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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Partner operating in the Consulting space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Punit Bhatia
Partner of Deloitte
Punit Bhatia is a Partner at Deloitte and leads their Shared Services, BPO and Global Business Services practice. Punit is a specialist in this area with 18 years of consulting experience gained in a number of different industries including Energy, Consumer Goods and Financial Services. In the last few years, Punit has led some of the largest and most complex Global Business Services, Shared Services and BPO engagements in the industry. His experience spans the full life cycle from developing strategy , designing solutions, and implementing them. He has been recognised by clients as bringing a thoughtful approach that focussed on long term value for all stakeholders. Punit’s work in the Shared Services and Outsourcing industry has included Business Processes as well as IT.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Gurpreet Johal
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Dan McNamara
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
James O’Riordan
Senior Partner and UK Financial Services Leader of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
David Rush
Partner specialising in Financial Services, in particular Insurance of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Rick Cudworth
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Marian Bloodworth
Partner, Employment of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Marie Manley
Partner, Head of the UK Life Sciences Practice of Sidley Austin
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About Sidley Austin: Sidley is a law firm providing legal advising services for businesses.
Mateja Maher
Partner of Sidley Austin
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Nicolaus Henke
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Nicolaus Henke is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advises leading companies on how to improve decision making and performance through advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and end-to-end data enabled transformations, and is the global leader of McKinsey Analytics, which has more than 2,000 dedicated analytics practitioners and translators, where he oversees partnerships between McKinsey and the wider artificial intelligence, data, and computing ecosystem. Nicolaus is the chairman of QuantumBlack (acquired by McKinsey in 2015), a company operating at the intersection of strategy, technology, and design, and a member of McKinsey’s global board, the Shareholder’s Council. He helped found and is a member of the Board of Innovative Healthcare Delivery at Duke Medicine and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Nicolaus frequently speaks on big data, analytics, and healthcare topics at global forums such as the World Economic Forum, the Milken Institute, and Forbes. He holds a master’s degree and PhD in business from the University of Münster, Germany, and a master’s in public administration from Harvard University, where he was a John J. McCloy Scholar.
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About Little Journey, McKinsey & Company: McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm and trusted advisor by businesses, governments, and institutions.
Charmaine Eggberry
Managing Director & Partner of McKinsey & Company
Appointed to the Board in January 2014. Charmaine is a Partner at BCG Digital Ventures (an arm of The Boston Consulting Group), a role which involves leading the creation of completely new ventures and businesses for the world’s biggest brands. Charmaine is also a Non-Executive Director of Avanti plc and software robot specialists, Blue Prism plc as well as Chairperson of Buzzmove. She is also the CEO of Plan B Consulting and undertakes advisory work for several early stage startups. Charmaine previously held international senior executive roles with Research in Motion (Managing Director and Chief Marketing Officer from 2002–2008) and Nokia (Global Senior Vice President from 2010–2012). Before joining RIM in 2002 as Marketing Director for Europe she worked for Lucent Technologies where she held several positions including the roles of Global Business Partner Marketing Director and Marketing Director, EMEA. Charmaine led Wayra UK, one of the world’s largest digital business accelerators and was a non-executive director of Wayra UnLtd, a joint venture between the UK Government and Telefónica. Charmaine is also a board member and trustee of The Marketing Academy. Charmaine holds an MBA and attended Wharton Business School to study Global Marketing
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Angela Spatharou
Partner of McKinsey & Company
Angela Spatharou currently works as the Partner for McKinsey & Company.
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Dominic Barton
Global Managing Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company
Dominic Barton is the global managing director of McKinsey. In his 24 years with the firm, Dominic has advised clients in a range of industries—including banking, consumer goods, high tech, and industrial—but his core area of work is in financial-sector development and reform. In his current role as managing director, Dominic continues to spend half of his time working with clients. Dominic was previously McKinsey’s chairman in Asia from 2004–2009, based in Shanghai, and he led McKinsey’s office in Korea from 2000–2004.
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About McKinsey & Company: McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm and trusted advisor by businesses, governments, and institutions.
Eric Kump
Managing Director and Partner of The Carlyle Group
Eric J. Kump is a Managing Director and Partner. He is Head of the Carlyle Sub Sahara Africa Fund and an advisor of the Carlyle European Partners investment committee. He is based in London. Eric Kump has more than 20 years of private equity experience spanning four continents and numerous sectors. Prior to joining Carlyle European Partners in 2010 , Mr. Kump was a Managing Director and Head of the European Private Equity team of Dubai International Capital (DIC). Prior to that, he was a Managing Director with Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity (MLGPE) where he was a member of the global investment committee. Mr. Kump is on the Board of Directors of MPS, TiAuto Investments and J&J. Mr. Kump received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and he received a B.A. in finance and accounting from Pace.
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Alex Wagenberg
Managing Director and Partner of The Carlyle Group
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H. Casper Ager-Hanssen
Partner & Head of Venture Capital of Custos Group
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About Custos Group, Custos Group: Custos creates a unique platform that targets world-beaters and tomorrow’s enterprising disruptive innovators.
Ian Meadows
Associate Partner of Ernst & Young
Ian Meadows is an Associate Partner in Insurance at EY based in London. Ian leads Specialty Insurance Technology and is a director of the Insurwave Joint Venture. His current focus is to support the modernisation efforts across London and into international markets.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Mark Brockway
Corporate Finance Associate Partner of Ernst & Young
Mark Brockway served as Finance Director at BWB Consulting Ltd.Brockway served as a Senior Member of Corporate Finance Team at Corven Group. He served at Grant Thornton Corporate Finance, LLC, KPMG Corporate Finance, and BDO Stoy Hayward Corporate Finance. Brockway serves as a Director of Ernst & Young LLP.
