Colin Sanders - Chairman

With over 20 years experience in the finance sector having held a number of senior executive roles for financial institutions, Colin has managed a diverse range of assets through the recession of the early nineties. A founder director and shareholder of igroup which was sold to GE capital in 2001 after which he was appointed to the GE Capital Bank main board and Chief Executive for GE Money Home Lending in charge of over 2000 staff, $11bln of assets and responsible for the P&L of the business in 2004 returning a $200mm net profit.

Identifying a market opportunity, Colin left GE in 2004 to launch Money Partners as its Chief Executive. The new lending venture originated over £3bln of new mortgages and loans posting a £6mm pre tax profit in its second full year of trading, at which point the management sold 50% of its shares with the business valued at over £100mm

Following the collapse of the capital markets in 2007, Money Partners was sold to Goldman Sachs where Colin remained on the board for one year. Identifying the market opportunity for debt purchase and Paladin’s expertise, platform and goodwill, he joined the board as Chairman and became a significant shareholder in Paladin Commercial.

George Miles – Managing Director

A credit management professional for 25 years, George has held several senior management roles at Unicol – Intrum Justitia before becoming the founding director of Paladin Commercial in 1995. George has been the driving force behind Paladin’s success over the past 14 years and has forged strong partnerships with an impressive list of clients.

George is also an industry champion for best practice and is often involved in workshops and forums for the trade association ACP - Association of Credit Professionals where he is on the board. He is also an authorised lecturer for the government backed initiative “debtcred” which helps educate young students in money management, credit and banking.

Michael Bevan – Operations Director

Graduated from Birmingham University with BSc honours in Money, Banking and Finance, before joining Paladin as a trainee in 2001. Michael has developed his responsibilities at Paladin from the ground up having done the job “hands on” for collections, recoveries, litigation and general ledger management before becoming operations director in 2006. He has introduced Paladin’s technology system and implemented a bespoke collections management system as part of the general operations director remit.

Michael has been instrumental in the client service proposition upon which Paladin prides itself and has significant experience in the valuation and due diligence of delinquent portfolios. In recognition of his key role at Paladin, Michael has recently been appointed to the board and is also a shareholder.

Simon Engelsman – Legal counsel

Qualified as a lawyer in 1983, Simon has specialised in secured lending for over 25 years and is recognised as one of the industries experts in the consumer credit act, debt recovery, insolvency and property litigation.

Paul Edmonds - Head of Credit and Risk

Paul Edmonds has more than 35 years credit experience including training, sales, MI solutions, audit, and quality control. Specialising in Risk Management since 1996, he has taken responsibility for diverse products personal and commercial lending across unsecured, secured and semi-secured portfolios, in both the prime and non-prime arenas. Paul initially worked for an independent lender, later holding senior management roles within Abbey National and then GE, where he was responsible for Risk Management across their (£1bn) retail credit operations. After a period as a Risk Strategy consultant in 2004, Paul joined Money Partners Ltd – a Goldman Sachs company - helping establish the brand’s credit management standards with both funders and investors.

Paladin - Managing Director, George Miles said,
“As part of Paladin’s continued growth and development, we are delighted to have secured Paul’s key experience to the management team, where he brings vital knowledge in retail credit, portfolio management and loss mitigation”.

Alan Bray - Director Roaming Service Solutions

Alan has over 10 years experience within the Financial Clearing & Settlement sector of the Mobile phone “Roaming industry”, in various senior Business Development, Sales & Account Management, and Operational roles.

Alan was an instrumental part of the Cibernet team which helped Mobile Operators monetize Roaming transactions during the nascent, explosive growth and mature stages of the industry’s evolution. During his 4 years with Cibernet, the company went from start-up entity to ensuring the settlement of every 2nd Roaming call made anywhere in the world, transacting settlements totalling approximately $4 Billion annually, and revenue growth exceeded 100% year-on-year.

Alan was then part of a team head-hunted by a Danish company – Dan Net – to establish and provide Financial Clearing services to the Roaming industry. During his time at Dan Net, Alan helped secure key Tier One Mobile clients, including TDC Mobil Denmark, Swisscom and Vodafone Japan. Dan Net Financial Clearing was subsequently sold within 18 months of launch for x15 ROI.

Now as head of the Roaming Business unit here at Paladin, Alan is looking forward to assisting Mobile Operators deliver the $210 Billion generated annually in Roaming Revenues to their bottom line more efficiently.