Alex McLaren

Experience

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  Finmeccanica UK

  Nov 2006 - Apr 2010

  Systems Engineer / Business Development
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  AP Benson/Gore and Company

  Apr 2010 - Oct 2011

  Consultant & Business Development
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  Barclays Bank

  Oct 2011 - Jan 2015

  Strategy Analyst
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  Barclays Group Innovation Office

  Jan 2015 - Apr 2016

  London Fintech Accelerator Programme Manager

  • Identify and select 10 of the world's leading Fintech startups to take part on the Barclays Accelerator programme• Work as part of a larger team matching startups to help solve Barclays key business challenges across the entire group – retail, investment bank, corporate, wealth and credit cards• Work closely with the startups to identify business development opportunities with Barclays• Setup experiments or contracts with 7 of the 10 startups who took part in the 2nd London accelerator programme, with more in discussion (vs. 2 in programme 1)• Played a key role in setting up the first ever project between a tier 1 UK bank and a Bitcoin company - Safello Show less

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  EY

  May 2016 - now

  We help FinTechs to grow and scale in two key ways:1 - By collaborating with them, to develop new offerings for EY and our financial services client base2 - Offering the full catalogue of EY's traditional consulting services (e.g. regulatory support, tax, legal, audit and more) As part of the new EY Fintech team we serve private equity, corporate clients and FinTech start-ups on a wide range of strategic, operational, capital raising and deal-related issues.

  • FinTech partnerships lead

    Oct 2017 - now

  • Senior Executive (Manager) - Fintech

    May 2016 - Oct 2017