Not every working parent of four chooses to run a community promoting diversity and inclusion in their “spare time”. But Gemma Young is undaunted by the challenge. It all started three years ago when she was pregnant with her fourth child. During her career in financial technology, she’d watched the financial services industry change exponentially. […]
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Paul Dyson – Co-Founder and CTO, Singletrack
Tomato growing has been touted as an ideal hobby to take up amid Covid-19 restrictions. Nurturing a plant that yields edible produce can engender a sense of achievement while other areas of life are on hold. However, not every home gardener applies software engineering principles to the cultivation of salad ingredients. Salad days A climate-conscious […]
Graham Barrow & Ray Blake – The Dark Money Files
Ray Blake is an authority on creating personal organisers. He teaches people how to make diaries by cutting their own leather and fashioning their own paper inserts. His Youtube video on “Making your own Midori-style Leather Traveler’s Notebook” 1 exceeds 370,00 views, and his Facebook group2 has over 17,000 members. As he says tongue-in-cheek, he […]
Megan Bingham-Walker – CEO, Anansi
As Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Megan Bingham-Walker advised the UK government on energy policy. The Cambridge graduate has also sourced and exited venture capital deals, co-founded a machine learning start-up, and run her own consultancy; alongside acting as a trustee at international water charity Pump Aid. But it […]
Pankaj Verma – CTO, Statrys
A laser-focused, team-based approach is key for Pankaj Verma, Chief Technical Officer at online business account provider Statrys. The skills he honed as school cricket captain in the Indian state of Bihar have served him well in his career. His work has taken him to Mumbai, Pune, Dunstable, Sheffield, Shenzhen, and now Hong Kong. On […]
Julian Wells – Whitecap; FinTech North and West
Having dropped the kids off at school, Julian Wells is speed walking the three miles into the Leeds headquarters of strategy firm Whitecap Consulting. Apparently, 7.45 a.m. is the best time for an uninterrupted chat with the financial services-focused strategy consultant. With a young family, a full-time job, leadership roles at FinTech North and FinTech […]
Sonal Rattan – Co-Founder and CTO, eXate
Persuading kids to eat their vegetables can prove challenging. But that’s nothing compared with getting developers to push through the pain barrier and write code that addresses data privacy regulations, according to eXate Technology Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Sonal Rattan. Privacy pain In her previous role as EMEA Markets Head of RegTech at HSBC, […]
Marcus Kern – Duesday
It’s not often you hear the words “ice cream” and “direct debit” in the same sentence. While one conjures up images of idyllic summer holidays, the other brings back memories of filling out direct debit authorisation forms to pay bills automatically from a bank account, then scrambling to cover payments via other methods while waiting […]
Kimberley Cole – Founder, Risky Women
“Never get a tattoo!” Like many parents, Kimberley Cole had made it clear that this form of body art was off limits. So when the financial services executive returned home one day with the letter “T” etched permanently onto her skin, her daughters were surprised to say the least. It turned out that Hong Kong-based […]
Maliha Khan – Head of Wealth Management, UBL
When Maliha Khan submitted her MBA thesis back in 2003, little did she know that her prediction about the spread of mobile technologies would prove so prescient. Now, as Head of Wealth Management at United Bank Limited (UBL), she is harnessing the rapid adoption of mobile that she foresaw during her time at Durham University. […]