People

Nicole is a venture builder, investment (corporate venture, VC, family office and ICO) advisor. As a multiple time technology entrepreneur (CEO & Founder) and an innovation thought leader, Nicole is also active in the London and European start-up acceleration, incubation and growth arena working as an advisor and mentor. She was voted one of top 100 Women in FinTech 2016 by Innovate Finance and included in the Power Women of FinTech 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Jacqueline is President of techUk and is renowned in the technology sector for her forward thinking, industry leading approach. She has a wealth of experience advising companies and institutions across a range of sectors. Most notably she sits on the board of directors at Costain plc, Rightmove plc and AO World plc and she serves on the UK government’s Digital Economy Council and is the co-chair at the Institute of Coding. Prior to these roles, Jacqueline held senior positions at large enterprise software businesses Citrix, CA Technologies, McAfee, and Ascential Software.

Gerald has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, most recently as a Managing Director, Global Equity Sales at Deutsche Bank. Prior to embarking on his non-executive career, he completed an MSc in Finance and Development at SOAS. Gerald is also a Board Trustee of the Brandon Trust which supports people with learning disabilities.

Mike is an experienced board advisor, venture capital investor and start-founder of Inogesis, a platform intelligently connecting innovators and blue-chip organisations like Lockheed Martin, Leidos, Unilever, GSK, and Dell EMC) to deliver outstanding innovation through collaboration.  Prior to co-founding Inogesis Mike was Managing Partner of Restoration Partners working with visionary entrepreneurs including Mel Morris (Prevxx and King.com).  He spent over a decade in the venture capital industry with 3i plc, YFM Group, Electra and Acuity Capital.  Mike spent the first decade of his career in the consumer sector with Unilever, Marks and Spencer and Harrods Limited.

Simon is a leading advocate for the role technology can play in shaping the future finance organisation, particularly in helping companies take better decisions using their data assets. He has been CEO of Metapraxis since 2012 after joining the business in 2010 and has previous experience in the technology and services sector with Xchanging plc. Simon also serves on the global governing body of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Outside the office he enjoys travelling, Twickenham and White Hart Lane.

Carmen brings a wealth of experience in technology and finance from working with different size business from start-ups to global corporations across various sectors and focuses including fintech, commercial banking and applied machine learning. She believes innovation is key to success and provides mentoring to business founders labs and accelerators. Outside the office, she enjoys cycling and meditation.

John is responsible for the MPX platform strategy, research and development and the provision of our cloud services. At Metapraxis since 2011, he brings with him extensive technology experience from Accenture and Xchanging across a variety of sectors including insurance, investment banking, energy and utilities. John has two children, is an avid rugby fan, and a highly skilled table football competitor.