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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 United Kingdom based Director operating in the Banking 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.
AF_initDataCallback({key: \’ds:1\'” alt=”” class=”wp-image-14850″ width=”154″ height=”152″/>Leonardo Trabuco
Senior Director of Engineering of Nubank
Leo is the CTO at DueDil, responsible for leading the engineering team and the company’s technology strategy. He joined DueDil in 2013 as a data scientist, progressing to lead an engineering team focused on the development of data products, before becoming CTO in 2015. Leo holds a PhD in Biophysics and Computational Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. While in academia, he published 20 peer-reviewed research articles, including top journals like Science and PNAS, in addition to contributing to open-source software development, training, fund raising, and working as a reviewer for 7 international scientific journals.
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About Nubank: Nubank is a digital bank that offers digital credit cards, transfers, and payments.
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George Saravelos
Managing Director & Global Co-Head of FX Research of Deutsche Bank
George is Global co-Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank in London, where he is responsible for the fundamental analysis of the world’s major currency markets and is one of the bank’s most prolific writers on global macro issues. He has spearheaded the development of Deutsche Bank’s FX investment index product suite, including the first benchmark index of currency market returns, and has built industry-leading indicators and frameworks for analyzing market drivers. He has also driven Deutsche Bank’s coverage of the macro and political outlook in the Eurozone crisis, particularly Greece. George holds a Masters in international development from Harvard University and a Bachelor in economics from Cambridge University and has also previously worked at the IMF.
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About Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank, a Frankfurt-based global investment bank, offers financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients.
Michael Hegarty
Director, Cloud Security Lead of Deutsche Bank
Michael Hegarty is the CISO for UKI and is leading the bank’s Cloud Security Programme. Michael has nearly two decades experience in IT, and a wealth of expertise in building strategic vision and operations of world-class security functions for financial institutions. His current responsibilities include implementing the bank’s security strategy across the region, overseeing major security awareness programmes, and close interaction with platinum clients, regulators, and the bank’s legal entity boards. He is also an advisor on financial sector committees and working groups on the topic of cyber security. Prior to his current role, Michael was handpicked to lead Cyber Security for APAC (overseeing 16 countries), and develop a world-class Security Operations Centre in Singapore, with a 24/7 incident response capability and a team of security experts.
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About Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank, a Frankfurt-based global investment bank, offers financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients.
Shaheen Yusuf
Managing Director of Deutsche Bank
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About Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank, a Frankfurt-based global investment bank, offers financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients.
Polina Evstifeeva
Director, Head of Regulatory Strategy at GTB Digital of Deutsche Bank
Polina Evstifeeva is an expert on regulations in the FinTech space and has more than 13 years of experience in the financial industry. As Head of Regulatory Strategy, New Ventures for Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Bank, Polina plays a key role in responding to the impacts of global regulatory initiatives in the FinTech space. She represents Deutsche Bank in various industry associations (e.g. AFME, ASIFMA, UK Finance, EBF) and is involved in a number of industry initiatives related to Cloud, Blockchain and AI. Polina writes articles and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on regulatory matters. From 2014-2017, Polina led market advocacy work on a number of regulatory dossiers impacting Global Transaction Banking, including the Payment Services Directive 2, UCITS V, AIFMD and the European Capital Markets Union. Prior to that, Polina worked as legal counsel at Deutsche Bank. Before joining Deutsche Bank in 2008, she worked as legal counsel at UBS and Renaissance Capital, focusing on securities trading and asset management. Polina holds degree in law and in Finance & Credit.
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About Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank, a Frankfurt-based global investment bank, offers financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients.
Bontle Senne
Director of Strategic Development Practices of Deutsche Bank
Bontle Senne has two careers: one as a leader of Agile transformations and one as a creative. As an Agilist, she is currently leading DB’s global Agile transformation in CIB Tech. She works with Agile coaches in 5 locations on four continents. She has delivered training on Agile foundations and Agile leadership to over 300 colleagues. As a creative, she is a writer for children, blogger, speaker and literary activist on the board of NPO Puku Children’s Literature Foundation and NPO READ Educational Trust. She is also a minority shareholder of feminist trade publishing house Modjaji Books. I regularly speak on African children’s literature at international literary festivals and conferences including the Africa 4 Tech – Marrakesh, Morocco, Frankfurt International Book Fair, Salon du Livre (Paris Book Fair), Etonnants Voyageurs – Brazzaville, Congo, Etonnants Voyageurs – Saint Malo, France, South African Book Fair, Abantu Book Fair and Kingsmead Book Fair.
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About Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank, a Frankfurt-based global investment bank, offers financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients.
