Best Startup
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 United Kingdom based Advisor operating in the Financial Services space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Jon Kamaluddin
Venture Advisor of Felix Capital
Jon Kamaluddin was international director at online retailer ASOS from 2009 to 2013 after having spent five years as CFO. In his role as international director, Kamaluddin led ASOS global expansion, including the U.S., Russia, China, Germany, and Australia, which helped ASOS grow its overseas sales to almost 60 percent of its overall sales. He also served as a member of ASOS Board of Directors.
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About : Felix Capital is a venture fund that focuses on digital commerce, digital media, and information technology companies.
Peter Burt
Senior Advisors of Apax Partners
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About : Apax Partners is an independent global partnership focused solely on long-term investment in growth companies.
Pablo de la Infiesta
Managing Director, Head of the Private Funds Advisory group in EMEA of Moelis & Company
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About Moelis & Company: Moelis & Company is an investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base.
David Grainger
Chief Scientific Advisor of Medicxi Ventures
Prior to co-founding Medicxi Ventures, David was a venture partner with Index Ventures for four years, having joined the life sciences team in 2012.On behalf of Index, David co-founded Epsilon-3 Bio, Methusalah Health, and XO1 (acquired by Janssen Pharmaceuticals) among other companies. Before joining Index, he founded Funxional Therapeutics and the out-sourced drug developers Total Scientific and RxCelerate. Prior to that, David led an internationally-recognised research group in Cambridge University’s Department of Medicine, where he published more than 80 first author papers in leading journals including Nature, Science and Nature Medicine. David is the Chair of the Translation Awards Committee of the British Heart Foundation. He ran a widely-read blog on life sciences-related topics, DrugBaron, before moving his writings to Forbes.com, where he is a Contributor.David has over 150 patents and patent applications in his name, and holds MA and PhD degrees in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge
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About Centessa Pharmaceuticals, Critical Pressure, Forbes, Foundation Institute for 21st Century Medicine, Morphogen-IX, Z Factor: Medicxi is a life sciences-focused investment firm.
Abbas Jechi
Audit & Risk Advisory [Pensions] of Deloitte
Abbas Jechi works for Audit & Risk advisory {Pensions, Mortgages, Loans, Credit cards, Insurance} at Deloitte.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Alexander Denev
Head of AI – Financial Services Advisory of Deloitte
Alexander Denev is the Head of AI – Financial Services Advisory at Deloitte.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Lord Francis Maude
Advisory Board Member of OakNorth
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About : OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Lord Adair Turner
Independent Advisor of OakNorth
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About : OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Richard Brown
Advisor of ChromaWay
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About : ChromaWay is a relational blockchain platform designed to enable a new generation of enterprise applications.
Richard Brown
Advisor of ChromaWay
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About : ChromaWay is a relational blockchain platform designed to enable a new generation of enterprise applications.
Greg Clark
Senior Advisor of HSBC
Greg Clark is the chairman of The Business of Cities, a strategy firm that provides intelligence, analysis, and insight on cities, regions, and business development worldwide.He has global level experience in city leadership, urban investment and regeneration, city policies, and metropolitan planning. Greg works with global organisations on the metropolitan century, with city leaders on strategic developments, and with global firms and investors on business, investment, and development in an urbanising world.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Simon Greenman
Advisor, formerly Venture Partner of DN Capital
Simon Greenman has over twenty years of leading digital transformations through technology, data science, and AI. He is co-founder and partner in Best Practice AI, a London based AI executive advisory with a leading library of AI use cases and case studies. Earlier in his career, Simon was a co-founder of MapQuest.com, one of the first internet brands. He has over ten years as a chief digital officer leading transformations of media companies for private equity. He has also consulted or worked for HomeAdvisor Europe, AOL, Bowers & Wilkins, and Accenture. Simon is highly active in the AI startup community. He is an AI entrepreneur in Resident at Seedcamp, co-president of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of London, and an advisor and former venture partner at DN Capital. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA in computing and artificial intelligence from the University of Sussex.
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About Best Practice AI: DN Capital operates as an early-stage venture capital firm.
Jay Stevens
Advisor of DN Capital
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About : DN Capital operates as an early-stage venture capital firm.
