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Aadil Bundeally

  • Aadil Bundeally is  a seasoned professional within Banking, Wealth Management and Asset Management, including impact investing and philanthropy.
  • He brings with him deep industry knowledge of the regulatory landscape, customer journeys, value chains, revenue models,  functional processes, operating models, organisational designs, integrated systems, technological tools and governance-risk-compliance expertise.  
  • With relentless focus on customer advocacy, operational efficiency, results-driven innovation and regulatory compliance, underpinned with Data Analytics, Robotic Process Automation, AI-ML and more recently, Gen AI, he has helped deploy numerous solutions and platforms, which have contributed to significant cost reduction, job enrichment and quality of life improvement for customers, suppliers and staff across the board.
  • In delivery roles, he is cognisant about maintaining due governance with tremendous respect for the three lines-of-defence, external auditors and regulators, while managing numerous multi-level internal and external stakeholder relationships and generating robust analysis for C-level decision-making.
  • He has also managed RFI/RFP  beauty parades and worked with Procurement and Supplier Management teams to onboard and embed suppliers. At the best of the programme sponsors, he has provided oversight and governance of multiple vendors, and provided an independent and impartial view when there were disagreements / disputes between them in terms of hand-offs, scope-creep, delivery milestones and SLA breaches. 
  • With over 20 international experience, he has held senior roles in blue-chip organisations,  leading diverse multi-disciplinary teams, delivering complex BaU and Change initiatives and cultivating trusted advisor relationships (mix of consulting, interim-management & in-house roles). He possesses 4 post-graduate qualifications, including a MBA.

Dr Philippa Parmiter

Dr Philippa Parmiter is a strategic leader, dedicated to action on climate, and CEO of NECCUS, the industrial decarbonisation alliance for Scotland with the objective of achieving a thriving Scotland through decarbonisation. Previous roles include Development Manager (Gas Storage & Pipelines) at Crown Estate Scotland, and running the research consortium for CCUS in Scotland, SCCS, for over ten years, delivering policy analysis, knowledge exchange, business development, project management and successful funding proposals. She is a Chartered Engineer with a PhD in Physical Electronics and MSc in Environmental Protection and Management and has worked for government, academia, an environmental consultancy and for an electronics start-up.