Christian Resch
Managing Director, GS Growth of Goldman Sachs
Christian Resch joined Goldman Sachs in 2004 and is a Managing Director responsible for growth equity investments. Christian typically invests between $20m and $200m of capital in individual transaction. Christian holds a Bachelor or Science from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Kirk A. Lepke
Executive Director, GS Growth of Goldman Sachs
Kirk A. Lepke is an Executive Director, GS Growth at Goldman Sachs. He was a member of the firm’s investment activities in Europe. Prior to Summit, Kirk worked for Torch Partners and Morgan Keegan Technology Group. He received a BA in commerce, organizations and entrepreneurship, magna cum laude, from Brown University.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Anthony Gutman
Managing Director of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Francois-Xavier (FX) de Mallmann
Managing Director- Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs
François-Xavier (FX) is global co-head of the Consumer Retail and Healthcare Group, and a member of the European Management Committee. FX has been global co-head of the Consumer Retail and Healthcare Group since June 2014 and was previously global co-head of the Consumer Retail Group. Prior to this, he was head of Investment Banking Services in EMEA from 2011 to 2013 and head of the Financing Group in EMEA from 2008 to 2011. FX joined Goldman Sachs in 1993 in the London office. He was named managing director in 2003 and partner in 2004. FX serves on the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee UK and is a member of the Young Global Leaders Network of the World Economic Forum. He graduated with distinction from Hochschule St. Gallen (lic. oec) and Community of European Management Schools in 1992.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Colin White
Managing Director of Goldman Sachs
Colin White is a managing director and technology fellow within the Engineering division at Goldman Sachs. Colin is global head of the Workflow group within Enterprise Platforms, a core engineering group that builds services and capabilities to decrease time to market and drive the level of standardization across workflow-based applications firm-wide.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Sarah Card
Executive Director of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Russell Berry
Executive Director of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Nestor Paz Galindo
Managing Director of UBS
Nestor Paz Galindo as managing director and head of sell-side and financial sponsors M&A for EMEA. Paz Galindo will join the bank from JP Morgan in March next year. Paz Galindo has spent all of his professional career to date at JP Morgan. He has held a range of M&A-related roles over 22 years, most recently including managing director of the bank’s European financial sponsors group.
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About UBS: UBS is a global financial services company that engages in the provision of financial management solutions.
Marc Wursdorfer
Managing Director of UBS
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About UBS: UBS is a global financial services company that engages in the provision of financial management solutions.
Swen Werner
Managing Director, Digital Product Development and Innovation of State Street
Swen Werner is currently part of State Street’s Digital Product Development and Innovation team responsible for designing new products, leveraging different emerging technologies, including distributed ledger technologies and engagement with industry partners to design industry-leading service and operating models. He has been working in the financial services industry for over 15 years and has held senior roles in Europe, the USA and Asia with JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Boerse focusing on product management for custody, clearing and collateral management. Mr. Werner has and continues to be actively engaged in regulatory and industry developments affecting the securities services environment. He holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) from Cass Business School in London.
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Nick Williams
Managing Director, Consumer Digital of Lloyds Banking Group
Nick is a highly respected executive with a wealth of experience across the public and private sectors. Most notably, Nick has extensive experience in leading transformative change in complex organisations across the Financial Services industry. As Managing Director of the Consumer Digital business at Lloyds Banking Group, he runs the largest digital Retail Banking franchise in the UK. His responsibilities span the 12.5m online users (7.7m via mobile) across Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and Scottish Widows. He has transformed the business through unprecedented growth to provide a best in class eCommerce capability whilst maintaining a market leading customer experience. He is passionate about the digital inclusion and financial wellbeing agendas, proactively engaging in public policy setting and external media relations. Nick is also the Groups Ambassador for the North region, managing relationships with central and local government, MPs and LEPs. As the chair of the Northern Executive Committee, he brings focus to the region with the objective of helping northern communities and businesses prosper.
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About Lloyds Banking Group, Lloyds Banking Group: Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Paul Gordon
Managing Director, SME & Mid Corporates, Commercial Banking of Lloyds Banking Group
Paul Gordon is Managing Director, SME & Mid Corporates, Commercial Banking at Lloyds Banking Group
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About Lloyds Banking Group: Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Steve Everett
Managing Director, Payments and Global Transaction Banking of Lloyds Banking Group
Steve is Managing Director for Payments within the Global Transaction Banking business, having joined Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) in October 2014. Prior to joining LBG, Steve spent 15 years with RBS performing senior leadership roles spanning global transactions services (GTS), financial markets and corporate banking and leading key strategic programmes which have transformed businesses. His final role was Global Head of Cash Management with responsibility for all payment and liquidity products spanning a network of 38 countries.
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About Lloyds Banking Group: Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Carolyn Fairbairn
Independent Director of Lloyds Banking Group
Joined the Board in June 2012 Member of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee. Carolyn has extensive digital and on-line, government and regulatory experience gained across a range of sectors including media and financial services. With her broad experience and strong analytical mind, Carolyn plays an active part in reviewing the strategy of the Board and contributing to the debate at Board and Committee meetings. Carolyn has a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from INSEAD. Carolyn is a Non-Executive Director of The Vitec Group and is the Chairman of its Remuneration Committee. She is a trustee of Marie Curie and a Non‑Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority and the UK Statistics Authority. Carolyn was a Non-Executive Director of the Financial Services Authority and chaired their Risk Committee, a Director of Group Development and Strategy at ITV plc and Director of Strategy and a member of the Executive Board at the BBC. She is a former partner of McKinsey & Co. and was a policy adviser in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. Carolyn began her career as an Economist at the World Bank.
