James Brown – Head of Client Services, Compeer

James joined Compeer in October 2006 as an analyst following his graduation from The University of Warwick, where he studied Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics.  Today he manages Compeer’s team of analysts. He has widely presented key trends in the UK Wealth Management Industry, with in-depth experience of providing statistical analysis of firms’ business performance. He regularly provides recommendations during presentations to Executive boards, and is actively involved in bespoke research projects.

Haydn Webley – Senior Solution Consultant, FIS

Haydn Webley is a Senior Solution Consultant in the Banking and Payments Division at FIS.

Haydn has worked in various roles within Wealth/Data management for over 35 years. The bulk of this time was spent at ICE Data Services, working in both Product Management and Sales Support Functions, where he was responsible for a range of Global Strategic Relationships. In this capacity Haydn has been a speaker at a range of industry events and client conferences, including the SIA annual conference in New York.

Latterly, Haydn was the Partners Director at SIX Financial, where he was responsible for Third Party and Software relationships in the UK, Ireland and the Nordics.

Martin Perrin – Non Executive Director, Fiske plc

Martin Perrin qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment. His career has embraced wide experience of multinational finance and operations in industry, where directorships have included Qualcomm Telecommunications Ltd and Vipera plc as well as investment management and corporate finance experience at Grahams Rintoul and Lazard. He is a director of the stockbrokers and investment managers: Fiske plc and of an investment trust: The Investment Company Plc.

Harriet Griffin – Chief Operating Officer, Kingswood Group

Harriet joined Kingswood Group in March as COO from Charles Stanley where she held role of COO of their Private Client Investment Management business and brings considerable experience in investment operations management, process and control. Harriet is a graduate of the University of Bath, a Chartered Member of the CISI and holds an MBA from Cranfield University. Harriet is the chief operating officer at Kingswood Group.

Karrie Tilburn – Managing Director, KA Watson

Karrie has over 15 years’ experience in the Industry. She has worked on many large scale projects for Private and Investment banks with a focus on Software Implementation and Data Migration projects. Karrie is ATT qualified and a member of CISI. Karrie founded KAWC in 2009, to provide specialist Capital Gains Tax and Investment Administration services, primarily to Investment Banks and Private Wealth Managers.

Chris Holder – Partner, Bristows LLP

Chris is an experienced commercial IT lawyer who was one of the first specialist IT outsourcing lawyers in the UK and one of the first to recognise the significance of AI and robotics for the future development of technology and the law.

Chris has worked in the IT sector since qualification in 1991. He was one of the first wave of specialist IT outsourcing lawyers in the UK, having worked for both IBM UK and Shaw Pittman in this role from the mid-1990s/early 2000s.

He has advised suppliers and customers alike in relation to large scale, national and international IT infrastructure and business process outsourcing transactions. This has included many examples of data centre, application development and maintenance, telecoms networks and desktop service deals, either together or as separate ‘tower’ transactions.

With regards to BPO transactions, Chris has advised clients involved in F&A, HR and logistics and for other, more general IT commercial deals, has also advised clients in relation to systems integration, agile software development, hardware purchase, website development and hosting, e-commerce and AI and robotics agreements.

He is a regular speaker on all of the above topics and was recently the co-chair of the Technology Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), with whom he continues to collaborate.