Our people

Des has 20 years proven experience in running capital markets IT consultancies covering third party platforms including Summit, Murex, Front Arena, Sophis, Calypso and Kondor. He has built and sold two businesses, Excelian and Cititec, that have delivered products and services to clients across Europe, Asia/Pacific and North America.

Ian has owned, run and sold several businesses and is a qualified solicitor.

Marcus brings successful commercial experience to the Phi Partners’ Board, having founded Rule Financial Limited, subsequently acquired by GFT (2014).

Tom’s commercial track record includes the co-founding of Cowrie Financial Limited, in 2009, where he served as CEO and MD.

Responsible for Solution Development, Pre-Sales and Marketing, Helen has more than 25 years’ experience of Trading Technology in a wide variety of technical and functional roles and leadership positions. Helen has overseen major transformation projects, application development projects, greenfield implementations, and support services. She has experienced financial technology from multiple perspectives having worked within front office, within application technology teams, and for a major software vendor prior to joining Phi.

Snehal has 15 years experience in Auditing, Accounting and Taxation dealing with wide range of clients with turnover in excess of £25m. He is qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 2002 and is now a Fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

As the Chief of Staff, Daren is responsible for the alignment of performance to the company strategy, key transformation programs, executive reporting and the Company’s management system.  Daren is a Chartered Management Accountant with over 30 years of experience across a mix of senior financial and operational roles in organisations such as HJ Heinz, IBM and Finastra. Daren was previously Phi’s Chief Business Operations Officer.

As Chief Delivery Officer, Matthew is responsible for our global delivery organisation. With 30 years of experience and international leadership across the financial services industry, Matthew has held a range of senior global CIO and COO roles at institutions including Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole, Daiwa Capital Markets, and Lloyds Banking Group. At Luxoft, he played a key role in driving significant business growth, leading pre-sales and solutions delivery for the financial services business and helping to double the size of the business over five years. Most recently, Matthew has been consulting on banking and capital markets initiatives, leveraging his deep industry expertise to deliver impactful fintech solutions. He is passionate about fostering innovation, collaboration, and coaching, and excels at navigating complex client challenges to deliver strategic value with diverse, global teams.

Chris is a Chartered Accountant and has spent most of his executive career in private equity. During his 27 years at Baird Capital Partners Europe Limited he focused on investing in UK business service companies. He has subsequently developed a portfolio career and has sat on a number of private company boards as a Non-Executive Director or more frequently as Chairman as well as providing support for businesses and shareholders in M&A activities.

Paul has 35 years of international specialist staffing experience including in Software & Digital and Fintech. With 30 years at Board level, he has extensive international experience having launched ventures over 25 countries. Paul has been directly involved in over 20 successful M&A transactions and as founder and CEO he has built multiple mid-size specialist staffing companies and taken them through to exit or investment transactions.

Andrew has held senior leadership and executive positions at some of the world’s leading software businesses during a 30-year career in the software and software services sectors. As the EVP for Global Services at Finastra he led the company through its extremely successful transformation journey over a six-year period and now advises younger companies on their own transformation journeys.

Edouard joined Phi in July 2019 and has extensive professional experience in finance, particularly in Asset Management. Most recently, Ed has lead our Sophis division and oversees client implementations, migrations, and managed services and is CoE head for Casablanca.

Constantin, also known as Costy, joined Phi in February 2024. He is the head of Summit services and the CoE head for Bucharest. Costy is a Summit technical expert with more than 20 years of experience in capital market systems. He has vast experience in delivery management, process workflow, and people management and is meticulous about every aspect of his work.

Zsolt oversees our quantitative and technology delivery teams in Budapest, joining us from his previous position as COO and CTO of the AI consultancy DA Analytics. Zsolt spent 16 years at Morgan Stanley Budapest, developing credit and interest rate models, leading market modelling teams in the Fixed Income Division, and later serving as Head of Risk Analytics Budapest with responsibility for portfolio risk and capital models. He brings over 20 years’ experience managing risk and front office quant and technology teams across analytics, modelling and quant development.