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Jacqueline Kernot
Partner of Ernst & Young
Jacqui is a senior Cyber Security, and Risk Management professional with over 20 years experience in consulting, startup and MSP management. Jacqui has just left Telstra where she grew and managed a $150M+ security services business. She won several large contracts between $10 – $50M during her four years there, and built the business across geographies from much lower revenues. Jacqui has dealt with government, federal government, enterprise, carrier and FSI clients within Australia and the UK. She has excellent relationships with C level executives in risk and security across both countries. Jacqui is regularly asked to present on cyber and risk at various conferences globally and in Australia. During SIBOS this year she was asked to join the debate to speak on whether a cyber 9/11 was imminent, with other experts from several countries. She has completed several podcasts and articles on security and risk and is regularly quoted in the media on both security and risk and diversity and inclusion, subjects she is passionate about. Jacqui is a former Intelligence officer with the ADF, and has completed Special Forces Planning, NATO engagement and Information Operations, as well as technical courses required for rank including ROAC. Her roles included support to 6 Brigade, 1 Commando Regiment, SOCOM and the 1st Intelligence Battalion.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Richard Goold
Partner, Head of Fast Growth (UK & Ireland) & Global Head of Tech Sector – Law of Ernst & Young
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Manish Madhvani
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound
Manish Madhvani is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound. Manish has executed M&A and capital raising transactions since 1997, involving some of the best known global internet, software and media companies, including: Spotify, King.com, Believe Digital, WPP, Wipro, Fjord, Hearst Corporation, Accenture, Newscorp and Experian. Manish who was selected as one of the top 40 dealmakers globally by M&A Advisor, started his career at Barclays Capital’s Private Equity team. He has advised the Treasury on Entrepreneurship and graduated from Southampton University with an LLB in Law / MA in Marketing. Manish is a regular speaker on Bloomberg and CNBC and is currently an Ambassador for London Technology Week. He was recognised as one of the leading Entrepreneurs in the UK by the Sunday Times / Maserati 100.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Robert Ahldin
Partner of GP Bullhound
Robert Ahldin is a Partner at GP Bullhound Asset Management, advising the GP Bullhound Funds on investments in technology companies. Robert did his first public equity investments as a teenager in the 80’s. His professional careeer started in the mid 90’s as Equity Analyst focusing on the IT/Internet sectors. At the turn of the century, Robert went on as an entrepreneur being co-founder of an investment bank, a VC-fund and later two investment companies. Robert´s curriculum vitae contains several high profile investments, trade sales, block trades and IPOs. In 2014 Robert became a partner at GP Bullhound with the mission to help scaling up the firm´s investment activities.
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About Edastra Venture Capital, GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Claudio Alvarez
Partner of GP Bullhound
Claudio joined GP Bullhound in 2007 and is a Director. He focuses on the Digital Media, Internet and Software sectors, and has been involved in some of GP Bullhound’s most high-profile transactions, which include Figleaves.com, eCommera, Fjord, Euroffice.com and Sunglassesshop.com. Claudio previously worked as an equity research analyst at Execution Noble in the telecoms group, where he covered large cap fixed and mobile telecom operators in Western Europe. Claudio graduated from Wesleyan University with a dual BA in Economics and Philosophy.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Graeme Bayley
Partner & Group CFO of GP Bullhound
Graeme joined GP Bullhound in 2009 and is responsible for GP Bullhound’s Finance, Compliance, IT, HR and Operations. He started his career at Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now PwC) where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant before working in corporate finance. He then moved to HSBC Investment Bank where he ran the Growth Companies Team, later joining Noble & Co as a Director in Corporate Finance before taking on the management of Noble’s finance, compliance and operations. Graeme is a Fellow of the ICAEW and holds their Corporate Finance qualification along with a BSc in Physics from Southampton University.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Andre Shortell
Partner of GP Bullhound
Andre joined GP Bullhound as a Partner in 2010. Prior to joining, Andre was an independent adviser to companies and investment funds in the clean tech sector. Andre also spent 26 years in a number of senior roles in Citigroup including MNC Corporate Banking Head for CEEMEA, India Corporate Head, Global Autos Specialist and New Issues Head in London. He also ran Merchant Acquiring for Citibank and led the sale of that business in 2005. Andre brings to the team 10 years of involvement in renewable energy as well as experience in Corporate Finance, M&A and Emerging Markets. He also brings a broad international experience having spent much of his career in Europe and Asia as well as close personal ties to Brazil. Andre has a MA degree in International History from the London School of Economics.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Simon Nicholls
Partner of GP Bullhound
Simon is a Partner of GP Bullhound, which he joined in 2011 and where he is one of Europe’s most active advisers to high growth technology, digital media and internet companies, particularly in the digital marcoms and adtech arenas where he has led more than 20 transactions. With a career spanning 20 years focused on these sectors, Simon has advised on a wide range of M&A and capital markets transactions. He has advised on transactions in digital media, e-commerce, adtech, mobile applications, consumer internet, data analytics, digital and diversified marketing & communications, broadcasting, video on demand, television production, professional and business information, consumer publishing and music. Simon started his banking career at UBS Warburg in London, where he advised on large-cap international media & internet transactions. He then went on to be a managing director at Ingenious Corporate Finance, the M&A advisory business of the Ingenious Media Group. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte & Touche and is a graduate of Durham University.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Guillaume Bonneton
Partner of GP Bullhound
Guillaume was a senior banker at Jefferies in their European digital media practice and was previously part of the team at LongAcre, a corporate finance boutique acquired by Jefferies in 2007. Advisor and investor to the tech economy, Guillaume is a renowned investment banker, an expert in M&A and private placements for technology businesses in Europe. Over the years he has applied his passion for deal-making to exciting and amazing businesses such as: Prodigy Finance, Synthesio, Monese, Ecovadis, Dailymotion, Hyves, VNU, Yahoo!, Marco & Vasco and Zoover. Guillaume started his career at The Boston Consulting Group, and moved to investment banking after his MBA at INSEAD. He has since worked for Deutsche Bank, LongAcre and Jefferies International. He graduated from ESCP in Paris, and holds an MSc in Management and Finance, a Masters in Corporate Law, as well as an MBA.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Guillaume Bonneton
Partner of GP Bullhound
Guillaume was a senior banker at Jefferies in their European digital media practice and was previously part of the team at LongAcre, a corporate finance boutique acquired by Jefferies in 2007. Advisor and investor to the tech economy, Guillaume is a renowned investment banker, an expert in M&A and private placements for technology businesses in Europe. Over the years he has applied his passion for deal-making to exciting and amazing businesses such as: Prodigy Finance, Synthesio, Monese, Ecovadis, Dailymotion, Hyves, VNU, Yahoo!, Marco & Vasco and Zoover. Guillaume started his career at The Boston Consulting Group, and moved to investment banking after his MBA at INSEAD. He has since worked for Deutsche Bank, LongAcre and Jefferies International. He graduated from ESCP in Paris, and holds an MSc in Management and Finance, a Masters in Corporate Law, as well as an MBA.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Andy Ross
Partner of MXC Capital
Andy has over 35 years of experience in the IT industry and has previously held Chief Executive Officer roles at Northgate Managed Services and Valldata, as well as senior director roles at Atos, EDS, Sema Group and KPMG.
