He started at Citibank in the Worldwide Securities Services group where he ultimately managed the European Customer Service team for the Clearing & Custody businesses before moving to Deutsche’s Investment Bank to run middle office for Money Markets and Fixed income. Leaving to join Swift scrl, he led the Securities Strategy team and started the Government Relations function through his involvement in a number of pan-european initiatives including Giovannini. Subsequently, he spent 13 years at DTCC where he was both CEO of DTCC’s largest Derivatives Trade Repository, DDRL and the head of DTCC’s Regulatory Affairs outside of the US,

Andrew left DTCC in early 2023 to start his own advisory business, BlackWater Consultancy Ltd.

Today, Andrew is the Chair of the UK Accelerated Settlement taskforce leading the planning of the UK migration to T+1 in 2027. He is also Chair of the Strategic Advisory Group to a post trade Tax Reclamation start up and the Chair designate of a new venture in the Tokenisation space, the Digital Value Foundation. He was also, until earlier this year when his 3-year term expired, Chair of the Data Standards Committee for the Bank of England’s ‘Transforming Data Collection’ initiative.

Andrew has a BSc in Materials Technology from Surrey University and an MBA from Manchester Business School.