Sean Park

Sean has been involved as founding investor in a number of disruptive and highly successful new ventures such as Betfair, Weatherbill, and Seedcamp and has extensive experience investing in and advising start-up and high growth companies in addition to over 16 years of experience working at a senior level in capital markets and investment banking. Building businesses has been a key theme throughout his career.

Before founding Anthemis Group, he spent 16 years working in a variety of senior capital market roles, most recently at Dresdner Kleinwort. He was also a non-executive Director of Markit Group and Board Chairman of the International Index Company (formerly iBoxx.) He is currently a non-executive Director of FX Capital Group, Blueleaf Inc. and Babuki Ltd. and sits on the advisory board of Zoopla.co.uk. He is also a Managing Director of FT Advisors, the specialist financial technology advisory business of the Anthemis Group.

He is an experienced public speaker and has presented keynotes, panels and workshops at a number of conferences as well as seminars for a number of leading global financial institutions. He is the author of the widely read Park Paradigm, a blog focused on the future of finance and markets and refuses to completely give up on his dream of one day skiing in the Olympics. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Sean has a BSc in Materials Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is now based in Geneva.