About Conrad Ford

After an early career in banking, which included a spell in corporate strategy, Conrad Ford gained a passion for digital while serving as COO of one of the Deloitte Fast 500 fastest-growing technology firms. This led him to start his own financial technology (fintech) business, Funding Options, which was ranked in the 2022 Financial Times FT1000 fastest-growing firms in Europe, with an exceptional 95%+ Trustpilot customer satisfaction rating. He now enjoys doing things that make use of his unique experience, having led both corporate business units as well as new digital ventures, built market-leading direct channels as well as blue-chip partnerships, and been at the center of an industry responding to unprecedented disruption. Personally, he embraces new challenges, where he has learned—often the hard way—the value of modern management techniques, whether it’s lean approaches to new ventures, agile product development, or OKRs to drive performance. He also loves building high-performing teams, where his own startup was named in the Escape 100 best UK smaller companies to work for, and he had a 97% personal approval rating on the leading employer ratings website Glassdoor. Conrad Ford is Chief Product Officer at Allica Bank, which was recently named by The Times newspaper as one of the UK’s Top 20 financial technology (fintech) firms. Allica is bringing relationship banking back to the UK’s established SMEs, using the latest technology.