by Katie | May 10, 2019 | Press Releases
Holland Mountain to formalise multiple vendor implementation partnerships London, UK – 25 April 2019: Building on strong private capital vendor relationships developed through numerous successful implementation projects, Holland Mountain will be formalising vendor...
by support@octaveagency.com | Apr 2, 2019 | Press Releases
Holland mountain launches new data services business line London, UK – 2 April 2019: Holland Mountain has formed new business line, Holland Mountain Data Services (HMDS), bringing on board an experienced team of data architects. HMDS will advise private capital firms...
by Katie | Aug 21, 2018 | Press Releases
Holland Mountain Acquires consolidata Move strengthens Holland Mountain’s capabilities in data strategy and data analytics Tuesday 21 August 2018: Holland Mountain Group Ltd. (Holland Mountain), leading provider of technology and operational consulting...Senior Analyst
Since joining Holland Mountain, Vishal has been primarily working on a back office systems implementation project with a major international private equity group. He specialises in data migration, analysis and the cleansing of transactional data for multiple funds.
Vishal holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Kent and is working towards his PRINCE2® qualification.
Consultant
Lewis joined the Holland Mountain team in 2018, bringing extensive experience delivering business & technology change to financial services firms. Lewis has since been Engagement Lead on two Holland Mountain operational reviews, including our largest scale operational review to-date for a global private equity firm, specialising in both direct and Fund of Funds investments.
An experienced project manager, Lewis is delivering the Engagement Lead role on a portfolio company data project and a compliance system selection.
Lewis began his career in operational due diligence on oil and gas transactions, working for some of the world’s largest private equity funds. His most recent role was in internal project & programme management at one of the UK’s fastest growing wealth management firms.
Lewis graduated with a BA Hons in History from Royal Holloway, University of London. Lewis is BCS BA & PRINCE2® practitioner accredited. Lewis has also completed the CISI Investment Operations Certificate (IOC).
Senior Analyst
Since joining the team in September 2017, Riyaan has contributed to a variety of client engagements, supporting operational reviews, system selections, implementations & data migration projects for global Private Equity firms. His experience so far spans across portfolio monitoring and fund accounting & administration.
Committed to developing Holland Mountain’s internal knowledge sharing, Riyaan has been instrumental in the setup and management of our internal Private Capital Academy.
Prior to joining Holland Mountain, Riyaan worked as a supply chain analyst for global FMCG company Ferrero. Riyaan is an Economics graduate from the University of Bath and is working towards his PRINCE2® Practitioner qualification.
Portfolio Practice Lead
Patrick is a private capital portfolio monitoring expert. He heads up Holland Mountain’s portfolio monitoring practice, which has helped numerous clients to select, implement or remediate portfolio monitoring solutions.
He has led several multi-workstream implementation projects since joining Holland Mountain in 2015, with experience across middle and back office operations. Patrick led the successful selection and onboarding of a new fund administrator for a leading real estate & infrastructure fund manager and is currently leading a fund administrator selection for a $40bn Secondaries fund manager.
Patrick began his career in external audit for Financial Services clients with Deloitte. He then worked in the Finance team at a GP where he led the development and implementation of a bespoke financial reporting system. Prior to joining Holland Mountain, Patrick most recently was Head of Strategy for a PE-backed portfolio company where he managed organic growth initiatives and supported the board in driving operational improvements.
A PRINCE2® registered project manager, Patrick has an MBA from Cass Business School, an MSc in Accountancy and a BSc from Babson College, Boston, Mass.
Consultant
Kim joined Holland Mountain in early 2017, and has since delivered numerous successful engagements, including operational reviews, system selections, implementations and continuous improvement services. Kim’s comprehensive systems experience spans across CRM, portfolio monitoring, accounting and reporting solutions.
She is responsible for managing all ongoing portfolio monitoring system improvements for two large private equity firms having completed successful system change projects.
A fluent German speaker, Kim joined Holland Mountain from PwC, where she worked on large-scale portfolio sales and technology implementation projects.
Kim holds an LLB in Law and German from the University of Cardiff and is PRINCE2® project accredited.
Analyst
Kevin joined the Holland Mountain team in October 2018 and has since been involved in a number of projects, providing dedicated support with data analysis, data cleansing and data migration. His systems experience spans across fund administration & accounting and portfolio monitoring for an international private equity group.
During these projects, he has acquired considerable experience in migrating, mapping and reconciling financial statements and operating metrics such as KPIs and ESG.
Fluent in English and Italian, Kevin gained a BSc in Business Studies with specialism in Finance from Cass Business School.
Senior Analyst
Karishma is a Senior Analyst at Holland Mountain specialising in portfolio monitoring and front office implementations.
