Mike is Director of Investment at Lancashire County Council responsible for Treasury investment and debt management as well as a broader commercialization brief. Mike was Chief Investment Officer for Lancashire County Council and Lancashire County Pension Fund since 2009, having previously held a similar role with Cornwall County Council and was responsible for the joint venture with LPFA which became LPP, ahead of the Governments pooling agenda. Mike graduated in Physics with Economics from Imperial College London, and has over 35 years of experience as a rates, currency and fixed-income proprietary trader and market maker, as well as debt/capital markets experience having established the Euro-Commercial paper and Euro-Medium Term Note operations at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. Mike has held a number of senior posts across a wide range of rates proprietary trading, market making, debt origination, structuring and risk management positions at Bank of America, UBS, Merrill Lynch, SG Warburg and Morgan Stanley.
