The firm
About RiskTAE
RiskTAE is a specialist risk consulting firm based in London that covers the whole risk function for chief risk officers and their teams: advisory and consulting, executive search, training and the RisKIT prudential models. Senior practitioners who have known and worked with each other for years do the work, for banks and financial services firms in the UK and worldwide.
The firm exists so that a risk leader can take advice, get the work done, hire, train a team and buy the models through one specialist, run by people who have done the work themselves. Risk is the only thing we do.
- Based
- London
- Practices
- Risk Advisory, Risk Talent, Risk Education and RisKIT
- Our people
- A bench of senior risk practitioners
- Founders
- Mark Dougherty, CPA (CAN), and Benn Pople
Our people
Who does the work?
RiskTAE brings together senior risk experts: former chief risk officers and heads of risk, former regulators, interim executives, model and quant specialists, professional trainers, risk analysts and designers. They work under RiskTAE’s name and to its standards.
Each engagement draws on the people whose experience fits it, and a partner leads every client relationship. The firm is led by its founders, Mark Dougherty, CPA (CAN), and Benn Pople.
Mark Dougherty, CPA (CAN)
Co-founder and Managing Director
Our technical lead. A Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant and risk practitioner, he leads advisory, consulting and training work and directs RisKIT model development.
Mark has more than 30 years in financial services, over 20 of them in risk management, across fintech, capital markets, investment and retail banking, asset management, and general and life insurance.
He has served as an interim chief risk officer and has worked in London, New York and Toronto, among other financial centres. He contributes risk management lectures to the University of Cambridge’s Banking Executive Programme and presents risk seminars internationally. As a senior partner in Risks Explained Ltd he has written online courses on the Basel reforms to credit, market and operational risk, and he is the author of books and articles on risk management.
- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA Canada)
- Certified Management Accountant (Canada)
- International associate, AICPA
Benn Pople
Co-founder and Managing Director
Leads Risk Talent, the firm’s client relationships and its operations.
Benn specialises in the senior and hard-to-fill roles in risk: chief risk officers, heads of risk, and the specialists a firm cannot find through the usual channels. He has worked only in risk recruitment and executive search since 2003.
His searches cover credit, market, prudential and operational risk, quantitative and qualitative, up to chief risk officer and non-executive director. Clients have included fintech start-ups and multinational banks, and he works as readily alongside an in-house talent acquisition team as with a global recruitment process outsourcing provider.
Clients and candidates also come to him for a read of the market: what risk people are paid, who is moving and why, and where demand is heading.
Approach
How we work
Every mandate has a partner accountable for it from the first call to the finish, with the right people from our bench doing the work.
The practices feed each other: an advisory project can end with the right hire, searches are briefed by people who know the technical work, and the training draws on both.
Our partners also write for the profession. In February 2026 ACCA’s AB magazine published Don’t underestimate Basel reforms, by Mark Dougherty and Benn Pople.
Due diligence
Company details
| Registered name | RISKTAE LIMITED |
|---|---|
| Company number | 14317003, registered in England and Wales |
| Data protection | Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office, number ZC256357 |
| Phone | +44 20 3996 9599 |
| info@risktae.com |
Profiles
Our partners in full
Mark Dougherty
Mark Dougherty, CPA (CAN), is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant and former interim CRO who leads RiskTAE's advisory and training work.
02Benn Pople
Benn Pople has recruited senior risk leaders since 2003 and advises firms and candidates on the risk talent market, salaries and hiring trends.
FAQ
Questions about RiskTAE
Who founded RiskTAE?
RiskTAE was founded by Mark Dougherty, CPA (CAN), and Benn Pople, who lead the firm as its managing directors. RISKTAE LIMITED is registered in England and Wales, company number 14317003.
What does RiskTAE do?
Four practices for banks and financial services firms: Risk Advisory (prudential risk advisory and consulting: ICAAP, ILAAP, ICARA, ORSA, Basel 3.1, recovery and wind-down planning), Risk Talent (executive search, and interim and fractional risk leaders), Risk Education (in-house and white-label risk training) and RisKIT (pre-built prudential risk models in open Excel).
Is RiskTAE a consultancy or a recruitment firm?
A risk consulting firm with four practices. Risk Advisory gives prudential advice and writes ICAAPs, ILAAPs, ICARAs, ORSAs and recovery plans. Risk Talent runs executive search for chief risk officers, heads of risk and risk committee chairs, and supplies interim and fractional CROs. Risk Education trains boards and risk teams, and RisKIT supplies 22 prudential models in open Excel.
What does RiskTAE stand for?
Risk Talent, Advisory and Education.
Where is RiskTAE based, and where does it work?
The firm is based in London and works with banks and financial services firms across the UK and worldwide. Its training has been taught in the UK, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
Who does the work?
A partner leads every client relationship, with the work done by senior practitioners from our bench whose experience fits the engagement: former chief risk officers and heads of risk, former regulators, interim executives, model and quant specialists and professional trainers.
Next step
Talk to the team
A 20-minute call is the quickest way to find out whether we can help.
What happens on the call
- You tell us what is on your desk.
- A partner tells you straight whether we can help, and how.
- If it fits, we follow up with a written scope.
- info@risktae.com
- Telephone
- +44 20 3996 9599