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About Confederation of British Industry, Lloyds Banking Group, Marie Curie UK: Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Paul Sullivan
Area Director SME Banking of Lloyds Banking Group
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About Lloyds Banking Group: Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Miguel Rodriguez Sola
Director Digital Marketing of Lloyds Banking Group
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About Lloyds Banking Group: Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Paul Sullivan
Area Director SME Banking of Lloyds Banking Group
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About Lloyds Banking Group: Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Miguel Rodriguez Sola
Director Digital Marketing of Lloyds Banking Group
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About Lloyds Banking Group: Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Oleg Rasskazov
Executive Director, Quantitative Research of JP Morgan Chase
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About JP Morgan Chase: JP Morgan Chase is a global financial services provider that offers investment banking, asset management, treasury, and other services.
Richard Hayden
Executive Director of JP Morgan Chase
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About JP Morgan Chase: JP Morgan Chase is a global financial services provider that offers investment banking, asset management, treasury, and other services.
Stephan Apel
Executive Director of Moelis & Company
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About Moelis & Company, Outlier Ventures: Moelis & Company is an investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base.
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.
Karan Burman
Director of Shawbrook Bank
Structured Finance Associate Director
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About Shawbrook Bank: Shawbrook Bank is a provider of financial services including savings and loans in the UK.
Zhomart Tleuzhanov
Director – Asset Backed Finance & Securitization of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Anthony Forshaw
Managing Director, Capital Markets Group of Houlihan Lokey
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About Houlihan Lokey: Houlihan Lokey is a global investment bank that focuses on capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting.
Sandy Purcell
Senior Managing Director of Houlihan Lokey
Sandy Purcell is the Board Member at AudioEye.
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About Houlihan Lokey: Houlihan Lokey is a global investment bank that focuses on capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting.
Ann Sharkey
Managing Director of Houlihan Lokey
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About Houlihan Lokey: Houlihan Lokey is a global investment bank that focuses on capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting.
Matthew Hardcastle
Director & Client Development of DealCloud
Matt is one of the Client Development Directors responsible for delivering DealCloud’s expansion across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining DealCloud Matt was an Assistant Director at Inflexion, a UK based mid-market investor currently managing £5.4bn. He originally trained as a consultant with CIL Management Consultants and holds a BA in Classics from Durham University.
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About DealCloud: Deal management and business development software for principal investing and M&A advisory professionals.
Nathan Luckey
Managing Director, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets of Macquarie Group
Nathan is a Managing Director in Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, and holds a number of non-executive directorship roles for companies within MIRA’s investment portfolio. Nathan is a qualified Mechanical Engineer, with expertise across the utilities, telecommunications, transportation and media sectors.
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About Macquarie Group: Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.
Karl Smith
Managing Director of Macquarie Group
Karl Smith is responsible for managing the UK Green Investment Bank Offshore Wind Fund. The fund is the world’s first dedicated offshore wind fund and is managed by UK Green Investment Bank Financial Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the UK Green Investment Bank. It is currently the largest renewables fund in the UK. Karl has extensive experience in principal equity investment, debt investments and financial advisory across the energy and infrastructure sector. He joined the UK Green Investment Bank in 2012 and led the Bank’s principal equity investments in the offshore wind sector. He previously held similar positions at a number of organisations including Babcock & Brown, ABN Amro and Macquarie Bank. Karl holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Finance from the University of Melbourne.
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About Green Investment Bank, Macquarie Group: Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.
Steve Berry
Managing Director of Macquarie Group
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About Macquarie Group: Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.
Ben Chisell
Director of Product of OakNorth
Ben Chisell is Product Director at Starling Bank, a modern mobile-only bank built to help customers gain better insight into their financial lives, and give them access to all of their financial products in one place through the Starling Marketplace. Ben wants to build a bank that truly puts the customer first, and solves meaningful problems that can have a positive impact on their lives.
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Adam Agius
Director, Debt Finance of OakNorth
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Gil Bar-Nahum
Managing Director of Jefferies
Gil Bar-Nahum is a Managing Director in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Jefferies and is based in London. He leads the Jefferies’ International Biotechnology team with a primary focus on innovative companies in Europe and Israel. Dr. Bar-Nahum has over 18 years of investment banking experience and has executed transactions for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical technology, and life science tools companies. In the last 4 years Dr. Bar-Nahum has led the execution of more than 40 financings, including 17 IPOs for foreign private issuers (12 on NASDAQ), raising more than US$3.2Bn. Since joining Jefferies in 2009, Dr Bar-Nahum has also advised on more than 10 cross-border M&A transactions. From 2002-2009 Dr. Bar-Nahum was part of UBS Investment Bank’s Global Healthcare Group, based primarily in the US. Prior to that, Dr. Bar-Nahum worked as an Equity Research Analyst for UBS where he served as an Associate Director covering companies in the Life Science Tools and Biotechnology space. Dr. Bar-Nahum received his PhD in Basic Medical Sciences from the Department of Biochemistry at the Sackler Institute of New York University School of Medicine. The subject of Dr. Bar-Nahum’s doctorate work was published twice in the journal Cell. Dr. Bar-Nahum also received an MS from New York University’s School of Medicine in Cell and Molecular Biology and a BS from the University of Illinois in Microbiology.
