
Jason Sumner
UK Managing Director

Jason Sumner
UK Managing Director
Jason Sumner is a UK based Managing Director with over twenty five years within the financial services banking sector. Has held senior leadership and executive positions within top tier institutions managing an array of financial products and businesses. Operations expert across a wealth of financial products and instruments. Jason has deep knowledge of innovative structured products and his strong technical skills are complemented by a specialism in change and restructuring. Jason has a proven track record of operational advisory, re-engineering, recovery, resolution, start up and execution. He has been responsible for developing and driving numerous industry products and landmark initiatives, specifically across the OTC space. His thorough understanding of legislation, regulation and operational risk enables Jason to translate and execute through to business practice and operational process. Jason has extensive operations management experience, demonstrating technical expertise across a number of financial trading products and particularly literate around OTC Derivatives and Securities products. Combined with his experienced and innovative approach to process review, new businesses opportunities, transactions processing, risk mitigation and cost management, Jason brings access to experience and a wealth of knowledge and understanding across a broad business and product spectrum. Jason has held numerous global, regional and national management positions including operations management roles at Barcap, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, before moving to Lehman Brothers, where for over 17 years he was responsible for numerous Capital Market and Asset Management Operational roles including: Prime Brokerage, Global Head of Collateral Management, Global Head of Fixed Income, Credit, Commodities, FX, Loans, Middle and Back Office Operations and European Head of Asset Management Operations. Following Lehman’s collapse, Jason worked with PwC Administrators in an interim executive role leading re-engineering and management of Operations and Treasury for the London-based Administration. Through this unique recovery and resolution Jason led and facilitated the successful settlement of a number of landmark resolutions, settlements and legal cases.