Building trading businesses from the ground up is the hallmark of Vincent Van Pelt's career. His most recent move was to Standard Chartered to take up the newly created position of managing director and global head of equities and commodities, tasked with growing the start-up sized businesses.

"I really enjoy the challenges that go along with building businesses," he says. His first taste of it was at Bankers Trust (BT), where he held a variety of sales and trading positions from 1987 to 1994 in