European ABF Forum

Corinne has over 20 years of experience in structured finance. She leads SCI's content strategy and writes on all aspects of securitisation with a focus on SRT.

Alice He is a Senior Investment Director in the Private Markets Group at USS Investment Management. She joined USS in 2009, and currently responsible for sourcing, evaluation and execution of investments in Private Credit and Alternative Income. She is an experienced investment professional and funds allocator. Prior to USS, She worked as an investment analyst in fund of hedge funds. Alice received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science.

Jeffrey Griffiths is a Partner and Global Head of Private Credit at Campbell Lutyens. He has over two decades of investment banking and capital markets experience in the U.S. and Europe, both as an arranger of transactions and as a private fund placement advisor. His current focus is on raising capital for private credit managers from institutional investors globally, as well as advising on liquidity solutions for both managers and investors in private credit funds. 

Prior to joining Campbell Lutyens, Jeff was a senior member of the private fund placement team at Credit Suisse. Jeff started his career in investment banking and leveraged finance at Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Houlihan Lokey. Jeff has a Masters in International Finance & Business from Columbia University, a B.S. in International Political Economy from Georgetown University, and a Diplôme from the Institut d’Etudes Poliques de Paris. He is Series 24, 7 and 63 registered with FINRA, CF30 approved in the UK and holds Certification from the AMF in France. Jeff speaks French, Spanish, Italian and has a basic working knowledge of Mandarin.

Matthew Jones is a Principal, Structured Credit at GoldenTree Asset Management focused on origination, analysis, structuring, execution and management of European structured credit investments. Prior to joining GoldenTree, Mr. Jones spent 11 years at M&G Investments, focussing on public and private structured credit investments. Mr. Jones holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and is a CFA charterholder.

Natalia is a seasoned financial professional with over 20 years of experience across both buy-side and sell-side financial markets. She is currently Managing Director and Head of FI Solutions at Intesa Sanpaolo, which she joined in 2023. Prior to this, she spent more than a decade on the buy-side in private credit, leading investments in structured credit, distressed debt, and real estate at AnaCap Financial Partners and CarVal Investors, where she most recently served as Head of European Distressed Credit.

Earlier in her career, Natalia spent over eight years in investment banking at NatWest and ABN Amro, focusing on structured credit, financing, and SRT transactions. Alongside her executive career, she has held non-executive director roles on international boards and committees across private credit, real estate, and the public sector. She currently sits on the Board of Compass Wellbeing CIC at East London NHS Trust.

Natalia holds an MSc in Finance from London Business School and is an alumnus of Harvard University’s Advanced Management Development Program.

Dr. Hepworth is a principal for AB CarVal, responsible for managing global investments in Loan portfolios and Structured Credit. Prior to joining AB CarVal in 2013, Dr. Hepworth was a director at BlackRock within their Financial Markets Advisory business advising European Financial Institutions and Governments on legacy distressed structured credit and whole loan portfolios. He also worked for RBS in their European Structured Credit Business and began his career at DrKW in their Structured Credit research team. Dr. Hepworth received his PhD in chemical engineering from Imperial College, London and M.Eng. from Cambridge University.

Munawer heads the Multi-Asset business within Aviva Investors Private Markets division, where he oversees the Structured & Private Corporate Debt team, the Portfolio Management team, and the Natural Capital business. As the Head of Structured & Private Corporate Debt, he is responsible for originating and structuring diverse range of private debt asset classes, such as corporate lending, insured and guaranteed loans, swap repacks, structured repos, fund finance, trade finance, and securitisations. These investments are evaluated on a relative value basis, leading to enhanced risk-adjusted returns compared to liquid public market investments. Munawer has strong expertise in cross-asset structuring and portfolio construction, allowing him to create optimal portfolio solutions under regulatory frameworks like Solvency II and Net Zero. Munawer is also a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), co-chairing the DEI committee. Additionally, he is a permanent voting member of the Aviva Investors Private Markets Global Investment Committee.

