Martin H C Russell FCT Martin Russell joined Johnson Matthey Ltd. in the City as a trainee on leaving the Army in the early Seventies. Commercial and merchant banking experience led to responsibility for establishing a central treasury. In 1978 he moved to Grand Metropolitan, where for a decade he was involved in all areas of that company’s Group Treasury, until recruited to create a new centralised mortgage lender.  As Executive Director, he was responsible for structuring and bringing securitisation offerings to public and private markets.

In 1991, he established Russell & Associates, to provide financial and personnel training, international consultancy and senior executive coaching to institutions including central banks, retail and commercial banks, private and investment banks, law firms and multinational corporations, and to the public sector.  The business now provides in-house training to some of the most influential institutions in the land; governmental, educational and in the private sector.  Martin specialises in the design and delivery of bespoke courses in financial markets, treasury and capital markets, and in the avoidance of economic crime and of money laundering.

He has been a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers since 1981 where he helped found its West-End Discussion Group. He is a Freeman of the City of London, and an active Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farriers.

Martin Russell is an accredited provider of Continuing Professional Development training for the Law Society.
 

Derek Bayley Derek, an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, has wide-ranging experience, initially in the marine insurance and reinsurance markets in the UK and in Canada. Later specialising in the marketing of captive reinsurance business, he has worked throughout Europe and in particular has spent more than a decade in the management of offices in Guernsey and in the Isle of Man. For almost forty years, Derek has been employed by some of the most recognisable names in the market, culminating with some years at HSBC Insurance Management where he provided technical and marketing support to the Group’s captive management businesses in most of the world’s offshore centres.

J.A.C Forbes (Joe) Joe Forbes was a Regular Officer in the Brigade of Gurkhas whose service was centred mainly in the Middle and Far East and who specialised in Intelligence and Security roles including instructor appointments at the School of Service Intelligence and two year secondments to the Special Branches of The Royal Ulster Constabulary and The Royal Hong Kong Police respectively. On leaving the Army, Joe worked for the next five years in an executive capacity in the Research Department of the Sultanate of Oman where he was responsible for the acquisition of information in relation to external and internal threats to the security of the country. A year followed as Advisor to The National Intelligence Bureau of Sri Lanka during the height of the Tamil insurrection and this was followed by a four year tour with the Security and Intelligence Service of the State of Bahrain.

Nigel P.J. Green Nigel Green joined European Banking Company in the mid 1970’s, and progressed to become Assistant Director with responsibility for development of the industry-leading corporate sales and trading desk. After almost fifteen years with EBC, he was recruited by BZW, where for a couple of years, he was the link between BZW and Barclays’ institutional sales teams.  Approached by Coutts & Co in the early nineties, Green conducted an exhaustive review of the client/product interface for that bank’s International Private Banking department. He was then responsible for implementation of his recommendations.

As Senior Manager, Group Investment Services from 1995, he served on the Bank’s Group Investment Strategy Committee and had global responsibility for the production and dissemination of FX view and product worldwide. In fixed income, Nigel eliminated unsuccessful hedge funds while maintaining successfully client confidence and the Bank’s reputation.

Promoted Head of Investment Advisory & Execution Services UK in 1997, he took responsibility for a team of 45 bankers handling all investment advisory business within the Bank.

He has strong experience in asset and liability management, investment management and sales, in the structuring of product, and in securities execution. In all these areas, Nigel has had to recruit and develop staff, select and monitor consultants, and achieve increasingly demanding risk, profitability and efficiency targets.
 

Norman Hoppé The first half of Norman Hoppé's career was spent with the Royal Air Force. During the first part of his service he worked in classified telecommunications and cryptographic systems around the world. His civilian career began with an international role for the Aramco petrochemical organisation.  Then he changed industries to banking and finance, working on assignments with a large range and number of types of financial organisations in the City of London, and throughout Europe, the USA and the Far East.

While based in London, he participated in the development and operation of the first major commercial computer security, business continuity and counter-computer-fraud consultancy company in Europe, for Logica.

Norman then left the United Kingdom to undertake a three-year assignment for an off-shore international bank to design, plan and implement a corporate information protection and business continuity structure, and a supporting package of internal controls. During this period he also successfully investigated two major frauds and others for the bank's corporate clients.

Since 1994, Norman has run his own non-financial operational risk management specialist company, Trident Associates International, providing planning, development, implementation support and outsourced specialist personnel.

During the last few years he has conducted projects in over thirty different countries for three central banks, several financial exchanges and a large number of banks.  He has also provided services to government departments and member companies of most industry groups.  In addition, Norman has conducted several investigations for one of the top two credit card providers, commercial investigation companies and police forces.

For the last six years Norman has been primarily based in Mexico City and has commuted from Mexico to his other international assignments.

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Ian McIsaac Ian McIsaac is a training consultant specialising in credit and financial analysis. He has 20 years of experience in commercial banking and training. Educated at Oxford University, Ian began his career at Grindlays Bank where he had experience of a wide range of banking services. In 1987, he joined the World Corporation Group at Citibank in London as Vice President and was responsible for managing the bank’s global relationships for a portfolio of large multinational clients. Ian later specialised in property finance and has experience in structuring large investment and development transactions.

Since 1992, Ian has been involved in the design, organisation and delivery of consultancy and training on a broad range of financial and strategy issues. He has specialised in financial management and credit and has delivered training on open programmes and bespoke courses major financial institutions and corporates. He has also worked extensively abroad and has been a regular visitor to Hong Kong and the economies in transition in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Ian has delivered financial training from introductory to advanced level and is an experienced course director for programmes up to a week’s duration. His training is highly practical and makes extensive use of case studies ensuring that the courses are lively and participative.