Richard Chataway
Vice President, BVA Nudge Unit UK
Richard is Vice President of BVA Nudge Unit UK and one of the most experienced practitioners using behavioural science in communications in the UK. His forthcoming book, ‘The Business of Behaviour’, will be published by Harriman House in the autumn. He has successfully addressed behavioural challenges as varied as getting people to stop smoking, join the armed forces, drink spirits rather than wine, turn up to school, pay for university tuition, submit their taxes, buy flatpack furniture, and take public transport – to name a few. His strategy for the #XTL campaign (a social media campaign addressing domestic violence) won the Global Festival of Media Campaign of the Year in 2014, and he also led the development of the world’s most successful stop smoking mobile app (My QuitBuddy). Richard has worked in senior strategic roles for both local and central government in Australia and the UK. Commercial clients he has advised include Lloyds Banking Group, Google, Atos, IKEA, Pfizer, Sainsbury’s, ING, ITV, BT, Kimberly Clark, American Express, InterContinental Hotels Group, Campari, FOX Networks, Starbucks and Unilever. Whilst in Australia he created their first Behaviour Change Unit, and returned to the UK in 2015 to become the first dedicated Head of Ogilvy Change, prior to founding behavioural science consultancy Communication Science Group. Previously he developed the first training program for behaviour change communications at the COI in 2010, and since then has conducted training for call centre personnel, marketing directors, press officers, media planners, creatives and everything in between. Richard is a frequent conference speaker, and a board member of the Association for Business Psychology, the home and voice of business psychology in the UK.
Otto van Hemert
Head of Macro Research, Man AHL
Otto van Hemert is Head of Macro Research at Man AHL. Prior to joining Man AHL in 2015, Otto ran a systematic global macro fund at IMC for over three years. Before that he headed Fixed Income Arbitrage, Credit, and Volatility strategies at AQR, and was on the Finance Faculty at the New York University Stern School of Business where he published papers in leading academic finance journals. Otto holds a PhD in Economics and Masters Degrees in Mathematics and Economics.
Tamera White (née Hodges)
Managing Director, Global Head of Quant Solutions and Data Solutions, UBS AG
Tamera has been in the financial industry for 25 years and with UBS for 16 of those. Today she performs multiple roles. As Global Head of UBS Quant Solutions she oversees our cross product and cross regional approach for Quant clients globally and sits on the Global Cash Executive Committee and Global Distribution Executive Committee. In shaping our systematic product offering and client strategy, Tamera founded and manages UBS Data Solutions our business to surface UBS’s proprietary data in a centralised and compliant way. As part of our IB Digitilisation Strategy, Tamera is a member of the Innovation Lab Council and Digital Strategy and Governance Committees. Previously Tamera was a Senior Relationship Manager for a group of our largest Quant Clients where she was responsible for the delivery and alignment of the entire UBS platform. From June 2010 until July 2016, Tamera managed APAC Prime Services Sales for UBS based in Hong Kong and latterly Singapore. While in Asia, she served on both the APAC Equity and FRC (Fixed Income, Rates and Currency) Distribution committees. Tamera joined UBS in 2003 where she performed various roles within the European Prime Brokerage business before moving to Asia. In addition to her roles with UBS she has also previously worked for Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers across Asset Management, Global Listed Derivatives & Prime Brokerage. Tamera has served on the Executive Committee of AIMA Singapore as well as the UBS APAC IB Diversity & Inclusion Council. She was a founding member of EARN (European Alternative Return Network), the forerunner to 100 Women in Finance in London.Tamera is married with two daughters, Ava and Elloura.
Lizzy Buss
Vice President, State Street
Lizzy Buss is Head of Business Development, EMEA and APAC for InfraHedge. Lizzy advises on the design, build and ongoing operations of customised infrastructure platform solutions. Lizzy has held technology, operations, and sales roles at JPMorgan, UBS Investment Bank and State Street Bank. Lizzy is a member of the Diversity Project’s neurodiversity work stream and TISA’s council for children’s financial education. Lizzy holds a BSc (Hons) Chemistry from the University of Nottingham and is a Board Member of HFC (UK).
