Skytra

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Mark Howarth

CEO

Mark's background is in European and Asian equity and derivatives markets. He began his career at Merrill Lynch, and moved to Instinet, where he ran the Asia-ex-Japan business. He set up new stock exchanges with Instinet’s Chi-X subsidiary and was CEO of Chi-X Europe. He joins from Bloomberg where he was in a senior strategy role.

"Skytra will bring to market the most innovative trading contract I have seen for many years, and the opportunity to join the business was a very easy decision for me to make"

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Elise Weber

Co-Creator

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

During her 15 year career within Airbus, Elise has held various international management roles in Communications, Performance Management, Lean & Business Process Improvement, Strategy and Business Development where she has built up a breadth of experience and a vast network in the aviation industry. Elise holds two Diplomas in Communications and an executive MBA with majors in finance and marketing.

“The positive engagement over the last three years with airlines, lessors, airports, travel agents and financial markets, makes me believe that the powerful eco-system emerging around Skytra has the potential to sustainably transform the aviation industry.”

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Matthew Tringham

Co-Creator

Chief Strategy & Product Officer

Matthew has been working in the Airline industry since the 1990’s, first at an Airline before starting at Airbus in 2004 as an Aeronautical Engineer developing new Aircrafts. He then went on to work in a variety of management positions both in Europe as well as India and China. Matthew has worked in business development and strategy since 2014 where he led the development of a number of major new projects before establishing Skytra alongside Elise Weber.

“It has been a very exciting few years taking Skytra from idea to concept to business. We are now thrilled to be taking our offering to market with such a strong team.”

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Guy Simpkin

Chief Operating Officer

Guy began his City career in 1986 where he introduced and managed the first equity index funds in Europe for, what is now, Blackrock. His career has centered on the successful introduction of new businesses, products and services whilst holding senior positions at LIFFE, LCH Clearnet, MF Global and CBOE Europe. Guy brings to Skytra a breadth and depth of experience and expertise across all the disciplines and functions Skytra will perform.

“The opportunity presented by Skytra to build a team and a business to address a defined and material problem within the air travel industry, by bringing natural buyers and sellers and a new series of products to the financial markets, is compelling and very exciting.”

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Jeremy Norwood

Chief Information Officer

Jeremy is responsible for the technology and security aspects of Skytra. Over the last 12+ years Jeremy has built up extensive experience of delivering and operating a number of Trading Venues across the globe and with his industry exposure spanning both the financial services and engineering sectors he brings a unique perspective to the Skytra project. He began his career as an engineer working across the automotive, defence and aerospace industries before moving to London to join Turquoise Trading as their head of programme management. Following its acquisition by LSEG, Jeremy moved to Tradition where he played a key strategic role in the development of the IDB’s trading and technology capabilities. He is a certified PMP project manager and intuitive business change specialist, who combines a passion for leadership, people, process and technology to deliver sustainable solutions for the future.

“With the financial services sector being dominated by regulatory change in recent years, it’s exciting to be involved in a truly unique and innovative initiative that is designed to benefit the underlying industry”

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Simon Mathisen

Chief Risk & Compliance Officer

After beginning his City career at the London Stock Exchange, Simon was part of the team who developed the Turquoise Multilateral Trading Facility – one of the world’s first Pan-European MTFs. Since then Simon diversified into the derivatives space and has been instrumental in developing the regulatory compliance programmes for a number of established and start-up trading venues including NYSE LIFFE and LMAX. Prior to joining Skytra, Simon headed up Regulatory Risk for GH Financials, a futures and options clearing broker, and immediately prior to joining Skytra Simon was Chief Compliance Officer for the Bloomberg MTF.

“It is exciting to be working on a truly innovative project developing risk-management solutions for an industry which has thus-far been under represented in the global derivatives markets.”

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Cheikh Sow

Chief Financial Officer

After graduating from Toulouse Business School with a degree in Finance, Cheikh began his career by setting up the administrative and financial infrastructures of two start-up businesses and was instrumental in their growth. He later joined the Airbus controlling department. Throughout his career with Airbus, Cheikh has always embraced challenging roles including Senior Corporate Auditor, Head of Customer to Cash Working Capital, and One Roof Coordinator (Airbus international footprint restructuring project) for Europe, Africa & Middle East. Cheikh brings his financial experience and knowledge of start-up infrastructures to Skytra where he maintains high levels of internal controls and the best in class standards.

“I am thrilled to be selected as Skytra’s CFO. I am excited to be part of a start-up organisation taking on a global industry challenge combining both the airline travel industry and financial markets.”