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About Jefferies: Jefferies provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets.
Drew Graham
Director, Digital Strategy of Barclays
Drew is a serial entrepreneur turned banker; a sheep in wolf’s clothing. He joined Barclays as Director of Digital Strategy in April 2019. He was previously the Head of Platform for the Standard Chartered Virtual Bank in Hong Kong. He joined Standard Chartered as Director of Fintech Strategy and Engagement in 2016. Before renting his soul, he founded and led a financial inclusion payments company in Indonesia, a financial services Cloud services company in Hong Kong, an oil and gas technology infrastructure company in Papua New Guinea, a data analytics startup in Berlin and a zip line in Singapore. He is a believer that the only difference between bravery and insanity is success, a keen mentor of entrepreneurs, a passionate advisor to startup accelerator programs and a reluctant wearer of formal clothes.
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About Barclays, Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Reid Marsh
Managing Director of Barclays
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
James Binns
Managing Director, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital of Barclays
James Binns is the Global Head of Trade and Working Capital for Barclays, which serves Corporate, NBFI and FI clients globally with teams located in UK, Europe, Americas, Asia and the Middle East. Prior to joining Barclays, James spent 4.5 years at Deutsche Bank where he headed Working Capital Advisory and Trade Finance for EMEA and latterly Global Cross Product Solutions. This followed 20 years at HSBC where James was based across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, USA and UK in a number of senior Corporate Banking and Trade Finance roles.
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Andrew Elphick
Director – Open Innovation Internal Programmes of Barclays
Andrew Elphick is the Head of Delivery Group Innovation Office for Barclays. He is responsible for brining Open Innovation into Barclays through Rise, which operates in London, New York City, Tel Aviv, Cape Town, Mumbai, Vilnius and Manchester. He has worked with Barclays for 10 years starting in HR in Barclays Wealth before moving into Technology and then to the Design and Digital Office where he operated as the Chief of Staff before joining Rise.
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Matthew Coupe
Director Market Structure of Barclays
Matthew Coupe, formerly the director of regulation and market structure at Israel-headquartered compliance vendor Nice Actimize, joined Barclays this week as a director of market structure.
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Natasha Kyprianides
Portfolio & Digital Delivery Director, Barclays Partner Finance, UK of Barclays
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Alex Alder
Customer Insights Director of Barclays
Alex Alder is the Customer Insights Director at Braclays UK.
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Giles Marshall
Managing Director of Searchlight Capital Partners
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About Searchlight Capital Partners: Searchlight Capital Partners is a private investment firm operating in North America and Europe.
Marc Moses
Executive Director and Group Chief Risk Officer of HSBC
Marc Moses was appointed as an Executive Director of HSBC Holdings plc in January 2014. He is Group Chief Risk Officer, with responsibility for risk and compliance, and a member of the Group Management Board, positions he has held since December 2010. Mr Moses joined HSBC in November 2005 as Chief Financial and Risk Officer with global responsibility for leading and managing the Global Banking and Markets finance and risk functions. In January 2008 he was also appointed Chief of Staff, responsible for all infrastructure in Global Banking and Markets. Mr Moses began his career at Sedgwick before joining Bankers Trust as a fixed income, money market and futures trader. He is a qualified accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He was audit partner and head of the market risk advisory group at PricewaterhouseCoopers and in 1999 he joined JP Morgan as European chief financial officer and global head of the valuation control group. Mr Moses is married with four children. He is a keen Arsenal football supporter and enjoys playing tennis.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Iain Mackay
Group Finance Director of HSBC
Iain Mackay was appointed as Group Finance Director of HSBC Holdings plc in December 2010. A chartered accountant, Mr Mackay joined HSBC in July 2007. He initially served as Chief Financial Officer of HSBC North America Holdings Inc, where he was instrumental in the restructuring of HSBC’s consumer finance business. From September 2009 until his appointment to the Board as Group Finance Director, Mr Mackay was Chief Financial Officer, Asia-Pacific, of HSBC Holdings plc.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Giles Spungin
Global Head of Analytics, Compliance and Operational Risk, Managing Director of HSBC
Giles Spungin is responsible for development and imbedding of advanced analytics strategy for Op Risk and Reg Compliance functions globally, including deployment of bank-wide predictive risk management solutions. Activity examples include automation and behavioural analytics, surveillance analytics and capital modelling. Giles chairs Model Risk Oversight Committee. Prior to joining HSBC, Giles worked at a number of leading financial institutions in highly quantitative roles including Goldman Sachs and Deutche Bank. Giles has High Frequency Algorithmic Trading development background.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Marco Hughes
Managing Director, Global Head Core Payments, GLCM of HSBC
Marco is passionate about payments with over 20-years’ experience of the industry, working in some of the largest global banks. At HSBC he is the Managing Director and Global Head of Core Payments Product for its Global Liquidity and Cash Management business based in London, meeting the needs of HSBC corporate and financial service clients to make and better manage payments and receive collections both domestic and international. This covers a wide remit of electronic and paper based solutions, and so it covers payments from the most traditional to the latest innovation. His career has taken him around the world, from Mumbai to Chennai, Chicago to Prague and Rome to Edinburgh. A former British Royal Navy officer, Marco holds a MBA from the University of Chicago and a degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from the University of Bristol. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (MCISI), a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Founders and a Freeman of the City of London.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Jean-Paul Linschoten
