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Guest Speakers

Charlotte Croswell

 

Charlotte Crosswell                                                    
CEO Innovate Finance

 
Charlotte Crosswell is the CEO of Innovate Finance, the industry body representing the UK FinTech sector. Prior to joining Innovate Finance, she spent the majority of her financial services career in market infrastructure roles. Charlotte has held a number of management positions at Nasdaq and London Stock Exchange across international capital markets, equities, fixed income, OTC derivatives trading and clearing.
 
In addition to her work with Innovate Finance, Charlotte is on the board of UK Finance, and also advises and sits on the boards of Government FinTech advisory groups, technology companies and FinTech startups. Charlotte holds a BA (Hons.) in French from the Southampton University. She has been included in the list of top 100 Women in Finance over many years.
 

David Brear

David M. Brear
Group CEO 11:FS

David is the CEO of 11:FS and since his dream of being a sportsperson was crushed (along with the ligaments in his knee!) and he had to get a proper job, he has worked in pretty much every angle of the financial services industry never losing that competitive desire to drive forwards and win.

Having pitched, established and run billion-pound transformations for some of the biggest FS companies on the planet the realisation that Digital Financials Services Is Only 1% Finished has spurred his desire to establish an organisation that can actually support the industry through its greatest challenge.

11:FS is a challenger to the incumbent consultancies. We create innovative strategies and build out new propositions and ventures in the UK, US, Europe and Asia for some of the biggest brands on the planet. Alongside this 11:FS build in-house products from competitor benchmarking tools like 11:FS Pulse, to core banking and modern architecture systems like 11:FS Foundry.

In 4 years 11:FS has gone from zero brand and zero revenues to a multimillion a month business with one of the hottest brands in fintech all with zero external investment in the group.
 

Francesca McKee

Francesca McKee
Head of Financial Services (APAC), Department for International Trade

Francesca McKee is the Head of Financial Services (APAC) at the Department for International Trade, based in Singapore.  She leads on supporting the growth and expansion of UK financial services and FinTechs in the region, including across green finance, market access, and financial innovation.  She was previously the Economic Adviser for the British High Commission in Singapore.  

Gareth Lewis
Chief Executive Delio


Gareth Lewis is the co-founder and Chief Executive of UK-based fintech Delio. After beginning his career at IBM, he went on to specialise in mergers and acquisitions, working with EY and investment boutique Convex Capital while also qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. During this time, Gareth gained substantial knowledge within private markets and recognised the need to digitise this investment landscape. He formed Delio in 2015 and oversees the organisation's ambitious growth strategy; under his leadership, Delio has grown from an embryonic start-up to an international business serving some of the world's most respected financial institutions in just five years.
 

Gemma Godfrey

Gemma Godfrey
Non Executive Director of IWP & Serial FinTech Entrepreneur

Gemma is a non executive director, adviser and serial FinTech entrepreneur. Her award-winning online investing company, Moola, was acquired by a FTSE 250 insurer (and integrated into an S&P 500 risk consultant). The company pioneered new technology and services into the UK market. She went on to launch Times Money Mentor, a new business for News UK and The Times, which built a significant audience and secured partnership deals with FTSE 100 corporates. The former CEO and boardroom adviser to Arnold Schwarzenegger on The US Celebrity Apprentice now advises high growth businesses on strategic planning, digital innovation, consumer insights, capital raising, regulation and revenue growth. 

Gemma is a non executive director (and chair of the investment management group) of national IFA network IWP and advanced technology company Creativemass. She’s an advisor to the government on its 10-year strategy to improve UK financial wellbeing, and provides oversight for the fundraising and pension fund assets for the largest communal welfare charity in Europe. Gemma is a “go-to” business expert on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and Sky News.

The former head of investment strategy at the FTSE-AIM wealth manager, Brooks Macdonald, Gemma was responsible for Latin American investments at GAM, after starting her career at Goldman Sachs and a background in quantum physics.
 

Lord Grimstone

Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Kt
Minister for Investment Department for International Trade & Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Kt was appointed Minister for Investment jointly at the Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on 18 March 2020.

