Kish is Head of Sales at Tourmaline Partners, where he leads the European multi-asset execution sales effort. Kish’s core areas of expertise include DMA and algorithmic execution, Dark liquidity, ETF price and liquidity discovery, and Commission Sharing Agreements (CSAs)/Independent Research. Prior to joining Tourmaline, Kish was Head of Equity Sales/Trading for the Bank of New York / ConvergEx Group. Kish began his career at Bloomberg, where he went on to manage terminal sales for the Netherlands and Ireland, led Bloomberg’s effort into the European commercial insurance industry, and was sales-lead in the launch of Bloomberg’s first mobile app for the BlackBerry. FCA Regulated: CF11, CF29 & CF30

Head of Sales @ Tourmaline Partners provides tailored execution and trading advisory services to investment firms across the spectrum of asset managers. We customize our offerings—which encompass both equities and options—to meet our clients’ distinct trading needs and adapt our services to accommodate evolving business structures. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) London, United KingdomManaging Director, Head of Sales @ Global Multi-Asset Execution Management - Built by the Buy-Side for the Buy-Side AQX° Securities is a service-oriented, multi-asset execution management provider, delivering buy-side firms with conflict-free independent research and agency execution, globally, across multiple asset classes from a single point of contact. With more than a decade of buy-side trading experience, AQX° Securities was born out of the trading success of the centralised internal dealing desk of leading European asset manager, Aquila Capital. Now independently operated and regulated, AQX° Securities services more than 150 clients, executing equities, ETFs, fixed income, futures and options, across the global markets. AQX° Securities’ execution specialists combine in-depth market knowledge and regulatory know-how with flexible, next-generation trading tools to ensure best-execution of client trades within today’s increasingly complex environment. Regardless of asset-class, buy-side clients use a single point of contact for all their trading needs, throughout the trade life-cycle. From August 2012 to February 2015 (2 years 7 months) London, United KingdomHead of Equity DMA, Algo, ETF, PT & ADR Conversion Sales/Trading @ Head of Europe, Middle East & African Sales. Selling cash equity brokerage services (DMA / Algos / Care / PT / ETFs / ADR conversions / CSAs etc) to institutional clients, across various trading platforms. Committed to finding technological solutions to improve execution quality, and to understanding and easing trader workflow/productivity. Regions I myself cover: London, Channel Islands, Luxembourg, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Israel and the UAE. FSA CF30 registered execution trader. From July 2007 to August 2012 (5 years 2 months) London, United KingdomEuropean Sales Director @ Selling the Advisen product to insurance underwriters, brokers and risk managers in Europe. Includes new business sales, account management and relationship building - as well as raising the profile of Advisen in Europe. From November 2006 to July 2007 (9 months) Sales Relationship Manager @ I began employment at Bloomberg as a Sales Intern, but was recruited into a full-time position mid-way through the internship. I began as an Account Manager in the Dutch team, selling the Bloomberg product suite to customers in the Netherlands. I was then promoted to a Sales Relationship Manager role, and eventually moved to become Deputy Team Leader of the Ireland Sales Team. During this time, I had a fascination with BlackBerry’s, and was charged with developing our BlackBerry-based product for the EMEA market, and marketing it to our existing customers. In my final year at Bloomberg, I was asked to head-up, and develop a product for the European commercial insurance industry, which was a successful project, and led to the opening of new revenue streams from major insurers. From June 2002 to October 2006 (4 years 5 months) Middle Office Associate @ Started as a summer job, but was extended, as they wanted to me to clear out all their mismatched TRAX trades. Involved trade settlements, between counterparties and front office traders. Also worked on the Corporate Actions team, processing Coupons Claims and trade confirmation. Responsibilities included: * TRAX matching trades, and quickly rectifying mismatched trades. * Processing coupon claims from counterparties owed money. * Making sure we were paid coupon proceeds on time. * Cleaning up the TRAX system after months of neglect. From June 2001 to December 2001 (7 months) Fixed Income, Trade Support @ Working in the Operations department at an investment bank. Involved communicating with external counterparties, and also front office traders, when rectifying trades. Responsibilities included: * Running reconciliation reports daily. * Pricing new securities. * Settling cash differences between the XTAS and Bloomberg systems. From July 2000 to June 2001 (1 year)

BSc, Economics @ Brunel University London From 1998 to 2002 Piscataway High School From 1997 to 1998 BHASVIC From 1996 to 1997 Brighton College From 1990 to 1996 Kishan Desai is skilled in: Equity Trading, Equity Sales, Independent Research, New Business Development, Client Retention, Sales Management, ETFs, ADRs, Program Trading, DMA, Algorithmic Trading, Commission Sharing Agreements (CSAs), Direct Market Access, Trading System, Research