Alex joined PIMFA in June 2017 as a Policy Adviser, where she works on a wide range of regulatory matters, engaging with policy makers and the regulator to promote members’ interests.

She previously worked for the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) in the same capacity. APFA merged with the Wealth Management Association (WMA) to form PIMFA.

Alex has a legal background, having studied law at Cambridge University and was called to the Bar in 1997. She was a tenant at Lamb Chambers, Temple where she specialised in personal injury claims, contractual disputes and professional negligence. Alex has experience of advisory, drafting and court work including appearances in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and county courts.

Since February 2019 Clive Gordon has been the Head of the Financial Crime Department within the FCA’s Specialist Directorate. From 2013 he was the Head of the Retail Investments Department which was responsible for supervising Financial Adviser firms, Platforms, SIPP Operators, Wealth Managers, Private Banks and Stockbrokers.

Prior to this Clive was Head of the Conduct Specialists Department which provided conduct specialist advice to the rest of the FSA’s Supervisory Division in the areas of firm culture, business strategy analysis and product governance. Before that he worked in the FSA’s Enforcement and Financial Crime Division.

An EU and Competition lawyer by background, Clive has also worked for the regulator Ofcom and in private practice in Brussels and London. He started his working life in Sydney, Australia.

Investigative journalist, author and broadcaster Geoff White is among the UK’s leading technology specialists, working for the BBC, Channel 4 News, The Sunday Times and many more. In a career spanning 20 years he has covered election hacking, the dark web, the personal data trade and the emergence of cybercrime as one of the primal threats to modern society.

His new book, The Lazarus Heist – From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War will be published by Penguin Random House on 9 June 2022, and is available to pre-order now on Amazon, Waterstones, and Bookshop.org (purchase via your local bookstore).

His first book, Crime Dot Com, was published in August 2020 by Reaktion Books. One of the key chapters was adapted by the BBC World Service into the hit 10-part podcast series The Lazarus Heist, co-created and co-hosted by Geoff, which immediately ranked number one in the UK Apple chart and within the top 7 in the US. Season 2 of the podcast will be out in late 2022.

He has written and presented two major podcast series for Audible. The Dark Web exposes the shadow internet created by the US military and now home to hackers, crooks and freedom fighters. It has been a top ten hit on the platform since its launch in 2017. Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe? reveals the origins of AI, and shows how the technology is seeping into everyday life.

Geoff’s own podcast series Cybercrime Investigations takes you inside the world of an investigative journalist, detailing the twists and turns as the story unfolds.

An experienced public speaker, he has given keynote talks at some of the UK’s largest tech events, in addition to hosting conferences and chairing panels at venues ranging from London’s Chatham House think-tank to the Latitude music festival.

He is also the co-creator of The Secret Life of Your Mobile Phone, a live, interactive phone hacking stage performance which shows how the global technology industry is harvesting the data leaking from your handset. The show was a sell–out hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017, and has been performed at music festivals, political conferences and for corporate clients.

As the technology correspondent for Channel 4 News, one of the UK’s leading daily news programmes, Geoff won multiple awards for his work on the Snowden leaks, the hacking of Britain’s largest ISP TalkTalk and his exposés of fraud in the internet dating industry. He was the creator of the programme’s Data Baby project, a unique experiment which used a fictional online persona to expose how personal data is used – and abused – online.

Matt Warman is the Conservative MP for Boston and Skegness. He was first elected as an MP in May 2015. Retaining the seat for the Conservatives with a majority of 4,336, he campaigned on a commitment to improve communication between Westminster and the electorate, and increasing investment in Lincolnshire’s roads, broadband and public services. In 2017 he was returned to Parliament with an increased majority of 16,572, and again in 2019 with a majority  of 25,621.

Prior to entering politics, Matt worked for the Daily Telegraph from 1999 until 2015, focusing for most of the period on technology, leading coverage of Facebook, Google and Apple, and covering the launch of products including iPhones, the BBC iPlayer and the Apple Watch, as well as interviewing key figures including the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web.

In the 2015-2017 Parliament, Matt was a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee, and Co-Chaired the All Party Parliamentary Group on Broadband and Digital Communication and Pictfor (The Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum).

In January 2018, Matt was appointed PPS to the Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, having previously served as her PPS in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from June 2017. Between April 2019 and July 2019 Matt served as an Assistant Government Whip, before being appointed as a minister in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport serving as the broadband infrastructure minister until 2021.

Matt’s mother-in-law worked for the RSPB at Freiston Shore and his father-in-law was a long-serving science teacher at Boston Grammar School. Matt and his wife Rachel have known and loved Lincolnshire for more than a decade and live between Boston and Skegness with their young daughter.

Alex has worked within Action Fraud and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) at City of London Police for 7 years as in both research and analytical posts. Areas of experience include high-volume frauds and serious and complex cases with particular focus on bogus investment and pension schemes. Most recently he has been posted to a projects role within the National Economic Crime Victim Care Unit (NECVCU).

Aimee is the Head of Compliance at OFSI, responsible for overseeing OFSI’s compliance enforcement cases. The Compliance team’s work includes investigating potential breaches self-reported by companies and individuals as well as proactive compliance work, and imposing monetary penalties for financial sanctions breaches when required.

Aimee previously worked as an investigator at the Ministry of Defence, the Charity Commission and the General Optical Council, and has also worked for an MP as a Parliamentary Assistant and Constituency Caseworker.

Martin has over 37 years Investigative and Intelligence experience in the Military, HM Customs & Excise National Investigation Service (NIS), National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and the NCA. After seven years in the Intelligence Corps joined HMC&E Investigation Division initially working on an operational Drugs target teams.

