Philip Slavin

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer - Taskize

Philip Slavin is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Taskize. Phil has spent over 25 years as both a user and a creator of financial technology. For the early part of his career, he worked with both buy and sell-side institutions building and deploying banking solutions and running large change management programs. 

In 1999 he joined Fidessa, a market leading trading software house, where he ran Business Development and Product Marketing building electronic and algorithmic trading solutions across existing and emerging global exchanges.  Immediately prior to starting Taskize, Phil led Strategic Alliances in EMEA for Pivotal Software, a specialist in agile software delivery. 

His belief is that by building sensible solutions you can remove complexity from the system to create tangible, competitive advantage.