FireDrake’s managing partners are experienced bankers and respected consultants to the financial services sector. Between them they have spent over 30 years working on transformation, change and strategy-focused projects for a number of banks in the City (UBS, Deutsche Bank, RBS, BNP Paribas, Barclays and Credit Suisse, to name a few). FireDrake’s consultants, a network of talented individuals, have broad experience across many other City financial and insurance institutions.
Karen Rudich is a strategic troubleshooter and change manager. She has a rare ability to drive projects using intelligent insight, tough talking and great sensitivity and empathy. Thanks to this unique set of qualities she has been bringing under-performing initiatives/teams back on track and delivering business growth plans for City clients for nearly 15 years...
Matthew is a versatile programme/project manager with a track record of delivering multi-million pound, global, enterprise-level projects in a variety of functional areas (Risk, IT, Finance, Infra). He has experience of large-scale projects across software (including greenfield) and infrastructure assignments. Matthew’s focus over the past 15 years has been on pragmatic value-add, utilising the latest technologies...
Denisse is a well-known Financial Crime Prevention specialist with 15 years experience in anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, and sanctions. She has worked in the areas of policy development, strategic advisory and risk management, setting up systems and controls in the investment and wholesale banking sector, and, in forensics, supporting investigations in both the public and private (legal and financial) sectors. She has gained extensive international experience and exposure to senior policy makers/heads of state while assessing global security threats for the Group of 7 (G7) and G20 Research Groups and regulators in the Americas...