Patrick L. Young

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Patrick L. Young is the executive director of Valereum PLC, a role he took in July 2021. He is also the CEO of HanzaTrade, a crowdfunding platform based in Poland. He joined in that role in September 2014.
He is also executive director of the financial market infrastructure firm DV Advisors, a strategic consulting and investment firm. In addition, he is the publisher of Exchange Invest and founder and chairman of Young Markets, a conference.
Young is a strong proponent of the "New Europe" and invests via a private vehicle Projekt Vistula SP z o o as well as various other ventures not in the public domain stretching from the Baltic states to the Balkans.
He has spoken at conferences throughout the world on issues related to the future of finance. He has written opinion pieces for financial journals including L'Agefi, Australian Financial Review, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal) and has appeared on radio and television on networks such as BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Reuters TV.
== Background ==
In the course of a varied career, Young was once a photojournalist (specializing in automotive topics), although has spent more than 2 decades specializing in financial market issues as a practitioner, analyst, broker and trader. 
Young has been involved with many start-up ventures, ranging from the Classic Car Club in London to a series of publishing ventures such as founding the erivatives.com site was an early online magazines in the derivatives market space from 1995 to 2006. 
Young has advised many exchanges, market platforms and IT companies as well a working with regulators and being in the forefront of many new products and markets developments, such single-stock futures which he championed during the 1990's. 
He was formerly a broker and technical analyst with Tullett & Tokyo and Daiwa Europe and an independent trader for many years. He did some trading electronically in the early 1990s. He has been a board member of the Swiss Futures & Options Association. 
In October of 2010, Young edited and published "The Gathering Storm" a book created by hedge fund manager Lee Robinson, with all proceeds going to charity.
From March to May of 2011, Young served as CEO of SIBEX, the Sibiu Stock Exchange.
In February of 2012 he was appointed a non-executive director on the board of Liquidnet Europe Ltd. 
=== Capital Market Revolution ===
Young is the author of the book Capital Market Revolution, which explores the transition of financial markets from physical to virtual platforms. This book, published in 1999, was ahead of its time in predicting the digitization of financial markets and the rise of electronic trading. It offered insights into how technology would transform market structures and financial transactions, emphasizing the impact of the internet on global finance.
== Education ==
==Podcasts==
===Inside the ICE House===
== Books ==
*Capital Markets Revolution (FT Prentice Hall 1999) - ISBN 0273642324
*The Promiscous Investor (erivatives 2001)
*New Capital Markets Revolution (Texere 2003) - ISBN 1587991462
*Single Stock Futures (John Wiley & Sons 2004)
*An Intangible Commodity (erivatives.com 2005)
*The Exchange Manifesto (Derivatives Vision 2007)
*"The Gathering Storm" (DV Books 2010)
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