Our Team
Directors
Phil is a Director of Euston Securities Limited and an FCA-approved senior executive with extensive experience in financial markets, exchange operations, and regulated financial services.
Phil has held senior leadership and executive roles across investment firms, exchanges, and global financial institutions in the UK, Europe, Asia, and North America. His career includes senior positions at CME Group, HSBC, the Irish Stock Exchange, and multiple FCA-regulated firms, where he has been responsible for governance, operational oversight, regulatory compliance, and strategic development.
He has significant expertise in OTC and listed products, exchange-traded and off-exchange derivatives, FX and money markets, clearing and settlement, and post-trade infrastructure. Philip has led large-scale, multi-jurisdictional transformation programmes, including the delivery of global trading, clearing, and risk systems, and the implementation of regulatory change under MiFID I & II, EMIR, and Dodd-Frank.
Phil holds a BA (Hons) in Economics and Politics from the University of Kent and a Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Edinburgh Management School.
The Team
Richard graduated from King’s College London in 2006. He began his career in the City of London shortly after, working as a smaller companies analyst for a specialist research business which is now owned by entrepreneur Jim Mellon. Richard achieved the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification in 2012 and he is qualified to advise retail clients under the Retail Distribution Review.
Richard joined Crowd for Angels as Compliance Officer in 2015.
Kenrick is the Finance and Administration Officer at Crowd for Angels and holds a BA Honours degree in Business Management and Finance from University of Westminster. Kenrick was an intern at Ninetyten Limited. He interned at E.C. Capital analysing investments and subsequently become the assistant accountant at the company.
Anabel graduated from the Pontifical University of Ecuador with a Bachelors degree in Accounting and Auditory CPA. She also recently graduated in MSc Business with Financial Management at Northumbria University London. Anabel has previous experience in national and international companies in Ecuador in the areas of accounting, treasury and finance. She is keen to interact with internal and external stakeholders, combining her interest in alternative finance, languages and cultures.
Taniya holds two MSc degrees and is currently pursuing her PhD in International Business from Brunel University London. She has been actively involved in the funding industry since 2017, starting her career as an Events Manager organising investment centric events between Entrepreneurs and Investors. As a Brand Activation Manager, Taniya will use her creative style & passion to help entrepreneurs to market their campaigns effectively.
Advisors
John is the Commercial Director of a UK National Centre for commercialising new technologies based at Imperial College London. For several years John ran the UK's 'Emerging Technologies and Industries' programme and was tasked with taking new, disruptive technologies and promoting them to Government for supporting the industries of tomorrow. John owns Innovation Foundry Ltd.
Professor Wilson Ng, PhD, MBA, MA, CDipAF, FHEA is Professor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Studies at the University of Roehampton, London He is a former City investment banker who read Mathematics at Trinity College Cambridge on an open scholarship. He completed a doctorate in Management Studies (entrepreneurial family firms) at the Judge Business School.
Henry's career began at Bankers Trust in London working on the Fixed Income trading desk. He is a Director at Headstart Advisers Ltd. Prior to joining Headstart in 2002, He worked for Credit Suisse Asset Management in Sydney specialising in Futures and Fixed Income, having previously supported the top performing Fund Manager at Morgan Stanley. Before this, Henry worked at ANZ Emerging Market Fund Management (later renamed Ashmore).
Dr. Stylianos (Stelios) Kampakis is an expert data scientist, member of the Royal Statistical Society statistician, honorary research fellow at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and startup consultant living and working in London. A natural polymath, with degrees in Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Economics and a PhD in Computer Science he loves using his broad skillset to solve difficult problems - http://www.skampakis.com/