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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Advisor operating in the Banking space. If you think a Advisor 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.
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.
Lord Francis Maude
Advisory Board Member of OakNorth
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About : OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Lord Adair Turner
Independent Advisor of OakNorth
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About : OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Greg Clark
Senior Advisor of HSBC
Greg Clark is the chairman of The Business of Cities, a strategy firm that provides intelligence, analysis, and insight on cities, regions, and business development worldwide.He has global level experience in city leadership, urban investment and regeneration, city policies, and metropolitan planning. Greg works with global organisations on the metropolitan century, with city leaders on strategic developments, and with global firms and investors on business, investment, and development in an urbanising world.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Chad Giussani
Head, Transaction Reporting, FM Compliance Advisory of Standard Chartered Bank
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About Standard Chartered Bank: Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
Dimitris Tsitsiragos
Senior Advisor Emerging Markets of PIMCO
Dimitris Tsitsiragos leads IFC’s investments and advisory services across 52 countries with over 800 staff, and oversees an integrated strategy that aims to create jobs, plug infrastructure gaps, increase access to finance, and tackle climate change. Before taking on his role as Vice President, Dimitris Tsitsiragos was the Director of the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe department in IFC, where he developed a strategy to support the region’s private sector in the wake of the Arab Spring. During his tenure, he oversaw several important initiatives, including the education for employment (e4e) in the Arab World program, which brings together public and private providers of education and private companies to improve the quality of education in the region. Dimitris Tsitsiragos also helped launch the Arab Financing Facility for Infrastructure, which supports much-needed infrastructure projects and kick-started a facility expected to channel over $500 million to smaller businesses in the Middle East and North Africa region. Dimitris Tsitsiragos has extensive experience in several sectors including manufacturing and oil & gas. Prior to joining the Middle East and North Africa region, he directed the Global Manufacturing and Services (GMS) department of IFC which was responsible for IFC’s activities in the areas of tourism, retail and property development; construction materials; the forest products chain; life sciences; and energy-efficient machinery. During his time with GMS, Dimitris Tsitsiragos refined the strategic focus of the department, emphasizing IFC’s global expertise in select sectors, thus helping IFC clients to increase their international competitiveness. In addition to his experience in the Middle East and North Africa, Dimitris Tsitsiragos has worked in South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe, where he held several leadership positions. He spent two years based in New Delhi as IFC’s Director of the South Asia department, where he doubled commitments for the region in all sectors; doubled IFC’s portfolio in India; and significantly improved regional profitability as a result of decreased non-performing assets and the successful execution of an equity divestiture strategy. Before his South Asia assignment, Dimitris Tsitsiragos served as Manager of New Investments for IFC’s Eastern/Central Europe region and Manager of IFC’s Oil & Gas division.
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About PIMCO: PIMCO, a global investment solutions provider that manages investments for public and private pension and retirement plans and other assets.
Greg Hawkins
Senior Technical Advisor of Starling Bank
Greg is Chief Technology Officer at Starling Bank, leading on technical strategy, engineering and infrastructure, and operating a service-based architecture in AWS supporting native iOS and Android apps. Greg has loved programming from the era of ZX Spectrums and BBC Micros, writing and submitting BASIC programs to computer magazines while at school in the 80s. He wants bank-building to be fast, fun and fearless. He codes in many languages but he loves Clojure.
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About : Starling Bank is a mobile banking platform that offers personal, joint, and business accounts.
Marco Taricco
Advisory Board Member of Satispay
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About : Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform.
Dominik Woessner
Secondaries Advisory of Lazard
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About : Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm focused on income strategies, alternative investments, and private equity funds.
Claudia Trauffler
EU Policy Advisor of British Bankers Association
Claudia joined the BBA in November 2013 as EU Policy Advisor. Prior to this she worked for an MEP in Brussels and in the European Parliament office in London. Claudia holds a Master degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
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About : The BBA is the leading trade association for the UK banking sector with more than 230 member banks headquartered in over 50 countries
Nick Smith
Policy Advisor of British Bankers Association
Nick’s key responsibilities at the BBA include issues relating to tax, corporate governance and diversity. Nick also manages the BBA’s Private Banking and Wealth Management Panel.
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About : The BBA is the leading trade association for the UK banking sector with more than 230 member banks headquartered in over 50 countries
Robert Driver
Policy Advisor of British Bankers Association
Rob’s key responsibilities at the BBA include issues relating to reporting requirements, COREP, FINREP and wider data management issues. Rob also manages the BBA’s small banks panel.
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About : The BBA is the leading trade association for the UK banking sector with more than 230 member banks headquartered in over 50 countries
Eleanor McConnell
Advisor of Clydesdale Bank
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About Clydesdale Bank: Clydesdale Bank growth finance provides a range of innovative debt solutions for early stage, high growth businesses.
Fiona Hathorn
Advisor of Peel Hunt
Fiona is Managing Director of Women on Boards in the UK and is a Trustee of the Charity Fight for Sight. Formerly a director of Old Mutual Asset Management and Hill Samuel Asset Management, running the Global Equities and Emerging Markets Desks, in 2012 Fiona launched Women on Boards UK to support women applying for board roles across the Public, Private and Not for Profit Sectors. WOB has enabled 1500+ women to get onto boards across the UK. Foundation sponsors (PwC, ICBC Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters and Berwin Leighton & Paisner) and corporate members include UBS, RBS, JP Morgan, Cisco Systems, HSBC, Linklaters, Oracle and Aberdeen Asset Management.
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About Peel Hunt: Peel Hunt is an Investment Bank focusing on small and mid-cap companies.
Crispin Lowery
Board Advisor of Qudini – Retail Choreography
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About : Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Ryan McNelley
Managing Director – Alternative Asset Advisory of Duff & Phelps
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About Duff & Phelps: Duff & Phelps is a provider of advisory services to companies.
Rowan Austin
Head of Trade Finance Origination and Advisory of NatWest Bank
Rowan is Head of Trade Origination & Advisory for NatWest, and has extensive cross-product and sectoral knowledge having worked for four banks across six continents. He commenced his career with Goldman Sachs, before joining Barclays with roles across Corporate, International and Investment Banking. Rowan then joined Europe Arab Bank where he built a commodity and trade finance function across Europe and the MENA region, as well as building an Islamic Finance capability. Joining NatWest in 2011, Rowan supported the restructuring of the global business to focus on core UK and western European markets, and was appointed to lead the Trade & Working Capital Product function which focuses on delivering product and service excellence to NatWest’s customers. Now leading the Trade Origination & Advisory team, Rowan is driving NatWest’s presence and capability in the Trade Finance market, with a key focus on innovation, digitisation and business development across all product areas.
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About NatWest Bank: NatWest Bank is a large retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom.
Rowan Austin
Head of Trade Finance Origination and Advisory of NatWest Bank
Rowan is Head of Trade Origination & Advisory for NatWest, and has extensive cross-product and sectoral knowledge having worked for four banks across six continents. He commenced his career with Goldman Sachs, before joining Barclays with roles across Corporate, International and Investment Banking. Rowan then joined Europe Arab Bank where he built a commodity and trade finance function across Europe and the MENA region, as well as building an Islamic Finance capability. Joining NatWest in 2011, Rowan supported the restructuring of the global business to focus on core UK and western European markets, and was appointed to lead the Trade & Working Capital Product function which focuses on delivering product and service excellence to NatWest’s customers. Now leading the Trade Origination & Advisory team, Rowan is driving NatWest’s presence and capability in the Trade Finance market, with a key focus on innovation, digitisation and business development across all product areas.
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About NatWest Bank: NatWest Bank is a large retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom.
