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Our people

It comes down to the people you work with.

Hartmark is founder-led by design. The senior people who set your strategy are the same people accountable for the outcome — across credit, intelligence, recovery and the UK–China corridor.

Keith Allmark
Keith AllmarkCo-founder
Patrick Harte
Patrick HarteFounder & MD
Vincent Sun
Vincent SunDirector, Shanghai
Patrick Harte
Founder & Managing Director

Patrick Harte

15+ years on the UK–China corridor.

Patrick leads Hartmark's international credit, recovery and advisory practice — directing mandates for export-credit agencies, banks, law firms and corporates. He has worked alongside SINOSURE for more than a decade on complex insured and uninsured exposures and has acted as Chief Representative Officer in China.

How Patrick helps you
  • Leads mandates on UK–China recoveries and ECA-insured exposures, end to end.
  • Opens chief-representative-level access to SINOSURE, the CCPIT and the CBBC.
  • Holds every engagement to ISO 27001 accredited-auditor governance.
UK–China corridorSINOSURE recoveryChief Rep. Officer, ChinaISO 27001 Auditor
Keith Allmark
Co-founder & Senior Credit & Commercial Adviser

Keith Allmark

Risk understood before exposure is taken.

A credit-management and commercial professional with 17 years' continuous service in B2B credit — responsible for the underwriting interface, onboarding, account stewardship and recovery escalation. An earlier IBM mainframe-engineering career gives him a structured, evidence-based approach to exposure monitoring.

How Keith helps you
  • Stress-tests counterparties and sets credit limits before you take on exposure.
  • Designs onboarding, credit policy and the trade-credit-insurance interface.
  • Structures recovery escalation the moment an account begins to deteriorate.
B2B credit managementCustomer onboardingTrade credit insuranceRNLI volunteer since 2000
Vincent Sun
Director & Co-founder, Shanghai Regional Office

Vincent Sun

On the ground in Shanghai. Connected worldwide.

Vincent is the senior point of contact across Greater China and the wider Asia-Pacific region, bringing ten years across credit management, debt collection and the full credit-insurance suite. A former SINOSURE headquarters practitioner with a rare dual background in finance and law.

How Vincent helps you
  • Executes PRC court procedure, arbitration and enforcement on the ground.
  • Provides native-language representation and rapid local escalation.
  • Brings deep ECA & credit-insurance programme expertise across Asia-Pacific.
ECA & SINOSURE programmesCredit insurance suiteBritish Embassy · CBBC · CCPIT
Extended bench

Specialists where it matters

Beyond the founders, every engagement draws on qualified professionals in-market — adding substantive legal and technical rigour exactly where a matter needs it.

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Regional expertise · Greater China

Sun Yiguo

A PRC-qualified lawyer with 30+ years' practice — Partner & Deputy Director at Shanghai Asia-Pacific Great Wall (Nantong) and an arbitrator at the Nantong Arbitration Commission. Focused on bankruptcy, restructuring and cross-border enforcement, he gives Hartmark courtroom-grade depth across China.

How we help — together

One team across the whole lifecycle

Their strengths combine into a single governed relationship: the same people stay with you from the first credit decision to the final recovery.

Before the deal

See clearly

Counterparty due diligence, credit limits and the trade-credit-insurance interface — so exposure is understood before it is taken on.

Led by Keith · supported by Patrick
During delivery

Stay ahead

Portfolio monitoring, early-warning alerts and in-market visibility across the UK–China corridor and Asia-Pacific.

Led by Patrick & Vincent
After default

Recover decisively

Coordinated recovery, enforcement and litigation — with native-language PRC execution and ISO-grade governance throughout.

Led by Vincent · governed by Patrick
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