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About CORETX, MXC Capital: MXC Capital is an investment and advisory group specializing in the technology, media and telecommunications sector.
Marc Young
Partner of MXC Capital
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Srinivas Krishna
Partner, UK & EMEA of Avasant
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Karim Tabet Jalbout
Partner – Global Private Equity / VC Tech of Egon Zehnder
Karim Jalbout, based in London, leads the Digital and eCommerce segments of Egon Zehnder’s Technology and Communications Practice in Europe. Karim also leads the firm’s Chief Marketing Officers Practice in the UK. He is a trusted advisor to private equity, family-owned businesses, and start-ups at the C-suite and board levels. Karim has served clients across hospitality, travel, publishing, financial services, telecommunications, pure play, and retail. He has deep experience in emerging markets, particularly India. Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Karim was Global Head of Propositions & Sales at Sony Ericsson Mobile, where he drove early investment in the Android platform. Previously, Karim gained more than a decade of FMCG experience with Diageo. He started his career working in Brand Management for Guinness in Canada, then moved to London as Brand Controller Guinness and Malta Guinness for the Africa region. Karim subsequently led Baileys in the UK market and was Marketing Director for Guinness in Europe, including Ukraine and Russia. Karim earned a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University in Canada and completed the Executive Education program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has been a key speaker at the Digital Innovation Summit as well as for Endeavour (a global entrepreneur network) and LIFE (an international non-profit organization for Lebanese Executives in Finance).
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About Egon Zehnder, Lilium: Egon Zehnder is a true professional services firm, passionately devoted to your success, ethical in our actions
Axelle Sznajer
Partner, Head of FinTech Europe of Egon Zehnder
Axelle is a core member of Egon Zehnder’s Financial Services and Information Technology Officers Practices and leads the FinTech segment in Europe. She provides a full range of services from executive and board search to management appraisals and leadership consulting. Axelle has worked with a range of listed and privately owned companies focusing on the talent management needs relating to digital transformation and innovation and has also advised start-ups.
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Indraneel Mitra
Client Partner of Cognizant
Indraneel Mitra is a Senior Solutions Architect & Technology Evangelist at Cognizant with over 12 years of experience and supporting consulting engagements for various Fortune 500 customers. He is also a technology enthusiast who explores various cloud and IoT frameworks.
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About Cognizant: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Jeremy Oppenheim
Founder & Managing Partner of SYSTEMIQ
Jeremy was a senior partner at McKinsey until April 2016, where he worked for 24 years serving some of the world’s leading companies in the finance, consumer goods, technology, healthcare and energy sectors. He worked extensively with multilateral development banks, the United Nations and governments in both developed and developing countries. In 2007, he set up McKinsey’s Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice, supporting ambitious public, philanthropic and private sector clients to put in place low-carbon, resource-efficient strategies. Prior to this, Jeremy worked at the World Bank from 1988-1993, specialising in economic transformation programmes for middle-income countries. In 2013-2014, Jeremy was programme director of the New Climate Economy project. He sits on a number of non-profit boards, including Global Action Plan (as Chair), the Woods Hole Research Center and Rare (UK). Together with Martin Stuchtey, he is a founder and managing partner of SYSTEMIQ.
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About SYSTEMIQ: SYSTEMIQ supports disruptive early-stage digital/technology ventures with the potential to transform systems in the circular economy, energy
Luke Ferris
Associate Partner ADAPT of Bain & Company
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Jean-Paul Petranca
Principal, Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Managing Director and Partner at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) London
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Antoon Schneider
Senior Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Antoon is a Managing Director and Senior Partner in the Principal Investor and Private Equity practice at Boston Consulting Group. Antoon has advised most of the 50 largest private-equity firms globally on topics that include deal sourcing, due diligence and firm strategy, as well as working with their portfolio companies on 100-day plans and operational-improvement. He also has extensive experience in corporate M&A. Before joining BCG in 2011, Antoon spent nearly 14 years with McKinsey&Co, where he led the private-equity practice in the UK. Prior to that he worked in M&A at Hambros Bank and as a Chartered Accountant.
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Tim Smeaton
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner of Kubrick Group
Tim Smeaton co-founded Kubrick Group in March 2016. Tim is responsible for the overall strategy of the company and its execution. Tim was previously the CEO of a public company that he grew with his co-founders to have revenues in excess of £200 million and 10 offices around the world. Tim also has a background in the technology industry with multiple non-executive roles, with a strong focus on education and charitable organisations helping them increase diversity in the technology industry. Tim also has experience as an advisor and investor in technology start ups. Tim believes that all organisations have a responsibility to develop their people to compensate for the huge impact that automation and artificial intelligence will have on the global workforce.
