Speaker Profiles

The Think Tank speakers are a gathering of credit and collections professionals with extensive experience across multiple sectors. Here are the are the 2024 speaker profiles. More speakers will be announced soon.

Chris Warburton

EVENT CHAIR

Director, ROStrategy


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Chris  Warburton has spent over 15 years in executive roles, leading transformation and delivering performance improvements in businesses in the UK, Canada and across many other markets around the world.

With a passion for new ideas, technology and process innovation, he helps teams find new ways of working to improve performance. Chris frequently speaks at events and conferences. He is always keen to look ahead of the curve, demystify and share experience with a wider audience.  For him, it is all about helping create great conversations in order to generate great solutions.

Data minded and people orientated his experience spans sectors from financial services, telecommunications and more recently in an advisory role in consultancy. He has specialist knowledge across the customer lifecycle, from Account Origination to Fraud, Account management, Collections and Recoveries. He is currently working on a series of videos exploring the latest ideas, innovation and technology in Credit and Collections.  The conversation is available at RO-AR.com.

Jorge Bronze

SPEAKER PANELIST

Head of Unsecured Credit Risk, Virgin Money


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Jorge Bronze currently serves as the Head of Unsecured Credit Risk at Virgin Money, with a background across a range of Credit Risk disciplines and portfolios.
With prior experience at firms such as Virgin Money, Close Brothers, and HSBC, Jorge brings a wealth of leadership and vision to his role.At Virgin Money, he has held various management positions, including Head of Secured Credit Risk, contributing to the development of robust risk management strategies whilst spearheading credit innovation. His focus is on delivering improvements to customers while enhancing risk management approaches through the use of new data, tools, and thinking.
Before joining Virgin Money, Jorge played a key role at Close Brothers, supporting a range of strategic projects. His career began at HSBC covering a range of analytical roles.Jorge is known for his dedication to enhancing customer experiences through innovative approaches to risk management and believes that a strong Risk function sits at the intersection of supporting customers while balancing appropriate and prudent credit risk.

AJay Mitha

SPEAKER PANELIST

Head of Customer Operations, Interbridge Mortgages


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PROFILE TO FOLLOW SOON….

Chris Leslie

SPEAKER PANELIST

Chief Executive Officer, Credit Services Association (CSA)


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Chris Leslie is the Chief Executive Officer at the Credit Services Association (CSA)

Rich Evans

SPEAKER PANELIST

Director of New Propositions, LexisNexis Risk Solutions


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Rich Evans is Director of New Propositions at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, empowering businesses to onboard more good customers through the use of alternative data.

With 15 years experience collaborating with the most recognised financial services and collections brands, Rich is a trusted advisor to many key stakeholders across function that include; Onboarding, ID Verification, Fraud, Financial Crime, Credit Risk and Collections.

At LexisNexis Risk Solutions his deep understanding of how data and analytics solutions support business critical decisions at every stage of a customer lifecycle is the cornerstone to building a sustainable strategy to deliver the latest RiskView UK and Fraudoint UK solutions to our customers across Banking, Lending, Insurance, Utilities, Telco and Government.

Rich is also the host of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Credit In Focus video series, exploring how organisations can enhance credit risk decisioning by embracing the use of alternative data. He has recently hosted some fantastic guests from industry associations, not-for-profits, and consumer lenders.

Huw Vaughan

SPEAKER PANELIST

Business Expert - Relationship Manager, EXUS


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Huw Vaughan has over 35 years’ experience in the Collections and Recoveries sector leading, developing, and optimising Collections and Recoveries operations. For the last 9 years he has worked in Collections technology and global consulting, specialising in Digital Communications and Collections platforms. Huw has a diploma in in Digital Disruptionand Digital transformation from Cambridge University Judge Business School.

Andre Pritchard

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Chief Strategy Officer, Telrock


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Andrew Pritchard joins Telrock Systems as Chief Strategy Officer, bringing over 20 years of experience in collections technology, across multiple sectors and countries around the world. Working alongside the leadership team, Andrew is tasked with crafting and executing Telrock’s long-term strategy, leveraging market insights and collaborative input from the Management Board. Previously, he co-founded and served as CEO at Arum, where he spearheaded significant growth initiatives and strategic partnerships for clients in over 20 countries. Andrew will support the already vastly experienced leadership team at Telrock and help to optimize Telrock’s market positioning, product development, and overall business success.