Greg Reeve
Advisory Board Member of Growth Street
Greg is the CEO for TranssNet Payments, a new entrant into the African Payments scene, backed by Transsion Holdings, Mediatek and NetEase. TranssNet is introducing a full suite of financial services, accessed directly from and embedded in the handset, providing an out of the box experience. Transsion Holdings are the manufacturers of Tecno, Itel and Infinix mobile Phones. In the African Business most admired Brands in Africa 2018 they were ranked 7, 16 & 28 – three brands in the top thirty! NetEase is valued at $43Bn and is China’s largest games company.
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About PalmPay: Growth Street is fast, flexible overdrafts for growing businesses.
Jason Downes
Advisor of Frontier Ventures
Jason Downes is a Consultant of International Finance Corporation. Previously, Jason Downes served as an Senior Investment Officer at International Finance Corporation for seven years. Previously, he co-founded and served as General Director and Chief Investment Officer at ru-Net Holdings for five years. Prior to joining ru-Net, he held senior positions in the investment banking divisions of United Financial Group, Renaissance Capital and Credit Lyonnais. Jason Downes has nearly 20 years of dedicated technology, media and telecom industry experience in venture capital, private equity and capital markets banking, primarily in Russia/CIS, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He serves as an Advisory Board Member of Frontier Ventures. He served on the Boards of Yandex, Ozon, and Vested Development Inc. Jason Downes graduated in Actuarial Science from City University, London (1986-1989).
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About : Frontier Ventures invests in early stage internet companies with network effects and connects them with global markets.
Mark Malloch-Brown
Senior Policy Advisor of I Squared Capital
Lord Mark Malloch-Brown is a Senior Policy Advisor of I Squared Capital, an independent multi-billion dollar global infrastructure investment company with over 70 professionals based in New York, Houston, London, Delhi, Singapore and Hong Kong. The company specializes in infrastructure investments with $4 billion of assets under management in the energy, utilities and transport sectors in the U.S., Europe and select high-growth economies including China, India and Latin America. Lord Malloch-Brown is the Chair of the Global Commission on Business and Sustainable Development, a group of senior business and civil society leaders, which recently published a report, “Better Business Better World” on the role of business in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. He served as Deputy Secretary-General and previously Chief of Staff of the UN under Kofi Annan. He spent the previous six years as Administrator of the UNDP, leading the UN’s development efforts around the world including the international efforts in support of the Millennium Development Goals. He was later Minister of State in the Foreign Office, covering Africa and Asia, and a member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet. Other previous positions include Vice-Chairman of the Open Society Institute, a Vice President at the World Bank and Vice-Chairman of the World Economic Forum. He began his career as a journalist at The Economist.
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About I Squared Capital: I Squared Capital is an independent global infrastructure investment manager that focuses on energy, utilities, and transportation.
Clive Hollick
Senior Advisor of GP Bullhound
Lord (Clive) Hollick was appointed a partner of GP Bullhound in 2010. Lord Hollick is currently a director of ProSiebenSat.1, Honeywell International Inc, BMG Music Rights Management ag and senior director at Diageo plc. Previously, he was a partner at KKR where he headed the media industry team in Europe, and prior to that served as Chairman of SBS Broadcasting as well as a director of The Nielsen Company (formerly VNU Group). He was CEO of United Business Media, an international publishing, information, broadcasting and market research group. Lord Hollick began his career as an investment banker with Hambros and then built up a global money and securities broking business that subsequently became ICAP plc. He has also held positions as a director of Logica, Havas, TRW and BAe Systems and was Chairman of the South Bank Centre, Europe’s largest arts centre. He founded the IPPR think-tank in 1986 and became a member of the House of Lords in 1991. Lord Hollick holds a B.A. and Doctorate from Nottingham University.
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About IPPR: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Tom Brammar
Advisor of Stocktwits
Tom Brammar is Advisor at StockTwits.
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About Stackin’: Stocktwits is a real-time financial communications platform for the financial and investing community.
Marshall W. Parke
Advisor of Lexington Partners
Mr. Parke is primarily engaged in the origination and evaluation of secondary purchases of non-U.S. private equity and alternative investments, and non-U.S. equity co-investments.
