Our Team

The Board

STEVEN KAY QC

 

Chairman

Steven Kay QC is the Chairman and co-founder of Oculus. He is a leading international lawyer with a global reputation and Head of the Barristers Chambers at 9 Bedford Row, London.

Steven has been involved in several landmark cases responsible for establishing modern international criminal law including: the first UN trial at the Yugoslavia Tribunal; the trial of the former President of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic; the trial at the ICC of the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta. He also has wide experience of international fraud and corruption in complex multi-jurisdictional commercial cases and transactions.
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JAMIE CHALMER

 

CEO

Jamie is the CEO and co-founder of Oculus. His career spans over 35 years and his vast network of professional relationships are invaluable to Oculus and its clients.

He qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC and post qualification had a successful two-stage career first in professional investment management and more recently in the intelligence field. By nature he is a value investor not a trend follower and applies this forward-thinking style to the intelligence world.
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RICHARD PROCTER

 

Legal Director

Richard’s legal career has focused on advising ultra-high net worth clients, institutions and funds on complex financial restructurings, disputes and investigations.

Oculus clients now benefit from Richard’s experience spanning two decades working on some of the largest matters in the City of London including the collapse of Enron; the insolvency of Lehman Brothers; claims against the Icelandic banks and the SFO; the manipulation of Libor; interest rate swap claims; international tax investigations; securitisation restructurings; mis-selling of complex financial products; FX manipulation claims and investigations; asset tracing; freezing injunctions; enforcement actions; and the seizure of commercial aircraft and boats.
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RICHARD TICKLE

 

Security Director

Richard has served and been involved in the military and defence industry for over 40 years. This includes working with Urgent Operational Requirements for both the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.

Richard also has an extensive involvement in the intelligence sector and has served as a director for one of the world’s largest maritime security companies, working in anti-piracy operations. Richard is a founder-director of Oculus Financial Intelligence and has spent the last decade working on complex international investigations including liaison with US partners and the US Department of Justice.
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Strategic Advisers

GENERAL SIR BARNEY
WHITE-SPUNNER

 

Security & Strategy Adviser

General Sir Barney White-Spunner KCB, CBE served in the British Army for thirty five years, finishing as Army Commander. He has vast experience in the Middle East, Africa and Asia leading British and multi-national forces.

Most recently he was Executive Chairman of the largest UK rural campaigning group representing the interests of 500,000 people. He is an honorary member of the French Foreign Legion and holds the US Legion of Merit.

GEORGE BUSBY

 

Security & Geo-Political Adviser

George spent thirty years in the Foreign Office specialising in intelligence and security. He now advises high-net-worth individuals facing complex legal, political and financial challenges.

A member of the Main Board, he provided UK ministers with advice on strategies to tackle counter terrorism, the narcotics trade and the reconciliation of international disputes.

 YVONNE RODGERS

 

Head of Project Management

Yvonne has almost 40 years’ experience in strategic advice in business to business, financial services, banking, regulatory and global FTSE 100 corporate sectors.

With extensive international experience in corporate and investment banking, asset management and consultancy, Yvonne specialises in working within the banking and finance sector in anti-fraud, compliance, anti-money laundering, risk management and corporate due diligence.
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Operational Team

JONATHAN DRYER

 

Head of Business Development

Jonathan is the Head of Business Development and Client Relationships at Oculus, having gained significant experience as an Intelligence Analyst specialising in geo-political projects.

He has a natural flair for building relationships with UHNW and international clients and his experience as an Analyst means he quickly grasps clients’ requirements and can tailor solutions to meet their specific needs. Previously, Jonathan spent four years at J.P. Morgan Private Bank running the AML Emerging Markets Onboarding team and two years working at Rabobank in the in-house legal team. Jonathan has completed the GDL and LPC and has qualified as a solicitor.
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BRYDEN

 

Senior Intelligence Analyst
and Project Manager

Before joining Oculus, Bryden worked in military intelligence with multi-national forces and in clandestine operations.

He used the latest state of the art open source capabilities and techniques in multiple operational theatres focusing on terrorist networks, social media analysis and other specialist areas. Since Joining Oculus, Bryden has been the project lead on multiple large financial crime investigations involving multi-nationals and international criminals, providing litigation support and expert intelligence collection and support. Bryden is Oculus’s lead analyst when dealing with asset tracing, having identified billions of pounds worth of assets, that have been successfully recovered by our clients. He is also the caretaker of the Oculus dog, a black Labrador.

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SCOTT

 

Senior Intelligence Analyst
and Project Manager

Scott is a Senior Intelligence Analyst having previously worked in military intelligence providing strategic intelligence in Afghanistan and on the Baltics and North Africa.

This included understanding local political dynamics and studying the influence of narcotics and tribal issues. In Oculus, Scott specialises in understanding complex geopolitical cases and provides planning and strategic advice to clients. He utilises his experience in using government taught open source techniques and tools, in uncovering the hidden entities behind financial crimes, and combining abstract data to uncover information that is financially and legally material. Scott has significant experience in technical exploitation and processing, and also leads Oculus’s input into developing state of the art artificial intelligence for use in financial crime investigations.