Our Leadership Team

Zenon Gray
Senior Partner
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Commodities
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Retail Banking
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Capital Markets
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Wealth Management
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Leadership
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Organisational Design & Transformation
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M&A and Post Acquisition Integration
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Data, Data Management, Data Plaforms
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Information Technology
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Risk - Market, Credit, Operational
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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.
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David Bainton
Partner
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Commercial Banking
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Commodities - Energy
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Wealth Management
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Global Logistics
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Leadership
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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
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Organisational Design & Transformation
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Leadership Development
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People Data Profiling & Use of Psychometrics in Talent Management
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Profile
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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.

Dr Guillermo G. Schiava D’Albano
Associate Partner
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Capital Markets
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Retail Banking
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Commercial Banking
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Insurance
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Leadership
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Enterprise Class Data Engineering
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Large Scale Data Warehousing
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Advanced Quantitive Analysis
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Big Data, DataBrick, Hadoop Technologies
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Profile
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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.
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Rob Millar
Associate Partner
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Retail Banking
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Commercial Banking
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Global Logistics
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Leadership
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Customer Experience Engineering
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Culture Change
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Strategic Transformation
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Profile
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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.
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Zaid Hameed
Partner
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Retail Banking
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Insurance
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Wealth Management
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Leadership
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Information Technology
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Data management & Data Warehousing
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Regulatory Compliance
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Agile Software Development
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Profile
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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.
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Emma Movitz
Partner
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Retail Banking
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Capital Markets
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Wealth Management
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Leadership
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Regulation & Compliance
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M&A
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Information Technology
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Women in Finance and IT
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Profile
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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.
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Hugh Skinner
Partner
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Wealth Management
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Pensions Industry
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Leadership
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Sales & Distribution Strategy
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Partnering and Channel Management
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Regulation & Compiance
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Customer Relationship Management
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Profile
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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
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Retail Banking
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SME Fintech and IT
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Wealth Management
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Commercial Banking
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Leadership
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​Cross Border M&A
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Investor and Exit Strategy for SME's
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Fund Raising & Deal Execution
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Corporate Restructuring
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Profile
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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
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Insurance
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Retail Banking
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Wealth Management
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Leadership
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​Sales Leadership
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Board Level Coaching
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Customer Relationship Management
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Profile
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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
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Retail Banking
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Capital Markets
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Wealth Management
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Commercial Banking
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Leadership
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Organisational Design & Transformation
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Leadership Development
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Change Management
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Profile
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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