Cloud Control.

Navigate complex cloud environments with clarity.

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01 Introduction

You’ve landed at a cloud control solution with a difference

We help businesses navigate their complex cloud environments with clarity through our Oortcloud platform

Cloud solutions and the problems that come with them

Cloud solutions are an ever-growing aspect of the financial world, promising to improve a business’s efficiency and innovation. This however comes with many associated challenges. Businesses face significant complexity with the ever-increasing usage and variety of different cloud solutions, coupled with a significant increase in focus from regulators on these new operating models. If not managed properly, cloud technology can threaten both the operational efficiency and regulatory compliance of a business.

Oortcloud’s cloud control solution with added clarity

Oortcloud is a set of business solutions aimed at improving the speed of cloud adoption whilst managing and mitigating the complexities and inherent risks these new operating models can create.

We will provide our clients with best practice cloud management controls, detailed insight into multi-region and multi-industry sector regulatory requirements alongside a standardised cloud operating framework enabling the identification, capture and categorisation of an organisation’s cloud footprint.

02 Our Services

Oortcloud’s adaptable offering

Our services are available in a flexible manner whereby our client can choose between a light touch model, electing to use the system themselves with primarily advisory based assistance, or a more hands on approach in which these systems will be run and managed in the most efficient way for the client by our experienced team at Oortcloud.

A regulation
advisory service

Helping clients to manage their cloud regulatory compliance. Including a detailed insight into multi-region and multi-industry sector regulatory requirements.

A data
repository service

Providing full transparency on cloud usage, analytics and risk management. With access to a standardised cloud operating framework.

A fully
managed service

Offering a complete cloud management lifecycle and workflow capabilities. Complete with database, workflow tool and questions.

Oortcloud’s features and benefits

Oortcloud Compliance

We provide a proactive verification and monitoring solution that helps you to maintain compliance with regional and industry regulations mitigating regulatory and reputational risks.

Compliance Expertise

Our combination of cloud experts and tools can help you identify, correct and maintain your cloud compliance.

Cloud Dashboards and Management Reporting

Gain visibility and understanding of your cloud deployments, cloud compliance status, review and approval progress with easy-to-use and in-depth dashboards and reporting solutions.

Audit and Assurance Service

We provide in-depth best practice and regulatory guidance interpretations to support comprehensive audit and assurance field work with easy-to-use check lists and questionnaires.

Regulatory Reporting

We provide an ability to easily create, extract and share comprehensive cloud deployment details for any regulatory engagements and reporting needs.

Protecting Investments

Regulations are constantly developing and changing requiring constant focus and ongoing management. We help you understand these changes to maintain your compliance.

Avoid Costly Fines and Reputational Risks

The costs of non-compliance include potential regulatory fines, reputational risks, costs for corrective actions leading to impacts on future business growth. The Oortcloud solution can help you mitigate these threats from the unexpected costs and impacts of non-compliance.

Audit and Assurance Insight

Cloud audits are complex, time consuming and impact many areas across an organisation. With the Oortcloud solution in place you will have the transparency and ability to proactively manage your cloud environment, ensuring it is always up to date and aligned to the latest industry and regulatory best practice.

Optimising Cloud Governance

Our solution helps automate, streamline, and orchestrate operational procedures associated with managing cloud service lifecycles. We provide templated governance and accountability structures, recommended internal policies and regulatory checks to ensure you have an effective and transparent governance model.

Simplifying Accountability Models

Use of cloud solutions can create significant roles and responsibilities challenges. Our solution will help to create a comprehensive cloud accountability and responsibility model ensuring there is clarity and efficiency across your day-to-day operations.

03 About Us

Oortcloud’s Mission
to simplify

We aim to work with our clients to support their cloud adoption programs and to dramatically simplify any existing cloud operations and controls. Providing them with visibility and automation of complex cloud governance and compliance processes helps to lower costs, reduce operational risks and maintain regulatory compliance. Allowing them to focus on transformation, innovation, and benefits in order to realise the full potential of their cloud environment.

