Nic Merriman is the Head of Banking and Capital Markets for Europe, focusing on strategic leadership. He has over 25 years of experience in technology, consulting, and financial services, having worked for some of the UK’s largest and most innovative banks including Egg (the world’s first pure internet only bank), HBoS, and LBG where he held roles including the CTO for Retail Bank, CTO Wealth and International, and Chief Architect. Having started his financial services career at Microsoft, he has continued to deliver solutions that provide value to both customers, employees, and shareholders. Nic has extensive payments experience having worked with some of Europe’s leading payments organisations while consulting with AlixPartners. At Avanade, Nic is focused on helping customers realise the value from their investment in the Microsoft and wider technology ecosystem. He also focuses on Open Banking, Data, Customer and Employee experience through data driven, cloud-based, mobile strategies while supporting organisations in their transformation journey.

As part of Accenture’s Microsoft Business Group, Matt leads European market development for business applications in banking. In practice, this involves combining the best talent and technology across Accenture, Avanade, and Microsoft, to help clients develop a compelling vision for their business and to translate this into an actionable transformation plan. Matt has a special focus on customer and employee experience, where the Microsoft Cloud blurs the lines between structured processes, like sales and service, and less structured human workflows, such as collaboration and communication, to apply customer insight and intelligent automation in new ways.

Prior to Accenture, Matt spent 7 years at Microsoft as a specialist in business applications and responsible for the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement solutions in the UK and Western Europe Business Groups. This gives Matt real insight into the strengths of the Microsoft platform and how to partner with the organisation to achieve best results. Matt has also worked in Gartner’s Financial Services global accounts organisation as a client executive for one of the UKs largest banks, helping IT and business leaders to access and apply the firm’s technology research and advice.
 

Jenny Kalenderidis is the Managing Director for Dynamics in the UK, Microsoft’s Business Application solution set. She has extensive experience of running direct and channel sales operations and sits on the Microsoft Solutions Leadership team. She has subject experience in  enterprise and public sector business, with a demonstrable track record or delivering complex solutions within multi-national organizations.

Jenny has over 30 years’ experience in the IT industry and took over responsibility for managing the Dynamics business in August 2020.

Jenny has worked for leading tech companies such as Splunk where she ran their UK business, RSA, which was then the security division of EMC where she  ran the UK business and sat on the RSA EMEA and EMC UK Executive Management teams, and was on the Board of EMC’s Woman’s Leadership Forum. Jenny started her IT career at Spider Systems, a provider of networking technology. She has worked on numerous large-scale IT projects both at a pre and post sales levels.  

She did her studies in Business & Finance at Bristol Polytechnic and has a Masters Degree in Business Analysis from Lancaster University.
 

Ian leads UK Finance's operational and policy work on cybersecurity and third party risk management. In this role he engages with key industry stakeholders to develop and operationalise collective action initiatives on behalf of the financial sector, as well as responding to UK, European and Global policy consultations on behalf of UK Finance members.

Before joining UK Finance Ian worked within the Technology Risk leadership team at BNY Mellon and prior to that served for eight years as a British Army Officer.