Executive Team
Leslie Armstrong
Managing Partner
Leslie worked as a corporate lawyer before joining Moriarty & Co as a junior consultant. He quickly displayed a talent for providing exceptional client service and business insights.
Leslie soon became Managing Partner of the firm and grew it from a niche player in the UK security sector to the global consultancy firm it is today. Now, Moriarty & Co has a presence in every major market, offering services across a variety of segments. Leslie was instrumental in taking a holistic and integrated approach to client advice, turning the firm into the leading professional services firm of its kind.
Sarah Ripley
Head of Financial Engineering
Prior to joining Moriarty & Co, Sarah worked at a global consulting firm where her clients included AIG, Wirecard and Enron.
Sarah runs the fastest growing division of the firm, and has been recently promoted to Partner. Sarah’s practice area continues the firm’s tradition of driving innovation to help clients.
Sarah started her career at Goldman Sachs working in investment banking, and gained a thorough experience of multi-billion corporate transactions.
Sarah has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she is a Baker Scholar. Sarah’s undergraduate degree is in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.
Kin-Ming Chang
Partner, Security
Before joining the firm, KM was a Chief Inspector in the Hong Kong Police Force. He joined the force straight out of the Academy and rapidly became one of the most commended officers in the Narcotics Bureau - awarded several medals for closing high profile cases while he was still a junior officer. After a prestigious career in the police, where he also worked on areas such as financial fraud and counterfeit currency, KM joined Moriarty & Co as a full partner.
Julia Stapleton
Senior Associate
Julia joined the firm from technology consulting firm, Aztec Global, where she specialised in risk analysis of payment system processes.
Prior to business school, Julia was in the global managment training programme at pharmaceutical company, GSK, where she was posted in India, Australia and London.
Julia attended undergraduate at NYU and completed her MBA at Oxford’s Saïd Business School.
Leslie Armstrong
Leader, Boardroom Coup
Leslie Armstrong was a the first in his family to go to university. Tough, smart and ambitious, Armstrong thought he wanted to leave behind the Scottish crime family he was born into - at least until he started work as a corporate lawyer in London. Toeing the line didn’t fit him well, and he jumped at the chance to work at Moriarty & Co, then a small firm that had his family as a client. He quickly rose through the ranks with his unique blend of professional services and crime heritage.
Leading the expansion of the business, Lector found himself clashing over the firm’s direction with the founder and Managing Partner of the firm, Gus Moran. Moran refused to expand overseas or take on clients that weren’t white. This resulted in Armstrong leading a very hostile takeover of the firm, and replacing the Board with his supporters.
With Armstrong in control, the firm grew from strength to strength. However, after 20 years as Managing Partner, the Board feel his management is too old fashioned for a world dominated by evolving technology. Putting pressure on him to perform, Armstrong makes a misstep and is forced to resign. But Leslie Armstrong’s like a bad penny. It’s not that easy to get rid of him.
Sarah Ripley
Rainmaker
Sarah was recruited into the firm when she was at her lowest. She had masterminded some of the largest financial scandals, and her firm had thrown her under the bus.
The hardest part of being publicly disgraced was the idea that other people thought she was incompetent and unethical.
Sarah was neither - she is sure about her moral center and that everything she had done was both legal and within the ethical rules that her company had given her. It’s not her fault that her clients used her work to defraud investors. She had done everything that was asked of her, made the company millions, and then became their scapegoat.
With nobody wanting to hire her, Sarah felt, for the first time, the lack of external validation that she’d sought her whole life.
Kin-Ming Chang
Internal Affairs
KM is not a man to be messed with. His gentle and friendly demeanour hides a fierce intellect. KM is persistent too - he won’t drop a problem until he gets to the bottom of it. Which makes him the perfect man to lead Moriarty & Co’s internal investigations department. Other firms call it HR.
KM spent years as a mole for a drug gang working undercover in the Hong Kong police. When the gang imploded - KM gracefully exited the police force, having never been detected. He brought his wife and child to the UK to start a new life, taking up a partnership at Moriarty & Co.
Julia Stapleton
Imposter
Julia is the perfect recruit for the firm, with the right education and experience in industries like pharmaceuticals and electronic payments. And she aced the moral flexibility test during the selection process.
But she’s a little too perfect. It’s almost as if she has prepared her career to get a job at the firm.