I am currently a Senior Policy Advisor in the Asset Finance Division at the Finance and Leasing Association. I have played an intergalactic part in fraud prevention strategy during my time in the Motor Industry and continuously find innovate solution for an ever growing threat. 

I review Compliance and Complaints for numerous businesses in the finance industry as well as producing guidance and toolkits to deal with the every changing financial landscape.

Before joining Allica, Richard was group COO at digital bank Revolut.

Prior to that he was CEO of OakNorth and held leadership roles at TSB and HSBC.

Christian is the CEO of Finativ and an experienced executive, specialising in asset finance.

With an extensive career in financial services, Christian has established himself as a respected leader in the sector, combining deep corporate finance and M&A expertise with hands-on business management experience.

As a Chartered Accountant, he brings analytical rigour and strategic insight to every engagement, whether advising on complex transactions or delivering strategic transformation.

David Betteley started his career in Financial Services as a graduate trainee with Lloyds and Scottish Finance (part of the Lloyds Bank Group) in Manchester in the late 70’s. In 1989 he joined the International Motors Group (IM) to set up their in-house Finance Company in the UK to support the Hyundai and Subaru brands. Staying with IM, he moved to Sweden in 1992 to run the vehicle distribution operations for IM in Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic states.

In 1996 he moved back to the UK to become MD of Vauxhall Finance and successfully managed the transition from 7 branches to one central location. In 1998 he was recruited by Toyota to insource their Financial Services operations in the UK. He went on to become a Senior Vice President when he had the responsibility for overall operations, sales and marketing and the development of new markets for both Toyota and Lexus in the Europe and Africa region.

During this 12 year period at Toyota he also served as a Pension Trusteee which gives him good experience to serve in a similar capacity at JLR. In 2010 David joined Jaguar Land Rover as Global Financial Services Director, retiring in July 2017. David now works as an independent advisor to Genpact Ltd and other companies. His main non-executive role has been as Chairman of the Finance and Leasing Association in the UK during the period May 2007 to May 2010.

David holds an MBA from Aston Business School Outside work his time is mainly devoted to his family. However he enjoys the occasional game of golf and still follows closely the fortunes of Manchester City.

Wayne leads the automotive finance practice for Shoosmiths.

Prior to joining Shoosmiths, Wayne spent 25 years working in-house in senior and executive roles at international, blue chip financial services and automotive businesses including: Volkswagen Financial Services; GMAC; NatWest (including Lombard and Invoice Finance), Cisco and Santander Consumer UK.

Wayne has extensive experience of scoping, leading and implementing domestic and international projects, particularly focused on strategically important restructuring and regulatory change.

He specialises in regulated and unregulated asset finance, consumer credit and retail finance, with a depth of experience in motor finance. Wayne is also recognised for his experience in regulatory compliance and oversight activity.

Adrian Dally is Director of Motor Finance & Strategy at the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA).

Before joining the FLA, Adrian spent 26 years in policy-making roles in Whitehall and Brussels, specialising in a number of areas including financial services, consumer protection policy, competition and the European Union.

During this time he fulfilled a number of roles, including as a UK negotiator in the EU institutions and as private secretary to two cabinet ministers. His last role was at the Financial Ombudsman Service, where he was its Head of Policy.

Richard has been at DSG since 1990 and negotiated an MBO in 1998 effectively re-founding the business. Having built the business through several economic and credit cycles, 

Richard then oversaw the investments from both Promethean and Magnetar to bring DSG to the dominant position it now holds in UK car finance as the only lender-broker hybrid. 

Richard has developed a talented management team and succession path, ensuring DSG will endure in the long term.

Management of Wholesale Funding and Risk , cash and funding trigger management, across syndicated funding markets. Primary responsibility for funding and credit risk for Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Benelux in conjunction with local risk teams.

Ian joined the Company in 2017 and is responsible, in particular, for growing Auto Trader’s new car business. With 20 years of automotive experience with several brands, he is responsible for building meaningful relationships with all UK automotive manufacturers as well as their retailers to enable the development of solutions to drive new value and revenue to them, in both the new and used car space. Ian also oversees the Manufacturer and Agency part of Auto Trader, tasked with delivering commercial value and growth.

Previously Ian worked at Volkswagen, where he was Director of Sales Operations in the UK, responsible for all UK Volkswagen passenger car sales as well as the franchise management and commercial programmes.

