Leon Saunders Calvert

Previously, Leon worked at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) as a Group Director where he held a number of roles during his 15 year tenure, arriving at LSEG through the acquisition of Refinitiv, formerly the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters. These roles included running Business Management for the Investment & Wealth Solutions division, and leading a number different business lines such as Research & Portfolio Management, Sustainable Investing, Lipper, StarMine and Investment Banking. His prior experience includes running the research and data teams at Mergermarket (now Acuris, an ION company), a provider of M&A intelligence to the advisory community, and he started his career as an M&A Analyst at an advisory boutique, Regent Partners. He has a Masters Degree in International Management and a BA Hons in Philosophy and Literature.

Leon has provided pro-bono consultative advice to charities through the Pilotlight business executive program and through UnLtd's social entrepreneurs mentorship program. Leon is an Advisory Board member of AidHub, a platform for NGO’s, charities and companies to manage and measure their social impact initiatives, and Quoroom, who provide capital management software services to corporates.