Our Values

Customer
focus

Getting things
done fast

Anything is
possible

Respect
everybody

Communicate
and engage

04 Our Team

Oortcloud’s team packs experience and success

Mark Butterfield

CEO

Mark started his technology career in the early 1980s and has performed many different roles from software development and support to project and program management. In 2005, Mark was appointed to the executive committee as the European CIO of Nomura International PLC, where he successfully led, reshaped and dramatically improved the efficiency of the team. This subsequently saw him appointed as the Global Wholesale CIO of Nomura Securities Group in 2012, through to 2021.

Mark has a proven and distinguished track record of building and delivering leading edge technology solutions, managing multiple complex technology integrations. As well as driving significant efficiency improvements across technology and business functions by leveraging innovative concepts, advanced technologies and organisational efficiencies to dramatically optimise business operating models.

In 2021, having initiated and delivered a major digital transformation program, Mark chose to step away from his corporate role and formed Oortcloud, his own specialist Technology services business, focused on using his knowledge and experience to help other businesses adopt new solutions and innovations.

Gerry Buggy

Strategic Advisor

Gerry’s illustrious career in technology started in the early 1980s and has been a driving force in the industry for over two decades. Performing a multitude of roles across the technology industry, specialising in real-time enterprise software and data architectures.

Gerry is currently serving as a Co-Founder of Ocular Technologies, a Founding Investor of Form3, a Chairman of Privitar, an Executive of Kx Systems, and an Executive of First Derivatives.

With his vast experience both on a corporate and technological level, coupled with his entrepreneurial instincts in this industry, Gerry’s distinguished career will be an invaluable asset to the Oortcloud leadership team to help move us forward.

Devesh Mehta

Strategic Advisor

Devesh started at Deloitte & Touche, before going on to join Nomura’s finance function holding many senior positions including EMEA controller, EMEA CFO & EMEA CAO as well as Head of Risk & Finance Change.

He was a board director of the European Holding Company as well as the UK Bank entity. He moved to Grant Thornton where, as a Financial Services Consulting Partner, he successfully led the flagship Business Risk Services team before going on to Co-Head all of Grant Thornton’s Financial Services Advisory Practices. Devesh founded Levrara Consulting in January 2018 and has served as its CEO for the past four years. Using his corporate and entrepreneurial experience we are glad to have him on board as a strategic advisor to the board of Oortcloud.

Nick Caine

Technology Architect

Nick has had a long career in the financial markets as a thought leader and pioneer of new technology adoption transforming legacy business operations. He has performed many roles from front office real-time trading/risk systems development and senior management to chief technical architect and CTO.

Nick has deep experience working with the global Trading, Investment Banking and Operations depts for Swiss Bank, Nomura, UBS, RBS, TP/ICAP, HSBC and Nomura International.

He is based in the UK, has lived in Switzerland and Japan and managed teams in NYC, Chicago, London, Paris, Singapore, HK, Tokyo and Sydney. Most recently Nick lead the Chief Architecture function at Nomura in Tokyo defining and overseeing the cloud strategy and approach to digital transformation of Nomura’s wholesale and group technology.

Tom Kozlowski

Strategy & Business Development Advisor

Tom Kozlowski is an angel investor, board member and advisor. Specialising mainly in the finance, technology and renewables sectors, investing in innovation, disruption and efficiency.

Tom is chairman and founding investor in form3, a faster payments technology. Founding investor in Privitar, a data anonymisation technology. Advisor and investor in Tech Passport, a FinTech accelerator platform. Chair and main shareholder of a “waste to energy” business

Tom brings real world experience and insight from startup through expansion and business development with several successful first hand case studies. A number of these have been successfully sold, with significant returns to shareholders and executives

Partners

Levrara Consulting Group

Levrara Consulting Group is an Anglo-Indian Consulting firm, headquartered in London and Mumbai. Focused on providing advisory and resource solutions across the Financial Services Sector.

Cloverflow

Cloverflow is a technology consulting firm that specialises in rapid software development and business process automation.

Decisions

Decisions is one complete automation solution for Fortune 2000 financial services and healthcare companies. Customers use the Decisions Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) platform to write applications and build automations to fix customer experiences, modernise legacy applications, and automate anything and everything in their business.

TW Creative

TW Creative is an independent, award winning creative agency, designing for brands in today’s digital world. We provide talented designers and developers who create websites, rich media, brands, social content and print. All design decisions are based on intelligent, strategic thinking, and clients receive unfaltering care and attention.

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