People
Paul Coady
Founder & CEO
Paul has nearly 30 years of experience as a risk, compliance, anti-financial crime practitioner with particular focus on organisatonal and employee behaviour. He has held senior industry roles that include Business Ethics, Policies & Training Manager for AIB Bank, Global Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) for DBRS, Group Head of Compliance Policy & Learning for Barclays, and Global Head of Financial Crime Risk Education & Culture for Deutsche Bank.
Paul has worked in Dublin, London, and New York and led teams and regulatory transformation across the UK, US, EMEA, APAC and Africa. He is also an international speaker and thought leader and holds an MSc. in Education & Training Management from Dublin City University (DCU) and is a Licentiate of the Compliance Institute in Ireland (LCI).
Peter Kiernan
Senior Advisor & Consultant
Peter has an extensive legal, regulatory, and anti-financial crime career working in law enforcement, industry practice, and consultancy. His particular strengths include legal and regulatory interpretation, building anti-fraud and anti-financial crime programmes, financial crime investigations, and enforcement and remediation.
Peter has held senior roles as Principal Legal Officer with HM Inland Revenue, Deputy Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Senior Solicitor with Axiom, and Director at KPMG. He has also held roles supporting regulatory examination management at BNY Mellon and as the FCA approved Interim Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) at Pershing Securities.
Peter is a qualified Solicitor and holds an LLB in Law from the University of Westminster and an LLM in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).