Chris Sier
CEO, ClearGlass Analytics
Christopher Sier is Chairman of ClearGlass, a technology platform that sits between asset managers and pension funds and operates a low-cost model for the collection and analysis of pension fund cost data. ClearGlass is based in London, but also operates in Bangalore where the CTO and the eight-strong development team are based. He combines this with his role as the Fintech Envoy for England for the UK treasury department and Chairman of Fintech North, the innovation community for the North of England. He also chaired the UK Financial Conduct Authority's panel investigating costs, fees and transparency in institutional investment, wrote the LGPS cost transparency standard and has worked with the World Bank, EIOPA, the Committee on Workers Capital and institutional investors around the world on the same subject. Sier is Visiting Professor of Financial Technology at the University of Leeds and Professor of Practice at Newcastle University.