Ian was also the former Managing Director of Renault Retail Group responsible for 25 Renault and Nissan dealerships, and prior to that held various international marketing, after-sales and e-business roles at Renault’s headquarters in Paris. Ian holds a BA (Hons) from Loughborough University in Economics, Politics and French, and an MBA from IMD-Theseus Institute in France.

Dan’s career has developed in parallel with the growth of Arkle where he has acquired front line experience across a range of functions during his 15-year career in Asset Finance.

Working under the tutelage of his predecessor, Stephen Bassett, Dan joined the Board in 2015 and was appointed to the role of Executive Director two years later.

When not at work, Dan enjoys an active lifestyle, spends time with family and supports his local community.

John Rees has worked in equipment finance for over 40 years, most recently with Societe Generale’s equipment finance subsidiary, where he focused on the UK, Australian, and Chinese markets before joining the bank’s headquarters in Paris with global responsibility for sales and marketing.

Jon Maycock has over two decades of experience in the SME lending market, encompassing various commercial and leadership roles. He has a proven track record of scaling asset finance businesses through direct, intermediary and vendor channels. Jon is passionate about achieving outstanding results for customers by leveraging exceptional people and cutting-edge technologies.

With more than 30 years of experience in the commercial finance industry, Jim brings a wealth of knowledge to the role of CEO.

Jim most recently served as Group CEO at STAR Asset Finance, where he led the brokerage through a period of substantial change, enhancing the risk control framework, upgrading the IT infrastructure, centralising the core business functions across four previously independent brokerages and increasing the group balance sheet by 50%. 

He has previously held senior roles at Lombard, Barclays, and GE Capital, where he developed an extensive understanding of asset finance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement across a variety of financial sectors.

Christian is the CEO of Finativ and an experienced executive, specialising in asset finance.

With an extensive career in financial services, Christian has established himself as a respected leader in the sector, combining deep corporate finance and M&A expertise with hands-on business management experience.

As a Chartered Accountant, he brings analytical rigour and strategic insight to every engagement, whether advising on complex transactions or delivering strategic transformation.

Katrin has been managing her family’s dairy farm for more than 15 years. She has helped to grow the farm and transform the operations. The business is much more than a source of income. It is a huge part of her family life.

Katrin has always worked with her bank to finance the farm and ensure smooth cash flow, but ran into difficulties in 2010 when her bank manager doubled her cost of credit overnight.

The frustration of running from one bank to another to secure offers inspired Funding Xchange. Katrin is passionate about making it easy, quick and transparent for businesses to find finance.

It probably helped that Katrin had a parallel career advising large banks and financial firms and understood that they often were not the right answer for a small business that needed funding. So, Funding Xchange sets out to get business owners in the position where they can easily compare terms available from many providers, increasing the chances that one of the offers is going to be right for the business.

David Betteley started his career in Financial Services as a graduate trainee with Lloyds and Scottish Finance (part of the Lloyds Bank Group) in Manchester in the late 70’s. In 1989 he joined the International Motors Group (IM) to set up their in-house Finance Company in the UK to support the Hyundai and Subaru brands. Staying with IM, he moved to Sweden in 1992 to run the vehicle distribution operations for IM in Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic states.

In 1996 he moved back to the UK to become MD of Vauxhall Finance and successfully managed the transition from 7 branches to one central location. In 1998 he was recruited by Toyota to insource their Financial Services operations in the UK. He went on to become a Senior Vice President when he had the responsibility for overall operations, sales and marketing and the development of new markets for both Toyota and Lexus in the Europe and Africa region.

During this 12 year period at Toyota he also served as a Pension Trusteee which gives him good experience to serve in a similar capacity at JLR. In 2010 David joined Jaguar Land Rover as Global Financial Services Director, retiring in July 2017. David now works as an independent advisor to Genpact Ltd and other companies. His main non-executive role has been as Chairman of the Finance and Leasing Association in the UK during the period May 2007 to May 2010.

David holds an MBA from Aston Business School Outside work his time is mainly devoted to his family. However he enjoys the occasional game of golf and still follows closely the fortunes of Manchester City.

Wayne leads the automotive finance practice for Shoosmiths.

