Lyuba serves as Duco’s Chief People Officer, bringing over two decades of diverse experience in leading global teams across the US, EMEA, and APAC. She has a proven track record of building high-performing teams and driving value through an employee-centric People platform, with a keen focus on aligning with business goals and KPIs. Lyuba’s extensive background includes collaborating with Private Equity firms and successfully executing numerous M&A transactions and integrations.

Prior to her tenure at Duco, Lyuba held the position of Chief People Officer at Broadway Technology, which was later acquired by Bloomberg LP. She has also served as Chief People Officer at TradingScreen and Ullink, and has held senior leadership roles at the New York Stock Exchange and AIG. Lyuba began her career at the American Red Cross, where she was part of the immediate and long-term response teams following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Lyuba holds a Bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and an MBA from Cornell University.

Philippe Buron is Duco’s Chief Technology Officer. He is a senior leader; a long term CTO and CIO with a passion for technology-led transformations, culture shift and people growth. His 20+ year career spans investment, retail, private banking and market infrastructure providers (including HSBC, Societe Generale, BNPP, Deutsche Bank and LSE). Philippe has a strong technology engineering background, having worked for leading distributed technology providers earlier in his career. He holds a master’s degree in IT applied to Finance, with honours in Artificial Intelligence, from Paris Dauphine university.

James is Chief Product Officer at Duco. His background covers senior leadership roles across operations and technology within major global capital markets organisations such as UBS, Lehman Brothers and Nomura. Most recently, he co-founded a boutique consulting practice that specialised in helping financial institutions overcome complexity across their middle and back offices. James has a strong track record of operating model transformation, helping organisations successfully deliver on M&A strategies, regulatory compliance and large scale automation programmes. He holds a Bsc in Applied Economics from the University of Plymouth, alongside an MBA from Henley Management College.

Josh brings extensive experience to Duco as its Chief Revenue Officer, particularly in financial services and global technology firms. He leads the revenue organisation, driving GTM strategy and overseeing various functions including global sales, marketing, partnerships, customer success, solution engineering and revenue operations.

Before joining Duco, Josh held the position of Chief Revenue Officer at Xceptor. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director and Head of Americas at Itiviti, a company later acquired by Broadridge in 2021. His career also includes significant leadership roles at FIS and SunGard, as well as stints at Morgan Stanley and Point72 Asset Management.

Danielle is Duco’s Chief Financial Officer. Danielle has held numerous senior leadership finance roles, largely across financial services bringing experience from industries including Inter-dealer broking, investment banking, and insurance. Danielle has a track-record of leading financial strategies, delivering significant transformation programmes and managing M&A financials for both acquisition and divestment, including the delivery of the TPICAP integration/separation. Danielle holds a BA in Accounting & Finance from Nottingham Trent University.

Christian Nentwich is founder of Duco. A lifelong technologist with a relentless passion for simplifying complex data using augmented machine learning and AI automation, he launched Duco to help people dealing with mission critical data on a daily basis.
Christian is recognised for building companies with a strong focus on culture and transparency that deliver transformational experiences to customers.

Prior to Duco, he founded Systemwire, which exited to Message Automation and further to Broadridge. He holds a BSc and PhD in Computer Science from University College London and is a winner of its Faculty Medal in Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

Emil is Principal at Nordic Capital Advisors, who he joined in September 2010. Emil focuses on the Technology & Payments and the Financial Services sectors. He has also been active in Healthcare investments. Emil serves on the boards of four portfolio companies. He holds an MSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company in Stockholm.

Uwe Weiss is a long-standing entrepreneur and software executive with a passion for disruptive technologies. He was CEO of Blue Yonder, an award-winning SaaS Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) start-up acquired by JDA. In 2020 the combined companies rebranded to Blue Yonder and Uwe continued to serve as a member of their executive team. With USD 1.1Bn in revenue Blue Yonder was the largest independent AI powered supply chain software company globally when Panasonic Corp acquired the company in 2021 for an enterprise value of USD 8.5Bn. Uwe also co-founded Crossgate AG, a SaaS-based B2B integration service provider, later acquired by SAP SE and had worked for SAP before. He currently serves as a board member of SaaS software companies Matrix42 and Regnology. Uwe now serves as the chairman of Duco’s board.

Spencer lives in London, England and is a Founding Partner of Element Ventures. In addition, Spencer sits on the boards of several FinTech companies including nCino (Nasdaq listed), Nivaura and Duco; the advisory boards of Fenergo and Callsign; and on the boards of Abroad.io, and the National Debt Management Centre of Saudi Arabia. Previously Spencer spent 10 years at HSBC where he was a Group General Manager and Vice Chairman of HSBC’s Global Banking and Markets division, having previously run Debt Origination globally, the Markets Division globally, and then the Global Capital Financing division (wholesale lending and all IB products). Prior to HSBC Spencer was at Merrill Lynch for 17 years in NY, HK and London in various leadership roles in Markets and in Banking. Spencer also remains a senior advisor to ICMA (the International Capital Market Association) which he chaired from 2010 - 2016, and is on the Dean’s Cabinet for Suffolk Univeristy.

Linda Middleditch is a product management and strategy specialist with more than two decades of experience in capital markets technology. She has led teams in senior roles at Itiviti, Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and UBS. She is a Board Member of Macrobond and was Waters Technology Gender/Equality/Diversity award winner in 2021. She also received the Market Media European Women in Finance Award for excellence in Fintech in 2020.