Our Experts

Our Experts

Over 100 years of experience combined

Meet Our Experts

Our experts have over 100 years of combined experience in the financial services industry.

Bisi Giwa (FICA)
Founder & CEO
Cameron Marr
Executive Advisor
Davies Bamigboye
Non-Executive Director

John Webb
Consultant
Tony Cuff
Consultant

Exceptionally talented

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Bisi Giwa

It all started with Bisi. Bisi is the founder and CEO of the company.  

Before Bisi set up Kharis & Knoble, she was a solicitor, then moved to risk and compliance roles at Qatar Islamic Bank and Europe Arab Bank. Bisi is a legal, risk and compliance professional having worked in the financial services industry and the legal sector for over 20 years. She is highly experienced in the field of Financial Crime Management and Regulatory Compliance.  

She specialises in Financial Crime Prevention and Regulatory Compliance matters across EU, Africa and the Middle East with in-depth cultural knowledge and insight. Bisi worked as the General Manager of Compliance and MLRO at Ghana International Bank and was previously the Compliance Director at Butterfield Private Bank and Harrods Bank.  Bisi is a fellow of the International Compliance Association and a member of the Association of Professional Compliance Consultants.


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Davies Bamigboye

Davies a member of the Board of Kharis & Knoble. He is an award-winning organisation change leader with over 20 years experience; trained at the prestigious University College London (UCL) and the University of Oxford. Davies’ expertise lies in helping organisations change their paradigms.

He is certified leadership coach and has led digital, business, and agile transformation initiatives at the BBC, Virgin Atlantic, BT, Vodafone, The Telegraph, Zurich Insurance, Alpha International and British American Insurance. He is adept at both GDPR and cyber-security implementation and has helped organisations comply with the GDPR data protection regulation through the implementation of safeguards and information governance strategies.


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Cameron Marr

Cameron is an executive advisor to Kharis & Knoble. Cameron is an Independent Non-Executive Director with significant International banking C-Suite executive experience operating at CEO, other C-level and senior leadership positions over the past two decades. He has a wide expertise across business leadership, development and restructuring, risk management, change management and regulatory liaison with a 17 year track record of regulatory approved controlled and senior management functions in UK and Ireland.

Cameron set up and harnessed a full scope risk function at KBC Ireland that included compliance, anti-money laundering, fraud and regulatory liaison as well as the enterprise’s risk management functions. Based outside Dublin, with dual Irish and British citizenship, Cameron now provides advisory services and sits on a number of boards for established financial services companies in the UK and Ireland.


John Webb
Consultant

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John Webb

John is a consultant for Kharis & Knoble. He has been a Chief Audit Executive in financial services since 1990 and has also worked as a Money Laundering Prevention Officer and a Fraud Investigation Officer. During these thirty years he has been engaged in banking, insurance, corporate finance and capital markets, asset management and hedge funds.

John’s experience has been geographically diverse and though mainly in the City of London, has included major assignments around England and Ireland, as well as in North America, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. John is a Certified Accountant, Fraud Examiner and has the Islamic Finance Qualification. John is well known speaker within the City of London’s Financial Services Internal Audit community and at the annual International Symposium on Economic Crime at the University of Cambridge.


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Tony Cuff

Tony is a consultant and has over 40 years of international banking experience primarily in the trade finance and financial crime areas. Tony has worked in several foreign international banks in senior positions and specialises in trade finance, capital markets and secondary market trading. Tony brings a wealth of experience in the Compliance sector including Know Your Customer (KYC) , Quality Assurance, Transaction Monitoring and Payments.

Tony has worked for many years in the Africa and Middle East markets so he is fully complicit with the different cultures as well as the challenges that these exciting emerging markets bring. Tony is a Certified Documentary Credits Specialist and has a diploma in the BEC National Business and Finance sector as well as qualifications in Finance of International Trade and Internal Audit.