Prior to joining Shoosmiths, Wayne spent 25 years working in-house in senior and executive roles at international, blue chip financial services and automotive businesses including: Volkswagen Financial Services; GMAC; NatWest (including Lombard and Invoice Finance), Cisco and Santander Consumer UK.

Wayne has extensive experience of scoping, leading and implementing domestic and international projects, particularly focused on strategically important restructuring and regulatory change.

He specialises in regulated and unregulated asset finance, consumer credit and retail finance, with a depth of experience in motor finance. Wayne is also recognised for his experience in regulatory compliance and oversight activity.

Adrian Dally is Director of Motor Finance & Strategy at the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA).

Before joining the FLA, Adrian spent 26 years in policy-making roles in Whitehall and Brussels, specialising in a number of areas including financial services, consumer protection policy, competition and the European Union.

During this time he fulfilled a number of roles, including as a UK negotiator in the EU institutions and as private secretary to two cabinet ministers. His last role was at the Financial Ombudsman Service, where he was its Head of Policy.

I am driven by curiosity and motivated by change, a problem solver who brings teams together with a shared purpose; to investigate root causes, design fixes, simplify and automate processes, to resolve for customers. I am a passionate and enthusiastic leader, creating an open and positive culture where colleagues feel supported and able to fulfil their potential. An extrovert, I am at my best when leading new thinking, challenging the status quo and bringing diverse groups who think differently together, towards shared goals and objectives.

Comfortable leading in ambiguous and complex situations, I have a track record in delivering large rectification programmes, improving business processes and supporting senior leaders to respond to regulatory change. I bring an extensive and practical knowledge of risk and control frameworks, data process design, corporate governance, consumer banking products, processes and regulation.

Richard has been at DSG since 1990 and negotiated an MBO in 1998 effectively re-founding the business. Having built the business through several economic and credit cycles, 

Richard then oversaw the investments from both Promethean and Magnetar to bring DSG to the dominant position it now holds in UK car finance as the only lender-broker hybrid. 

Richard has developed a talented management team and succession path, ensuring DSG will endure in the long term.

Leasing Professional, operating at Director level, with 25 years experience in sales and operations working with UK and International vendors across a variety of equipment sectors. 

Have proven management, sales, documentation and negotiation skills. Before joining Societe Generale Equipment Finance held sales positions assisting vendors and resellers grow their sales through the use of finance across diverse markets including IT, Office Equipment, Printing, Machine Tools and Fork Lift Trucks.

John Rees has worked in equipment finance for over 40 years, most recently with Societe Generale’s equipment finance subsidiary, where he focused on the UK, Australian, and Chinese markets before joining the bank’s headquarters in Paris with global responsibility for sales and marketing.

Richard Bearman has over 25 years’ experience in the banking sector and over that time has developed a real passion for working with and supporting entrepreneurs. 

Richard oversees the Banking Relationship Management function, which helps to support a consistent and holistic approach towards the Bank’s delivery partners.

He was previously Managing Director, Small Business Lending at the Bank, which included responsibility for the Start Up Loans programme, which was rated by Forbes as its top-rated Small Business Loan and Start up Loan for three consecutive years.

Prior to joining the Bank, Richard was UK Head of Small Business at HSBC, where he led and supported colleagues serving the UK SME market via face to face, telephony and digital channels. Richard set the strategic direction and led the business to evolve its channels and grow its customer base. Under Richard’s leadership, HSBC was voted Best Business Banking Provider in the Smart Money People British Bank Awards and Best Online Banking Provider in the Business Moneyfacts Awards.

Anna has worked at the LSB since 2018, starting as Head of Insight.

Prior to this, she spent just over 4 years at Wright Hassall LLP as Head of Risk & Compliance and 4.5 years at HSBC working with the risk and audit sectors.

Christian is the CEO of Finativ and an experienced executive, specialising in asset finance.

With an extensive career in financial services, Christian has established himself as a respected leader in the sector, combining deep corporate finance and M&A expertise with hands-on business management experience.

As a Chartered Accountant, he brings analytical rigour and strategic insight to every engagement, whether advising on complex transactions or delivering strategic transformation.

David Betteley started his career in Financial Services as a graduate trainee with Lloyds and Scottish Finance (part of the Lloyds Bank Group) in Manchester in the late 70’s. In 1989 he joined the International Motors Group (IM) to set up their in-house Finance Company in the UK to support the Hyundai and Subaru brands. Staying with IM, he moved to Sweden in 1992 to run the vehicle distribution operations for IM in Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic states.

