DOBBINS Martin f.

Mr. Dobbins is the Founder and CEO of Sage Advisory, s.á.r.l., with over 30 years of international experience in the financial industry. He provides advisory services and independent directorships internationally to asset managers, banks, financial service and technology firms and continues to support these firms in strategy, acquisitions, due diligence, regulatory framework and corporate governance. 
Mr. Dobbins is a non-executive independent director to regulated fin-tech start-up, In-house management companies, UCITS and RAIF structures, a leading alternative fund administrator as well as Canadian bank in Lux. He was elected as the non-executive chairperson for a technology start-up utilizing a blockchain-based platform for the investment fund industry that sets out to facilitate the distribution of funds using distributed ledger technology.
Mr. Dobbins was the former CEO & Country Head for State Street Corporation’s European and Luxembourg Banks and chaired the Luxembourg country executive group. As a global systemically important institution (G-SIIs) he was the lead executive to the European Central Bank’s Joint Supervisory Team.
He began his career in Boston, Massachusetts for State Street Corp. before relocating to Europe with his family. He has had assignments in Boston, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Munich, London and Luxembourg. Martin holds a BS/BA in Finance & Banking and an Executive MBA from Suffolk University, Boston, MA USA. He recently completed a certification program in Strategy & Innovation from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Cambridge MA USA and a certificate program in Sustainable Finance from Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainable Leadership Cambridge UK. 
He has held a number of board and committee chair positions in ALFI (Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry) and ABBL (Luxembourg Bankers Association) and is well known past role as the Chairperson for the Luxembourg Depository Banks, where he represented the Luxembourg financial service industry at the European level on regulatory matters. He is currently on the ILA Funds Committee and ALFI-Digital & FinTech Steering Committee and Co-Chairs the Cybersecurity working group.