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Elgin White achieves King’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2025

Elgin White is proud to announce that it has been awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade in the 2025 awards announced today. 

This follows on from its recent success ranking as the 38th fastest-growing company in Europe in the Financial Times’ FT1000: Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2025

Since their inception (as The Queen’s Awards) in 1965 these awards have been a globally recognised mark of achievement, celebrating the best of British businesses.

As a trusted partner to businesses navigating complex financial landscapes, Elgin White offers a wide range of advisory services, including target operating model redesign, platform strategy, system selection, and large-scale business and technology transformation initiatives.

In response to the growing demand for its advisory services over recent years, Elgin White has significantly expanded its global footprint, opening offices in the US, Holland, Spain, Singapore and India and strengthening its ability to serve a diverse and growing worldwide client base.

Commenting on the award, Managing Director Stanley Drasky stated:

“Elgin White’s rapid growth in recent years has been built on a growing demand for our specialist skills and experience from our global asset management clients. I am delighted to see this recognition for all the hard work from our team developing the business over recent years.”

For more information about Elgin White and its services, please visit www.elginwhite.com.

You can learn more about the King’s Award here: https://www.gov.uk/kings-awards-for-enterprise

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Jeremy Hurwitz

Managing Director - North America

Based in Los Angeles, California, Jeremy founded InvestTech Systems Consulting LLC in 1990. As President and Director the Enterprise Data Management and Architecture Practice for more than 25 years he managed over 50 large investment technology, strategy, and implementation projects for many of the largest global investment management firms. Following the acquisition of his firm by Accenture in 2017, Jeremy remained as Managing Director, Asset Management Lead.

Jeremy joined Elgin White in 2022 to lead the firm’s launch into North America. He is recognized throughout the North America asset management community as a thought leader and innovation architect in the design of enterprise data, analytics, and reporting platforms. His deep knowledge, broad buy-side network, and extensive experience deploying business-outcome-focused technology solutions successfully has accelerated the growth of Elgin White in North America.

Stanley Drasky

Managing Director

Stan joined Elgin White in 2020 following an impressive 30-year career working predominantly for world-class buy-side financial services firms in North America and Europe. He is a renowned buy-side technology leader with a reputation for designing and delivering large-scale transformation initiatives at scale and pace. Currently, Stan is especially active leading infrastructure (cloud and managed services) transformation projects.

His most recent roles prior to Elgin White include Chief Information Officer (EMEA) at State Street and various senior positions during his eight-year tenure at Northern Trust Corporation, including Head of IT & EMEA/Global Director of Fund Administration Technology, Global Director of Asset Management Technology, and Director of Trade Execution Technologies. Stan has also held senior Operational and Technology roles at Nuveen Investments and BNY Mellon.

Throughout his career Stan has been a strategic client or partner of every major front-to-back office technology vendor including SimCorp and Charles River Development.

Erik Schutte

Managing Director

Erik founded Elgin White’s consultancy practice in 2019, which transitioned the firm into a full-service buy-side consultancy and resourcing business. He is an experienced front-to-back business transformation professional and has held several senior management positions during his more than 30-year career in the UK and his native Netherlands, as well as Asia Pacific.

Previous roles include Head of Professional Services at SimCorp, Director at PwC UK, and Managing Director for Wealth & Asset Management Services at Accenture UK & Ireland.