Management Team

James Redfern

Head of Sales & Marketing

James Redfern is responsible for sales and marketing and developing and managing the network of distributors through which CounterpartyLink's products are sold.

He was previously with Cicada, where he managed strategic alliances and partnerships with a wide range of third parties, from consultancy firms to technology suppliers and resellers. James was also responsible for the sourcing, negotiating and contracting of business relationships with third-party data providers.

Prior to joining Cicada, James was employed by Reuters Group plc in London, where he had global responsibility for the management of third-party research, analysis and news suppliers to Reuters (known as "Specialist Data").

Prior to Reuters, James was the International Product Manager for ADP's front-office brokerage information service "FS Partner for Windows" and "Power Partner". He has also worked for stockbrokers in Vancouver, Canada and Sydney, Australia.

Carl Needham

Head of Operations

Carl Needham leads the company operations and product delivery teams at CounterpartyLink, where he ensures the company’s high standards in product quality and client service requirements are continually maintained.

Carl joined CounterpartyLink after an extensive and successful career at D&B (formerly Dun & Bradstreet). In his 19 years at D&B, Carl held senior management roles in Operations, Sales, Service and Marketing, spanning country markets across Europe and North America. Carl led several strategic initiatives for the company and created and launched information products in numerous countries across the world.

Most recently, Carl served as D&B’s UK Marketing Director and chaired the company’s strategic risk product group in Europe, launching compliance and reference solutions.

Steffan Davies

Head of Business Development

Steffan joined CounterpartyLink in November 2005 and is responsible for the generation and development of new business, actively promoting the business as a high quality service provider.

He was previously with Complinet, where he was responsible for new business development and managing newly acquired accounts. Prior to this Steffan worked within the Financial Times Group and graduated with honours in Law from the University of Wales, Swansea.

Geoff Stanley

Head of Programme & Platform Delivery Management

Geoff Stanley is responsible for CounterpartyLink’s programme management and the delivery of the platform on which CPL builds and distributes its products to clients.

Prior to joining CounterpartyLink Geoff worked for Cicada where his responsibilities included solution design and appraisal, implementation, operation and project/programme management, which delivered risk, market and reference data solutions to Cicada's customers.

Prior to Cicada Geoff worked for Tenfore where he was involved in numerous projects including building the UK market data collection infrastructure, the subscriber management system and running the support teams for the UK customer base.

Geoff holds a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering, is a member of the PMI, holds the PMP qualification and is currently studying for an MBA with the Edinburgh Business School.

Testimonials

We are able to provide direct client references about the accuracy of our data and the quality of our services. Please contact your local CounterpartyLink office.

The following are some:
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"We realised that to effectively cope with a rolling review of all clients we would need the collaboration of a specialist vendor. We reviewed the players in the market and CounterpartyLink came out on top for coverage, pricing and understanding of our requirements." VP / Head of Reference Data - Tier 1 US Investment Bank
"We chose CounterpartyLink not only because they have demonstrated their accurate, validated data content and have the coverage required, but also because of their flexibility and willingness to work with us to satisfy our sometimes unusual requirements." Solutions Director, Equity Products - Data Vendor
"We have an immediate requirement to de-duplicate, validate and assign a single internal identifier to every legal entity from around the world that we hold across a number of internal databases. We chose CounterpartyLink not only because they have the coverage and data fields required, but also because their data collection and validation standards are designed to meet stringent international regulatory requirements, which is of course a very important focus for us." Senior Advisor, Market and Insurance Risk Management - Largest Cooperative Financial Group, Canada
"We will use CounterpartyLink as the key source of standardised legal entity reference data for our operations and in our compliance department. As CounterpartyLink's product is a high quality, and most importantly, auditable source of information, it allows us to rely on a trusted partner to collect and maintain this data, which in turn will allow us to concentrate internal resources on higher value activities." Head of Compliance, London-based Investment Bank
"Maintaining accurate client and counterparty data across jurisdictions is an important challenge, and it is essential to our data strategy. We selected CounterpartyLink because they understand well our requirements as an Asset Manager and provide the high levels of service we require from our providers." Global Head of Change Management Data, Investment Managers, France