Toby Fildes

Managing Director

Toby Fildes is managing director of GlobalCapital, the news and data platform for the primary capital markets. He is also responsible for Global Markets, the daily newspaper of the annual development bank meetings including the IMF-World Bank. Before becoming managing director, he was a journalist and editor, running GlobalCapital's newsroom. Along with senior members of the team, he launched GC Live in October 2023.

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Sara Leech

Director of Events and Commercial Content

Sara is responsible for launching, designing, developing, and executing GC Live, GlobalCapital’s series of editorially led briefing-style events, and for building out the brand’s commercial content offering through roundtables, webinars, and sponsored editorial content.

Sara joined Delinian, formerly Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC., in 2010. She has a proven track record of successful end-to-end delivery of high-level, industry-leading events, and has extensive experience in managing event production teams, and cross-functional teams, designing business growth and innovation strategies, and launching new products.

Before her role at GlobalCapital, Sara was a member of the senior leadership team spearheading the growth and transformation of Euromoney Conferences.

Sara holds a postgraduate degree in conference interpreting techniques and EU strategy from the University of Westminster. She also earned a first-class BA degree in Spanish and Italian from the University of Bristol.

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Ralph Sinclair

London Bureau Chief

Ralph is responsible for GlobalCapital's editorial output. He joined the company in 2010 to run its coverage of the sovereign, supranational and agency bond market, setting up what was the only dedicated news and data service for the sector. He became the editor of EuroWeek in 2013 before it was rebranded as GlobalCapital.

Among other things, he created and runs The GlobalCapital Podcast and has particular responsibility for GlobalCapital’s coverage of frequent bond issuers.

Before becoming a journalist, he worked in investment banking in derivatives and then on a syndicate desk.

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Kristina Lakstutyte

Head of Marketing

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Oliver West

US Bureau Chief

Oliver is responsible for all editorial output from GlobalCapital's US bureau, including managing the publication's US securitization coverage and reporting on Latin American bond markets. He also oversees GlobalCapital's European securitization coverage from afar.

Before moving to New York in 2022, Oliver spent a decade living in Bogotá, Colombia, where – alongside playing for the Colombian national cricket team and co-founding a salsa school – he built out GlobalCapital's Latin American coverage.

He particularly enjoys learning about the weird and wonderful financial products that the US can track down to securitize, the nitty gritty of EM sovereign debt restructurings, and watching bankers and investors age rapidly as they attempt to make predictions about Latin American politics.

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Karly Eist

Director of Operations

Karly has a multifaceted role and is responsible for the operational delivery of GlobalCapital’s events portfolio and publishing projects, ensuring a first-class service is delivered to our clients.

Having joined Delinian (formerly Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC.) in 2006, Karly has over 18 years of experience in event operations. She has a proven track record in the successful strategic, operational and financial planning and delivery of market-leading events worldwide. She has strong commercial awareness and extensive experience in leading and managing event operation and customer service teams in multiple locations.

Before her role at GlobalCapital, Karly was handpicked to take the role of head of operations for Euromoney Conferences and lead the overall operations and client delivery of a diverse portfolio of 35 annual events with a combined revenue of £8m+. Spearheading the drive to deliver more sustainable events, she delivered Euromoney Institutional Investors’ first carbon neutral event which was also awarded the Austrian Ecolabel for Green Events.

Beyond her professional achievements, Karly loves to dance, stay active and enjoys helping children at her daughters’ school to read. Karly holds a BA (Hons) degree from Oxford Brookes University.

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Jack Thomson

Head of Sales

Jack oversees the entire sales team and commercial strategy with a focus on driving accelerated growth across subscriptions, events, awards, and marketing solutions.

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What’s the best part of working for GlobalCapital?

Addison Gong

SSA Editor

"The people here. They are not only talented, but also kind and generous (and fun). Many of us have become friends-for-life and I'm grateful that GC has brought so many amazing human beings together."

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What’s the best part of working for GlobalCapital?

Jordan Craig

Head of Business Development

"The best part of working at GlobalCapital is supporting our clients with our product, I like understanding how we add value and building a solution that fits this."

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What’s the best part of working for GlobalCapital?

Sophie Astles

Head of Awards & Research

"The best thing about working at GlobalCapital is that I get to spend my day talking to interesting people with different backgrounds and experiences from all corners of the international capital markets."

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What’s the best part of working for GlobalCapital?

Victoria Thiele

Senior CLO Reporter

"The best thing about GC is the team of kind, smart, fun, supportive colleagues you get to work with every day."

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