Latest Leaders in finance Podcast Episodes

GC Stories: Augustine Kwakye-Agyekum

GC Stories - September 30, 2022 15:37 - 22 minutes
On the latest episode of Global Custodian’s podcast exploring the incredible tales and life experiences from people within the global securities services industry, Augustine Kwakye-Agyekum - a GC Legend and sub-Saharan custody expert - discusses his incredible life story and illustrious career wh...

GC Stories: Ben Bobroff

GC Stories - August 30, 2022 10:04 - 22 minutes
Kicking off series 3 of Global Custodian’s podcast exploring the incredible tales and life experiences from people within the global securities services industry, Northern Trust’s Ben Bobroff talks about his time in the bomb disposal unit within the British Armed Forces. Here he shares his backg...

GC Stories: David Wright

GC Stories - July 21, 2021 10:53 - 31 minutes
David Wright, senior product manager in the global asset owner and management product delivery team at HSBC, is also a Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue team leader. Having spent 15 years as a volunteer, Wright shares some of the rescues he’s participated in, the life lessons he’s picked up from a dec...

GC Stories: Kate Webber

GC Stories - July 14, 2021 12:06 - 33 minutes
Kate Webber, lead product manager, fund services at Northern Trust is also the founder of Women in Asset Servicing, a group established to grow female representation across all levels of the financial services industry. Kate discusses the goals of the association, her background, some of the incr...

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GC Stories - July 01, 2021 08:54 - 34 minutes
Paul Wilden – formerly of Standard Chartered and BNY Mellon and now global head of capital markets at Apex- is an LGBT+ man who lives with a disAbility. In this podcast, Paul takes us through his journey from childhood to the workplace, giving us an insight on the challenges, experiences and trea...

GC Stories: Bill Stone

GC Stories - June 24, 2021 10:57 - 24 minutes
Bill Stone, the founder of SS&C, is one of the most recognisable and well-known individuals in the fund services space, but while the story of SS&C’s journey from basement start-up to largest independent administrator in the world is well-known, Stone’s work outside of the industry is the story w...

GC Stories: Mike Trinkaus

GC Stories - June 09, 2021 14:19 - 36 minutes
Fund services expert Mike Trinkaus was celebrating the sale of his company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in January 2017 when he was caught in an avalanche. We talk to Mike about the incident and how he went on to start a new fund administrator named after the trail in which his nearly catastrophic ac...

GC Stories: Duane Shippey

GC Stories - May 13, 2021 10:29 - 39 minutes
Duane Shippey, one of the BNY Mellon’s Rising Stars and a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion champion, set up scholarship at his alma mater three years ago that has created a steppingstone for students to defeat the odds which can be stacked against them from an early age – particularly those from a...

GC Stories: Bryan Murphy

GC Stories - August 21, 2020 07:22 - 48 minutes
The desert race series is considered by TIME Magazine as one of the top 10 endurance competitions in the world, but this didn’t put off Bryan Murphy, global head of intermediaries client coverage at Citi. Here, Murphy takes us through his epic adventures through the Atacama, Gobi and Namibian des...

GC Stories: Andrew Pitts-Tucker

GC Stories - August 14, 2020 11:28 - 53 minutes
After 25 years in financial services, Andrew Pitts-Tucker made the move of a lifetime out of the sector to focus on his passion for wildlife conservation in Africa. Andrew tells his tale of charity work, face-offs with poachers and applying lessons learnt from financial services to make a real di...

GC Stories: Daniel Hickey

GC Stories - August 06, 2020 10:04 - 1 hour
Before his role as EMEA head of network management for Barclays, Daniel Hickey was an officer in the British army, completing two tours of Afghanistan and one of Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis. In this captivating episode, Hickey tells his story and gives his perspectives on some important ...

GC Stories: Scott Coey

GC Stories - July 30, 2020 11:00 - 47 minutes
More people have been to space than have completed the 777 endurance race - 7 marathons in 7 continents in 7 days - but Scott Coey, formerly of BNY Mellon, stepped up to the challenge. He talks us through the epic adventure that took him through extreme conditions as he was spurred on by a great ...

GC Stories: Vanessa Van Brunt

GC Stories - July 23, 2020 07:35 - 1 hour
After serving 10 years as the first female Police Officer in Cranford, NJ, Vanessa Van Brunt made the jump to Wall Street where she held senior roles with Wells Fargo and BlackRock. In this episode, Van Brunt discusses stories from her time in the force where she worked on a variety of undercover...

GC Stories: Pat Sanderson

GC Stories - July 14, 2020 07:58 - 46 minutes
Welcome to GC Stories, the podcast which tells incredible tales from familiar voices in the securities services industry. In this inaugural episode, we speak with Pat Sanderson, head of global client coverage at RBC, and formerly a professional rugby player. From breaking onto the scene to becomi...