Neil Vernon

I am a highly experienced commercially oriented technologist delivering software solutions to financial institutions.

Pitched to the Gresham Board in 2010 that there was a gap in the market around data integrity, control and reconciliation. They invested in me and a startup within Gresham was formed to create Clareti. Ten years later and 100+ customers use the Clareti platform and solutions. Development has grown from an initial ten developers to seventy through organic growth and acquisition.

I manage the full product life cycle - market research, business case generation, customer identification, customer management, partners, press, market, functional and technical requirements, development both traditional and agile, sales, user experience, quality assurance and documentation.

Imaginative and resourceful, used to working in a dynamic and fast paced environment. Ambition to learn, develop, change, solve problems and succeed.

Specialised in wholesale financial services software, in roles encompassing Product Direction, Management & Strategy, Programme and Development Management, Implementation, Product Rollout, Business Development and Pre-Sales Consultancy, Application Development and Support.

Senior Product Manager at SmartStream Technologies responsible for setting product strategy and direction for TLM Reconciliations, TLM Control and related products.

Previously, Product Director at PaceMetrics providers of ground-breaking Exception Management and Business Activity Monitoring solutions.

Previously, Associate Director at Swiss Bank responsible for Back Office Equities Technology.

Specialties: Product Strategy and Management, Workflow, Business Process Management, Web Technologies, Integration and middleware technologies, Capital markets process automation, Reconciliations, Cash Management, Trade Process Management.