Glen Fernandes is a senior member of  the Euroclear Group Strategy team. Mr Fernandes is responsible for assessing the fundamental economic, market and regulatory trends, the dynamics in technology and innovation ecosystem, as well as driving business development opportunities, to help shape Euroclear’s overall strategic and innovation direction. Mr Fernandes also co-leads an international group of Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) and Custodian banks under the International Securities Services Association (ISSA) to help create a common market understanding for the adoption of Digital Assets and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) in capital markets.

Mr Fernandes has over 15 years of experience in capital markets and financial technology across  America, Europe and Asia Pacific. He joined Euroclear in 2014 having earlier worked for securities services business lines at JP Morgan, Nomura, and Lehman Brothers where his work spanned key product/service development and technology enhancements.

Mr Fernandes holds a Masters in Business Administration from Vlerick Business School Belgium, in addition to Bachelors studies in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.