Built by people who've run financial operations

Deborah Yang

Co-Founder & Global CEO

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.

Jonty Hurwitz

Founder & Chair

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.

Jan Hugenroth

Founder & Chief Product Officer

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.

Tassilo Karunarathna

Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer

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.

Hannu Hyttinen

Chief Operating Officer

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.

Carlo Kraus, CFA

Chief Financial Officer

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.

Phil Beattie, CFA

Chief Commercial Officer

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.

Scott Harris, CFA

Chief Technology Officer

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.

Marta Bobyk

Co-Founder & Head of Development

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.