Lombard Risk Management Plc

Alastair joined Lombard Risk in December 2015 as Chief Executive Officer. A former divisional CIO and digital leader at RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland), Alastair has worked in the Financial Services industry for over 25 years. With extensive experience of execution and delivery, he has worked in both front line businesses and technology groups, giving him significant insight into both the opportunities that technology offers, as well as the complexity of mobilising organisations to exploit those opportunities. He has extensive experience in major transformation programmes, both as a veteran of the NatWest and ABN AMRO integrations with RBS, and having led migrations to new back-office platforms for the Fixed Income, Lending and FX businesses. His experiences leading such initiatives from inside a major bank gives him a unique perspective as he starts working with Lombard Risk clients on their regulatory compliance and collateral management programmes. Alastair holds a First Class Degree in Economics with an MSc (Dist.) in Information Technology, both from De Montfort University. He is married with two teenage daughters, lives in South West London and his interests include cycling, bird watching, opera and current affairs.

Nigel joined Lombard Risk in July 2014 as Chief Financial Officer and was appointed to the Board in September 2014. He is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in a number of sectors, including software and financial services. Prior to joining Lombard Risk, Nigel served as CFO for two AIM-listed groups, WH Ireland Group and Merchant Securities Group. He was previously the Finance Director, EMEA & APAC, for Nasdaq-listed Ciena Corporation. Nigel is also a Director of Celsius Productions Limited, a company involved in motion picture production. Nigel was a key member of the leadership team which oversaw the sale of Merchant Securities to the Sanlam Group. He holds a BSc in Management Science from the London School of Economics. He is married and lives in South London. His interests include running his cricket club, travel and playing bass guitar.

Philip joined the board of Lombard Risk in 2010 and is currently a Non-executive Chairman. From May 2015 to April 2016 he served as the Executive Chairman. Working in the IT industry since 1983, Philip has held a number of senior positions in software, hardware and services companies, including Senior Vice President of Oracle Corporation with membership of the Executive Board and Larry Ellison’s Strategy Council, President of EDS International with responsibility for all markets outside the US, as well as Chief Executive of Bull UK and Executive Vice President and Head of EMEA for i2 Technologies. Since retiring from full time employment in 2002, Philip has concentrated on his Non-executive Director portfolio and acts as a ‘business angel’. He is currently the Chairman of Avanti Capital plc, as well as being chairman and investor in a small number of private companies mainly in the technology space.

Sandy joined the Board of Lombard Risk in November 2015, bringing extensive experience of capital markets, both in derivatives and post-trade infrastructure. Prior to joining Lombard Risk, he was CEO of DTCC DerivSERV, where he led the roll-out of its Global Trade Repository in Europe and Asia, as well as holding the CEO position of New York Portfolio Clearing, where he oversaw its development and successful sale to ICE. During his trading career at Societe Generale and Bank of America, he was at the centre of several industry initiatives in clearing and market infrastructure, including development of the LCH Clearnet SwapClear system. He was Chairman of the OTC Derivnet Board from 2011 to 2012. Sandy has a degree in Computer Science from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.

John joined the Lombard Risk Board in September 2015, having previously served as a Non-executive Director from November 2013 to May 2015. John’s career has been mainly in banking, most recently 16 years at Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), where from 2008 – 2013 he was Chairman and CEO of RBS in Asia Pacific, an organisation of 14,000 people at its peak. John was responsible functionally for markets and international banking activities across Asia Pacific, with a focus on debt capital markets, risk management and global transaction services. Following the takeover of NatWest in March 2000, John was appointed global head of interest rate derivatives and financial futures. He oversaw the rapid and successful integration of these global business units previously under the corporate umbrellas of RBS, NatWest GFM and Greenwich NatWest. He is married with 3 adult children. He is a keen golfer, an avid photographer and short movie maker.

Steve joined the Lombard Risk Board in August 2013. He has more than 20 years of sales and general management experience in the IT industry. The last 14 years have been spent in the business applications market place covering ERP, CRM and BI in both on premise and cloud delivery models. In his current role, he is responsible for delivering customer success and value from the deployment of Microsoft’s business applications portfolio and driving revenues through Microsoft’s direct sales channel for these solutions in the EMEA market place. Before joining Microsoft, Rogers was general manager of Northern Europe at Salesforce.com. He was responsible for Salesforce end to end business in this market, delivering CRM solutions in the cloud to all major markets, in all major industries. Before SFDC, Rogers was with SAP, where he held executive positions as SVP and Managing Director of the SAP UKI subsidiary, and subsequently SVP EMEA for the BI division, which involved managing the integration of the acquired Business Objects team and assets. Rogers also held international executive positions at Business Objects, Siebel Systems and Oracle after his early career years at IBM.