Based in Dublin, Arveen is the Chief Risk Officer and Designated Person for Operational Risk Management at Ashmore Investment Management (Ireland) Limited. He has over 20 years experience in the financial services sector with a large part of that having been spent in the asset management industry.

Prior to joining Ashmore, Arveen was Head of Risk (Ireland) at GAM Fund Management Limited and held the Designated Person role for both Operational Risk Management and Fund Risk Management as well. He has spent the time at both organisations leveraging his risk management experience in implementing the numerous regulatory requirements and guidelines in respect of UCITS and AIF’s that fund management companies in Ireland are obliged to comply with. Before relocating to Ireland, Arveen worked in senior internal auditing and operational risk management roles at asset managers in South Africa where he gained extensive exposure to a wide spectrum of listed and unlisted asset types.

Arveen holds an MPhil (Internal Auditing) from the University of Pretoria and an MBA from the University of Cape Town. He is a Certified Internal Auditor, a Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and an Associate of the South Africa Institute of Chartered Accountants.

David Delaney is the Designated Person for OperationalRisk at Hermes Fund Managers Ireland Limited. He has worked across a wide range of financial services companies since 2008. He holds qualifications in Risk, Compliance and a degree in Economics from Trinity College Dublin. He currently splits his time between Dublin and Donegal.

Enda Roche is Chief Risk Officer for Fidelity InternationalIreland, the Irish based operations of Fidelity International, which provides investment management services, including private assets & wholesale, unit trusts & mutual funds, pension management and fund platform offerings to private and institutional investors. Fidelity International in Ireland includes a regulated UCITS/AIFM management company, various funds boards, and a regulated Life Insurance entity under Solvency II / EU Insurance & Reinsurance regulations.

Enda has experience in the investment management, credit institution, and insurance investment sectors on both an Irish domestic and cross border international basis. Enda has managed the start-up/build out of a cross border pan-European Life Assurance entity, European credit institutions, and a fund management investment administration group, all based out of and regulated primarily from Ireland. The roles include responsibility for the establishment and build out of the risk and the compliance functions, risk framework, control assurance programs, policy development and application and legislative review and interpretation. Enda has significant experience in dealing with the Irish, UK, European, and US regulatory bodies. Prior to joining Fidelity, Enda worked for Prudential plc in both Group Head Office in London and for the Irish operations, Prudential International Assurance plc, the European & offshore Life Assurance regulated entity based in Ireland. Prior to Prudential, Enda was Chief Risk Officer for Dell Bank International part of Dell Financial Services, and prior to Dell, was Chief Risk Officer for the European operations of U.S. Bancorp, Elavon Financial Services, a payments and corporate trust business.

Enda joined both Dell Bank and U.S. Bank’s European entity at their start up stages, prior to the entities receiving licenced regulatory approval, and was central to the establishment and build out of their enterprise risk management functions.

Enda is a qualified Chartered Accountant, holds a Bachelor Commerce Degree from University College Dublin, and a Diploma in Economics from Independent Colleges.

Michael joined LGIM in July 2018 as Chief Risk Officer. In this role he leads the Compliance and Risk team which supports all aspects of both Compliance and Risk for LGIM Managers (Europe) Ltd. Prior to joining LGIM, Michael was Chief Risk Officer of Abbey Capital, where he was a member of the Executive management team, Compliance Committee, Credit Committee, Risk Committee and Operational Due Diligence team, ensuring he has a deep understanding and knowledge of the Compliance and Risk requirements of a management company, as well as an appreciation of the challenges faced by the wider industry in these areas.

Michael began his career as a software developer. Michael graduated from Trinity College Dublin with First Class Honours degree in Information Systems and has a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City Universities Centre for Digital Video Processing. Michael is also a member of the Professional Risk Managers International Association.

Thomas Nummer, a former investment manager, acts as an independent director for a number of Luxembourg and Cayman funds and Management Companies and has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry. Thomas is a seasoned risk manager with specialist knowledge of investment compliance and risk management within UCITS and alternatives funds governed by the AIFMD framework. Before starting his own business, Thomas was Managing Director of Carne Global Financial Services in Luxembourg where he launched their Management Company business.

Until 2011 he was Director and Chief Risk Officer for Allianz Global Investors Luxembourg S.A., where he worked for eight years incl. his role as European Head of Outsourcing Risk for all Management Companies at Allianz Global Investors Europe. Prior to this, he was employed by ADIG Investment in Luxembourg, working as a portfolio manager. He began his financial career as an options trader (EUREX market maker) for AGON in Cologne.

Thomas has a degree (Dipl. Kaufmann) from the University of Trier, Germany, and a post-graduate qualification (Financial Analyst – CEFA) from the Society of Investment Professionals in Germany (DVFA). He plays an active role with ALRiM (the Luxembourg association of risk management professionals) and is well known in the industry as a risk and product expert. Furthermore he is Co-Chairman of ALFI´s Risk Management Committee.