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This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Compliance space. If you think a CEO’ 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 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 Instamart. 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 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.
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.
Jamie Akhtar
Co-founder, CEO of CyberSmart
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About CyberSmart: An automated end-to-end cyber security compliance platform that helps SMB’s.
Maria Scott
CEO of TAINA Technology
Maria Scott is co-founder and CEO of TAINA Technology Limited and an Executive MBA student at the London Chicago Booth campus. Scott is building TAINA with the help of Chicago Booth’s Global New Venture Challenge [GNVC]. Below, she writes about her business, colleagues, and insights gained through GNVC.
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About TAINA Technology: TAINA Technology is a regulatory technology provider that helps financial institutions comply with FATCA&CRS.
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.
Daniel Holden
Chief Executive Officer of Trust Payments
Daniel is responsible for all financial and commercial aspects of the UC Group. He previously held senior positions at Deloitte and Capita, and was involved in a number of venture capital-backed companies.
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About Emerging Payments Association, Trust Payments: Trust Payments is a global unified payments group for global pay-in, pay-out and customer journey technologies.
Andrew Patrick White
CEO of FundApps
Andrew founded FundApps in 2010 to drag finance software kicking & screaming into the 21st century. Previously he created the monitoring software MIG21 for Aquin Components before selling the company to State Street in 2008. He’s an acknowledged UCITS expert and authored a chapter in the UCITS Handbook. Travelling is his thing and at last count has been to 123 countries.
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About FundApps: We help investment managers harness the power of community and technology to automate regulatory compliance.
James Neville
CEO of Citizen
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About Citizen: Citizen uses open banking to simplify payments for businesses and consumers.
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.
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.
Vartan Sarkissian
CEO & Co-founder of Apomatix
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About Apomatix: Apomatix is an active audit management software that audits risks and conduct gap analysis.
Waleed Sarwar
CEO of CoVi Analytics
Waleed Sarwar joined CoVi Analytics as CEO in 2015.
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About CoVi Analytics, RegNut: Productivity solutions for regulated firms, reducing compliance effort & freeing staff to focus on business.
Lawrence Shaw
CEO of AAAtraq
Entrepreneur focused on developing scalable automation and processes to improve content quality and ensure full legal compliance.
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About AAAtraq: InsureTech SaaS (Risk Control System)
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.
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.
Michael Garrett
Chief Executive Officer of Omada
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About Omada: Identity Management & Access Governance Solutions and Services
Jim Liddle
CEO of Storage Made Easy
Prior to Storage Made Easy, Jim Liddle was responsible for sales and operations for GigaSpaces in the UK Europe after joining the company in 2006 to help expand European operations. Jim was previously the General Manager for Europe and New York Finance for Versata, a business process and rules management company. During his 6 years at Versata, Jim filled in technical, product management, and product marketing roles. Jim has extensive experience in Big Data, Middleware and Cloud technologies and has successfully built teams and grown sales for high growth technology companies for the last 20 years. Jim holds a BA (honors) from Brunel University in History and Computer Science and studied for an MSc. in Data Communications at Kingston University.
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About Storage Made Easy: SME provides software, the Enterprise File Fabric, which unifies a company’s File & Object Storage accessible through a global file system.
Riten Gohil
CEO 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.
Matthew Elson
CEO of SHE Software
Matthew acquired SHE Software in 2011 and took on the role of full time CEO in 2014. Matthew has extensive executive experience leading both large and small businesses, including as CEO of ESR Technology (t/o £10m) and Managing Director of Atkins Management Consulting (t/o £70m). Holding an MBA from INSEAD and first-class degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University, he began his career as an engineer before spending 6 years at McKinsey & Company as a Management Consultant. With a rapidly expanding business in the UK and New Zealand, Matthew ensures the team at SHE Software remain focused, engaged and energised. He also frequently meets customers and prospects to listen to their business needs and challenges, ensuring that SHE’s health and safety solution, Assure, continues to lead the market. In his spare time, Matthew enjoys the great outdoors and spends most weekends mountain biking or hiking.
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About Evotix, SHE Software: Health and Safety software. Transforming how companies engage with their employees, delivering safe, nurturing and compliant workplaces.
Danny Lopez
CEO of Glasswall
Danny joined Blippar in August 2016 following a career in both the private and public sectors. Blippar is a global technology company that brings the physical world to life through smart devices using augmented reality and artificial intelligence. Blippar, a pioneer in augmented reality, created one of the first sustainable business models for the technology through branded interactive experiences and has today expanded its reach into the realms of education and enterprise solutions. Prior to joining Blippar, Danny was the British Consul General to New York and Director General of ‘UK Trade & Investment’ in the USA, a position he held between 2011-16. In this role, Danny was responsible for promoting the UK’s economic profile, foreign policy and national security priorities in New York as well as leading the UK government’s trade and investment offices across the US. Before his diplomatic posting, Danny worked for the Mayor of London’s economic development arm between 2009-11. During this time, he was responsible for creating ‘London & Partners’, the UK capital’s promotional agency for business, visitors and students and was its inaugural CEO. From 2006-09, he was Managing Director, Marketing and Communications, at ‘UK Trade & Investment’, where he was responsible for delivering a new marketing strategy to promote and showcase the UK economy internationally. Previously, Danny worked at Barclays Bank for 10 years, where he held a number of senior international positions, including Director of Business Banking USA in New York, Head of Inward Investment in London and Business Development Director in India. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in economics and a master’s degree in international economics and finance from the University of Essex. Danny is married and has two daughters. He is a big tennis, football and Formula 1 fan. Born in England, Danny grew up in Spain and is a fluent Spanish speaker.
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About Glasswall, Innovate Finance: Glasswall is a technology company that protects organizations from file-based threats.
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.
Jan-Michael Gorecki
CEO of KyoLAB
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About KyoLAB: We make mobile messaging compliant. Audit trail, dispute resolution, compliance, BYOD, corporate device, compliance, analytics, insight.
Lionel Hackett
CEO of WiseCrowd
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About WiseCrowd: WiseCrowd is the trusted online platform connecting businesses with freelance consultants in Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
