Meet the Team

Ed injects a wealth of business and consumer financial experience to the team and his expertise in corporate governance and capital raising ensures the company is not only well capitalised but regulated with thorough ness and integrity.

Ed is a highly experienced non executive director and has worked in high profile roles across a range of media, brand development, local and central government, sport, culture and financial sectors. He is immediate past president of The Scottish Rugby Union and currently chair of Dance Base.

Martin is responsible for driving Castlight Financial’s growth as the company continues to develop web-based financial products and forge effective relationships with financial retailers across the UK and internationally.

Having previously worked for both Equifax and Callcredit, his extensive industry expertise in credit risk, market intelligence, anti-fraud and verification issues means he understands the nuances of our clients’ businesses and is ideally placed to work with them to develop and implement solutions.

As Chairman of Castlight Financial, Martin is a hands-on member of the team, sharing his extensive industry experience and providing an invaluable resource for clients.

A former Chief Risk Officer at HSBC for the retail bank in Europe and latterly for Latin America, based out of Mexico City, he has been responsible for the whole risk lifecycle from analytics and strategy to collections and recoveries at a number of blue chip organisations such as HSBC, Marks & Spencer Money, MBNA, HBOS Card Services and Standard Chartered Bank.

Kevin heads up the products deployment team as they work with some of the UK’s largest banks to deliver affordability solutions and help them prepare for the regulation and opportunities of open banking early next year.

With 20 years of experience across the credit and fraud risk industry, customers benefit from both Kevin’s expertise and his fiercely analytical mind.

The attraction to Castlight was obvious. The team are creating groundbreaking products in the Affordability Passport & CaaS which will help avoid a repeat of the financial crash. Both lenders and customers now benefit from an in depth picture of the customer’s financial position allowing better decisions to be made and opening up access to credit.

Castlight’s mission to build a safer financial world inspires me. I’m proud to be playing a part in achieving that, as well as working day to day, with a team of such passion and integrity. Our CaaS and Affordability Passport products give consumers with little credit history access to products that might otherwise have been unavailable and they also help lenders to find customers they might have rejected out of hand. It’s a win-win proposition.

Jason is Head of Business Development for a company providing cyber security tools that automatically detect advanced cyber threats, combining innovative AI with human expertise.

Jason has also spent 15 years with a leading data aggregation and data analytics platform, which provide innovative cloud-based services for financial services companies. During this time, Jason was responsible for developing markets outside of the US.

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We need to be agile in today’s fintech community if we want to create the best products to deliver our core objective of a “safer financial world”. Digital strategies have to be hugely innovative and developed and delivered with speed. I have an exceptional team here at Castlight which allows me to drive a “post-it note to live within weeks” product development programme.