Olivier Vincens has a wealth of experience in the structured credit and securitisation sector. Currently at Funding Circle, the UK's leading SME finance platform, Olivier handles the origination, structuring, and execution of private forward flow agreements and also, funding optimisation.
Before joining Funding Circle, Olivier worked at top financial institutions including PwC, where he was in charge of Asset Liability Management for UK banks; Société Générale, where he focused on structured credit transactions; Fitch Ratings, where he rated structured finance products; and BNP Paribas, where he managed portfolios of bespoke CDO structures.
Known for his ability to navigate complex capital structures and apply rigorous risk management, Olivier has a proven track record of driving growth and market confidence in structured finance.

• Steven is a Principal in the European Asset Backed Finance group within Apollo Credit. Based in London, Steven focuses on the European consumer and residential sector, with investments ranging across structured products, whole loan portfolios and lending platforms.
• Prior to joining Apollo in 2020, Steven worked in the European Structured Finance team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was responsible for structuring asset-backed securities and mortgage-backed securities, as well as secured lending facilities backed by residential mortgages, auto loans and consumer loans.

Mr. Bradbury focuses on structuring and executing bespoke credit transactions for banks, financial institutions and corporates to address and improve risk, return, regulatory or other performance metrics. This includes secured and unsecured funding and cash and synthetic risk transfer transactions, often with illiquid or unusual assets, using securitization and other techniques.

Mr. Bradbury has worked with financial and non-financial clients in Europe, the U.S., Africa and Asia, structuring cash and synthetic risk transfer transactions for banks across evolving regulatory frameworks in excess of €100 billion. He advises investors in the risk transfer space, including one of the first insurers in the modern risk transfer market. He has also advised on regulatory ratio optimization transactions unrelated to RWAs and risk transfer, including LCR, NSFR, provisioning and NPL ratios and leverage ratio.

Mr. Bradbury has worked on complex credit transactions, including cash securitisations that were the first of their kind; receivables and inventory-backed ABL facilities; platform and non-bank lender warehousing facilities; securitisations involving future flows, DPRs, receivables and NPLs; repo of unrated retained asset backed securities (ABS); contract monetizations; and ECA financing transactions.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Bradbury worked with StormHarbour as Head of Structuring and Advisory and was responsible for all credit structuring globally. Prior to that, he worked with Societe Generale in financial institutions advisory and with Barclays Capital in portfolio management structured execution.

Mr. Bradbury earned a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University. A CFA® Charterholder, he frequently serves as a speaker at risk transfer and ABS events. 

Jennie Dorsaint is a banking and finance lawyer based in London. She represent lenders, arrangers, investors, administrators, servicers and real estate debt funds in connection with the origination, syndication, securitisation, warehouse financing, restructuring and enforcement of real estate debt and commercial loans throughout Europe and residential mortgages in the UK.

Jennie also acts for funds establishing, acquiring and growing non-bank loan origination business and servicing platforms and acquiring associated residential mortgage loan portfolios.

Jennie has particular experience in structured finance advising lenders, servicers and special servicers on cross border refinancing and restructuring.

Jennie is ranked in Chambers & Partners for Real Estate Finance. Sources sat that she is “very diligent and focused lawyer who is also able to successfully manage complex personalities to bring transactions to a successful completion" and that she has “excellent legal knowledge, client awareness, commercial knowledge and an ability to remain cool under pressure”.

Prior to joining Arini in 2024, Mr. Aquedim was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he spent the majority of his career in the Special Situations Group investing in European private debt and equity. 

He previously held roles in real estate within the Merchant Bank and Asset Management units of the bank, and began his career in mergers and acquisitions. 

Mr. Aquedim received four Master of Science degrees: from École Polytechnique in Applied Mathematics, from École des Mines in Engineering, from Sciences Po in Economics and Public Policy, and from Université Paris Diderot in Statistical Analysis and Stochastic Modelling.

