Adrian Valenzuela

Mr. Adrian Valenzuela is Co-Chief Executive Officer & Founding Partner at MCM Asia Ltd.
He relocated to Hong Kong in early 2011 and joined Barclays Capital as a Managing Director and Head of Distribution for Equity Liquid Markets across the Asia Pacific Region.
He was a member of the Global Equities Management Committee, Asia Sales Management Committee, and Asian Equities Executive and Management Committees.
Mr. Valenzuela previously worked for JP Morgan from early 2007 and had several promotions during his time, latterly co-heading the global distribution across cash equities and equity derivatives for the equity division.
Between 2006 and 2007, he ran the Alpha Strategies Group for Merrill Lynch International, working on advisory projects for various institutional investors across asset classes, and coordinating the strategic marketing campaigns across the equity division.
In 2005, he was a Founding Partner and Head of Marketing and Product Development for Wealth Management Group.
Previously, he worked at Lehman Brothers International as Head of Pan-European Flow Derivatives Sales, including the coverage of global hedge funds for European derivative markets.
He worked at Morgan Stanley New York from 1998 until 2002, as Head of Equity Derivative Sales for Latin America and in the derivatives sales team for US hedge funds.
In early 2002, he transferred to London as a senior sales person for the European Hedge Fund sales desk for equity derivatives, also heading the sales teams for Southern Europe and France.
He started his career in emerging markets, trading fixed income securities for Santander from 1991 through 1994, and later moving to ING Barings as part of their equities, equity strategy and equity derivatives teams.
Mr. Valenzuela holds a BA in Economics from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and graduated from the Stanford University Senior Leadership program.