Stephen Ley Email & Phone Number

I am a NED / Board Advisor, Payments & Technology Risk Expert and former Deloitte Financial Services Partner enabling resilient business and digital growth in UK and global payment ecosystems. In my role as a Partner at Deloitte, I specialised in providing both assurance and advisory services to the Financial Services sector, I co-led the Global Banking & Capital Markets Payment Practice; and led Payments for EMEA region and Risk Advisory (RA) globally. Until 2020, I was Deloitte’s Global Leader for Technology & Digital Risk. Leveraging my deep understanding of the global payment landscape, I am able to clearly communicate the potential impact and opportunities of change. In recent years, I guided the establishment of an effective Payment Leadership Group at Deloitte, initially leading the EMEA Payment Group before becoming co-global leader in 2018, growing the EMEA Group from 70 to 200 people and globally to 1500 people.I have a strong track record advising Boards and exec management on regulatory investigations to mitigate operational risk and increase resilience, while coaching and mentoring senior executives to successfully navigate risk management and develop effective growth strategies in the Payment industry.Additionally, I build collaborative key stakeholder relationships at Board and executive level to credibly influence decision making and achieve agreements to a common purpose. I am currently a Non-Executive Director for Wales Air Ambulance Service. My earlier NED portfolio includes: YMCA East Surrey; and Blast Theory, a multi-award-winning art organisation. Specialities:✔️Board Advisory / Non-Executive Director✔️Digital Risk Management ✔️Disruptive Technology Advisory ✔️Payments & Technology Risk✔️Compliance & Regulatory Systems ✔️Innovative Growth Strategy ✔️Board Effectiveness Review & Training ✔️Programme Risk Management ✔️Stakeholder Management ✔️Global Capability Building ✔️Corporate Governance ✔️Internal Audit Review & Turnaround ✔️Post-incident Regulatory Investigation ✔️Executive Coaching & Mentoring

Listed skills include Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, Technology Risk, Payments, and 21 others.

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  University Of Surrey

  1St Class Hons