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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, Vice Chairman of Cetelem and Deputy CEO at BNPP Ukraine.

Ron has 25 years in both private and public companies across technology, telco and financial services sectors.  In addition to his operating responsibilities, Ron has held the role of Chairman of the Board and Board Director at both STT and BT.

Previously, Ron was the Executive Vice President, Corporate Development at Singapore Technologies Telemedia (wholly owned Subsidiary of Temasek Holdings) and also was Chief Executive Officer of Leap (A STT Company).  Ron led the acquisition of 4 Managed Cloud Service Provider companies while running the new start-up Leap.

Ron spent 8 years at BT Plc (LON: BT.A) Global Services as Chief Executive Officer, Switzerland, Nordics, CEE & Russia and previously, Managing Director, ASEAN for BT in Singapore.

Prior to joining BT, Ron was an Operating Partner at a Canadian Merchant Bank, Laurence Capital Corp. that focused on emerging technologies.

Ron started his career at DPDHL before joining two transformational SaaS companies: Descartes (NSQ: DSGX) and i2 Technologies, now part of JDA software (NSQ:JDAS)