Barley Laing joined Melissa in 2014 during an exciting expansion phase of the California headquartered company.

As UK Managing Director with 17 years of data industry experience, his role is focused on meeting the customer onboarding, data quality and compliance needs for organisations in the UK and worldwide.

The team that Barley heads at Melissa’s Canary Wharf office provides sales, data consultancy and technical support for their wide range of software solutions, which help businesses to achieve efficient data management and meet ID, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know your Customer (KYC) requirements.

Under his leadership Melissa’s UK office has experienced strong growth during the last six years, with a 46% increase in annual turnover in 2019. Over this period he has significantly grown the UK client base, which includes: Creditsafe, MetaBank, Tranzfar, BAE Systems, Caterpillar, GSK, NHS, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.