Our People

James Miles

James Miles was born in Hong Kong and attended school and university in the UK. He started his career with Jardine Fleming Investment Management in Hong Kong in 1991, before becoming an equities analyst and strategist with Asia Equity (which later became Banque Paribas and then BNP Paribas). He moved to London in 1997 and left banking in March 2000 to set up Liv-ex.

Justin Gibbs

Justin Gibbs was born in Melbourne and attended school in Australia and the UK and university in Australia (BEc). He started his banking career with Asia Equity in London in 1994 as an institutional salesman, eventually running the UK Asian-facing client base for BNP Paribas. He left banking in March 2000 to set up Liv-ex with James Miles.

Anthony Maxwell

Anthony Maxwell was born in South Africa and brought up in France before moving to the UK aged 12. After leaving university, he worked for the Foreign Office in Geneva and the International Federation of Wines and Spirits in Paris. He then worked for John Armit Wines for eight years, running their trading department and private client sales department before joining Liv-ex in 2005.

Anish Chandaria

Anish Chandaria, born in Kenya, moved to the UK in 1999 and is a finance leader with over 20 years as a qualified accountant, specialising in strategic and operational finance. After a decade in corporate finance, he transitioned to the start-up world in 2012 as Head of Finance and has since held multiple CFO roles, most recently at LCAP, a leadership advisory firm. He joined Liv-ex in 2022, bringing extensive experience in exits, M&A, fundraising, building finance teams and processes, and managing multi-geography, multi-site businesses.

Ashley Hopkins

Ashley Hopkins was born in London and has lived in the UK, Holland, and the USA. He started his career via a YTS fast track scheme at Charles Kendall Freight, later running their high tech supply chain division before the age of 22. In 2006 he moved to Nautilus INC., a NYSE company, and ran their International supply chain, before moving to Segen, a leading edge renewable energy distributor and installer in the UK. Ashley joined the team at Liv-ex in 2012 and now oversees both logistics and technology for the business.

Nick Palmer

Nick Palmer was born & raised in London. He studied engineering at the University of Birmingham where a weekend job at a wine store turned into a passion. He has worked in private client sales and trading for the likes of Direct Wines and Armit Wines. After a segue into the technology & software sector in the 2010s he joined Liv-ex in 2016.

Dane Sunderland

Dane was born in Australia and lived there until 2010 when he moved to the UK. He has over 15 years’ experience in Logistics and Supply Chain having worked across multiple industries and overseeing operations in APAC, US, Europe and the UK. Dane joined Liv-ex in 2021 to oversee the Global Logistics Network and Settlement Services.

Clement Palle

Clement joined Liv-ex in 2013 as a System Analyst and progressed through the ranks to current role of leading the high-performing Engineering Teams. At his core, Clement is a strategic system-level thinker who evangelizes technology and agile principles that drives vision, innovation, and business functions. Leveraging both mainstream and emerging technologies, has played a pivotal role in revolutionizing how Liv-ex operates, from early cloud adoption to the latest microservices implementation.

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Andreas Neder

Andreas Neder grew up in his family's winery in Germany and studied International Wine Business at Geisenheim university. His curiosity about data and dynamics of the fine wine led him to join Liv-ex in 2012. In 2016 Andreas decided to move back to Germany and has since been advising Liv-ex as a consultant

Robbie Stevens

Robbie Stevens was born in Oxford and attended school and university in the UK. Since leaving school he spent time living and working in Argentina, Spain, and Portugal where most latterly he worked with Symington Family Estates. He joined Liv-ex in 2014 and oversees the running of the Americas strategy, market and membership. He achieved his WSET Diploma in 2016 and has recently completed a cryptocurrency course with MIT.

Romain Grudzinski

Romain Grudzinski left France at 19 to study Mandarin Chinese in Beijing (北京师范大学). He then completed his Ba in Mandarin Chinese at SOAS and a MA in Politics at King’s College London. Rom joined Liv-ex in 2011 at the start of his career and has been helping to development the business since then. He looked after the Chinese and Hong Kong markets for many years before moving to head up the EU market in 2021.