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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Banking space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Nikolay Storonsky
Founder & CEO of Revolut
Nikolay Storonsky is the Founder and CEO at Revolut. He is a former Equity Derivatives Trader at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers. Storonsky graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT) with a master of science in General and Applied Physics and earned a master of arts in Applied Economics and Finance at New Economic School.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
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Kumar Gaurav
Founder and CEO of Cashaa
Kumar is the Founder & CEO of Cashaa, a UK based neo-bank providing businesses access to crucial banking infrastructure. Cashaa is a community of more than 250 crypto businesses including the industry leaders making it the biggest crypto-friendly banking platform. Kumar started his career as an engineer by building navigation systems for Ferrari before pivoting into the FinTech space in 2014 to begin working on blockchain-powered innovations. In recognition of his pioneering work on blockchain technology, he was awarded extraordinary (O-1) status by the United States government in 2017 and got listed among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Blockchain in 2016-2018 by Rise global. As a thought leader in the Fintech space, he has been invited to numerous global forums, including Money 2020, TechCrunch Disrupt, the European Parliament and Ivy League universities. In 2017, he was also nominated among the ‘World’s Top 50 Innovators from the industries of the future in the UK.
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About Cashaa: Next Generation Banking Platform
Ian Cowie
Chief Executive Officer of Shawbrook Bank
Ian joined Shawbrook in April 2017, initially leading the Business Finance division until taking the role of interim CEO in July 2018. Ian brings with him a wealth of SME banking experience, after leading the largest business banking franchise in the UK via a number of senior roles at RBS. These include; CEO Business and Commercial Banking, Chairman of SME Banking at NatWest and Director of Lombard Asset finance and RBS Invoice Finance.
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About Shawbrook Bank: Shawbrook Bank is a provider of financial services including savings and loans in the UK.
Fedele Di Maggio
CEO of DiPocket
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About DiPocket: We are a new generation of mobile digital payments redefining the banking scene.
Richard Burton
CEO of Balance Software
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About Balance Software: A subscription-based Mac app for monitoring your bank balances and card transactions.
Rishi Khosla
Chief Executive Officer of OakNorth
Rishi Khosla is a serial start-up entrepreneur; and the co-founder of OakNorth – the next-generation credit platform that’s redefining lending to lower mid-market businesses globally (loans of $0.5m-$25m). Prior to co-founding OakNorth, Rishi co-founded and built Copal Amba into a 3,000 employee business providing outsourced research for investment banks, private equity funds and asset managers. Copal was fully acquired by Moody’s Corporation in 2014. Rishi is also an active venture investor and has provided early stage funding to two multi-billion dollar companies – Indiabulls and PayPal. He has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University College London and a Masters in Accounting & Finance from the LSE where he attended on a scholarship.
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About OakNorth, OakNorth Bank: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Carlo Gualandri
Founder and CEO of Soldo
Carlo Gualandri is the founder and CEO at Soldo. Gualandri is an Italian technology entrepreneur whose innovative companies have broken new ground in the world of media (Virgilio), banking (Fineco), and gaming (Gioco Digitale).
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About Soldo: Soldo is a multi-user expense account helping companies manage their budgets.
Mark Hipperson
Founder and CEO of Ziglu
Mark has founded a UK retail bank and two financial technology businesses. He is a commentator and speaker on banking, FinTech, crypto, technology, PSD2 and open banking. Mark is the founder and CEO of Ziglu, the modern challenger. Previously, he founded Starling Bank where he was responsible for helping to secure the UK banking licence with regulators and obtaining the initial funding the Bank achieved in December 2015. He was also responsible for the design, build, implementation and support of the Bank’s IT platform, apps and infrastructure. He started his career at Barclays where he was Head of Technology.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
Ashok Vaswani
CEO of Barclays
Ashok joined Barclays in 2010, managing the credit card business across the UK, Europe and the Nordics, becoming chairman of Entercard. He went on to manage Barclays in Africa and his most recent role was CEO for UK Retail and Business Banking. Prior to Barclays, Ashok was a partner at Brysam Global Partners, a New York City based private equity firm focused on building retail financial service businesses in emerging markets. Ashok spent 20 years with Citigroup working in Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and North America, his last position being CEO of the Global Consumer Bank in Asia Pacific. Ashok graduated from Bombay University, and has postgraduate degrees from both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries of India. Ashok is on the advisory board of SP Jain Institute of Management and has served on the advisory board of Insead Singapore and Visa Asia Pacific. He is Founder Director of Lend-a-Hand, a non-profit organisation focused on economic development in India.
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Perseus Mlambo
CEO of Zazu Africa
Perseus is the founder and CEO of Zazu. Zazu are building a digital bank for Africa’s future. Perseus has previously worked at the Ethics Office of the UNHCR and has spoken at the European Commission about how inclusive digital technologies are the key to unlocking Africa’s potential.
