YIELD SEC - Key Persons


Alastair Graham - COO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • COO
Alastair is an early stage investor and senior creative director and producer with experience across advertising, production, streaming and broadcast. He has worked across documentaries, entertainment and advertising with diverse projects for partners including Amazon, BBC, British Airways, Coca-Cola, Honda and numerous betting, gaming and lottery brands.

Bret Sperling - CFO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Co - Founder
A seasoned financial professional and founder of Sperling Advisory LLC, a consultancy providing start-up and mid-market companies with leadership across M&A, cap raises and rapid growth. Prior to starting Sperling Advisory, Bret was a Principal at a large regional CPA firm.

David Pedley - Founder

Job Titles:
  • CLO
  • Co - Founder
As an attorney, David has been involved in securities and M&A transactions valued at over $1 billion. David has represented start-ups, tech companies, venture capital and debt funds, merchant banks, and one of the world's largest hedge funds. In legal practice, David's extensive experience covers Education, Marketing, Medical & Tech clients.

Ismail Vali - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
A leading gaming industry executive and marketing consultant for over 20 years with an academic background in Law, as a graduate of Brasenose College, Oxford University. Ismail combined these two defining experiences allowing him to lead the team that innovated the Yield Sec platform and ecosystem approach to serve all legal stakeholders and help them benefit from the removal of crime across the gambling marketplace.

Matt Zarb

Job Titles:
  • Cousin - Senior Advisor for Goverment & Regulatory Affairs
  • Director of Clean Up Gambling
Matt is the Director of Clean Up Gambling, a not-for-profit pressure group campaigning for reform of online gambling regulation in the United Kingdom, and is a co-founder of Gamban, a gambling cessation application for those suffering from issues with problem gambling.