Consultants

founder & managing member

Iain Paine

Iain is an Operations and Transformational Change professional with 18yrs experience managing complex transactions and transformational programs across buy side and sell side firms in the finance industry.

Prior experience includes a large hedge fund where Iain was part of the Trading team that launched the a new fund, focusing on optimizing trading business process flows and aligning technology solutions to execute the strategy.

Iain was at Royal Bank of Scotland (fka Greenwich Capital Markets) for more than 12yrs, where he was most recently Managing Director and Head of Change Management for the Global Banking and Markets division in North America.  During his tenure Iain’s expertise included organizational design and implementation, deal diligence and post merger integration activities. Deals included the RBS Sempra joint venture and the ABN Amro merger. More recently Iain also led the delivery of the Dodd Frank regulatory mandates in the region, the AML/KYC response and large transformational programs across the US broker dealer platform.

Before RBS, Iain spent 3 years as a Vice President at JPMorgan focusing on the OTC derivatives middle office and process improvement. Iain is a member of the PMI, holds the PMP certification and has former experience with the PMI Global Executive Council.

Iain started his career as an Electronic Engineer, working for Racal Electronics in the UK designing hardware for military communications.

managing director

Franca Paravati

Franca is a Senior Change Leader and has ~25 years of experience in the banking industry.  Over the years she has worked across key businesses and support functions including Operations, Risk Management, Compliance and Technology in both a Production and Project management capacity.

Franca started her career with Credit Suisse into their Operations Management Training Program.  Subsequent to the program, she managed Foreign Exchange Operations both here and later at UBS in the same capacity with additional experience of integrating the newly formed entity of UBS and SBC while decommissioning the previous entities. 

Franca also worked as a consultant at The Capital Markets Consulting Company in New York with a competency in Market Operations and expanded her knowledge to include formal Project Management and Delivery.  Major assignments included STP assessments on systems, processes and data pathways associated with the firm’s trade lifecycle. Results were recommendations, costing for identified gaps, strategies for the prioritization of system fixes, and or enhancements and a roadmap for future projects.  Franca delivered Capco’s Cost and Profitability solution to a major financial institution with an emphasis on time-spent activity-based analysis. 

More recently, Franca was at Royal Bank of Scotland for over 10 years, as a Director in Change Management for the Global Banking and Markets division in North America.  She led Regulatory Control Projects and Programs such as Conduct Risk, Dodd Frank and Sanctions Filtering Quality Control Testing. Strategic projects included successfully integrated ABN North America business lines and low cost Service Center selection and opening.  Franca has extensive experience in all facets of the Project Management Office to support investment infrastructure as well as providing metrics, risks and issues for reporting key information to Senior Management.

PARTNER

Sara Paine

Sara is an healthcare professional with 18yrs experience managing a variety of nursing programs across the mid-west and north-east. A Registered Nurse with management experience in high throughput, critical care and out patient facilities.

Prior experience includes managing the Peter Krueger Clinic at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, working at Covenant House on rehabilitation/ongoing care and pediatric care at New York University.