Name | Position |
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Anurag Agrawal | Head of Emerging Technologies, Baillie Gifford |
Nicola Anderson | Chief Executive Officer, FinTech Scotland |
Sofie Blakstad (Chair) | Chief Executive Officer, Hive Online |
Barry Connolly | Managing Director of Everyday Banking, NatWest Group; and Chair of Scottish Financial Enterprise |
Jean Donnelly | Chief Operating Officer, Sandbox Banking |
William Dowson | Agent for Scotland, Bank of England |
Jessica James | Managing Director/Senior Quantitative Researcher, Commerzbank AG |
Joel Ko | Founder, Deepbase Ventures |
Kirsty Lieberthal | Customer Strategy, M&G PLC |
Jeff Lynn | Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Seedrs |
Nick McGruer | Head, Financial Conduct Authority (Devolved Nations Offices) |
Simon Thompson | Chief Executive, Chartered Banking Institute |
James Varga | Chief Executive Officer and Founder, DirectID; and Member of the Scottish Government Ministerial Trade Board |
The Centre benefits from advisory support from an eminent group of senior industry stakeholders constituted as the FinTech and Financial Services Industry Advisory Board by the Edinburgh Futures Institute. The Board membership includes thought leaders from multinational banks and asset managers, FinTech start-ups, financial services regulators, professional bodies and venture capitalists. The Board meets twice during each academic year to deliberate and offer constructive advice on the range of FinTech and financial services sector-related activities led by members of the Centre.