Simone Koo Ishikawa

She is also the founder at ishikoo (aka., RSK Finance Ltd), which provides consultancy to corporates, startups, accelerators and universities.

She is an Non-Executive Director at the Syndicate Room and has been the Board Chair for 3 years, during which time the funds have invested over £25m across 170+ startups alongside UK’s most prominent super angels. She is a mentor at Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab, CodeBase and Unreasonable and has angel invested in many fintechs and impact startups over the years.

She has 20+ years of experience in banking across trading, structuring, ETF sales at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and J P Morgan and worked as an operator in charge of commercialisation at a fintech unicorn OakNorth. She’s an expert in go-to-market strategy and process building for startups looking to enter financial services through B2B SaaS.

She tutors and lectures at MBA programmes at Oxford and Cambridge and is an Honorary Practise Fellow at Imperial College Business School.

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