Speakers
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Colin Standish Colin Standish, Co-head of Equities - West Yorkshire Pension Fund
Colin’s career in pensions spans 30 years and began at GMPF in 1993. He joined West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF) in 2000, managing part of the UK equity portfolio before moving across to managing the North American portfolio in 2008. In 2014, he was promoted to head of overseas equities with responsibility for other areas including bonds and treasury. Today, Colin is Co-head of Equities and directly runs the North American portfolio worth over £3.6bn.
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Kelly Tran Managing Director, Institutional Sales - MFS Investment Management
Kelly, CFA, is managing director of UK & Ireland at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). In this role, she is responsible for new business development for the institutional business across defined benefit clients, defined contribution clients and consultant relations.
She is based in London. Kelly joined MFS in 2021 in her current role. Previously, she held various roles over a seven year period with Newton Investment Management/Bank of New York Mellon including client director, commercial sustainability leader and head of UK sales. She also spent eight years at J.P. Morgan Private Bank managing multi-asset portfolios for ultra-high-net-worth clients, covering Russia, Greece and Israel.
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Krishan Dhanjee Associate Director , Consultant Relations - MFS Investment Management
Consultant Relations with MFS Investment Management. In this role, he is responsible for developing and expanding investment consultant relationships with a focus on the UK, working with the EMEA sales team to drive sales and marketing strategy as well as developing prospect relationships. Based in London, Krishan joined MFS in 2018 as a consultant relations associate. He previously worked at Willis Towers Watson as a senior investment analyst for three years. Krishan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in financial mathematics from The University of Kent. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Ed bradburn Deputy Head of Property Finance - Frontier Development Capital — Mercia Asset Management
Ed joined the property team from HSBC where he worked primarily in Corporate Banking and Real Estate Finance. A qualified banker, with extensive knowledge of the structuring, negotiation and execution of real estate transactions across a broad range of sectors. Ed is Deputy Head of the team responsible for the growth, delivery, modelling and management of the property funds.
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Melanie Hooper Melanie Hooper - Client Manager -Mercia Asset Management
Melanie is a Client Manager at Mercia Asset Management PLC, where she focuses on institutional fundraising and investor relations across the firm's private markets strategies. Having joined Mercia in 2011 and spent over a decade supporting investments across debt, venture capital and private equity, she now works closely with pension funds and other institutional investors to connect long-term capital with businesses and projects that drive economic growth throughout the UK.
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Maria Gendelman Vice President, EMEA Business Development - CFM
Based in London, Maria is responsible for UK and Irish institutional investors at CFM. Maria began her career in the Deutsche Bank Cap Intro team before moving to the buy side. Maria worked in investor relations and business development roles at Marshall Wace in London and Syquant Capital in Paris before joining the CFM EMEA Investor Relations team in January 2023 to lead business development in the UK. She graduated with a BSc in Economics from UCL in London.
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Martin Jost Head of Product Specialists - CFM
Based in Paris, Martin heads CFM's Product Specialist unit, engaging with institutional investors across the globe. Working alongside CFM's Research department, he manages a team conducting quantitative analyses across CFM's investment programs and communicating CFM's investment approach to clients. With over 10 years at the firm, he brings established expertise in the firm's product development and attends the Investment Committee. Martin has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry and has previously worked in London in the Investment Banking division of Rabobank and Société Générale, where he structured equity derivatives and hybrid trading strategies. He graduated from Centrale-Supélec engineering school, earned a BS in Economics from Université Paris Sud, and an MSc in Finance with Distinction from Imperial College London, where he studied financial engineering.
