Speaker Profile: Kent Mackenzie

Kent Mackenzie is Chief Commercial Officer at Aveni, the UK AI fintech specialising in financial services compliance. With over two decades of experience, he has held senior roles at NatWest, Morgan Stanley, Lloyds Banking Group, and Deloitte, where he led risk analytics and compliance programmes at institutional scale. At Deloitte, he founded RegHub, an award-winning AI-powered regulatory change platform, later acquired by Corlytics, where he served as Chief Operating Officer. He subsequently studied agentic AI at MIT before establishing his own advisory firm. Kent now leads Aveni's commercial strategy, focusing on scaling AI-driven compliance solutions across the banking sector.