The Team
Our Team
Alex Lander
Alex is a co-founder and an executive director of Sentinel responsible for its compliance oversight and financial crime controls.
Alex has previously worked in several senior in-house and consultancy roles. While working in-house, Alex held the executive director, compliance oversight and MLRO roles at two London based wealth management companies helping to lead responsible and compliant business growth while also navigating through substantial regulatory change.
While working as a consultant at a global professional services firm, Alex has vast experience in providing practical and pragmatic regulatory compliance advice to a wide array of FCA regulated businesses including private equity, venture capital, alternative investment and wealth management firms. In addition, Alex has extensive experience working in a supervisory role within a regulatory hosting umbrella overseeing dozens of Appointed Representative relationships.
Alex has a vast array of professional qualifications including CISI Diplomas in both Investment Compliance and Investment Operations, the CFA UK Investment Management Certificate and financial planning qualifications from the CII.
Alex has an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Liverpool.
Lauren Foulstone
Lauren is a co-founder and an executive director of Sentinel.
Within the last 8 years Lauren has worked as a consultant within a global professional services firm supervising the onboarding and conducting the monitoring of the firm’s Appointed Representatives, together with performing in-house secondments and supporting directly regulated firms. Lauren is an approachable and diligent compliance professional having provided advice to a range of financial services firms during her career including private equity, corporate finance, and asset management firms. Prior to working within the Appointed Representative space Lauren worked at the Bank of Nova Scotia within the Compliance Department.
Lauren studied law achieving a First and continued to teach the Equity and Trusts module to 2nd year law students at the University of Kent post-graduation.
Ian Manson
Ian is a co-founder and executive director of Sentinel.
Ian is a veteran financial services professional with a wealth of experience encompassing banks, brokers, alternative investment firms and consultancies. Latterly, he spent 18 years as a compliance consultant, most recently as a Managing Director of a global professional services firm where he successfully doubled its compliance consulting revenues and increased margins significantly while maintaining its reputation for technical excellence and market leading client service.
Ian was responsible for the Compliance Consulting UK (CCUK) team of over 20 regulatory consultants and in excess of 300 clients providing mostly alternative investment firms (Hedge funds, PE, VC, RE, corporate finance, sell side, wealth managers, crowdfunding) with outsourced compliance consulting services. Ian successfully led the Firm’s regulatory hosting business as an executive director (SMF3) during which time he grew the business from start-up to over 70 Appointed Representatives over a six-year period.
Ian has a 2:1 BA (Hons) in History from the LSE.
Vishan Singh
Vishan is responsible for managing Sentinel’s compliance consulting arm.
Vishan has experience both as a FCA regulator and consultant. As a regulator, his roles spanned the full regulatory lifecycle covering authorisations, supervision, and enforcement. Vishan was seconded to a specialist taskforce dealing with financial promotions related to high-risk investments.
As a consultant at a global professional services firm, Vishan was involved in multiple project-based engagements including Section 166 reviews, health checks and various FCA authorisation projects. He also provided ongoing support to a diverse portfolio of clients, offering practical risk-based compliance solutions to a wide array of FCA regulated businesses including private equity, venture capital, alternative investment, and wealth management firms.
Drawing on his expertise in financial promotions, Vishan was responsible for designing and overseeing the financial promotion framework at a regulatory hosting umbrella. He holds a Diploma in Investment Compliance (CISI) and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS).
Vishan has an Honours degree in International Relations and Politics from Cardiff University.
Mark Ford
Mark is responsible for managing Sentinel’s regulatory hosting arm.
Mark has experience both as a FCA regulator and consultant. As a regulator, his roles covered a number of key areas including authorisations, individual approvals and supervision.
As a consultant at a global professional services firm, Mark was responsible for managing the onboarding, ongoing oversight and offboarding of Appointed Representatives under the firm’s regulatory hosting umbrella. He was also involved in the internal governance within the firm, including collating management information, preparing quarterly board reports, assisting with auditor questions and completing annual AR reviews.
Mark has a 2:2 BEng (Hons) in Materials Science from Leeds University.