Persella D. Ioannides, as a director of Meritservus’ financial services, has a broad expertise in the financial markets both through her professional as well as her academic background; she was a Risk Manager for Morgan Stanley’s institutional equity derivates desk, New York, worked for the Emerging Markets desk of Lehman Brothers in London and was an analyst for LBO valuations of Naufal Capital, New York. She has an MBA and an MS in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, New York and BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.