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Meet the Team
Our team is experienced, excited and empathetic. We have a laser sharp focus on what we want to achieve. Our sleeves are permanently rolled-up, we have no egos, and we collaborate really well.
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Richard Baker
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Executive with 25+ years of experience creating, running and selling companies in Financial Services, Telco, Software, Digital Media, Big Data & Blockchain.
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Gerard Banaszkiewicz
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Executive with 30+ years of Legal, Commercial and Operational experience in multi-billion pound regulated business environments.
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Brendan Bradley
Chairman
35-year career spanning financial institutions and FinTech start-ups, with a particular focus on product innovation, market structure, regulatory and technology developments, and associated M&A activity.
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Ciarán McGonagle
Chief Legal and Product Officer
Leading financial industry lawyer, and expert in digital assets and smart contracts, with more then 15 years of leadership experience in capital markets.
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Steve Haigh
Chief Technology Officer
25 years of commercial technology leadership experience across embedded, IoT, data processing and cloud/SaaS applications.
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Gunnar Larsén
Chief Commercial Officer
25 years of software & platform leadership experience at the intersection of sales, product management and marketing.
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John Anderson
Chief Product Officer
25+ years experience in product and commercial management roles in agile software development environments.
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Luke Banaszkiewicz
Customer Success Manager
Delivery expert with more than a decade of experience in managing complex projects for high-profile customers.
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Kevin Harkin
Principal Engineer
Engineer with 30 years of working on developing advanced software solutions in finance, health, media and insurance.
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Stephen Ashworth
Head of Platform
25 years in capital markets with extensive experience in trading and managing derivatives across traditional and digital asset classes.
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Jonathan Dodd
DevOps Engineer
10+ years of experience implementing cloud infrastructure solutions in eCommerce, financial services and transportation.
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Rob Noble
Principal Engineer - Blockchain
Software Generalist with 28 years experience across research, development, pre- and post-sales support, solutions and systems architecture.
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Jason Benedicic
Systems Engineer
20+ years of experience architecting and implementing enterprise infrastructure and cloud native application platforms across multiple sectors.
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Nathan Cropper
Business Development Manager
10+ years in technology/blockchain sales, background in financial services, software development, multimedia technology and compliance.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez
Product Owner
Five years of experience working with financial derivatives, with a background spanning FinTech and traditional banking.
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Ashwini Laxminaranay
Technical Product Owner
15 years of software development, management, agile and CI/CD practises, honed at companies such as ARM and Aviva.
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Chris Beddoe
Head of Professional Services & Delivery
More than 15 years of experience specialising in large transition and change programmes, gained in both the public and private sectors including financial markets.