Kaizen Reporting announces the appointment of Gavin Beard, former Standard Chartered FMO regulator lead, to client relationship manager at its London headquarters.
Beard joins Kaizen with more than 30 years of banking experience in markets operations, operational risk and control assurance roles.
He spent seven years at HSBC, where he began as the EMEA head of operations control, leading a number of teams managing risk and control self-assessment, balance sheet substantiation, AML post-trade surveillance, client money segregation, sanction screening and management information reporting.
Beard also worked as a consultant in first and second line of defence roles at NatWest Markets, SMBCE and SMBC Nikko Capital Markets. Prior to this, he worked at Deutsche Bank, where he ran their emerging markets middle office and emerging markets operations team.
Among the other announced hires are sales and onboarding specialist Dawn Richards, paralegal Angharad Bryant, lead backend software engineer Alfonso Lluch and data analyst Ramanan Thiyagalingam.
