Mark Blundell

Mark Blundell is the founder and Managing Director of Sandy Lane Investments. From May 2004 until October 2006, he was director of Strategic Business Development at Tullett Liberty, where he was responsible for analysis of new product and business opportunities for the interdealer broker, including new derivatives markets as well as development of online and historic data sales. Mr. Blundell was the Managing Director of Europe for the Chicago Mercantile exchange, and authored and executed the plan which saw the CME dramatically increase its customer service team, its electronic connectivity options and its customer base across Europe. Prior to CME, during the dotcom boom, he founded and was the executive Chairman of Swaps.com, an early mover in the financial e-commerce space which tried to put the end user segment of the swap market into an online auction platform. Mr. Blundell's other positions include Global Head of derivatives origination at County NatWest; MD of non-German derivatives at Westdeutsche Landesbank-London; MD-Europe of Sakura Global Capital (a joint venture OTC trading boutique with Sakura Bank); Treasurer of Rabobank-London; and Global Head of Financial Institutions of Rabobank. He has made London his home base since 1984, when he arrived from Citibank Paris to take up the position of European Head of Derivatives at Citibank. (This is me - Update Profile)