Rupert has over 25 years of FinTech experience within both large organisations (Reuters and Instinet) and start-ups. He co-founded, built, and sold Expand Research, the leading Capital Markets benchmarking and research business to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 2011, before leaving to found The Disruption House in early 2015.

Dr Usha Back has over 10 years of experience in the financial sector and has worked internationally at the Capital Group Companies. Her role as an Investment Analyst involved analysing and investing in listed companies on behalf of institutional clients. She subsequently founded a strategic consulting company focused on the fintech and biotech sectors. Usha holds a PhD in Pharmacy from the UCL School of Pharmacy where she is also currently a guest lecturer.

Marcus has worked in investment banking for 25 years serving fund managers across geographies and asset classes in Asia and Europe. After 5 years leading Barclays Asia research content platform in HK, he transferred back to London to head up global thematic research product and spent the last 3 years working on pan sector sustainability and ESG-linked research. He joined TDH to develop the ESG Pathway, partnering with high growth seed and startup businesses to develop early ESG strategies where proportionality based on scale and maturity provides the optimal platform for workable ESG strategies benefitting companies and consumers over the long term.

A Leading Portfolio CFO & Finance Professional, Matthew will work with TDH’s senior Executive Team to scale the business, grow earnings and boost valuation. He works with several clients across the tech space with 30 years Start-Up, SME, Investment Banking and Hedge Fund experience (UBS & Caxton). He brings extensive financial experience from a vast range of corporate and financial sectors, geographies and risk profiles. Matthew has worked the spectrum from start up to Global Institution as a CEO, CFO, Trading Floor / Hedge Fund Investment Analyst and as a PwC qualified ACA.

Nick has worked education and IT and Database Management within Local Government. Over the past 15 years he has been directly involved with reporting of county and regional youth employment figures for Norfolk, managing IT networks and managing database development and customer success.

Over 30 years global experience in banking and the financial software sector. With a proven track record of driving growth Richard was CEO of Cashfac Technologies, EVP SmartStream Technologies and held senior positions at SunGard Capital Markets and Reuters.