Matthew McLoughlin joined Liontrust in 2015 and has over 12 years of financial markets experience. Matthew started his career at AIG Investments, where he spent three years as a Junior Fixed Income Fund Manager. He then spent just under six years as a Senior Trader at Hedge Fund RAB Capital before moving to Legal & General Investment Management, where he traded Global Equities and Derivatives before moving to Liontrust. Matthew is a Member of The UK Investment Association’s MIFID II Best Execution Working Group and was named as one of the Top 40 Traders Under 40 in Europe by The Trade Magazine in 2015 and 2016.  Matthew has an Economics degree from The University of Surrey and passed the Investment Management Certificate in February 2006.

Ian Mawdsley is the Head of Buy-side Trading EMEA & APAC, Refinitiv. He has been working in the financial markets for over 25 years, with the first 8 years in the front office and the remainder working within the financial technology sector. Ian joined Thomson Reuters in January 2017 following the acquisition of  REDI Holdings LLC.
 
Ian holds a Bsc in Computer Science and has completed post-graduate work around object-based systems design.  He is a keen sportsman spending much of his spare time competing in triathlons alongside coaching a mini-rugby team.

Kevin McPartland is the head of market structure and technology research at Greenwich Associates. He has nearly 20 years of capital markets industry experience with deep expertise in market structure, regulation and technology impacting the fixed-income, FX and equity markets.

Prior to joining the Firm, Kevin was with BlackRock, where he was a Director in the Electronic Trading and Market Structure group. Prior to  Blackrock, he was a Principal at TABB Group, where he founded and led the firm's fixed-income research practice. Kevin also spent time at J.P.Morgan, UBS and Deutsche Bank in varying capacities.