About Us

Rockman is an engineer turned entrepreneur. As a co-founder of SQR Systems, he brings a track record of building companies and teams, delivering growth and engaging with senior stakeholders. He now conducts technology due diligence for institutional investors and works as a venture scout for Ada Ventures, a pre-seed/seed VC fund. Prior to this, he worked in a FTSE 250 company delivering large-scale technology projects in the transportation industry.

He has an interest in start-ups, tech ecosystems, venture capital, privacy and cyber security. He is also active in supporting a range of entrepreneurship initiatives and mentoring early stage tech companies.

Boon Hui Khoo has been involved in law enforcement and national security since he joined the Singapore Police Force in 1977 and served as its Commissioner from 1997 to 2010. He was also INTERPOL President from 2008 to 2012 during which time, the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation was conceived and set up.

Following his retirement from the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs as its Senior Deputy Secretary in 2015, he remains active in INTERPOL, chairing its Governance Working Group, and is currently a Justice of Peace, a Senior Fellow of Singapore’s Civil Service College and an executive board member of the CyberPeace Institute. He also holds advisory and board positions in Banking, Healthcare, Security, Technology and Philanthropic organisations.

He was educated at Oxford, Harvard, and Wharton.

Mr. Conde is an active investor in early-stage tech companies, mentoring management teams to help them scale. He has repeatedly been named by Institutional Investor as one of the top 40 Fintech investors globally. He is a senior advisor to Accel, Nyca Partners, and TPG. Mr. Conde is a senior member of the Partnership for NYC’s FinTech Innovation Lab and is the Executive in Residence at the London FinTech Innovation Lab. He also participates in several accelerators including Techstars. His portfolio of private investments includes OpenGamma, the cloud-native risk management platform; Shift Technology, solutions for Insurance fraud detection and claims management; Calastone, a global fund transaction network; and Digital Asset, the smart-contract technology innovator.

Mr. Conde co-founded Devon Systems, which specialized in risk management and recordkeeping systems for the interest rate and currency derivatives markets. After selling the business to SunGard, Mr. Conde grew it as a division of SunGard to $300 Million in revenues, reaching almost half of SunGard’s global revenues, and expanded its client base to include all fifty out of the fifty largest Banks in the world. Mr. Conde was promoted to President and CEO of SunGard in 1999 and ran it as a NYSE-listed company for six years.

In 2005 Mr. Conde partnered with seven private equity firms to take SunGard private in a transaction which, at $11B, was at the time the largest tech LBO ever. After closing the LBO, Mr. Conde remained as CEO for the next six years, tripling the size of the firm. At the time of his departure in 2011, SunGard had revenues of $5.6 Billion, employed 26,000, ranked #380 on the Fortune 500 list, and was the largest privately-held business software and IT services company in the world. Born in Santiago, Chile, Cris is a U.S. citizen and holds a B.Sc. in Astronomy and Physics from Yale University.

David Fairman is an experienced CSO/CISO, strategic advisory, investor and coach. David has extensive experience in the global financial services sector. David is currently the APAC CSO for Netskope, helping customers manage their digital and cyber risk programs in addition to working across industry with the aim of making the digital economy a safer place to do business. At NAB, David was the Chief Security Officer (CSO) owning all aspects of Physical Security, Fraud, Investigations and Cyber Security. Prior to NAB, he was the Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Royal Bank of Canada. David has been a senior leader at JP Morgan Chase & Co as Deputy Technology Controls Officer and Global Head of Technology Risk and Control. David has also held several senior roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), including CISO RBS Americas and Head of Information Security EMEA. David was raised and educated in Australia where he received his Bachelor of Information Technology in Software Engineering and Computer Science. He holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Masters of Project Management. David began his career in Information Security while serving in the Royal Australian Air Force’s Electronic Warfare and Communications group, where he gained valuable experience in the technology, policy and process aspects of security and risk management. Subsequently, David worked in a variety of roles in technology and cyber, including in the utilities sector (gas and electricity).

David holds a number of positions on boards of directors and was a founding member of the Security Advisor Alliance (www.securityadvisoralliance.org), and the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange. During his tenure at NAB, David was the Chair for the Board of Directors for the Australian Financial Crimes Exchange and spear headed the formation of a taskforce involving the big 4 banks, AFP, ASD and ACSC to detect and disrupt cyber-crime impacting Australia. David also advises a number of VC funds and Cyber Security companies.

In 2015, David was named as one of the Top 10 CISOs to know, http://www.informationmanagement.com/gallery/Chief-Information-Security-Officer-CISO-List-Trends-10027134-1.html and is seen as a thought leader in the cyber security industry as profiled by K-Logix here, https://www.klogixsecurity.com/blog/david-fairman-ciso-royal-bank-of-canada. David co-authored “Cyber Risk” (2016), and co-edited “Fintech: Growth and Deregulation” (2018) published by Risk Books.

David is passionate about education. He has held Adjunct Professorships at both the University of New York and the University of Toronto and is currently working with Deakin University in Australia. David currently resides in both Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia.

Aneel Lakhani is a 20+ year veteran of the technology industry. He has worked at enterprise software companies of all sizes in product and marketing leadership roles and today serves as an advisor to both startups and venture capital funds.

Crane VC is a London-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in European start-ups solving real problems for the enterprise and enterprise workers.

Crane see artificial intelligence, automation, data analytics, cybersecurity and cloud computing innovations as some of the critical technologies enabling this transformation.