Team — The people behind Virticus

Meet the team

Senior specialists. One standard of defensibility.

Virticus brings together two rare disciplines under one roof: doctorate-level AI, automation, and model-risk engineering, and financial-crime rule defensibility. It is a senior, PhD-led team spanning the UK, EU and US — assembled from people at the top of their fields.

The common thread is accountability: every member has built systems that had to be explained, defended, and trusted under real scrutiny. That is the standard we hold to, whatever the sector.

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Key people

The people behind the work

Full profiles, backgrounds and photographs are being added. The disciplines below reflect the standing bench delivering client engagements today.

Dr Elena Marsh

Director — Legal, Regulatory & Compliance

Leads engagements and the legal, regulatory and compliance framing that makes every deliverable defensible — grounded in financial-crime, fraud and AML rule design across major banking and payment environments.

Prof. Daniel Okonkwo

Applied AI & Research Lead

Leads AI and ML model development and validation — including decision and valuation models — and the research behind defensible, auditable model behaviour in high-stakes settings.

Dr Dilnur Salih

Architecture & Automation Lead

Leads end-to-end software, system and data architecture, and the automation and agent workflows that turn regulated processes into reliable, traceable systems.

Dr Marcus Lindqvist

AI Governance & Model-Risk Lead

Leads technical governance — model risk, validation evidence and audit trails — so every system can be explained and defended to a regulator, an auditor, or a court.

Dr Priya Nair

Engineering & Delivery Lead

Leads build, integration and delivery — data engineering, deployment and dependable production delivery across engagements.

Building the network

A growing bench of senior engineers and researchers

We work as one firm and partner with senior specialists across the UK, EU and US, so capacity scales with the engagement without diluting the standard. Introductions from senior engineers, researchers, and regulated-sector specialists are always welcome.

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