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About : Lexington Partners is an independent manager of secondary private equity and co-investment funds.
Chad Giussani
Head, Transaction Reporting, FM Compliance Advisory of Standard Chartered Bank
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About Standard Chartered Bank: Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
Claire Bridel
Board of Advisors of Kantox
Kantox’s goal is to create a transparent and fair market place for FX transactions, bringing unprecedented value to its clients. I am very excited at the prospect of helping this young, professional and passionate team to grow their business.
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About : Kantox is a leader in Currency Management Automation software that enables businesses to automate their end-to-end FX workflow
Alexander Fink
Advisor of British Pearl
Alex Fink worked in the City 10 years in sales and broking, including at MF Global and Lehman Brothers. He moved to Marex Spectron where he headed the interest rate futures and options desk. There he managed relationships with high net worth individuals, banks, hedge funds, asset managers and multinational institutional investors from across the globe, providing market insight and trade and investment strategy to help manage risk or hedge against global interest rate changes.
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About Argonaute RNA, Bud, Curve, Seneca Learning: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
Annette Wilson
Advisor of Finch Capital
Annette is a Partner. She Joined Orange Growth Capital (now Finch Capital) in 2016, Prior to that she was the founding CFO of Palamon Capital Partners, a European growth investor, and latterly led its Investor Relations and PR activities, taking its funds under management to €1.3 billion. Most recently she was Head of Investor Relations and Public Relations at Silverfleet Capital Partners, an established mid-market buyout investor, which raised Silverfleet II, a €870 million fund. She is also an active participant in the private equity community and served on the BVCA Board. She is currently a member of the BVCA Investor Relations Advisory Group and a member of the Invest Europe Working Group on Accounting Standards, Valuation and Reporting. Prior to joining the private equity industry, Annette worked in the insurance industry at Sedgwick plc, a LSE listed company in various financial roles in the UK, USA and Europe and thereafter was CFO of Windsor PLC, LSE listed company. She started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Annette holds a B.Com (Hons) from the University of Johannesburg and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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About : Finch Capital is a series A/B investor in high-growth financial technologies companies run by exceptional entrepreneurs with EUR 2-5m in ARR
Bill Edwards
Executive Advisory Board Member of Kennet Partners
Bill Edwards is Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board and has served on the board, advised and/or invested in several Kennet portfolio companies including Revolution Prep, Intelepeer and Daptiv. Bill was part of the founding executive team at Siebel Systems, serving as vice president of engineering and later as chief technology officer. During his tenure, from 1993 to 2005, Siebel grew rapidly achieving revenues of almost $2 billion in just six years, went public and ultimately was acquired by Oracle for $6 billion. Siebel was one of the most capital efficient high value exits in enterprise software having raised only $8 million prior to its IPO. Prior to Siebel Systems, Bill worked with three other Silicon Valley companies that had successful IPOs during his tenure. He was responsible for graphical authoring systems at Macromedia, was senior vice president of engineering, research and development at Frame Technology, and held engineering management positions at Convergent Technologies and Apple Computer. Bill began his career at Intel. He received an M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
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About : Kennet Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to information technology and business services companies.
Simon Guild
Executive Advisory Board Member of Kennet Partners
Simon works with a wide portfolio of early stage European media and technology businesses which have the ambition to become international market leaders. Simon is the Chairman of: Bigpoint, a German browser video-games company, WAYN, a UK-based travel and lifestyle social network, and Diffusion Media Group, a UK viral marketing business. In addition he is a Director or advisor to: Eyeka, a France-based engagement marketing company; Digicompanion, a French digital promotion business; Freerunner, a UK free WiFi startup; Xing, a Hamburg-based business social network; Horizon Media Group, an African content business; Twig, an online educational project and Spreadshirt, a Leipzig-based Kennet III portfolio company offering personalised apparel. From 1993 to 2007 he was at MTV Networks Europe, latterly as President & CEO. From a single MTV-branded channel in the mid 90’s the network grew to 75 channels, numerous online offerings and a market-leading mobile business, all spanning a variety of music, children and comedy brands. Simon is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Trustee of the MTV Europe Foundation and a member of Pilotlight, the organisation that supplies executive time to charities. He also participates as a mentor at Seedcamp, the annual week-long programme for young entrepreneurs. Simon holds an MBA from Insead and an MA in Modern Languages from Cambridge.
