--- title: "About Next Matter | Built by people who've run financial operations" url: https://nextmatter.com/about description: "Meet the Next Matter team: former MSCI, J.P. Morgan, BlackRock and McKinsey leaders building orchestration for regulated financial operations." lang: en --- groups About us # Built by people who've run financial operations Next Matter is the orchestration platform for regulated financial operations. Our team has spent more than a century, combined, inside asset managers, index providers and financial software firms: running client money, answering to regulators and building the systems institutions rely on. We built the platform we wished we'd had. Meet the team ↓ Where our team has worked - MSCI - J.P. Morgan Asset Management - BlackRock iShares - McKinsey & Company - StatPro / Confluence - GAM - Deutsche Bank Our people ## One team behind the platform Index, asset management, fund technology, engineering and operations transformation, brought together around one problem: making regulated operations run on time, every time, with a full audit trail. Image: Deborah Yang, Co-Founder & Global CEO (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69b9321a07c5323a0c817c02_Deb.png) ### Deborah Yang Co-Founder & Global CEO Deborah Yang on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-yang-4b38b8/) Nearly two decades at MSCI, latterly as Global Head of ESG Indexes Deborah spent 2001–2020 at MSCI across three continents. She ran Asia ex-Japan client coverage from Hong Kong, then led the EMEA index business from Paris, and finished as Managing Director and Global Head of ESG Indexes. She knows how asset managers and asset owners buy, govern and depend on mission-critical data. She was named to Financial News' 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance six years running and serves on the global board of Women in ETFs. Previously MSCI Long Ridge Capital (Executive Council) Harvard Business School Image: Jonty Hurwitz, Founder & Chair (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69b9321a07c5323a0c817c07_Jonty.png) ### Jonty Hurwitz Founder & Chair Jonty Hurwitz on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jontyhurwitz/) 30 years building technology for financial services Jonty started out at GAM in London, building financial data visualisation tools for the firm. He then founded Delve, an investment-analytics software house that StatPro Group PLC acquired. At StatPro he designed one of the first cloud-based portfolio analytics and risk platforms. Next, he co-founded Wonga and, as co-founding CTO, designed its platform: real-time online lending, with a credit-risk engine that combined alternative data with traditional scoring and paid out loans within minutes of a decision. He founded Daizy in 2018 to bring trustworthy AI to asset managers. An electrical engineer by training. Previously GAM Delve (acquired by StatPro) StatPro PLC Wonga (Co-founding CTO) Claim Technology Image: Jan Hugenroth, Founder & Chief Product Officer (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd4650d0abaab4f04e098b_jan.png) ### Jan Hugenroth Founder & Chief Product Officer Jan Hugenroth on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-hugenroth/) Ex-McKinsey Engagement Manager, founded Next Matter in 2018 Jan spent nearly seven years at McKinsey & Company in Berlin, leading engagements on organisational transformation and process optimisation. Before that he was Chief of Staff to the CEO of Thomas Cook Group, and earlier he worked at Deutsche Bank and Ernst & Young. He founded Next Matter in 2018 to give operations teams one place to design, run and audit their processes, and led it as CEO through its venture-backed growth. He holds an MBA from INSEAD. Previously McKinsey & Company Thomas Cook Group Deutsche Bank Ernst & Young INSEAD Image: Tassilo Karunarathna, Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf791_Tassilo%20-%20website.png) ### Tassilo Karunarathna Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer Tassilo Karunarathna on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tassilo-karunarathna/) Seven years at McKinsey, six years running operations at Next Matter Tassilo was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company for seven years, helping large organisations redesign how work actually gets done. As co-founder and COO from 2019, he ran the company's operations for more than six years. Today he makes sure every client implementation lands, from the first workflow to firm-wide rollout. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a CEMS Master's from the Stockholm School of Economics, with earlier roles at Kearney, Deloitte and KPMG. Previously McKinsey & Company Kearney Deloitte KPMG Columbia Business School Image: Hannu Hyttinen, Chief Operating Officer (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf7bc_Hannu.png) ### Hannu Hyttinen Chief Operating Officer Hannu Hyttinen on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannuhyttinen/) 19 years at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, owning risk, controls and regulatory change Hannu spent almost two decades at J.P. Morgan Asset Management in London, rising to Executive Director and Head of the UK Direct business. There he owned business management, risks and controls, financials and regulatory change. Earlier he helped launch and run J.P. Morgan WealthManager+, an open-architecture direct-to-consumer investment platform, and he served as Business Manager to the CEO of Europe & Asia. He also holds sustainable-finance credentials from Cambridge (CISL), the University of Zurich and CFA UK. At Next Matter he leads operations, governance, risk and compliance. Previously J.P. Morgan Asset Management JPMorgan Chase Image: Carlo Kraus, CFA, Chief Financial Officer (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf7b6_Carlo%20Kraus.jpg) ### Carlo Kraus, CFA Chief Financial Officer Carlo Kraus, CFA on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlokraus/) A decade as Executive Director at MSCI, eight years at BlackRock iShares At MSCI, Carlo led strategy, product and business management for the $1.5bn Global Index business through a period of 3x revenue growth. Before that he spent eight years in strategy and corporate development at BlackRock's EMEA iShares business as it grew from $20bn to $200bn in assets, and he worked on the sale of BGI to BlackRock and the acquisition of Credit Suisse's ETF business. He started his career in FX operations at J.P. Morgan, so he has been on the operations floor himself. Previously MSCI BlackRock iShares J.P. Morgan CFA charterholder Image: Phil Beattie, CFA, Chief Commercial Officer (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf7a1_Phil.png) ### Phil Beattie, CFA Chief Commercial Officer Phil Beattie, CFA on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-beattie-cfa-772b7a1b/) 30 years in asset management, from the transfer agency desk to running MSCI's EMEA ETF business Phil started his career in transfer agency services, so he knows fund operations from the inside. Over 16 years at J.P. Morgan Asset Management he rose to Head of UK Business Management, leading the firm's response to major regulatory programmes, including the Retail Distribution Review (RDR). At MSCI he ran the ETF and Indexed Fund business for EMEA and more than doubled its revenue run rate over five years. Later, at SparkChange, he helped launch the world's first physically backed carbon ETC, which raised more than $250m in its first eight weeks. Previously J.P. Morgan Asset Management MSCI SparkChange CFA charterholder Image: Scott Harris, CFA, Chief Technology Officer (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf7bf_scott.jpeg) ### Scott Harris, CFA Chief Technology Officer Scott Harris, CFA on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-harris-cfa-a46328/) Engineering institutional performance, risk and GIPS software since 1998 Scott spent more than 20 years at StatPro, now part of Confluence, building the analytics that asset managers use to report performance to clients and regulators. He started on GIPS compliance software, then worked as architect for performance attribution, as database architect for the multi-tenant StatPro Revolution cloud platform, and finally as Head of Revolution Development. He later led engineering at cyber-security firm OutThink. He runs Next Matter's platform with the same standards: secure, multi-tenant and audit-ready. Previously StatPro Confluence OutThink CFA charterholder Image: Marta Bobyk, Co-Founder & Head of Development (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf7b0_Marta.png) ### Marta Bobyk Co-Founder & Head of Development Marta Bobyk on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marta-bobyk/) Applied mathematician building the cloud infrastructure regulated clients rely on Marta leads development on the Next Matter platform, which she has been building since 2022. She specialises in serverless architecture, cloud automation and CI/CD across AWS and Google Cloud. That is the release discipline and infrastructure behind a platform regulated firms trust with their operations. Before Next Matter, she spent nearly four years as a software engineer at 42flows.tech, a technology partner to Visa and Viber. She holds a bachelor's and a master's in Applied Mathematics