Omar el Glaoui is Managing Director and Co-Head of the EMEA Real Estate Finance business at Citigroup, focusing on origination, structuring and distribution of senior and mezzanine debt

Over an 18 year career in commercial property finance, Omar has expertise in loan underwriting, distressed acquisitions, mezzanine / equity investments, CMBS bond trading and underwriting & risk management across Europe and all traditional and operating asset classes.

He joined Citi in 2014, and prior to that was with J.P. Morgan in London where he started his career in 2005.

Poppy works on a range of commercial real estate and securitisation structures and has experience on financing portfolios backed by residential mortgage assets, non-performing assets and consumer loans.

Poppy has also completed a secondment at a major US investment bank, assisting on a wide range of real estate finance transactions.

Poppy was listed in Legal 500 2021 ("client friendly, knowledgeable, thoughtful and responsive. She is also a delight to work with.").

Ian is a Managing Director at Barings Portfolio Finance where he is responsible for sourcing and structuring transactions. He is also a member of the investment committee. He was previously a Portfolio Manager at MassMutual’s Direct Private Investments team. Prior to joining MassMutual, Ian was the Head of Secondaries at Investec Fund Solutions, a team part of Investec Plc providing innovative liquidity solutions to funds and fund managers. Before that he also spent several years in the banks leverage finance and investment banking teams. Ian graduated with an accounting and law degree from the University of Stellenbosch as well as achieved a B.Com (Hons) Accounting.  Ian is Chartered Accountant and a qualified attorney.

Jerry van Koolbergen is the Managing Director responsible for Structured Credit at Morningstar DBRS. In this role, he oversees US teams rating CLOs, CLO warehouses, direct origination funds, leveraged loan funds, credit funds, debt issued by funds, debt issued by repacking of fund LP interests, CFOs of private equity and credit linked notes, special projects and surveillance. Mr. van Koolbergen joined Morningstar DBRS in 2008.

Prior to Morningstar DBRS, Mr. van Koolbergen was an Executive Director for Morgan Stanley in 2006, and a Vice President for JPMorgan from 1998-2006 responsible for CLO structuring and origination.

Mr. van Koolbergen holds an MBA in Finance from New York University, a BS in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Northwestern University.

Shailen is responsible for investment strategy, product innovation and origination.

Prior to joining NLC, Shailen headed the corporate advisory group at Macfarlanes and was an engagement partner at EY. These roles included the setup of new teams and covered transaction structuring, valuation and investment governance, ESG, technical accounting and regulatory capital advisory across asset management and private markets.

Shailen graduated in Economics from UCL and is an ICAEW qualified Chartered Accountant and Business Finance Professional.

Doug is a partner at TwentyFour and Co-Head of ABS.

Doug is a member of the ABS portfolio management team and sits on the Asset Allocation Committee.

A CFA® Charterholder, Doug began his career at Nationwide Building Society and also worked at S&P Global Ratings and Lloyds before joining TwentyFour.

Katherine serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Juice, a forward-thinking financial services company dedicated to providing growth capital for digital-first businesses. Katherine's journey in the financial sector spans over 20 years, marked by roles in banking and risk management at institutions including Commerzbank AG, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank.  Moving from banking to the startup world, Katherine joined Juice in 2019 as the Chief Financial Officer and has played a pivotal role in the company's growth. Her expertise in finance and risk management has been a key driver in Juice's evolution, leading to her transition to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Under Katherine's leadership, Juice was recognised as the 28th fastest growing tech company in the UK in the 2024 Deloitte Fast 50 awards and 4th in Women in Leadership.  

Mustafa is founder and partner of MD Advisors, a London-based independent debt advisory and restructuring platform providing high value-added, strategic and confidential advice in growth financings, LBO’s, special situations and distressed transactions.

