive experience in oncology and CNS drug development to the table. She is especially enthusiastic about the industry’s increasing emphasis on data-driven approaches to deliver impactful results