James Chrispin

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ABOUT JAMES CHRISPIN

Enjoyed an extensive career working in financial services with PwC’s consulting practice in the UK. Clients included brokers and financial market infrastructure providers across a range of assignments from mergers and acquisitions through business strategy and regulation. Knowledge and experience: • Strong leadership and excellent communication skills• Ability to lead and develop working relationships at senior levels• Innovative thinking based on a wealth of experience• Framing managing and delivering strategic studies• Excellent negotiation, influencing and listening skills; a natural consensus builder, consistently looking for ways to broker resolution• Effective team building, delegation and coaching of large global, cross-functional teams• Agile, flexible and adaptable to new environments and issues. Always looking to apply a commercial approach• Extensive change / project management experience in business, finance and system implementations• Strong Capital markets regulation, predominantly EU but also aspects US SEC and CFTC regulation• Stock exchange policies, procedures and technology• Post trade clearing and settlement procedures, controls and risk management• Business modelling and financial analysis mostly in the context of mergers and acquisitions At PwC I was a director with responsibility for sales and delivery of client projects. I led these initiatives which varied in scale and typically required teams of up to 10 people.After leaving PwC worked with DXC/Luxoft in a strategic sales role on large ($100m) deals, structuring and M&A. Specifically, this role has focussed on the commercial aspects of acquisitions associated with customer outsourcing of development centres and non-core applications.Interim Head of Risk at a fintech start up called RTGS Global Ltd. The proposition is an innovative solution to enable efficient cross border payments. This was a wide ranging role working with the senior executives to build the business with a focussed on business strategy, organisational design leading and building the Risk function.LSEG primary activities have included:• Commercial lead on contract negotiations with third party suppliers to one of the major engineering transformation programmes • Development and running the workforce transformation risk function• Analysis of the options for the Americas workforce strategy• Conducted studies to define organisational response to geopolitical risk challenges• Support for the development of the COO Technology Risk Function