Christopher Sier
CEO, ClearGlass
Christopher Sier is CEO at ClearGlass. He is the Fintech Envoy for England for the UK HM Treasury and Chairman of Fintech North, the innovation community for the North of England. Sier 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. He combines these two worlds and 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 Dev team, currently of 8 but growing, are based. Sier is a visiting Professor of Financial Technology at the University of Leeds, Professor of Practice at Newcastle University and in the distant past he was a police office.