MINERVA MANAGEMENT CONSULTING - Key Persons
Chris is our risk, compliance and financial crime management lead. His last role as Chief Risk Officer and Group Executive Director for an LSE listed asset manager, followed a career in investment management and asset servicing compliance, risk management, audit and treasury. For the last 6 years he has been utilising this experience to manage and deliver projects and consultancy services within investment management, wealth management and depositary businesses.
Mark has been working with Minerva since November 2015 working exclusively on an overseas distribution project. Prior to joining Minerva, Mark has been in the Financial Services for 30 years with 26 years in a sales environment both as an IFA and in Business Development for major life companies.
Throughout his career, Mark has developed solid relationships with various Distribution Channels and IFA Networks at director and board level and has an extensive understanding on how to bring a product to market. He has also designed and developed products for the retail market which includes designing and editing marketing literature and establishing launch campaigns.
Mark is a senior consultant and experienced project and operations specialist having worked on a number of projects to launch start-up organisations, together with change control projects for large private wealth managers. He recently engineered the operational process and procedures for a new High Net Worth Wealth Manager and has been worked on MiFID II implementations.
Matthew Low (Matt) has a very broad and detailed understanding of investment management operations within institutional and boutique/ hedge firms.
His career developed at two large asset management firms, from managing fund operations teams to large functional groups as part of the senior operations management team. From 2007-18, Matt independently ran operations at a boutique investment manager, that opened three offices and quadrupled personnel (including investment) to support asset growth from $2 to $16Bn. Matt was a member of the firms' management committee and central to the organisation's innovation, planning and execution.
Matt is familiar with multiple fund infrastructure types, fund restructuring, has been a UCITS Fund Director, and delivered regulatory projects. Matt has a wide network of industry peers, service / technology providers and has managed selection processes that deliver strategic change. Matt started working with Minerva and our clients in September 2018.
Mike Langdon has extensive knowledge and experience of the funds/Investment industry going back 46 years and most recently 25 years with a leading Investment Management firm. Over the years he has headed up Fund Operations, including legal and technical issues and for the last seven years he was Technical Director.
Mike has been involved in and responsible for numerous technical and operational activities, including fund launches/mergers/closures, OEIC conversions, fund acquisition from other managers, the outsourcing of operational activities and fund registrations outside the UK, as well as the implementation of the various relevant UCITS directives and managing large fund flows. Recently he was involved in MiFID II and GDPR and general interpretation of regulatory changes.
Mike has also been a member of numerous industry groups, particularly with the Investment Association. Most recently until March 2018, he was the chair of the Investment Funds Operations Committee. In April 2018 Mike joined Minerva to work with our clients, covering regulatory and technical issues.
Tony leads audit, risk and business continuity workstreams, bringing over 30 years Financial Services experience covering all Retail Banking products and channels including: Personal and Commercial lending; Branches - Management, Sales and Service; Call Centre Operations; Financial Crime and Fraud prevention and investigation; as well as Group functions, including Treasury Operations, Marketing and HR/Recruitment/Payroll. Prior to joining Minerva in 2016, for the last 15 years Tony had been Head of Internal Audit/Head of Risk Management in both the private and public sector.