Simon Behan

Simon Behan

Chief Commercial Officer FundGuard

Simon has over 30 years of Financial Technology and Asset Servicing expertise, currently serving as Chief Commercial Officer and Group Operating Committee member at FundGuard. His career spans senior leadership roles at BNY (formally PFPC), Deutsche Bank, GlobeOp, Virtus Partners (FIS), Ocorian, and Finbourne.

Over the past three decades, Simon's relentless drive has empowered commercial and product transformation across firms at various growth stages. His remit has encompassed the full commercial spectrum: from sales and business development through solution architecture, implementation, and client management to product marketing, analytics, and global communications.

Simon has a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing commercial teams across multiple regions, setting adaptive strategies as businesses evolve and executing against ambitious growth targets.

Main Day 1 | 16th September

11:35 AM Cross-Asset Panel: Integrating Public and Private Markets at Scale: How can you design operating models that provide unified oversight across liquid and illiquid assets while respecting their structural differences?

  • Which operational processes can realistically be shared across public and private assets?
  • How are firms addressing data gaps around valuation, cash flows, and documentation?
  • What governance models work best for hybrid portfolios?
  • How does private market growth impact risk, reporting, and operational resilience?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Simon.

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