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About : Kennet Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to information technology and business services companies.
Mark Whittaker
Corporate Advisor of Parkwalk Advisors
Mark Whittaker joined Parkwalk Advisors as Corporate Advisor in 2012.
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About Royal College of Art: Parkwalk is an investment management firm focused on UK-based technology companies that are spun out of UK university and research centres.
Mike Ullmann
Advisor of Prodigy Finance
Michael Ullmann has been involved in more than 40 different entrepreneurial businesses in various capacities; always as a shareholder. His main focus has been on turnarounds in the bakery business and engineering. He has served as chairman of the board for more than a dozen companies. He is currently chairman of Prodigy, an educational debt provider and an investor in H2O, a business in water management and Black Mountain Insulation, a company providing environmentally friendly house insulation; the first two have INSEAD CEO’s and the third has been primary financed via an INSEAD network. Michael was an affiliate professor in entrepreneurship at INSEAD from 1987-2005 where he helped the Entrepreneurship Department develop into one of the most vital and popular departments in the school. Michael has backed many of his former students in their own business ventures and continues to be a mentor to several companies. He has written many cases and articles on Entrepreneurship. He has an MA from St Catherine’s College, Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He has been a fellow of St Catherine’s since 2004. Apart from his main hobby and passion, business, Michael enjoys games of skill and chance, along with outdoor pursuits such as shooting, sailing, skiing and golf.
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About : Prodigy Finance provides postgraduate student loans to international students to attend a top school.
Jim Stidham
Special Advisor in Tax of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Dimitris Tsitsiragos
Senior Advisor Emerging Markets of PIMCO
Dimitris Tsitsiragos leads IFC’s investments and advisory services across 52 countries with over 800 staff, and oversees an integrated strategy that aims to create jobs, plug infrastructure gaps, increase access to finance, and tackle climate change. Before taking on his role as Vice President, Dimitris Tsitsiragos was the Director of the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe department in IFC, where he developed a strategy to support the region’s private sector in the wake of the Arab Spring. During his tenure, he oversaw several important initiatives, including the education for employment (e4e) in the Arab World program, which brings together public and private providers of education and private companies to improve the quality of education in the region. Dimitris Tsitsiragos also helped launch the Arab Financing Facility for Infrastructure, which supports much-needed infrastructure projects and kick-started a facility expected to channel over $500 million to smaller businesses in the Middle East and North Africa region. Dimitris Tsitsiragos has extensive experience in several sectors including manufacturing and oil & gas. Prior to joining the Middle East and North Africa region, he directed the Global Manufacturing and Services (GMS) department of IFC which was responsible for IFC’s activities in the areas of tourism, retail and property development; construction materials; the forest products chain; life sciences; and energy-efficient machinery. During his time with GMS, Dimitris Tsitsiragos refined the strategic focus of the department, emphasizing IFC’s global expertise in select sectors, thus helping IFC clients to increase their international competitiveness. In addition to his experience in the Middle East and North Africa, Dimitris Tsitsiragos has worked in South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe, where he held several leadership positions. He spent two years based in New Delhi as IFC’s Director of the South Asia department, where he doubled commitments for the region in all sectors; doubled IFC’s portfolio in India; and significantly improved regional profitability as a result of decreased non-performing assets and the successful execution of an equity divestiture strategy. Before his South Asia assignment, Dimitris Tsitsiragos served as Manager of New Investments for IFC’s Eastern/Central Europe region and Manager of IFC’s Oil & Gas division.
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About PIMCO: PIMCO, a global investment solutions provider that manages investments for public and private pension and retirement plans and other assets.
