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Rob Moore

Louise Abbott

Director 

Neil Holloway

Founder

Lord (Henry) Bellingham 

Chairman   

HENRY IS THE CHAIRMAN OF M2 RECOVERY, HAVING PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS THE CONSERVATIVE MP FOR NORTH WEST NORFOLK FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS BEFORE BEING APPOINTED TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS IN 2020.

Henry started his career as a barrister after graduating with a degree in law from Magdalene College, Oxford.

He was first elected to Parliament in 1983 as the Conservative MP for NorthWest Norfolk,a position he held until being defeated at the 1997 election. He won the seat back at the 2001 election, and was re-elected to the position at the 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2017 general elections.
Henry was appointed as a Shadow Minister forTrade and Industry in 2002, before becoming an Opposition Whip in 2005. He was also a Shadow Minister for the Department of Constitutional Affairs from 2006 until the 2020 general election.

It was at this time that he was appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the coalition government within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office covering Overseas Territories, Africa, United Nations, economic issues, conflict resolution and climate change.

In 2016, Henry was Knighted in the New Year Honours list for Parliamentary and Political Service and at the 2019 general election he stood down from parliament.Then in 2020 Henry was appointed to the House of Lords as a Conservative Life Peer.

Since leaving the House of Commons, Henry has joined the boards of five companies, including M2 Recovery.The other four comprise two AIM-listed entities, a property management company and a Fintech business.

Brent Williams

Advisor

J. Brent Williams is currently the founder, President and CEO of Euclidian Trust. He founded Euclidian Trust after boot-strapping his last entrepreneurial endeavour, Verato. Verato (originally called Araxid at founding) successfully delivered on highly precise cloud-based identity matching, linking, and their Universal MPI through a new approach to matching called Referential Matching. After having closed two rounds of venture funding (over $20M) from Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), Columbia Capital, and individual investors like Sanju Bansal (co-founder of MicroStrategy), Verato focused its matching products in the healthcare, public sector, and consumer space, and Brent sought to fulfil his entrepreneurial vision from his earliest work at Araxid while still supporting the great work that Verato does.

Brent’s entrepreneurial vision is founded upon the need for next generation business solutions powered by more accurate Big Data analysis and Artificial Intelligence/Artificial Intuition. This accuracy comes through increased assurance that the underlying data and attributes about people, companies, and events are associated with the right entity with extremely high accuracy. Current analytical efforts to offer better services and reduce fraud fall short, whether in healthcare, financial services, or public sector because traditional MDM and matching solutions leave a lot of good data on the cutting-room floor because of “false-negatives”, where we don’t link data that should be linked and therefore miss the end-to-end picture of the individual, company, or event.

With business solutions based upon this more precise and real-time analysis, we will experience quantum leaps in success in areas like precision healthcare, outcome-based medicine, identity fraud analytics, government benefits distribution, and transactional risk assessment. Historically, Brent has extensive experience in the identity integrity business including both entrepreneurial and executive leadership positions in the credit reporting arena, trust and continuous monitoring, predictive analytics, Big Data, identity authentication and proofing, telecommunications, globally-scaled high throughput systems, and as a nuclear submarine officer in the US Navy. 

Todd Wade

Advisor

Todd Wade is a chief information security officer. He has over 20 years’ experience working with cybersecurity and technology. He has led the information security departments for multiple financial services and technology organisations. He is passionate about championing cyber risk governance and empowering organisations to protect themselves against cyber criminals.

He is a graduate EMBA from the Trium Global programme (an alliance of HEC Paris, NYU Stern School of Business, and London School of Economics) and holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has worked with leading information security organisations like the Information Security Forum and Chartered Institute of Information Security. He is the author of Cybercrime: Protecting your business, your family and yourself.

Andrew Day

Solicitor

Andrew Day has been a qualified solicitor for 15 years, having trained at a city law firm and then ultimately becoming a partner and director of a boutique dispute resolution firm. He has been a key advisor to C-suite decision makers, in-house counsel and family office teams in the strategic control and direction of complex and sensitive disputes. Andrew was responsible for the creation and management of a disruptive collaboration model between the law firm and external experts. The aim was to supply asset tracking and recovery with an intelligence gathering capability, which was developed into a revenue generative service line and a spin-off consultancy. Andrew left the law firm in late 2018 and now works as a consultant to advisory businesses to bring the multi-disciplinary approach to niche areas of claims and advisory work. Andrew was engaged by M2 in early 2021 to help drive the development of client pipeline and products, and with the management of its asset recovery offerings. 

Julian Rogers-Coltman

Non-Executive Director

Julian started his career at GNI Ltd in 1982 where he spent 15 years working in and eventually running their Financial Futures division. In 2001, after the sale of the company to Old Mutual, he was appointed CEO of GNI, which employed over 450 staff globally at that time. In 2002, GNI was sold to Man Financial and in 2003 Julian left to become CEO of Fleming Capital Management, a hedge fund seeding platform established by Fleming Family and Partners, the largest multi-family office in the UK. FCM built AUM to c. $500m by 2008 in 4 equity long/short funds but in 2012, a strategic change of direction led to the business being closed and Julian became a consultant to FF&P Corporate Advisory Group. In 2015, following the merger of FF&P with Stonehage, Julian left to establish his own consultancy business, focussing on aiding smaller companies with their strategic direction and capital raising. In 2019, Julian joined London and Oxford Group as Chairman.

Daniel Schielder

Director

Hemant Patel

Director of Finance 

Hemant has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) since 1988. Hemant assists in the financial control, ensuring that financial, governance, and business decisions are compliant. Hemant looks after the marketing budgets, develops financial projections and plans to ensure the prudential requirement is met. 

CiRO Global Risks

Partner 

M2 Recovery has its own digital blockchain investigation tools, powered by CiRO Global Risks, to trace the flow of funds across 23 different blockchains, and 900,000+ types of crypto assets. The flow of funds, the attributed relationships and the assessment of the location of the crypto assets using proprietary methods drastically reduces investigation time. Our risk management process enables us to assess the risk of any previous suspicious activity related to a crypto asset, before engaging with a buyer or seller. Leveraging open- and closed-source blockchain attribution and machine-learning algorithms, our process assists the lawyers to de-anonymise transactions and obtain solid and admissible evidence on individuals involved in theft or money laundering, and other crimes.