Transforming the banking industry’s approach to non-financial risk
Acin was developed in in order address the significant challenges of Operational Risk. These challenges included, the ever increasing complexity due to regulatory pressure, the continual emergence of new risk, the introduction of personal accountability regimes, inefficient risk management and many more. The Acin Terminal, launched in March 2020, is a Technology Solution to Identify, Manage, Benchmark and Analyse Operational Risk.
Acin is a market defining fintech company that is on a mission to make banks safer and transform the financial industry’s approach to non-financial risk, through the use of data. We are growing fast and in the last 12 months have delivered an award-winning cloud-based platform to enable our customers to make better risk decisions.
Acin’s customers are some of the leading financial organisations globally and we are delivering valuable outcomes to support their non-financial risk management.
Awards & Accreditations
Our innovation and industry impact has resulted a range of industry awards.
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Acin is a Finalist in the RegTech Initiative Award at the UK FinTech Awards 2020
Acin also makes the RegTech100 list
Acin wins Risk Management Product of the Year at the CIR Magazine Awards
Acin Terminal Rolled out to Clients
Meet The Team
Our team possess a wealth of industry experience and expertise to help clients understand and manage their non-financial risk.
Paul Ford - CEO
Paul is the Founder and CEO of Acin. An ambitious entrepreneur and leader, he saw an opportunity to leverage technology to digitise and network operational risk across organisations.
Paul has over 25 years of operational and financial services experience. Prior to Acin, Paul founded Anchura and grew it to be a highly successful consulting business, exiting in 2018. Previously, he was the Chief Operating Officer of the Ultra High Net Worth business at Barclays Wealth, and COO to the CEO in EMEA at Credit Suisse. Paul started his corporate career at Accenture and prior to that he was an Army Officer in the Royal Engineers.
Paul Ford
CEO
Philip Carr - COO
Phil leads day to day operations at Acin. He is tasked with scaling the global platform, human capital strategy and growth of the company.
Phil and has more than 25 years of financial markets and operational experience. He has held various senior COO and business management roles within Global Markets, Sales and Sales Trading and Equity Research businesses at Credit Suisse, JP Morgan and NatWest Markets. Phil has a strong track record of leading workforce strategy and transformation programmes and has significant experience operating at Board and Executive Committee level.
Philip Carr
COO
Graeme Wynn - CTO
Graeme leads Acin’s core technology and IT architecture. He has transformed risk management into a quantitative discipline powered by technology, artificial intelligence and data science.
Graeme has worked in financial services technology and innovation for over 20 years, with a variety of roles across process automation, platform architecture, product development and portfolio modelling. He joins from Schroders Investment Management, where he was Head of Enterprise Data Architecture and Process Automation.
Graeme Wynn
CTO
Ian Ewart - CMO and Sales
Ian is renowned for his expertise in leading product, marketing and client and commercial strategy for major financial organisations. He has the ability to anticipate and navigate shifting client needs and goals.
Ian is CMO and Sales at Acin and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors. He has more than 30 years of experience of working in top tier banks and asset management companies including Coutts, Bank of America, Barclays and HSBC leading product, marketing and client strategy. He has extensive experience operating at Board and Executive Committee level serving on Remuneration, Budget and Audit committees.
Ian Ewart
CMO and Sales
James Mackonochie- Head of Product
James leads Acin's product team. He sets the Acin product vision and strategy and how this is translated in to an award winning product for our customers.
James has over 13 years’ experience delivering complex technology products and programmes within both the B2C and B2B industry sectors. James was recently a Director of a Fintech business in the retail investment sector and prior to this spent 10 years as a Management Consultant at Deloitte.
James Mackonochie
Head of Product
Paul Norris- Head of Industry Data & Insight
Paul is the Head of Industry Data and Insight and is responsible for how Acin organise and develop data and transform it into value for clients in their respective industries.
Paul joined Acin after 21 years in the asset management industry as a Managing Director and the Senior Business Manager for the Investment Solutions business at UBS AM where he was responsible for the smooth running of all non-investment activity, projects and change. Prior to that he held roles as Chief Administrative Officer for GIS and Head of Logistics for the Equities business.
Paul Norris
Head of Industry Data & Insight
Rupal Patel - Data & Insight Director
Rupal Patel is one of Acin’s Data & Insight Directors specialising in Electronic Trading across Financial Services.