Bindi Karia
Innovation Expert + Advisor, Connector of People & Business of bindi ventures
Bindi Karia works as a Venture Partner at large London-based VC Draper Esprit, and has held positions in and around the tech industry for as long as she’s been working. She’s been a strategy consultant at PwC Consulting, worked in corporate environments like Microsoft Ventures, served within a startup at Trayport and was an advisor across a number of organizations (Startup Europe, Techstars Startup Weekend, Tech London Advocates, European Innovation Council, WEF Digital Leaders). She’s been a banker with Silicon Valley Bank and currently works as a Venture Partner at a large London-based VC firm, as well as serving on the advisory board for seven different startups and sits on the Digital Board of Centrica plc. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the conversation and understands the differing perspectives involved in each startup’s journey to success. seven different startups. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the conversation and understands the differing perspectives involved in each startup’s journey to success.
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About bindi ventures, Molten Ventures: Innovation Advisory Firm Focussed on Driving Commercial Success by Bridging the Gap between Corporates, Startups, Investors and Government.
Tyler Christie
Founder, Independent Interim Executive and Advisor of Natural Capital Advisors
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About Hopin, Natural Capital Advisors: Natural Capital Advisors helps businesses, governments, and philanthropic organizations manage natural capital with minimal risk.
Greg Hawkins
Senior Technical Advisor of Starling Bank
Greg is Chief Technology Officer at Starling Bank, leading on technical strategy, engineering and infrastructure, and operating a service-based architecture in AWS supporting native iOS and Android apps. Greg has loved programming from the era of ZX Spectrums and BBC Micros, writing and submitting BASIC programs to computer magazines while at school in the 80s. He wants bank-building to be fast, fun and fearless. He codes in many languages but he loves Clojure.
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About : Starling Bank is a mobile banking platform that offers personal, joint, and business accounts.
Marco Taricco
Advisory Board Member of Satispay
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About : Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform.
Richard Gordon
Advisor of Strevus
Richard is an MD at Deutsche Bank in London, where he is currently the Global Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Market Risk Management.Richard has been with Deutsche Bank for 12 years, the last six of which have been in the Risk Division, where he has held a number of senior leadership roles, including COO for the Deputy Chief Risk Officer, and Global Head of Risk Operations.Before his employment at Deutsche Bank, Richard worked as a senior consultant for Capco and UBS, and he also served as a British Army Officer.
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About : Compliance solutions for financial servi
James Downton
ICO Advisor of Monetha
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About : Monetha is a financial services company that decentralizes Trust and Reputation Systemon the Ethereum blockchain.
Julian J. Kaljuvee
Advisor of EstateGuru
Founder at EstateGuru.
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About : EstateGuru is a marketplace facilitating property-backed loans for SMEs and carefully selected investment opportunities.
Clive Sykes
Senior Advisor of Second Estates
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About : Bringing alternative finance to the fast growing short term rental sector.
Graham Handy
Advisor & Investor of Sherpa
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About Sherpa: Sherpa provides perfectly personalised insurance in one simple account for one payment
Dominik Woessner
Secondaries Advisory of Lazard
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About : Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm focused on income strategies, alternative investments, and private equity funds.
Jean-Stephane Gourevitch
Advisor of Mespo
Jean-Stéphane Gourévitch has over twenty years’ International, European and UK senior management experience in the Digital and Mobile Communications ecosystem in particular in key Regulatory, Public Policy/Affairs and Strategy fields. He has specialized and is currently advising clients on the strategic, business, regulatory and policy risks and opportunities resulting from the emerging Digital and Mobile Convergence Ecosystem such as Mobile Money, Mobile Payments, Mobile Wallets but also m-Health, m-Education, m-Content, Machine-to-Machine Communications and Smart connected living (Smart Buildings, Smart Cars, Smart Cities). He has held senior management positions with a number of blue-chip International telecoms and media businesses such as Everything Everywhere Ltd. (EE), Orange, Global Crossing, France Telecom, Verizon Business, Colt Technology Services Ltd, leading and advising on strategic, operational, policy/regulatory, compliance and lobbying issues in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia. He has worked for OFCOM, the UK digital communications regulator, focusing on strategic and policy work on spectrum and mobile technologies issues. He has also held senior management positions with Deloitte Consulting and with strategic marketing and PR/Communications firms. He has two main functional expertise pillars: First pillar: European and International Affairs; Public Affairs; Regulatory Strategy, Public Policy; Compliance; Competition Policy; Government Relations. – Second pillar: Corporate Strategy/Planning; Competitive; Market & Policy Intelligence; Issue management; Crisis Management and Communications; Stakeholders Relationships Management.
