Michael Shearer

Michael Shearer has held various roles throughout their work experience. Michael is currently working as the Chief Solution Officer at HAWK:AI since January 2024. Prior to this, they founded Positive Context Limited in September 2023, which is a financial crime capability consultancy. Michael also worked as an Author at O'Reilly starting from February 2023.

Before these roles, Shearer had an extensive career at HSBC. From January 2020 to September 2023, they acted as the Managing Director and Group Head of Compliance Product Management, overseeing financial crime risk management and data management. Michael was also the Managing Director, Group Head Compliance Product Management & Chief Data Officer (CDO) at HSBC from January 2017 to December 2019, where they gained regulatory approval for the bank's financial crime data quality and governance framework.

Additionally, Shearer was the Head of Systems Delivery, Financial Intelligence Unit at HSBC from July 2014 to November 2016. Michael played a crucial role in introducing agile methodology and a unified big-data platform to improve global exposure risk management and data efficiency.

Before joining HSBC, they worked for the UK Government, serving as the Head of Corporate Relationships Team from December 2010 to July 2014, and as the Counter Terrorism Technical Director from November 2007 to December 2010.

Michael Shearer attended Queen's University Belfast from 1990 to 1994, where they obtained a degree in M.Eng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. Michael also attended Wellington College Belfast, although the specific dates and degrees obtained are not provided. Michael Shearer has additional certifications including being a Chartered Engineer from IET and holding a certification from IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals. However, the specific months and years of obtaining these certifications are not mentioned.