Billal Ismail

Billal is Head of Sales at SparkChange. He was previously Head of Specialist Equity Sales at HSBC, where he was responsible for delivering investment recommendations to a diverse range of the world’s largest institutional investors, and led the distribution of a number of successful IPOs across the industrials and renewables sectors. He also led the expansion of HSBC’s Alpha Capture product globally, in particular to Asia, to meet investor demand for differentiated electronic trade idea signals covering emerging markets. Billal is a CFA Charterholder, and received his BA in Economics from Durham University (2009).