Michael Kempe

Chief Operating Officer, Capita Asset Services

Michael joined Capita Registrars in January 2007 after having spent 11 years with the Euroclear Group. Michael joined the Capita Registrars board in July 2007 and become Chief Operating Officer in March 2015. His current responsibilities include operational functions, compliance, legal, people and organisational development, service excellence and industry matters.

Prior to joining Capita, Michael worked for Chase Manhattan Bank and CRESTCo, which became part of Euroclear in 2002. At Euroclear, Michael was responsible for creating a harmonised corporate actions platform for the Euroclear group. In addition to meeting this challenge in the Belgian, Dutch, French, Irish and UK markets, Michael was Chairman of the European Central Securities Depositories Association’s Working Group 5 and was also co-Chairman of the ISO 15022 Global Market Practices Group defining global market practice in relation to ISO 15022 and corporate actions.