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Mark Falcon
Advisor of Mespo
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
James Ashe-Taylor
Advisor of Mespo
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Richard Dallas
Advisor of Mespo
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Simon Yun-Farmbrough
Member of Advisory Board of Creamfinance
Simon has a proven track record of envisioning, leading and delivering growth initiatives in a number of financial companies. In addition to leading the IPO of Egg, the first digital bank in United Kingdom, Simon has more than 20 years of consultancy experience within financial services. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of the world’s oldest scientific society, The Royal Society. Simon joined the Advisory Board of Creamfinance to facilitate the growth of the company.
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About : Creamfinance is a financial services company based on cutting edge financial technology instruments.
Eleanor McConnell
Advisor of Clydesdale Bank
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About Clydesdale Bank: Clydesdale Bank growth finance provides a range of innovative debt solutions for early stage, high growth businesses.
Amit Kahana
Advisor of Finiata
Amit Kahana is a Chief Risk Officer with over 10 years of experience in SME lending, within Risk and Product Management. Amit has worked in Fintechs across the UK, US, Israel and Europe.
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About Finiata: Finiata provides working capital financing for freelancers and SME’s over a fully automated data driven scoring technology.
Keith Saxton
Advisor of ForwardLane
Keith Saxton Independent Director and Advisor An experienced executive leader Keith has a deep understanding of the Financial Services industry, and the role that technology plays in developing and executing business strategy. He is an expert in how business risk can be changed and managed by technology, and understands the risk of technology – a combination providing a unique perspective and executive capability.
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About : ForwardLane is the essential insights platform used by financial professionals for personalized conversations
Agostino RUSSO
Technology Advisor of FXCH Ltd.
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About : Blockchain-based Spot-FX Institutional Clearing House
Iain Blackwood
Advisor of RemitRadar
35 years of international consumer retailing and financial services experience as a Director of Thomas Cook Remittance background as CEO MoneyGram International 1993-2003 Extensive leadership experience in the consumer, global payments and tech sector
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About : RemitRadar services the needs of an emerging global community of 2.5bn people dependant on remittance services.
Bernhard Engelien
Managing Director & Co-Head of European Private Capital Advisory of Greenhill & Co
Bernhard Engelien is a Managing Director in Greenhill Secondary Advisory’s London office and advises institutional investors and fund managers on private equity secondary market transactions in the UK, Continental Europe and the Middle East. Prior to Cogent Partners’ acquisition by Greenhill, he was a Partner and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining Cogent Partners, Mr Engelien was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company where he served financial services companies and private equity firms on a broad range of strategy and corporate finance topics. He was also a leader of McKinsey’s European Banking & Securities practice. Mr Engelien started his career at Goldman Sachs in London covering the pan-European Business Services sector as an equity analyst. Mr Engelien holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a Master’s Degree in International Management from the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS).
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About Greenhill & Co: Greenhill & Co is an investment bank providing financial advices.
Yann Gindre
Deputy Chairman and Head of Advisory board of Akoni Hub
Advisory Board Member, bringing international finance and diverse experience servicing corporate banking clients. Senior executive with global experience In Corporate Investment Banking, Hedge Funds with a front to back experience. Previous roles from 2004 to late 2012, include CEO Natixis, The Americas & CEO Natixis UK, Chairman of the New York and London Executive committees, Chairman of Natixis Alternative assets. Yann has been a financial consultant and a Director at UNPRI until 2015. Between 1988 and 2004 he was MD Global Head of DCM at JP Morgan Chase, UBS and Barclays Capital and Global Head of Markets at Commerzbank. Yann Gindre holds an MBA from London Business School.
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About Akoni Hub: Akoni provides simple cash management tools for individuals and SMEs.
Mike Payne
Member of Advisory Board of Infinity Circle
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About Infinity Circle: Infinity Circle is a digital wealth creation fintech platform.
