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Neil Holloway

Founder

Neil Holloway has over 40 years’ experience in the insurance industry which has enabled M2 Recovery to create a forensic process to asset recovery. Neil has previously held CF1, CF3 and CF8 appointments, and is familiar with the FCA’s regulatory regime.

Lord (Henry) Bellingham 

Chairman   

Knighted in 2016, Henry served as MP for NW Norfolk up until 2019. In 2020 he was appointed to the House of Lords. Henry served as a Shadow Minister in numerous different posts between 2002–2010, including Shadow Minister for Small Businesses and Enterprise.

He was then appointed Foreign Office Minister for Africa, the UN and the Caribbean in the 2010 Coalition Government. Amongst other Parliamentary appointments, Henry chaired the Westminster Foundation for Democracy; and served on four different Select Committees, including the then Trade and Industry Committee. Since leaving the House of Commons, Henry has joined the boards of five companies, including M2 Recovery. The other four comprise two AIM-listed ones, 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.

Louise Abbott

Director 

Louise Abbott is a disputes solicitor with a distinct specialism in domestic and international civil fraud, cryptocurrency, and asset recovery. The cases she advises on involve tracing and recovering the proceeds of fraud on behalf of claimants. She has particular experience acting on cases where there are criminal, restraint, or regulatory proceedings running in parallel. Louise was previously head of Civil Fraud at a London law firm, and has a wealth of experience in major cryptocurrency cases. Many of the cases Louise works on are multi-jurisdictional and can be high-profile or sensitive investigations. She acts for leading global businesses, professional bodies and international organisations, as well as ultra-high-net-worth individuals and entrepreneurial businesses alike – and comes with a substantial client list. She has a 100% track record in crypto recoveries. 

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.