Dr Andrea Moro is a senior advisor and a member of our Scientific Board, focusing on SME and corporate risk measures.  He is a member of the faculty at Cranfield School of Management in the Finance & Accounting area.  Andrea has published over 20 journal and practitioner articles on SME/small business finance, entrepreneur and credit risk subjects in leading journals, including the Journal of Banking & Finance as well as The European Accounting Review.  Before pursuing his academic pursuits, Andrea worked for 15 years as a senior financial advisor to SMEs, including financial planning, financial budgeting and cashflow management. Andrea also advises other start-ups in the Blockchain and Tech sectors, as well as insurers on CSR issues.

Dr Gabriele Sabato is a Senior Advisor and member of our Scientific Board with a special focus on risk management and risk governance. Gabriele helps Channel’s senior management fine tune his risk management process for credit risk-taking activities. Dr Sabato is a co-founder (with Dr Edward Altman) of Wiserfunding Ltd, a London FinTech that provides the Wiserfunding Z-score for global SMEs which is based on Dr Altman’s work of the past 50-years.  Dr Sabato has spent over 20-years before starting Wiserfunding in senior risk management roles across Europe for major banks and government agencies, as well as Experian. At RBS, he played a key role in driving new risk governance processes for the C-suite and the board of directors in the post financial crisis period.  Gabriele holds a PhD in Finance from University of Rome and was a visiting scholar at NYU Stern School of business.  He has published numerous studies on risk governance and risk management, including the most downloaded paper of the Journal of Banking & Finance.

Daouii Abouchere is a geopolitical analyst, Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum and Senior Advisor/Scientific Board Member to Channel. She focuses on thought-leadership issues, including ESG, sustainable and responsible finance, climate change and other issues facing our stakeholders.

Daouii holds a BA in Political Economy from the University of Toronto and is fluent in English, Arabic, French, and Dazagga (Nilo-Saharan Language). Conversational in Spanish.

Niv has extensive experience in FinTech and digital offerings for SME businesses. She served in a variety of digital related roles at TSB, HSBC (as MD and Head of Global Lending Product Management, Head of UK Lending), Barclays (Global Debt Products Director) and also Commercial Director at OakNorth as an Executive Committee Member and board level attendee at this SME focused challenger bank.

Niv will advise our teams in London and Amsterdam with respect to technology strategy, proposition development, and the timely adoption of new digital offerings.

Mark Redinger is our External General Counsel dealing with corporate matters as well as financings in Canada for the firm. Mark is a partner with Dickinson Wright in the Banking and M&A groups focusing on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, asset-based lending, derivatives and cross border international financings.  He has extensive experience in listings of firms securities in Canada, Ireland, and the UK. Mark advised the current senior management of Channel in its corporate and partnership matters for over 10-years and is a member of the Law Society of England & Wales.  Mark holds a BA Political Science and Comparative Politics from the University of Toronto, an LLB from Western Ontario, and an LLM from LSE (merit).

Dr Radic is a member of our Scientific Board and a senior advisor, focusing on investment returns and risk management.  He joined Cranfield University in 2018. Prior to joining Middlesex University, Nemanja held positions in Huddersfield University, London Metropolitan University and University of Rome III. He also held position as Visiting Research Fellow at Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic.

He received his PhD in Banking and Finance from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”‘, Italy.

Nemanja’s broad research interest include areas such as banking, corporate governance, industrial organization and emerging markets. His specialist area focuses on modelling efficiency and competition in financial services industry, shareholder value and risk management, and monetary policy. He is an author of several publications in top peer-reviewed Finance journals and he also serves as an ad-hoc referee of a number of journals in Finance, Economics, Econometrics and Statistics, and Operations Research and Management Science subject area. He is currently serving as the associate editor of Frontiers in Finance and Economics Journal.

Nemanja has also successfully attracted several research grants and presented his work at a number of highly rated international conferences. His work on the Investment Banking Efficiency and Shareholder Value Creation won the IFABS 2011 Best Young Researcher Award.

Noel has over 30 years of experience as a senior executive in global capital markets and is a senior advisor to our global fund management and debt products businesses. Noel served most recently as Director & Head of Insurance and Financial Services at the EBRD responsible for origination and execution of debt and equity financings across 36 countries, including trade related and asset-backed financings.  He also served as a managing director at Standard Chartered as Head of Asset Securitisation for the emerging markets of South America, Turkey, Middle East, Africa and South Asia and as managing director at Bank of America in various capacities, each with a focus on structured finance. Noel combines extra-ordinary product knowledge with extensive experience across all EMEA markets. He currently serves as an independent non-executive board member of Hayat Varlık Yönetim A.Ş., a Turkish asset management company based in Istanbul. He holds an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and a BA from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. 

Charles co-founded Channel in 2006. He was responsible for overseeing the structuring and execution of transitions and identification of new financing opportunities and served on its executive, management and credit committees through 2018. He was formerly Manageing Director and joint head of the global Credit Products Group at TD Securities, a unit of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. Charles also served on the TD Securities Trading Risk Committee. Charles holds a B. Comm. from University Alberta in Canada.

Ed is responsible for developing Channel’s working capital business with UK-based clients. Ed is a Chartered Accountant with over 20years’ experience with JP Morgan and Rabobank in various roles including Global Head, Telecoms & Media and CEO, Rabo FARM. In more recent years, he has been advising PE firms and working with growth-led UK SME’s in various roles as investor, Advisory Board Chair and commercial business development.

Jim has extensive experience of talent capital development matters across all sectors, but in particular financial services. He served in a variety of senior human resources positions at Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, RBS (as Managing Director and lead of their global resourcing function)  and Santander UK (as Managing Director leading their talent, learning and resourcing function) and consults on a wide range of reward, talent and culture projects across a variety of clients. Jim advises our CEO and senior management team on the development of our human capital strategy across culture, talent change, and reward activities, including attracting, motivating, and retaining key performers and future leaders.  He is also a member of our REMCO committee reporting to the board.