A pioneer in the development of efficient market structures and a leading advocate for the unbundling of commissions, Richard has held senior roles in exchanges, investment banks and agency brokers. He serves on the boards of BATS Trading and SAXO Capital Markets, and advises the board of Compliance Solutions Strategies.

Mahesh is Head of Portfolio Management and Research (Proposition) for Thomson Reuters’ desktop business. This includes products such as Eikon, Datastream, Starmine Monitor, various Appstudio partner applications, all serving the buy side analyst/PM and the sell side analyst and  economist end user. Prior to Thomson Reuters, Mahesh spent over a decade as a practitioner in the research business, first as a  sell side telecom analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein, and later as a long short equity analyst and PM for Calypso Capital and SAC Capital. Prior to this he was a consultant for McKinsey & Company.

Bharat Malesha joined SmartStream in 2014 as Director for the TLM Fees and Expense Management business. Bharat has extensive global knowledge within the financial services industry in execution cost management.

Prior to joining SmartStream, Bharat spent over seven years as a Director at Credit Suisse heading their product development.