Sean Park has been involved as founding investor in a number of disruptive and highly successful new ventures including Betfair, Markit Group, Weatherbill, BankSimple and seedcamp.

He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Anthemis Group SA - an investment company focused on catalyzing technology-enabled disruptive innovation in financial services and markets. Prior to founding the predecessor to Anthemis in 2008, Sean worked at Dresdner Kleinwort’s London office as Managing Director and Head of Digital Markets and was also a member of the Capital Markets Management Committee.

During his career in the investment banking industry he was well known for being an early proponent of the use of new ...More technologies to transform existing business practices, including pioneering the use of online bookbuilding tools in primary securities markets, championing the accelerated adoption of electronic trading and using social software and networking tools in an enterprise context.

In 2005, Sean was one of the Financial News Top 100 Rising Stars of European capital markets; in 2002 he was named one of the Top 100 Euromarket professionals and in 2003, one of the top 40 bankers under 40 by Euroweek magazine.

He authors the Park Paradigm (http://www.parkparadigm.com/) blog which explores themes relating to the future of markets and the financial services industry and is a well known speaker (http://speakermix.com/sean-park) on the topic of 21st century financial services.