Pelican employs a team of consultants specialising in a range of markets and competencies and working in some of the world’s top financial institutions. A selection of our team members are listed below:
Ian Gilmour
Managing Director
Ian works with clients to ensure that the Pelican service is second to none.
Ian trained as an Economist, graduating in 1990. He has worked in international markets since 1990 and has worked in some of the most sophisticated financial organisations in the world, including HSBC and Deutsche Bank. He left his career as a banker in 2000 to develop Pelican's consulting business. He comes to the consulting business as a practitioner with a definite focus on fulfilling business goals for clients.
Ian has developed core competencies in credit risk, market risk and liquidity risk. He also has worked on detailed assignments in the FX, commodities and credit derivatives markets.
Dr Robert Fiedler
Head of Advisory
Robert jointly owns and runs Pelican Consulting with Ian Gilmour. He has merged his successful consulting operation into Pelican and is responsible for all advisory work conducted by Pelican, effective from June 2009. Dr. Fiedler holds a PhD in Pure Mathematics from the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, where he worked for several years in mathematical research.
Robert has spent over a decade in the treasury/dealing rooms of numerous international major banks as a money market liquidity manager, trading interest rate products and derivatives.
Robert changed careers and moved into Risk Management. He was Head of Methodology and Policy, Liquidity & Treasury Risk at Deutsche Bank where he devised the methodology and successfully managed a project which still measures and limits the funding liquidity of Deutsche Bank Group. He has also held senior positions at Algorithmics and Fernbach.
Niul Dillon Hatcher
Head of Regulatory Consulting
Niul is an experienced lawyer who qualified as a solicitor in 1989 at Clifford Chance. He has occupied a number of in-house roles in the international financial services industry including heading the legal department at CLS Bank and at CrestCo.
Niul works with clients, helping them to navigate the increasing burden of regulations in the UK and overseas for Credit Risk and Liquidity Risk. He has substantial experience in dealing with international and domestic financial services authorities and other regulators.
Tom Kozlowski
Principal
Tom Kozlowski is a respected name in the UK and overseas in the professional services marketplace. He was the Chairman of City Practioners until its sale to Capco in 2007.
Tom is currently working with Pelican Consulting to assure the delivery of high quality services to our expanding roster of clients.
Hugh Stewart
Principal
Hugh is a general manager with a formidable history of sales, sales management, consultancy (of which the last fifteen years have focused on investment banking and other financial services) and a broad and well-developed range of senior general management skills and experience with a track record of 'delivering successful company transformations'.
Hugh is able to lead, build and motivate mixed and variously skilled teams of developers, project managers, consultants, client services, business analysts, financial engineers, instructors, finance, administration and sales. He has a reputation for delivering difficult or ambitious programmes and projects; understands technology, software design and business process; knows trading, risk management and commercial lending; and has led and participated in software and services selection processes over the last 30 years.
Employers have included Bankers Trust, Arab Banking Corporation, SunGard, C*ATS, Misys, Algorithmics and Siemens.
Jeff Crew
Senior Developer
Jeff is an expert in Liquidity Risk development and implementation.
His extensive background in software development runs from training at Coopers in the early 1990s, followed by significant assignments at Deutsche Bank and ABN Amro. He is an expert in efficient code development and ergonomic and attractive interface design.
Jeff was an original team members of the LiMA project development team at Deutsche Bank, one of the most respected Liquidity Risk system in operation today
Darren Brooke
IT Architect
Darren works on Liquidity Risk development and implementation assignments.
His extensive background in software development runs from training at Coopers in the early 1990s, followed by significant assignments at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan. He is an expert problem solver with deep technical knowledge in J2EE standards.
Darren was an original team members of the LiMA project development team at Deutsche Bank, one of the most respected Liquidity Risk system in operation today
David Hudson
Lead Consultant - Credit and Lending Systems
David is a senior consultant who has spent approximately 20 years specifying, building and delivering solutions to the international financial community. For most of that time, the primary focus has been on all aspects of the syndicated and commercial lending businesses of international banks and financial institutions and dealing with the complexities of delivering ‘global’ solutions.
His current responsibilities in Pelican are leading the Eos project at HSBC. See our news section for more information.
Matthias Kuestner
Liquidity Analyst
Matthias is a Liquidity Analyst with senior experience from a front-office perspective, having trading in the Money Market operations of large European operations such as BNP and Natwest
His skills for Pelican clients is focused on scenario analysis and CBC. He uses his practioner knowledge to assist in clients in developing analytical solutions which reflect reality - whilst also complying with international regulations.
Matthias is fluent in English, French as well as his native language, German
Bhavdeep Virdee
Business Analyst - Credit and Liquidity
Bhavdeep has experience in India, the Middle East and London.
His credit skills were developed working for Dun and Bradstreet. His credit skills are in Basel II Credit issues such as PD, LGD EAD analysis for Global Banking and Retail product sets.
His Liquidity skills are centred around Scenario Analysis (including Stress Testing) and liquidity regulations - Basel and the FSA. He also has vendor knowledge.
Our support functions are spread across two site
London Office
Sales, executive support, consultant hot desking
Operations Centre, Isle of Wight
Jayne Gilmour - Financial Controller
Pam Chapman - PA to Ian Gilmour, Niul Dillon Hatcher and Robert Fiedler
Michaela Cuffe - Office Administrator
