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About us

About us

Complidata empowers financial institutions with GenAI-driven automation for trade finance and financial crime operations. Our core platform, TradeSpeed, is trusted by global and regional banks to transform their trade finance operations from manual document processing into intelligent, explainable decision-making, built on deep human-domain expertise.

28

People

20+

Years experience

2

Headquarters

Leadership team

The complidata team offers a mix of seasoned domain experts, each with 20+ years of experience in financial crime mitigation and trade finance operations, with tech-savvy data scientists. Our 25+ people work from our Brussels and London headquarters, plus multiple other locations across the globe.

Ben Arber

CEO

25+ years with HSBC across seven countries and four continents, including head of trade finance in Canada where he grew the business from $2.5bn to $7bn in assets and head of compliance for the commercial bank in North America.

Matthias Verbeke

Co-Founder & Global Head of Presales

10+ years in financial crime risk, implementing transaction monitoring and screening systems at financial institutions before co-founding Complidata.

Alexandra Vanderschelden

CFO

15+ years in finance including 3 years as an equity analyst at a top Asian investment bank, and private equity fund partner. She is formerly Director of various companies' boards where she has raised funds and investment.

Roderick Trekels

CTO

Passionate for building secure and scalable software, with strong experience building screening, AML and anti-fraud systems in FinTechs. Roderick has contributed significantly to the development of Swift products for FinCrime compliance.

Gary Collyer

Trade Finance Specialist & Head of TradeSpeed

Chaired the drafting groups for UCP 600 and ISBP 745, the rulebooks that still govern global trade documentation, and trains and advises globally for the ICC, banks and companies.

David Cooperman

Head of Americas Business Development and Global Head of Partnerships

30+ years in transaction banking, including global executive and board roles in trade finance at Citibank and ABN AMRO; a frequent Sibos and BAFT speaker.

Alex Gray

Senior Business Development Manager, Europe

25+ years of experience as a senior trade finance and financial crime specialist from earlier roles at HSBC and Santander. He was also Director of Trade and Transaction Banking at The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF) for 7 years.

Aisling Mullins

CPO

More than a decade of experience in FinTech, with roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Ireland, most recently serving as CPO at MonetaGo before joining Complidata.

Advisory team

Formed in June 2026, Complidata's Advisory Board brings together senior leaders whose careers span global trade finance, commodities and structured finance, financial crime compliance, and organizational leadership at institutions including HSBC, NatWest and Bloomberg.

Ian Tandy MBE

Chair

Trade Finance Former Regional Head SSEA & Co-Head Global Trade Solutions APAC, HSBC, with 16+ years at the bank and 20+ years in trade finance across the UK and Asia Pacific. Awarded an MBE in 2020 for services to the financial services sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jean-Francois Lambert

Commodity & Structured Trade Finance Founder, Lambert Commodities; former Global Head of Commodity and Structured Trade Finance, HSBC, with around 40 years in banking the real economy.

Caroline Edwards

Financial Crime Compliance Former Chief Compliance Officer, HSBC UK, with over 11 years at HSBC in senior financial crime and regulatory compliance roles.

Josh Mandel

Financial Crime & Investigations Former Head of Financial Crime Threat Intelligence, NatWest, with a career spanning NatWest, KPMG and Control Risks.

Tracy Redfern

People & Culture Founder, Reflection to Action; former Global Head of Culture & People Operations, Bloomberg Media, with earlier senior roles at HSBC.

Pieter Defoor

Commodities Founder and CEO, Commo18 (agricultural commodities brokerage); former MENA trader, Viterra.

Alex Gray

Trade Finance Director of Trade and Transaction Banking at LIBF and a Senior Business Development Manager at Complidata, with senior trade finance and financial crime experience from HSBC and Santander.

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