The thread running through the career is a rare dual perspective: 25+ years operating on both sides of the vendor relationship in complex regulated financial services environments.
"A commercially astute executive who bridges revenue growth, platform innovation, and operational rigour in regulated environments. Not a conventional C-suite hire. Someone who has operated on both sides of the market."
18 years inside HSBC Alternative Investments on the client side, partnering and building bespoke in-house technology, operations and data models across the alternatives ecosystem, while selecting, contracting, and overseeing the external vendors whose world he later joined. Then crossing to the vendor side at Backstop Solutions and ONYX Capital Group, building commercial operations and monetising proprietary data into external revenue streams. That dual perspective, understanding how institutional clients evaluate, procure, and retain vendors, is what informs the commercial and operational advice One Blackwater brings to regulated firms and their technology partners. Irish citizen, based in London, free to work across the EU.