Before joining government, his career spanned the private and public sectors. His roles have included:

  • Chairman of Barclays Bank plc and Standard Life Aberdeen
  • Lead non-executive on the board of the Ministry of Defence
  • Chairman of financial services body, TheCityUK, from 2012 to 2015
  • Member of HM Treasury’s Financial Services Trade and Investment Board

Lord Grimstone has held board appointments across many sectors and served as one of the UK’s Business Ambassadors.

He also:

  • Conducted the Cabinet Office’s triennial review of the Civil Service Commission
  • Conducted the Cabinet Office’s Review of Public Appointments in the UK, which led to the Public Appointments Code
  • Led a taskforce to establish the new Centre for Public Services Leadership

He has a particular interest in UK-China and UK-India relations. He has joined several Prime Ministerial visits, including the annual Economic and Financial Dialogues between the countries. He also chaired TheCityUK China Market Advisory Group.

Lord Grimstone was knighted in 2014 for public service to defence and business.
 

Guillaume Pousaz

Guillaume Pouzas 
CEO Checkout.com

Guillaume Pousaz is CEO of Checkout.com. Guillaume believes that financial complexity is a barrier to innovation which is blocking economic prosperity. He founded Checkout.com in 2012 to cut through banking complexity and empower businesses to change the world. 
 

Husayn Kassai

Husayn Kassai
Co-Founder Onfido

Husayn Kassai is a Co-founder of Onfido. Onfido uses AI to verify any government ID and then compares it with the person’s facial biometrics. Founded in 2012, Onfido has grown to a team of 400 across SF, NYC and London and has received over $200m in funding from TPG Growth, Salesforce, Microsoft and others. Onfido works with over 1,500 fintech, banking and marketplace clients globally, helping them onboard more users while reducing risk. Husayn is a WEF Tech Pioneer; a Forbes Contributor; and Forbes’ “30 Under 30”. He has a BA in Economics and Management from Keble College, Oxford.

James Crabtree

James Crabtree
Assoc. Prof. of Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

James Crabtree is a Singapore-based author and journalist, and an Associate Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. His best-selling book, “The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age”, was released in mid-2018. It was short-listed for the FT / McKinsey book of the year. 

Prior to academia, James worked for the Financial Times, most recently leading coverage of Indian business as Mumbai bureau chief, between 2011 and 2016. He is now a columnist for Nikkei Asian Review, and also a non-resident fellow at the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House.

Prior to journalism, James was a senior policy advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He has worked for various think tanks in London and Washington DC, and spent a number of years living in America, initially as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
 

Senator the Hon Jane Hume

Senator the Hon Jane Hume
Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology Australian Government

Senator the Hon Jane Hume was appointed to the Australian Federal Ministry in 2019, with responsibility for Superannuation, Financial Services and Fintech.
 
Upon being elected as a Liberal Senator for Victoria in 2016, Senator Hume was appointed Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Economics. She previously held various senior positions in the financial services industry, working for the National Australia Bank, Rothschild Australia, Deutsche Bank and, immediately prior to her election, as a Senior Policy Adviser at Australian Super.

Born and raised in Melbourne, Senator Hume enjoys swimming, reading, and most of all, spending time with her three children, Harry, Charlie, and Imogen.
 

Dr. Janil Puthucheary

Dr. Janil Puthucheary
Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, and Ministry of Health


Dr. Janil Puthucheary concurrently holds the appointment of Senior Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information, and the Ministry of Health. He previously held appointments as Senior Minister of State in the Ministry of Education (2017 – 2018) and the Ministry of Transport (2018 – 2020). He is also the Chairman of OnePeople.sg, Chair of Young PAP, and Whip.

Dr. Janil Puthucheary became a Member of Parliament (MP) in 2011.

Prior to politics, he was a Senior Consultant Paediatric Intensivist and Department Head for Paediatric Specialties in the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and was also an Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.

Jes Staley

Jes Staley 
Group Chief Executive Officer Barclays

Jes Staley joined Barclays as Group Chief Executive on 1 December 2015.

Jes has nearly four decades of extensive experience in banking and financial services. He worked for more than 30 years at J.P. Morgan, initially training as a commercial banker, and later advancing to the leadership of major businesses involving Equities, Private Banking and Asset Management, and ultimately heading the company’s Global Investment Bank.

Most recently, Jes served as Managing Partner at BlueMountain Capital.

Jes holds a BA in Economics from Bowdoin College.