Managing Director and Head of China Client Strategy of HSBC
Jean-Paul (“JP”) joined HSBC in 2012 in the Prime Finance Division. His focus since the announcement of the Shanghai Hong Kong Connect in 2014 has been “China” where JP was instrumental in defining, implementing and marketing HSBC’s Stock Connect cross-product proposition across equities, foreign exchange and custody for clients investing in A-shares for the first time. In an expanded role JP is currently responsible for advising clients on implementation of their China strategy as it relates to inbound and outbound China access across asset classes through QFII/RQFII/Stock Connect, MRF, and more recently London –Shanghai Connect. With almost 20 years’ experience in the banking industry, JP has held various roles in London, New York and Hong Kong across equity derivatives, flow equity swaps, Delta One origination, and structuring product.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Kaushalya Somasundaram
Managing Director, Head of Fintech Partnerships of HSBC
As the Head of Fintech Partnerships & Strategy, Kaushalya leads the partnership and corporate venturing for HSBC’s core businesses including Global Liquidity and Cash Management, Global Trade and Receivables Finance, Custody and Global Markets. She has led HSBC investments in Fintech companies of strategic importance and the bank’s forays into the world of distributed ledgers. Kaushalya has held a variety of senior roles across HSBC including Strategy & Planning, Corporate Development and Group Audit. Kaushalya has also been recognized in the Brummell’s 2016 list of the most inspirational women innovators in London.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Kutty Dutta
Managing Director, Head of Secondaries of HSBC
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Andrea Dann
Director of HSBC
Andrea’s job satisfaction comes from helping businesses grow and seeing their owners and management teams achieve their goals and aspirations. Andrea has worked across several departments within HSBC including roles in retail banking, leveraged finance, transaction management and corporate banking. For the last two years she has been helping to establish the mid-market coverage proposition of the HSBC debt finance origination team and, as a director in the UK technology sector coverage team. Andrea has also been selected to join the Confederation of British Industry Under 35 national committee.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Richard Lowe
Managing Director Head of London Industry and Central London of Barclays Investment Bank
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About Barclays Investment Bank, Barclays Investment Bank: Barclays Investment Bank offers large corporate clients with strategic advisory, financing, and risk management solutions.
David Williams
Technical Director of AXA Group
David Williams is the Managing Director, Underwriting & Technical Services at AXA Insurance.
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About AXA Group, AXA UK: AXA is a French multinational insurance firm that focuses on global insurance, investment management, and other financial services.
Chuen- Hing Lee
Director of API Development of Moneybox
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About Moneybox: Moneybox is a mobile savings and investment app that offers a range of saving and investment products including Lifetime ISAs and Pensions.
Jon Leigh
Director of Platform & Infrastructure of Moneybox
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About Moneybox: Moneybox is a mobile savings and investment app that offers a range of saving and investment products including Lifetime ISAs and Pensions.
Philipp Patschkowski
Managing Director of Neuberger Berman Group
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About Neuberger Berman Group: Neuberger Berman is an independent and employee-controlled asset management company, providing global investment solutions.
Nick Ogden
Founder & Main Board Director of ClearBank
Nick Ogden is the founder of ClearBank and the bank’s Executive Chairman. Prior to ClearBank, Nick founded and led a number of other companies. The most notable of these is WorldPay, which he founded in 1997. The first internet payment service to guarantee transactions worldwide, Nick helped WorldPay grow to over 270 employees, and 20,000 customers across 120 countries and e-commerce transactions in excess of $2 billion per year. The company was acquired by The Royal Bank of Scotland in 2002.Nick also founded Multi Media Investments Limited, a research and development company, in 1993, and Voice Commerce Group, the UK’s first non-bank payments institution, in 2009.
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About CashFlows, ClearBank: ClearBank is the UK’s first new clearing bank in more than 250 years.
Richard Little
Non Executive Director of Thought Machine
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About Azur Group, CENTURY Tech, Concirrus, IQ Capital, Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Andy Phillipps
Non Executive Director of Thought Machine
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, Prodigy Finance, PROfounders Capital, Thought Machine, Trainline: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Guillermo Christen
Director Of Engineering of Monzo
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About Monzo: Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.
Chris Beckett
Associate Director of Data Science (Product and Marketing) of Monzo
Chris Beckett is the Associate Director of Data Science (Product and Marketing) at Monzo Bank.
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About Monzo: Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.
Jerome Nomme
Managing Director of Sun Capital Partners
Jerome Nomme, Managing Director, prior to joining Sun European Partners, Mr Nomme was a Partner at Ernst & Young Corporate Finance in Paris where he was working primarily on mid-market buy-side and sell-side M&A engagements. Prior to joining EYCF, he had gained experience within the Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance teams of Paris and New York. Mr. Nomme holds a dual MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School and is a registered Chartered Financial Analyst.
