1LoD - About Us

James is an experienced non-financial risk practitioner and has been appointed as Co-Director of 1LoD. In his previous role, he was a Director at HSBC within the Global Banking & Markets Non-Financial Risk function. Starting as a Management Consultant at Accenture, he has subsequently led NFR teams and global programmes at financial institutions including Barclays, Deutsche Bank and HSBC. 

Andrew was appointed Co-Director of 1LoD in December 2024, following the acquisition by Infopro Digital, and has been responsible for revenue since 2018. With 20 years business development experience, he has specialised in delivering revenue growth in new markets and on launch products. Prior to 1LoD Andrew was head of sales and director, capital markets at Euromoney. In his ten years at Euromoney he originated and launched capital markets conferences in Europe, North America and Asia.

Dane is a Director and is the Head of Financial Institutions who joined 1LoD in 2018. Prior to 1loD he spent 10 years in financial services recruitment, specialising in risk and control functions across the sell side, buy side and consultancies. 

He has continually driven revenue growth across new and existing accounts, as well as managing large teams. Internally he sat on the senior management team and externally, he was an account director with overall responsibility for several major accounts, including Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Janus Henderson Investors.

Dave has been a crucial member of the 1LoD team since the beginning in 2017. He has consistently played a pivotal role within the company, readily available to address a wide range of enquiries, whether technical or non-technical. Dave also played an instrumental role in guiding the company’s smooth transition to an online format during the COVID-19 pandemic and later orchestrating the return to an in-person setting with a hybrid approach. As well as directing 1LoD’s technology, Dave is Head of Event Technology for Infopro Digital’s UK event teams. 

Prior to joining 1LoD, Dave worked as a Digital Marketing Executive at Euromoney in the conference division, eventually becoming Head of Digital and managing the conference division’s production work, innovation, and technology.

John has had a career in B2B media, specialising in conferences and other events. He has had a consistent track record in driving growth at a range of market-leading brands and start-ups. He co-founded Capacity Media that was sold to Euromoney Institutional Investor (now Delinian) and more recently 1LoD that was sold to Infopro Digital in 2024.

Mark Carawan has a wealth of experience in governance, regulatory compliance and ethics, and conduct and culture matters globally, and has served as the chief audit executive for two global financial institutions. From the late 1980s to 2002, as a partner at Andersen and then Deloitte, Mark led and managed multi-disciplinary financial sector and individual institution restructuring, resolution, and privatisation programs on behalf of ministries of finance, central banks, regulatory authorities, and restructuring agencies. In developed and developing economies in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, these programs introduced new legislation, regulation, governance, and risk management requirements, often in response to financial sector crises. In many of these jurisdictions, Mark worked with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Mark is currently a Senior Fellow at the New York University School of Law Program for Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE). Most recently, from 2017 to 2020, Mark served as Citigroup’s Chief Compliance Officer with responsibilities spanning Citi’s financial crime, regulatory compliance, conduct, and ethics programs. Mark was previously the Chief Internal Auditor for Citigroup from 2011 to 2017, and prior to that, the Barclays Group’s Chief Internal Auditor from 2003 to 2011. Mark’s earlier consulting career included roles such as Managing Partner responsible for Enterprise-Wide Assurance to wholesale financial services institutions at Deloitte (UK), and Managing Partner for Andersen’s global Privatisation and Emerging Markets practice, overseeing mandates and consulting activities in over fifty non-OECD countries.

Roger is an executive coach and culture change consultant working in financial services and healthcare. As a chartered engineer, he spent his formative career in the Ministry of Defence managing avionics programmes. He was a founding partner in a change management consultancy for six years and has been involved in major risk transformation programmes in Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Barclays and HSBC. Most recently, he has led the delivery of risk culture change using a novel approach that helped one client win a prestigious industry award for innovation in developing risk capability.

Simon is a journalist, editor, content and event creator and publisher specializing in wholesale financial markets and technology. He has been working for 1LoD since its inception, researching, writing, editing and moderating content and events both in physical and digital formats. He has also sat as an Executive Director on the main board of a FTSE-250 listed media company and has spent two decades travelling the globe talking to CEOs, CFOs and government ministers about the trends driving business and finance.