Arnaud Sarfati
Co-Founder, La Française Investment Solutions
Arnaud founded LFIS in 2013 and has overseen the firm’s growth to $13 billion in assets under management over the last 5 years. Before founding LFIS, Arnaud spent 15 years with SG CIB where his last position was Co-Head of Cross Asset Solutions. While at SG, Arnaud developed a number of financial innovations that contributed to SG CIB's position as a global leader in equity derivatives. Arnaud graduated from ESSEC. He also holds a Master’s degree in probability and finance from Paris VI.
Mabrouk Chetouane
Head of Research and Strategy, BFT Investment Managers
Mabrouk Chetouane has been the Head of Research and Strategy at BFT Investment Managers (Amundi Group) since 2015. In parallel, he teaches econometrics and economic modeling at Paris Dauphine University as well as at the Ecole Centrale de Paris. Mabrouk began his career in 2005 at Société Générale AM where he completed his PhD in partnership with the Paris Dauphine University. He then moved to the Banque de France as an Econometrician where he was in charge of inflation forecasts until 2012. He then held the position of Principal Economist at IHS-Markit for three years, developing an economic scenario generation tool based on an SE-ECM approach. Mabrouk holds a Master’s of Macroeconomics from the University Paris Sorbonne and a Master’s in Statistical and Economic modelling from the National School of Statistics (ENSAE).
Amanda Pullinger
CEO, 100 Women in Finance
Ms. Pullinger is the Chief Executive Officer of 100 Women in Finance (previously 100 Women in Hedge Funds). She leads a small staff team and manages over 500 volunteer practitioners globally, overseeing the operations of the organization, which now has over 15,000 members in 22 locations.
Ms. Pullinger is a former principal of Aquamarine Capital Management, where she was responsible, over a period of seven years, for managing marketing, investor relations and back office administration for two private investment funds. Ms. Pullinger is currently on the Boards of the HALO Trust (USA), the American Friends of The National Portrait Gallery (London) Foundation and serves as a Director on the Oxford University Alumni Board. She is also Vice Chair of the Women’s Network Forum.
Ms. Pullinger graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University in 1987 with an Honours Degree in Modern History. She earned an MBA from La Salle University, Philadelphia, in 1998, and received the Academic Award for MBA student of the year as well as the Beta Gamma Sigma designation.