She has extensive experience at Tier 1 Banks with expertise in Front Office, Finance and Operational Risk and has successfully tackled topics ranging from Supervision to regulatory questions on the design and creation of risk frameworks. Rupal is passionate about NFRM and has the experience, understanding and sensitivity to leverage Acin to solve client challenges across all functions. Rupal is also leading the Acin Network’s “Women In Control” initiative aimed at developing further female leaders in the NFRM industry.
Rupal Patel
Data & Insight Director
Rocky Assante - Lead UI Developer
Rocky is the lead UI Developer in Technology. He is an integral part of the team, and has seen the Terminal develop from inception.
Rocky has over 15 years’ experience in various sectors including defence and public institutions. His skillset ranges from JAVA to JavaScript Frameworks as well understanding platform architecture, process automation and DevOps. Rocky also has 2.1 classification in Computer Science from Coventry University and also a co-founder of Metisx Platform.
Rocky Assante
Lead UI Developer
Rash Phullar- Head of Customer Success
Rash leads on customer success and account management, and has delivered significant customer acquisition and growth momentum for Acin.
Rash has over 20 years’ financial services experience. Previously Rash has held several Managing Director positions within RBS including Head of Strategy Implementation and Global Equities COO. Rash has also formerly held positions at Credit Suisse and Accenture.
Rash Phullar
Head of Customer Success
Peter Irvine - Head of Commercial Research & Insights
Peter has driven the development of the Acin product, delivery and customer success across significant financial services institutions.
Peter has 30 years’ experience of building, restructuring and leading financial services businesses with strong skills in product development, strategic planning, capital management, capital allocation and investment decisioning. He has held positions as Group Head of Capital & Financial Planning at Credit Suisse, CEO of Asian Equities at ABN Amro, RBS and CIMB, and has more recently built a successful property fund from scratch. Peter is a member of ICAEW. and a Chartered Accountant.
Peter Irvine
Head of Commercial Research & Insights
Gaspard Biosse Duplan- Head of Risk Insight
Gaspard is Acin’s Head of Risk Insights and is playing a leading role in the industry transformation to a network data-driven approach for NFRM.
He has extensive NFRM experience acquired across all lines of defence in Investment Banking and Risk Consulting with expertise in Front Office, Market Risk and Operational Risk. He has a particularly strong track record in risk management for trading businesses ranging from control platform optimisation and regulatory remediation through to successfully managing day-to-day risk and control environments. This has provided Gaspard considerable insight and knowledge of NFRM data therefore enabling him to play a key role in how Acin solve industry challenges through network data-driven insights. He has previously held the position of Head of Market Risk Controls & EMEA Head of Market Risk Regulatory liaison at Barclays. He is a thought-leader on the transformation of Operational Risk and lectures on this topic and contributes to leading publications and news outlets.
Gaspard Biosse Duplan
Head of Risk Insight
Paul Naples - Data & Insight Director
Paul Naples is one of Acin’s Data & Insight Directors specialising in data quality and innovation.
He has more than 20 years financial markets and NFRM experience, having worked at a range of Tier 1 banks. Paul has extensive experience in designing business processes and delivering change initiatives. Prior to this, he spent several years as a Senior Trader.
Paul Naples
Data & Insight Director
Jon Clare - Senior Account Executive
Jon leads Acin’s new sales and business development team. He identifies and qualifies new opportunities, matures new logo opportunities though the sales cycle and manages the overall sales pipeline.
Jon has extensive experience through-out the full sales cycle with over 25 years selling experience in technology and consulting propositions. Experience prior to his role at Acin includes, setting up and running the UK office of an international software business and leading sales and marketing for a financial crime specialist consultancy.
Jon Clare
Senior Account Executive
Robert Morton - Sales Account Executive
Robert is a member of Acin's sales team. He works to identify and work with Acin’s potential customers and partners to align the award winning Acin Solution with their unique challenges.
Robert’s experience is engaging with and delivering value to customers, with a focus on both relationship management and business development within the Capital Markets sector. Robert was recently within Dealogic, an Investment Banking Fintech, where he focussed on deepening new areas of business within Investment Banks as well as developing new revenue streams within the Asset Management and Wealth Management sectors.
Robert Morton
Sales Account Executive
Kieran Baker - Data Science Lead
Kieran is the Data Science lead at Acin, applying Statistics and Machine Learning to drive process automation and draw useful data insights, whilst championing a culture of data-driven decision making.
