Jersey Finance: Demo Day

Perrin founded CoSteer after an impressive corporate career and is a highly experienced, professionally qualified Fellow of the International Compliance Association (FICA) with a Post-Grad in Corporate Governance. He is a researcher in organisational culture, a qualified teacher, speaker and is passionate about changing the narrative surrounding governance, risk and compliance and their integration with organisational culture. As CEO of CoSteer, he created GOVindicia®, a regulatory technology and assessment with a human-focused approach. This technology helps organisations move towards a more dynamic, flexible and responsive business model that promotes long-term growth, shareholder value, sustainability, consumer confidence and regulatory compliance.

Kate is the CEO and Founder of Cybermaniacs, bringing new ideas and innovative approaches to the critical area of human cyber protection and cyber security awareness. She spent 20 years in the IT trenches focused on solving complex technical problems, implementing compliance and regulatory programs, leading digital transformation initiatives and empowering people for change. Previously with Gartner, Parsons Brinkerhoff, Eze Castle, and Omnicom, she also ran a successful boutique consultancy firm out of London while raising three kids before founding Cybermaniacs. She acts as an advisor to startups in the UK and US, with the Ladies of London Hacking Society, and speaks internationally on leadership, cyber security, and technology change topics.

As President of Global Sales, Ashley manages FundCount’s global sales teams. He focuses on delivering accounting, investment management, and automation solutions that reduce cost and the strategic and operational risks of private equity firms, hedge funds, family offices, and fund administrators. Prior to FundCount, Ashley’s career encompassed government, consulting, blue-chip corporation, and entrepreneurial roles. As a Deloitte-trained Chartered Accountant, Ashley has been at the forefront of the fintech cloud-application SaaS space since 1999. That year, he launched GlobalExpense, the U.K.’s first B2B cloud SaaS company providing online expense management solutions.

Ian has over 30 years’ experience in finance and investment markets. Ian’s industry knowledge is extensive, ranging from credit derivatives to capital markets, from trading to hedge funds. His previous roles have included Head of Credit Business at a Canadian bank and following that, he became Head of Business Development at JDX Consulting in London.

Stuart is the Director of Threat Intelligence at Orpheus. Stuart holds extensive experience across the Cyber Threat intelligence field. Before joining Orpheus, Stuart enjoyed a number of senior roles in prime consultancies such as Deloitte and BAE Systems Applied Intelligence where he has led and coordinated cyber threat intelligence engagements across a broad spectrum of clients. These have ranged from UK Government departments to a variety of commercial organisations including extensive experience of operating in Financial Services and the Defence sector amongst others. Stuart has also worked as an end user of cyber threat intelligence during his time in the IT Security Team at Nomura, one of Japan’s largest investment banks and as a senior cyber researcher in the Home Office Criticakl National Infrastructure (CNI) team. As part of his current role in Orpheus, Stuart coordinates multiple CBEST and TIBER Intelligence lead pen testing engagements with Financial Services clients.

David began developing software commercially while still a teenager at school. Always wanting to use innovative technology his first business venture provided fact-find, needs analysis and quotation software on early laptops for the finance industry. Armed with a wealth of experience he then became established as a system architect for a major financial services institution. Recognising the potential of the internet in the mid 1990’s, David went on to found Vega Solutions, developing web portal and banking solutions for the offshore private wealth industry. Following the merger of Acusoft, Fusion System and Vega Solutions David was appointed MD/CTO for Vega Technology.

Chris Denbigh-White is an accomplished information security professional with a wealth of experience in both the public and private sectors. With a background as a former police and intelligence officer, he has built his career in system design, defence, and governance. Chris has held various roles of increasing responsibility, including serving as a member of the office of the CISO at Deutsche Bank. He is highly regarded for his expertise in cyber analysis and is currently leading the security function at Next DLP as Chief Security Officer. Chris is also an active contributor to the advisory board of the SANS Institute and has played a role in the development of the ISC2 CISSP exam by assisting in certification question writing. Chris mixes his breadth of experience and knowledge with a certain degree of dry humour which makes his infosec talks (sometimes) both entertaining and thought provoking.

Ali is an award-winning business psychologist with a passion for using psychology, technology and psychometric test design to help organisations and individuals thrive. He has a particular interest in designing solutions that combine technology and scientific rigour to help deliver a measurable business impact. Ali has extensive experience in leading the design of technology-enabled solutions for both development and assessment. He and his colleagues have won multiple awards including, the E-Assessment Best Talent Management solution in 2022, ABP Excellence in Assessment Award in 2018 and the ABP excellence in assessment award in 2017. Ali has designed a variety of solutions covering the entire end to end recruitment cycle, from attraction, sifting out, to selecting in. He has also helped deliver and design solutions to help enhance leadership effectiveness and engagement.