Our Team

We have a team with extensive expertise and experience across international banks and global markets activities. We are also privileged to have a network that allows us to source talented and capable bankers and market practitioners. These are people who we know and have worked with and can trust. Broyd Partners bring that expertise and experience to support colleagues and friends to manage their most pressing financial services industry issues.

Our Leadership Team

PRINCIPAL

Graham Broyd

Graham is the founder and Principal of Broyd Partners LLC and he has been actively engaged in Financial Markets activities for almost 40 years. He was CEO of the Global Banking and Markets businesses of The Royal Bank of Scotland, in the Americas. He had responsibilities for all the Banking and Financial Markets businesses, as well as the New York Branch, regulatory interface, legal, risk and compliance, operations and change. 

David Lyons

David Lyons

Electronic Trading and FX

David was the Chief Operating Officer for Euronext’s FX business for 4 years, having previously been their head of FX product and business development. He analyzed and reviewed all trading relationships on the platform, introduced key metrics to measure and monitor client behavioral patterns, and coordinated and prioritized platform enhancements. Between 2014 and 2016 David was the Global Head of EBS Hedge, where he conceptualized, designed, and delivered to market a new mid-matching trading offering.

David spent 11 years at RBS in …

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Jim Mohen

Jim Mohen

Change Management and BlockChain Initiatives

Jim has over 25 years of experience in the financial market. Initially as a senior project and change manager at large global institutions, before shifting his focus to developments in the blockchain and digital asset sector.

Jim was the Executive Director for Business Transformation at UBS in Stamford from 2012 to 2019. There he was responsible for multiple programs and projects that covered regulatory remediation, business change and disruptive initiatives.

Before UBS, Jim worked at …

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Gabriela Fuentes

Gabriela Fuentes

Risk Management and Controls

With more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, Gabriela Fuentes has had a variety of roles at UBS, Lehman Brothers, Barclays, and Guggenheim Partners, among others. She has specialized in risk management roles, (counterparty, emerging markets, market, country, and operational risk) always working collaboratively across the Front-, Middle-, and Back-Office to drive business growth while mindful of the overall strategy and risk-appetite.

Gabriela was Head of Risk Management for North America at …

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Iain Paine

Iain Paine

Operations & Technology Regulatory Change

Iain is a senior operations, technology and program management leader with more than 20 years of experience in business transformation. He specializes in helping companies optimize their end-to-end business flows and operational processes to improve performance and scalability.

Iain is a Managing Director at …

 

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Our resources – USA

Gina Chute

Gina Chute

Operations & Business Management

Gina has spent over 15 years in the financial services industry. The majority of her business career was at RBS and Greenwich Capital. Latterly she was head of Operations business management and worked on the restructure and consolidation of the operations functions in the US.

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Nancy Grady

Nancy Grady

Custody & Fund Services

Nancy has spent over 30 years in the custody management businesses, primarily at State Street and at Nothern Trust. She is a senior executive with extensive experience supporting Mutual Funds and unregistered products. She has managed teams across the enterprise responsible for executing services for asset managers and plan sponsors. 

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Robert Fischer

Robert Fischer

LIBOR Transition, Rates Business & Market Risk

Robert Fischer, a financial markets professional with over 30 years of experience, has focused on all facets of the Interest Rate Trading Business over his career. A licensed Series 24 Supervisor, Robert has implemented key regulatory roll-outs, system migrations, new products, and most recently Libor initiatives. 

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Yiwei Fang

Yiwei Fang

Transformation and Change Management

Yiwei is a transformation leader with over 20 years of experience of building, managing, and transforming financial operations. He specializes in middle and back-office operating model, risk and controls – leading research, design and implementation of new markets, products, and regulatory initiatives.

Yiwei spent over 12 years at Bridgewater Associates during a period of …

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John Hoff

John Hoff

Markets, Risk & Compliance

John Hoff has worked for over 30 years in the financial markets and specializes in preemptive compliance for global markets. John’s focus is on leading firms through a path from regulation through to policies, procedures, controls and training. He has expertise in resolving regulatory findings and internal compliance issues.

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Scott Kalagian

Scott Kalagian

Treasury & Risk Management

Scott has over 20 years of experience in financial services. He has extensive knowledge of investment management, process management, regulatory compliance, systems implementation and project management. Scott has a deep understanding of the end-to-end consumer and commercial lending process, credit risk and regulatory risk.

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David Lucas

David Lucas

Markets Regulatory Compliance

David Lucas has over 30 years of experience in financial markets, primarily in the foreign exchange market. David’s consulting work included a leadership position in a multi-year review of the foreign exchange market activities of a major global bank. David’s work included…..

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Kevin Weir

Kevin Weir

FX Misconduct and Regulatory investigations

Kevin has 35 years of experience in Financial Markets activities. His core background has been in FX, spending 11 years at State Street Global Markets as their senior FX salesperson for institutional accounts and Managing Director of their Foreign Exchange Client Advisory business. Kevin also spent time in FX and Fixed Income Sales at Bank of Nova Scotia, ABN AMRO, CIBC and Lloyds Bank.

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Beth Blass

Beth Blass

Operational Risk

Beth has over 25 years of experience in Risk Management at large global financial institutions.

Beth has spent most of the last 10 years in Operational Risk management roles, most recently at MUFG, and previous to that at Nuveen (the TIAA Asset Management company), and at Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Our resources – UK

Luke Lindforth-Delaney

Luke Lindforth-Delaney

Benchmarks, Derivatives, Compliance

Luke has over 30 years of experience in financial markets with roles covering derivatives sales, trading, benchmarks, and risk. He has rare working insight into numerous global benchmarks including LIBOR with experience both within the front oce and a second line oversight function.

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Our resources – Australia

John Feeney

John Feeney

Australian Financial Markets & Regulatory Change

John has significant wholesale financial markets background across all asset classes. His recent activities include benchmark reforms, capital optimisation, XVA design and management and conduct risk management, conduct and reputation management and derivatives regulation.  He is a Board Member of ISDA and AFMA.

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Chauncey Stark

Chauncey Stark

Fixed Income Trading & Risk Management

Chauncy has 25 years of fixed income experience in London and Sydney. The majority of his career was at National Australia Bank where he was General Manager for the FX and Cross-Asset businesses from 2013 to 2016. He has an extensive experience in the trading and managing of A$ products, and of regulatory investigations.

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(but experienced, and have probably sat in your seat.)