Lesley Gomm, has over 35 years' experience in the Financial Markets as a global management professional with extensive experience in Corporate Actions and Operational Risk, gained with major global financial industry players. For the last two years she has been working at JP Morgan where she is the Global Head of Asset Servicing and  EMEA Head of Custody Operations. She is currently responsible for a team of approximately 350 staff.

Her career started at Chase Manhattan Bank within Custody Settlements, and she spent the first few years working for a number Custodian Firms predominantly in the Income and Corporate Action departments before moving to the Markets side of the business. She spent 12 years at Morgan Stanley and 15 years at Citigroup, where she was Global Head of Asset Servicing Operations and Technology, responsible for the build of an in-house system to support the Asset Servicing product.

Other roles include managing Operational risk programs for Market Operations and supporting an Associate Member of the Stock Exchange at a small UK Broker firm.