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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 Director operating in the Risk Management space. If you think a Director 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.
Roger Kennedy
Managing Director of Cantor Fitzgerald
Roger Kennedy is the Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald.
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About Cantor Fitzgerald: Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial services firm that specializes in equities, investment banking, and real estate.
Serena Chaudhry
Associate Director of Dataminr
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About Dataminr, Dataminr, Observer Research Foundation, One Young World: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Max Boonen
Director & Founder of B2C2
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About B2C2: B2C2 is the trading firm of choice in the institutional crypto markets.
Ian Evans
Managing Director, EMEA of OneTrust
Ian Evans is vice president and managing director, EMEA, at AirWatch. He is responsible for growing AirWatch’s business in the European, Middle Eastern and African regions. Evans brings more than 20 years of experience in the software industry to AirWatch, with more than 10 years in direct and channel sales. He has been successful in helping companies achieve forecasted goals by structuring sales and operation processes and coaching sales teams to deliver multi-year, multimillion-dollar contracts.
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About OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
David Isaacs
Investment Director of Endless LLP
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About Endless LLP: Endless is an investor that specializes in supporting management buyouts, acquisition of non-core businesses, and turnaround investments.
Daniel Harden
Dealing Director of Global Reach Group
Daniel joined Global Reach in 2011 to build out its Options business before taking on the role of Dealing Director in 2017. A native of New Zealand, he began his career at ANZ Bank in Wellington after being recruited for its graduate programme. Two years later he joined HSBC in London, where he continued to develop his foreign exchange career as a Manager within the Institutional FX Sales business, trading currency for large corporate clients and institutions. He then moved to World First as Head of Corporate Dealing before joining the Global Reach team. Daniel holds a degree in Economics and Accounting and a Bachelors in Law, and is fully RDR and MSTA qualified.
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About Global Reach Group: Global Reach Group is a leading foreign currency provider for corporates and personal clients.
Jacques de Villiers
Business Development Director of Global Reach Group
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About Global Reach Group: Global Reach Group is a leading foreign currency provider for corporates and personal clients.
Daniel Wray
Senior Executive Director of Global Reach Group
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About Global Reach Group: Global Reach Group is a leading foreign currency provider for corporates and personal clients.
Leandra McPhillips
Commercial Director of Global Reach Group
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About Global Reach Group: Global Reach Group is a leading foreign currency provider for corporates and personal clients.
Ben Hargreaves
Director – Head of Government & Public Sector UK & Nordics of Bureau van Dijk
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About Bureau van Dijk: Provide company information solutions that can make you more efficient.
Michael Phair
Founder, Director & CEO of REG
REG’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Phair, is a banking veteran with links to World Bank, N M Rothschild and UBS. Michael is a private equity investor with over 40 years’ experience in the financial markets.
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About REG: REG provides an intelligence, analytics, and risk management software to the global insurance and financial services market.
Christian Fleck
Managing Director, UK/Ireland & Pacific of LexisNexis
Mr. Fleck heads LexisNexis’ largest country operation outside the U.S., covering three principal lines of business: legal and tax information solutions and enterprise software. Leveraging nearly two centuries of expertise since the inception of the organization in 1818, Mr. Fleck manages the expansion from market leading information offerings to award winning workflow solutions for legal & tax professionals. Mr. Fleck joined our organization in 2002 in the Global Strategy & Business Development team in our New York head office. Prior to his current role, Mr. Fleck led LexisNexis Germany and Central Europe, with sizeable operations in Germany, Austria and Poland. He also served in Latin America as General Manager of the LexisNexis Mexico business, leading online migration and adjacent market expansion. Before joining LexisNexis, Mr. Fleck was a strategic management consultant with Monitor Group in Munich, Germany and Los Angeles advising clients in the TMT sectors and beyond. He started out his career in banking at Warburg Bank in Germany. Mr. Fleck earned graduate degrees in Germany and the U.S., including an MSc from Handelshochschule Leipzig, a leading German business school, and an MBA from Tulane University.