Since joining Holland Mountain, Karishma has managed a large scale remediation project for a leading European mid-market private equity firm with 50 portfolio companies globally. Throughout this time, Karishma has gained exposure managing project teams both internally and externally. She has also assisted in portfolio monitoring system implementation projects, producing standardised templates and custom reports using iLEVEL, including report testing.
Karishma has extensive experience working with large data sets through analysis and migration phases of Holland Mountain engagements.
Karishma holds a degree in Mathematics BSc (Hons) from the University of Southampton with experience using computing software packages Python, Matlab and R.
Senior Analyst
Harry joined Holland Mountain in late 2017, specialising in portfolio monitoring and front office implementation projects. Since then, Harry has gained experience working across a number of client engagements, assisting with operational reviews, documenting clients’ requirements and implementation activities across both portfolio monitoring and CRM. He is currently managing the continuous improvement service for a client, having successfully completed an implementation project.
During a recent Preqin Solutions implementation project, Harry specialised in data migration and reconciliation, BELL report creation, report testing, and system-related problem solving.
Harry has gained extensive experience in supporting large-scale transformation projects for some of our more specialised clients.
Harry graduated from Bath University with a degree in Economics Bsc (Hons) with experience in Excel and VBA coding.
Consultant
An experienced Consultant, Derek has been Engagement Lead on a number of Holland Mountain projects, including operational reviews, outsourced service provider selections, a third party administrator onboarding and a back office system implementation projects.
He has completed successful engagements with multiple clients, including leading infrastructure debt manager, Vantage Infrastructure, and specialist alternative asset manager, ICG. His experience spans across multiple alternative asset classes, included private debt, private credit and private equity.
Prior to joining Holland Mountain, Derek worked within the client service group at Bank Morgan Stanley AG, Zurich, reconciling cash and securities for the bank and on behalf of clients. He also oversaw testing and supported an implementation project to introduce a new internal cashflow system across the bank.
A graduate from the University of Bath, Derek has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics as well as a Master’s in Mathematical Sciences from Durham University.
Senior Analyst
Delphine joined Holland Mountain in early 2018 and has since gained significant Portfolio Monitoring experience, providing implementation and remediation support for global private equity groups.
Throughout these projects, she specialised in data migration and reconciliation, template and report creation, report testing and system-related problem solving.
Delphine is currently providing Analyst-On-Demand services to one of our largest British clients, assisting with programme definition and providing project management support across various digital transformation workstreams.
Delphine plays a prominent role in Holland Mountain’s Portfolio Monitoring continuous improvement service offering, using her expertise as a system owner to make relevant changes on client’s behalf within their specific environment, overseeing data collection and offering best practice guidance.
Fluent in English, French and Spanish, Delphine graduated from University of Geneva with a BSc in Business Administration, Economics & Management and holds a Master’s in Finance & Accounting from University of Westminster.
Senior Analyst
Billy joined Holland Mountain as a Senior Analyst in January 2019 and has since been involved in multiple IT operational reviews and managed service provider selections for private equity funds. He has also assisted in the delivery of a CRM implementation for a pan-European buyout firm.
Billy joined the team with extensive experience of technology change projects, having begun his career working on enterprise SaaS projects for an Oracle implementation partner.
Throughout 2018, he worked as a Lead Consultant on a multi-million dollar, full-lifecycle cloud transformation of a publicly traded real estate company in Houston, Texas specialising in data conversions and reconciliations, and also held responsibilities for project management, resource management, end-user training, and issue resolution.
Billy holds a BSc in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Kent.
Managing Consultant
An experienced Managing Consultant, Greg is currently overseeing a global, multi-workstream change programme for one of the UK’s largest private equity Fund of Funds. His experience and expertise spans across front, middle and back office operations and all private capital asset classes.
In his four years at Holland Mountain, Greg has delivered the Engagement Lead role on operational reviews, a fund administrator selection and onboarding project and on numerous portfolio monitoring selection and remediation engagements.
A skilled business analyst, Greg has significant experience translating reports into requirements documentation, process mapping and checking internal controls.
Greg is a graduate of Boston University with degrees in both Economics and Business Administration. He is a PRINCE2® Registered Practitioner and has passed Level I of the CFA Program. Fluent in both Italian and English, he has previously worked in New York and Italy, gaining experience in the investment banking and real estate sectors.
Consultant
Anjali is primarily focused on a multi-workstream back-office systems implementation for a global finance institute.
Prior to joining Holland Mountain, Anjali worked within financial services, researching and implementing new business strategies.
Fluent in both Hindi and English, Anjali holds a BSc (Hons) Biochemistry from the University of Bath and is currently working towards the PRINCE2® Practitioner qualification.
Consultant
Jordan is an experienced Consultant who has worked on a wide range of Holland Mountain engagements, spanning across private equity, private debt, real estate & infrastructure.
