Simon Henderson
Co-founder & Managing Director, Engineering & Technology
Simon leads engineering and technology. His background includes systems design and implementation across private credit fund operations and administrator relationships.
Background
Simon designs and builds the systems that connect financial records, calculations and workflows.
Private-credit operations
Sole engineer for a North American private-credit manager: a single forecasting model in code for its funds, automated covenant monitoring on a standard monthly reporting format for borrowers, and the integration with its fund platform, Allvue, designed and tested with Allvue’s technical team.
Workflow automation
Before Halyard, ran a consultancy that designed and built workflow automation connecting clients’ CRM, payment, scheduling and communication systems, so that events in one system moved work forward in the others.
Writing
The economics of fund servicing
AI changes the human effort a business needs to produce an additional unit of service. In fund services, the opportunity is to weaken the relationship between more mandates, greater complexity and the number of people required to deliver the work.
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Performance standards
AI should be judged as part of a complete operating process, against the standard the service requires and the performance of the existing arrangement. Neither model perfection nor familiarity with human error is a sufficient basis for the decision.
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Model progress and implementation design
An implementation can meet its original specification while leaving useful model capability unavailable to the business. The design has to preserve the firm's operating requirements without permanently preserving the limitations of the model used to build it.
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