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FIRESIDE CHAT – Opening up the future
Chris Gorst has led the Open-up challenges in recent years and his experience connects up the public, commercial and social impact sectors and interactions between the three. Here Chris will speak openly about the transformative power of Open Banking, financial inclusion and (barriers to/the importance of) innovation. Chris will also speak in detail about the most recent Open Up Challenge, the industry winners and how they’ve responded to the Covid crisis to help consumers get onto of their money.
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Chris Gorst
Chris Gorst
Director of Nesta Challenges NestaAt Nesta Challenges, Chris’s experience spans the public, commercial and social impact sectors and interactions between the three.
He started his career in supply-side policy and public finance at HM Treasury. In the commercial sector he has worked as a strategy consultant and in investment banking. In social impact, he has delivered a major capacity-building programme for UK small business leaders and developed impact measurement strategies for a wide range of non-profits.
Julian Wells
Julian Wells
Director Whitecap ConsultingJulian is a strategy consultant with over 25 years experience in financial and professional services. Prior to joining Whitecap in 2012 he was marketing director at HML, the UK’s largest outsourced mortgage servicer (now part of Computershare), and his career has also included roles at Boston Consulting Group, Nationwide Building Society, Mortgages plc, and Merrill Lynch.
Whitecap Consulting is a strategy consultancy based in Leeds, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Bristol, Newcastle and Birmingham. It is particularly active in high growth sectors. Whitecap’s financial services clients have included banks, building societies, technology providers, FinTechs, retailers, universities, and various firms in the intermediary financial services market.
Whitecap is involved in multiple regional FinTech and LegalTech ecosystems. The firm is directly involved in FinTech North and FinTech West, both of which it helped create and now helps coordinate. Via these initiatives, Julian is also involved in the FinTech National Network which was created in 2019 to help link the national Fintech sector across the UK. Whitecap also leads the LegalTech in Leeds initiative, which is a regional LegalTech community in the Leeds City Region which is linked to various national initiatives.
Julian is currently studying for a DBA (Professional Doctorate), focusing on strategy and innovation in financial services. He also sits on a number of advisory boards and steering groups relating to FinTech, LegalTech and innovation.
