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Flying Phase is a financial services consultancy that leverages cutting edge analytics and technology to help banking leaders solve their most complex credit, risk, and governance challenges.
Flying Phase is a financial services consultancy that leverages cutting edge analytics and technology to help banking leaders solve their most complex credit, risk, and governance challenges.
Our end-to-end solutions are designed with a deep understanding of the financial services industry, your needs, and the obstacles that stand in your way.
Our moniker comes from America’s Cup yacht racing, where innovations in hydrofoil designs have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible to create boats that literally lift themselves out of the water to travel faster than the wind. It’s known as the Flying Phase.
Our credit and analytics experts cut through legacy drag to identify innovative and compliant solutions that reduce risk, increase profit, and deliver superior insights in less time. We go beyond solving for the discrete problem, because it’s our nature. We’re building smart, real-world solutions to accelerate our clients into the future.
When the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the world’s economy to a crawl, many banks relied on models and forecasting to anticipate customer delinquencies and hardship and to efficiently staff its call centers.
When the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the world’s economy to a crawl, many banks relied on models and forecasting to anticipate customer delinquencies and hardship and to efficiently staff its call centers.
Flying Phase is the sister organization to Spinnaker Consulting Group, a hands-on management consulting firm. Our collective teams bring a full complement of experts from all across financial services – including compliance, operations, capability delivery, and business agility to help clients see where their organization is headed and get there faster.
Flying Phase is the sister organization to Spinnaker Consulting Group, a hands-on management consulting firm. Our collective teams bring a full complement of experts from all across financial services – including compliance, operations, capability delivery, and business agility to help clients see where their organization is headed and get there faster.
Shawn is a co-founder and the CEO of Flying Phase. He is also the founder and CEO of Spinnaker Consulting Group, a fast-growing, award-winning management consulting firm. In his dual-CEO role, Shawn is continuingly looking for synergistic opportunities for both teams to provide tangible, lasting results for clients.
Prior to launching Spinnaker in 2012, Shawn spent over 14 years as an executive with a Fortune 200 financial services company, leading a variety of organizations, including Strategy and Analysis, Operations, and IT. He was often called on to spearhead turn-around situations or develop and build new organizations. Today, he leverages these experiences to drive strategy and executional excellence at Flying Phase and Spinnaker. Shawn’s expertise and leadership have been leveraged at several Fortune 100 companies including American Express and Capital One.
Shawn is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and served our country as a submarine officer before entering the corporate world. He resides in Richmond, Virginia with his wife Lauren, son Stephen and daughter Savannah. When he’s not supporting clients, you can find Shawn and his family sailing on the Chesapeake Bay or traveling to fun destinations.
During his 21 years in the financial services industry, Brett has worked across the spectrum: leading teams at one of the largest banks in the United States and playing a critical leadership role in a startup organization. In addition to being a co-founder of Flying Phase, Brett is a Principal with Spinnaker Consulting Group. He focuses on helping clients leverage analytics to enable smarter business decisions.
At Capital One, Brett led analytics teams that focused on credit card fraud prevention, mortgage fraud identification and reporting, marketing strategy, credit policy, business development, and credit risk management.
As the first employee of a financial services startup, Brett was a key player in leading marketing strategy, IT, operations, recruiting, sales, processing, underwriting, and the company’s inaugural recycling program.
Brett has an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, where he studied mechanical engineering. He lives in Hume, Virginia, with his wife Hayley and their two spoiled dogs. When Brett isn’t busy solving business problems, he and his wife love to travel.
Abdul is a technologist with two decades of experience in the financial services industry. Abdul has a penchant for translating organizational needs into practical technology solutions that streamline business processes and enable risk analytics through machine learning.
Prior to co-founding Flying Phase, Abdul led multi-disciplinary Agile innovation teams to implement credit risk models across Consumer Card, Home Loans, and Auto Finance at a Fortune 100 company and has overseen quality assurance of mission critical debt and derivative applications for a GSE. Abdul brings a passion for process efficiency to cloud migration and digital transformation and is known for his deep knowledge of the software and model development lifecycles. Using open source cutting-edge technologies in the cloud, he specializes in robust, sustainable, and compliant technology frameworks for the real world.
Abdul earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Osmania University in India and a PhD in engineering from University of Arkansas. He currently resides in Great Falls, Virginia. When not delivering client solutions, Abdul enjoys stock market investing, cooking, and playing with his cat.
David has spent more than a decade diving deep into the technology problem space and leveraging analytics to deliver game-changing products at the user and enterprise level. A self-described lean process geek and Agile nerd, David specializes in rapidly developing data products and transforming processes. Seeing interesting problems everywhere, he considers himself lucky to work in a field with so many unique business challenges waiting to be solved.
Prior to co-founding Flying Phase, David led product teams at top-tier financial institutions, government agencies, and Big Four consultancies. As a leader of teams large and small, he blends a passion for technology, Lean process, design thinking, and product management, while also leveraging his extensive background in data platforming and enterprise risk management to deliver outsized and sustainable results. He has a proven track record for accelerating change while embracing operational excellence and effectively managing risk.
Originally from Maryland, David earned his BA in military history from the University of Maryland, and later his MBA, and now lives in Northern Virginia with his wife. When he’s not problem-solving for clients, watching baseball, or hawking latex at Vandelay Industries, he can usually be found building robots or going on adventures with his young son.
Justin is an experienced problem-solver who has spent his career disrupting financial services through responsible machine learning and emerging technology. He has a passion for analytical problem-solving and combining technical knowledge with deep business expertise, enabling his clients to accelerate innovation while achieving organizational goals. Justin credits his real world business experience with learning how to tailor his approach.
Prior to co-founding Flying Phase, he led teams to develop and implement cutting-edge models across multiple business lines, including Consumer Card, Home Loans, and Auto Finance at Fortune 100 companies, and he has overseen advanced analytics for the United States Department of Justice. He has a proven track record in digital transformation and is known for his deep knowledge of the model development lifecycle, which elevates data science solutions from science fair projects to hardcore systems robust enough to steer a business.
Justin earned his undergraduate degree from Tulane University with a major in quantitative economics and a minor in mathematics. When not lost in a sea of data, he enjoys touring the city he calls home—Arlington, Virginia—playing board games, and catching up on “Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let’s Find Out!” (And, yes, “Hollywoo” is spelled correctly.)
Sunil is a business-minded technologist with over a decade of experience in the financial services industry. He is a process and data whisperer, who knows how to bring automation and insight to uncover the potential in any data-driven process. He is passionate about bringing together technology and deep business knowledge to build platforms and processes that help organizations meet their biggest challenges.
Prior to co-founding Flying Phase, Sunil led business process automation and advanced analytics initiatives across Credit Policy, Modeling, and Loss Forecasting groups at a Fortune 100 company. From reimagining the credit infrastructure to migrating organizations to cloud-based, open-source technologies, he brings advanced approaches to the most critical financial processes to gain efficiency, generate insights, and reduce risk across the enterprise.
Sunil earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in India and an MBA in Global Strategy from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. To feed his analytical and technical curiosity he is currently pursuing an MS degree in Data Science through Harvard University. Sunil enjoys playing board games and cooking with his daughters and is an avid follower of Indian Cricket team. Recently he has picked up biking, so you may see him around town in Ashburn, Virginia.