As Head of International Enterprise Client Solutions, Gary focuses on strengthening Northern Trust's relationships with key clients across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific at the highest levels of their organisations, principally their chief investment officers and chief executive officers. He works to create synergies and facilitates access to Northern Trust’s asset servicing and asset management solutions.
Gary has a background spanning over 25 years in senior-level investment research, business creation, asset management, capital markets and asset servicing roles.
He is a regular author of Northern Trust thought leadership including The Weekender, which offers his fortnightly perspective on global market developments and their potential broader implications.
Prior to taking up his current role, Gary was Head of Global Strategic Solutions for Northern Trust’s Asset Servicing business, working to ensure its solutions remain closely aligned with the requirements of clients around the world. He was previously Global Head of Integrated Trading Solutions, Northern Trust’s outsourced trading service.
He joined Northern Trust in May 2016 with the acquisition of brokerage firm Aviate Global, where he was the co-founder and responsible for its Thematic Research offering.
Gary has a Law Degree from Victoria University in New Zealand and a degree in Social and Political Science from Cambridge University in the UK. Prior to founding Aviate Global in 2007, Gary worked at Merrill Lynch in London in Equity Sales. He is also a registered representative with the FCA and FINRA and holds his Series 17 and 63 license.
March 29, 2025
The Weekender looks at the growing strategic importance of real assets, the upside to phone-fasting and asks: who wins from the AI rotation?
March 22, 2025
The Weekender looks at the implications of fiscal expansion in Europe as the US deleverages, including prospects for a supercycle in commodities, re-leveraging of the US private sector, and what governments see in rare earth minerals that the market cannot.
March 8, 2025
The Weekender continues looking at the implications of military Keynesianism and a fiscal put emerging in Europe.
March 1, 2025
The Weekender looks for evidence to sustain the comeback potential of Europe and China, while asking what matters most for US policy drivers and what can investors do if range-bound markets and inflation volatility both persist.
February 8, 2025
The Weekender asks: who wins as intelligence commoditizes, what role does uncertainty play on asset values, and what might the Chinese Zodiac tell us about tariffs and trade-wars?
January 25, 2025
Inspired by a new US initiative (and a similar one trialed in the UK at the turn of this century), The Weekender assesses how we might improve financial literacy and kick-start an investment and equity culture.