Our Team

Our Team

Barry Rogers

CEO

Barry has more than 35 years in Trade & Invoice Finance, Inventory financing, and all working capital facilities including Asset Based Lending and Asset Finance. In addition to his role as CEO, Barry Rogers will be responsible for Global sales where he has been highly successful as top performer in the past for Lloyds Bank
Commercial Finance, and a Senior Manager in Financial Services Advisory for
PricewaterhouseCoopers and his own advisory business ABL Advisory as well as
building many Invoice Finance and SCF businesses globally. Member of our Credit
Committee.

Gavin Stevenson

Director

Gavin has worked in Trade and Invoice Finance for over 35 years, having worked for
several leading players in the areas of Sales, Risk, Operations, Audit, Structuring
and special or new projects. Gavin has assisted many SMEs to find funding and is
acutely aware and knowledgeable of the UK funding market for all working capital
facilities for SME’s. Member of our Credit Committee.

Priyanka Goel

CFA (Investor & Funder Relations)

Priyanka is strategic-thinking corporate finance professional with over 14+ years of extensive experience in a financial modeling, credit rating and valuation analysis. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has worked with leading global banks such as Citi, Barclays wherein she supported their Investment & Corporate banking division with transactional execution involving financial and competitor evaluation along with industry & economic analysis. She is a firm believer that data should drive decisions but with fresh creativity to support it, all with the goal of aggressively growing the business or idea. In her current role with ABL Advisory, Priyanka is supporting our clients to develop results-driven strategies, including credit rating evaluation, financial and competitive benchmarking, and opportunity assessments through in-depth market research.

Olga Flink

MBA (Director – Client Integration & IT)

Olga has more than 20 years-experience in innovative financial product development and an MBA in the field of financial management. She developed a lot of factoring products and services which provide clients with access to finance and help to manage cashflow. She co-developed the best ever web-based application in Russian’s factoring sector. In 2018 she co-developed a blockchain-based platform for impact measurement, management & investment. It uses Industry 4.0 and WEB3 tech to solve accountability & profitability issues of the impact investment market. Olga is responsible for all IT issues for our clients.

Akmaljon Odilov

(Country Manager – Uzbekistan)

Knowledgeable, detail-oriented, and intellectual leader are just a few words most often used to describe Akmaljon Odilov. With several years experience in the fast-paced financial industry, Akmaljon has established himself as a powerhouse and an innovative leader and advisor. Akmaljon will assist in the “roll out” of our new Trade Receivables Invoice and Trade Finance business in Central Asia

In his new role as Country Manager – Uzbekistan, Convenient Capital, Akmaljon leads strategic business development, strengthened client relationships, change and program management, and guides the success of high-performing teamwork in Uzbekistan. He has consistently found success through his effective communication skills and unique ability to understand complex projects quickly.

Howard Palmer

Senior Advisor

Howard has spent more than 40 years in Trade Finance, Structured Commodity Finance, Banking and Law relative to International Trade. Previously Head of Trade and Lending at RZB and specialist in Emerging Markets. Howard provides comprehensive training programs and works closely with Canterbury Business School in offering CTFS (Certified Trade Finance Specialist Certification. Howard has trained over 5,000 Bankers in 55 Countries. Specialties: Oil and Energy Financing, Forfaiting, Letters of Credit, Fraud Avoidance, Structured Trade and Pre-Export Finance, Bank and Country Risk analysis.