Christoph has more than 25 years of IT experience and has worked in various positions mainly in Summit and Sophis. He is currently Head of Managed Services at Phi Partners and has worked in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Singapore, Japan and Nepal. He holds a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering and has recently obtained the ITIL Managing Professional certification.

Ivo has more than a decade in relevant technical and leadership positions providing architecture and engineering services for AWS transformation programmes. He is an AWS Ambassador with a proven track record helping financial institutions unlock scalability, cost efficiency and innovation.

Maroun is Phi’s Head of Murex. He has more than a decade of experience in capital markets technology, with a focus on Murex MX.3 implementation, integration, and front-to-back delivery for banking clients. Having started his career at Murex, he combines deep platform expertise with a strong understanding of capital markets products, trading workflows, and post-trade processes.

Based in Casablanca, Yassine leads Regnology & Moody’s Analytics services at Phi, overseeing the delivery of risk management solutions for financial institutions. With over 14 years of experience in banking and financial services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, he brings deep expertise in ALM, regulatory risk and enterprise risk management. Having begun his career at BNP Paribas and Société Générale in Paris, Yassine joined Phi after 10 years at Moody’s Analytics in both Paris and Dubai, where he delivered large-scale transformation programs.

Tariq is Phi’s Chief Revenue Officer for the Middle East and Africa, where he leads growth in the region. He has over 20 years of experience in financial services, working in sales and leadership roles at technology and consulting firms. He has spent 14 years in the Middle East and has worked at Moody’s, Oracle, DXC Technology and Ernst & Young in both the UK and the region.

Lee Pittaway joins the senior leadership team as Partner & Chief Revenue Officer for APAC, where he will lead regional growth and expansion initiatives across Asia-Pacific. With over two decades of experience in financial services, specialising in capital markets, Lee has held senior sales, revenue, and leadership positions across consulting and technology firms. He was previously a Partner at both Brickendon Consulting and Quanteam, where he led global teams and played a key role in scaling businesses, opening new regions across Europe and the Americas, and driving significant revenue growth. Lee brings deep expertise across front-office technology, trading systems, data, risk, and transformation programmes, with a strong track record of building high-performing teams and expanding market presence internationally.

Les is a highly experienced Technology Sales Director with over 25 years experience in Bluechip Financial Services organisations across multiple technology disciplines. He has established a strong commercial background as a leading capital markets expert within global markets and thrives on building deep relationships with executives across the Investement Banking and Trading community.

Harry has over 10 years experience working in the Trading Application space. After starting his career at Phi Partners, Harry worked for both First Derivatives and Capco.

Hailing from Milan, Tommaso has led numerous Sales and Research teams over the last decade.

Romain started his career as a Credit Risk Analyst working at BNP Paribas in London before joining Phi Partners in 2017 as a Researcher. He is currently Managing Director, in charge of sales for France, Benelux and French Speaking Africa. He holds a Master’s degree in Management as well as an MBA in Audit and Advisory which he obtained from Excelia Business School.

Joining Phi in 2021 as Head of IT, Paul has held a variety of leadership positions over 22+ years of experience across financial and government sectors in IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Support, Technical Project management, and Cyber and Information security services.

Vlad has 15 years of experience and is one of the first hires in the Romanian branch. He had a variety of strategic roles in Phi Partners mainly around Legal, Compliance & HR and is currently the Head of Legal & Compliance. He holds a degree in both Law & Psychology.

As the Commercial Director, Iain is responsible for advising the executive leadership and the board on business/legal risks and best practice in commercial contract management; and reviewing, drafting and negotiating client contract and tender documents for the sales team. Iain has degrees in economics and law and is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales. Over the past 25 years, he has held a variety of commercial, vendor management, legal and sales strategy roles in companies such as ParentPay, AIA, Nutanix and DXC/CSC.