Experian's Market Consultants

Our team of seasoned experts have backgrounds in specific industry sectors including banking, retail credit, utilities and telecoms across both consumer and commercial practices.

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Our expertise

Critically, as part of Experian, our market consulting partners can draw on a unique heritage of data and software expertise to help clients with challenges or new opportunities. Each Partner typically has over 15 years experience in their specialist sector. We’ve walked in our clients’ shoes; we understand your challenges.

Above all, we’re highly familiar with all the innovative technology and data that’s available to help, and we really understand all the components that are the bread-and-butter of a credit-reference agency like us.

Why use Experian’s Market Consultants?

Industries we support

Our Market Consulting Partners are experts covering the full breadth of Financial Services, Telecommunications, Energy, Water, Public Sector and Gaming. Our Partners have typically accumulated over 15 years experience in their market, working directly within organisations as well as consulting for them. We understand your market challenges, applicable regulations and innovations and can bring the latest insights, industry best practice, understanding of data and technology to improve your customer lifecycle across credit, fraud and marketing.

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Meet our consultants

Colette Land

Colette Land

Head of Consulting

Colette has 25+ years experience as a leader helping organisations use data and analytics to improve marketing, fraud, operations and credit management decisions. Her current focus is within the Telecommunications and Utilities sectors, though having spent 15 years leading analysis teams in financial services she often reverts.

Simon Forster

Simon Forster

Senior Consulting Partner, Financial Services

With 20 years of industry experience, Simon has a proven track record in the design, integration, delivery and optimisation (through data driven, value add strategies) of risk systems across the credit lifecycle.  Simon’s more recent engagements have been with the rapidly growing BNPL sector and the market changes this is driving.

Listen to Simon talking on the How to Lend Money to Strangers podcast - LinkedIn | Apple | Spotify

Mark Wright

Mark Wright

Senior Consulting Partner, Telecommunications & Utilities

Mark has over 25 years experience designing credit risk management solutions and strategies, across multiple vertical markets and blue-chip companies where there is a key focus on putting the end customer at the heart of every decision.

Grant MacDonald

Grant MacDonald

Director of Fraud and AML Strategic Initiatives

For over 20 years, Grant MacDonald has been pioneering the creation and delivery of market insights across the identity, fraud, financial crime, and credit landscape. Having held roles as Head of Enterprise Markets, Sales Director Identity & Fraud, Director of Financial Crime Market Engagements, and now Director of Fraud and AML Strategic Initiatives, Grant is responsible for coordinating Experian’s marketing, product, delivery, and consultancy efforts to deliver market leading financial crime insights and services to UK businesses.

 

 

Upcoming events

Webinar: Telecoms, Utilities and Affordability

Tuesday 10 September 2024 | Online

Join us for this Experian hosted webinar where we will be putting a spotlight on affordability, debt and the increasing focus on no intention to pay for the Telecommunications, Energy and Water sectors.

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Event: Consumer Vulnerability & Debt Conference 2024

Tuesday 17 September 2024 | Birmingham

While energy prices are decreasing in 2024, water bills are increasing by 6% and the cost of living remains high bringing new customers into debt alongside those struggling with affordability.

Come and join us at the 2024 Utility Week Consumer Vulnerability & Debt Conference where the utility industry and partners meet to discuss novel approaches to identification, engagement, and communication.

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