Team Speaker Bios
Clive Mitchell
Co-Founder & Chairman
Formerly a Director at PwC and Head of Growth and Co-Founder of Railsbank with 20+ years business/technology/finance experience.
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Clive is a serial entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in financial services, big data, IT security, and technology. He has a long-standing passion for global financial inclusion and innovative technology that supports compliance and financial crime requirements that need to be in place for global financial inclusion. Currently the Chair of Green Swan Compliance and previously the co-founder of Railsbank (now Railsr which is currently under the Chairmanship of Lord Hammond) Clive has extensive expertise in global E Money Institution, FinCrime prevention, compliance audits, international payment systems, and Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) in the UK.
Before co-founding Railsbank, Clive was listed in the CIO awards for his work at Bourne Leisure. Clive also has extensive experience of Transaction Services as part of PwC deal teams as well as working at the UK Asset Protection Agency during the financial crisis of 2008 and was the co-founder of Morse Transaction Services. He gained his Engineering degree from Warwick University and his MBA from Henley Management College. In a former life Clive was also a Weapons Engineer Officer in the Royal Navy Submarine Service.​​​​
Leven Li
Co-Founder & Director
An experienced Chief Compliance Officer within the FinTech industry working with Crypto.com, Stealth Finance and Anna Money.
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Leven was previously the Compliance Director/MLRO at Crypto.com where she successfully obtained the UK crypto asset registration and EMI application, led the compliance team and represented the firm's compliance function as part of working group and international public affairs. Prior to that, she was the MLRO at the leading global BaaS platform Railsbank and its subsidiary, the authorised EMI, PayrNet Limited. She led the Compliance team and was responsible for the regulatory, card scheme principal member and payment scheme member licensing (VISA, Mastercard and Faster Payment Scheme/ Real Time Gross Settlement with the Bank of England).
Leven is still appointed as part time Chief Compliance Office at ANNA Money to help build and establish the ANNA compliance and AML/CFT control framework, oversee all activities relating to AML/CFT and compliance matters.
Claire Conby
Compliance Board Advisor
Over 20 years of experience in risk management, compliance, business management, digital money, and start-ups, Claire is dedicated to transforming the FinTech landscape as we know it today.
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Featured in the Innovate UK Women in FinTech Powerlist 2023, Claire Conby brings over 20 years of experience in a variety of TradFi and FinTech business and risk management roles, including within start-ups, and has a strong opportunistic and business-focused mindset. Having made the transition to FinTech in 2018, Claire is passionate about the potential to transform the payments landscape into a digital experience, leveraging new technologies and capabilities. Seeking opportunities to innovate applies equally to the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, as organisations face an increasing level of regulatory scrutiny and requirements and Claire leverages her background in e-money and payment services risk management with innovation to explore and develop solutions such as APP Fraud Insurance.
Claire is also Executive Director at the Digital Pound Foundation, an active member-led organisation that advocates for a well-designed digital Pound, in both public and private forms.