Partner

Murray Falconer

Murray leads client engagements in digital banking and M&A, leveraging over 25 years of international experience in financial services, technology and consultancy.

Since joining the firm in 2019, he has advised several UAE and KSA clients in digital strategy, developed innovative propositions and prepared delivery roadmaps. He led the technology workstream and an Accenture team for the 2020 mega-merger of NCB and Samba Financial Group in KSA, delivering the due diligence reports for both banks, the integration playbook, target state design, integration plans and migration approach.

Prior to Aspiro, he led EY’s EMEIA FS practice, based in London, for technology and operations pre-deal diligence and post-deal integration/carveout, performing in over 70 transactions.  His career prior to EY was as a partner in IBM Consulting, various interim CIO/COO/CTO roles and successful delivery of major programmes for Barclays Bank, JPMorgan, Santander, RBS, Tesco Bank (new bank build and launch), Coop Bank, Old Mutual SA, AXA PPP Healthcare, Amex MENA and NBK (Kuwait).

Partner

Lasse Hall

Lasse provides deep industry-based experience and expertise in digital banking solutions and FinTech, to support all phases of digital strategy and delivery.

He brings 18+ years experience combining technology, management, business know-how, digital banking and financial technology for market-leading products and services.  He is a seasoned executive, having previously worked as Vice President for SpareBank1, the second largest banking conglomerate in Norway, where he headed up their complete digitization. Lasse serves as a Mentor and advisor for the largest accelerator in the Nordics and sits on multiple boards of financial companies.

Recently he has built and sold two European FinTech businesses, both being acquired by European banks. He has advised PE clients on digital strategic infrastructure transformation and has most recently been CEO for a working capital SaaS startup.

Principal

Gaurav Diwan

Gaurav has 28+ years of experience in the Banking industry focused in the areas of Digital Transformation and strategy

Gaurav has worked with leading global organizations like Barclays Bank PLC, Oracle & ADCB and lead Digital transformation programs across Asian and African nations. Gaurav has been instrumental in bringing paradigm shift in organisations with large technological debt through an agile delivery supported by cutting edge technology and trends including Cloud strategy, AI / ML capabilities amongst others

Gaurav has run technology operations across the Banking space including Retail Banking, Corporate banking, Risk, Compliance, Payments Credit, Finance etc. He has consulted and transformed organisations with archaic technology landscapes, built customer journeys to create technology savvy organization keeping customer at the center.

Gaurav has also established COE for Cloud strategy, Payments, Digital customer journey through Agile, Waterfall and hybrid implementation methodologies. He has built and implemented the Demand Management framework to support annual and ad hoc planning of initiatives enterprise wide.