Jonathan Abratt

As a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, Jonathan Abratt oversees the day-to-day operations of the Forensics Americas – Anti-Financial Crime team including coordinating and monitoring key strategic initiatives within the practice, managing finances, and maintaining a productive, collaborative, and positive organizational culture and environment for the team. In addition to his operational roles, Jonathan is also involved in the strategic decision making of the practice and leads the corporate and business development activities of the practice.

Prior to joining Ankura, Jonathan held a number of roles across the financial technology, alternative payments, and gaming industries. Jonathan was Group CFO for Pariplay Limited (Isle of Man), a leading provider of Internet gaming solutions and bespoke gaming platforms. He was Senior Vice President and Group Director of Zapper (Gibraltar), a mobile payments company, where he oversaw operations and was responsible for the day-to-day running of the company, including ensuring compliance with the various local money transmission and anti-money laundering regulations. Jonathan also had a number of roles for 888.com (Gibraltar and Israel), one of the world’s largest online gaming operators listed on the London Stock Exchange, including as Group Treasurer, Head of Finance Shared Services and ePayments Team Lead. He was also the first employee and Head of Operations of Wonga.com (UK), the UK’s most successful payday lending business. Jonathan also provided payment advisory services to globally successful social gaming platform, Playtika. Jonathan started his career at a large consultancy and performed various information technology audit, internal audit, business risk consulting, and operational functions across a number of the company’s worldwide practices.

Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, receiving Honors in Information Systems and a major in Economics. He has completed an intensive Kaizen management training in Japan with Toyota Production System Lean Kaizen experts. Jonathan also writes thought leadership articles for the Compass publication on current compliance topics and trends.