Meet the team

Our leadership team are experts in financial services, capital markets and software.

Michiel Verhoeven
Michiel Verhoeven

Chief Executive Officer

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Dan Reid
Dan Reid

Chief Technology Officer

Nikki Feare
Nikki Feare

Chief Human Resources Officer

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Craig Nickerson
Craig Nickerson

Chief Finance Officer

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Mark Brooke Webb
Mark Brooke-Webb

Chief Operations Officer

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Josh Monroe

Chief Revenue Officer

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Michiel Verhoeven

Chief Executive Officer

As CEO, Michiel leads the overall business and executive team. A customer and people focused leader, Michiel has over 25 years in both global corporations and technology startups and experience in delivering creative strategies and transforming organizational capabilities and cultures. Prior to joining Xceptor, Michiel was the managing director at SAP, Vice President at Microsoft Asia and webMethods Asia and COO of Asia Net Media.

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Sharon Cooper

Chief Finance Officer

Sharon leads our Finance and Head Office functions, with the experience of major corporates under her belt. Sharon has been operating within the private equity and public markets arenas, having started her career as an auditor at Ernst & Young.

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Dan Reid

Chief Technology Officer

Dan is Chief Technology Officer and an original founder of Xceptor. He leads the Innovation, Development and Support teams who are based at our Surrey UK office. Dan is focussed on driving the vision, architecture and development of the Xceptor platform.

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Mark Brooke-Webb

Chief Operations Officer

Mark leads the Delivery, Client Experience and SaaS Operations teams. With over 20 years of IT and software experience in the financial sector, Mark joined us from Fidessa where he was responsible for leading the global client services functions.

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Josh Monroe

Chief Revenue Officer

Josh leads our global Sales, Strategic Partnerships & Alliances and Marketing teams. Josh has extensive experience in financial services, most recently leading the Americas and global sales of the network, trade matching and data analytics business at Itiviti. Previously, Josh held senior leadership roles at FIS and SunGard.

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Ludovic Blanquet

Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer

Ludovic has extensive financial services experience. Before joining us, Ludovic developed and executed smartTrade's value creation plan. He spent 7 years at Misys and Finastra and was instrumental in the Misys and D+H merger in 2017. Early in his career, Ludovic established a Singapore based electronic broker for Credit Agricole. A French national, he started his career in Paris with Reuters, on trade and risk management software solutions.

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Amaro Kasongo 
Head of Automation

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quote Using Xceptor we’ve been able to streamline our trade confirmations process, taking cost out of the business and establishing better control over our derivatives operations. The original project was completed in just a few short months creating a real value-add for Standard Bank’s international business and we have subsequently rolled our Xceptor to our South African operation.

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