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Maximizing the strategic value of Encompass

The Encompass Executive Advisory Board (EAB) is an elite group of senior professionals with deep experience in global financial services, including leaders formerly from JP Morgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, and other major institutions. The role of the EAB is to help Encompass increase the value we deliver to our growing global client base by scaling our business and EC360 platform. 

Our strategic advisors have extensive industry experience and have been carefully selected to contribute to Encompass’ growth and help us continue to deliver on our company vision to be the leader in Corporate Digital Identity (CDI). Each strategic advisor plays an active role by sharing their unique insights on industry and regulatory trends, deep understanding of pain points and challenges, and providing strategic guidance. 

The creation of the Executive Advisory Board signals Encompass’s commitment to driving meaningful change. By combining strategic insight with practical execution, we help institutions navigate KYC complexity and unlock new opportunities for growth, particularly through intelligent use of AI and the evolution of Corporate Digital Identity.

Doris Honold, Chair

Doris has been a Non-Exec Director on the Encompass board for four years. She has over 25 years of financial services experience, working in various Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) roles across the globe in Frankfurt, Singapore, Tokyo and London.

Honold spent over 12 years at Standard Chartered Bank, most recently as Group COO and member of its executive committee. Prior to joining Standard Chartered she had global responsibility for Dresdner Kleinwort’s market risk function. 

Honold holds a number of board and advisory positions where she continues to offer her expertise regarding risk management. 

Strategic Advisors

David Hudson
Formerly JP Morgan

David Hudson sits on the Advisory Board of Encompass Corporation and Finbourne Technology, and also is a non executive director of the highly successful Brazilian digital bank, C6. He chairs the Post Trade Committee for the Financial Markets Standards Board. 

Until 2023, David was the former Co-Head of Digital and Platform Services at JPMorgan, where he led digital transformation across technology, operations, and data for the Corporate and Investment Bank. He sat on the CIB’s Management Committee and also held a variety of other senior roles including CFO and COO of Global Markets. 

Colin Bell
Formerly HSBC

As a former CEO of HSBC Bank Plc and HSBC Europe, Colin combines commercial CEO experience with a background in compliance, risk and controls.

Colin was a board member at HSBC Bank plc, HSBC Singapore and Serai. He was also Group Chief Compliance Officer and Group Head of Financial Crime Risk at HSBC and Head of Compliance and Operational Risk Control at UBS.

He currently sits on the Executive Advisory Board of Encompass Corporation serves as Non-Executive Director of Serendipity Capital Ltd, Starling Bank Ltd and Oxford Quantum Circuits Ltd, and is a senior advisor at Bain & Co.

Corporate Digital Identity 

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EC360 CDI platform 

Fast, accurate customer identification, verification and verification. Encompass automates the manual KYC search process and combines live public data and documents from authoritative global sources with private customer information, to create and maintain digital risk profiles. A holistic view of customer risk that can power perpetual KYC (pKYC) programs and AI solutions. 

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