John Wilson

Current

Integration at RBS Global Banking & Markets
Founder at Mpaua

Past

Partner at Folio Partners
Programme Director at Henderson Global Investors
Main Board Director at Man Financial [now MF Global]

Programme Director at Insight Investment
Director & Co-owner at CityIQ
Consultant at Goldman Sachs
Programme Manager at Gartmore
Consultant at Baring Asset Management
Charted Accountant at Deloitte Haskins & Sells
Consultant at Williams de Broe

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Education

Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales
Loughborough University

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Industry

Capital Markets

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John Wilson’s Summary

John has worked within the capital markets environment both as a practitioner and consultant for over 17 years. He has held board level positions with major financial institutions and has been proud to have acted as an advisor to many of the industry's leading names. He ably fuses experience in markets, processes and technology to produce innovative solutions to business challenges and opportunities. A strong innovator and leader of change, John relishes the opportunity to problem solve and marry "technology solutions" with problems. His enthusiasm and keen entrepreneurial spirit generates momentum in any project or business setting.

Career Coverage
• Change Management – Leading the design and implementation of large-scale business process and technology change programmes
• Corporate Strategy - Strategic planning and business/product development in capital market firms
• Line management – functional, financial, risk, regulatory, commercial and general management roles
• Experience with buy-side, sell-side, custody, clearing and exchanges, able to offer broad and deep subject matter expertise of front, middle and back office from both a business and technology perspective
• Significant asset classes exposure to equities, bonds, ETD and OTC derivatives and FX/MM

John Wilson’s Specialties:

Derivatives, Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Treasury, Web 2.0 technologies, Workflow, Process Design, Integration methods and technologies, Large Programmes of change, Corporate Development, Change Management, Transformation, Programme Management, Operations, Trading, Clearing, Settlement, Process Automation, M&A due dilligence, post M&A integration

John Wilson’s Experience

Integration

RBS Global Banking & Markets

(Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Founder

Mpaua

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Capital Markets industry)

August 2005 — Present (4 years)

This business provides business and technology advice to capital markets firms. Its' domain expertise covers buy-side, exchanges, clearing & settlement, sell-side, custody and administration.
Partner

Folio Partners

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 2006 — 2008 (2 years)

• Folio Partners is a small VC firm that focuses on investing in and developing capital markets and financial technology businesses
• John conceived and developed three ventures for the firm, including a secondary market for hedge fund in underlying and synthetic forms. Identified the exploitable market opportunity and business model. Designed the trading and market data platform for which a prototype was developed under his direction. Designed the related clearing and settlement proposed structures as well as led discussions with regulators.
• Acting Chief Operating Officer for two ventures during their formative stages
• Evaluated over 30 candidate companies for investment, drawing on commercial, financial, product, market and technology experience
Programme Director

Henderson Global Investors

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Investment Management industry)

August 2005 — July 2006 (1 year)

Programme Director for large scale upgrade of systems and processes that, upon completion, would be capable of providing a scalable platform for handling derivatives instruments across the organisation. Range of instruments included swaps (interest rate, inflation, variance, total return, asset.....), cfds, options, swaptions, CDS, futures. The role encompassed business and technology team efforts, with strong emphasis on employing extensive derivatives, process and IT experience to drive the programme forward rapidly.
Main Board Director

Man Financial [now MF Global]

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

November 2003 — July 2005 (1 year 9 months)

• Headed strategy & business devt, which widened to include management responsibility for treasury dealing & operations. Daily book of US$2-4bn
• Selected and led implementation of new treasury system to manage/process daily cash flows of several billion dollars, across 30 currencies, to an aggressive timetable. Introduction resulted in significant speed, capacity, process & control improvements, + headcount savings
• Achieved $3.5m+ pa savings via bank tender plus considerable interest savings
• Key role in launch of a financial spread trading business
• Designed and led the rapid implementation of Man Securities Equity Research infrastructure for 30 analysts, enabling an acceleration of the business launch and related revenue stream
• Conceived a means by which CFDs could be traded and settled on global Exchanges alongside underlying equities, forming JV with London Stock Exchange and the London Clearing House
• Member of Global Credit and Global Finance Committees
Programme Director

Insight Investment

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Investment Management industry)

December 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 4 months)

John was engaged to design the client facing infrastructure of the newly created Insight including content management, data warehouse, client reporting, transfer agency and CRM, together with the related business process environment. Thereafter he led a team of 50 people engaged in implementing and integrating the systems chosen, alongside sizeable internal development efforts.

Subsequent to the completion of this, Insight bid for and successful acquired Rothschilds Asset Management, and John played a key role in the bid team working with the COO. His team also played a major role in the subsequent integration of the Rothschild business.

[CityIQ assignment]
Director & Co-owner

CityIQ

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

January 1993 — October 2003 (10 years 10 months)

• Mid-tier capital markets consultancy, with multi-million pound revenues, which serviced buy-side, sell-side, hedge funds, exchanges, clearers, third-party administrators and custodians
• Co-owner / CFO / Divisional Head, he contributed to substantial growth in business as Divisional Head enjoying regular repeat business
• Won and led many sizable assignments with prestigious clients such as Mellon, Goldman Sachs, Insight Investment, Citibank, Man Financial, Morley, BNP Securities Services, Kuwait Investment Office, UBS
Consultant

Goldman Sachs

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Capital Markets industry)

July 2001 — March 2002 (9 months)

John was seconded to Goldman Sachs to oversee the European Equity Connectivity business during a key transitional period for the area. He introduced measures to speed up the take-on of clients whilst co-leading initiatives to enhance client STP inconjunction with Middle Office Management.

At the conclusion of this interim role, John also advised the structured product teams in London and New York on process automation/collaboration opportunities to improve control and efficiency in deal flow.

[CityIQ assignment]
Programme Manager

Gartmore

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Investment Management industry)

September 1996 — September 1997 (1 year 1 month)

Upon the merger of Gartmore & Natwest Investment Management, the enlarged business urgently needed to unify on a common set of administration systems. John was engaged in the key leadership role as the Programme Manager heading this sizeable undertaking.

The programme was set a demanding timetable and set of objectives. It was determined that the in-house infrastructure of both companies was to be replaced with new third-party systems. In addition, new sets of business practices and processes had to be devised and implemented for the newly-merged functions. Likewise, over 100 system interfaces had to be built/re-developed and tested.

[CityIQ assignment]
Consultant

Baring Asset Management

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Investment Management industry)

March 1993 — January 1994 (11 months)

[CityIQ assignment]
Charted Accountant

Deloitte Haskins & Sells

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 1989 — January 1993 (3 years 5 months)
Consultant

Williams de Broe

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Capital Markets industry)

February 1992 — September 1992 (8 months)

John Wilson’s Education

Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales

ACA , Chartered Accountancy , September 1989 — June 1992
Loughborough University

BSc Hons , Economics with Accountancy , 1986 — 1989

Activities and Societies:

Loughborough Campus Radio [Presenter], Sailing & Windsurfing Club [Treasurer], Aeisec,

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John Wilson’s Interests:

Corporate interests: Capital markets, the application of technology, processes and problem solving Personal interests: Cricket - Member of MCC, Football - West Bromwich Albion lifetime fan