John Glen MP

John Glen MP
Economic Secretary to the Treasury

John Glen was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister on 9 January 2018.
He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport from 14 June 2017 to 8 January 2018.
He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Philip Hammond from July 2016 until June 2017.

Political Career

John Glen MP was first elected to Parliament as the MP for Salisbury in 2010.
He previously worked for the Eric Pickles and Sajid Javid as a Parliamentary Private Secretary.
 

Kara Owen British High Commissioner to Singapore

H.E. Kara Owen CMG CVO
British High Commissioner to Singapore

Ms Owen comes to Singapore from her most recent appointment as Director for the Americas at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Prior to that, she served four years as Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Paris, during which she was awarded with a CVO (Commander of the Victoria Order) by HM The Queen. 

With a lifelong interest in the South East Asian region, Ms Owen begun during her teenage years when her parents lived in the Philippines and cemented during her diplomatic postings to Hong Kong and Hanoi.

Ms Owen graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BA in History. She is committed to lifelong learning for herself and her teams. She has a MSc from LSE in Diplomacy and International Strategy and a MSc from Cranfield University in International Human Resource Management. Alongside her diplomatic work, she has focused on diversity issues and organisational development.

The High Commissioner is the UK government’s representative in a Commonwealth nation. They are responsible for the direction and work of the High Commission and its Deputy High Commissions and/or Consulates, including political work, trade and investment, press and cultural relations, and visa and consular services.
 

LiMeng Lee

LiMeng Lee
Chief Strategy Officer Razer Inc
CEO Razer Fintech

 
Mr. LiMeng Lee is the Chief Strategy Officer of Razer Inc and is responsible for the development and execution of Razer’s ongoing corporate strategy and driving Razer’s strategic initiatives, including partnerships and further penetration into broader entertainment segments to advance the buildout of Razer’s ecosystem of hardware, software and services. Part of his responsibilities includes leading out Razer’s corporate venture arm, zVentures, which invests in early stage companies that adds strategic value to Razer Inc. He is also concurrently the CEO of Razer Fintech and is responsible for driving our Razer Fintech business and expanding the Razer brand in the greater sphere of the youth and millennials.

Mr. Lee brings over 15 years of corporate finance experience in mergers and acquisitions, as well as capital markets advisory and an invaluable network of contacts. Prior to joining Razer, Mr. Lee was a Managing Director at Evercore Singapore, the leading global independent investment banking advisory firm. He was part of the initial team as the Singapore office commenced operations in 2013, which was awarded The Asset Magazine’s “Best M&A House in Singapore” distinction for three consecutive years. Mr. Lee has been Razer’s trusted advisor over the years through his involvement in Razer’s fundraising efforts and as a key banker for Razer’s initial public offering in 2017. He previously held senior positions as Head of Singapore Debt Capital Markets at ANZ, Principal at CMIA Capital Partners, and Vice President at J.P. Morgan where he served for eight years.

Mr. Lee holds a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering & operations research from Columbia University, New York.
 

Louise Eggett

Louise Eggett
Head of the Fintech Hub Bank of England

The Fintech Hub of the Bank of England leads the organisation’s work on how innovation and developments in fintech might support its mission. This means drawing on expertise across the institution to understand how fintech might affect monetary and financial stability, the safety and soundness of financial firms, and the Bank’s ability to perform its operational and regulatory roles. The Hub engages regularly with stakeholders in the private sector, including fintechs, as well as other UK public authorities and their international counterparts.

Louise joined the Fintech Hub in January 2019. Prior to that, she performed a range of roles in the Bank and its predecessor bodies, including on financial stability, prudential policy, crisis management and resolution, supervision and financial crime. She has also worked at the Bank for International Settlements (in the Basel Committee Secretariat), the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the European Commission. She is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
 

Mark Carney

Mark Carney
Vice Chair and Head of ESG and Impact Fund Investing 
Former Governor of the Bank of England

Mark Carney is currently the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26. 

Mark was previously Governor of the Bank of England (from 2013 to 2020), and Governor of the Bank of Canada (from 2008 to 2013).