Christian Papathanasiou
Advisor of Credits
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About Credits: Blockchain Platform-As-A-Service
Arie Levy
Advisor of Credits
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About Credits: Blockchain Platform-As-A-Service
Amardeep Dhesi
Financial Fraud Investigator & Hub Advisor of Financial Ombudsman Service
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About Financial Ombudsman Service: Ombudsman for financial products and services in the UK
Ryan McNelley
Managing Director – Alternative Asset Advisory of Duff & Phelps
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About Duff & Phelps: Duff & Phelps is a provider of advisory services to companies.
Tom Sullivan
Advisor – Americas of Sphonic
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About Sphonic: Sphonic is a Context-Broker that leverages 3rd party vendor data with a workflow engine to enable fraud prevention, AML, KYC
Luis Carranza
Senior Advisor of Fintech Worldwide
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About : The World’s Leading Network for Fintech, Blockchain & Digital Impact.
Philip Smith
Advisor of Nivaura
Philip advises both lead managers and issuers on international debt capital markets transactions across a wide range of issuer types (bank, corporate, sovereign, utilities, transport), regions and industry sectors and his practice covers straight debt (Regulation S and Rule 144A stand-alone issues, Private Placements, LPNs, MTN programmes, CP and CDs), covered bonds and structured products. His practice includes investment grade and non-investment grade issues in the public and the private markets, combining work in the mature markets with a focus on emerging market transactions with deals recently completed for issuers and sovereigns in Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic and in the CEE and the CIS more generally. Philip is ranked as a notable practitioner in the Chambers UK legal directory and as a foreign expert in the Chambers global legal directory. Philip is a regular speaker at the Euromoney Summer and Winter Schools of International Financial Law held at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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About : Making issuance and administration of financial instruments cheaper and faster while ensuring compliance
Paul Duggan
Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Marketing Advisor of Canstar
Paul Duggan is the Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Marketing Advisor at CANSTAR.
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About Canstar, Zookel: Canstar provides general financial product advice through the provision.
Fei Frisby
Financial Advisor of LIQUITY
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About LIQUITY: Liquity is an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of private company equity.
Rowan Austin
Head of Trade Finance Origination and Advisory of NatWest Bank
Rowan is Head of Trade Origination & Advisory for NatWest, and has extensive cross-product and sectoral knowledge having worked for four banks across six continents. He commenced his career with Goldman Sachs, before joining Barclays with roles across Corporate, International and Investment Banking. Rowan then joined Europe Arab Bank where he built a commodity and trade finance function across Europe and the MENA region, as well as building an Islamic Finance capability. Joining NatWest in 2011, Rowan supported the restructuring of the global business to focus on core UK and western European markets, and was appointed to lead the Trade & Working Capital Product function which focuses on delivering product and service excellence to NatWest’s customers. Now leading the Trade Origination & Advisory team, Rowan is driving NatWest’s presence and capability in the Trade Finance market, with a key focus on innovation, digitisation and business development across all product areas.
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About NatWest Bank: NatWest Bank is a large retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom.
Rowan Austin
Head of Trade Finance Origination and Advisory of NatWest Bank
Rowan is Head of Trade Origination & Advisory for NatWest, and has extensive cross-product and sectoral knowledge having worked for four banks across six continents. He commenced his career with Goldman Sachs, before joining Barclays with roles across Corporate, International and Investment Banking. Rowan then joined Europe Arab Bank where he built a commodity and trade finance function across Europe and the MENA region, as well as building an Islamic Finance capability. Joining NatWest in 2011, Rowan supported the restructuring of the global business to focus on core UK and western European markets, and was appointed to lead the Trade & Working Capital Product function which focuses on delivering product and service excellence to NatWest’s customers. Now leading the Trade Origination & Advisory team, Rowan is driving NatWest’s presence and capability in the Trade Finance market, with a key focus on innovation, digitisation and business development across all product areas.
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About NatWest Bank: NatWest Bank is a large retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom.
Steve Cook
Biometrics Technical Advisor of FinTech Connect
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Steve Cook
Biometrics Technical Advisor of FinTech Connect
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About : FinTech Connect is a free global network offering for the fintech industry, hosting live events, a connection portal, and original content.
Leo Dunne
Advisor and Mentor of WonderCharts
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