In 1996 he moved back to the UK to become MD of Vauxhall Finance and successfully managed the transition from 7 branches to one central location. In 1998 he was recruited by Toyota to insource their Financial Services operations in the UK. He went on to become a Senior Vice President when he had the responsibility for overall operations, sales and marketing and the development of new markets for both Toyota and Lexus in the Europe and Africa region.

During this 12 year period at Toyota he also served as a Pension Trusteee which gives him good experience to serve in a similar capacity at JLR. In 2010 David joined Jaguar Land Rover as Global Financial Services Director, retiring in July 2017. David now works as an independent advisor to Genpact Ltd and other companies. His main non-executive role has been as Chairman of the Finance and Leasing Association in the UK during the period May 2007 to May 2010.

David holds an MBA from Aston Business School Outside work his time is mainly devoted to his family. However he enjoys the occasional game of golf and still follows closely the fortunes of Manchester City.

Wayne leads the automotive finance practice for Shoosmiths. Prior to joining Shoosmiths, Wayne spent 25 years working in-house in senior and executive roles at international, blue chip financial services and automotive businesses including: Volkswagen Financial Services; GMAC; NatWest (including Lombard and Invoice Finance), Cisco and Santander Consumer UK. Wayne has extensive experience of scoping, leading and implementing domestic and international projects, particularly focused on strategically important restructuring and regulatory change. He specialises in regulated and unregulated asset finance, consumer credit and retail finance, with a depth of experience in motor finance. Wayne is also recognised for his experience in regulatory compliance and oversight activity.

Adrian Dally is Director of Motor Finance & Strategy at the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA).

Before joining the FLA, Adrian spent 26 years in policy-making roles in Whitehall and Brussels, specialising in a number of areas including financial services, consumer protection policy, competition and the European Union.

During this time he fulfilled a number of roles, including as a UK negotiator in the EU institutions and as private secretary to two cabinet ministers. His last role was at the Financial Ombudsman Service, where he was its Head of Policy.

Management of Wholesale Funding and Risk , cash and funding trigger management, across syndicated funding markets. Primary responsibility for funding and credit risk for Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Benelux in conjunction with local risk teams.

John Rees has worked in equipment finance for over 40 years, most recently with Societe Generale’s equipment finance subsidiary, where he focused on the UK, Australian, and Chinese markets before joining the bank’s headquarters in Paris with global responsibility for sales and marketing.

Dominic joined in 2006 as Head of Technology developing the small ticket business and growing market share with predominantly international IT vendors and IT lessors and after 6 years he became Operational Business Development Director.

Prior to this, Dominic joined the industry in 1994 as a graduate trainee at Hitachi Credit and then held various sales positions assisting vendors and resellers grow their sales through the use of finance across diverse markets including IT, Office Equipment, Printing, Machine Tools and Material Handling.

His role as Joint Managing Director sees him responsible for overseeing the Sales and Customer facing areas of the business.
Dominic holds a Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) Diploma and has a degree in German and Management Science from Keele University.

Jon Souch is an experienced sales leader and financial services professional with a proven track record across multiple product, vertical and international markets. 

At Lenovo Global Financial Services, he leads the EMEA region, ensuring their customers have access to a comprehensive range of commercial solutions that allow them to invest in industry leading technology in the most flexible, scalable and cost efficient manner.

With two decades plus experience in the IT industry, Mathew has held multiple senior leadership roles covering FP&A, treasury, sales finance, sales enablement and solutioning, and payment solution sales, furnishing him with a unique perspective on how finance and financing, may be used to differentiate products and proposals and supercharge sales, and he has a track record to prove it!

His professional journey has been grounded in the technology sector, from his earliest roles with EDS in FP&A, treasury and corporate finance, to his long career with HP and HPE, where he has been at the forefront of inventive IT leasing, financing and sales enablement programmes, to his current role at PAN where he set up and leads the international captive finance company.

Mathew is considered the ‘go-to’ person for captive finance company setup, development of innovative financing and payment solutions, and sales process transformation, with exposure to international markets. Considered a Subject Matter Expert (SME), Mathew was selected to negotiate and agree the finance and financing standard UK Government contract language with HMT, on behalf of the UK IT industry.