Jappy Takhar

Managing Director

Jappy Takhar serves as Managing Director for comitFS, responsible for vision, strategy, and developing next generation products.

His role is to interact with the global investment banking community, understand the unified communications strategies being developed, and to oversee the building of intelligent solutions that integrate into the trade workflow from within the enterprise or through hosted Cloud platforms.

Prior to this, Jappy was the global lead innovator for BT Unified Trading Collaboration Server, leveraging his more than 20 years’ experience in the ICT business. Jappy joined BT in 1989 after gaining his degree in Computer Science from Kingston University. He was awarded an MBA in information technology management by City University, London, in 1994.

Oliver Kemmis

CTO and Director of Consultancy Services

Oliver Kemmis serves as CTO and Director of Consultancy Services for comitFS, responsible for driving the core focus and innovations across the product set.

His role involves engaging with clients, distributors and partners to ensure that comitFS deliver leading-edge products and services. Working on short-term engagements and long-term visionary labs, his constant focus has been integrating new technology with legacy infrastructure, and realising business benefits with the flexibility for future extensions.

Oliver joined BT Syntegra with a first class honours degree from the University of Leeds, moving quickly into the financial services practice. With a strong focus on mobility, Oliver delivered some of the first mobile recording, email and data delivery services to the financial industry over 10 years ago.

Chris Manderson

Director

Chris Manderson is responsible for enterprise sales, channel sales and operations at comitFS.

Prior to comitFS, Chris was a director at vendor organisations comitted to addressing the requirements of the global banking and securities technology markets. He held his most recent position at BT – prior to this, Chris held directorships with DST International, Micrognosis Inc and ARBAT – a subsidiary of a London Bank. Chris has worked in London and the major European financial centres, as well as in New York, Chicago and the Far East.

Phillip Bungey

Company Chairman

Phillip is the company Chairman of comitFS offering help and support both across the business and the comitFS services and technology delivery.

A highly experienced financial services director with an outstanding track record in creating, building and delivering business solutions encompassing e-commerce, product development, project and change management.  Combines a strategic outlook with in-depth knowledge of business and understanding of technology, process and operation. Phillip has worked for a number of well-known institutions and start-ups including Nutmeg, Winterflood, UBS, Lloyds of London, Barclays.

Phillip is well known for his innovative approach and was responsible for completely revamping the Nutmeg operating model to deliver high volume model rebalancing, creating Winterflood Business services from scratch, migrating a whole wealth management business into the UBS architecture and launching one of the first internet broking services for Barclays Stockbrokers creating the first real time quote and trade across Europe.