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Aspire-Igen Opportunity Centre

aspire-igen opportunity centre

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Leeds

Working regionally and locally our main business activity is employability skills, careers guidance, education and skills development to support economic growth and encourage social mobility. We are a social enterprise, not for profit organisation. We believe in: • Social inclusion and regeneration- people are at the heart of everything we do. • Building partnerships, creating opportunities, improving lives and making things happen. • Supporting individuals and organisations with their learning and working journeys, providing careers advice, training, placements, recruitment, redundancy counselling and much more • Providing quality employability services to young people, adults and businesses in Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber and Europe. Our vision To change lives for the better through learning and work. Our mission We help people, organisations and communities by giving them high quality tools, support and motivation to achieve their ambitions. We are a founder member of Careers Yorkshire and the Humber. Through our matrix accredited IAG service (Shine) we provide independent and impartial careers guidance to 11-19 year olds. Working with schools and colleges to deliver a quality programme of careers education. Aspire-igen is contract lead for the study programmes within West Yorkshire and North East. Supporting 16-19 closer to work Aspire-International is the UK’s careers centre of excellence and is part of the Euroguidance network.

Ajm Advisory

ajm advisory

London

Aldo J. Martinez, principal of AJM Advisory, has over thirty-five years of experience in financial markets regulation at the NYSE Euronext and in the securities industry. As, Vice President, Market Surveillance Division (MKS) in the Special Counsel, Trading Correspondence and Options Surveillance Department, he was responsible for MKS regulatory and legal matters including representation in trading investigations conducted by MKS involving federal securities laws and NYSE rules. He led the coordination in regulatory merger task force and special projects, such as regulatory merger of NYSE and NYSE Arca; developing a Divisional training program to provide staff with relevant knowledge including fraud, criminal activity such as customer "intrusion" cases and market making activities; and representing the NYSE Euronext by coordinating regulatory initiatives involving 36 U.S. and non-U.S. markets members in the Intermarket Surveillance Group (ISG). Aldo also evaluated evidence indicating whether markets were maintained in a fair and orderly manner and coordinated a Division-wide New Products Committee which assessed new trading products for impact on surveillance functions. He was responsible for conducting several Options surveillances of the NYSE Arca market, maintaining the MKS Business Continuity Plan and participated in the review of new issuer listing applications for qualification with NYSE and NYSE Arca company listing standards. While at the NYSE Euronext, Aldo held the position as Vice President (MKS) Market Trading Analysis II (MTAII) for 15 years and headed the department responsible for detection and investigation of insider trading, and market manipulation at the NYSE and other trading abuses. He instituted effective team approach to revitalize the NYSE Insider Trading Surveillance program after the insider trading scandals of the 1980s which led to the development of sophisticated, state of the art automated systems to detect trading violations in ever evolving market structure and increasing volume of trading. He proudly represented the NYSE in the ISG and his collaboration with ISG members led the evolution of the ISG into a truly international regulatory cooperative network of 36 exchanges and markets around the world. Aldo also developed and was responsible for the MKS Business Continuity Plan. Aldo Martinez's earlier years at the NYSE involved holding positions as Managing Director - MTAII; Director - Regulatory Quality Review (RQR) MKS Program - evaluated the MKS surveillance programs for effectiveness and efficiency and internal audit for regulatory processes; Attorney - Special Counsel (MKS and NYSE Enforcement Division) - represented and led the NYSE with over 18 successful disciplinary hearings involving market trading violations and cases involving violations of federal securities laws and NYSE rules. Aldo has 9 years of trading floor experience. He also served as assistant to the General Counsel at Spear Leeds & Kellogg where his duties extended to trading in NASDAQ stocks, options and futures clearing and investment banking as well as block proprietary trading and NYSE Floor trading. Throughout Aldo's career, he has given regulatory presentations to U.S. and non-U.S. government officials, dignitaries and market centers, participated in SEC international seminars and State panels and he has been interviewed by national and international print and broadcast media (e.g. CNN Espanol). Aldo also has a passion and true skill set in training, teaching and motivational speaking.