Chief Executive Officer

Liam Healy

Liam Healy is the Chief Executive Officer of FE fundinfo, a global leader in investment fund data and technology connecting the fund management industry to inform better investment decisions.

Liam was appointed in this role in September 2023 and is responsible for all day-to-day operations. He brings with him more than 15 years of executive leadership experience, focused on delivering client value through go-to-market strategy (GTM), product and technology delivery, and mergers and acquisitions.   

He previously served as an Executive on the leadership team at Diligent, a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS company, where he was Managing Director and Senior Vice President for their international business.

Liam’s track record of leading successful Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses, alongside broad international experience across Europe, Asia and the US, will support - and accelerate - FE fundinfo’s current and future growth aspirations.

Chairman

David Blumer

David joined FE fundinfo as Chairman in February 2020, where he oversees the strategic direction of the company, along with the other members of the Executive Committee.

An industry expert, he began his career at Credit Suisse after completing a degree in Economics at the University of Zurich. During his time at Credit Suisse, he undertook a variety of senior roles in their trading, sales and asset management divisions.

His last role at Credit Suisse was as CEO in their Asset Management division, where he moved to Swiss RE as their Chief Investment Officer in 2008. In addition to being the CIO, he became Chairman of Admin Re in 2010 and then subsequently moved to BlackRock in 2013. David was Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for BlackRock, a member of the company’s Global Executive Committee and, more recently, Global Head of Blackrock Alternative Investors then Chairman of BlackRock’s business in Switzerland. He is now a non-executive Director on several Boards.

As Chairman, David is leading on the next phase of FE fundinfo’s growth, following the company’s creation in 2018 after the merger of FE, fundinfo and F2C.

Chief Financial Officer

Peter van Tiggelen

Peter joined FE fundinfo in February 2022. As CFO, he is responsible for the company’s Finance, Legal and Business Intelligence functions. With extensive international finance experience, including from the United States and Asia, Peter has held several leadership positions in innovative, high-growth businesses in both healthcare and financial technology. Most recently he was CFO of the capital markets technology company Itiviti.

Tim joined FE fundinfo as CRO in November 2020 and is responsible for FE fundinfo’s go to market strategy and organisation, spanning sales, account management and further developing the growing partner ecosystem.

He believes deeply in customer centricity and partnership, developing long-term relationships centred on trust and collaboration and co-innovation.

Tim has deep knowledge of the financial technology sector, both as a user and technology provider. He joined FE fundinfo from Finastra, where he spent almost 20 years in a series of global customer-centric senior leadership roles, including sales, consulting services, customer success and partner management and was part of the extended Executive Leadership team. Tim began his career at KPMG in consulting before joining Deutsche Bank as an equity analyst focused on the European technology sector.

Chief Technology Officer

Paul Ronan

Paul has more than 25 years’ experience as a technologist in the financial markets arena, working in world-class organisations across capital markets, brokerage, private banking and energy trading. He has also held senior roles in banks as well as software & FinTech consulting organisations.

Paul joined FE fundinfo in 2019 and leads our technology strategy globally.

Chief People Officer

Kate Scarles

Kate joined FE fundinfo in January 2019 to take on a newly created role as Chief People Officer. She is responsible for all aspects of the talent strategy for FE fundinfo across 14 international locations and is a member of the Executive Committee.

Previously, Kate had a 20-year career with Standard & Poor’s (S&P) where she held the position of Senior HR Director. She was responsible for S&P Ratings in the EMEA region and Global HR business partner for Commercial Ratings and also completed short term assignments in both the Melbourne and New York offices.

Earlier in her career, Kate worked in HR Business Partner roles with Barclays Capital and Credit Suisse First Boston where she was responsible for various front office client groups.

Chief Marketing Officer

Joerg Grossmann

Joerg Grossmann joined FE fundinfo in April 2024 as Chief Product Officer.

In this role, he steers the product vision to empower FE fundinfo's clients to drive asset growth and efficiency, shape effective product and distribution strategies through market intelligence, and facilitate faster global market entry and growth. 

