Former Americas COO and Global CAO, DWS

“Armstrong Wolfe’s knowledge and understanding of the asset management industry and the issues it faces is impressive, along with their ability to mobilize speakers to address topics of interest, create conversations and provide actionable advice. This has been particularly helpful during COVID, when understanding what the industry is doing is critical to operating a business during a crisis.”

Former Global COO, Capital Markets, Bank of Montreal

“Armstrong Wolfe continues to deliver high-value and provide deep insights, covering our current environment and providing a future-focused outlook on tomorrow’s opportunities. Our membership has been a powerful benefit that has enriched our entire team.”

UK COO & Deputy UK CEO, BNP Paribas Asset Management

“Armstrong Wolfe provide a fantastic forum for COOs – and other C-suite roles – to share, learn, debate, and develop as a community. Their intellectual promptings, with which the AW team seed debates and discussions, have helped me to develop and grow and to make connections with peers across my industry.”

Joint Chief of Staff, CIB + Regional Head, Markets, Africa & Middle East, Standard Chartered Bank

“Having been a COO in Markets for most of the last 20 years, Maurice and AW have been a key driver of providing definition and understanding of the ambiguous role the COO plays. More importantly, he has successfully created a sense of community (in particular through WCOOC) that has sped up the continued professionalisation of the COO role. Since meeting him at the very first Markets COO breakfast roundtable, through to discussing my recent shift into the business, his insight and perspective have been a big help to me and I’m sure to many other COO’s over the years.”

Global COO, Ninety One

“I am not an easy convert when it comes to communities of this nature. My departure point is always scepticism. From our first meeting, the enthusiasm with which Maurice spoke of the initiative together will his experience piqued my interest. The depth of immersion in the topic and importance of connectivity doesn’t stop with Maurice – the combined Armstrong Wolfe team are all a pleasure to deal with. The value I see in Armstrong Wolfe’s iCOOC is the commitment of the team to foster genuine, collaborative engagements…”

Group Chief Controls Officer,Wells Fargo

“Maurice and the team at Armstrong Wolfe have been a great resource for our COO team at Wells Fargo. Their insight into critical issues that impact the COO community is invaluable and their ability to create a vast network of like-minded professionals across the financial services industry is something that our team finds great value in.”

Global Head Data Product Commercialisation, Standard Chartered

“Congratulations on your continued success and progressive evolution. For many years you have added value to the FS COO community, and I have witnessed your transition into a purpose-focused enterprise. The COO community benefits from the support, innovation and thought leadership Armstrong Wolfe brings to it, with the 2022 COO Compendium being another example of demonstrating your deep rooted understanding of this largely misunderstood function. Well done!”

EVP, Group Head, Global Operations, Scotiabank

At Scotiabank, we appreciate the work that Armstrong Wolfe has done to advance a shared understanding of the COO office across financial services, build awareness of the intersection of conduct, culture, purpose in an organization and to drive connection and collaboration across the global COO community.”

Head of Non Financial Risk MSS | HSBC

“Armstrong Wolfe demonstrates a deep understanding of the roles that COOs play within Banking. It leverages this understanding to bring together the COO community, where we can benefit through interaction on shared priority topics.”

Global Head of Non-Financial Risk, Macquarie Commodities & Global Markets

“More than a decade ago Armstrong Wolfe were the pioneers of bringing the global banking COO/CCO community together to discuss topical and emerging issues. As a result, they and their network are at the forefront of thought leadership in this space.”

Co-Founder & CEO, Swarm Dynamics

“Armstrong Wolfe’s unique integration of conduct, culture, purpose and CSR with a focus on the financial services COO community is both timely and necessary. They also have a great global network for delivering on this, which means COOs, CCOs, CROs and CHROs get to see practical solutions that really work”

“Under Maurice Evlyn-Buftons’ leadership, Armstrong Wolfe offers a broad view of market activities through the COO angle, looking at the strategic day-to-day actions that enable financial markets to function. It offers key insights from major market players on new trends and technologies, as well as interesting pointers for business development and transformations. Armstrong Wolfe’s Women in the COO Community (WCOOC) initiative actively engages with women in leadership and disruptive subjects linked to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Definitely a must have when belonging to the COO community.”