Lombard Risk’s management team comprises experts in their respective fields
Many members of Lombard Risk’s management team have senior backgrounds in banking and financial technology or have used risk management and regulatory software in previous roles, giving them first-hand knowledge of customer needs and desires.
These individuals’ skills and experience have been brought together to create a team that now has the ability to respond to and anticipate customer requirements. This gives considerable market advantage when competing for business and delivering to plan.
The management team is made up of functional, product and geographic heads, all of whom are measured on successful delivery of financial and non-financial key performance indicators
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 and Reporter MIS for management reporting. 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, and in late 2011 by the acquisition of SOFGEN’s regulatory reporting business which through the REG-Reporter product gave Lombard Risk a strong position in the North American regulatory reporting market. Today, under John’s leadership, Lombard Risk is an international leader in collateralised trading, liquidity analysis 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 a leading company in UK e-government.
Paul Tuson – Chief Financial Officer
Paul Tuson, chartered accountant with 20 years’ post-qualification experience in industry and commerce, including four at KPMG, joins Lombard Risk as Chief Financial Officer and has been appointed to the board of directors. He has previous CFO experience with three AIM-listed companies, executed two successful IPOs and recently acted as Finance Director for Aspire Technology Ltd that was successfully sold to Synnex Corporation.
Paul says “Having been interim CFO of Lombard Risk for 5 months, I was delighted to have been appointed as full time CFO at what I believe to be a key phase in the company’s development, and I look to the future with much optimism.”
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 re-architecture 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.
John Shield – Adviser to the CEO
John Shield has been involved with Lombard Risk since 1990, when he headed the highly successful OBERON sales team, since when he has held a range of senior roles within the Group in and around sales and senior level account management. Today John is heavily engaged in promoting all the Group products but in particular solutions for regulatory compliance and collateral management.
John has a banking background originally gained at Kleinwort Benson and three other major international banks spanning a career of some 25 years. John works closely with the CEO in all aspects of the Group’s business.
Sue Kent – Chief Administrative Officer
Sue Kent originally joined Lombard Risk in 1992 and rejoined in 2009. She is now Chief Administrative Officer responsible for contracts, HR and other operational aspects for the group.
Helen Nicol – Product Director, COLLINE
Helen Nicol joined Lombard Risk in 2006 after several years at Credit Suisse, working in the Listed Derivatives and Collateral departments. Helen has global product positioning and full P&L responsibility for COLLINE, Lombard Risk’s collateral management software product.
Helen has an Honours Degree in Law, is qualified as a solicitor from the College of Law in Guildford and a member of the London Law Society. Helen also serves as a committee member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA).
James Phillips – Director, Regulatory Strategy
James Philips has responsibility for Lombard Risk’s regulatory solution strategy.
He is an industry expert on regulatory issues monitoring them on a global, regional and country/regulator basis through frequent interaction with regulatory groups and financial institutions. As a result he fully understands financial services institutions’ operational procedures relating to internal and external monitoring and reporting demands.
Vincent Raniere – Managing Director, Head of Regulatory – Americas
Vincent Raniere joined Lombard Risk’s team in December 2011 as the Managing Director, Head of Regulatory – Americas, after a 35+ year career in the banking industry with specific expertise in accounting, management reporting, compliance and operations. Vincent is known both as a visionary and a business leader in the New York banking marketplace, particularly within the realm of the regulatory reporting industry.
He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Financial Managers Society and current Board Member of the BAFT-IFSA Board of Directors (Bankers’ Association for Finance and Trade and the International Financial Services Association). As a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), he is an active member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).
Immediately prior to joining Lombard Risk, Vincent was SOFGEN’s EVP, Global Head of Product Sales, responsible for expanding SOFGEN’s products worldwide. From 1989 until 2009, he was the President of U.S.-based IDOM, Inc., a provider of banking automation products with specific expertise in regulatory reporting. During his direct banking career, he was SVP and Controller at UBAF Arab American Bank.
Rebecca Bond – Group Marketing Director
Rebecca Bond (founder of Open Image Systems, acquired by Lombard Risk in 1994) re-joins Lombard risk from FRSGlobal where she was VP Marketing in a period of growth that culminated in the firm’s trade sale to Wolters Kluwer Financial Services in late 2010. Rebecca has successfully taken similar financial software firms through significant periods of expansion. Her experience in the financial services software marketplace includes periods in senior positions at Iris Financial, Asset Control and QUMAS. Her knowledge, particularly in the areas of risk and regulatory compliance, well equips her to manage corporate communications for the Lombard Risk group. She says “I’m delighted to be back at Lombard Risk. Our collateral management solution (COLLINE) greatly extends the regulatory reporting and stress testing offering already being enjoyed by Lombard Risk’s clients, and will be a big differentiator when it comes to firms selecting an integrated solution to manage operations to the level management and regulators are demanding to provide better oversight.”
William Tong – General Manager, Asia Pacific
William Tong is Lombard Risk’s General Manager in South East Asia responsible for Singapore and Hong Kong office operations. William has been with Lombard Risk for 13 years, and in that time has overseen many successful implementations for various regulatory projects as well as risk management systems around Asia including in Korea, Thailand, Japan and other important locations. William’s latest regulatory reporting project successes, including those locally in Singapore and elsewhere regionally include Sumitomo Trust, Rabobank, Sumitomo Mitsui, Morgan Stanley, etc.