Experienced practitioners, not career trainers

Alan Penhallow

Director

As founder and director of tflonline Limited, Alan has been responsible for successfully delivering training services and conducting courses in the financial sector for over 28 years. He now leads the company's rebranding as Penhallow Training while maintaining quality training delivery across a comprehensive range of topics.

Mary Holland

Consultant

Having founded and established many successful businesses, in particular in the City of London, Mary is well versed in the hiring, training, development and retention of staff. She brings that experience to Penhallow Training's bespoke and tailored training, learning and professional development services.

Paul Meadows

Financial markets trainer

Paul brings fifteen years of investment experience from various front office roles on the buy side, including positions as a trader, global equities research head and portfolio manager. He has worked in both institutional and high-net-worth private client settings with organisations including Royal Insurance and Lloyds Private Bank.

Cormac Butler

Derivatives & accounting trainer

Cormac is an active equity and options trader and a former consultant with Lombard Risk Systems London, and has also worked with Peat Marwick and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has considerable international experience as a training consultant in derivative accounting, corporate finance and derivative mathematics, working with major banks including BNP Paribas, and has delivered training for IIR and Euromoney across Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, the USA and Saudi Arabia.

Mike Stafferton

Capital markets trainer

Mike has over eight years' in-house experience in derivatives and origination with what was a top Japanese securities house, and over 16 years' experience as an independent consultant in the capital markets and related areas. He has a particular focus on securitisation and Basel / CRD, and is an Associate of Moody's.

Steve Yates

Operational risk & resilience trainer

With over four decades of experience working across 50 countries, Steve Yates has served in the military as well as in private and public sector organisations, and is a recognised authority on operational risk and resilience. His core subject-matter areas include risk management, business continuity management, technology infrastructure resilience and disaster recovery, cyber resilience, emergency planning, incident and crisis management, and crisis communications.

Malcolm Gloyer

Risk, data & AI trainer

Malcolm is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment and a Certified Practising Project Manager (CPPM MAIPM), with more than 30 years' experience working on projects in the UK and Australia, specialising in data strategy, market and credit risk, derivatives, commodities and artificial intelligence. He has worked as a consultant at companies including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the London Metal Exchange, Nomura, ABN Amro, BNP Paribas, Santander and Lloyds Bank, and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, the London School of Economics and James Cook University in Australia.

Simon Alexander Legge

Fintech & digital assets specialist

Simon Alexander Legge is a senior fintech specialist focused on the impact of decentralisation and tokenisation, with nearly 30 years' experience in banking, finance and private equity. He studied economics at Frankfurt and has consulted, invested and worked with financial institutions, private family partners and several startups across the EU, Switzerland, the UK and the US.

Alan Patterson

Real estate research & strategy

Alan runs his own investment consultancy business, providing research and advising clients on real estate strategies, in the belief that understanding macro trends and secular change is as important as stock selection and asset management. He has worked at CBRE as a fund manager, then in its financial services team and latterly as Head of Investment Research.

Sarkis Marzaani

Financial Complience Trainer

Experienced in Banking, Governance, Compliance, Technology, Regulatory Affairs, Researching and Lecturing. Worked 20 consecutive years for Standard Chartered Bank in Operational Risk Management, Fintech, Regtech AI and Cybersecurity Resilience.

Lemis Tuna Gulgun

Executive & team coach

Lemis is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and Certified Executive Coach from the Coaches Training Institute (CTI). She also completed the CRR Global ORSC (Organisation & Relationship Systems Coaching) curriculum as a Team Coach.

David Roylance

Leadership presence & communication

David is a former actor and theatre director who brings transformative stage tools into the boardroom, creating dramatic change in voice, body and mind so that his clients achieve their goals in business and in life. Born in Edinburgh, he trained professionally at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked with some of the most insightful people in world theatre, among his teachers the voice teacher Patsy Rodenburg, the Russian directors Vassilij Skorik and Evgeny Kamenkovich, Yukio Ninagawa and Sir Alec Guinness.

Lina Žemaitytė-Kirkman

Digital wellbeing & attention coach

Lina holds a Master's degree in Business Psychology and is a certified Digital Wellbeing Coach with more than 15 years of team management experience in fast-paced, tech-saturated environments. Her expertise lies at the intersection of psychology, technology and workplace performance, helping professionals stay focused and productive without sacrificing their wellbeing.

Paul Sherrington

Securities class actions specialist

Paul is a founder of Securiclass Information Services Limited, which provides comprehensive data about the equities and instruments involved in securities class actions occurring globally. He is also founder and CEO of Business Tectonics Limited, which has provided business development, sales and marketing consultancy to service companies in the finance marketplace in the UK and Europe since 1998.