About us
Kore is an award-winning RegTech. Our mission is to digitise financial product management, reduce regulatory risks, costs and time to market for financial products.
Our values
Committed to excellence
Kore simplifies the complexity of financial products, giving users the clarity and confidence to make more informed decisions.
Trustworthy
We’ll never make a promise we haven’t thought through: if we’ve said it will happen, it will happen.
Inquisitive
We’re always questioning and challenging the status quo, wondering how things could be better, and working out how to make them so.
Transformational
We are transforming the very foundations of how financial services work, moving products away from departmental silos into one centralised home.
OUR APPROACH
We are innovators
We are leading voices in the FinTech innovation movement. We won twice – in 2019 and 2021 – a competitive grant from the innovation agency of the UK government, Innovate UK, for Kore’s potential “to deliver game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy”. This year, our CEO was selected for the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist for the third year running, and we were awarded ‘Most Innovative Digital Product Governance SaaS Solution 2021’ by Wealth and Finance International.
OUR PEOPLE
We are financial services practitioners
Our senior team has decades of collective experience in financial services as practitioners. We have hands-on experience on how to navigate the intricacies of regulated businesses with legacy platforms and old processes. We are well-known across the industry for our track record of delivering true digital transformation in banking.
Our team
Sabrina Del Prete
CEO & Founder
25+ years’ experience in financial services, business transformation, and application of new technologies in banking. Held senior roles at JP Morgan, Barclays, and RBS.
Ged Brannan
COO
Career focus on leading organisations through change as a consultant, in large operational roles, and in startups in the UK and US. Held senior roles at Barclays Wealth, Coutts, and QuantumBlack.
James Farquhar
CTO
Former Mortgage Engine’s CTO and Global VP of IT Delivery for RS Components, a FTSE250 company with £2bn annual revenues.
Liz Dionisio
Chief Product Officer
20+ years’ experience in tech consulting in various software delivery and tech project mgmt roles with a strong client focus across the end-to-end client delivery process from pre-sales, requirements gathering, development to quality assurance.
Stefano Silocchi
Strategic Client Officer
30 years of experience in the financial sector with various senior roles across investment banking and asset and wealth management. Strong focus on clients’ relationship management.
Josh Blundell
Client Managing Director
Head of Kore’s UK client team, working with clients to help them identify where and how to use Kore to drive commercial success and regulatory compliance. Josh worked 15 years in product, sales and marketing roles across large financial institutions.
Board members
Phil Smith
Chairman
Experienced International Director & SMF/CF. Specialties: Commercial Strategy, Business Transformation, M&A and Post Merger Integration, Executive Leadership, Analytics and Econometrics for the Asset Management, Wealth Management, Private Banking, Platform/Brokerage, Insurance and Professional Services Sectors.
Deborah Tavana
Executive Board Member
A commercial people focused Company Director with 25+ years experience in diverse global businesses ranging from FTSE 100 PLC’s to private equity.
Sally Clark
Non-Exec Board Member
A seasoned financial industry professional with 30 years' experience now enjoying a portfolio career comprising board work with large companies – Citigroup and BUPA, and startups - ACIN, KORE and Career Masterclass, and, Executive leadership advisory and coaching through Pelham Street.
Gillian Hepburn
Non-Exec Board Member
Head of UK intermediary solutions at Schroders and brings a wealth of experience to enhance the board and advisory group. Previous roles include time as a member of the senior leadership at Embark Group, prior to this she was a co-founder of Discus Ltd, and she will continue her role as non-executive director at Benchmark Capital.
Our CEO Sabrina Del Prete is recognised as a Senior Leader in financial services technology and innovation. In March 2022 she was selected for the Women in FinTech Powerlist, for the third consecutive year.