Internationally, Mark was Chair of the Financial Stability Board (from 2011 to 2018), He chaired the Global Economy Meeting and Economic Consultative Committee of the Bank for International Settlements (from 2018-2020) and was First Vice-Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board (from 2013-2020). He is Vice Chair of Brookfield Asset Management and a member of the Global Advisory Board of PIMCO, the Group of Thirty, the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, as well as the boards of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Hoffman Institute for Global Business and Society at INSEAD. 

Mark was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1965. After growing up in Edmonton, Alberta, he obtained a bachelor degree in Economics from Harvard and masters and doctorate degrees in Economics from Oxford.


After a thirteen-year career with Goldman Sachs, Mark was appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada in 2003. In 2004, he became Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance. He held this position until his appointment as Governor of the Bank of Canada in February 2008.
 

Mike Wells

Mike Wells
Group Chief Executive Prudential plc

Mike Wells has been Group Chief Executive of the international financial services group Prudential plc since June 2015.

Founded in London in 1848, Prudential provides health & life insurance, long-term savings, retirement income solutions and asset management through its businesses – Prudential Corporation Asia and Eastspring Investments in Asia, Jackson in the US, and Prudential Africa. Prudential’s purpose is to help people get more out of life by making healthcare affordable and accessible, by protecting wealth and growing assets, and by empowering customers to save for their goals. 

Mike joined Jackson, Prudential’s North American unit, in 1995, and became Jackson’s Chief Operating Officer and Vice-Chairman in 2003. In 2011 he was appointed President and CEO of Jackson and joined the board of Prudential. He has more than three decades’ experience in insurance and retirement services, having started his career at the US brokerage house Dean Witter before becoming a managing director at Smith Barney Shearson.

Mike was born in Ontario, Canada, and earned a Bachelor of Sciences in Economics from San Diego State University.
 

Natalie Black Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Asia Pacific

Natalie Black
Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Asia Pacific

Natalie Black became Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner (HMTC) for Asia Pacific, covering North-East Asia, South-East Asia and Australasia in September 2018. Previous roles include:

  • Deputy Head of the Number 10 Policy Unit
  • Director of the Internet Harms Unit
  • Director of the Office of Cyber Security, Cabinet Office

Before joining the Civil Service, Natalie was the Chief of Staff for Security at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, London 2012, and a management consultant. Natalie is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Fulbright scholar.

HM Trade Commissioner for Asia Pacific

The HM Trade Commissioner (HMTC) for Asia Pacific oversees all Department for International Trade (DIT) work in North-East Asia, South-East Asia and Australasia including:

  • Growing the overall bilateral trade and investment relationship
  • Improving market access for British companies, including small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
  • Developing finance and trade policy

The HMTC also works closely with the wider diplomatic network and UK-based colleagues to coordinate Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) activity on our wider prosperity agenda.
 

Nick Cook

Nick Cook
Director of Innovation Division FCA

Nick is the Director of the Innovation Division at the FCA.  Nick is accountable for leading the FCA’s data and analytics strategy, RegTech initiatives, data science and machine learning endeavours and its Innovate activities (including regulatory sandbox, Green FinTech challenge and direct support).  

Nick chairs the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) and the International Organisation of Securities Commission’s (IOSCO) FinTech Network.  Nick previously represented the FCA on the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) Financial Innovation Standing Committee and was an advisor to the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator Programme (R2A).

Nick joined the Financial Services Authority (the FCA’s predecessor) in 2009, initially in its Enforcement and Market Oversight Division. Prior to joining the regulator, Nick qualified as a chartered accountant at KPMG Forensic.
 

Phil Smith

Phil Smith
CEO Embark Group

With special expertise in business transformation, Phil is our Chief Executive Officer. He brings with him 25 years of global experience across wealth management, asset management, brokerage, insurance and management consulting. Before joining Embark Group in 2013, Phil was Managing Director and Global Management Committee member at Barclays Wealth where he played a key role in the inception and development of the global infrastructure of this business line for Barclays Plc.
 

Philippa Martinelli

Philippa Martinelli
Advisor and FinTech Specialist for the UK Department for International Trade

Philippa is an Advisor and FinTech Specialist for the UK Department for International Trade. She leads on initiatives including FinTech Bridges and consults on implementing approaches to innovation and securing the ongoing prosperity of the sector.