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About Kubrick Group: Kubrick Group is a new force in technology consulting, providing fully trained and accredited junior consultants to organisations.
Nick Allen
Partner of Kubrick Group
Nick is responsible for Kubrick’s client development and has overseen the onboarding of some of the biggest and best brands in the world, with a background in technology consulting and FX trading.
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About Kubrick Group: Kubrick Group is a new force in technology consulting, providing fully trained and accredited junior consultants to organisations.
Alex Klein
COO / Founding Partner of Efficio
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Ashley Steel
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Ashley Steel is a former Vice Chairman at KPMG and was Global Chair for its transport, leisure and logistics practice until her retirement from the firm in September 2014. Ashley Steel has significant international experience and has advised numerous FTSE and Fortune 500 boards. Her other sector experience includes professional services, technology, media, business services and healthcare. Ashley Steel is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Civil Aviation Authority and serves on the International Business Advisory Board at British Airways. She is also Special Adviser to a global aviation technology company owned by Warburg Pincus and an Independent Non-Executive Director to global law firm, Ince & Co. Ashley has a PhD in Management from Henley Business School.
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Joe Cassidy
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Joe Cassidy is the Partner at KPMG
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Murray Raisbeck
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Murray is a Partner within KPMG’s FS practice. He has extensive FS audit and advisory experience. An auditor by background, Murray joined KPMG in 1999 and became a partner in 2011. Murray works with global financial services clients in the insurance, asset management and wealth management industries. As a result of all of the change underway in the sector Murray has been involved in working with clients that are dealing with evolving financial regulation (Solvency II and RDR being examples), changing technology (move to cloud based solutions and telematics being examples), societal changes (demands of an ageing population being an example), and more recently the impact of political risk on firms within the sector (recent pension reforms being an example). One current area of focus for Murray is the UK Motor insurance market. Murray is the audit partner for three of the UK’s market leading motor insurers and leading ‘usage based insurance’ (UBI) businesses. He is also frequently involved in discussions with industry bodies and a variety of firms developing their UBI strategy. He frequently comments on UBI developments in the press. Murray’s advisory experience includes finance change and regulatory programmes, Sarbanes Oxley implementation projects, accounting advice on group reconstructions, Part VII transfers, and a variety of transactions. His transaction experience includes ‘buy-side’ deal evaluation, due diligence, transaction regulatory and accounting support, IPO readiness services and synergies work.
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Iain Fenn
Partner of Linklaters LLP
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Joerg Esser
Partner of Roland Berger
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Gerry Lagerberg
Retired PwC Partner ( Home ) of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Warwick Hunt
Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer of PwC
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Tom Adams
Partner, Experience Consulting Leader of PwC
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Grant Waterfall
Partner, EMEA Cybersecurity & Privacy leader of PwC
Grant Waterfall is a Partner responsible for PwC’s EMEA Cybersecurity and Privacy business and is the Global Cybersecurity and Privacy co-leader.
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Pauline Campbell
Partner of PwC
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Sue Rissbrook
Partner, Head of Retail of PwC
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Jonathon Howe
Partner of PwC
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Sam Evans
Associate Partner of Delta Partners Capital Limited
Sam is an Associate Partner at Delta Partners a leading specialist global TMD Advisory, Corporate Finance and Investment firm headquartered in Dubai. Sam has extensive experience across the telecoms and media sectors both in consulting where he was previously a Partner with Redshift Strategy leading international telecoms engagements as well as working for Spectrum Strategy Consultants, and industry where he was Strategy Director for GSMA and worked for Virgin Media in their commercial team. He has advised clients across North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia including mobile operators, content distributors, network infrastructure providers, device vendors and payments networks. He has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.
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About Delta Partners Capital Limited, Redshift Strategy: Delta Partners is a Private Equity arm focuses on the telecoms, and provide funding to fund companies’ growth in emerging markets.
Robin Boehringer
Founder and Partner of BBox Capital
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About BBox Capital: BBox Capital focuses on innovative and valuable real estate business models that specialize in investment management.
Oliver Rochman
Partner of Morrison & Foerster
Oliver Rochman is a partner of Morrison & Foerster (International) LLP, based in the London office. His practice focuses on international private investment funds, in particular buy-out funds, infrastructure funds and funds of funds. Oliver has wide-ranging private investment fund experience, which includes providing counsel on carried interest arrangements and co-investment schemes, as well as fund restructuring, secondary transactions, and structured co-investments. He also has experience with private equity, venture capital, mezzanine, special situations, international structuring, investor negotiation, advising on regulatory and tax issues and coinvestment arrangements. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster in 2016, Oliver practiced at an international law firm’s office in London. During that appointment Oliver’s notable transactions included advising a European banking group on the sale of a portfolio of over US$1 billion of various fund interests in the private equity, energy, and venture capital space; acting for a sophisticated fund of funds manager in its participation in a large complex secondary transaction valued at over £1 billion; advising two Northern European focused fund managers on the establishment of respectively, a growth equity fund and a €1.1 billion buy-out fund; leading a team advising a multinational institutional investor on its private equity investment program, including analysis of terms against market and negotiation of investment documents; and advising on the establishment of a new European management entity and raising a first European debt fund for a traditionally U.S. focused private debt manager.
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About Morrison & Foerster: Morrison & Foerster is an international law firm that provides legal services across a range of industries and practices.
