Richard is the co-founder and a director of Know Your Customer. Richard listed companies on the London Stock Exchange, the Singapore Stock Exchange and London’s Alternative Investment Market. He set up several Investment Fund Management companies, including an RMB Fund in China. Richard is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Asian Competitiveness Institute at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, a constituent part of the National University of Singapore.

An experienced entrepreneur and executive, Claus has been active in the software industry for more than thirty years.

Prior to co-founding and becoming CEO of Know Your Customer, Claus founded Servolutions GmbH, a company that develops email server infrastructure products for more than 60,000 global customers, and served as Vice President of Electronics at Thielert Aircraft Engines. A native of Germany, Claus studied computer science at the University of Hamburg.

Cormac Doddy is a co-founder and board director of Know Your Customer. Based in San Francisco, Cormac has spent most of his career working in international capital markets and specialises in commercial real estate.

He is Vice President at Stockbridge Capital Group and was previously with QIC in Los Angeles. Cormac spent 9 years living in China where he worked with Forterra Trust and Cushman & Wakefield. He holds a master’s degree in International Real Estate Markets, a bachelor’s degree in economics and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Maria is a qualified accountant and qualified company secretary with over twenty-five years’ experience working in the offshore finance industry. She has extensive experience in investment funds, private wealth, compliance and risk management having worked on the set up and administration of various structures including companies, trusts, unit trusts, business trusts and partnerships established in a variety of jurisdictions globally. She has also worked on the listing and ongoing administration of entities listed on stock exchanges in both Europe and Asia.

Maria is Know Your Customer’s appointed Data Protection Officer.

At Know Your Customer we believe in the importance of fostering a company culture driven by the principles of transparency, diversity, equality, innovation and collaboration. This is reflected by the composition of our management team, where members hail from 6 different geographies and 50% are female.

Reflecting the global nature of our management team, our full-time employees are based across 13 countries, guaranteeing round-the-clock support to our global customers.

After holding various positions at KPMG, Deloitte & Touche and gaining extensive experience in investment funds, project management, corporate restructuring, investment banking, financial reporting, forensic accounting & auditing, Rory joined Know Your Customer to lead the Finance function of the business.

An Irish native, Rory holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from University College Cork Ireland and is an Associate of the Chartered Accountants Ireland (“ACA”).