Our Leadership and Executive Advisory Team

Zenon Gray

CEO

Sectors

Commodities
Retail Banking
Capital Markets
Wealth Management

Leadership

Organisational Design & Transformation
M&A and Post Acquisition Integration
Data, Data Management, Data Plaforms
Information Technology
Risk - Market, Credit, Operational

Profile

Zenon has held senior board level roles as CEO and Group CIO with 30 years experience across Capital Markets, Commodities, Retail Banking, Food Retail, Logistics, Consulting and Software sectors. Zenon has managed 1000's of resources in global multi-cultural teams driving major operational transformation, and mergers and acquisitions programmes.

Maurice McDonald

Partner & Executive Director

Sectors

Wealth Management
Retail Banking
Investment Banking
Insurance

Leadership

Regulatory Compliance
Corporate Governance
Conduct of Business
Marketing, Client Communications & Distribution
Mergers & Acquisitions

Profile

Maurice has more than 25 years experience working across all sectors within financial services, but primarily focused on the Banking and Wealth Management sector. He has practical experience of supporting firms with implementing and embedding regulatory change (MiFID II, SM&CR and Consumer Duty) and more recently has been focused on supporting firms through the merger & acquisition process.

David Bainton

COO

Sectors

Commercial Banking
Commodities - Energy
Wealth Management
Global Logistics

Leadership

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Organisational Design & Transformation
Leadership Development
People Data Profiling & Use of Psychometrics in Talent Management

Profile

David has held senior roles in Human Resources and General Management and has over 25 years consulting experience in the Automotive, Energy, Financial Services, Leisure Retail, Logistics and Telecommunications sectors. A certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a member of the British Institute of Psychology, his passion is maximising value by enabling individuals to achieve their full potential and overcome the apparent constraints in corporate life.

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Dr Guillermo G. Schiava D’Albano

Associate Partner

Sectors

Capital Markets
Retail Banking
Commercial Banking
Insurance

Leadership

Enterprise Class Data Engineering
Large Scale Data Warehousing
Advanced Quantitive Analysis
Big Data, DataBrick, Hadoop Technologies

Profile

Guilhermo is an internationally recognised leader in advanced data engineering within the Financial Services, Logistics and Retail sectors where huge data volumes drive complexity in design and place the most demanding expectations on technology solutions. Guilhermo leads our data science capabilities. Guilhermo has worked with some of the largest global banking organisations.

Rob Millar

Associate Partner

Sectors

Retail Banking
Commercial Banking
Global Logistics

Leadership

Customer Experience Engineering
Culture Change
Strategic Transformation

Profile

Rob has over 20 years' experience of working globally with major brands across multiple industries. Rob is an internationally recognised thought leader in the discipline of customer-led change. Rob has worked across Financial Services, TMT, Retail, Utilities, B2B, Logistics, Real Estate, Utilities and Events. He has held senior MD and Partner roles in several leading international consulting organisations.

Zaid Hameed

Associate Partner

Sectors

Retail Banking
Insurance
Wealth Management

Leadership

Information Technology
Data management & Data Warehousing
Regulatory Compliance
Agile Software Development

Profile

Zaid has extensive experienced of technology change across Insurance and Retail Banking. Zaid specialist in agile development and expert in testing strategies. Zaid began his consulting career at Accenture and has since built a reputation working with many leading financial services companies with an emphasis on data warehousing, data management and compliance programmes.

Emma Movitz

Associate Partner

Sectors

Retail Banking
Capital Markets
Wealth Management

Leadership

Regulation & Compliance
M&A
Information Technology
Women in Finance and IT

Profile

Senior leader with solid operational experience in the Banking & Finance industry, both locally and internationally.
Has, as a leader, implemented numerous practical and strategic change journeys, both as a result of regulatory changes, technological innovations, mergers and acquisitions, investments and cost efficiencies.
Has a large international and global network having studied in and/or worked directly with teams in the Nordics, UK, the Baltics and India amongst others.

Hugh Skinner

Associate Partner

Sectors

Wealth Management
Pensions Industry

Leadership

Sales & Distribution Strategy
Partnering and Channel Management
Regulation & Compiance
Customer Relationship Management

Profile

Hugh is an experienced leader with a record for running profitable distribution channels over a multi-decade career in blue-chip financial organisations in the Asset Management and Corporate Pension industries, adopting highest standards of business management and best practice. Hugh is skilled in running sales, partnership, and relationship teams with deep experience in acquiring customers and developing these into long-term relationships under competitive and demanding circumstances.

Matt Parry-Hann

Associate Partner

Sectors

Retail Banking
SME Fintech and IT
Wealth Management
Commercial Banking

Leadership

Cross Border M&A
Investor and Exit Strategy for SME's
Fund Raising & Deal Execution
Corporate Restructuring

Profile

Extensive cross boarder M&A experience with one of the leading city legal firms. A seasoned CEO and COO with complex transaction expertise to drive growth and diversification. Focused on bringing the disciplines of general council expertise with practical board level experience to small and medium enterprises during funding and M&A transactions.

Danuta Gray

Executive Advisor

Sectors

Insurance
Retail Banking
Wealth Management

Leadership

Sales Leadership
Board Level Coaching
Customer Relationship Management

Profile

Danuta has over 30 years experience in leadership, sales, marketing, customer services and technology. Danuta has held numerous Executive, Non-Executive and Chair positions at industry leading organisations such as: CEO of Telefonica O2 Ireland for 9 years and acting as a Non-Executive Director at Michael Page, Paddy Power and Aer lingus. Danuta has been working as Chair of Direct Line Insurance Group for the last 4 years.

Lawrie Philpott

Executive Advisor

Sectors

Retail Banking
Capital Markets
Wealth Management
Commercial Banking

Leadership

Organisational Design & Transformation
Leadership Development
Change Management

Profile

Lawrie Philpott, formally head of Coopers & Lybrand's UK Human Resource Advisory Group and Partner-in-Charge at PwC, is a human resource, change management and organisation consultant with over 25 years' experience in the UK and internationally in both the public and private sectors. Lawrie leads his own consultancy organisation 'Philpott Black', that builds exceptional skills in business leaders and develop high performing leadership teams to deliver strategic business change