Last year, Jordan was Engagement Lead on a global CRM implementation project for a pan-European buyout firm. He drove all client and vendor communications, project managing the implementation to its successful go-live and managing user adoption. During this project, Jordan oversaw a team of Analysts delivering a large-scale data transformation and migration project.
Most recently, Jordan has delivered engagements as part of Holland Mountain Data Services (HMDS), assisting our team of Data Architects to translate business requirements into a technical data solution for our clients.
Jordan is a graduate from University College London with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He has previous experience in data management from his role as a Data Scientist at Tailify.
Business Development Manager
Katie specialises in client relations, driving both new business acquisition and account development. Since joining Holland Mountain, she has worked on an Operational Review and an IT Strategy Review, both for large, London-based infrastructure fund managers.
Katie holds a degree in Philosophy, Psychology and Italian from Durham University, and recently passed the CAIA Association’s Fundamentals of Alternative Investments Certificate.
Business Development Analyst
Chris coordinates all business development activity across both Holland Mountain and Consolidata.
Leveraging private capital industry experience gained from internships at Terra Firma and SEI Investments, Chris was integral to the setup and launch of Holland Mountain’s IT Strategy & Transformation practice in January 2018. He continues to drive significant improvements to business development and marketing materials and initiatives across the group.
Chris holds a BSc in Finance, Accounting and Management from the University of Nottingham.
Finance Manager
Grace joined Holland Mountain in 2018 as Finance Manager and quickly became involved in a number of internal financial change management projects to help support the growth of the business and the acquisition of Consolidata.
Prior to joining Holland Mountain, Grace worked within the care, pharmaceutical and not-for-profit sectors.
A graduate from Brunel University, Grace has a bachelor’s degree in Business and Management Accounting and is a chartered accountant (ACCA).
Analyst
Lorraine joined Holland Mountain in 2018 from a background in global property investment with a management firm in Hong Kong. Since joining Holland Mountain she has been working on a front office systems implementation project for an international private equity firm, specialising in data analysis, migration and cleansing.
Lorraine graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc in Economics and is fluent in Cantonese and English.
Business Support Analyst
Lynsey specialises in business operations & joined Holland Mountain from a background in operations & project support for an IT consulting firm.
As well as being experienced in a wide range of back & middle office activities, Lynsey handles client invoicing for HM and is responsible for ensuring monthly accounting processes are executed smoothly & on time.
Lynsey holds a Law degree from the University of Reading and is involved in delivering courses to train guides assisting visually impaired people. She also sits on a panel for Diabetes UK, giving advice on campaign materials.
Head of Operations
Leah joined Holland Mountain in 2017 initially to set up the client delivery support function. Specialising in operational excellence she now leads the Operations team and is responsible for optimising the performance of our business through provision of dedicated support services to client-facing teams.
Prior to joining Holland Mountain, Leah worked for a FTSE 100 company within the knowledge and information economy sector. Her career has spanned the public and private sectors in both London and New York, predominately in project-focused operations roles.
Senior Analyst
Since joining Holland Mountain in early 2017, Gabrielle has worked on two multi workstream implementation projects for private equity firms. Throughout these projects she has gained experience with back office systems and processes, managing system integrations, data analysis and migration.
A graduate in Law from the University of Birmingham, Gabrielle directs our weekly private equity training sessions and is currently working towards her PRINCE2® qualification.
HR Manager
Amy joined Holland Mountain in 2017 as a key member of our internal operations team working closely with our CEO to provide executive support. More recently, Amy has re-focused her attention to our internal HR functions and is now leading the human resources team as HR Manager, focusing on engagement and strategy.
Prior to joining Holland Mountain, Amy worked in various back office roles within HR and high-level support to executives.
IT Strategy & Transformation Practice Lead
Amar is an IT transformation and strategy specialist with expert knowledge of IT service delivery for private equity, Amar joined Holland Mountain in January 2018 as the practice lead for IT strategy.
His extensive previous experience includes delivering a large scale IT change programme for Vision Capital and an IT leadership role for Terra Firma.
Amar has over ten years experience in understanding a firm’s IT business needs and using secure, compliant and scalable solutions to deliver the requirements.
Staff Member
Abisoye joined the Holland Mountain team in 2016, bringing extensive experience in client relationship management. She has since been focused primarily on a back-office system implementation project for a major international private equity group.
She is a natural project manager, with diverse experience across both the private and non-profit sectors. Her most recent role was with award-winning social enterprise, Renaisi, which helps to transform disadvantaged communities and secure opportunities for local people.
Abisoye has a degree in Business and Finance from the University of Lincoln, and was recently awarded her PRINCE2® Practitioner qualification.
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