from Lviv Polytechnic National University, is an AWS Certified Developer, and has led Women Techmakers Lviv since 2017. Previously 42flows.tech Lviv Polytechnic (MSc Applied Mathematics) AWS Certified Developer Image: Shadi Rashed, Lead Solutions Engineer (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf7c6_shadi%20-%20website.png) Shadi Rashed Lead Solutions Engineer Image: Jake Long, Client Success Manager (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf7c2_Jake%20-%20Website.png) Jake Long Client Success Manager Image: Pavlo Huk, Senior Software Engineer (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf7ab_Pavlo.png) Pavlo Huk Senior Software Engineer Image: Mykola Padii, UX Engineer (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf797_Mykola.png) Mykola Padii UX Engineer Image: Jean Prat, DevOps Engineer (https://nextmatter.com/__l5e/assets-v1/23eef508-34e0-49cc-aee7-6c458f3bb0f9/jean-prat.png) Jean Prat DevOps Engineer Image: Serhii Soldatov, Software Engineer (https://nextmatter.com/__l5e/assets-v1/3abdfbc4-b9df-4f9e-93fc-7612d24a220b/serhii-soldatov.png) Serhii Soldatov Software Engineer Image: Magda Ostafe, Administration & Accounts (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69bd46b569174061aebaf7a6_Magda.png) Magda Ostafe Administration & Accounts Why this matters to you ## We've sat where you sit verified_user ### We know the controls. Our team has run businesses inside J.P. Morgan, MSCI and BlackRock, with real risk, compliance and regulatory-change responsibility. Audit trails, four-eyes approvals and segregation of duties aren't add-ons for us. They're how we think. code ### We've built financial software before. Our CTO and founder built institutional performance, risk and analytics platforms used by asset managers worldwide. We know what "institutional grade" means, because we've been held to it. handshake ### We know how change actually lands. Two of our founders spent a combined 14 years at McKinsey, redesigning how large organisations operate. We implement with you, not at you. Proven in production ## Experience you can see in the results That experience shows up in how regulated firms run their operations on Next Matter. Ocorian Global fund & corporate services, 300+ fund specialists 3.5x faster capital-call turnaround Read the case study →: https://nextmatter.com/case-studies/ocorian Trade Republic European bank & broker, 10M customers across 17 countries -58% mean time to close AML cases Read the case study →: https://nextmatter.com/case-studies/trade-republic b2venture Multi-fund venture platform, €800M AUM 100% audit-proof traceability on every investment decision Read the case study →: https://nextmatter.com/case-studies/b2venture Swan Embedded finance platform, 7 EU regulated markets 5x transaction volume on flat headcount Read the case study →: https://nextmatter.com/case-studies/swan See all case studies →: https://nextmatter.com/case-studies Our story ## Two teams merged for one mission ### Next Matter· Berlin, 2018 Founded by Jan Hugenroth and built with co-founder Tassilo Karunarathna, both former McKinsey Engagement Managers, to give operations teams one place to design, run and audit their processes. Backed by OMERS Ventures, BlueYard and Crane Venture Partners. ### Daizy· London, 2018 Founded by Jonty Hurwitz and led by former MSCI executive Deborah Yang to bring trustworthy, compliance-ready AI to asset managers. Together we combine workflow orchestration with financial-grade AI, built by people who have spent their careers in regulated finance. Where you can find us London Los Angeles Berlin Vienna Barcelona Image: Various cities in a collage (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a7f71677d8045f0f2d982a/69a7f71677d8045f0f2da00f_Cities.webp) Read our Opinions Automating the happy path is the easy part: https://nextmatter.com/opinions/automation-happy-path AI doesn't fix a broken process. It scales it.: https://nextmatter.com/opinions/ai-scales-broken-processes Agents solve problems. Workflows solve them once.: https://nextmatter.com/opinions/agents-vs-workflows The automation trap: https://nextmatter.com/opinions/automation-trap Why can't I just use AI myself?: https://nextmatter.com/opinions/diy-ai You can't outsource accountability: https://nextmatter.com/opinions/outsource-work-not-accountability What investors judge you on after a merger: https://nextmatter.com/opinions/what-investors-judge-you-on-after-a-merger All opinions →: https://nextmatter.com/opinions ## Join us on our journey! We're always looking for exceptional people to help shape the future of financial operations. 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