TradeTech Europe 2025

13 - 15 May, 2025

Palais des Congrès de Paris

Alison Hollingshead

COO of Investments Jupiter Asset Management

Alison Hollingshead is Chief Operating Officer, Investment Management at Jupiter, a role she took up in June 2022. Alison is responsible for managing the operational functions and activities of Investment Management, including line management of Trading, Data Science, Investment Controls, and Investment Business Management. She also leads all aspects of change delivery across the investment floor. Furthermore, Alison’s responsibilities include steering ESG regulatory projects as well as the firm’s ESG Data Strategy. Alison was previously Chief of Staff, Trading Platform & Core Technology at Man Group. Alison joined Man in 2004 as a Trading Systems Technologist, before becoming an Equity Trader in 2006, specialising in algorithmic and program trading in European markets. In 2011, Alison became the Business Risk & Strategy Manager for Man GLG. In 2015, Alison was appointed Head of Investment Management Services at Man Group, and in this role, ran a change management and business management team reporting into the Group COO and led the MiFID II implementation globally. In 2018, Alison became Head of Transformation, leading a change management team across the firm. Alison holds a BSc in Mathematics with European Languages from University College London.

Day 2 | 15th May

10:00 AM Head of Desk & Rising Star Q&A: Putting heads of desk under the spotlight- an in-depth look at how heads of trading are structuring their desks and nurturing the next generation of leaders

Do you have a burning question for your boss that you’re too afraid to ask? Join this panel and submit your questions anonymously, either before the event in a survey that will be emailed to you, or during the session using our online platform, Slido.

Two of our Rising Star speakers from TradeTech 2024 will be joining us again to quiz heads of trading on how they are nurturing and keeping talent on their desk.

In addition to questions submitted by the audience, the rising star moderators will also pose ‘rapid-fire’ hiring dilemmas- how will the heads of desk respond?

  • What’s the secret to maintaining a high-performance desk under increasing cost pressures and volatile market conditions?
  • What’s your most successful and effective training method/ idea?
  • What advice would you give your younger self starting out on the trading desk?
  • Has your firm reversed hybrid working, if so, what have been the implications on retention of staff?
  • In your opinion, should traders be single asset specialists or multi-asset generalists?
  • During the hiring process, if you had to pick one critical skill, what would it be?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Alison.

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