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Acin leadership team
Paul Ford
Chief Executive Officer
Paul is the Founder and CEO of Acin. An ambitious entrepreneur and leader, he saw an opportunity to leverage technology to digitise and network operational risk across financial institutions.
Annabel Reid
Chief of Staff
As Chief of Staff, Annabel works closely with the CEO to ensure that the company operates efficiently, with great communication and in a fun and positive environment.
Graeme Wynn
Chief Technology Officer
Graeme leads Acin’s core technology and IT architecture. He has transformed risk management into a quantitative discipline powered by technology, artificial intelligence and data science.
Kate Joicey-Cecil
Chief Client Officer
Kate is responsible for leading Acin’s Commercial Development, Relationship Management, and Marketing to further build partnerships with our clients and achieve the vision of data-driven, dynamic non-financial risk management.
Philip Carr
Chief Operating Officer
Phil leads day to day operations at Acin with more than 25 years of financial markets and operational experience. He is tasked with scaling the global platform, human capital strategy and growth of the company.
Serge De Coster
Chief Intelligence & Analytics Officer
Serge is responsible for the development of Acin’s value proposition as well as generating and delivering insights derived from the Acin Network.Our advisors
Cris Conde
Senior Advisor
Cris has been actively involved with early stage companies for many years. Named by Institutional Investor as one of the top 40 Fintech investors globally, he currently serves as Senior Advisor to Accel Partners and nyca Partners.
David Hitchcock
Senior Advisor
David has worked in the City of London for nearly 30 years. He spent 10 years as an MD at JPMorgan and Head of Investor Client Management. More recently he co-founded companies to facilitate equity investment into UK SMEs. His experience is concentrated particularly in the UK Life Sciences and Precision Engineering Sectors including listings onto the London Stock Exchange.
Iain Plunkett
Senior Advisor
Iain has spent over 30 years as a leader within in the financial services industry. Most recently, as the Chief Operating & Transformation Officer at Santander. Previously, he held CxO level roles at TP ICAP, Aberdeen Asset Management, Barclays and UBS, and served on boards including the Executive Advisory Board of Microsoft Services.
Ian Ewart
Senior Advisor
Ian is a senior marketing expert with experience across some of the top financial institutions. He was the Head of Products, Services and and ExCo and Board member at Coutts. Previously he was the Head of International Marketing at Bank of America. He also worked at HSBC Private Banking and Barclays Wealth Management.
John Kosobucki
Senior Advisor
John is a business leader with over 30 years experience in financial services, focused on solution provision within capital markets trading and risk management. During his time at SunGard, he drove the transition from traditional in-house applications to SaaS offering.
Richard Barnett
Senior Advisor
Richard Barnett is an accomplished digital product innovation and transformation leader with experience in conceiving, driving and managing some of the most impactful digital product initiatives at Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
Sally Clark
Senior Advisor & Non Executive Director
Sally is the former Chief Internal Auditor for Barclays. Sally joined Barclays in September 2012 from RBS where she was Head of Operational Risk, Global Banking and Markets. Sally is also a Non-Executive Director at Metro Bank.
Simon Ball
Senior Advisor
Simon Ball is a Senior Advisor to Acin. A Chartered Accountant, whose executive career included roles on the boards of 3i Group plc (CFO), Robert Fleming Group (CFO) and Kleinwort Benson Ltd (CFO & COO).
Stéphane Besson
Senior Advisor
Stéphane has been driving growth and building teams in the Financial Services Industry for more than 25 years. Stéphane was recently the CEO of Coalition Greenwich, the leading provider of Benchmarking Analytics to the Financial Service industry.
Stephen Sanders
Senior Advisor
Stephen Sanders is an experienced senior manager in the investment banking industry, Stephen specializes in regulation, compliance and risk management. Most recently he was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan where he was Head of Regulatory Policy, and subsequently Chief Compliance Officer for EMEA.
Tracy Clarke
Senior Advisor & Non Executive Director
Tracy’s career in financial services has spanned over 30 years. She has extensive board-level experience, as well as a strong interest in corporate governance and team management.
Careers at Acin
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