About Us

Synermesh Consulting

Established in Luxembourg in 2011, Synermesh Consulting provides consultancy and advisory services to financial services and industry across Europe. Combining operational, technological and regulatory expertise, we deliver performant solutions to the major challenges of financial services.

What We Do

Synermesh Consulting exists to help European financial services organizations to solve the challenges of today: the increasing complexity of financial products demanded by clients, continuous regulatory changes, the impact of digitalization on technology, and pressure on cost.

We believe that these challenges are best addressed by deploying multi-disciplinary teams with business, technology and regulatory expertise. We have built up a network over the last few years which excel in these areas. We work closely with you to resolve the problems.

Values & Philosophy

Industry Expertise

All our consultants have deep knowledge of the key issues for financial services today: operational processes, financial structures, financial data management, regulatory impacts and information technology impacts.

Delivery Model

Our flexible and reactive delivery model is adapted to needs of our clients. We can work as an external provider or by deploying staff to work internally. We build long term working relationships leading to long terms assignments.

Innovation

We adapt the solutions that we deliver to clients to align with the latest industry standards; and to reduce the time to market of those solutions.

Cost & Quality

We provide the best service at a cost-effective rate. We aim to reduce our internal cost of doing business by automation and digitalization.

Review & Improvement

Using an annual planning and review mechanism we set KPI and quality standards to review our own internal performance and the services we provide to our clients.

Our Partners & Clients

Our partners and clients include recruitment organizations, IT solution providers, banks and public institutions.

Our Team

Richard Woodham

General Manager

With both Luxembourgish and British nationality, Richard has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Brunel University London and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge MA USA. He combines experience of financial services innovation support, IT management, management consultancy and SME management with an international career across Europe, the Middle-East and the USA.

Since founding Synermesh in January 2011, Richard Woodham leads projects which support our financial services clients: supporting a global bank to migrate to a new global custody platform and the migration of the 700 French asset managers. Since 2016 he has overseen rapid growth of the business with a number of key new projects including a contract to support a global financial organization in readying their European FX and Treasury business for the MIFID II regulation, and managing the onboarding of a new fund book for a major fund services provider.