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.

As Chief Operating Officer and Head of Delivery, Richard is responsible for all aspects of operational side of the business. He has over 25 years of experience, working on successful front-to-back implementations, system integrations large-scale change projects & the externalisation of risk calculations in a global bank. He has previously worked in investment banks, hedge funds and the treasury function within a retail bank, & with various business functions including Front Office, Market & Credit Risk, Product Control and Operations and has strong business knowledge of multiple asset classes including FX, Rates and Credit. He has also worked within and alongside the ‘Big 4’ consulting firms and specialist consulting firms as well as worked directly for financial institutions as part of their internal business or technology teams. He has lived and worked in the UK, Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia.

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

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 iand taken them through to exit or investment transactions.

Dirk has been working in banking IT since 1996, including for businesses such as Sal. Oppenheim, JP Morgan and West LB. He has in-depth experience as a project lead for large-scale transition projects and was the Chair of the German Summit user group from 2010-2013.

Ray runs Phi’s Summit line of business in the Americas. Before joining Phi, Ray spent 25 years at Finastra (formerly Misys and Summit) in various roles both in Asia and in the US. Ray was instrumental in building Finastra’s Summit practice in Asia, especially in China, Taiwan and Korea. Latterly, he was working with Summit customers in the Americas, Europe and Asia providing system advisory services with the objective of helping customers implement their business and technical strategies while getting maximum ROI from their Summit platform.

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.

As Head of Key Accounts at Phi, Jon focuses on service delivery for our E-Trading, Quant Services and Application Integration key client accounts and works on developing our strategy and technical & business expertise. Over the past 20+ years he has directed multiple teams and products, advising on major business programmes and leading business units of multiple developers, PMs and analysts.

Nikos joined Phi as the Head of Public Cloud Services and leads our Cloud Practice, developing our capability in providing Cloud advisory, project and managed services especially around our PaaS offering on Summit & Sophis. He is an IT industry veteran, with a career that spans the last 30 years, mostly in the Professional Services sector. The last 6 years he has focused in Public Cloud services and AWS.

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.

Justin has a track record of establishing IT consultancy services from scratch, from leadership positions across EMEA. Bilingual in French and English, he has specialised in consulting across software programming, data engineering and digital transformation within financial services. Justin enjoys cultivating a high-performance sales culture and thrives on building meaningful relationships with his clients. Within Phi, Justin is responsible for new business generation and driving sales growth.

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. He now drives Phi’s Summit Practice across the Americas.

Hailing from Milan, Tommaso has led numerous Sales and Research teams over the last decade. With a strong emphasis on operational efficiency, he now heads up Phi’s Sales and Research team.

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.

As the Global Head of Delivery Operations, Dragos is responsible for all operational activities involving our delivery teams and the clients they work for. Working for 15 years in the IT industry in large technology enterprises, he has gained a wide range expertise in presales, project management and delivery/delivery operations management. Based in Bucharest, Dragos joined Phi Partners in 2016 as a Delivery Manager and moved shortly afterwards into his current role of Head of Delivery Operations.

Irina began her career at Phi in 2021 as Global Learning & Development Manager. With over 18 years of experience as an ITIL certified engineer in IT services and training, she has worked with international teams to promote L&D culture and success across the entire organisation. She maintains her passion for learning and education and constantly aims to challenge the status quo in her work.

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.

Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT outsourcing and has been the Commercial Director at Phi Partners since July 2021. Before then, Matt held a variety of senior roles as an ITO sourcing advisor across industry verticals in Germany and the UK. More recently he lead the contracts and procurement team for a company specialising in providing hosting, connectivity and low-latency trading and market data services to global, tier 1 and tier 2 investment banks, brokers and hedge funds.

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.