Michael Oxley

F4 exists because of a pattern I kept seeing on both ends of the size spectrum: organisations of every scale carrying operating models that were never actually designed, just inherited, patched, and grown around. I've spent 15+ years delivering architecture, automation, and regulatory uplift across APAC, EMEA, and the US, with a focus on stability and efficiency in post-trade, financial market infrastructure, and risk-sensitive environments. F4 is where I bring that same discipline to organisations who'd otherwise never get access to it.

My work centres on building future-state platforms and operating models that are resilient, efficient, and aligned to data and AI strategy, combining hands-on solution architecture with the program discipline to actually deliver it. Most recently I led global reconciliations technology and transformation at Macquarie Group, and before that ran global KYC change and regulatory remediation functions at Deutsche Bank across Singapore, New York, and London.

The common thread across 17 years at Deutsche Bank and two-plus at Macquarie: architecture before delivery, and no engagement that ends without the client owning what was built. That's what F4 brings to a business at any size, whether that's a regulated institution untangling a decade of technical debt, or a local firm whose entire operation still runs on one person's memory of how things are supposed to go.

A career spent uplifting, improving, and enhancing operating models has naturally led me to dive into the world of AI with both feet: designing orchestration engines across use cases as varied as prospect outreach, legal research, and hospitality venue availability, standing up MCP servers to connect them to the tools organisations already run on, and deploying agents for outreach, data cleansing, and categorisation. Same discipline, newest layer of the stack. Even standing up Chatterboxes like below.