Meet the Team

Cornerstone is made up of experts who as a team share the goal of making it easier to do business across borders

Rob O'Brien

Chief Operating Officer

Rob O'Brien

Chief Operating Officer

Rob has significant experience in the foreign exchange industry, much of which has been in leadership positions.

Previously, Rob has worked at Vorto Trading Ltd, where he was the largest revenue generator and built a business line based on inward investment into the UK from Asian clients. He brings more than 15 years of foreign exchange experience to his role at Cornerstone.

Judy Happe

Chief Finance Officer

Judy Happe

Chief Finance Officer

Judy has extensive experience of raising growth capital and executing M&A strategies at digital technology companies. She was CFO of digital mental health provider XenZone, now AIM-listed.

Previous to this, she spent 7 years at cybersecurity business AVG Technologies in financial and operational roles. She co-led its $1.3bn sale to Avast plc. Judy is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Bill Newton

Chief Information Officer

Bill Newton

Chief Information Officer

Bill has extensive operational experience within financial trading companies having worked in the industry for over 20 years.

Bill co-founded ODL securities, a derivatives, equities and FX brokerage, where he held a number of senior management roles including IT Director. There, he designed a number of real-time risk and regulatory reporting systems and was responsible for all back-office development. He was subsequently appointed CIO for London Capital Group and managed a reorganisation of its core systems and infrastructure.

Abigail Gries

Head of Compliance & MLRO

Abigail Gries

Head of Compliance & MLRO

Abigail is one of the newest team members at Cornerstone.

She has worked in foreign currency and finance for 15 years.

She holds a degree in International Business.

Terry Everson

Head of Business Development

Terry Everson

Head of Business Development

Terry has worked in the City for over 45 years. In his early career he was Operations Manager and Finance Officer of several large city commodity brokers including AC Israel Woodhouse and Credit Lyonnais Rouse.

He was later Managing Director of Swiss Financial Services, which had trading teams on the floors of London Fox and the IPE. Terry has been a CF1 and CF30 at Gate Capital Group since 2013 and CF10 and CF11 since 2015.

Jordanna Curtis

Head of Operations

Jordanna Curtis

Head of Operations

Bio coming soon.

Chen Xu

Head of Asia Team

Chen Xu

Head of Asia Team

Chen manages Cornerstone's Asia team.

He has been working in FX in London for over 10 years.

Chen holds a Master's Degree in International Finance from the University of Glasgow.

Tom Willoughby

Marketing

Tom Willoughby

Marketing

Tom is responsible for all things Marketing at Cornerstone.

He has worked in Marketing in one form or another for over a decade. He's worked with big household names like Capital One, Sky and Vision Express.

Daisy Wang

Business Development (Asia)

Daisy Wang

Business Development (Asia)

Daisy is one of the Business Development Managers in Cornerstone's Asia Team.

She has worked in finance for a number of years and holds a Master's Degree in International Business.

Meet the Team

Rob O'Brien

Judy Happe

Bill Newton

Abigail Gries

Terry Everson

Jordanna Curtis

Chen Xu

Tom Willoughby

Daisy Wang

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