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Brett Clancy

Senior Executive Advisor

Brett Clancy is global finance professional, experienced board-member, qualified accountant and former Professor of Corporate Finance with 35 years of business experience, including capital and risk management, corporate organisation, and negotiating with institutional investors in London, Tokyo and New York. With a broad and comprehensive understanding of financial statements, corporate finance, and corporate governance, Brett held senior positions in leading financial institutions and was the Chief investment Officer at a Japanese Real Estate Fund, being fluent in Japanese. More recently Brett has moved into Board and advisory roles.

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Stephen Holt

Managing Director

Our practice is led by Stephen Holt. Stephen has over 25 years of governance, risk and compliance experience with a broad focus and experience of Advisory, Corporate Finance, Investment Management and Brokerage operations. He has a Bachelor of Law (LLB Hons) and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (Chartered FCSI). Stephen is a published author and was for over 8 years an External Technical Specialist and Examination Syllabus committee member for the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments, authoring workbooks for UK Financial Regulation, UK Corporate Finance Regulation, Financial Markets (Masters in Wealth Management) and numerous professional refresher learning modules, as well as undertaking Technical and Senior workbook reviews for his non-core author workbooks. Stephen has been a front-line FSA regulatory supervisor, led the FSA Complex queries and Perimeter guidance team before joining Northern Trust to undertake business centric regulatory developments analysis, before progressing to leading the Regulatory Developments unit for EMEA operations. Prior to launching this Consulting practice, Stephen for over 6 years progressed from Consultant to Managing Consultant at Cordium and was latterly a Director at the ACA Compliance Europe Group.

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Mark Jones

Chairman & Non-Executive Director

Mark has over 35 years’ experience of working within financial services comprising operational, compliance and Board Advisory leadership roles in Banking, Advisory, Custody Operations and Asset Management within global groups. Mark began his career with Barclays Bank Trust Company, before taking on roles in Barclays Stockbrokers and Barclays Wealth. He joined Northern Trust’s London operation in 2005, where he held a number of senior compliance and risk management roles; including Head of UK Asset Servicing Compliance and UK Prudential Risk Manager, during a distinguished career before recently retiring from full time responsibilities.

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