Chris Pickles
Head of Marketing - Financial Markets & Wholesale Banking
BT Global Services
FPL Global Events Committee Co-Chair

Chris Pickles is Head of Marketing, Financial Markets and Wholesale Banking, for BT Global Services. On behalf of FIX Protocol Ltd, SIIA/FISD, ISITC Europe, RDUG and TWIST, from April 2005 to November 2007 he chaired the MiFID Joint Working Group that was formed to examine the business and technology impacts of the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Chris has previously worked as secretary-general of the European Association of Securities Dealers in Brussels, as Head of Exchange Products for Deutsche Boerse in Frankfurt, and as a marketing manager with Reuters internationally. He is a member of the Global Steering Committee of FIX Protocol Ltd and of the Executive Committee of SIIA/FISD, the global association for the financial information sector.