Board Members

Before that he was Deputy Head of the Foreign Department and Head of the International Section of the Research Department of Banca d’Italia. He also worked as Economic Advisor at the European Commission. Francesco has a degree in law from the University of Rome and attended postgraduate courses in Economics and Business at the Istituto Adriano Olivetti in Ancona and at the London Business School. Francesco has written extensively in the field of Monetary Policy and International Economics.

At RBS Richard was responsible for financing and client relationships including the lending, bond and securitisation activities. Richard left RBS Markets in 2016 since then he set up and managed a small fintech.

Before that Ian was Head of Structured Finance for Europe Africa and the Middle East Standard & Poor’s having previously been the rating agency’s European General Counsel. He was also a partner at Clifford Chance in the securitisation group. Ian has degrees in law from the London School of Economics and Yale Law School.

Previous roles include executive senior positions at Santander Consumer Finance in Portugal and Banque PSA Finance in both UK and France, where, acting as CFO, was responsible for the development and implementation of the funding and capital plans.

Pedro holds a BSc in Economics from University Lusíada Lisbon, a MSc in Finance from Católica-Lisbon School of Business & Economics and attended postgraduate Senior Executive Program from London Business School.

Rob was a founding partner of TwentyFour, where for 15 years he was a portfolio manager; managing the firm’s ABS business, its public ABS funds and institutional mandates, and was a member of the firm’s Asset Allocation Committee.

In late 2023 Rob retired from his full-time portfolio management role, but retains a consultant-advisory role within TwentyFour, focusing on industry outreach and advocacy, education and leadership.

Rob has traded ABS since their inception and is recognised as one of the market’s leading authorities on the asset class, receiving Global Capital’s Outstanding Contribution to Securitization award in 2021. He is also a pivotal member of several high level market initiatives and steering groups.

Beginning his career in 1986, Rob previously spent over 20 years at Barclays Capital (formerly BZW) in London as a fixed income trader covering a broad range of instruments, where he established and managed the floating rate credit trading unit and was Managing Director and Head of European ABS Trading.

Prior to that Steve was at Bank of America in London. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the European DataWarehouse.

Ms. Júlia Király is professor of finance and monetary economics. She used to be the Deputy Governor of the MNB, the Central Bank of Hungary, responsible for financial stability and member of the Monetary Council during the crisis years (2007-2013). 2013-2021 professor Király was an independent member of the Board of KBC Banking and Insurance Group Belgium. She has several publications on monetary policy, banking and finance.

Prior to this, Mark was Global Head of Structured capital markets at Unicredit and Head of European Securitisation at UBS. Mark holds a degree in economics from Downing College, University of Cambridge.

Prior to that, Lars was a member of the board of the Swedish FSA. He also held positions as Executive Vice President in two commercial Swedish banks, Handelsbanken and Swedbank and during the Swedish banking crisis of 1991-1993, was as the deputy CEO of Föreningsbanken.

Michaela Ulrici a partner at the Dutch law firm of NautaDutilh where she heads the securitisation practice. She was also Chair the Board of NautaDutilh.