Our Leadership team

Dr Jamie Walton,  co-founder

Former head of FX and rates quant at Morgan Stanley

Jamie has spent 18 years as a senior quant at UBS, BNP Paribas and for the last 10 years at Morgan Stanley. He started his  career trading in the CME options pits before moving to the quant space first in derivative modelling and then running all the FX, Rates and Emerging Markets quants at Morgan Stanley a team of more than 80 people. Jamie started the eFX quant team in 2009 at MS and grew this to be a significant provider of trading revenue. Jamie’s unique insights from holding senior posts in these spheres provides unprecedented capability and creativity for the invention of new innovative services. A fellow of Mathematics at UCL, Jamie has written academic papers on electronic trading. Jamie is the mathematical leader of Raidne’s service development.

Paul Duprey, Chief Executive Officer
Independent consultant to the FX industry

Paul has worked in institutional sales for over thirty years, offering foreign exchange products and services to the investment industry. He spent much of his career at HSBC where he played an important role in positions such as managing director, and global head of HSBC security FX Sales. Paul took up independent consulting in 2014 and has since used his experience to advise institutional clients on all things foreign exchange related. Today, as  chief executive officer at Raidne, Paul takes  the leading role in delivering positive outcomes for shareholders, customers and employees. 

Alison Clare  Chief Operating Officer

Financial services risk & compliance expert

Alison's career in the global custody industry has spanned a number of senior roles at an impressive variety of international banks -  HSBC, RBS, BNYMellon and Northern Trust to name just a few.  She has 35 years of leadership experience that ranges from managing global teams to having been responsible for operations, client services, product management and network management.  Alison has also led international teams in risk and compliance, planning, guiding and overseeing the implementation of new regulations such MiFID II, GDPR, MAR and the FCA’s Conduct Regime. Most recently she has held position of SMF 16 for a number of UK legal entities and been involved in a variety of board and risk committees.  As chief operating officer at Raidne Alison is responsible for interactions with suppliers, assessment of risks and overseeing Raidne governance arrangements.   

Mathew Szeto, Advisory Board Member

Trading and market structure expert

Mathew Szeto has almost two decades in financial services, and serves on the Raidne Limited Advisory Board.

He began his career as an algorithm developer at RBC Capital Markets, and spent time in progressively senior roles in Toronto and London, ultimately as co-head of Cash Equity Execution for the EMEA region.   During this time he greatly expanded RBC’s presence in the region and was responsible for Cash Equities MiFID II program.  Mathew Spent two years at Peel Hunt, and is now Head of Institutional Sales for Aquanow, a global digital asset & crypto infrastructure and liquidity provider.  

Mathew has a B.ASc (Computer Engineering) degree from the University of Toronto, is a Professional Engineer in Ontario and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter-holder.   He is a member of the Massey Hall Forever Campaign Cabinet in Toronto and active in the University of Toronto Engineering Alumni Community.