Tim Stone
Partner & Co-Founder of Breed Reply
Tim is one of the founding partners of Breed Reply, who are an active operational investor dedicated to early stage businesses in the Internet of Things. He leads the bespoke support programme to develop and accelerate the commercialisation of their growing portfolio of seventeen companies. His career started in sales and rapidly moved through to Executive roles covering all aspects of creating and operating a successful business. His key roles have ranged from Business Development Director, CCO and CEO in both corporate organisations and startups, with a focus on the Telecoms industry A thread throughout his career has been creating success through partnerships. In Vodafone Tim created from scratch the wholesale strategy, then executed this taking market share from 0 to 30%+ in less than three years. This success was delivered through the strategic development of major new brands. He has also seen a significant exit to a major operator from one his startup ventures.
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About Breed Reply, Graystone Strategy: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
Gabriele Dini
Associate Partner of Breed Reply
Investment and corporate finance professional with track record in life sciences and technology, specializing in bridging innovation and finance. Solid technical expertise, with a MSc in engineering and experience in multinational academic and industrial environments, complemented by an MBA with focus on strategy and finance and a Masters in Finance. Strong knowledge of research, product development, and operations, enriched by a continuous interaction with corporate-level functions; extensive venture capital experience, from origination, to due diligence, deal structuring and strategic support to the entrepreneurs as in-house consultant and board member.
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About Breed Reply, Breed Reply: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
Simon Toms
Partner of Skadden Arps
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About Skadden Arps: Skadden Arps is a law firm that offers legal services to corporate, industrial, and financial entities.
Joel Segal
Partner & Chairman of PwC South Africa
Joel started his career in South Africa and joined PwC in 2009 as a partner. During his career in the firm, he has served as strategic advisor to executive boards of multinationals across the FTSE100 and Fortune500 equivalents, helping them operate effectively by transforming their global business models. He has over 15 years’ experience across multiple industries, with a strong focus on consumer, retail, manufacturing and industrial products. He has held various senior leadership roles and remains a global relationship and advisory partner in the firm. Joel currently sits as Chair of the UK firm’s Africa Business Group with a focus on helping companies enter and operate effectively in the emerging markets of sub-Saharan Africa. He has lived and worked in Africa, US and UK helping clients and their senior executives in over 20 countries.
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About PwC South Africa: PwC South Africa provides industry-focused assurance, advisory, and tax services to public, private, and government clients.
Angus Ward
Partner and CEO, Digital Platform Solutions of BearingPoint
Angus is the CEO of BearingPoint’s digital platform solutions arm, BearingPoint//Beyond, appointed in September 2017. Angus brings 30 years of consulting and solutions experience to his role, supporting organizations across multiple industries in shaping strategies and adopting platform-based business and operating models with differentiating partner ecosystems. Key clients have included BP, BT, Boeing, Ministry of Defence and Tata Communications as well as key ecosystem partners like Amazon Web Services. Angus’ work takes him right across BearingPoint//Beyond’s core markets of APAC, EMEA and Americas. Angus’s extensive experience and knowledge over a range of fields has established him as a thought leader, quoted often by newspapers and prominent industry publications, on the topics of business model reinvention, digital platform business models and the role of the ecosystem in the evolving digital economy. Working closely and collaborating with industry bodies such as TM Forum, analysts, research firms and academic organizations such as MIT and Wharton, he regularly presents on the key trends and issues affecting telecoms and technology.
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About BearingPoint: BearingPoint offers management and technology consulting services that transforms businesses by creating customized solutions.
David Orman
Founding Partner of Hatch House
David has a unique and varied background across the worlds of venture capital, start-ups, marketing, digital media, entertainment and sport. David spent the early part of his career at Eurosport Television where he was Sales Director across the UK, US and Scandinavia. David has worked directly for some of the world’s most successful and high profile entrepreneurs at companies including 19 Entertainment, Joost, Queens Park Rangers FC, Templewood Merchant Bank and Outer Capital. David is currently: – VP at Kwamecorp Ventures (investing in start-ups), – Strategic Advisor at Streamhub (real time audience analytics for the media industry) – Non-Executive Director at Carabiner Partners (design agency) – Non-Executive Director at Odyssey Mobile Interaction (mobile advertising agency)
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About Hatch House: HATCH: Turning start-ups into businesses
Alex Gowar
Founding Partner of Hatch House
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About Hatch House: HATCH: Turning start-ups into businesses
Quentin Michard
Founder & Senior Partner of Ekimetrics
Founder – Ekimetrics, data science for business.
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About Ekimetrics: Ekimetrics is a global consulting firm, provides industrialized corporate data science solutions.
Nigel Waller
Partner of Orsatech
Nigel is Partner for Orsatech, an independent management consulting firm providing strategy, operations, fund raising and technology consulting to clients. Nigel has invented, designed, developed, researched and evangelised technology products in the international arena for more than 30 years. He is passionate about delivering the benefits of technological innovation to end-users. Earlier in his career Nigel, around several of his technology patents on Virtual SIMs and split billing, founded and grew Movirtu to be a pioneer of Mobile Identity Management (MIM) solutions to mobile operators. The company was subsequently acquired by Blackberry in 2014. Prior to Movirtu he worked with leading software and technology companies such as Bharti Telesoft, Glenayre, Sema Group and Nortel. In these companies he held a number of executive positions having lived in various countries and gained extensive experience in Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and USA. Nigel received his degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered IT Professional, a Fellow of the Royal Society Art, Manufacturing and Commerce, a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Member of the Association for Project Management. Nigel has been widely recognised by the industry including GSMA Top Innovator 2008, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow 2009, GSBI Fellow 2010, MEX User Experience Innovator of the Year 2010 and Dr. Alireza Mahmoodshahi WCA Technology Foresight Award 2011. Nigel enjoys giving back to his local community and is a Youth Team Manager and Assistant Coach for his local rugby club Hampstead RFC.
