Mr Stickland is an experienced executive and has held senior roles with HSBC, JP Morgan Chase and Cisco. Mr Stickland was also CEO of biometric security business Veridium, where he was responsible for growing the company's revenue and balance sheet and completing a successful US$16.5m Series B funding round with American multinational software company Citrix. Mr Stickland also helped develop and lead Veridium's global 'go to market' strategy for its flagship solution, VeridiumID. During his roles with HSBC and JP Morgan Chase, Mr Stickland focused on accelerating innovation capabilities in investee companies and delivering investments in enterprise technology, including cloud, mobile, social, data and security applications. He also drove business strategy for retail and private banking and trading offerings.