Our people

Andrew Holley

Andrew has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry, including global executive management roles within technology functions throughout EMEA, Asia Pacific, North and South America with JP Morgan, Chase Manhattan Bank and Fidelity International.

He has wide experience in developing business vision and implementing transformation programmes within Investment Bank, Asset Management and Insurance businesses. His skills include the in depth planning of supportive technology, operational strategy and architecture to achieve business success.

In rare moments of downtime, Andrew enjoys family gatherings, sailing, shooting and art galleries

Mark Holland

Mark has worked in the financial services sector for over 20 years. His specialism is in leading transcontinental change programmes, managing multiple teams throughout Europe, India, US, and the Far East.

He has developed cross functional strategies for technology and operations functions and has supported and executed 5 year business plan programmes. Mark’s experience has been focused primarily on large-scale technology and operational transformation initiatives within the Investment Management, Life Assurance and Capital Market industries.

Mark used to be scuba diving instructor, plays the piano, and enjoys mountaineering. Now his two small children take up the majority of his time!

Steven Whaley

Steven has worked in the financial services industry for over 14 years and specialises in leading and delivering large, multidisciplinary programmes across broad geographic boundaries.

In the past, he has held senior positions at Lloyds Banking Group, engaging in management, customer service, strategy development, change management and organisation planning.

In his spare time, Steven enjoys discovering new cultures through travelling, cuisine and languages.

Greg Lauric

Greg has over 20 years’ experience working in Consulting, both within and outside of the financial services industry. He specialises in strategic tax centric transformation initiatives.

He has held senior positions at both KPMG and Deliotte, as well as co-founding his own consultancy, growing it into a significant player in a niche market. Greg is now responsible for new technology implementations and associated change management, related to the launch of tax provision software and workflow management systems.

At home, Greg enjoys jazz music, carpentry and culinary experimentation.

James McAleenan

After qualifying as a chartered accountant with KPMG in Johannesburg and London, James moved to JPMorgan where he served as a managing director in a number of investment banking and securities services businesses in London, Milan and Luxembourg. In 2007 he joined BNP Paribas as managing director of the UK securities services business and member of the UK investment bank management committee.

James’ experience includes business turn-around and strategic development, risk management and internal control, process reengineering and corporate governance.

James retired from full-time work in 2016 and is now working part-time as a non executive director and business advisor. In his spare time he likes to travel, to go to the theatre and to play any sport the advancing years allow.

Prasad Prabhakaran

Prasad has more than 17 years of experience working with large enterprise IT organisations and product companies.  He has hands-on experience in building products and platforms, and in result-oriented IT transformation. This has led to him becoming a trusted partner and coach to CIOs of large enterprises.  

As an IT for IT strategist, enthusiastic Agile coach he leads by example. Prasad’s experience includes leading large distributed IT delivery teams across the US, UK, India and China.

Prasad is associated with many international conferences as a speaker and program organiser, such as Agile India, Agile Gurgaon, Discuss Agile and Digital Conclave.  As recognition of his contribution to this community, Prasad was honoured with Agile Leader of the Year Award in 2016.

His key areas of interest are in Lean Start-up, Enterprise/ Business Agility, DevOps, & Machine Learning, which is reflected by accreditation with professional bodies such as SAFe, IEEE, ACM, Agile Alliance, Scrum Practitioners.

Richard Hallt

Richard has 25 years Investment Accounting, operations and IT experience gained in Asset Management organisations, consultancies and software vendors, supporting the financial services industry.

He has practical experience in leading projects in the UK and Europe, developing business vision, supporting technology and operational strategies and architectures in an advisory and execution capacity. He has worked at a senior consulting level with many prominent companies gaining extensive knowledge in Investment Management products and functions from analytics and execution to settlement, finance and risk.

Richard has a passion for outdoor activities. He enjoys golf, running, skiing and helping out with his son’s rugby team.

Patricia Troccoli

Patricia joined Holley Holland in 2019 with over 15 years of experience largely focused on Financial Controlling and Planning.

She has a MBA in Finance and has worked across a variety of industries in which she expanded her finance experience. She is now responsible for the Management Accounts, Cash Flow Forecast, Tax Reports and all finance-oriented operational activities.

In her spare time, Patricia enjoys practicing sports and travelling.

Lauren Holley

As part of the digital solutions delivery team Lauren works closely with stakeholders and the development and test teams to facilitate implementations across all client projects.

Having initially joined Holley Holland’s finance department in 2017, Lauren is now responsible for coordinating HUGHUB client requirements, assisting with project scheduling and financials, project reporting and administration.

Slava Solovei

Slava has over 18 years of experience in software development. He specialises in delivering greenfield fintech solutions, both for small start-ups and large banks.

He has previously delivered solutions for banknotes trading, credit and market risk, portfolio management, financial analysis, stress testing and loan valuation.

In rare free moments between work and two young children, Slava enjoys basketball, piano, share trading and used to be a world-class juggler.

Monica Tudor

A keen mathematician, Monica started working as a developer 7 years ago, after she finished her Masters in Computer Science.

As a full stack developer, Monica has been exposed to a large number of projects in Romania, UK and the US and is proficient in C#, SQL, Java, Angular and Mongo DB.

Monica is a key example of the new breed of developers we are attracting – she is as passionate about development as she is about finding the right solution for our customers.

Monica enjoys life as much as she enjoys work. Her passions outside of work are very varied and include cycling, running, dancing, squash, travelling and nature.

Timothy Knight

Tim has extensive experience designing and building web applications in the investment banking and insurance sectors for companies of all sizes. He truly inhabits the full stack, intuitively switching between prototyping user interfaces or tuning database queries.

He is passionate about crafting the right solution for the customer, and enjoys the challenge of producing creative solutions that go beyond what was originally envisaged.

Outside of the office, Tim travels, plays videogames and dances his evenings away.

George Marchenko

George is a practised Management Consultant, Change and Project Manager with experience in regulatory data management, source-to-target mapping, lineage and integration, change management, regulatory compliance, risk and reporting.

George has worked in and consulted for financial services, banking, regulatory stress testing, credit card operations, telecommunications, and the energy sector for over 25 years. He specializes in regulatory compliance programs, CCAR [FRY 14-Q/M/A], project management, data mapping and audit testing initiatives

Mary Jones

Mary has more than 20 years of data analysis, project management and transformation leadership experience, having held senior consulting positions in financial services for over 11 years, primarily in change-related roles.

Mary has worked in a wide range of areas in the financial services sector, having engaged in a number of projects with Bank of America including the large scale transitions for Fleet, MBNA, US Trust, LaSalle and Merrill Lynch.

Mary specialises in data-centric initiatives, including technology implementations, data migration, lineage, data cleansing, BI tool integration and warehousing.

Tim Watmough

Tim has over 20 years of experience working with clients focused on mathematical finance, including banks, asset & hedge fund managers, brokers, exchanges, CCPs and infrastructure providers.

He worked initially in executive search and as an entrepreneur he built international businesses focused across front office, risk & regulation as well as the manage the bank paradigm – ‘’return on capital & return on equity’.

He now leverages his experience and contacts to originate and develop solutions in the overlap of advisory and managed services as well as project focused staff augmentation.

Scott Anderson

With a background in engineering and technology, Scott has more than 25 years of experience working in the finance sector with large and medium multinational enterprises where he has been responsible for helping organisations successfully innovate, transform, change and modernise their data, digital and platform journeys.

Scott has held many senior leadership roles across organisations such as Bank of New York Mellon, Fidelity International and Royal London.