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About Orsatech: Corporate Finance Advisory
Alex Deane
Senior Managing Director (Partner) Strategic Communications, Head of Public Affairs UK of FTI Consulting
Alex Deane is a Senior Managing Director (Partner) Strategic Communications, Head of Public Affairs UK at FTI Consulting.
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About FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
Rhonda Ryan
Partner, Head of European Private Equity – Alternatives of Mercer
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About Mercer: Mercer US is a human resource consulting service that includes compensation, employee benefits, communications, and investment consulting.
Ralph Bragg
Senior Partner of RAiDiAM
Ralph Bragg Senior Partner RAiDiAM Ralph’s career began at the London Stock Exchange, delivering cutting edge, ultra-low latency trading platforms before he was lured into investment banking. As Technical Architect at Societie General, Ralph crafted a globally distributed, mission critical pricing and execution platform for Retail and Professional Finance Clients supporting multiple Asset classes including FX, Fixed Income, Precious Metals and Semi Structured Products. Moving to the Royal Bank of Scotland in a senior role, Ralph led the IAM Architecture team. The team delivered a modern platform for RBS which ensured the business is able to quickly adapt and embrace transformative changes like PSD2 and the Open Banking initiatives. Ralph holds a Bachelor’s of IT degree from the Queensland University of Technology, (Australia) and is currently completing an MBA (Banking) at the University of London.
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About RAiDiAM: RAiDiAM consultants helps clients to create and execute IAM strategies that underpin digital transformation initiatives.
Will Shepherd
Managing Partner of REPL Group
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About REPL Group: REPL Group delivers technology and management solutions which transform business operations and processes.
Lars Dittrich
Partner of Gauly Advisors
Lars Dittrich is responsible for the “Investments & Investments Management” unit and head of the Berlin office. He has extensive business experience as a founder and investor of successful start-up businesses. In 1997 Lars Dittrich founded dug telecom AG (today part of freenet AG) and served as its Chairman & CEO. In 2007 the company was sold to Permira, which merged it with debitel AG. Lars Dittrich was chairman of the Sales division of debitel AG until 2010. In 2008 Lars Dittrich became Chairman and Business Angel of tape.tv, besides pursuing other investments in various industries.
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About Gauly Advisors: Gauly Advisors operates as an independent consulting and investment company.
Irena Miroforidu
Data Strategy and Partnerships Manager of GfK
Adventure traveller, surf enthusiast and a Founder of Tribd, a social networking application connecting solo travelling adventure seekers, helping them to find a travel partner from the same tribe. Experienced FinTech Industry professional.
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About GfK, Tribd: GfK is a market research institute in Germany.
Anthony Lee
Partner of Rosenblatt
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About Rosenblatt: Rosenblatt is a professional legal services provider firm.
Alice Roper
Managing Partner of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Christopher Rose
Partner, Head of Europe Venture Technology Group of Dentons
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About Dentons: Dentons is a global law firm driven to provide you with the competitive edge in an increasingly complex
Christopher Rose
Partner, Head of Europe Venture Technology Group of Dentons
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About Dentons: Dentons is a global law firm driven to provide you with the competitive edge in an increasingly complex
Matthew Falla
Founding Partner of Parallel
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About Parallel: Parallel is a product development firm that helps companies develop proposals based on simulations and synthetic environments.
Christian Thümer
Founding Partner of Parallel
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About Parallel: Parallel is a product development firm that helps companies develop proposals based on simulations and synthetic environments.
Jeff Tijssen
Head of FinTech and Partnerships of Capco
Jeff is the Head of FinTech and Partnerships at Capco, a leading global management and technology consulting firm helping clients to transform the future of finance. He sits on the FinTech Advisory Board for the City of London, and is the Chair of the FinTech Working Group as well as the China Working Group at Tech London Advocates, an unrivalled collection of tech leaders, experts and investors uniting to form the most influential independent, private sector group in London. Jeff advises a number of technology startups, is a mentor at several accelerator programmes such as Virgin Startup and Startupbootcamp, and sits on the Advisory Board of CodeFirst:Girls, a multi-award winning social enterprise with the aim to help increase the number of women in tech. He is a Committee Member at the Institute of Directors in the City of London, the UK’s leading organisation for business leaders, and mentors a team of young professionals at BeyondMe, a UK-based charity empowering future leaders to create a better society. He is a member of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, the 48 Group Club and the Aldgate Ward Club, and became Freeman of the City of London in 2015. Jeff is also a regular speaker at tech conferences and events in the UK and abroad.
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About Bain & Company, Capco: Capco provides consulting for the financial services and energy industries.
Phil Peters
Partner, Digital Practice of Boyden
Phil is a Partner in Boyden’s Global Technology Practice and specialises in placing senior executive and non-executive directors, both in the UK and internationally, in the technology sector. Typical assignments are for CEOs, CFOs, non-executive directors/chairmen and functional leadership positions. He also works closely with the private equity and venture capital investor community to provide executive search services for their portfolio companies and has worked as an executive search consultant in the technology sector for 15 years. He has successfully completed a broad range of board level assignments, including 30 CEO and 10 chairman appointments, for public companies and for the portfolio companies of a number of investors. Prior to joining the executive search industry, he worked for seven years at Gartner/Dataquest as Vice President of the company’s European Consulting Division with clients in the IT and telecommunications industries to develop their market and global business strategies. Before that, he spent three years managing public relations, direct marketing and corporate communications for Lotus Development (Europe). Phil’s early career included four years working for Apple Computer in both the US and UK. He joined Boyden in 2009. Contact : +44 (0) 207 925 3407 (direct dial) or ppeters@boyden.com
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About Boyden: Boyden is a full service executive search firm, with offices in Europe, North and South America and Asia/Pacific.
