Haran Thurairajah
Co-Founder
After completing his degree in accounting and finance Haran worked in public finance for over 10
years as session finance officer for Sanctuary Group. After hearing about bitcoin in 2016 he became fascinated by blockchain capability and its potential in real-world use. Since then he has been involved in building applications for companies involved in this field. He co-founded Astralis which is a modern trading platform that makes getting involved it cryptocurrencies easy.
Haran has vast experience of building and funding initiatives using blockchain technology and is applying that understanding and knowledge to help LiCuido build state-of-the-art products.
Rob Verrillo
Co-Founder
Almost 25 years of successful trading experience including Repo, Cash Bonds, inflation and conventional asset swaps, various OTC products, cross-currency product and arbitrage. Rob was a Managing Director and ran trading desks at various banks including, UBS, Nomura, Lehman Bros and RBS. During his career, he has helped to develop and implement many market initiatives required to comply with changing regulatory requirements in association with the Bank of England, FCA, London Money Market Association and WMBA amongst others.
LiCuido offers Rob a solution that can provide significant liquidity benefits to financial markets through innovation.
Brian Lynch
Co-Founder
With nearly 30 years of experience in Capital Markets, his career includes roles as Head of Capital
Markets EMEA at BNY Mellon, Head of Flow Rates EMEA at Nomura, and Global Head of Sterling
Delta Trading at RBS.
For the last 8 years he’s been a Non-Executive Director at Invest & Fund the FCA-regulated peer-to-peer property lender. Recently Brian also had the role of CFO of the renewable energy scale-up Solivus.
Brian holds a Masters in Engineering and Computer Science from Oxford University.
LiCuido perfectly combines his passion for technology and knowledge of financial markets.
Paul Fisher
Chairman
Paul was a policy maker at the Bank of England for 26 years, serving on its Monetary Policy Committee, interim Financial Policy Committee and the Board of the Prudential Regulation Authority. His senior posts in the Bank included those of:
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Executive Director for Markets from 2009-14,
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Executive Director for Insurance Supervision 2014-15 and
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Deputy Head of the PRA 2014-2016.
Paul now has a diversified career of non-executive, consultancy and academic roles. He is involved in consultancy work and technical assistance for central banks. He teaches
post-graduate courses on Comparative Central Banking (WBS) and Sustainable Finance (LIBF).
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Chair of the London Bullion Market Association;
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Non-executive Director at the UK Debt Management Office;
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Principal, PGFpolicy Ltd for consultancy work.
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Honorary Professor, University of Warwick Business School (WBS).
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Visiting Professor, London Institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF).
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Visiting Professor, Richmond, the American International University in London.
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Senior Research Fellow, King’s College Business School, DAFM Research Centre.
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Fellow at the Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
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Governor, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
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Member of the Advisory Board, UEA Centre for Competition Policy.
Nigel Khakoo
Co-Founder
Nigel has spent over 30 years in Capital Markets running Global FX at Nomura where he also served on the Investment Bank and Global Markets Executive Committees as well as roles as Global Investment Bank CTO and Global Head of Quantitative Research. Other roles have included Global Head of FX Options Trading at Citibank, and Global Head of FX and Commodity Hybrids Trading at JP Morgan. Nigel was also elected chair of the sell side Foreign Exchange industry body – the Global Foreign Exchange Division (GFXD. GFXD is a part of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) and works closely with AFME (Association of Financial Markets Europe). More recently, Nigel is the founder and CEO of Connaught Capital Advisors and Head of Trading at a cryptocurrency firm.
Mr Khakoo has a First Class MEng in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London.
Stuart Tully
Special Advisor
Stuart has worked within the financial services industry for almost 40 years, in the latter years as CEO of Rates and Fixed Income at Tradition UK, one of the world’s largest IDBs. More recently he has been the CEO of the AMS Group. He has a deep knowledge of what drives clients and regulators, and the numerous challenges the industry faces.
Helping Licuido allows him to utilise his expertise and customer relationships.