Having completed his Masters in Mathematics, Kieran is currently completing a PhD in Statistics at King's College London where he is a tutor and is researching elements of medical statistics. He has a variety of research interests including Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Signal Processing/Time Series Analysis and Experimental Design.
Kieran Baker
Data Science Lead
Helen O’Shea - Operations Manager
Helen joined the team in 2015 and ensures the successful continuance of business operations.
Helen provides support services across the business and is responsible for premises, operational systems, procurement and compliance.
Helen previously worked in both telecommunications and online gaming in sales & services functions.
Helen O’Shea
Operations Manager
Gaspard Biosse Duplan - Head of Technical Sales
Gaspard is the lead risk & control SME at Acin with 13 years’ experience spanning the 3 Lines of Defence in IB from FO Controls, to Market Risk (MR) Controls and Internal Audit, with a key focus on delivering regulatory change. Gaspard is passionate about enabling organisations to optimise their control frameworks, reduce controls proliferation and enable agile, data-driven risk management. He has held positions as Head of MR Controls & EMEA Head of MR Regulatory liaison at Barclays.
Gaspard Biosse Duplan
Head of Technical Sales
Mani GV - Head of Strategy
Mani is leading the evolution of the Acin platform. He has over 25 years’ experience in building global businesses within the assessments, benchmarking, information services, research & outsourcing sector. He has built global businesses from the ground up to $100m revenue, led M&A and managed complex programmes to integrate acquired businesses. Previously he was CEO of Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services and President of Global Research & Analytics at CRISIL (a Standard & Poor’s company).
Mani GV
Head of Strategy
Kerrie Evans - Chief Financial Officer
Kerrie is the Chief Financial Officer. After studying Economics at Nottingham University Kerrie trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, qualifying in 2002. Kerrie has experience across multiple sectors including FTSE companies and acted as Finance Director of an independent nightclub chain.
Kerrie Evans
Chief Financial Officer
Rash Phullar - Head of Account Management
Rash is Head of Account Management at Acin and has over 20 years’ financial services experience. Rash leads on client acquisition, client solutions and client management and has delivered significant growth momentum for Acin. Previously Rash has held several Managing Director positions within RBS including Head of Strategy Implementation and Global Equities COO. Rash has also formerly held positions at Credit Suisse and Accenture.
Rash Phullar
Head of Account Management
Our Advisors
Simon Ball - Senior Advisor
Simon Ball is a Senior Advisor to Acin, a Chartered Accountant, whose executive career included roles on the boards of 3i Group plc (CFO), Robert Fleming Group (CFO) and Kleinwort Benson Ltd (CFO & COO), in addition to serving with HMG Department of Constitutional Affairs (as Director General Finance). Simon is now a non-executive director of Morgan Stanley International, AIB Mortgage Bank, Commonwealth Games England and The Organising Committee for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, where he chairs the Board Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.
Simon Ball
Senior Advisor
Cris Conde - Senior Advisor
Cris has been actively involved with early stage companies for many years. Named by Institutional Investor as one of the top 40 Fintech investors globally, he currently serves as senior advisor to Accel Partners and nyca Partners. Cris is a senior member of the Partnership for NYC’s FinTech Innovation Lab and an Executive in Residence with Accenture at the London FinTech Innovation Lab and has an investment portfolio of 30 companies. Previously Cris spent 24 years at SunGard, over ten years as President and CEO and is a recognised leader in the field of risk management.
Cris Conde
Senior Advisor
Sally Clark - Senior Advisor
Advisor Sally is the former Chief Internal Auditor for Barclays. Sally joined Barclays in September 2012 from RBS where she was Head of Operational Risk, Global Banking and Markets. At RBS, Sally held audit roles in Wealth and Corporate Markets and headed up Audit Strategy, Operations and Development. Prior to RBS Sally spent 18 years at JP MorganChase as Audit Partner and Co-Head of Investment Banking Audit for EMEA. Sally has a track record of success in developing and executing strategy, driving operational excellence and audit delivery. Sally is also a Non-Executive Director at Metro Bank.
Sally Clark
Senior Advisor
John Kosobucki - Senior Advisor
John is a business leader with over 30 years' experience in financial services, focused on solution provision within capital markets trading and risk management. During his time at SunGard he drove the transition from traditional in-house applications to SaaS offering. John is a trusted partner that "does what he says he will do". He has experience of both business improvement and led turnaround situations. As an executive sponsor, he builds trust and confidence with C-level executives to achieve better outcomes.
John Kosobucki
Senior Advisor
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