Gavin Holland

Patron, and member of the Corporate & Philanthropy Leadership Group

2023 - Current

Following my son's diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes, I am committed to help JDRF with their amazing work towards finding a cure.

Advisor

2021

Working with Ruth Ibegbuna and her team to build various key projects that include Rekindle & Roots.

President

2021

Partner

2016 - 2021

As Ecosystem Development Partner, focused on maximising the value of the Anthemis Ecosystem for all members. The uniqueness of Anthemis naturally creates a broad, diverse, and rich ecosystem spanning: - Early stage FinTech businesses, within and outside of our own investment portfolio - Large global financial institutions who are embracing innovation - Non-financial institutions who are building financial services businesses - Investors, including Venture Investors, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Private Equity firms, Corporate Investors, HNWI, etc - Entrepreneurs seeking to build new ventures in FinTech - Professional advisors focused on FinTech (Corporate Finance, Accounting, Legal, PR, etc) - FinTech focused accelerators and incubators - Influencers such as Think Tanks, Academics, and Regulators who are seeking to define the future of finance. The value of the Ecosystem team is to create an environment where positive interactions can be initiated between members of our ecosystem to drive value across the Anthemis Group.

Founder, Anthemis Talent

2013 - 2016

Our culture and operating model are defined by ultra flexibility and client focus, so we can mix and match any combination of these core services to ensure that clients get a world-class solution: - Chairman / Board / Non-Executive / Advisory Board Search - Executive Search at CEO / C-Level / and other "Game Changing Talent" - Pre-Investment Leadership Due Diligence - External Benchmarking of Current Talent - Interim Transformation Management - Leadership & Culture Change Advisory The collective sector knowledge across Anthemis Group, Anthemis Talent, and the broader Anthemis Ecosystem is unrivalled in the talent industry. Core sectors in which we have deep knowledge include: - Consumer financial services (including retail banking, wealth management, and insurance) - Institutional financial services (across the sell side and buy side, including the alternative investment space) - FinTech, Payments, and Market Infrastructure - Start-ups that don't necessarily fit in any of these categories by design, but instead seek to disrupt them

Non Executive Director

2016

Operating as a Non-Executive Director with a broad mandate to help the team to grow to their full potential, and in addition to provide specific industry knowledge in the Financial Services / FinTech space. Erevena are headhunters working with high growth and established companies going through a technology driven transformation. The company builds executive and non-executive leadership teams to conceive, then scale, novel digital products and services. These innovations disrupt established markets by building consumer and B2B brands at breakneck speed.

Partner, Head of Financial Services EMEA

2010 - 2013

Responsible for managing and growing the business across EMEA as part of the global leadership team. Has deep specialist knowledge of the COO, IT, and Operations functions in the global financial services sector. Given the inter-connected nature of this world with the broader market infrastructure space he is frequently operating in the intersect point where the financial services industry meets the technology, processing, exchanges, clearing, electronic trading, payments, and BPO industries hiring Board Directors, CEO's and General Managers for these “FinTech” businesses. When Gavin joined Heidrick & Struggles in June 2000, he was in the International Technology Practice working for smaller high growth technology companies, and he has continued to execute work throughout his career with a wide spectrum of businesses from the smallest start-ups to very large complex global multi-nationals. Given the desire for Boards of companies to refresh their Independent Directors with a new generation of diverse talent that “gets” the potentially disruptive effect of new technologies and emerging “convergent” economies, he has worked with a number of clients around the world to assess the emerging pipeline of Board talent with appropriate Corporate Governance expertise as well as the ability to add value when thinking about these topics.

Partner, European Head of Financial Services Infrastructure Practices

2006 - 2010

Gavin Holland leads the European Financial Services Infrastructure Practice with a team which covers COO, IT, Operations, HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Audit, Communications, Supply Chain and Procurement. He is now based in London having spent the prior two years in the Wall Street office of Heidrick & Struggles. Gavin personally has deep specialist knowledge of the COO, IT, Operations, and HR functions globally.His recent search assignments have included Chief Information Officers as well as building out Technology Organizations for CIOs spanning Infrastructure through to Applications Development, many of which have been in the area of front-office trading systems. Additionally in the Operations space he has worked with a variety of clients to rebuild their Operations leadership teams across both the Middle and Back Office. From an HR perspective his work has included Heads of HR, Learning & Development professionals as well as building internal Recruiting teams for key clients.

Principal, Financial Services Practice

2000 - 2006

Based in Wall Street, Gavin was a Principal in the Financial Services Practice, operating across a number of Functional Practice areas including Technology, Operations, HR, Finance, Procurement, and Legal. He joined Heidrick & Struggles in June 2000, and worked for 4 years in London before transferring to New York.