Interviews with Leaders in Fintech & Web3

Andrew Davis , Partner at Goodwin Procter and Oxford University Alumni, shares his thoughts on the future of fintech and gives invaluable career advice for any aspiring law graduate. The former Magic Circle graduate started his career at Allen & Overy, before departing for Taylor Wessing. Within just 14 years of graduating from Oxford University, with a degree in Law, Andrew made Partner at Ta...

Before joining Symphony, Craig Butterworth amassed over 15 years worth of experience within Fixed Income Sales at prestigious banks such as Goldman Sachs & Nomura. It was within his time at Nomura where Craig's fascination within Fintech began. Craig Butterworth is now the Global Head of Sales and Account Management at Symphony. Craig Butterworth is yet another interviewee who has demonst...

Over the past 14 years, Chris Scott, Senior Manager at TP ICAP gained various valuable experiences in product management of equities, derivatives and trading systems.  Throughout this period he has played a leading part of the electronification of financial markets and fintech. In this episode Chris Scott joins Matt Cheung and Helene Lipp as he shares his experience of starting off as a credit and...

Nirvana Farhadi, global influencer and RegTech pioneer discusses the future of finance, sharing her thoughts on technology and its best attempt to disrupt regulation and finance. Nirvana started her career on the trading floor, after graduating with a degree in Law. She quickly rose to strength realising her ability to spot where financial companies are exposed to compliance issues!  Nirvana emerg...

Before teaming up with founder of Work In Fintech, Matt Cheung at ipushpull, Neil Weatherall amassed 16 years worth of experience at prestigious banks such as NatWest Markets & RBC Capital Markets where he ran Inflation Trading. Throughout this period, Neil experienced how technology revolutionised the trading floor. Neil Weatherall is now Head of Technical Sales at ipushpull. Neil, alongside...

James Tromans discovered coding from a young age then later studied psychology at Oxford. Learning a combination of qualitative, quantitative and analytical thinking helped set up James for a career spanning start-ups, financial markets and big tech as well as earning a PhD in Computational Neuroscience of Vision.   Learn how having a technology background is not a prerequisite to work in fintech...

Lewis Tuff, VP of Engineering at Blockchain.com and a Business Insider ‘35 under 35’ shares career advice, thoughts on crypto, blockchain and what has made him successful.   The former UBS graduate and Goldman Sachs developer made his first move into fintech by being one of the first employees of fintech giant Revolut. There, Lewis pioneered the cryptocurrency feature in the payments app and scale...

Learn how Damian Sutcliffe went from developer to Partner and EMEA CIO at Goldman Sachs.   Damian shares his thoughts on fintech, ideas for start-ups and advice to those looking to excel in their careers in fintech, data and financial markets.   Damian started off life as a management consultant at Accenture and was seconded to Goldman Sachs. Damian liked Goldman so much that he moved to his forme...