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About LexisNexis: LexisNexis offers content-enabled workflow solutions in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, accounting, and academic markets.
Gerard van Loon
Director of ANV Holdings
Gerard is ANV’s Group Chief Underwriting Officer. Prior to joining ANV, Gerard was a Senior Vice President and Board and Executive Committee Member of Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe Ltd (LMIE). Gerard held the product line management responsibility for D&O and Financial Institutions for ten years within the EMEA region with gross annual revenues above USD 175 million through a team of 40 underwriters. In addition to his financial lines role, Gerard held the position of Managing Director of LMIE’s Continental European Operations across first and third party specialty product classes. This 50 person group became a pan-European branch network generating more than USD 100 million in gross annual revenues. Before joining LMIE, Gerard was the Financial Lines Manager for AXA Global Risks UK and Director, France and Benelux for UAP Executive Partners. Gerard speaks English, Dutch and French fluently.
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About ANV Holdings: ANV Holdings is an insurance and reinsurance company.
Nick Hungerford
Director of Nutmeg
Nick is the founding CEO of Nutmeg. Following a business degree at Exeter University, Nick worked at Barclays in the areas of product, banking and wealth management. Nick was a Divisional Director at Brewin Dolphin and has an MBA from Stanford University in the United States. Nick’s industry and investment views are respected globally and he frequently appears on Bloomberg, CNBC and BBC and has been quoted in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and many international publications. Nick has been a guest lecturer at academic institutions including Harvard, Stanford and London Business School and has represented UKTI around the world, promoting the benefits of doing business in Britain.
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About Nutmeg, PR Specialist: Nutmeg is an online investment service that specializes in investments, ISAs and pensions.
Matt Gatrell
COO and Board Executive Director of Nutmeg
Matt joined Nutmeg in April 2018 bringing over 20 years of financial services technology experience with him. As Nutmeg’s CTO, Matt ensures our technology strategy matches our business strategy. Prior to joining Nutmeg, Matt held the position of Chief Technical Officer at both Neilson Financial Services and MarketInvoice. His experience has been rounded out by 13 years at BancTec, a global top 100 financial services technology provider, where he held a number of roles, including R&D Director. Matt holds a PhD in Software Engineering from Brunel University.
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About Nutmeg: Nutmeg is an online investment service that specializes in investments, ISAs and pensions.
Andrew Smith
Business Development Director of 4me
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About 4me: 4me is an IT and Enterprise Service Management & Workflow application, providing complete visibility and control of service cost & quality.
Stewart Bertram
Director of Threat Intelligence & Professional Services of Digital Shadows
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About Deloitte, Digital Shadows, Digital Shadows: Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk.
Simon Cullen
Founder and Managing Director of Risksave Technologies
Simon Cullen is a founder of RiskSave, a financial technology and compliance firm. He has a first-class degree in mathematics and a masters in economics from Trinity College Dublin and is a qualified Financial Risk Manager (FRM). Simon worked for over fifteen years in banking and asset management, formerly being Head of Credit for Structured Debt for a large European Asset Manager. Simon has 15 years’ experience dealing with regulatory compliance and risk across banks and asset managers and oversees RiskSave’s compliance platform.
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About Risksave Technologies: Risksave Technologies is a fast-growing provider of regulatory hosting services.
Howard Sherman
Executive Director of MSCI
Howard Sherman is the Executive Director at MSCI.
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About MSCI: MSCI is a provider of investment decision support tools to investment institutions worldwide.
Joshua Jian
Director of Corporate Development of Credit Benchmark
Josh is responsible for corporate development and strategic initiatives, and has experience in both banking and tech sectors: Josh led strategy and business development for startups in areas such as data analytics and fintech. Prior to that, Josh spent 5 years at J.P. Morgan managing credit risk and providing corporate finance for activities such as M&A, across EMEA and APAC regions. Josh holds a First Class degree from Durham, MPhil in Finance from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD as a Louis Franck Scholar.
