A native protagonist, with 25 years' experience spanning Academia, Arts and Financial Services, Kate is passionate about shaping and enabling value-driven disruptive change, and her current role within Group Transformation Innovation & Strategy at LBG epitomises these personal drivers. During her time in Financial Services, Kate has also worked a global software house, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup: It was at Citi that she led the initial build out and subsequent success of the single dealer platform now known as CitiVelocity, as well as being a founder and board member of Trade Ideas Limited (TIL – an award-winning, vendor neutral industry utility for electronic alpha capture. Tell us a bit about yourself, background and your current role I have spent the last 25 years spanning the Arts, Academia and Financial Services.