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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 Founder operating in the Compliance space. If you think a Founder 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.
Charles Delingpole
Founder & CEO of ComplyAdvantage
Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processes around money laundering are. Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
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About ComplyAdvantage: ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology.
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Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Peter Fedchenkov
Founder & Co-CEO of Soveren
Serial Founder (Soveren and Instamart). Harvard Business School graduate
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About SberMarket, Soveren: Soveren is a tech-driven privacy management company that helps security teams resolve automated privacy incidents with CCPA and GDPR.
Andrew Zhulin
Founder & Co-CEO of Soveren
Andrew Zhulin is founder and Co-CEO at Soveren. Previously, he founded SberMarket. He is a tech entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of building successful companies. Before starting the entrepreneurial career, he worked in venture capital and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Andrew holds a PgD in Finance from the University of London and a Master’s degree in Engineering (honors) from Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
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About SberMarket, Soveren: Soveren is a tech-driven privacy management company that helps security teams resolve automated privacy incidents with CCPA and GDPR.
Vishal Marria
Founder & CEO of Quantexa
Vishal is a globally recognised leader in solving clients’ financial crime and surveillance challenges. He is accomplished at building teams and helping clients to use innovative data analytics for their financial crime challenges. Previously Executive Director at EY, Vishal led major programs at international banks including global Anti Financial Crime technology strategy, data-driven remediation and end to end reviews of strategy and policy. Vishal was instrumental in directing and building the Detica NetReveal business globally and strives to bring together business and IT to address financial crime risks.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Pawel Aleksander
CIO & Co-Founder of Coinfirm
Pawel Alexander is Co-Founder and CIO of Coinfirm. One of the more recognizable fraud prevention experts in Central Europe, former Head of Fraud Investigations in ArcelorMittal, AML/CTF Project Manager in the Royal Bank of Scotland, fraud investigator and auditor in Ernst & Young; holds the titles of Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Internal Auditor.
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About Coinfirm: Coinfirm is the global leader in regtech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem.
Jakub Fijolek
CTO & Co-Founder of Coinfirm
Jakub Fijolek is Co-Founder and CTO of Coinfirm. An innovative IT and security specialist, has been analyzing and developing around blockchain, cryptocurrencies and their applications since 2010; the former head of multi-algorithm virtual currency mining farms.
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About Coinfirm: Coinfirm is the global leader in regtech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem.
Kabir Barday
Founder, CEO of OneTrust
Barday is Fellow of Information Privacy, a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT), and Chief Executive Officer of OneTrust. Barday oversees all aspects of OneTrust’s product development, operations, and sales, and is the driving force behind the company’s international expansion. Prior to OneTrust, Barday served as Director of Product Management at AirWatch, which was acquired by VMware in 2014 for $1.54B. At AirWatch, Barday received the HPE-IAPP’s Most Innovative Privacy Technology Award after launching the Privacy First program.
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About CookiePro, OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
Henry Ludlam
Founder of Percent
Henry Ludlam is the Founder at Percent.
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About Percent: Percent is the API-first fintech powering purpose worldwide.
Ben Richmond
Founder & CEO of CUBE
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About CUBE, International RegTech Association: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Neta Meidav
Co-Founder & CEO of Vault Platform
Neta Meidav is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Vault.
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Rotem Hayoun-Meidav
Co-Founder & CTO of Vault Platform
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Erkin Oksel
CEO & Founder of EyesClear
Erkin Oksel is the founder and CEO of EyesClear.
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About EyesClear: EyesClear supports finance executives in allocating capital while avoiding the traps and risks that online finance inherently brings.
Chris Wessels
Co-Founder & CTO of Paybase
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About Paybase: Paybase is a end-to-end solution for Payments, Compliance and Risk.
Taimoor Iqbal
Co-Founder and Co-CEO Business Development of Route Trading
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About Route Trading: Route Trading is develops software to enhance security and transparency for financial institutions, governments, and police forces.