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About Credit Benchmark: Credit Benchmark is a financial data analytics company.
Oliver Smith
Product Director of Credit Benchmark
Oliver Smith is responsible for managing Product and Content within Credit Benchmark. Before joining Credit Benchmark, Olly was co-head for Markit Securities Finance Europe, also managing product Development. He previously held roles at Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters within sales and business development.
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About Credit Benchmark: Credit Benchmark is a financial data analytics company.
Philip Greaves
Managing Director Protiviti UK of Protiviti
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About Protiviti: Protiviti is a global business consulting and internal audit firm.
Geoffrey Horrell
Director of Applied Innovation, London Lab of Refinitiv
Geoff Horrell is the Director of Refinitiv Labs in London. He manages the multi-disciplinary Lab of research & data scientists, UX & UI experts building applications to help financial professionals make better decisions using data.
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About Refinitiv: Refinitiv is a provider of financial markets data and infrastructure.
Gavin Davis
Financial Services Director of Business Systems
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About Business Systems: Business Systems is the UK’s independent provider of compliance, performance, and workforce optimization solutions.
Kev Emery
Director of Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
Kev Emery is the Head of Optimization and Certification within the Chip Centre of Excellence at Discover. In this role, Kev is responsible for certification, outsourcing and managing various products within the Chip Centre of Excellence. Kev has spent nearly 15 years working in the payments Industry and has had various roles for payment schemes and technology vendors supporting Acquirers, Issuers and Merchants.
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About Underwriters Laboratories (UL): UL is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment,
Kev Emery
Director of Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
Kev Emery is the Head of Optimization and Certification within the Chip Centre of Excellence at Discover. In this role, Kev is responsible for certification, outsourcing and managing various products within the Chip Centre of Excellence. Kev has spent nearly 15 years working in the payments Industry and has had various roles for payment schemes and technology vendors supporting Acquirers, Issuers and Merchants.
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About Underwriters Laboratories (UL): UL is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment,
Soeren Christensen
CEO & Director of Fincore Ltd
Together with Predrag Popovic, Soeren was involved in founding Fincore’s predecessor, Finsoft, in 1995. Before that, he held a variety of roles in investment banking, focusing on risk management and, latterly, on e-commerce. Soeren is an inveterate problem solver, and his passion for mathematics, and particular understanding of the mechanics of risk and random events, has resulted in Fincore’s software being designed and used to address a wide range of complex business challenges. He has overseen the growth and commercial success of Fincore, evolving the business from its starting point in IT professional services to offering a suite of off-the-shelf products on a software as a service basis. Soeren holds an MSc in Mathematics and Physics from Aarhus University (Denmark) and an MS (Statistics) from UNC – Chapel Hill (USA), and a PhD in statistics and advanced probability from UNC – Chapel Hill.
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About Fincore Ltd: Fincore offers two branded products that are CBPM (Collaborative Business Process Management) and FDM3 (Financial Data Management).
Marcelle von Wendland
Managing Director, President – Big Data of Fincore Ltd
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About Fincore Ltd, Huuzlee Ltd: Fincore offers two branded products that are CBPM (Collaborative Business Process Management) and FDM3 (Financial Data Management).
Rafael Libardi
Founder & Executive Director of NoLeak Defence
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About NoLeak Defence: Noleak Behavior Recognition is an AI-based system to identify suspicious actions and behaviors from cameras
Marcus de Wilde
Business Development Director of ThreatInformer
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About ThreatInformer: ThreatInformer provide advanced security metrics tailored for cyber insurance underwriters.