Philippa engages with government and regulators globally to reduce market access, policy and regulatory barriers for businesses and to promote collaboration and competition. She also works directly with firms, supporting companies with strategic development, building partnerships and scaling internationally.

Since beginning her career with Merrill Lynch, Philippa’s work has spanned financial services, entrepreneurship, international business development, policy, and corporate innovation in both Europe and Asia Pacific.

Piyush Gupta

Piyush Gupta
Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group

Mr. Piyush Gupta has been Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group since 2009.

DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia, headquartered in Singapore. Recognised for its global leadership, DBS has been named “World’s Best Bank” by several global publications like Euromoney and Global Finance. The bank is at the forefront of leveraging digital technology to shape the future of banking, and was also named “World’s Best Digital Bank” by Euromoney. In addition, in 2019, DBS was listed among the top ten most transformative organisations of the decade by Harvard Business Review.

Prior to joining DBS, Piyush had a 27 year career at Citigroup, where his last position was Chief Executive Officer for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Piyush is Vice-Chairman of the Institute of International Finance, Washington. In addition, he is a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals, Singapore’s Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of AI and Data, McKinsey Advisory Council, and the Bretton Woods Committee - Advisory Council. He also sits on the boards of Enterprise Singapore, Singapore’s National Research Foundation, and the Singapore’s Council for Board Diversity. Piyush is a term trustee of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA).

Piyush has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Piyush was named one of the world’s top 100 best-performing chief executives in Harvard Business Review - 2019 edition of “The CEO 100”. He was named Singapore Business Awards' Outstanding Chief Executive of the Year in 2016. In 2014, he was named as the Singapore Business Leader of the Year by CNBC and in 2013, he was accorded the CEO Leadership Achievement Award for Singapore and Asia Pacific by The Asian Banker.
 

Ravi Menon

Ravi Menon
Managing Director Monetary Authority of Singapore

Mr Ravi Menon has been Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) since 2011. The MAS is Singapore’s central bank and integrated financial regulator.

Prior to his appointment at the MAS, Mr Menon was Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry (2007-11), where he led the ministry’s work in economic strategy, international trade, energy policy, and research and development; and Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance (2003-07), where he was responsible for fiscal policy and government reserves. Mr Menon spent the first 16 years of his career at the MAS, which he joined in 1987.

On the international front, Mr Menon is a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Steering Committee. He chaired the FSB Standing Committee on Standards Implementation (2013-17), the International Monetary and Financial Committee Deputies Meetings (2011-15) and the APEC Senior Officials Meetings (2009).

A recipient of the Singapore Government’s Meritorious Service Medal and Public Administration (Gold) Medal, Mr Menon has served on boards in the public, private, and people sectors. He was chairman of the Singapore Co-operation Enterprise; deputy chairman of the Central Provident Fund Board; and a board member of the Housing and Development Board; Singapore Totalisator Board; Agency for Science, Technology, and Research; Civil Service College; and National Research Foundation. He was also on the board of directors of DBS Bank, the largest bank in Southeast Asia. Mr Menon is currently chairman of the Institute of Banking and Finance, and serves on the board of trustees of the Singapore Indian Development Association, a community volunteer group.

Mr Menon holds a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from the National University of Singapore. A two-time winner of the Prime Minister's Book Prize, Mr Menon was a prefect and scout leader at Raffles Institution where he had his secondary education.

Rishi Khosla OBE

Rishi Khosla OBE
CEO OakNorth

Rishi Khosla OBE is the CEO and co-founder of OakNorth, the next-generation credit science platform focused on creating a better borrowing experience for the “missing middle” - the growth businesses who are the backbones of economies and communities globally. Prior to this, Rishi was the CEO and co-founder of Copal Amba, a financial research firm which was scaled to 3,000 employees and sold to Moody’s Corporation in 2014. He is also an early stage investor in Paypal and Indiabulls. He has an MSc in Accounting & Finance from the LSE and a BSc in Economics from UCL.
 

Ron Kalifa

Ron Kalifa
Chair of the UK FInTech Review

Ron Kalifa is a strategic and operational leader in the field of eCommerce and financial services. He is Chairman of Network International; a FTSE company and Chairman of FutureLearn.

Ron is a Non-Executive Director of the Court of Directors to the Bank of England and is also a member of the Council of Imperial College, London.

