The EU Retail Investment Strategy Package: A Practical Approach

Our Panellists

Pier Luca Bencini

Pier Luca is an associate at Camilleri Preziosi Advocates. Pier’s main area of practice is financial regulatory and compliance, as part of the firm’s wider Financial Services team. He is also actively involved in advising clients on banking and finance, investment services regulation and general corporate and commercial law matters.

Glorianne Bonello Gatt

Ms Glorianne Bonello Gatt is a Senior Compliance Associate at RMC Wise Ltd, and focuses on corporate governance and CSR. Glorianne works with a number of entities, including Investment Firms, Management Companies and Collective Investment Schemes to help them understand their compliance risks and advise them on establishing effective internal controls, policies and procedures with a view to remain compliant with regulatory and legal requirements, maintaining the highest standards and code of ethics whilst creating value for all stakeholder.

Avalon Joelle Abela

Avalon Joelle Abela has over fifteen years’ experience in the funds’ industry, and currently heads the Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Unit of the leading UCITS fund management company on the island.  Avalon lectures in various subjects related to finance, corporate governance and risk.

Josianne Briffa

Josianne Briffa has over 20 years of experience in financial services, specialising in the area of financial regulation. She is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an M.A. in Financial Services with distinction from the UoM. She is the Group Chief Compliance Officer of MAPFRE Malta. Josianne is also a non-executive director and Audit Committee Chair on Plaza Centres p.lc.

Kenneth Genovese

Kenneth started his banking career in the early 90s and joined APS Bank in 2002, where he was part of the initial team setting up APS Investment and Insurance Services. Along the years he held various senior positions at APS Bank in Investments and Asset Management where he was also an investment committee member and portfolio manager for APS Sicav Plc. Kenneth is licensed as a portfolio manager by the MFSA and headed a number of Banking, Investment and Insurance product launches during this time, with the latest in these being APS Pensions. In his present role, as Head of Investment Distribution, he is responsible for the management and growth of three business areas at APSBank Plc, namely Investments, Insurance and Pensions.

Jesmond Mizzi

Jesmond Mizzi is the Managing Director of Jesmond Mizzi Financial Advisors Limited. He has been involved in financial services for over 26 years. He had previously held the post of Sales & Investments Director and Compliance Officer with a locally listed company and spent several years at PWC having also completed his ACCA qualification.

Sarah Pulis

Sarah Pulis holds the position of Head within the Conduct Supervision function at the MFSA. Sarah has twenty three years of experience in the regulation and supervision of financial services, namely investment firms, collective investment schemes, company services providers, insurance undertakings and insurance intermediaries. During her career, she has represented the Authority on various committees with ESMA and EIOPA. Sarah read law at the University of Malta and graduated as a Notary Public and Doctor of Laws in 1996 and 1999 respectively. She also obtained a Master of Laws in European Union Law from the University of Leicester in 2006.

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