Nicolas Galmiche

Senior Business Advisor

Nicolas has over 30 years of experience investing in financial markets, currently running his own investment firm where he focuses on generating returns for his family office.  Before this, he was Managing Director at JP Morgan until 2012 running Fixed Income businesses.  Nicolas also worked at BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse and has experience working across major financial centers including New York, London, Japan and Hong Kong.   He has chaired the European Bond Market Association and was also a BMA board member between 2006- 2008.

Nicolas graduated from the University of Dauphine in Paris with a Master’s degree in Finance in 1987.

Maryann Tseng

Senior Advisor

Maryann has 20 years of experience in both cross-border consulting and investing in financial markets. Most recently she was a Managing Director at CITIC CLSA, having started the Alternative Investment Solutions group specializing in cross asset alternative products. Prior to that, Maryann spent the majority of her investment banking career at Morgan Stanley, following earlier roles at Deutsche Bank and Bank of China International, all with a primary focus on Greater China markets where she has established deep networks and connectivity. She began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Taipei. 

Maryann will earn her Certificate of Management Excellence from Harvard Business School this Fall (2020), and has completed the Stanford Senior Executive Leadership Programme jointly run by Stanford Law School and the Graduate School of Business. Maryann holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Calgary.

Jean de Skowronski

Senior Advisor

Jean is an Attorney-at-law and holds an MBA from INSEAD. He has been active in the banking industry for more than 25 years, leading Credit Suisse’s Debt Capital Market Origination Departments in Zurich and London, BNP Paribas (Switzerland)’s Financial Institutions Group and a member of Credit Suisse’s UHNWI wealth management team. 

Member of several boards of directors, he has a broad experience in the field of finance regulation and in the banking and financial sectors, as well as in the areas of corporate and commercial law and in situations requiring mediation. Jean de Skowronski is active in a number of charitable organizations in Switzerland and abroad.

Professor Serge Darolles

Senior Quantitative Advisor

Serge Darolles is Professor of Finance at Université Paris-Dauphine where he teaches Financial Econometrics and Empirical Finance since 2012. Prior to joining Dauphine, he worked for Lyxor Asset Management between 2000 and 2012, where he developed mathematical models for various investment strategies. He also held consultant roles at Caisse des Dépôts & Consignations, Banque Paribas and the French Atomic Energy Agency. Serge specializes in financial econometrics and has written numerous articles, which have been published in academic journals. He is a member of the AMF Scientific Advisory Board. Serge holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Toulouse and a postgraduate degree from ENSAE, Paris.

Hervé Rubiella

Senior Commercial Advisor

Hervé began his career in 1992 at the AMF (the French Financial Markets Authority).  In 1994, he joined HSBC and in 2000, he joined Natexis Banques Populaires where he was appointed Global Head of Sales within Fixed Income, Commodities & Treasury in 2003. In 2016, he was appointed Global Head of Financial Institutions and Public Sector Coverage at Natixis Wholesale Banking.  Herve holds a Master’s Degree (DEA) in Finance from Université Paris Dauphine and an Executive Master in International Wealth Management from ESCP Europe.