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"The data revolution in finance: opportunity or threat?"
15 March 2017
Chair and Panellist profiles
Chair
Andrew Hilton
Andrew is Director and joint founder of the CSFI. He is a former World Bank economist and editor-inchief of the International Reports group in New York. He also runs an economic consulting firm in
London. He has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Wharton School and an
MA from New College, Oxford.
Panellists
Sachin Patel
As Global Head of Capital Markets, Sachin is responsible for the structuring, execution and
distribution of Funding Circle’s offerings to institutional investors. Prior to Funding Circle, Sachin was
Vice President in the cross-asset structured products and solutions businesses at Barclays Capital
and prior to this at J.P.Morgan, advising and executing transactions with a wide variety of investors
including Insurance Companies, Pension Funds, Discretionary Asset Managers and Private Banks.
Sachin holds a MPhys (Physics) from Oxford University.
Tim Jones
Tim Jones is an experienced CEO with specialisms in financial transactions including payment
systems, retail banking and pensions. Currently Co-Founder and CEO of Tibado Limited, a new digital
cash venture, Tim was CEO of NEST Pensions in the UK from its inception until September 2015. Tim
serves additionally as an Independent Director at ITG Inc., a NYSE listed institutional broker dealer in
New York.
Earlier in his career, Tim spent seventeen years at NatWest Bank in the UK where, from 1990, he led
the development of Mondex digital cash, as well as becoming Chief Executive of Retail Banking in the
late 1990s.
Martin Sloan
Partner in the IP, Technology and Outsourcing Group, Brodies LLP
Martin specialises in advising clients in both the public and private sectors, especially the financial
services industry, on technology procurement and IT and business process outsourcing projects.
Martin's recent outsourcing and IT procurement experience includes advising on the outsourcing of
ATM and debit card transaction processing, and ATM estate management, advising on the offshoring of application development and maintenance, advising on a second generation end-to-end
IT outsourcing, and advising on the outsourcing of fund and back office administration services.
Martin also advises on data protection, intellectual property and general technology law matters,
and has a particular interest in the laws applying to social media and new technology such as mobile
apps, contactless/mobile payments, smart ticketing and smart metering.