Ian is a joint-founder of Calastone and Chief Executive Officer.
Ian is responsible for the day-to-day running of the business,
with specific responsibility for the provision of the production service,
client delivery, quality assurance and account management.
Prior to starting Calastone in 2007, Ian worked as an independent consultant for a number of sell-side brokers,
asset managers and market vendors for a period of four years.
His expertise focused primarily on driving change associated with the improvement of
electronic connectivity between buy- and sell-side firms.
From 1990 to 2003, Ian worked for Allianz Global Investors, Banc of America Securities and
Insight Investment in senior IT and business roles. During these tenures, Ian’s primary focus
was to rationalise business processes for diverse business units across different geographical regions,
in order to improve operational performance and reduce operational risks.
Ian’s early career included work for American Express and BT as an IT project manager on several large
scale re-engineering change programmes, based in both the US and Europe. He has a Post Graduate Diploma
in Computing for Commerce and Industry from the Open University.
Campbell Brierley is a joint-founder of Calastone where he is both Head of Development
and Chief Technology Officer. Campbell has overall responsibility for the development
of Calastone’s innovative transaction network for the mutual fund industry.
Campbell has worked in the financial IT industry for more than 18 years, spearheading
the development and implementation of back, middle and front-office systems. Prior
to joining Calastone, he worked as an independent consultant and developed various
algorithm-based applications. He also used these systems himself as an active day
trader in Hong Kong.
Prior to this, Campbell spent five years at Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA)
where he was responsible for the development, global roll-out and management of
a front-office Order Management System (OMS), which connected to the majority of
Asian exchanges for CLSA, mostly for the first time. The majority of his development
work has involved messaging technologies and communications platforms, predominantly
SWIFT and latterly FIX.
Campbell’s career has also included application support and development placements
at Jardine Fleming, the Hong Kong investment bank, Credit Suisse Financial Products,
Bank of America and Lloyds Bank. He has a degree in Applied Physics and is qualified
in a multitude of computer languages and applications.
As CFO of Calastone, Sean is responsible for all aspects of: accounting, performance reporting,
funding/capital raising, external relationships with VC’s/Bankers/Auditors/FSA, exit/M&A, company secretarial,
legal, and HR.
Sean brings over 20 years Board level commercial finance experience to Calastone having held senior financial
positions at JLT Group plc, Ernst & Young LLP, British Telecom plc. Sean’s wealth of commercial expertise has
been gained in private companies and listed international corporations covering Financial Services, Corporate
Finance advisory, Telecoms & Technology in UK, Europe, Latin America, Canada, Asia.
Sean is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Accountants in England & Wales, was awarded and MBA from
Henley Business School, and holds a B.Sc in Chemistry from Imperial College, London.
Ken Tredidgo joined Calastone in 2008 as Development Director with responsibility
for the firm’s corporate strategy. Ken brings a wealth of experience in business
and technology transformation within the Financial Services industry. Ken joined
Calastone from a three year tenure at Atos Euronext Market Solutions (AEMS), where
he was Global Head of Strategy and Business Development. Ken’s responsibilities
included strategy, business development and business management across the Exchange,
Clearing & Settlement and Capital Markets business units.
Prior to AEMS, Ken was with the Instinet Group for five years. His roles included
Chief Operating Officer for Instinet International, when he was responsible for
Instinet’s European Agency Brokerage Business; Chief Operating Officer for Instinet
Europe; and Head of Strategy and Planning for Instinet Group.
Prior to Instinet, Ken spent five years in similarly strategic positions with Merrill
Lynch including Head of Architecture for the Corporate and Institutional Client
Group, and Head of Global Derivatives Technology. In the former role, Ken developed
complete front-to-back technology as well as process and data architectures for
the global equity and debt businesses.
Ken’s early career included placements at SBC Warburg, Chase Manhattan Bank and
Logica Ltd. He received a B.Sc. in physics from Imperial College, London and holds
a D.Phil in Atomic Spectroscopy from Oxford University.
Prior to starting at Calastone in 2009, Dan worked for EMXCo and Euroclear UK and Ireland EUI.
Whilst at EUI Dan was responsible for the mutual fund settlement programme and worked with the
industry and the FSA to help develop Euroclear’s product offering to the UK market.
From 2001 to 2006, Dan worked for Brewin Dolphin where he was responsible for a number of different
operational and IT areas as well as helping them implement one of the markets first ever automated
systems for Corporate Action processing.
His early career included work for Barings, Kleinwort Benson, Dresdner Bank and RaboBank where he
led on a number of initiatives to automate internal STP developments in the areas of liquidity
management.
Sebastien Chaker heads Calastone Luxembourg office since his appointment in March 2010 and is responsible for
international business development.
Sebastien’s career spans fifteen years of experience in the investment fund market. He joined
Calastone from Brown Brothers Harriman Limited in London where he was Global Head of Fund Solutions
Business Development. Prior to this, Sebastien worked for Euroclear SA in Brussels where he was
Director in the Investment Funds Product Management division, with primary responsibility for
defining and implementing Euroclear's FundSettle global funds strategy.
Sebastien started his career at Citibank Global Consumer bank in Paris as a product manager in
charge of investments and savings products including CitiChoice, the bank’s third party fund
distribution program.
Sebastien graduated in 1995 from the “Universite Libre de Bruxelles” in the Faculty of Economical,
social & political sciences