Dan Hobden

Global Head of FP&A

David Adams

Regional Financials Lead

David Adams is a Regional Financials Lead at Workday, Working with organisations to set a vision and path on how cloud technology can support organisations throughout a transformation and beyond.

David is a certified chartered accountant and held senior finance roles in large global organisations including listed, partnership and PE backed organisations.  His roles range from the ownership of management and statutory reporting to leading large centralised transaction teams.  More recently  David led a European team through a design and deployment of Workday financials in a large global organisation as a customer, using Workdays cloud technology to enable a large-scale transformation including a move to a BPO operating model.

Michelle Hammersley

Finance Director

Michelle is a senior finance professional with 25 years’ experience in manufacturing and engineering businesses, specialising in finance transformation and change management. She has worked in the UK, US, Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany, and is currently the VP Transformation Finance for GKN Aerospace, a major global Tier 1 supplier.
Michelle is passionate about the power of diversity, inclusion and belonging (DIB) as a driver and agent for change. Her favourite saying is: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Nashwa Saleh

Associate Professor of Finance & Fintech

Nashwa has more than 20 years of experience across global EM with a special focus on EMEA, holding various senior policy, equity, debt and capital markets roles with a number of international organizations and regulatory bodies. Her track record spanned mandates with USAID, EBRD, AfDB, Central Bank of Egypt, S&P Global and KPMG Corporate Finance.

She has covered financial markets & institutions across a number of Global EM and frontier markets including: Brazil, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen and a number of Sub-Saharan African markets: Sudan, Ivory Coast, Togo, Uganda, Kenya, Botswana, and South Africa.

Nashwa was recipient of the Cass Business School bursary award and received her PhD degree from Cass in 2012, with her dissertation on Early Warning Signals for Financial Crises. She published a book in 2010 entitled An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis, Blowing Tumbleweed.

She is a Chevening Scholar, receiving her MSc in Finance from London Business School, and obtained her BA in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is a CFA charter holder, member of the UK CFA Society. She also holds a CFA certification in ESG Investing and is a Certified Company Director from the UK Institute of Directors (IoD ) and holds a number of roles including non-executive director & board member, chair of the audit committee at Sandah Microfinance (founded by KfW & AAIB).

Ash Chapman

CEO

Ash has spent 20 years of his Finance career in industry and Big 4 consulting focused on large-scale, technology enabled transformations.  As CEO for inlumi, a 220-person, pan-EMEA specialist Enterprise Performance Management services provider and OneStream Software Gold Partner, he is a believer in the benefits of next gen technology combined with a strong people and data agenda.  Three kids and a ‘lockdown created’ mountain bike hobby mean life is busy. Luckily, living in Zone 2 means the opportunities for downhill-fuelled danger are nicely limited!

Ditmir Xhaferi

VP, Financial Accounting, Reporting & Controls

Nick Jewell

Sr Director Product Marketing

Nick is an experienced technology evangelist with a strong Financial Services background who’s worked across Product Management, Product Marketing and Customer Success in recent years to share platform roadmaps, thought leadership content and clear Go-To-Market journeys with prospects, customers, industry analysts and the wider analytics community.

He’s spent the last seven months setting up an online upskilling platform for analytics. Nick loves working with sales to help close deals, working with marketing to develop awesome campaigns and working with product teams to help build bridges with customers!

Nick also holds a Ph.D in Information Science from the University of Sheffield, was recognised as one of Corinium’s Top 50 Innovators in Data and Analytics in 2019 and featured in #dataIQ’s_top 100 ‘Most Influential in Data’ lists in 2018, 2020 and 2021!

Suzanne Morsfield

Global Head of Accounting Solutions

Dr. Suzanne Morsfield is Lukka’s Global Head of Accounting Solutions. She brings more than 15 years of data-driven international corporate reporting and quantitative research experience to her role as a subject matter expert and thought leader in financial reporting for crypto. She gained a wide-range of industry and practical experience while at JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, EY, Thomson Reuters, Capco, Workiva, and Convex, among other companies. She also served as the Director of Research at Columbia Business School’s think tank, the Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis (CEASA).

After CEASA, Suzanne joined the IFRS Foundation, where she led projects on improving financial reporting standards. She has served on committees for both the FASB and the IFRS Foundation. When she left the IFRS Foundation, Suzanne was commissioned (with Alison Thomas) to conduct a study on investor use of audited corporate reporting information as part of the UK Report of the Independent Review into the Quality of and Effectiveness of Audit (2019, Sir Donald Brydon, CBE).

Suzanne’s academic lecturing and research experience includes contributions to London School of Economics, New York University, and other US universities. She holds a PhD from the University of Arizona and has won numerous teaching and research awards. In addition to her research, education, analysis, and policy/standard-setting experience, Suzanne has held operation roles as controller, accounting policies lead, and deputy CFO for global high-growth SaaS and insurance entities.

Phil Richards

CFO

Phil is currently CFO of Corero plc, the AIM listed DDoS Protection Specialists. As well as running the finance function, Phil is also Head of People and Legal for the organisation, which spans across the UK, Europe and US, providing market-leading DdoS protection for hundreds of customers worldwide.

Prior to joining Corero, Phil spent 6 years in a number of different roles at Kambi Group plc, the leading global independent sportsbook provider, with his last role being the Group SVP finance. Within this role, Phil spent 1 year in Philadelphia establishing the US office for Kambi, as well as oversight over the global finance function and all offices globally.

Phil qualified as an accountant with KPMG audit, living and working in Sweden, Germany and the UK for over 6 years before joining Royal Dutch Shell as a financial controller within their Holdings and Treasury team.

Away from work, Phil lives in Surrey with his wife and 3 small children which keep him busier than work ever could!