Mustafa formerly held leadership roles at Rothschild, Morgan Stanley and Ondra Partners, and he has 26 years’ experience as lender, investor and advisor. At Rothschild Mustafa was responsible for the debt advisory and restructuring practice for financial sponsors. His expertise spans private and public financings across corporate, infrastructure and ABL debt.

Mustafa was a Fulbright Scholar and graduated from UC Berkeley.

Tim joined the business in 2012 and has more than 25 years of relevant experience. Tim is the Head of the Global Infrastructure Debt business and the portfolio manager of a number of the firm’s debt mandates. He is the Chair of the Debt Investment Committee and a member of the firm’s global Executive Committee.

Prior to joining Vantage, Tim worked in senior banking roles at Westpac in Sydney and London. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Business from the University of Otago and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School.

Johan is Channel’s Chief Investment Officer (CIO), responsible for leading the firm’s investment strategy and overseeing the execution of structured finance transactions across Channel’s client base

He is an experienced securitisation banker having previously worked at Santander CIB, StormHarbour Securities and BNP Paribas with a variety of client types and vanilla and esoteric asset classes. His product knowledge includes trade receivables, consumer assets, SMEs, CLOs amongst other.

Johan holds an MSc in Quantitative Finance from Cass Business School.

Michael is an investor/structurer with more than 20 years securitisation experience. Most recently he has built out the British Business Bank’s capital relief, private securitisation and speciality finance capabilities. In doing so he has supported more than £5bn lending to the UK’s SMEs using innovative guarantee techniques to both increase lenders’ capacity and/or improve their costs of financing.

Prior to this Michael has worked in both the private and public sector at institutions including EIF and S&P working on asset classes ranging from mortgages to the more esoteric and across multiple jurisdictions. 

Akim Kibalnik is an experienced banker with a background in structured and commodity finance. In October 2024, Akim was appointed Head of Structured Trade Finance Solutions for EMEA at BBVA London, where he leads the development and delivery of innovative financing solutions across the region, with a particular focus on commodities and complex cross-border structures. Prior to BBVA, Akim held various roles at Citi, most recently serving as Natural Resources Sales Lead for the UK and Europe.

Akim is a member of the Executive Committee and leads the Mentorship Programme at the London Trade Roundtable, a non-profit organisation that provides networking and mentoring opportunities for trade finance professionals. He holds a Master of Science in Strategy and Innovation from Vienna University of Economics & Business and is currently pursuing the CFA designation

Alan has joined Howden at the beginning of 2024 as Executive Director, Balance Sheet Advisory & Structuring where his role will include arranging securitisation transactions (with a particular focus on SRTs) and advising clients on other credit risk management solutions.

Prior to Howden, Alan worked across a number of roles at Bank of Ireland for 20 years, most recently as Head of Balance Sheet Management & Execution responsible for securitisation, debt capital markets, liquidity portfolio management, IRRBB and NPE portfolio disposals.  In this role he established their successful SRT programme which now counts multiple transactions across a wide variety of asset classes.

Frank is Portfolio Manager for the Cheyne risk transfer strategy, focusing on transaction origination, assessment and portfolio construction activities. Prior to joining Cheyne, Frank served as Managing Director and head of Capital and Structured Funding Solutions at Barclays International which he joined in 2006.

Notably, under his leadership, Barclays established the Colonnade SRT programme, which became an industry-leading issuance platform. Frank advised numerous banks on SRT solutions, served as board member of the AFME Securitisation Group and represented the industry on all SRT matters with regulatory bodies such as the PRA, EBA and Fed.

Frank holds a Master Degree from Ecole Centrale, with a year of specialisation in both Applied Mathematics for Finance and Entrepreneurship, and a postgraduate degree from La Sorbonne University in Financial and Economical Mathematics.

Corinne has over 20 years of experience in structured finance. She leads SCI's content strategy and writes on all aspects of securitisation with a focus on SRT.