Rod Carlton
Partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Rod Carlton is a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
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About Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, founded in 1743 is a multinational law firm headquartered in London
David Abecassis
Partner of Analysys Mason
David Abecassis, Partner at Analysys Mason, is a highly experienced consultant with extensive expertise in economic regulation, corporate strategy and due diligence. David has more than 10 years’ experience in telecoms and media, and joined Analysys Mason in 2004. He is based in our London office but works for clients worldwide. Prior to rejoining the London office, where he was based between 2004 and 2009, David contributed to the expansion of Analysys Mason’s Asia–Pacific business, based in Singapore. There, he managed many of Analysys Mason’s assignments for operators, regulators and investors, with a specific focus on policy development, regulatory strategy and spectrum valuation. David is a graduate from Telecom ParisTech (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris), the most prestigious telecoms engineering faculty in France, and obtained a Diploma in Management Studies from Imperial College London.
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About Analysys Mason: Analysys Mason is the leading management consultancy focused on telecoms, media and technology (TMT).
Tom Rebbeck
Partner in Research of Analysys Mason
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About Analysys Mason: Analysys Mason is the leading management consultancy focused on telecoms, media and technology (TMT).
Charles Murray
Partner of Analysys Mason
Charles Murray joined Analysys Mason’s London office in October 2014, having previously worked in our Dubai office. He brings together deep technical and commercial knowledge with robust financial analysis to guide operators and investor through complex issues. Charles specialises in mobile network sharing, operator M&A, and infrastructure projects – including tower deals, procurement and network outsourcing. His recent projects include: network sharing strategy for two CIS operators; supporting a tower deal in the GCC; business cases for network consolidation in two M&A deals in the MENA region; and developing a towerco business plan for a network sharing joint venture in Western Europe.
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About Analysys Mason: Analysys Mason is the leading management consultancy focused on telecoms, media and technology (TMT).
Charles Murray
Partner of Analysys Mason
Charles Murray joined Analysys Mason’s London office in October 2014, having previously worked in our Dubai office. He brings together deep technical and commercial knowledge with robust financial analysis to guide operators and investor through complex issues. Charles specialises in mobile network sharing, operator M&A, and infrastructure projects – including tower deals, procurement and network outsourcing. His recent projects include: network sharing strategy for two CIS operators; supporting a tower deal in the GCC; business cases for network consolidation in two M&A deals in the MENA region; and developing a towerco business plan for a network sharing joint venture in Western Europe.
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About Analysys Mason: Analysys Mason is the leading management consultancy focused on telecoms, media and technology (TMT).
Jeremiah Wagner
Partner of Latham & Watkins
Jeremiah Wagner is a partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Structured Finance & Securitization Practice. He has extensive experience across a range of structured finance, securitization (cash flow and synthetic), derivative, and asset-based lending transactions involving a wide array of asset classes, including secured and unsecured consumer loans, corporate loans (including SME and middle-market), residential mortgage loans, commercial mortgage loans, credit card receivables, small and big ticket equipment leases, auto loans and leases, dealer floorplan loans, insurance products, trade receivables, and many different types of inventory.
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About Latham & Watkins: Latham & Watkins is a global law firm that offers legal advisory services.
Shing Yuin Lo
Partner of Latham & Watkins
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About Latham & Watkins: Latham & Watkins is a global law firm that offers legal advisory services.
Thomas Forschbach
Partner of Latham & Watkins
Thomas Forschbach has been advising international clients on mergers and acquisitions and private equity for more than 25 years and is one of Europe’s most experienced and renowned lawyers in his field.
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About Latham & Watkins: Latham & Watkins is a global law firm that offers legal advisory services.
Gail Crawford
Partner of Latham & Watkins
Gail Crawford is a partner in the London office and Chair of the Data Privacy Committee and Co-chair of the Technology Transactions Group and the Internet and Digital Media Industry Group. Her practice focuses primarily on technology, intellectual property and commercial law and includes technology and Intellectual Property licensing agreements, joint ventures, technology procurement, outsourcing and advising on data protection, e-commerce and consumer protection legislation. Ms. Crawford is an editor of the Latham & Watkins Global Privacy & Security Compliance Law Blog (www.globalprivacyblog.com) and has contributed to a number of publications and conferences in the area of data privacy and security. Ms. Crawford has previously spent time working in-house on secondment to Diageo where she created the information technology and outsourcing legal function and was the legal lead on the project to transform and outsource Diageo’s finance and accounting processes on the back of the company’s SAP roll-out in more than 45 countries. She has also worked on secondment with the information technology and operations function of the Lloyds Banking Group. Ms. Crawford is ranked as a notable practitioner for Information Technology and Data Protection by Chambers UK 2016. She is also recommended for Data Protection and Intellectual Property by The Legal 500 UK 2015.
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About Latham & Watkins: Latham & Watkins is a global law firm that offers legal advisory services.
Elle Todd
Partner of Reed Smith
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About Reed Smith: Reed Smith is a law firm, representing many companies in complex litigation and other high-stakes disputes and more.
Marcus Dodds
Partner of Reed Smith
Marcus is an English solicitor and partner in the international law firm of Reed Smith LLP. He is both a litigator and a transactional lawyer who specialises in maritime and energy matters, with a particular focus on LNG. Before becoming a lawyer, he served in the Merchant Marine, as deck officer and ultimately Captain on a variety of ship types, including gas carriers. He is also a member of Lloyd’s Register’s Classification Committee the only body that is entitled to assign, suspend or withdraw class from entered ships.
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About Reed Smith: Reed Smith is a law firm, representing many companies in complex litigation and other high-stakes disputes and more.
Richard Armstrong
Partner of MSQ Partners
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About MSQ Partners: MSQ Partners is a joined-up community of agencies, helping businesses build High EQ brands.