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About Sun Capital Partners: Sun Capital Partners is a private investment firm
Lionel de Posson
Managing Director of Sun Capital Partners
Lionel de Posson, Managing Director, joined Sun European Partners in 2006, having served as an Analyst with JPMorgan in the Mergers & Acquisitions – Consumer, Retail, and Healthcare team in London for two years and the French Mergers & Acquisitions team in Paris for one year. During that time he lectured on corporate finance at ESCP-EAP Business School. Prior to joining JPMorgan, Mr de Posson worked with Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities division and with Deutsche Bank Asset Management in London. He received a Candidature in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, a Master of Science in Management and Finance from ESCP-EAP, Paris, and a Master of Science in International Management from City University Business School, London.
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About Sun Capital Partners: Sun Capital Partners is a private investment firm
Daniel Kellett
Senior Director of Data Science of Capital One
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About Capital One, Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Rachel Hover
Director of Capital One
Starting her career in Traditional Banking by joining NatWest on the Accelerated Management Programme, instead of heading to University, Rachel Hover became one of the first Personal Account Managers involved in setting up the Primeline Telephone Banking team before joining Capital One in 2000 to help set up the Sales department. Moving quickly into roles to work with and then in Tech, heading up teams in Business Service Support, Mission Control and Business Continuity. Moving into the Cyber team in 2012 where she is now a Director responsible for Tech and Cyber Risk Management and is the UK Women in Tech Chapter Lead.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Coline McConville
Non Executive Director of 3i Group
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Andrew Cox
Director of 3i Group
Andrew joined 3i in November 2006 having spent three years with Ambac Assurance in London leading an initiative to expand their franchise into the Continental European infrastructure market and latterly heading up their European Utilities team. Previously, he worked for six years in the Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Infrastructure Advisory Group, where he worked on transactions both domestically and internationally, on the buy-side and the sell-side, covering the roads, airports, power, water and waste sectors. Andrew has an MA in History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Rowena Gracey
Director, Private Equity Team of 3i Group
Rowena joined 3i in 2007 and is an Associate Director in the Private Equity team. Rowena focuses on origination and execution of investments in the UK and leads 3i’s activity in the UK Healthcare sector. Deals she has worked on include 3i’s minority investment in Phibro, the sale of Unirea to Advent International, and further investments in Hobbs and MDY Healthcare. Previously, she has undertaken internships in Healthcare venture capital at Scottish Equity Partners and for boutique funds management group Quest Asset Partners, Sydney. Rowena has a B. Advanced Science/Commerce degree from the University of Sydney, Australia and spent one year of her degree on exchange studying Economics at Royal Holloway, London University.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Aaron Church
Director of 3i Group
Aaron joined 3i in 2013 as a Director in the Infrastructure team in the London office, with a primary focus on investment origination and execution in the midstream energy and transportation sectors. Prior to 3i, Aaron worked for HRL Morrison & Co, a major Australasian-based infrastructure fund manager, where he also focused on investments in the midstream energy and transportation sectors. Prior to this, Aaron was a Project Leader for the Boston Consulting Group where he primarily worked for clients in the industrial goods sector in Australasia and North America. Aaron holds a B.Com from the University of Canterbury and a M.B.A. (Distinction) from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
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About 3i Group, Attero B.V., Joulz, Oiltanking: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Joanna Thomson
Active Partnership Practice Director of 3i Group
Jo Thomson is the Active Partnership Practice Director. Prior to joining 3i, Jo spent over 14 years with Ernst & Young, initially in their Transaction Advisory Services group and most recently as Operations Director for their Global Private Equity team. Jo is responsible for the core parts of Active Partnership which are not led by the deal teams: e.g. the delivery of key events such as the CEO and CFO Forums, organising Active Partnership related training and creating visibility of advisor performance on Active Partnership initiatives. She is also responsible for the marketing and internal communications for the Private Equity business.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Joy McCormack
Director, Board Development of 3i Group
Joy heads up 3i’s Business Leaders Network, working as part of our international investment team to help connect with Chairmen, CEOs, advisors and other senior board level management for both our existing portfolio companies and in pre-deal situations. Prior to joining 3i, Joy was at Skillcapital, working exclusively with private equity funds across Europe to recruit buy-in management teams for LBOs and board level management for PE portfolio companies. Joy began her career in finance with Goldman Sachs and spent five years working in the Private Wealth Management division, with a focus on asset allocation strategies. She holds a first class honours Masters degree in Quantitative Finance from University College Dublin.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Rupert Howard
Director of 3i Group
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About 3i Group, MPM: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
George Archer
Senior Director – Banking of 3i Group
George joined 3i’s Banking Team as a Director in July 2011. The Banking Team is responsible for the firm’s relationship with its financing institutions and provides specialist in-house debt financing advice and support to the private equity activities of 3i and its portfolio companies. George has worked on financing transactions for many of 3i’s portfolio companies, including Action, Basic Fit, Element, Eltel, ESG, Lekolar and OneMed. He has 19 years of banking experience, having started his career with Barclays Bank in 1994. George subsequently worked for Barclays Capital (1997-2000), Bank of America (2000-2003) and The Royal Bank of Scotland (2003-2011). Over the bulk of this period, he specialised in the origination, structuring and execution of European leveraged debt transactions in a lead capacity. George has also held positions in leveraged loan syndications and in corporate restructuring. George holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College (University of London), a BSc (Hons) degree in Financial Services from UMIST and a MSc degree in Operational Research from Strathclyde University.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Alastair Richardson
Director, Head of Legal of 3i Group
Alastair is Director, Head of Legal for 3i’s Private Equity team, with responsibility for legal risk management and the provision of legal support for new investments, portfolio matters, exits and fundraising activities to 3i’s international private equity business. Alastair works closely with 3i’s international deal teams on transactions across 3i’s private equity business. Alastair joined 3i in 1998 from the law firm, Nabarro LLP, where he worked as an associate specialising in international corporate M&A and private equity. He holds a BA joint honours degree in Economics & Law from Durham University and is qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales.
