RiskTech100 Speakers

Tyler Allen is the CEO of Unit21 and was the company’s first hire, writing some of the first lines of code seven years ago. He previously led Unit21’s AI team as Head of AI, then served as COO, before stepping into the CEO role. He is a driving force behind Unit21’s vision as the leader in AI risk infrastructure, having led the AI team before becoming COO. A deep technical leader, Tyler recently returned to the codebase to personally build AI agent configurations, pairing his technical expertise with seven years of experience observing how compliance teams operate.

Ashley Bostel is an expert in analytics, data science and technology for anti-financial crime. Since November 2021 he has been Head of Financial Crime Analytics at NatWest Group, a UK banking and financial services company that includes NatWest Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Ulster Bank, Coutts, Holt’s Military Banking, Lombard, and RBS International. Prior to joining NatWest Group Ashley was a Product Manager at Nasdaq Market Technology guiding the development of product offerings in the anti-financial crime space. Before working at Nasdaq, he was Vice President for Tuning and Optimization in Anti-Financial Crime at Deutsche Bank. Ashley has more than 20 years’ experience in the field of anti-financial crime and has worked in several banking, consultancy, and technology organizations in the UK and around the world including stints at Accenture and Oracle. Ashley was formerly an academic and was a Lecturer in Neural Systems at the University of Essex UK; he has also worked in analytical software development and deployment in telecoms, marketing, and e-business. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from King’s College London.

Sid is the Chief Researcher at Chartis Research with more than 25 years of experience in the financial, energy and commodities markets in various functions across the trade and software development lifecycles. He has held various roles in product development, trading, risk management, software development and consulting in banks, hedge funds, and risk advisory and software firms, including Standard Chartered Bank, TCG Group, HCL and Cognizant.

Sid’s specific areas of interest and research include risk data, model risk management, quantitative models in illiquid markets, high-performance analytics, energy and commodity trading risk, market structure design, new computational models, and the use of innovative mathematical methods in various emerging areas of risk management .He has a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and is a qualified Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst CAIA, Financial Risk Manager (FRM), Energy Risk Professional (ERP), Member of GARP and CIPM from the CFA institute.

Wai Ip is a Senior Quantitative Developer at Deutsche Bank. He is responsible for technological development in addition to spearheading the team’s artificial intelligence and data science research. Wai has over 11 years of industry experience across banking, advisory, and asset management with exposure in agentic framework, software development, research, model validation, and risk modelling. He has a Master of Statistics from the University of Hong Kong and a MSc in Mathematical Trading & Finance from Bayes Business School, London. Wai is currently pursuing a Master in Information and Data Science at University of California, Berkeley.

Kevin King Vice President, Credit Risk and Marketing Strategy Kevin King, senior director of credit risk strategy, has nearly 15 years of experience in alternative credit data and risk analytics, having served in a variety of strategic and leadership roles at LexisNexis Risk solutions, and formerly at ID Analytics. In each of these roles, King has focused on providing financial services and telecommunications companies with a more complete view into consumer credit worthiness, enabling enterprises to expand financial inclusion and refine lending decisions across every consumer segment. A driving force in the industry for credit thought leadership, he has authored numerous whitepapers on a range of topics spanning credit and identity risk and routinely speaks on these topics at industry events. King holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado.

Jamaria is a Managing Director at TowerBrook Capital Partners. She has a strong track record in value creation across a number of sectors and domains. Her expertise extends into the realm of AI, where she has advised and guided organisations towards effective selection, integration and utilisation of AI technologies. Previously, Jamaria served as an independent advisor to private equity firms and large multinationals, offering strategic insights and guidance on business building, business transformation, digital, data, technology and innovation. Prior to that, she held the position of Managing Partner at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s advisory and consulting services. Jamaria is a Non-Executive Director and the Chair of the Audit Committee at Tate Enterprises, the commercial arm of the Tate galleries. In addition, she is a trustee of the Rosetrees Trust, a charitable foundation that has supported cutting-edge medical research for over 30 years. She also serves on the Risk & Audit Committee of The Biochemical Society, a global community founded in 1911, representing the breadth of the molecular biosciences. Jamaria holds a B.Sc. in Business Information Technology and an M.Com. in International Business from the University of New South Wales in Australia. She is also a qualified accountant (ACCA).

