EY to open fintech hub in the Midlands

Source: EY

EY has today announced plans to establish a new Financial Services Technology Hub in the Midlands, as it responds to rising market demand for tech expertise outside London.

The new Hub will be run by a four-strong leadership team - Sagar Khandelwal, Heather Hales, Mark Wood and new hire, Joe Murray - and forms part of EYs ambitious growth target to double its UK financial services technology revenues over the next three years.

Located at 1 Colmore Square in Birmingham, the new Hub expands EYs already-strong financial services audit and advisory technology capabilities and will serve clients across the UK.

The Leadership Team

Sagar Khandelwal is a UK partner and has been at EY since 2013. He has extensive digital and emerging technology expertise, and leads large scale digital, cloud and data transformation programmes for financial services firms. Sagar also brings very relevant experience in terms of setting up EYs technology hub in the Midlands, having established three similar such hubs in European locations over the past six years. Prior to EY, Sagar was the interim CIO & Head of Delivery for Insurwave, an insurance blockchain platform.

Heather Hales is a UK Partner with over 22 years experience working in insurance. Heather joined EY in 2010 and currently leads the firms Insurance Technology Transformation People team, supporting some of EYs largest European financial services clients achieve multi-year digital and technology transformations projects.