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About 3i Group, Nabarro LLP: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
James Cox
Portfolio Director of 3i Group
James is a Portfolio Director in 3i’s Asset Management Group which manages investments in a range of companies across a variety of sectors and geographies. He has been with 3i since 1998 having started his career at PiMS UK, a London based media services company, where he headed up the financial services account team. James subsequently joined 3i’s London SMI portfolio management team in 2002 where his focus was managing higher value minority investments. James has more than fifteen years experience of managing growth capital and buyout assets across a wide range of sectors, including a number within the food & beverage, media, leisure and support services areas. He has both invested in, and supported, companies at various stages of growth and completed a significant number of successful realisations across a wide range of sectors.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
David Stephens
Director of 3i Group
David focuses on originating, executing and representing 3i on the boards of Private Equity investments across Europe. He predominantly focuses on 3i’s activities in the Industrial sector in the UK, but has also spent significant time on deal execution in the US. Recent deals David has worked on include 3i’s investments in Aspen Pumps, the global market leader in condensate removal pumps, in the UK; Ohio-based Q Holding, manufacturer of precision moulded rubber and silicone components for the auto and medical industries; Wisconsin-headquartered Dynatect, manufacturer of critical components designed to protect and elongate equipment lifetime and promote worker safety; and the sale of London-based Civica, the international provider of specialist IT systems and business process services. David is currently a Director on the board of ESG and an Observer on the board of Agent Provocateur. Prior to joining 3i, David worked in investment banking at DC Advisory Partners, advising clients on European mid-market M&A.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Andrew England
Director and Head – Strategy, Intellect Global Transaction Banking of Intellect Design Arena
Andrew currently serves as Director of Intellect’s subsidiary Intellect Design Arena Limited, UK and Head of Strategy iGTB. He joins us from McKinsey, where he was the External Senior Advisor of Transaction Banking. Andrew brings a host of experience running transaction banking in leading global banks. He has held the positions of Managing Director and Head of Transaction Banking at Lloyds Banking Group, Head of CEE Global Transaction Banking at Unicredit Group and Head of Cash & Trade Product at Deutsche Bank, where he was also an Executive Committee member for Global Transaction Banking. These roles followed on from a successful career of various leadership positions at Citi and Lloyds.
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About Intellect Design Arena: Intellect Design Arena Ltd, is a global leader in Financial Technology for Banking, Insurance and other Financial Services.
Pramod Vijayasankar
Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Industry Coverage of Standard Chartered Bank
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About Standard Chartered Bank: Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
Osman Mardin
Managing Director of Sardis Capital
Managing Director at Sardis Capital
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About Sardis Capital: SARDIS is a regulated and independent advisory firm specialised in financial transactions
Allison Krill
Managing Director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Allison is responsible for EMEA Global Banking and Markets Technology. Allison jointly reports to Andrew Butcher and David Reilly in this capacity. Global Banking & Markets Technology provides end-to-end technology solutions and support for Global Banking and Global Markets (including Equities, Electronic Trading, Rates and Currencies, Credit and Structured Products, Commodities, Sales and Capital Markets and Global Markets Operations & Middle Office, Wholesale Banking, Research, Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking clients). Allison is also head of EMEA Global Transaction Services Technology (GTST) reporting to Rick Knafelz. Allison joined GTST in August 2016 and has overall responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of technology solutions supporting the global corporate and transaction services business in the region. In addition, she is also responsible for the International Treasury Management and Commercial Banking platforms managed within EMEA region and utilized globally across EMEA, APAC, LATAM, and the US. Allison is a member of the GT&O Diversity and Inclusion forum in her role as co-lead of the EMEA GT&O and GBAM Technology D&I Council.
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About Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America.
Matt Sloan
Managing Director EMEA of Discover Financial Services
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About Discover Financial Services: Discover Financial Services is a direct banking and payment services company.
Mark Curran
Director of Payments and Open Banking of Virgin Money
Mark’s career spans 30 years in Product, Payment and Client facing roles within RBS, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds and is currently Director of Payments and Open Banking for CYBG. Mark has built core knowledge across the Payments landscape and plays a leading role in defining the strategic Payments direction for the Group. Marks current role is diverse with responsibilities spanning Risk, Regulation, Resilience, IT, Operations and a wider industry lens. Mark chaired the UK Industry wide programme to deliver a UK wide Customer Switching Service (across 17 Financial Institutions and 37 Banking brands) culminating in the successful launch in September 2013. Mark is currently Chair of the UK wide Future Cheque Programme to digitize cheques in the UK and is a Director of the UK Faster Payments Scheme Board. Mark has played a key role in definition of PSD2 and Open Banking initially at LLoyds Banking Group and now as Director of payments and. Open Banking a CYBG. Mark is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (Scotland) and is involved in the School for Social Entrepreneurs.