Phil is the Research Principal for Chartis’ Financial Crime Risk Management pillar, focusing on anti-money laundering, anti-fraud, Know Your Customer, trade-based money laundering, trade surveillance and related areas. He is also one of the primary analysts on Chartis’ RiskTech100, has managed vendor-selection projects in international financial institutions, and has produced market analysis and return on investment projects, as well as leading Chartis’ Risk IT Expenditure report.

Sean comes to Chartis with 36 years of accumulated expertise and experience in the financial services industry. He has a strong record of innovation and leadership in anti-money laundering, OFAC/sanctions, compliance, operational risk management, financial risk management, data analytics and enterprise-wide risk assessment at top-tier financial institutions. 

A compliance and risk management leader throughout his career, he has worked at many leading institutions, including Ford Motor Credit, Deloitte & Touche, NetRisk, AIG, Financial Security Assurance, RVI Group, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Santander Bank and State Street Corporation.  Most recently, Sean was the Data Governance Officer for Compliance at Citigroup and the Research Director for Compliance, Fraud and Risk Management at IDC Research. 

Sean currently holds the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification and has held both the Series 7 Securities License and Series 63 Securities License during his career. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and a Master of Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.

As AVP Product Management, Ian Rudebusch helps guide the development of Nasdaq Verafin’s AML solutions, ensuring they support risk-based compliance, regulatory effectiveness, and operational efficiency. He brings more than a decade of hands-on financial institution experience, having previously served in senior BSA/AML leadership roles including BSA Officer at Independent Financial and Corporate BSA/AML Officer at Hilltop Holdings.

Having joined Chartis Research in April 2021, Anish’s focus is to lead and build out the offerings in the Core Banking & RegTech space. Anish has a unique skill set combining around two decades of Business -Technology experience within the Core Banking and RegTech software markets driving the Product Strategy, Partnerships, Business Solutions and Development. Before joining Chartis Research, he held senior level positions with market leading companies like AxiomSL (now Adenza), Temenos and Grant Thornton focusing in the domain of Core Banking, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Financial Accounting & Regulatory Reporting. Anish is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a certified Systems Auditor from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Anish’s areas of interest being in the RegTech, RiskTech, DataTech and Core Banking Software markets, his specialisation is to turn the regulatory requirements into catalysts to drive strategic business outcomes, sustainable cost reductions through automation, data driven business insights, building reusable and scalable data models and defining joint value propositions for an end-to-end product offering integrating with the third-party products and services.

Michael Versace has joined Chartis Research to lead governance, resilience and compliance research, bringing a decades-long career as a risk and cybersecurity practitioner and advisor to the company.

Before joining Chartis, Michael served as Global Analyst Relations Lead for risk and cyber markets at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he elevated PwC’s position as a leader in risk and cybersecurity solutions for the past 6 years. Prior to PwC, he served as Markets Lead for International Data Corporation (IDC)’s Worldwide Financial Services Risk Tech and Digital Consulting research.

Earlier in his career, Michael held the roles of Client Partner for ZEFER (an early-stage internet consultancy firm), Director of Corporate Audit for FMR Corp, Managing Director for the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC, now Bank Policy Institute), and Senior Communications Security Engineer for the Federal Reserve Banks, with multiple assignments to accelerate payment system innovation and engineer next-generation cryptographic solutions with the US Treasury Department, FMS.

Throughout his career, Michael has been an advocate for industry and technology standards. He served as a two-term Chairman of the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee on Information Security Standards, with a focus on public key cryptography, key management and cybersecurity policy.