Who we are

Advisory board

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  Rory Percival


Rory Percival
Rory was ‘the face of the FCA’ to advisory firms for many years. He worked at the regulator for 10 years and was involved with many high profile projects such as risk profiling, centralised investment propositions, the RDR, research and due diligence, and the assessing suitability review as well as speaking regularly at conferences.
Prior to joining the regulator Rory worked in the advisory sector for 20 years mainly in compliance and training roles. He has Chartered Financial Planner status. In November 2016 he launched his own firm – Rory Percival Training and Consultancy Ltd – to help support professionalism in the advisory sector. He is also a member of the Personal Finance Society Board.
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  Karen Malin


Karen Malin
Karen is a fully qualified Chartered Insurance Practitioner and is widely known and respected  across the profession as the founder and owner of The GI Consultant Limited.
Karen has been a compliance consultant to retail mediation firms in the insurance and financial services sector since 2006, providing support, monitoring and audit services. She has served in the retail advice sector for 18 years in roles ranging from financial product sales, commercial insurance, compliance directorship and supervision. Prior to that she spent nine years working for a large composite insurer. Karen’s experience includes dealing with firms undergoing FSA / FCA supervision.
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  Helen O'Connor


Helen O'Connor
Helen has been in the industry for more than 13 years and has  experience in every role within an IFA – meaning she knows the struggle of compliance first hand!
Just before RDR hit Helen decided to return to University where she completed within a year a Business with Financial Services degree, and specialised her dissertation in regulatory issues and the effect on the IFA. Due to the huge changes brought with RDR, this spurred her on to help firms work with compliance more positively. She believes that it is possible to integrate regulatory requirements into a firms operations and corporate strategy to help companies run more efficiently and well into the future.
In 2011, Helen joined ‘the dark side’ became a compliance professional.  She has worked for a large network and numerous prestigious IFA firms as their Compliance Manager before finally setting up her own consultancy  in 2015, advising firms on how to most effectively embed the regulatory requirements in a way that compliments their business model.
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