Other roles have, Deputy Head of East Branch NCIS, Head of Operations Interpol Bureau London, International Operational Security Advisor (OPSY) and Manager Professional Standards. These have included overseas postings as the UK Drugs Liaison Officer in Lisbon, Portugal and Operational Security Advisor in Afghanistan. Martin also spent four years in Lyon, France on attachment to Interpol as Assistant Director and later as Director responsible for Fugitives, Anti-kidnapping and extortion, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and Genocide.

Martin has completed a Graduate Certificate in applied management at the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM). Currently Senior Manager and Deputy Head of the UKFIU with responsibility for the Reporter Engagement Team (RET), SARs Exploitation Team (SET), Office and Risk Management Team (ORMT), Communications and Analysis Team and the Systems Team.

Maeve Walsh is an experienced policymaker and government relations expert who has worked in the UK Government and not-for-profit sector. During a 17-year career in Whitehall, she held senior roles in central Departments including Cabinet Office, No10, the Department of Health and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, where she led the team responsible for delivering the UK Digital Strategy. Since then, she has worked as a consultant with a variety of organisations on digital and data policy and has been a Carnegie Trust Associate for three years, working on their online harm reduction project. She is a Trustee at the Connection at St-Martins-in-the-Field, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has served as a parent governor at her children’s primary school.

Lee has worked at UK Finance, a trade association representing some 300 financial services firms, since 2018. He leads on UK Finance’s political and parliamentary work. Prior to this, he worked at the Institute of Physics where he advocated to Westminster and Whitehall for more spending on scientific research. He also spent three years as Senior Parliamentary Assistant to David Lidington MP, during which time he dealt with the impact of HS2 on the constituency. He holds degrees in both history and mathematics.

Brian leads Money and Mental Health’s communications and influencing work. He joined the organisation from the think tank Centre for Cities, where he was Head of Communications, and previously held a number of external affairs roles at the charity Rethink Mental Illness. Brian has also worked as a journalist for national and regional publications. 

Alex joined PIMFA in June 2017 as a Policy Adviser, where she works on a wide range of regulatory matters, engaging with policy makers and the regulator to promote members’ interests.

She previously worked for the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) in the same capacity. APFA merged with the Wealth Management Association (WMA) to form PIMFA.

Alex has a legal background, having studied law at Cambridge University and was called to the Bar in 1997. She was a tenant at Lamb Chambers, Temple where she specialised in personal injury claims, contractual disputes and professional negligence. Alex has experience of advisory, drafting and court work including appearances in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and county courts.

Nick leads Kroll’s Markets Practice and is an acknowledged expert on market regulation, market abuse and surveillance. He has provided training to numerous firms, industry participants and regulators across the world on market regulation.

Nick has overseen numerous markets-related regulatory assignments for both buy and sell-side clients since joining Duff & Phelps (rebranded as Kroll) in February 2016.

Prior to joining the firm, Nick was a Head of Department (HoD) in the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Markets Policy and International Division. He was the FCA’s Senior Markets Adviser and was responsible for leading the FCA’s MiFID II and MAR Policy Projects. Nick’s other FCA responsibilities also included sitting on senior-level committees such as the Policy Steering Committee and Markets Regulatory Committee, providing independent HoD challenge to FCA Supervisory assessments of firms and acting as a Settlement Decision Maker on FCA Enforcement cases.

Whilst at the FCA, Nick also worked for 3 years in the Enforcement Division, where he oversaw a team investigating a wide range of wholesale markets cases, both regulatory and criminal, against individuals and firms, including LIBOR manipulation cases, insider dealing, market manipulation and misleading statements by issuers.

Nick was responsible for the ongoing training of FCA Enforcement and Market Conduct personnel on markets-related matters.

Before joining the FCA, Nick was Head of Regulation at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for 9 years. At the LSE he had ultimate responsibility for the regulation and oversight of all the LSE’s markets, for the LSE’s compliance with FCA rules and its relationship with the FCA and other regulators. Nick’s responsibilities included real-time market surveillance, market abuse detection, development and enforcement of the LSE’s secondary and primary market rules, regulation of the AIM market and real-time market operations.

Whilst at the LSE, Nick was also international chair of the “Intermarket Surveillance Group” (ISG), an information and best practice-sharing group of senior surveillance practitioners from global exchanges, SROs and regulators. www.isgportal.org

Nick’s other areas of expertise include corporate fraud, regulatory investigations and financial crime, having spent six years with KPMG’s Forensic Accounting department and seven years as a senior officer in HM Customs & Excise’s National Investigation Service.

Rebecca is a Managing Director at Global Counsel, and leads the financial services practice. Rebecca has worked in both law and public policy advising financial services firms on global politics, policy and regulation. She previously served as Managing Director of corporate affairs for UK Finance, and as a member of the Executive Committee for the European Banking Federation. Prior to this, Rebecca worked as a solicitor advising investors and asset managers.

Alex joined PIMFA in June 2017 as a Policy Adviser, where she works on a wide range of regulatory matters, engaging with policy makers and the regulator to promote members’ interests.

She previously worked for the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) in the same capacity. APFA merged with the Wealth Management Association (WMA) to form PIMFA.

Alex has a legal background, having studied law at Cambridge University and was called to the Bar in 1997. She was a tenant at Lamb Chambers, Temple where she specialised in personal injury claims, contractual disputes and professional negligence. Alex has experience of advisory, drafting and court work including appearances in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and county courts.