Philip Crawford
Chairman

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.

John Wisbey
Chief Executive Officer

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.

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Chris Langridge
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

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.

Nick Davies
Chief Technology Officer

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.

Ian Peacock
Deputy Chairman

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.

Brian Crowe
Non-Executive Director

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).

Mike Shinya
Non-Executive Director

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.