CEO, Interactive Brokers

Gerald Perez has been active in international financial markets for over 30 years. Gerald has lived in the US and Europe, where he has worked professionally in the financial markets. His experience and expertise are broad, e.g.; he has been an institutional trader (equities and derivatives) in the US and Europe; He has C-Suite appointments (Compliance Officer, AML Officer, and Client Money Officer). Gerald is the Chief Executive Officer and board member of Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited (authorised and regulated by the FCA) which is part of the Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ: IBKR). Interactive Brokers, is an automated global electronic broker that provides investors from over 200 countries and territories worldwide with access to 150 markets, 33 countries and 24 currencies.

Gerald has appeared and spoken publicly in media about market structure, innovation, governance, online investing, etc.,

Gerald presents a seminar in the OpenStage Theatre at 3:45pm "Interactive Brokers - Investing for the future (ISA and SIPP accounts)". Gerald also chairs the Investors' Question Time session at 12:40pm in the Main Auditorium.