Alma Angotti
Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Investigations and Compliance of Guidehouse
Alma Angotti is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Investigations & Compliance practice. Ms. Angotti is a recognized expert in anti-money laundering (AML), combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT) and economic sanctions compliance. She has counselled her clients in a variety of projects, and managed gap analyses, compliance program reviews, risk assessments, remediation efforts, investigations, and historical transaction reviews. Her clients include large, complex, global financial institutions, global payments institutions, mid-sized banks, broker-dealers, and Fintech and digital assets companies, hedge funds, casinos, and multinational corporations. Ms. Angotti has held interim senior compliance leadership positions at several global and regional financial institutions providing day-to-day management of their compliance programs and assisting them with remediation efforts, often in the context of a regulatory or criminal enforcement action. She has trained and advised the financial services industry and regulators and government officials worldwide on AML, sanctions, CFT and other regulatory compliance issues. With over 25 years of experience in regulation and enforcement, Ms. Angotti has held senior enforcement positions at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). In these positions, she was responsible for investigations and enforcement of the Bank Secrecy Act, the federal securities laws, and FINRA rules. At FinCEN and FINRA, she designed and lead the AML enforcement programs.
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About Guidehouse: Guidehouse is a global provider of consulting services with a focus on driving cross-market advancements.
Ian Rennie
Managing Director of Kaizen Reporting
Ian has extensive experience working in regulatory change and control delivery at UBS and more recently, HSBC. He has worked on regulatory obligations, aiming to achieve timely delivery for the reporting of DFA, EMIR, MiFID and HKMA regulations. He has also led the design and implementation of a comprehensive regulatory reporting control framework for the three main financial hubs at HSBC in New York, London and Hong Kong. Ian is a member of various industry working groups looking at MiFIR reporting implementation including the British Banker’s Association (BBA) Transaction Reporting Working Group.
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About Kaizen Reporting: Kaizen Reporting is a team of regulatory reporting specialists dedicated to improving the quality of regulatory reporting data.
Nigel Minett
Managing Director of McLarens Aviation
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About McLarens Aviation: McLarens Aviation is a privately held company that operates as a provider of claims, risk, and asset management services.
Trehane Oliver
Managing Director of McLarens Aviation
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About McLarens Aviation: McLarens Aviation is a privately held company that operates as a provider of claims, risk, and asset management services.
Joe Kim
Managing Director/Partner of UPIN Fund Management
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About UPIN Fund Management, XnTree: UPIN is an investment and management consulting firm that helps to optimize its clients’ business solutions and meet its goals.
Michael Bryant
Managing Director of InteDelta
Michael Bryant is a Managing Director of InteDelta. He specialises in risk policy, governance and methodology and oversees InteDelta’s client engagements in this area. Michael has undertaken consulting engagements for banks, asset managers, hedge funds and risk software vendors, providing strategic advice on risk management best practice. Prior to InteDelta, Michael was a Managing Director at ING Bank in London where he was globally responsible for financial markets risk measurement.
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About InteDelta: InteDelta helps financial institutions to better manage their risk.
Nicholas Newport
Managing Director of InteDelta
Nicholas Newport is a Managing Director of InteDelta and specialises in risk and collateral management with a particular current focus on regulatory driven change. Nicholas is a recognised industry thought leader in these areas and oversees InteDelta’s large-scale risk and collateral transformation engagements covering organisational, process and technology change. His consulting engagements include Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and HSBC. Prior to founding InteDelta, Nicholas worked for ING Bank in London, where he was responsible for ING’s global credit risk and collateral management programme for financial markets. Before this, he was a Senior Manager within market risk management at Standard Chartered Bank in London and Singapore.
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About InteDelta: InteDelta helps financial institutions to better manage their risk.
Chris Neale
Director of MySP 365
Chris only likes being called a techie when everything is running smoothly, something he learned when he was running IT for a large bank. We happily call him a techie because he keeps everything running smoothly here.
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About MySP 365: mySP 365 is a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider and ISV providing productivity solutions exclusively for Office 365.
