Ian Bell has worked in securitisation in various capacities since 1988, first as a lawyer and partner at Clifford Chance, then as general counsel and head of structured finance at Standard & Poor’s Europe and finally as CEO of PCS.

Mark Lewis has been a participant in the domestic and international financial markets since 1983 and in the securitisation markets since 1989 including roles as Head of European Securitisation at UBS and Global Head of Structured capital markets at Unicredit as well as Chair of AFME’s Securitisation Committee.

Tris has long standing experience in office management and worked at AFME in the securitisation division.

Max Bronzwaer was Treasurer and Member of the Management Board of Obvion Mortgages, a 100% subsidiary of Rabobank Group where he was responsible for Obvion’s RMBS programme STORM, one of Europe’s leading RMBS programmes with more than 40 transactions and total issuance of over EUR 55 billion including the world’s first green RMBS.

Rob Koning has been working for 40 years in the banking industry. Since 1994 he has been actively involved in securitisation, both in Europe and the US. As a Managing Director in Structured Finance at ABN AMRO Bank, Rob was responsible for the Dutch market as well as the global ABCP business line of the bank.

Harry Noutsos started working in securitisation in 2000 where, after working in research and structuring at CSFB, he took on responsibilities for modelling and structuring at Bank of America and Santander before taking the position Global Head of ABS for ING.

Ashley Hofmann has been working in the securitisation industry for 12 years organising events and marketing campaigns for Euromoney Institutional Investor under subsidiaries IMN and GlobalCapital. She previously managed IMN’s industry conferences and sponsorships including Global ABS, and was responsible for producing and selling GlobalCapital’s European Securitization Awards.

Fazel Ahmed has been a participant in the domestic, European and international securitisation markets since 1989 including roles as Head of Asia Pacific Securitisation at UBS and Co-Global Head of Securitisation at CIBC World Markets.

Rob Leach has worked on securitisations both in the US and Europe since 1998 for S&P and GMAC Commercial Mortgage/Capmark. Prior to that he was a commercial real estate loan originator.

Martina Spaeth started working in securitisation in 1997, first at UBS and then at Fitch before leading the German securitisation team at HVB/Unicredit. She then moved to FMS in charge of an asset management group restructuring bad debts.

Daniele Vella is a lawyer specialising in securitisation since 2000 at Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Hogan Lovells as well as at Barclays and RBS.

Lauren Shirley is an accomplished events professional specialising in corporate conferences and networking events. She joined PCS in January of 2023 in order to manage their European Symposia Series.