Meet Our Team
Leadership
John Hillbery Esq
Chairman
Dr Markus Marcket
Strategic Advisor Education
David Entwistle Esq
Head of Compliance
Tom Brown CAMS
Managing Partner
Head of Financial Crime
Mubashir Malik
Founder & Managing Director
Dr Markus Markert, Education Strategist and co-founder of Anglo-German Education Ltd, read Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick, where he was awarded the Warwick Student Prize for Best Overall Performance, before proceeding to the University of Oxford, where he earned his MPhil in Politics and DPhil in International Relations.
His career spans academia, international consultancy, and educational leadership, with a particular focus on the development of institutional linkages between education, industry, and the wider public sector. Dr Markert has advised universities, healthcare networks, political bodies, and cultural institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, demonstrating a steadfast commitment to bridging scholarly rigour with practical enterprise.
A firm proponent of the German dual studies model, he maintains that the integration of industry into education must occur from the very outset, shaping the formation of talent not as an adjunct but as a central pillar of learning. He is also co-founder of The Mayfair Programme, where Dr Markert advances a vision in which intellectual excellence, character formation, and real-world mastery are cultivated together from the earliest stages, preparing graduates to lead with distinction and purpose in a changing global society.
Tom Brown is a globally recognised Financial Crime Prevention specialist with over 25 years of experience across Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC), and Compliance Governance.
He is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor in both English and Sharia law, and has delivered expert services across the banking, oil & gas, payments, legal, law enforcement, gambling, telecommunications, and academic sectors in the UK, Europe, the US, the Middle East, and Africa.
Professionally certified by ACAMS, ICA, and IRM, and holding both LLB and LLM degrees, Tom has successfully led major financial crime transformation and compliance change initiatives for some of the world’s largest banking and energy organizations. He has also served as a de facto Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and trained professionals across all three lines of defense — from operational teams to senior management, audit, and board-level leadership.
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Tom has lectured and been a guest speaker on Money Laundering and Financial Crime at three leading UK universities at the Master’s level. A polyglot fluent in four languages, he was also a guest speaker on Corruption and Integrity in Africa at the G20 Viadrina Conference in Hamburg, Germany (2017).
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Tom currently serves as the CEO at Kaizen Compliance Solutions and TBrown Consulting and is a director in a compliance software company and a property investment firm.
​With over 20 years of international experience, Mubashir has led and advised on complex financial crime compliance training, awareness, and remediation programmes across Tier-1 global banks, sovereign-backed ventures, and large-scale transformation environments. His career spans senior roles and engagements with institutions including HSBC, Saudi Aramco, Société Générale, Petro Rabigh, Santander & NEOM giving him a rare blend of regulatory depth, commercial pragmatism, and board-level perspective.
Mubashir’s work focuses on translating regulatory and financial crime expectations into practical, risk-based programmes that drive real behavioural change. He has designed and delivered enterprise-wide training and awareness frameworks, board and executive workshops, and targeted remediation initiatives addressing areas such as AML, sanctions, fraud, conduct risk, and ethical culture. His approach bridges the gap between policy, controls, and people ensuring compliance frameworks are understood, embedded, and effective in practice.
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Mubashir is also a published author, with his book Double Standards (2016) examining governance failures and regulatory responses through the lens of the forced closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), drawing enduring lessons for financial crime & governance.
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Mubashir holds a BSc in Economics, Finance & Management from Queen Mary, University of London and an Oxford Executive Certificate in AI Ethics, Regulation & Compliance from the University of Oxford, Said Business School.
David Entwistle is a senior legal and compliance leader with over 25 years of experience advising boards and C-suites in highly regulated, complex organisations. His sector expertise spans financial services, asset and wealth management and giga/mega projects.
Most recently, David served as Head of Compliance at NEOM, where he led the enterprise-wide compliance programme. He was previously responsible for all financial crime risk areas and related control frameworks across the organisation.
Before NEOM, David spent two decades at Deutsche Bank, including as Managing Director and Global Head of Regulatory Governance and Enforcement (Anti-Financial Crime), and Global Head of Legal Risk Management. In these roles, he led global teams covering regulatory remediation programmes, major investigations and international litigations, and group-wide governance and culture initiatives.
David is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales. He trained and practiced at Slaughter and May and Fieldfisher prior to his in-house career. At Oxford Group, he contributes deep practitioner insight across compliance, financial crime, regulatory governance, and board-level risk oversight.
Education & Qualifications:
BA/MA, University of Cambridge; Postgraduate Certificate in Interests in Securities (King’s College London); Solicitor, England and Wales.
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Mr John Hillbery has spent over 60 years as a seasoned Financier of international acclaim at a number of senior positions globally. He was the Bank of America’s Global Communications Director and formerly the Director of International Business at The Financial Times.
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He was also a trustee of the Cambridge University Overseas trust and Cambridge Commonwealth Trust following his retirement as the Head of Communications at a major International Bank. Further to this he served as an Advisor to The American University Washington.
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Early in his career he was a London based stockbroker specialising in the Investment Fund Market and has worked The Daily Telegraph, The Times of London, London First and the State of New Jersey.
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He has been a regular visitor and attendee of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland and World Bank Annual meetings over many years.
HE Rayan Al-Amoudi
Advisor
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mr Sohail Kizilbash
Senior Advisor - Financial Governance & Accounting
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Sohail Kizilbash is a senior finance professional and Fellow Chartered Accountant with over 40 years of international experience across banking, financial governance, and institutional leadership. His career spans global financial institutions, donor-funded organisations, and executive-level oversight roles.
He spent nearly two decades in senior group accounting roles at a large international bank, where he was responsible for consolidated financial reporting across more than 70 countries and contributed to major international financing and sovereign lending transactions. He also played a key role in establishing institutional fund management functions within the bank.
Following his banking career, Mr Kizilbash served as Chief Executive and Secretary General of leading philanthropic foundations in Pakistan, overseeing large-scale donor funds, institutional grants across health, education, and social welfare sectors, and robust financial governance frameworks.
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A Fellow Chartered Accountant since 1974, he brings deep practical insight into financial stewardship, accountability, and board-level financial oversight. At the Oxford Group, he supports clients and programmes focused on financial governance, accounting integrity, and institutional trust.