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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 COO’ operating in the Wealth Management space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Paolo Tonucci
Chief Operating Officer of Marex Spectron
Paolo Tonucci joined Marex Spectron in March 2018 as Chief Operating Officer. He was previously at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Commbank) based in Sydney, where he was Group Treasurer, with responsibility for funding, capital and balance sheet management. Before Commbank, he was Head of Funding and Liquidity at Barclays Bank in London. Prior to Barclays, Paolo spent 12 years at Lehman Brothers in London and New York, latterly as Global Treasurer where he managed a team of 220. Paolo is a Chartered Accountant and has an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
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About Marex Spectron: Marex Spectron is a broker offering unrivalled breadth of commodity market.
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.
Thomas Salter
Founder & COO of Netwealth
Over 15 years’ experience in financial services. Managing Director and global head of equity and multi-asset quantitative investment strategies at JPMorgan.
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About Netwealth: Netwealth is an online wealth management service that brings together an experienced team, user-friendly technology and lower fees.
David Wright
Chief Operating Officer of Optimus Capital
David is the Chief Operating Officer at Optimus Capital. David WrightDavid joined Optimus Capital in October 2018. Previously he worked at Harmonic Capital, a macro hedge fund manager, where he was Chief Financial Officer and Risk Officer. Prior to that at Deloitte LLP where he specialised in Investment Management audit. He is an Associate Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds a Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honours.
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About Optimus Capital: Optimus Capital provider of asset and portfolio management services.
Francois Devillez
Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer of AlphaSwap
Francois is a Blockchain consultant and entrepreneur. He previously consulted at Espeo Software, Larvol and various multinationals. Francois has a Master in Law from Free University of Brussels, a Master in Tax Management from Solvay Business School and a Master in Business Management from Vlerick Business School.
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About AlphaSwap, Forbes, Forbes Business Council, LARVOL: AlphaSwap is an investment technology platform, bundling its analyst community’s best stock ideas into Data-as-a-Service
Mark Little
Co-Founder, COO & CMO of Pynk
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Tauhid Ali
COO & Director of JATT Acquisition
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About JATT Acquisition: JATT Acquisition provides fund assistance to businesses from the life sciences sector.
Ben Davies
Co-Founder and COO of Hugo Save
Ben Davies is the Co-Founder and COO at Hugo Save.
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About Hugo Save: Hugo is a digital account that helps you spend, save and invest, starting with gold.
Nikolai Hack
COO of Nucoro
Nikolai comes from a consultancy background with extensive experience across European bluechip clients in various sectors for BearingPoint (former KPMG). Nikolai has spent the majority of his career focused on operational excellence and process consulting projects as well as roles globally in business and policy. Nikolai has an MSc in Political Economy from LSE.
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About Nucoro: Nucoro enables financial institutions to build digital savings, investment and wealth management propositions at speed and scale.
Tom Wheatley
Chief Operating Officer of Watson Wheatley
Tom has a background in investment operations working for both Bank of New York and Cazenove Capital Management. He previously had a career in motorsport as a driver, instructor and operations manager both in the UK and North America. Tom is studying for an Executive MBA at Oxford Unversity’s Saïd Business School.
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About Watson Wheatley: Watson Wheatley is a leading provider of reconciliation software to hedge funds, asset managers, commodities traders.
Steve Fourie
Founder & COO of Upside Saving
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About Upside Saving: Upside is Intelligent Cashback as an API, fuelled by Open Banking.
Mike Toole
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Artorius
Mike Toole is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Artorius.
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About Artorius: Artorius is a specialist wealth manager, providing wealth advice, family office support, portfolio management, and more.
