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Deborah Fuhr is the owner, managing partner and founder of ETFGI, an independent research events and consultancy firm launched in 2012 in London. The firm offers paid for subscription research, consulting and events. Previously, she served as global head of ETF research and implementation strategy and as a managing director at BlackRock/Barclays Global Investors from 2008 – 2011. Fuhr also worked as a managing director and head of the investment strategy team at Morgan Stanley in London from 1997 – 2008, and as an associate at Greenwich Associates.

Arnaud Llinas is a Managing Director of Amundi Asset Management in charge of ETF, Indexing and Smart Beta business line. He has 20 years of experience in capital markets, from cash equity to derivatives trading. Arnaud Llinas has been a member of the executive committee of Lyxor Asset Management and Wealth & Asset Management unit of Société Générale in Paris. As Head of Lyxor ETF division since 2013, Lyxor ETF became one of the top 3 ETF issuers in Europe. Arnaud started his career as a risk analyst at Fauchier Partners, BNP AM fund of hedge funds arm in London.  He joined the market making desk at SG CIB in 2004 in the Equity department. From 2005 to 2008, he participated actively to the development of the SG Equity index platform and worked hand in hand with Lyxor to develop the ETF range. He became Head of 1 Delta Listed Products trading team in 2008 covering Structuring and Market-Making for ETFs, Certificates, Single stock and Dividend futures in Europe. Arnaud holds an engineering degree from the French Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec) as well as a Master’s degree in Finance from Pierre & Marie Curie University

Olivier Paquier is Head of EMEA Distribution for ETFs at JPMAM. Prior to leading EMEA Distribution for ETFs, Olivier led JPM's ETF Distribution team for continental Europe. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Olivier was in charge of SPDR ETF distribution in France, Monaco, Spain and Portugal, covering all client types whether institutional or intermediaries. He also led the distribution team in France for State Street Global Advisors, covering active and passive strategies. Olivier started his career in 2007 at NYSE Euronext as a Product Manager working on ETFs, warrants and certificates. He joined Amundi in 2008 as Product Specialist on ETFs. During that time he contributed to developing the newly-created Amundi ETF activity on 8 markets in Europe before moving to London in 2011, covering clients in the UK and Spain. Olivier holds a Master's degree from the Sorbonne University (Paris) and an MBA from the Paris School of Management

Andreas Zingg is the Managing Officer for Vanguard Investments Switzerland GmbH. He joined Vanguard in 2016. Prior to assuming his current role, he was Head of iShares Sales Middle East & Africa and Head of iShares Sales for the German-speaking parts of Switzerland at BlackRock. Before he joined BlackRock in 2010, Andreas Zingg worked for UBS Global Asset Management, most recently as Senior Product Specialist for UBS ETFs. He began his career as project manager with McKinsey & Co. in Zurich, where he was responsible for leading projects with a particular focus on the areas of corporate strategy, business transformation and distribution strategies for clients in the financial sector. Andreas studied economics and finance at the University of St. Gallen and has earned a PhD in Business Administration from the University of St.Gallen in 2009.