Elwood | Leadership

Meet our team

Our team is drawn from leading technology developers and the top-tier of global finance. A range of skills and experience brought together around Elwood Technologies’ single vision.

Chris Lawn

Chief Executive Officer

Chris has over 30 years of TradFi and Digital industry experience focusing on Trading, Portfolio and Risk Management. Before joining Elwood Technologies, he was the head of Coremont Digital and led the development of the Digital PMS. Chris has further experiences as part of the Principal Investment Team at Brevan Howard and Founder of BPG Enterprises.

Gagandeep Aujla

Chief Strategy Officer & General Counsel

Gagandeep has extensive experience advising leading financial institutions on corporate and finance matters, with a particular focus on FinTech. He previously worked at SIG Technologies, Brevan Howard, Clifford Chance, HSBC, UBS and Mayer Brown. Gagandeep is admitted to practise as a solicitor in England and Wales.

Michael Abib

Chief Product Officer

Michael joined Elwood at the start of 2023 as part of Elwood's acquisition of Coremont LLP's digital asset business. He was a key member of the Coremont team which built the digital asset Portfolio Management System acquired by Elwood. Prior to Coremont, he founded a crypto fintech, heading its product and engineering divisions. His career started as a quant, working for Citi, Credit Suisse, and Societe Generale.

Brad Carr

Chief Architect

Brad has extensive experience in software development and architecture, leading the team of engineers responsible for building out Elwood's platform. Prior to joining Elwood, Brad held various technology-based roles across JPMorgan, Rokos Capital, BNP Paribas and Barclays.

Richard Easton

Chief Revenue Officer

Richard has a proven track record in sales, marketing and partnerships. Prior to Elwood he worked at HSBC, Thomson Reuters, Finastra and various SaaS fintech companies. He holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

Gail Cox

Chief Compliance Officer

Gail has a proven track record of delivering internal controls, risk management and financial crime compliance globally for over 25 years. Working within international banks such as HSBC, Citibank, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America.

Chris Denbigh-White

Global Head of Cyber Security and IT

Chris brings over 14 years of expertise in the cyber security field. His extensive background includes serving as a CISO in the security software industry, holding leadership positions within Deutsche Bank's Office of the CISO, and contributing to cyber intelligence efforts for UK Counter Terrorism. Chris has played a key role in developing ISC2 CISSP exam materials and is a regular public speaker within the Information Security sector.

David Sportouch

Chief Quant/Risk Officer

David is Elwood's Chief Quant/Risk Officer, leading the team responsible for building proprietary quant models used within the Risk Management System and tools that assist clients with managing their risk. David has over 20 years of experience and joined from Coremont LLP, where he held a similar position.

Rebecca McGeachy

Global Head of People

Rebecca is a Global People & Development Leader with over twenty years of experience managing people operations across global teams. She brings HR excellence to Elwood through her history of driving day-to-day operational effectiveness, organisational development, and recruitment strategy.

Willy Maillard

Head of Operations

Willy joined Elwood in 2022 after the acquisition of Coremont Digital, where he contributed to the development of the digital business. He specialises in product integration and operational excellence, leveraging experience from his roles at leading international banks, including HSBC and J.P. Morgan.

Our Values

Passion

To achieve our growth potential, we need to have a passion for what we do and a hunger for success. We are passionate about performance. We are lifelong learners continually innovating to better serve our customers and improve out company.

Respect

We demonstrate a high regard for clients, partners, regulatory obligation, and the Elwood family. We achieve success by creating trusted and enduring relationships, where we each contribute our own unique and diverse skills as we work towards achieving our goals.

Teamwork

We foster an environment that encourages teamwork and collaboration in which the brightest minds in their respective fields can interchange ideas and strategies that help us grow. We need ot gail quickly, learn form mistakes, and celebrate out successes together as a team.

Tenacity

Building an industry-leading comapny and product does not happen overnight; it's thorugh continued hard work, persistence, and tenacity that we will truly succeed.

Trust & Transparency

Through a transparent oepn-door policy, we give out empliyees the freedom to create their best work and trust them to deliver outstanding results. We encourage and forster an open environment, where employees feel free to ask for and provide help to equally support each other.

Excellence

Excellence is a mindset. Elwood employees strive to be the best version of themselves and expect the same from others because second place isn't good enough. Our collective pursuit of excellence ensures we succeed as a team. 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Elwood Technologies is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of our culture, our reputation and our company’s achievements. 

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, colour, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Elwood Technologies’ diversity initiatives are applicable—but not limited—to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; transfers; social and recreational programmes; layoffs; terminations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:
Respectful communication and cooperation between all employees.  

Teamwork and employee participation, permitting the representation of all groups and employee perspectives.  
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Work/life balance through flexible work schedules to accommodate employees’ varying needs.  

Employer and employee contributions to the communities we serve to promote a greater understanding and respect for diversity.  

All employees of Elwood Technologies have a responsibility to treat others with dignity and respect at all times. Therefore, all employees are expected to exhibit conduct that reflects inclusion during work, functions on or off the worksite, and at all other company-sponsored and participative events. All employees must also attend and complete annual diversity awareness training to enhance their knowledge to fulfil this responsibility.

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Meet Our Leadership Team