Dancerace expands team with ABL veteran Jon Watts
Dancerace has expanded its UK team with the appointment of Jon Watts as head of product.
After 18 years at Lenvi (formerly Equiniti Riskfactor), Jon is the latest ABL expert to join the award-winning technology team, whose software powers banks and lenders in Europe, Africa, Australasia and America.
As head of product, Jon will work with the company’s development and customer uccess teams to help Dancerace realise its long-term mission to deliver the complete, connected software operating system for commercial lenders.
In recent years, that mission has seen the company overhaul it’s core backoffice and client access systems and add support for open accounting, API connectivity, digital onboarding and online learning to the Dancerace platform.
Jon joins as the company prepares to launch the next major element in its product vision: r3 Risk Analytics. In development since 2020, r3 is a fully integrated risk analytics system that empowers teams to monitor and manage risk using live data analytics from across systems. The tool will launch to a select group of banks and lenders later this year.
CEO Elliot Avison comments: “At Dancerace, we’re serious about technology and serious about risk, so we found a real synergy with Jon. We’ve got great respect for what he’s achieved elsewhere in our industry and grateful that he understands what we’re building and wants to join us for the journey.
It’s Jon’s job to challenge us and push us forward. I’m excited to see what we’ll achieve together!”
