Experience

Tandem Bank

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Head of Credit Risk

  • Jun 2022 - Present



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• Ben Thackwray

  • May 1980 - Present

  Adventurer, Ocean Rower, Mountaineer, Ultra distance runner, Polar skier. Guinness World Record holder for Speed Ocean Row and fastest British crossing of Greenland, also a Leading Financial Services Risk Consultant. Adventurer, Ocean Rower, Mountaineer, Ultra distance runner, Polar skier. Guinness World Record holder for Speed Ocean Row and fastest British crossing of Greenland, also a Leading Financial Services Risk Consultant.



Oplo

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Credit Risk

  • Nov 2020 - Jun 2022



TransUnion

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Consultant - Open Banking at TransUnion UK

  • Jun 2018 - Nov 2020

• Principal Consultant - Open Banking

  • Aug 2017 - Nov 2020

• Business Consultancy

  • May 2017 - Nov 2020

  Ben is an experienced Financial Services Consultant and Senior Manager having worked for over 17 years in Banking, Lending Vertical Markets, Digital Commerce and for two leading Credit Reference Agencies, Experian and Callcredit. Ben has extensive experience in hands-on analytics and credit risk, leading Consultancy & Analytics teams in Principal Consultant roles and is commercially focused having held divisional Commercial Manager and Data Solution positions.He provides consulting expertise on all areas of credit risk, lending strategy and optimisation across the end to end customer lifecycle, from on-boarding, scorecard and strategy building, through all areas of customer management and retention, to collections & recoveries, debt sale and operational efficiency. Ben brings with him significant experience of business transformation strategy and management, and product ‘Go-to-Market’ optimization.He has also worked internationally across Europe and North America in both fragmented, emerging markets and established heavily regulated environments with both Fintech start-ups and more traditional well established institutions. Show less

• Commercial Manager

  • Sep 2016 - Nov 2020

• Principal Consultant

  • Apr 2013 - Sep 2016