Ron was appointed to the Board of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as an Independent Non-Executive Director in November 2020. He will remain on the ECB The Hundred Board.

Additionally, Ron is a Non-Executive Director for Transport for London and is an Operating Partner for Advent International.

Ron led Worldpay for over 10 years including its divestment into private equity ownership in 2010. He served as CEO and as Vice Chairman thereafter, remaining as an Executive director until February 2020.

Ron was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year 2018 Honours List for services to financial services and technology.
 

Sopnendu Mohanty

Sopnendu Mohanty
Chief Fintech Officer Monetary Authority of Singapore

Sopnendu Mohanty is the Chief Fintech Officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He joined MAS in August 2015 responsible for creating development strategies, public infrastructure and regulatory policies around technology innovation. Since 2015, Singapore has become one of the top global fintech hubs covering a wide range of financial asset classes including adjacent technology innovations in areas like insurance, digital assets, blockchain, artificial intelligence, reg-tech and green-finance. 

Before MAS, Sopnendu spent over 20 years in various leadership roles in technology, finance and innovation with most of his career in Citigroup. Sopnendu is a member of multiple advisory committees of multilateral global agencies, associations, universities, and governments. He is an avid speaker, global thought leader in FinTech, and advocate of accelerated transformation to a digital economy for solving financial inclusion and sustainability challenges.
 

Stuart Harvey

 

Stuart Harvey
CEO Datactics

CEO since 2015, Stuart was a technical architect with Reuters before co-founding Fintech company Harco, which sold to NYSE after winning 30+ global banks for its DART entitlement technology. Stuart has subsequently invested in several tech start-ups including PathXL (acquired by Philips in 2016) before he joined Datactics. Over the last five years he has helped guide the company more firmly into banking and finance, specifically in the areas of data quality measurement and regulatory compliance.

In the past 18 months Datactics has won significant Tier 1 clients in the financial services industry and conducted several major long-term projects with global information providers. The company has more than doubled in size in that time and won several awards for the quality of its technology and the inclusivity of its culture.
 

Will Goodwin

 

Will Goodwin
Co-Founder and Head of Product Tumelo

Will is the co-founder and head of product at Tumelo, a platform designed to engage members with the companies in their pension and to collect preferences on shareholder issues that members care about. Will studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and has experience from across the investment sector including equity investment analysis at Jupiter and investment banking at RBC. He now runs a Bristol-based, financial technology start-up with a mission to help all investors contribute to and benefit from a more sustainable investment system.

Alderman William Russell Lord Mayor of the City of London

Alderman William Russell Lord Mayor of the City of London
City of London Corporation


Alderman William Russell took office as the 692nd Lord Mayor of the City of London on 8th November 2019. He served as a Sheriff of the City of London in 2016-17 and, in that capacity, supported the then Lord Mayor. 

His mayoral theme for his time in office is “Global UK – The New Future”, supporting businesses through the COVID19 crisis, speeding the recovery and seizing the opportunities of the new future. William has over thirty years’ experience in the financial and business City including holding senior positions in the national and international Banking sector. In 1987 he went to work for First Boston Corporation before joining Merrill Lynch in 1992 as an Investment Banker in Institutional Equity Sales, working in Asia, New York and London. William is currently Chair of CDAM, a London based Asset Management business and Senior Advisor to STJ Advisors.

William served on the Board of Innovate Finance, the industry body for the UK based Fintech community and is also an educational entrepreneur, as the co-Founder and Chair of Knightsbridge School and a Director of Knightsbridge School International (KSI). Other current and previous positions include:

  • Member of the Campaign Board for Durham Inspired
  • Elected Alderman for the Ward of Bread Street in March 2013 and has since served on a number of the City of London Corporation Committees including the Policy and Resources Committee and the Education Board
  • Governor of the City of London School for Girls
  • Court Assistant to both the Haberdashers’ and the Feltmakers’ Livery Companies
  • Honorary Liveryman of the Paviors’ Company
  • Chair of the Development Board of the Royal Court Theatre
  • Board Member of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 
  • Council Member for the Royal Theatrical Support Trust
  • Past Chair of Prostate Cancer UK and is currently Deputy Chair of Place2Be 
  • Member of the Barbican Centre Board