People

Kore is pioneering a new generation of product management technology built for transparency, governance and accountability. Our mission is to make regulated products more intelligent, efficient and equitable for every person and business they serve.

Meet our team

CEO & Founder

Sabrina Del Prete

30+ years’ experience in financial services, business transformation, and application of new technologies in banking. Held senior roles at JP Morgan, Barclays, and RBS.

CFO

Guy Phillips

ACA chartered accountant delivering 10+ years of audit and client advisory services within Financial Services. ExPwC & Marshmallow, a ‘unicorn status’ regulated Insurtech.

CTO

James Farquhar

Ex-CTO Mortgage Engine and Global VP of IT Delivery for RS Components, a FTSE250 company with £2bn annual revenues. A well-rounded business and IT leader with a strategic mindset.

Chief Product Officer

Liz Dionisio

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.

Chief Strategic Relations Officer

Stefano Silocchi

30 years of experience in the financial sector across investment banking and asset and wealth management, with senior roles at Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, and Credit Suisse. Strong focus on clients’ relationship management.

Board members

Chairman

Ronan Dunne

A former CEO of Telefónica UK (O2) and former senior executive at Verizon, where he led its Consumer Group. Ronan is currently the Chairman of Six Nations Rugby and serves as a NED on the Board of Marks & Spencer. He is also an Advisor to UK Government on Digital Economy.

Non-Exec Board Member

Sally Clark

A 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.

Non-Exec Board Member

Gillian Hepburn

A senior executive with over 35 year’s experience in financial services. Gillian has worked across various sectors including investment platforms, financial advice, asset management and ‘start ups’ and also brings a range of board and consulting experience.

Executive Board Member

Deborah Tavana

A commercial people focused Company Director with over 30 years of experience in diverse global businesses, ranging from FTSE 100 PLCs to private equity companies. Deborah is also an advisor and executive coach to a number of companies across the financial services, industrial and media sectors.

Strategic advisors

Strategic Advisor – Growth

Jon Buss

Business leader with more than 25 years experience within tech start ups and market leading international firms. Driving high revenue and EBIT growth through organisational transformation, M&A, product innovation & development, high performance culture & people development. Aligning vision and strategy with strong go-to market execution.

Strategic Advisor – Business

Ian Ewart

C-level Marketing, Sales, Business, Commercial and Relationship Development professional with extensive customer success experience - Executive and IoD Fellow Non-Executive Director with Board and Executive Committee experience in financial services, FinTech, RegTech, working in the marketing and management consulting industry.

Strategic Advisor – Regulations

John Liver

A highly experienced financial services regulatory professional, with a broad and international perspective of the regulatory change agenda. Devising and leading new and innovative approaches to regulatory initiatives and programmes, working at a senior level in the UK regulators, in the banking industry and in consulting.

Kore is a cloud-based platform that brings intelligence, governance and control to products, services and processes across regulated industries. Our technology enables organisations to manage complexity, reduce risk and deliver better outcomes for customers and businesses alike.