Meet the Team

Alec advises Ground Truth on strategy and platform development. Alec previously led the development of Kroll Bond Rating Agency's data analytics platform, was COO of Eurasia Group, and was an investment banker with Deutsche Bank.

Having grown up in Kenya, Charlotte maintained a strong interest in Africa and the Middle East. She completed her undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations at the University of Exeter, and a Masters degree in National Security Studies at Kings College London. Alongside her studies, she was lucky enough to take on a various work experience placements within the security and investigations industry, including a summer internship with GTI. After working with a range of different departments, Charlotte is now a Client Experience Specialist.

Karin advises Ground Truth on strategy, sales & marketing and business development. Karin is currently CEO at CGEM, a growth consulting company, and Venture Partner at Match-Maker Ventures. She previously led the B2B business for NZZ Media Group and held various senior international sales & management roles at Thomson Reuters.

Patrick is a computer security specialist who previously worked on developing new technology at Veracode, a leading application security company. In his earlier career he was a radar analyst at MIT Lincoln Laboratories.

Karla promotes and maintains Ground Truth’s culture, supporting employees in their growth and development. Originally from Colombia, she started her career at GTI as a Recruitment Specialist, onboarding subject matter experts best suited for investigative and intelligence projects.

Africa previously worked at Protection Group International, where she constructed country risk reports through open-source investigation. Africa has a Masters in Terrorism, Security, and Society from King’s College London, as well as a Masters in Modern Middle Eastern History from St. Andrews University.

Marius has been designing, researching, and coding in the digital product space for the past 13 years and, during this time, has contributed to over 200 projects for major brands.In 2019, he led UX at the world's leading testing, inspection, and certification company. He streamlined working methods across 80 countries and 95k employees, creating an in-house atomic design system. Marius then joined the leadership team at a specialist UX consultancy in Bristol. More recently, Marius co-headed UX at Orgvue, where he led the redesign of their sole, self-titled organisation-modelling tool used by many of the Fortune 500

Robert advises Ground Truth on the development of the company's Governance program. Robert was previously Global Head of External Affairs at Rio Tinto, Vice President at GSK, and was a UK diplomat with postings in Brussels, Bangkok, Canberra and London.

Edo advises Ground Truth on high-volume data product strategy and integrations. He is currently Director of Corporate Development | M&A Integration at AML RightSource. Edo previously led the growth of the due diligence business at The Red Flag Group, which was subsequently acquired by Refinitiv.

Amritha has a decade of experience in public policy, risk and due diligence throughout the MENASA region. She oversaw complex investigations that exposed bribery, corruption, money laundering, links to sanctioned entities, slavery, and human rights violations at a number of risk consultancies. Over the course of her career, Amritha has worked with private and public sector clients in infrastructure development, banking and finance, CBI, and energy. As well as holding an MSc in Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Amritha researches and speaks extensively on ESG.

Maria has extensive experience in the consultancy sector, having previously worked as an Intelligence Programme Manager at Control Risks. She excels in managing fast-paced projects, building successful teams, and maintaining strong client relationships. Maria holds a Bachelor's Degree in International and European Relations from the University of Piraeus and a Master's Degree in Terrorism, Organised Crime, and Global Security from Coventry University.

Ben has held various engineering and leadership roles over his career, working at companies including Pottermore, WorldRemit, Capital One, Bupa and Asos. He joins us from Deutsche Bank, where he built and led the technology organisation for their internal Fintech Breaking Wave.

Anna has over a decade of experience in enhanced due diligence and compliance. She spent seven years at Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv where she held various operational roles in the EDD business and then moved to work for banks and fintechs.

William has extensive experience in intelligence and investigations consulting having previously worked at FTI Consulting, Veracity and Cortex Intelligence. His work has included due diligence, asset tracing and fraud investigations across the US, Latin America and West and South Africa.

Matthew worked as a director, senior consultant, and analyst at four risk and investigations companies: The Risk Advisory Group, Livingstone, Veracity and FTI. He has led projects in various global regions and co-developed a security risk analysis platform.

Stewart was a Managing Director at intelligence and investigations consultancies in London (G3) and New York (Veracity), where he led cases around the world, managed teams of analysts, and developed research and reporting processes.

Ben is a senior digital product leader with 15 years of experience in product strategy, development and delivery. He has worked across various industries in both scale-up and blue-chip environments. He's driven by developing the right digital strategy and turning it into the right digital products so companies can realise their true value.

Chris has a huge amount of experience in both start-ups and multinationals, SaaS businesses and financial services. Starting his career in building societies and the FSA, he moved on to help grow the streaming business, blinkbox. After 8 years he returned to financial services working with Capital One and HSBC. He joins us from Akeero, a B2B SaaS product for Threat Modelling in the Cyber Security space.

Having spent twelve years working at JPMorgan, Peter joined a fledgling fintech start-up called Revolut as its CFO. Almost three years and 4m customers later he left Revolut to join Money Dashboard as CFO.

Thomas is a software engineer with experience across a number of industries and roles, working for start-ups, game studios and established B2B companies. He has helped to modernise tech stacks, improve security and pass ISO certification through secure software development practices.

After completing her History degree at Cambridge University, Katharina studied Management Studies at Cambridge’s Judge Business School. Alongside security and investigations, Katharina has a firm interest in foreign policy and international relations - strengthened by her previous employment at the Financial Times and the Economist.

Sam is a curious and purpose-driven engineering leader with experience shaping and delivering complex products and platforms. His software engineering background provides him with a foundation of lean-agile practice that enables him to lead highly productive teams that enjoy their work.

Dave is an engineering leader with extensive experience in finance, fintech, blockchain and property industries. He has a proven track record working across a broad range of technology stacks for start-ups through to large international enterprises.

Adrian is an accomplished computer scientist in the fields of national security, defence and cyber security, with over 17 years experience in these fields. He has expertise in deep packet inspection, user and entity behaviour analytics, deep learning and natural language processing. He has worked for central government and startups, including the cybersecurity pen testing service Synack and his own tourism discovery business.

Sylwia has built and managed enhanced due diligence research teams for Thomson Reuters (Refinitiv) in EMEA. After a decade of managing the research and customer success teams, she looked after the business proposition globally and worked with the customers across sectors to advise on best KYC, 3PR, and pre-transactional compliance and due diligence projects’ solutions.

Nancy has extensive experience in financial and risk content management. Nancy joins from Refinitiv, where she oversaw human-source investigations revealing commercial and regulatory risks. Nancy's professional background also encompasses editorial positions in the media industry and a client servicing role at HSBC. Nancy holds a master's degree in financial analysis from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a bachelor's degree in Government and Public Administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Colin advises Ground Truth on User Experience and platform development. He is currently Success Director at Ontic Technologies. His prior career included roles at Palantir Technologies, the US State Department and intelligence community.