Speakers

Markus Weber
Group Tax/Group QI Compliance, UBS AG, Switzerland

Markus has over 10 years of relevant tax experience in the banking and investment fund sector, including the Qualified Intermediary regime. Before joining UBS AG in early 2010, Markus worked as tax advisor for consulting firms like Arthur Andersen or Ernst & Young and was afterwards Managing Director for an investment fund. He is holding Master Degree in financial economics and political science (lic.rer.pol) and is a (Swiss) certified tax expert.

Malcolm Powell
Vice President, Investment Products Tax Group, Morgan Stanley, UK

Malcolm has over 16 years’ experience in the investment management industry, including time at both PwC and JP Morgan. His current role is as tax lead on traditional and alternative funds products for the EMEA region at Morgan Stanley, covering funds in Luxembourg, Ireland, the UK, France, Saudi Arabia and Australia. His experience also includes real estate, private equity and closed-ended funds. Malcolm is currently Chair of the AIMA Tax Committee and a member of the IMA Tax Committee through which he is directly involved in discussions with policy makers on tax developments, especially FATCA and the proposed Financial Transactions Tax.

Matthias Geurts
Director, Tax Group, Deutsche Bank, Germany

Matthias Geurts, is a Director at Group Tax Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt. Beforehand he worked with the German Bankers Association in Berlin. He studied law at the Universities Bonn and Munich and holds a PhD in law. He is admitted at bar Frankfurt. He has written lots of articles in tax literature with respect to financial products and other tax and regulatory matters. He also holds lectures in master classes at the University Hamburg, Frankfurt and Tilburg/Leuven. Furthermore he advises the OECD and EU in tax matters, especially he was involved in the CIV- and TRACE-Report.

David Cafferty
Compliance Officer/MLRO, SAXO Bank, UAE

David Cafferty has over 25 years experience in the fields of accounting, corporate governance, financial crime, compliance, and antimoney laundering. A UK police-trained financial investigator and fraud examiner, he is also a Chartered Management Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is an international speaker on subjects relating to corporate governance, financial crime, compliance, counter terrorist financing, and money laundering and is a regular contributor to journals, magazines and newspapers on the same subjects.

Ross McGill
Managing Director, Globe Tax, USA

Ross is Managing Director of GlobeTax, the world’s largest independent provider of research, relief, recovery and reporting solutions for the financial services and investment communities. Ross has authored seven books on financial services subjects, three of which are about withholding tax. He has also recently been commissioned by Macmillan to write a new book on the US withholding tax system, due for publication in 2012. Ross sits on a number of international committees including the EU Tax Barriers Business Advisory Group, the ISO 20022 Securities Evaluation Group, the International Capital Markets Services Association Tax Sub-Committee and the Market Practice Data Users Group.

Ross is a recognised subject matter authority on withholding tax, particularly the US, and travels extensively in Europe and Asia to consult, explain and provide documentation, withholding, recovery and reporting solutions to financial firms and investors. Ross is also CEO of TConsult, a UK based specialist withholding tax training company which is also the publisher of two iPhone and iPad Apps for this market - FATCA and 1441.

Sunil Thacker
Legal & Tax Councelor, Sunil Thacker, UAE

Sunil has over 12 years’ experience in banking and finance, commercial law and litigation, and international tax. Over the past three years, Sunil has established himself as one of the expert advisers on construction and real property laws. He regularly contributes to leading law journals, magazines and newspapers on diverse subjects including lititgation and arbitration, property regulations, money laundering, international tax, biotech and healthcare.

Matt Gamble
Director, Head of Anti-Money Laundering Supervision, Dubai Financial Services Authority

Matt Gamble joined the DFSA in 2006 and is currently a Director in the Supervision Division. Matt is Head of the Division’s Special Surveillance Unit which includes leading the DFSA’s efforts on Anti-Money Laundering (AML). The Special Surveillance Unit co-ordinates and leads the Supervision Division’s resources in relation to supervision of variety of regulated entities, including Registered Auditors, Accountants, Lawyers and Representative Offices. In June 2011, overall responsibility for AML and Combating the Financing of Terrorism for all of the Dubai International Financial Centre was added to the responsibilities of the Special Surveillance Unit under Matt’s direction. The DFSA considers this area critical to its overall objectives.

Matt has over nine years of regulatory experience, having also worked for the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority and prior to that the Australian prudential regulator, APRA. Before becoming a regulator, Matt conducted his own legal practice for ten years, specialising in corporate and commercial law. Between 1980 and 1990 Matt held various senior accounting roles in Australia.

Matt has a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting major) and a Masters in Management from Wollongong University, a law degree from Macquarie University, a Masters in Law (specialising in dispute management) from the University of Queensland and the Islamic Finance Qualification from CISI.

Matt has been a member of CPA Australia since 1982 and is admitted to practice as a solicitor in the Supreme Courts of New South Wales and Queensland as well as the High Court of Australia. He holds a current certificate from the Queensland Supreme Court to practice as a solicitor.

Karlheinz Moll
Founder, SPIROCO Consulting, Germany

Sophie Biourge
Director, Product Management, Euroclear, Belgium

Stewart Adams
Regional Head Investors & Intermediaries, Transaction Banking, MENA, Standard Chartered Bank, UAE

Andrew Barstow
Partner, Financial Services, MENA, Ernst & Young, UAE

Wolfgang Goeb
Sales Product Management, Software Daten Service, Austria

Ljubica Grgic
Compliance & Risk Management, Detecon AG, Switzerland

Jayne Alfano
Senior Advisor, GlobeTax, USA

Columcille O’Donnell
Head of Group Compliance, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ranjith Kumar
Senior Director, Advisory Services, Ernst & Young, Bahrain