Experience

Department for Business and Trade

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Investment, Seoul

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Seoul, South Korea

• Head of FinTech

  • Jun 2017 - Jul 2020

  London, United Kingdom Co-ordinated the activity of 32 staff across 20 priority markets; Created and facilitate the Department’s first ever industry-led FinTech Board (co-chaired by the Lord Mayor and PM’s FinTech Business Ambassador); Led the Department’s (and wider HMG) FinTech strategy; and, Designed and delivered HMG’s principle FinTech policy: FinTech Bridges

• Outward Direct Investment: Head of Pilots

  • Jan 2017 - May 2017

  London, United Kingdom

• Vice Consul, Financial Services - USA

  • Mar 2016 - Dec 2016

  New York, USA Leading a multi-state US-based team to facilitate US-UK financial services policy; design and deliver a national trade & investment campaign; support UK Financial Services companies to export and develop operations in the US; and, US companies to establish and expand their operations into the UK.

• Digital Manager - Consultant

  • Jul 2014 - Mar 2016

  London, United Kingdom Digital Manager, tasked with overseeing the creation of UKTI's digital platform showcasing regional sector assets - the Local Investment Showcase - and the Project Matchmaker initiative - designed to objectively match the proposition characteristics of local partners with the investor profiles from Posts overseas.



FinTECHTalents

• Steering Committee Member

  • Jan 2018 - Jan 2019