Matthew has been a private equity investor for over 20 years, and has focused on the financial services sector throughout his career. Before founding FSC in 2019, he was a Senior Partner and Head of UK & Europe at Atlas Merchant Capital, a financial services private equity firm.

Prior to Atlas, Matthew was a Partner & Managing Director responsible for European Private Equity for Cerberus Capital Management. Throughout his time at Atlas and Cerberus, he sat on numerous boards, investment committees, and credit committees of both regulated and unregulated entities, in the US and across Europe.

Matthew graduated from the University of Texas with a BBA in Finance, and holds a joint-MBA from Columbia University and London Business School. He started his career in investment banking at Bear Sterns in New York, before moving to LBO PE firm Madison Dearborn Partners in both Chicago and London.  One of the grandfathers of the industry whose first deal was FedEx in 1971.

Miroslav co-founded FSC following a distinguished career that’s seen him gain widespread recognition as one of Europe’s leading experts on financial services technologies. Prior to FSC, he was Group Head of Special Projects and Managing Partner of Home Credit Venture Capital. During his tenure, he founded and led the conglomerate’s corporate venture capital arm, with a focus on FinTech and enabling technology companies relevant to consumer finance and banking.

Prior to Home Credit International, Miroslav worked as the Managing Director at Craig Capital Corporation, First Deputy Chairman of BNP Paribas’ Ukrainian subsidiary and Chief Operating Officer at Alfa-Bank, the largest private sector bank in Russia, where he was responsible for the development and operations of its expansion into commercial and retail banking.

Miroslav holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard University and a degree in Computer Engineering from Brown University. Before moving into banking, he worked at IBM and McKinsey and Company, where he supported clients in the financial services, telecoms and IT sectors with their technology strategies.

Martin joined FSC with a 20-year career in the financial services industry behind him. He has held senior management roles in UniCredit Group, including a number of executive board positions, where he worked across Munich, London, Vienna and Moscow with a focus on growing and restructuring businesses.

Martin co-founded Ithuba Capital AG, a financial markets advisory and technology-enabled portfolio wind-down specialist. After a successful exit, he joined Oliver Wyman as a Partner for financial services to drive the transformation of financial services companies.

Martin graduated from the University of Santander, Spain, and has an MBA specialising in banking and insurance from the Karl Franzens University in Austria.

Michael joined FSC from Discover financial services, where he was the Head of Innovation, Business Technology. In this role, he led Discover’s Innovation effort, managing teams across AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Enhanced Authentication and Internet of Things.

Before joining Discover, Michael led principal investments and served as a Managing Member of Buffalo Jump Energy Corporation. He was the Chairman of Ignite Solar LLC and President/Chairman of the Houston Angel Network.

Michael graduated from the University of Texas with Master in Business Administration and Juris Doctorate degrees, and he holds a BSc in Mathematics from Georgetown University. He has worked in both investment banking and law, most notably with Credit Suisse First Boston and Fulbright & Jaworski LLP respectively.

Matt joined FSC with 12 years’ experience working in the financial services industry. He was formerly Head of Strategy at Panmure Gordon, a PE-owned boutique merchant bank, and before that spent several years in Oliver Wyman’s financial services practice.

Across his career he has been involved in numerous M&A processes, operational transformation programmes and regulatory focussed work.

He started his career at Belgrave Capital Management on the Hedge Fund investment team following graduation from the London School of Economics with a BSc Economics.

Ivan joined FSC in 2020 from HSBC where he oversaw the European banks credit research team. During his time at HSBC, he built a top ranked research practice as noted by various industry and investor surveys, including Euromoney Fixed Income Research Survey’s No. 1 ranking for four straight years from 2016-2019.

Prior to HSBC, Ivan held positions at BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley and Darby Private Equity. He earned his BBA from Southern Methodist University, majoring in Finance and his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Mehmet joined FSC following employment at AnaCap Financial Partners, where he worked on private equity investments in financial services businesses across Europe. Prior to that he worked in the Financial Institutions Group at RBC Capital Markets.

Mehmet started his career at PwC, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the Deals Advisory business.

He holds an Economics degree from the University of Exeter.

Before joining FSC, Kelly was an Investment Associate at the Real Estate Private Equity Fund and McCombs REIT Fund at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that, he was at CBRE, where he performed market analysis and recommended strategies for the Austin Office Tenant Representation group.

Kelly served in the United States Air Force as a fighter aircraft engineer, after joining in 2000. Kelly holds a BBA in Finance from Texas State University, and an MBA with Investment Management specialization from The University of Texas.

Michael joined FSC with experiences in technology and the financial services sector. Prior to FSC, Michael was Director of Programme Management at Willful, a group focusing on digital technologies including fintech, insurtech and risk management.

Previously, Michael was working in a family office focusing on portfolio management, and shipping-related projects.

Michael started his career in Finance at Aksia, a specialist research and portfolio advisory firm, and holds a BEng in Engineering with Management and Entrepreneurship (Distinction) from City University of London, and an MSc in Shipping, Trade, and Finance (Merit) from CASS Business School.

Anika has a decade of financial services experience, and has focussed on capital raising, investor relations, strategy and business development throughout her career.

Before joining FSC in 2020, she was Head of Investor Relations and Ecosystem Development Europe at Anthemis, a financial services venture capital firm.

Prior to Anthemis, Anika held senior level positions with YFM Equity Partners, where she was responsible for overseeing investor relations and fundraising; and the Tilney Group, where she drove business development, sales and marketing of the firm’s investment management business.

Anika started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in London.  Anika graduated from the University of Durham with a BA Combined Honours in Social Sciences.