Joerg brought with him more than two decades of experience across a broad range of senior leadership roles at major global financial institutions, tier one strategy consultancies and financial technology firms.

Before joining FE fundinfo, Joerg was Chief Product Officer at Allfunds, a leading B2B wealthtech platform, and acted as a jury member of the Swiss Sustainable Fund Awards. Prior to this, he was the founder and CEO of Credit Suisse InvestLab AG, one of the largest open architecture B2B investment fund platforms at that time. At Credit Suisse, he also served as Managing Director, Head of Fund Selection and Product Strategy.

Chief Marketing Officer

Diana Eadington

Diana joined FE fundinfo as Chief Marketing Officer in February 2024 and is responsible for overseeing FE fundinfo’s marketing and editorial teams.

London-based Diana arrives with over 20 years’ experience in a variety of high-level marketing and business development roles at both Fortune 500 and scale-up organisations in sectors such as data management, AI, and other innovative technologies. 

She most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer of Kalray, a leading provider of global data management and storage solutions for high performance data-centric applications and AI workloads, where she was focused on driving and supporting growth both directly and through the channel.

Prior to this, Diana was Head of Corporate Marketing of SambaNova Systems – a Palo Alto-based global AI firm that offers a full stack, generative AI platform optimised for enterprise and government organisations. Here she was instrumental in establishing SambaNova’s brand across global regions and bringing the company’s first generation of products to market.

General Counsel

Lisa Maxwell

Lisa joined FE fundinfo as General Counsel in September 2021 and is responsible for all legal, compliance and regulatory affairs across the company.

Prior to joining FE fundinfo Lisa was Head of Legal (APAC and EMEA) for Informa plc, an information services and events company within the FTSE 100, where she was extensively involved in M&A, strategy, and operations for key divisions. She also supported business growth and development in several international markets with a focus on APAC.

Lisa began her career at Slaughter & May where she trained and qualified, specialising in corporate law. Lisa holds an M.A. in Modern History from Lincoln College, Oxford University.

Chief of Staff

Laura Boeck

Laura Boeck joined FE fundinfo in 2020. In her capacity as Chief of Staff, she drives FE fundinfo’s strategic agenda and calibrates priorities with the Executive Team.

Before joining FE fundinfo, Laura worked as an independent consultant to Private Equity-backed firms. Prior to that, she held roles at Private Equity and Growth Capital funds and in investment banking in Frankfurt and London.

Laura holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Head of Innovation & Business Development

Philipp Portmann

As Head of Innovation & Business Development, Philipp is responsible for the company’s innovation agenda and expansion strategy.

After working three years for a Swiss private bank, Philipp co-founded ifund services AG in Zurich, which then became fundinfo in 2005. As Co-founder and CEO, Philipp helped lead the company from a start-up into a global leader in fund information.

Philipp completed a banking apprenticeship in Zurich and studied at The University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration.

Chief Investments Officer

Rob Gleeson

Rob joined the executive team of FE fundinfo in November 2020, where he oversees the FE Investments discretionary business – the investments arm of FE fundinfo –  which he helped to found, initially as a consultancy in 2012. Since then, he has helped to grow the business into one of the fastest growing DFMs on platform, managing more than £3bn of investor assets.

Rob graduated from Swansea University with a degree in Economics and has spent the majority of his career at FE Fundinfo in a variety of roles. Starting off as a data analyst and Data Product Manager, he subsequently became Head of Research and then went on to form FE Investments. He became a CFA charter holder in 2009.

In his current role, Rob ensures FE Investments continues to provide investment solutions for IFAs that allow them to maximise value for their clients and is responsible for maximising the commercial success of FE Investments.

Director of Operations

Martin Pedwell

A graduate of Royal Holloway, Martin started his career with FE fundinfo as a Data Analyst. He then moved to India in 2005 where he held the position of Head of Indian Operations in Chennai, where he was responsible for managing the data and operations divisions.

Martin became a Director in 2007 and subsequently Managing Director India in 2015, he has overseen the expansion of operations in India and other locations across the globe.

As Managing Director India and Chief Change Officer, Martin sits on the Executive Committee and since the organisation’s merger has led on operations and customer solution projects.