Tom Layton is the Senior Vice President of Product Management within Raymond James Global Wealth Solutions. During his 21-year career at Raymond James, he has overseen product management for a variety of investment solutions. He is currently responsible for the firm’s structured investments (market-linked notes and market-linked CDs) platform as well as OTC hedging solutions. His team is responsible for advisor education, sales/consulting, product research/origination, and platform experience. Tom is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a B.S./B.A. in finance with honors. He holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation.

Tom and his wife Lauren both grew up in Tampa, FL and currently live there with their two boys Dominic (12) and Julian(11).

Mark has been with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management for 29 years, starting his career in 1994 in fixed-income servicing wealth management. Mark has been working with the Structured Investments team since 2006 serving several roles focused on both sales and product and platform initiatives. In his current role, his responsibilities include product origination for both domestic and offshore issuance as well as the evolution of the Structured Notes platform, addressing the changing needs of the business through product and platform enhancements. He is responsible for managing the relationships with external partners including the issuing banks.

Mark is a graduate of Denison University in Granville, Ohio where he received his B.A. in History. He proudly serves on the board of The Charlie Landers Foundation, which was created in honor of his son, with a mission to raise awareness, provide support to pediatric and young adult patients and fund research to find a lasting cure for Ewing’s Sarcoma.

Eric founded UBS Global Wealth Management (GWM) America’s Structured Solutions business in June 2006. He currently leads UBS GWM Americas and UBS Investment Bank (IB) Global Markets Americas’ cross-divisional collaboration teams responsible for the product development, origination, distribution, secondary trading, and OTC equity derivatives functions for GWM Americas and IB’s third-party distribution clients. Eric has also led UBS GWM America’s listed options, futures, exchange-traded products, closed-end funds, and unit investment trust businesses. In addition, Eric serves on several of the firm’s executive management, operational and product risk, distribution, and commitment committees. Eric also serves on the board of Luma Financial Technologies, LLC.

Prior to working at UBS, Eric held several positions of responsibility. He was the Managing Director, and Head of Product Development in the US Equity Derivatives group at Citigroup’s Corporate and Investment Banking Division; Managing Director, and Head of the Structured Products and the Over-the-Counter Derivatives groups at Wachovia Securities; Senior Vice President, and Head of Equity and Fund-linked Structured Products and the Single Stock Risk Management groups at Lehman Brothers; and he started his career in equity derivatives structuring and marketing at Merrill Lynch, where he was a Director in the Global Equity Linked Products Group.

Eric holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan. He completed his Master’s thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the mentorship of his father.
Members of the Hall of Fame have a demonstrated history of career achievement, sustained commitment to the advancement of the profession, and significant contributions, as well as conduct themselves with professionalism among their peers.

In the year, Rob Sowinski was elected by unanimous vote from the structured product industry, where colleagues, partners and competitors, decided to give Rob the distinction.

Robert (Rob) Sowinski had a long and distinguished career working in the structured product industry, holding various leadership positions in both distribution and trading. In 2015, he joined Advisors Asset Management, Inc. (AAM) as Managing Director of Structured Products, where he was responsible for origination, product development, issuer relationship management, infrastructure, and educational growth. Prior to joining AAM, Rob served as Managing Director at Jefferies LLC, where he headed third party structured products distribution in North America. Earlier in his career he served as a Director at Citigroup ICG, holding various structured products leadership positions within the Citi First Cross Asset and Fixed Income Structured Products groups.

Rob Sowinski received a BS in Finance from Baruch College, City University of New York.

Robert Sowinski had a passion for his family and the markets and is described as smart and witty, with a kind and genuine spirit. Born on April 28, 1972, Rob passed away on July 13, 2021 in Boca Raton, Florida at the age of 49. He is survived by his wife Monika and children Veronica and Filip.

Rob was a great friend, colleague, and mentor. His contribution and impact to the structured products industry is immense and his presence will be greatly missed.