The Lombard Risk Board of Directors consists of an outstanding
combination of some of the brightest and most experienced
executives in the financial and technology industries.
Together, they draw on several decades of experience to
advise and guide our executive team.
Non-executive Board Members
Philip Crawford, Chairman
Ian Peacock, Deputy Chairman (has announced plans to retire
by end 2010)
Brian Crowe
Mike Shinya
Executive Board Members
John Wisbey, CEO
Chris Langridge, COO and CFO
Nick Davies, CTO
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Philip Crawford joined the board of Lombard
Risk in 2010. He has been working in the IT Industry
since 1983. Philip has held a number of senior positions
in software, hardware and services companies including
senior vice president of Oracle Corporation with
membership of the executive board and Larry Ellison's
Strategy Council, President of EDS International
with responsibility for all markets outside the
US, Chief Executive of Bull UK and Executive Vice
President and head of EMEA for i2 Technologies.
Since retiring from full time employment in 2002,
Philip has concentrated on his non-executive director
portfolio, and acts as a 'business angel.' He is
currently the Chairman of a small number of companies
including Avanti Capital Plc and Crimsonwing Plc.
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John Wisbey is the CEO of Lombard Risk,
which he has led since its launch in 1989 with the
introduction of Oberon, one of the industry's original
software systems for financial instrument valuation
and risk management. John has guided the company's
organic growth through the creation and development
of several successful products, initially Oberon,
followed by ValuSpread a credit derivative data
service (sold to Fitch in 2005), Colline for collateral
management and most recently LISA for liquidity
risk management. In addition, John has been the
principal architect of the company's inorganic growth,
which includes the acquisitions of Open Image Systems
in 1994 (later floated on AIM as IDOX plc in 2000)
and STB Systems (now the core of Lombard Risk's
regulatory compliance business) in 2005. Today,
under John's leadership, Lombard Risk is an international
leader in collateralised trading, liquidity management
and regulatory compliance offering a wide range
of products and services to multi-national clients.
Prior to establishing Lombard Risk, John was Head
of Option Trading and a Director in the Swap Group
at Kleinwort Benson Limited. John acquired a broad
foundation in the world's financial markets and
developed specialisations in derivatives and banking
technology during his twelve years in the Treasury
Division and Banking Division at Kleinwort Benson
while based in London, Hong Kong and Singapore.
John was also past Chairman until 2005 of IDOX plc,
a former subsidiary of Lombard Risk and now a leading
company in UK e-government.
Read
John Wisbey's Blog
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Chris Langridge joined the board of Lombard
Risk in 2010. He is the company's COO and CFO. Chris
has been the CEO and CFO of several AIM listed companies
as well as private companies in Asia, the USA and
the UK, where he implemented robust financial controls
and reporting regimes with a strong focus on cash
management. Chris brings many years of experience
building strong management teams dedicated to delivering
success and profitability, who are confident and
outward facing and can therefore understand what
is happening in their market at all times. Chris
qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst and
Young. He has spent many years working in Hong Kong
and the USA. Most recently he worked with RCapital
as Chairman of several of their investee companies,
most notably Herald Electronics.
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Nick Davies joined the board of Lombard
Risk in 2010 having joined the firm in 2008 as the
group's CTO. As CTO, Nick has global responsibility
for Lombard Risk's technical vision as well as for
the delivery and quality of all software products.
At Lombard Risk Nick's achievements include providing
the architectural vision for the rearchitecture
of the Colline collateral management platform to
provide additional business resiliency and processing
capacity capabilities. These architecture and design
principles contributed to Colline winning its first
Tier-1 enterprise client in early 2009.
At JP Morgan he was the head of technology for three
global businesses; Globeclear, Collateral Management
and Global Trust. He oversaw the technical integration
of the Hedge Fund acquisitions into the Alternative
Investment group, and was responsible for several
high profile merger projects. He was responsible
for the technical teams that architected and implemented
the JP Morgan CommanD product servicing OTC Derivatives.
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Ian Peacock joined the board of Lombard
Risk in 2000. He is also the Chairman of Mothercare
plc, a consultant to the Board of the UK bank C.Hoare
& Co (founded in 1672), and Chairman of the Family
Mosaic Housing Association. Ian Peacock previously
held a number of other senior positions including
serving on the Barclays Bank Group Credit Committee,
and the Group Board of Kleinwort Benson Group plc
as well as Chairman of the Kleinwort Benson Credit
Committee. He was also Chairman of Galiform plc
from 2000-2006, a special advisor to the Bank of
England from 1998 - 2000, and was a non-executive
director of Norwich and Peterborough Building Society
until 2005. On 30th April 2010 it was announced
that Ian would be retiring from the board before
the end of 2010.
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Brian Crowe joined the board of Lombard
Risk in 2004 at the time of its IPO on AIM. He was
the Chief Executive of Global Banking & Markets
at the Royal Bank of Scotland plc ("RBS") until
October 2008. During his tenure at RBS, Brian Crowe
was a member of the Group ALCO, Credit and Investment
Committees of RBS and a member of the Group Executive
Management Committee. He was chairman of the Wholesale
Committee of the British Bankers Association from
2006 to 2008, and was a member of the Global Banking
Issues Committee of the European Banking Federation
(or Fédération Bancaire Européenne) from 2005 to
2008. He was also a member of the City of London
EU Strategy Group for 2007/8. Prior to joining RBS,
he was Head of Derivatives at Chase Manhattan Bank
in London. He is a former board member of the International
Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA).
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Mike Shinya joined the board of Lombard
Risk in 2010. Mike Shinya is the CEO of IBS Group
a Stockholm headquartered Business Applications
Software company operating in over 20 countries
globally. Prior to this position Mike was CEO at
Sherwood International and Chief Operating Officer
at Micro Focus plc (both publicly quoted UK software
companies). Mike has been in the IT industry for
over 30 years having served in senior positions
at IBM, Oracle and Baan Company.
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