Musa Jammeh
Co-Founder and Co-CEO Product development of Route Trading
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About Route Trading: Route Trading is develops software to enhance security and transparency for financial institutions, governments, and police forces.
Nick Wakefield
Founder & Managing Director of inAsia Media
Nick has over 18 years of experience in technology, media and finance. He started his first tech business in 1999 building an e-commerce platform. He spent 7 years in London focusing on financial sales in the risk management and derivatives market, before moving to Asia to help build Euromoney’s portfolio of conferences across emerging markets. Over this period he ran teams in New York, London and Hong Kong. In 2010 he setup inAsia Media and in 2013 launched Regulation Asia, the leading regulatory information service. He still plays an advisory role in the business. His passion for technology and experience working within the financial markets partner well for Bambu in the role expanding into Europe. He holds a Diploma in Economics and is currently studying a Software Engineering MicroMasters at University of British Columbia.
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About : Online publisher headquartered in Singapore. Publishes market leading titles Regulation Asia & ESG Investor
Wayne Johnson
CEO & Co-Founder of encompass
Wayne co-founded encompass in Sydney and took the product to the Australian market in 2012. Since then, as CEO he has led the international expansion of the company, including the UK launch in 2015 and recognition as one of the UK’s most influential RegTech firms. Prior to encompass Wayne was co-founder and CEO of Software Associates, until the company’s successful exit to a Hong Kong listed Company.
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About encompass: encompass robotically automates information and news discovery for KYC requirements for onboarding, event-driven refresh and remediation.
Andy Lee
Founder & Chief Product Officer 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
Julianne Sloane
Founder and CEO of Nossa Data
Julianne Sloane is the Founder and CEO of Nossa Date.
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About Nossa Data: Nossa Data digitises company ESG reporting and data management across multiple frameworks, to reduce cost of capital and compliance.
Irina Dumitrescu
Co-Founder and CTO of Nossa Data
Irina Dumitrescu is the Co-Founder and CTO of Nossa Data.
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About Nossa Data: Nossa Data digitises company ESG reporting and data management across multiple frameworks, to reduce cost of capital and compliance.
David Lawlor
Co-Founder of Enforcd
David is co-founder and COO of Enforcd, and has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. He is a senior product manager and content expert, who most recently led Thomson Reuters’ response to Dodd Frank and MiFID 2. As Accountable Product Owner he managed across all work streams to formulate strategy and execute on the firm’s product roadmap and was the key Thomson Reuters regulatory representative at all major industry events and groups. Earlier in his career David worked as an FX broker for ICAP, and an FX and Eurobond trader at UBS. He also spent a period of time running the content business for risk, for Deutsche Bank.
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About : Enforcd is a global regulatory intelligence platform that helps banks and others stay up to date with regulatory change and identify risks.
Parth Desai
Founder & CEO of Pelican
Parth Desai graduated from Georgia Tech with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and was quickly hired to work with one of the most celebrated global pioneers of Artificial Intelligence , Roger Schank. Parth rapidly built a deep expertise in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) that has driven his own ability to innovate over the past two decades. During that time, Parth built a global team and nurtured their collective AI expertise. Working collaboratively within the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance domain for Banks and Corporates, Parth has built a thorough understanding of the Payments, Securities, Anti Money Laundering and Risk Management from both the business and technology viewpoints. As Founder &CEO, Parth works closely with his global team to deliver consistent innovation and client value that continues to underpin their long-term client relationships.
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About Pelican: Pelican provides banks and corporates with solutions that enhance, streamline and secure the payments life-cycle.
Stacy-Ann Sinclair
Founder, CEO of CodeREG
Jamaican born Londoner – Computer Scientist Investment Banker
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About CodeREG, PinaPay: CodeREG is a financial compliance reinvented for the digital era.
Mark Holmes
CEO, Founder of Waymark Tech
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About Waymark Tech: Waymark Tech supplies regulatory and legal intelligence to the financial services sector and uses techniques in collaboration with GCHQ.
