STA Executive Committee

Tom Hicks MENG MSTA MCSI

The STA Executive Committee has a combined 300 years of experience in the financial services industry. The committee’s 11 volunteers, who receive no remuneration by the society, include industry professionals and highranking company founders and directors who are thought leaders in the field of technical analysis.

Tom Hicks MENG MSTA MCSI STA Chair and Head of Programmes

• Co-founder of IFTM Capital, a systematic trading business implementing technical analysis. • Fixed Income Trader. • Ex Big Four Consultant. • 15 years’ experience as a fixed income trader and salesperson. • Experience and regulatory knowledge with numerous Tier 1 banks and asset managers. • Joint organiser and host of STA monthly member meetings.

Clive Lambert MSTA Vice Chair

• Founder and Director of Futurestechs, a leading independent technical analysis provider. • Futurestechs is a 9-times Technical Analyst Awards winner. • Company won its 4th Best Independent Research for Commodities Award in 2020. • IFTA Board member.

Richard Adcock MSTA Vice Chair, Company Secretary, Education and Journal Committee

• Managing Director of Adcock Analysis Ltd., an independent technical research service, providing FX and rates markets insights. • Former UBS Head of Technical Strategy, specialising in candlestick analysis. • Former technical analyst at hedge fund Brevan Howard.

Karen Jones BSc FSTA Treasurer

• Managing Director and Head of FICC Technical Analysis at Commerzbank, winners of FX Euromoney Survey in 2019 and 2014. • Forecasts and formulates Commerzbank global technical trading strategy, covering FX, fixed income, emerging markets, and commodities. • 30 years of technical analysis experience. • Former global FX technical strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston and technical analyst at Sucden (UK) Ltd.

Eddie Tofpik MSTA Head of Marketing

• Head of Technical Analysis and Senior Markets Analyst at ADMISI. • Producer of monthly technical analysis review of FX and selected commodity futures markets and other daily. and weekly technical analysis research. • 2018 Game Changers Award nominee, Finance Monthly. • 2016 Best Video or Podcast nominee, FXStreet.com Forex Best Awards. • Member of FX dealers association, ACI-UK. Member of CISI. • Affiliate of US Market Technicians Association.

Patricia Elbaz BA (Comb Hons) MSTA Education and Journal Committee

• Independent Technical Analyst. • Specialist in FX, equity and commodity markets. • Former Foreign Exchange Manager - Technical Analysis at MMS Standard and Poor’s. • Seminar leader for STA, French Institute of Bankers, Futures and Options World, ACI Monaco, Bloomberg, and

French Association of Technical Analysts. • University lecturer and examiner, ESCP and INSEEC business schools and University of Monaco. • University lecturer for STA.

Jeff Boccaccio MSTA Programme and Third-Party Committee

• Co-Founder of Rfactory Ltd. • Broad skills in IT, market analysis and trading. • Over 20 years’ experience in finance across Deloitte Consulting, UBS, and Barclays Capital (US, Switzerland, London). • Joint organiser of STA monthly member meetings.

David Watts BSc (Hons) CEng MICE MIWEM MSTA Systems and Website Specialist

• Trading System Consultant and professional engineer. • First involved with LIFFE markets in 1992, as provider of IT support and writer of trading model. • Implemented technical trading model, Dunnigan’s One Way Formulae. • Provided swing timing models for traders in the Butterworth Group and time series analysis tools for clients in banking and fund management.

Vince Harvey Non-Executive Committee Member Compliance Officer

• 25 years’ experience in various roles and organisations. • Also works on short-term specific issues around products/sales reviews, due diligence checking, financial crime processes, remediation exercises, and improving understanding across firms. • STA Ethics Committee lead.