Management Team

• Ronan O'Neill - CEO / Founder
  Ronan founded Total Derivatives in 2000 and managed the firm's rapid growth to leadership in its sector before selling a majority stake to Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC in 2006. He continues to oversee the newswire's global operations. Prior to Total Derivatives, Ronan spent most of the 1990s trading fixed income derivatives for UBS and BNP Paribas.

• Maia Ririnui - Editor, Total Derivatives Asia Pacific
  Maia runs the Total Derivatives Asia Pacific product. He specializes in the Japanese Yen and Australian Dollar fixed income derivatives markets. Before arriving at Total Derivatives in 2004, Maia spent 12 years at UBS as a fixed income derivatives trader, where he was most recently an Executive Director running an interest rate derivatives trading group.

• Mark Ramsden - Editor, Total Derivatives Europe
  Mark is responsible for all coverage of the European fixed income derivatives markets, and specializes in inflation derivatives. Before joining us in September 2004, Mark was Head of European Research at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates where he worked for 8 years. Prior to that, he was an economist with Sumitomo Trust Bank and HSBC.

• Yiying Luthra - Editor, Total Derivatives North America
  Yiying runs the Total Derivatives US product. Before joining the team in May 2007, Yiying was a Director trading USD and CAD interest rate derivatives at ABN Amro Bank for 12 years.

• Matthew Webster - Head of Operations
  Matt is responsible for business development and all client relationships at Total Derivatives. Prior to joining the company at its inception in 2000, Matt traded interest rate futures and options for over 10 years, most recently with UBS, before completing an MBA in 1999 and spending a brief spell at Bloomberg in a top-tier account management team.

• Roger James
  A battle-scarred veteran of derivatives journalism, Roger specializes in interest rate and inflation swaps. Focusing on the UK, he leverages his extensive contacts in the trader community, as well as among borrowers, investors and regulators, to provide a unique take on the market. Prior to joining Total Derivatives in 2002 Roger worked for Bridge News through stints in Sydney, Tokyo, New York and London.

• Christine Joseph-Haller
  Christine's expertise is in rate-linked structured products and in the interest rate options markets. A founding member of the Total Derivatives editorial team, Christine has reported on the Eurozone fixed income markets for several years: previously at Thomson Financial she covered the European derivatives markets’ transition to the euro.

• Sohang Tang
  Another founding member of the Total Derivatives editorial team, Sohang specializes in rate-linked structured products, interest rate options and inflation derivatives. In June 2001, she broke the story of Danish pension fund reallocation to an astonished fixed income industry. After a stint at JP Morgan in the early 1990s, Sohang switched to derivatives journalism... and has never looked back.

• Deirdre Yeung
  Deirdre covers the Asia Pacific fixed income markets from our Hong Kong office. Prior to joining Total Derivatives, she ran the Asia communications and marketing team at semiconductor solution provider LSI Corp. Deirdre also spent a few years in the investment banking industry in Hong Kong, working for the equity derivatives team at BNP Paribas and in the M&A division at Nomura.

• Chris Scudder - Head of Sales
  Chris manages the subscription and advertising sales functions at Total Derivatives. After spending a year in the US working in the marketing department of a major holiday resort, Chris completed a BSc in Business Management and subsequently joined the Euromoney Institutional Investor Group in 2007.