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About Virgin Money: Virgin Money is a independent banking group.
Nina Triantis
Managing Director, Global Head of Telecoms and Media of Standard Bank
Over 30 years investment banking experience, specialised in the TMT sector with experience throughout the developed world and the emerging markets for over 15 years. Also responsible for coordination and coverage of financial sponsors including private equity, institutional investors, family offices and sovereign wealth funds with a focus of transactions into Africa across sector, but with a focus on FMCG, Financial Services, Industrials and TMT. Has led complex and plain vanilla financing transactions across the capital spectrum, including in the public debt markets. Wide ranging M&A advisory and capital raise experience with a focus on the African continent latterly. Diverse and broad client base across TMT within all sectors and sub-sectors and with Financial sponsors including global and regional players. MBA from Stern New York University graduate school of business and BA in Economics and French from Columbia University.
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About Standard Bank: Standard Bank has a long history in banking and operates in thirty three countries.
Ian Perrett
EMEA Compliance Director of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Julian Colls
Customer Success Director of Form3
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About Form3: Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
Rob Swan
Business Development Director UKI & FST of Temenos
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About Temenos: Temenos Group is a market leading provider of banking software systems.
Chris Sandford
Business Development Director of Investec
Chris Sandford is Business Development Director at Investec.
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About Investec: Investec is a specialist bank and asset management company that provides various financial products and services.
Finula Cilliers
Managing Director of Evercore Partners
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About Evercore Partners: Evercore Partners is a New York-based investment banking firm that advises its clients on M&A, divestitures, and more.
Rodney Reid
Managing Director of Evercore Partners
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About Evercore Partners: Evercore Partners is a New York-based investment banking firm that advises its clients on M&A, divestitures, and more.
Lea Lazaric Calvert
Managing Director of Evercore Partners
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About Evercore Partners: Evercore Partners is a New York-based investment banking firm that advises its clients on M&A, divestitures, and more.
Norman Butler
Managing Director – Visa Payments Limited of Visa Europe
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About Visa Europe: Visa Europe is a payment technology business that enables European consumers, businesses, and governments to make electronic payments.
Anthony Craufurd
Director, Venture and Startup Engagement of Visa Europe
Anthony joined Visa 6 years ago as an Visa 6 years ago as an apprentice, and has worked all over the apprentice, and has worked he business, from plugging in cables the business, from plugging in cables in the data centers to developing new propositions. • He now leads Vis’s venture and startup programme in Europe as part of Visa’s Innovation & Strategic Partnership division, connecting Visa with entrepreneurs to enable the next generation of innovation. • Anthony also leads Visa’s Everywhere Initiative in Europe, a global platform to promote and support early stage companies.
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About Visa Europe: Visa Europe is a payment technology business that enables European consumers, businesses, and governments to make electronic payments.
Paul Randle
Director of Digital & Media of Visa Europe
Paul Randle is a digital specialist with 20 years experience across organisations such as Microsoft, Philips, Omnicom and AkzoNobel. His passion for technology saw him lead marketing at numerous tech start-ups during the first .com boom, prior to joining Microsoft where he spent seven years. Initially managing the Windows Server business in the UK he moved to the Windows XP team and Australia where he launched Windows Vista. A key company spokesperson he was on call when the Blaster Virus hit, a period that lead to Paul becoming the second most quoted Microsoft person after Bill Gates. Landing back in the UK, he took up the challenge of integrating digital marketing into Philips and the Omnicom agency network, prior to becoming the first Director of Digital for AkzoNobel. Inheriting over 750 websites, Paul drove the implementation of a strategy that turned digital into a strategic asset for the business. Championing the use of new ways of working and hybrid multi-function teams, Paul is passionate about the new capabilities and behaviours demanded of the marketing function, and the broader organisation, in the digital world. A passion that brought him to Brand Learning.
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About Visa Europe: Visa Europe is a payment technology business that enables European consumers, businesses, and governments to make electronic payments.
Rob Otter
Managing Director – Global Head of Data Technologies & Applied ML of Barclaycard
Rob’s career history to date has been within the Investment Banking Technology sector. He has held various senior positions working either for centralised IT organizations or directly for key business lines. He has held fellowship titles at his last two employers, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. During his career he has acquired deep technical knowledge and expertise on areas ranging from performance development methods in software or hardware, more recently his focus has turned to big data technologies and their application within the Investment Banking arena, specifically artificial intelligence and scientific computing
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About Barclaycard, JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Barclaycard, part of Barclays Retail and Business Banking, is a payment business provides credit card business and online business.
Payal Jain
Managing Director, Strategic Analytics, Barclaycard Europe & UK of Barclaycard
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About Barclaycard: Barclaycard, part of Barclays Retail and Business Banking, is a payment business provides credit card business and online business.