Christopher brings over 25 years of experience in senior management infrastructure roles to FSC, joining the company from Panmure Gordon where he was the Chief Administrative Officer and an Executive Committee member.

Prior to this, Christopher was the Chief Commercial Officer at AON Insurance’s data and analytics business, where he led the development of new revenue streams, before moving on to lead AON’s insurtech strategy.

Before joining AON, Christopher was the Chief Administrative Office and a Member of the Executive Committee at LCH.Clearnet, where he played a pivotal role in launching and achieving the clearing house’s transformation from a fragmented IT and operations utility to the leading market infrastructure group. Christopher subsequently played a leading role in the sale of a majority stake in LCH.Clearnet to the London Stock Exchange Group.

Christopher holds a Bachelor of Laws from Reading University, and a Master’s in Law from Kings College London

A practicing solicitor since 1995, he started his City career in 1998, at Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc where he became Group Head of Employment and later Legal Director.

Felicia joined FSC from the practice of Denis John Carey, Notary Public, in Temple Chambers, London. There she liaised with numerous embassies and government bodies, whilst also working as a legal exam marker for institutions such as Fordham University. Prior to her university studies she was employed at Garden House School in Central London, teaching children aged 7 to 8 in a variety of core subjects.

Felicia holds a Law LLB from Queen Mary’s University of London, and recently passed the February 2020 New York State Bar examination for admission as a New York attorney later this year.

Ella began her career working at a human rights foundation where she liaised with various governmental organisations and charitable bodies, as well as further developing her passion for social impact investing.

She graduated from The University of Edinburgh in 2019 with a BSc in Chemistry.

Throughout her studies Ella spent her time holding various positions to encourage women and underrepresented groups to pursue STEM subjects and contributing to sports teams.

Michael has over 25 years of senior level Investment Banking and Capital Formation experience, most of which has been focused on Global Private Equity, and M&A.

Michael founded Fox Point Partners in 2009, a merchant bank focused on private direct investments and M&A, with a focus on financial services. Michael spent the last few years at Panmure Gordon where he ran Global Private Capital Solutions and led several financial services private equity deals.

Formerly, Michael held senior level positions at several major leading financial services Institutions including: Marsh & McClennan Companies (MMC), where he was Head of the Global TMT Practice and Industry Practices and a Member of the Senior Leadership Team; ING Barings as Head of Global TMT Investment Banking, and was on the European Management Committee and Global Investment Committee; and over 10 years as a MD in Investment Banking at Bear Stearns in both New York and London, where he was Group Head of several International Businesses.

Michael started his career at JP Morgan in the North American Corporate Banking Division. He received a BA from Boston College.

With over 25 years of experience in the banking and payments sector, Rodney has held senior leadership positions across multiple geographies. He has served as the CEO of Global Payments Europe, Home Credit US and B-Payment Group all focused on building card issuing and acquiring business. Rodney is a payment security and innovation thought leader having been elected to his fourth terms on the PCI Security Standards Council Board of Advisors, is a board member of the EPSM and corporate advisory roles for Bluefin Payments, Cambrist, Borgun and Barion. He was the EMEA Sales Director for Euronet Worldwide and the leader of Payment Card Operations at Raiffeisen International.

A bank lending and technology expert, Radoslaw has over 25 years’ experience in the banking and technology sector.

Among his senior positions, he was the CEO of EFL, the largest Polish leasing and factoring company belonging to Credit Agricole Group and the Deputy CEO at Ukrsibbank, 3rd largest Ukrainian bank belonging to BNP Paribas Group. Radoslaw gained an extensive international experience being expatriate in five West- and Central-European countries as well as being part of the head-office team supervising seven North African and Asian countries.

Matt Wallach is a co-founder of Veeva Systems [NYSE:VEEV], one of the world’s leading industry cloud companies with a market capitalization of over $40 billion. He served as its president until 2019 through the company’s IPO and growth to a $1 billion revenue run rate. With 20 years of experience in technology, Matt played a pivotal role in helping meet life sciences customers’ most pressing global requirements in developing and bringing products to market.

 

Prior to Veeva, Matt held leadership positions in product management, marketing, and business development at various healthcare technology companies. Earlier in his career, Matt was the general manager of the pharmaceuticals & biotechnology division at Siebel Systems, where he established the company as the market leader in multiple markets before its acquisition by Oracle.

 

Matt currently serves on the board of directors of Veeva Systems and HealthVerity, a privately held healthcare technology company. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of science in economics from Yale University. Matt currently resides in the Philadelphia area with his wife and three sons.

Jim Perry is a Senior Advisor and Investor of FSC. He is currently a Managing Director with the MDP Telecom, Media & Technology Services team. Prior to co-founding MDP, he was with First Chicago Venture Capital for eight years. Previously, he was with The First National Bank of Chicago.

 

Jim currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Asurion Corporation, Centennial Towers, Intermedia.net, Inc., Liquid Web, The Topps Company, Univision Communications, Chicago Public Media and NexGen Capital Partners. In addition, he is on the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, serves on the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of Chicago and is the Chairman of the Board of Empower Illinois.

 

Jim holds both an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.A. from University of Pennsylvania.

Joe Joined FSC as an Advisor after he retired from Discover Financial Services as Senior Vice President and a member of the Management Committee earlier this year. Joe ran Global Business Development for Discover, which included M&A, Global Partnerships, and Fin tech partnerships. As part of the M&A work, Joe oversaw the acquisition of the Pulse Debit business and Diners Club International transactions. He was also responsible for putting together Discover’s Net to Net partnerships, which included partnerships with ELO, RuPay, JCB and UnionPay.

 

Joe has served on numerous industry and philanthropic boards over the years and currently sits on the boards of a number of Fin tech companies. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business/Economics.