Leadership

We are passionate about building technology that promotes efficiency and protects against risk, so you can focus on higher-value work.

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Omar Quraishi
CEO
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Martin Brown
Chairman
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Ben Rapp
Board Member
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James Holland
CFO
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Omar Quraishi

Omar has spent over a decade working across the financial services sector in a career spanning financial engineering and business operations at companies including PIMCO, Interactive Data (subsequently acquired by ICE Data Services), and Bloomberg. He possesses a broad spectrum of entrepreneurial, technological, and commercial experience acquired through his involvement in operating and investing in several start-ups. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Management from the University of Manchester, a Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF), and is a graduate of the Executive MBA program at London Business School.

Martin Brown

Martin Brown has extensive experience in the successful transformation and growth of businesses in software and IT infrastructure ranging from $5m to $250m in turnover. Martin has held senior leadership positions at ChangeBase, Symantec and Sun Microsystems and has experience as a chairman and non-executive in the early stage software arena.

Ben Rapp

Ben is the co-founder of Securys. As Principal, he leads client engagements across the UK and internationally across a number of sectors. He was formerly founder and CEO of Managed Networks, a leading UK managed services provider. He exited that business in 2018 in a trade sale. Ben has also held a number of non-executive roles, including serving on the boards of TechUk and the BCS. Ben is a CISSP-ISSMP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, FIP and CIPP/M, IAPP Fellow in International Privacy, BCS Fellow and a Chartered IT Professional.

James Holland

James is a portfolio CFO specialising in high growth SaaS businesses from Seed to Exit. Since commencing his business 10 years ago, James has helped lead multiple companies navigate the challenges of building businesses that are equally attractive to investors as they are to potential buyers. Whilst he majors on fund raising and all things finance, he typically takes a leading role in commercial strategy, HR and legal. Prior to this James garnered his experience from executive roles with the Huntsworth Group (Global CFO), The Interpublic Group (COO Asia Pacific and Africa) and PwC Corporate Finance over an international career spanning the US, Asia Pacific, Africa and Europe.

Shailesh Shah

Shailesh has over thirty years’ experience in Global Financial Services, recently retiring as Chief Risk Officer, Wealth Management at UBS. Shailesh is a business focused Risk Executive with a proven track record in effectively assessing risk-return opportunities and delivering bottom line growth. Risk Expertise, including broad regulatory understanding and engagement, coupled with business experience enabling effective partnerships with business leaders and proven ability to build consensus across multiple disciplines. Success in establishing de novo operations as well as in turnaround situations, organizational transformations and in establishing new holistic risk approach and frameworks. Prior experience including UBS, JP Morgan, General Electric and State Street Corporation in London, New York and Zurich. Shailesh holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Mathematical Physics from University of Liverpool and a PH.D. Degree in Theoretical Physics from University of Leeds.

Dan Eccleston

An entrepreneur in technology & financial markets, prior to founding ipushpull Dan built the Eccoware electronic trading software business delivering the first off-the-shelf arbitrage platform for electronic markets. Dan also runs a derivatives trading company and advises a number of startups. Dan holds a Masters Degree in Operational Research and Business Management from Lancaster University Business School and the University of Rome, and an Honours degree in Electronic Engineering from UCL.

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We harness advice from seasoned professionals who deeply understand the inner workings of the problems we tackle and the industries we serve.

Shailesh Shah
Shailesh Shah
Adviser
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Dan Eccleston
Dan Eccleston
Adviser
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OUR INVESTORS

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Alteryx Ventures

Invests in companies with innovative technology and services that complement Alteryx’s analytics and data science products and encourage innovation within the analytics ecosystem. Alteryx’s vision is to enable every person to achieve breakthrough outcomes from data through analytics automation, data science, and unprecedented ease of use.

The UK’s most active early-stage investment firm.
The UK’s largest  pre-seed stage investment fund.
Early-stage European technology investor.
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