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
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
AJay Mitha
SPEAKER PANELIST
Head of Customer Operations, Interbridge Mortgages
PROFILE TO FOLLOW SOON….
Chris Leslie
SPEAKER PANELIST
Chief Executive Officer, Credit Services Association (CSA)
Chris Leslie is the Chief Executive Officer at the Credit Services Association (CSA)
Rich Evans
SPEAKER PANELIST
Director of New Propositions, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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
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
SPEAKER PANELIST
Chief Strategy Officer, Telrock
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.