About BTON Financial

Dan founded BTON Financial in 2017, realising that he could help asset managers take advantage of the opportunities arising from MiFID II regulatory change. Prior to BTON Financial, Dan was head of sales and marketing for the LSE’s MiFID II solution. During his career, Dan worked at leading prime brokerage firms in Europe and Asia, including Societe Generale, ING Barings MF Global and Marex Spectron, and helped build and sell low latency trading FinTech infrastructure company Algospan.

Charles has spent over 15 years in the hedge fund and asset management industry. A technology expert and experienced quant trader, Charles was Chief Technology Officer at Interdax, where he deployed an ultra-low latency matching engine supporting both institutional and retail clients. He was a quant trading strategies consultant for a Swiss hedge fund and has held senior technology tenures at hedge funds, with responsibility for full stack development of distributed automated trading systems.

Caroline joined BTON Financial after more than two decades working as a regulatory and transformation expert predominantly across the investment and asset management community. Previously, she held Program Director roles for the Bank of Montreal and BMO GAM Asset Management, and MiFID II Program Director for Principal Global Investors. Prior to that, she was Head of Regulatory Change Delivery for Columbia Threadneedle Investments and Change Management Consultant at PwC.

Justin joined BTON Financial after spending nearly a decade in senior technology sales at the London Stock Exchange. His expertise includes implementing technology solutions with buy- and sell-side clients; he was responsible for selling the LSE’s UnaVista platform. Prior to that, he worked for MBA IT, a London based IT services provider. He started his career at Parsons Brinckerhoff, a multinational engineering and design firm operating in the fields of strategic consulting, planning and engineering.

A CERN physicist by training, Emmett has spent the majority of his career as quant and trader/developer. Most recently he was a quant trader with Millennium Capital Partners, Nomura International and Credit Suisse, in charge of trading strategies, market making and index arbitrage in futures, equities and ETFs. He started his trading career as a Director at UBS in charge of electronic execution and algo trading and as Deputy Head of Structured Products for NCB, in Bahrain.

Tony Walker has more than 20 years experience in electronic trading. Currently a Non-Executive Director of Citadel Securities Europe, he started his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers where he joined the nascent electronic trading business. From 2006 he spent over a decade in various roles at Merrill Lynch, including Managing Director of EMEA Execution Services, where he helped establish the electronic trading franchise, both market access and algorithmic access for clients.

A serial entrepreneur, Paul Birch is the co-founder of social network Bebo, which was launched in 2005 and later sold to AOL for $850m. Since then, Paul has been an angel investor in a variety of B2B Fintech Businesses as well as a supporter of legalising and regulating the cannabis market. Currently, Paul is a Non-Executive Director at Onalytica, and Co-Founder at Birthday Alarm. 

Andrew Bernard is a Non-Executive Director at BTON Financial. A seasoned executive with more than 30 years experience in capital markets, Andrew has a deep understanding of fixed income and electronic markets. Most recently he spent 17 years at Tradeweb as Managing Director in Asia and in the UK. Prior to that he served as a Director for Bank of America, Societe Generale and Bankers Trust and VP at Lehman Brothers.