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.  Other achievements include developing a trading operations team, responsible for day to day operations, business continuity, security, incident management and all post trade capabilities, involving the outsourcing of back office operations to a redundant, dual provider model.

Iain was at Royal Bank of Scotland (f/k/a 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 and subsequent integration of OTC derivatives businesses and operational processes.   More recently Iain also led the delivery of the Dodd Frank regulatory mandates in the region, the AML/KYC response to the Fed cease and desist order 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 Executive Council.

Iain started his career as an Electronic Engineer, working for Racal Electronics in the UK designing hardware for military communications. Iain graduated from the University of Warwick with a 1st Class Honors Degree in Electronic Engineering and obtained his Masters of Engineering from the same school.

Iain lives with his wife and three children in New Canaan, CT.