Our People
Providing clarity and inspiring action to the global compliance community
The Vixio leadership team, alongside our highly qualified analysts and researchers, lie at the heart of our business, delivering the regulatory intelligence and insights our clients need, as it happens. This helps them anticipate and manage regulatory change, facilitating compliance with their licence responsibilities and maintaining strong working relationships with regulators. They cultivate our strong culture, and work tirelessly to help our people and our customers scale, grow and succeed.
To find out more about working at Vixio, please visit our careers page.
CareersMike Woolfrey
Mike Woolfrey
Chief Executive Officer
In 2018, Mike assumed the role of CEO at Vixio to take the company into a new strategic growth direction, primarily focused on entering the RegTech space. His leadership and business acumen led to the management buyout in 2019 and subsequently Perwyn's investment in late 2022. With a wealth of experience in executive positions within the B2B Media and Information Services sector, Mike's background spans various industry domains including engagements with both FTSE firms and private equity-backed ventures. Mike fosters an environment that values innovation, collaboration and a sense of purpose. He empowers the leadership team to execute Vixio's strategic initiatives, as well as fostering a workplace where every individual can flourish and contribute to the company's overarching success.
Nick Yeates
Nick Yeates
Chief Financial Officer
Nick joined Vixio as Chief Financial Officer in 2023 having held a number of senior finance roles with technology enabled companies in highly regulated sectors, particularly Financial Services. He has experience of privately owned, VC backed and PLC ownership structures and looks to Finance to shine a light on the business, wherever possible through a customer lens. He is a CIMA qualified accountant.
Dalia Nightingale
Dalia Nightingale
Chief Revenue Officer
Dalia joined VIXIO as Chief Revenue Officer in early 2020. She was tasked to both grow the revenue of Vixio while also transforming the sales function during the heart of the Covid 19 lockdown. Leveraging previous experiences and successes in her numerous leadership and general management roles, Dalia led her team to success through a shared vision of courage, resilience and a relentless focus on the customer. Dalia now oversees the entire commercial global operation across sales and marketing. She empowers her team by providing the tools they need to be successful, each contributing their unique strengths. By combining a culture of customer centricity with data informed decision making, this has strengthened the business revenue model that is both predictable and scalable, while giving her team the power to pivot with agility and adjust their strategic focus to evolve with the market conditions.
Roseanne Spagnuolo
Roseanne Spagnuolo
Chief Content Officer
Roseanne joined Vixio as Chief Content Officer in 2019 and is focussed on delivering the content and product strategy to establish Vixio as a global RegTech provider. As a seasoned executive in a variety of sectors and for some of the biggest B2B Information brands in the world, most notably at CEB, S&P Global Market Intelligence and Procurement Leaders, she is well placed to lead the research and product team to success. Roseanne leads by example, helping her global team of analysts and product specialists to put people and purpose first. Her history of success in building superior products in a crowded marketplace is evidenced by her ability to prove value through customer centricity.
Stephen Lovell
Stephen Lovell
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Stephen Joined Vixio as Chief Product and Technology Officer in 2024. With over 25 years in Product and Technology leadership roles his spell in Gambling, Payments and SaaS; bring a wealth of experience to Vixio. Stephen's focus will be strengthening Vixios position as a RegTech business creating and delivering a roadmap that will make Vixos offerings a critical tool for our customers to manage their compliance risks. He will oversee the Product and Technology functions and work closely with the Analyst teams to ensure we have the best technology solutions deploying AI and LLM solutions to augment current process where suitable. Stephen believes that any SaaS solution should target ways in which we save our customers valuable time and effort in getting their work done and Vixio can bring a unique combination of subject matter expertise and new technology solutions together to create a really valuable solution that ourt customers cannot be without.
Nicola Bowmaker
Nicola Bowmaker
Chief People Officer
Nikki joined Vixio in 2023 as their first Chief People Officer and is driven to create a high-performing culture that attracts and retains the best talent. Nikki has extensive experience of working in People leadership roles in a variety of sectors, including Education, Media and Technology. Now overseeing the People function at Vixio across the US and UK Nikki is excited to build it out in a way that supports Vixio’s positive growth trajectory. Nikki is a passionate people leader, who works collaboratively with the Senior Leadership team and challenges them to ensure that Vixio continues to develop a culture that supports the success of the business. With a proven track record of creating an award-winning culture, Nikki is looking forward to using her experience to make Vixio an employer of choice.
James Kilsby
James Kilsby
Vice President, Americas, and Chief Analyst GC
James was appointed as VP Americas in 2010 to build our North American based operations, after his success of building the international operations based in the UK. He continues his role as Chief Analyst for GamblingCompliance. James’ extensive industry experience in gambling regulation has led to being invited to speak at many of the premier industry conferences in the United States, Latin America and Europe, including at the European Parliament in Brussels as a thought leader. A fluent Spanish and Portuguese speaker, James has a keen interest in emerging Latin American gambling markets including Mexico and Brazil. James holds an MA in Latin American History and Politics from the University of London.
Alex Kerr
Alex Kerr
Chief Technology Officer
Alex joined the leadership team of Vixio as Chief Technology Officer in 2020 to create and deliver the strategic technology roadmap for Vixio enabling it to achieve its full potential as a RegTech provider. With his more than 25 years’ experience in designing, building and leading the implementation of software and digital programmes in the financial services industry, Alex excels at building robust technology solutions that deliver value across all stakeholders. Having led technical and product teams in financial services companies, both regulated and unregulated, Alex believes shared knowledge and curiosity is the key to establishing technology & product innovation excellence.
Lucy Hudson
Lucy Hudson
Vice President, Global Marketing
Lucy joined Vixio in September 2023 to lead the global marketing function. Aligned closely with the Revenue leadership team, Lucy and her team are responsible for generating highly qualified pipeline from multi-channel marketing initiatives and activations. Prior to joining Vixio, Lucy spent six years working for Xactly (a Vista Company) as Senior Director, Global Field Marketing, and has spent almost 20 years in B2B technology marketing. Lucy holds a BA Honours degree in European Politics and French.