Alastair Cottrill
Partner of class35
Alastair is a partner at Class35, a specialist digital transformation firm. Al has spent his career helping companies navigate the challenge and uncertainty of new value creation, leading projects to launch new brands and propositions, establish innovation capabilities, redesign go-to-market strategies, reengineer business models, and most recently, digitally transform legacy businesses. His roles have spanned consulting, in-house, and startup positions, including Head of Strategy at Australia’s largest private health insurance business, Medibank, in the run-in to its £3bn IPO; establishing EY’s business design practice in its digital agency EY-Seren; and most recently building a new consulting model with Class35.
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About class35: class35 builds digital businesses and value creation for the digital age.
Shaun Lascelles
Partner, M&A and Private Equity of Vinson & Elkins
Shaun’s practice focuses on cross-border M&A and private equity work. He has extensive experience advising a broad range of private equity firms, hedge funds, state-owned investment funds and other investment funds.
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About Vinson & Elkins: Vinson & Elkins offers clients renowned legal excellence as well as efficiency and deep market intelligence
Paul Dunbar
Partner of Vinson & Elkins
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About Vinson & Elkins: Vinson & Elkins offers clients renowned legal excellence as well as efficiency and deep market intelligence
Alexander Dobrovinsky
Partner of Alexander Dobrovinsky & Partners
Alexander Dobrovinsky is the firm’s senior and founding partner. His wide-ranging experience advising clients in various jurisdictions covers private and commercial litigation matters, corporate finance including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, criminal law, family law, defamation and protection of reputation. Born in Moscow, and educated in Russia, France and the United States, Dr Dobrovinsky has gained a law degree, an MBA and a PhD. Having practised law in France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Russia, Dr Dobrovinsky’s clients’ demands lead him to open the firm’s London offices March 2011, which he has done in addition to heading up his busy practice in Moscow that was established in 1992. Dr Dobrovinsky is a member of the Moscow City Bar and is an approved Registered Foreign Lawyer with the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the United Kindgom. Having published numerous works on jurisdiction in Russia, Dr Dobrovinsky also regularly lectures as a Professor in the Department of Advocacy and Practice at the Moscow State Classic Academy. In addition, Dr Dobrovinsky publishes regular columns in Russia’s Robb Report, Tattler and Domovoy magazines and hosts a weekly radio show called “Yoga for the Brain” on Russia’s Silver Rain radio station. He is fluent in English, Russian, French and Italian.
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About Alexander Dobrovinsky & Partners: Alexander Dobrovinsky & Partners experienced team of corporate and commercial lawyers advise clients in all business and commercial matters.
Rachael Scott
Partner & Director of FutureBrand
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About FutureBrand: FutureBrand seamlessly combines expertise in brand strategy, identity, digital, retail, environmental, product and service design.
Mina Gouran
Senior Client Partner- CEO & Board Services of Korn Ferry
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About Korn Ferry: Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm
Arvinder Dhesi
Senior Client Partner of Korn Ferry
Mr. Arvinder Dhesi is a Senior Client Partner in the Human Resources Centre of Expertise for Korn Ferry based in the Firm’s London office. Mr. Dhesi brings over twenty years of corporate and consulting experience in Europe and across the Americas. Prior to joining the Firm, he led the talent management and organizational alignment practice for a global HR consultancy firm in the UK. His particular expertise is in helping organizations drive performance through the alignment of top leadership behaviour, talent process and organizational culture. He has a passion for helping businesses identify and mobilize the untapped potential of the vast majority of employees. Mr. Dhesi has led talent, learning, leadership development and OD functions for three multi-national organizations at the national, regional and global level. Most recently, he led a team of over 230 resourcing, learning and OD professionals with responsibility for employer brand, leadership assessment, recruitment, diversity, performance management, executive succession and the corporate university. While Group Talent Director at Aviva, Mr. Dhesi deployed the Korn Ferry approach to succession planning, potential assessment and development for over 46,000 employees across 28 countries worldwide. During his ten years at Mars, Inc. Mr. Dhesi designed and launched the “President’s Leadership Program” – to coach and develop high potential senior executives. Mr. Dhesi’s formative experience is in line leadership roles in retail banking and sales management. He is now a frequent keynote speaker and expert practitioner helping clients derive long-term superior business performance through a focus on talent, leadership and culture. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Leeds, in the UK.
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About Korn Ferry: Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm
Gavin Orpin
Partner of Lane Clark & Peacock LLP
I am Head of LCP Trustee Investment Consulting, our specialist practice focusing on investment issues from a Trustee perspective. I advise the pension schemes of several high-profile companies on all aspects of their investment arrangements, including setting strategy and selecting fund managers. My specialist area is advising on innovative risk management solutions utilising interest rate swaps and equity derivatives which have successfully helped protect schemes over the long term. I also lead LCP’s research into alternative asset classes. I am a regular contributor to pensions and other financial publications and often speak at high-profile industry conferences.
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About Lane Clark & Peacock LLP: LCP is a firm of financial, actuarial and business consultants, specializing in the areas of pensions, investment, and insurance.
James Trask
Partner of Lane Clark & Peacock LLP
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About Lane Clark & Peacock LLP: LCP is a firm of financial, actuarial and business consultants, specializing in the areas of pensions, investment, and insurance.
Hishendhra Ravindra
Partner of Lane Clark & Peacock LLP
I’m Hish and I have been at LCP for over 8 years. I am a member of LCP’s Investment Strategy team and use my expertise to advise clients on their investments and help them find ways to achieve their objectives while managing risk. I am also a member of LCP’s de-risking team, and have been involved in some of the largest buy-in transactions. I’m also one of LCP’s senior fixed income researchers and work with fund managers to design customised solutions that will help my clients improve their investment portfolios. I am a technology enthusiast and am keen on developing innovative solutions for our clients. I am currently leading LCP’s work on automated investment advice and see many interesting possibilities within this area in the future.
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About Lane Clark & Peacock LLP: LCP is a firm of financial, actuarial and business consultants, specializing in the areas of pensions, investment, and insurance.