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About Union54, Zazu Africa: A smart digital-money account that helps you do more with your money. Get involved at https://www.ilovezazu.com/
Ian Stuart
CEO of HSBC
Ian Stuart was appointed CEO of HSBC UK Bank plc, with effect from April 2017, and is a member of HSBC Holdings plc’s Group Management Board. Mr Stuart joined HSBC as head of its Commercial Banking business in the UK and Europe in 2014. He has more than 38 years’ experience in the banking industry. Before joining HSBC, Mr Stuart led the Corporate Banking business at Barclays for six years, and held many roles in Business Banking during his 22 years at NatWest. He left school at 16 and went straight into banking, initially working as a cashier in a branch before moving into business banking. While working, Mr Stuart also studied at night school, and attended the University of Reading, where he obtained a management diploma to develop his career. Mr Stuart is a Business Ambassador for Meningitis Now; a board member of the financial services industry association UK Finance; and a board member of The London Institute of Banking & Finance, a higher education provider. He is married with four children and is a keen golfer.
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Ben Stanway
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Moneybox
Ben is co-founder of Moneybox.Prior to Moneybox he co-founded Bloom & Wild, recently named by Deloitte as the second fastest growing tech company in the UK. In the ten years prior to Bloom & Wild Ben was an investor, first at Fidelity, then as part of the founding team of Habrok Capital, a $2bn global equity hedge fund.
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About Moneybox: Moneybox is a mobile savings and investment app that offers a range of saving and investment products including Lifetime ISAs and Pensions.
Charlie Mortimer
Co-founder & Co-CEO of Moneybox
Charlie Mortimer is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Moneybox.
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About Moneybox: Moneybox is a mobile savings and investment app that offers a range of saving and investment products including Lifetime ISAs and Pensions.
Paul Taylor
Founder and CEO of Thought Machine
Paul is a serial entrepreneur specialising in speech, language and artificial intelligence. In 2006, he co-founded Phonetic Arts, which developed speech software for the games industry. Phonetic Arts was acquired by Google in 2010, and Paul worked at Google as head of the text-to-speech group and as a research scientist until leaving in 2013. 2004-2006 Paul was a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, working and teaching in the Engineering department. During this time, he wrote Text-to-Speech synthesis, widely regarded as the definitive book in the field. In 2000, Paul co-founded Rhetorical Systems which was the world leader in text-to-speech. Rhetorical was acquired by Nuance in 2004. From 1989-2000, Paul was at Edinburgh University, where he gained his PhD, worked as a post-doc, tenured lecturer and eventually director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research. He is author of more than 80 academic papers.
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About Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Eduard Panteleev
Co-Founder & CEO of ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
Co-Founder and CEO at Anna.
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About ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin: Business Banking and Admin service
Shachar Bialick
Founder & CEO of Curve
Shachar Bialick is a serial entrepreneur, passionate about using technology to improve lives. He is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Curve -a fintech startup. Hefounded Curve to give people a simpler, smarter way to manage their financial life. It allows people to spend from all their bank accounts and cards through one smart Curve card, connected to an even smarter app. Cardholders can see all their business and personal spend in one place, cut out bank fees on business trips, make their existing cards more secure, manage cash flow with ‘financial time travel’, and never worry about doing their expenses again.
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About Curve: Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.
Martin Kissinger
Founder & CEO of Lendable
Martin is the founder and CEO of Lendable (www.lendable.co.uk). Lendable provides personal loans to a broad range of UK consumers, by instantly matching them up with qualified investors through automated credit decisions and fully personalised risk-based pricing. Martin previously worked in venture development at Rocket Internet, and among other projects started the incubator’s first fin-tech venture, Lendico, now active in 6 countries and valued at €120M. Prior to Rocket, he spent time at venture capital firms including Accel Partners. Martin graduated at the top of his class with a research masters degree in Economics from Oxford, and also holds a BSc from the London School of Economics.
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Christian Angermayer
Founder & CEO of Apeiron Investment Group
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About Apeiron Investment Group, ATAI Life Sciences, Presight Capital: Focus is on Financial Services (especially fintech), Internet and Technology. Life Sciences, Media, Real Estate and Natural Resources.
Geri Cupi
Founder & CEO of Twig
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About Twig: Twig is a fintech startup that provides a mobile banking app.
Manish Maakan
Chief Executive Officer, Intellect Global Transaction Banking of Intellect Design Arena
Manish is the CEO of Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB) business of Intellect Design Arena and is based out of London. In this role, he is responsible for driving worldwide Positioning, Sales and Implementation of Global Transaction Banking solutions. Manish joined Polaris 6 years ago from GE Money, India, where he was a CIO. Manish has an impressive career record spanning over 20 years, as a Business Leader and Technology Strategist in global financial institutions, Big 5 Consulting firms and Fortune 500 Majors. He has been a recipient of many prestigious awards during his career. Manish has successfully spearheaded the Retail Banking Products & Services Business for Polaris and has led multiple Financial Technology – Smart Legacy Modernization programs using L0 Frameworks & SOA based component architectures. Manish has a degree in Electronics Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology
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About Intellect Design Arena: Intellect Design Arena Ltd, is a global leader in Financial Technology for Banking, Insurance and other Financial Services.
Judy Hsu
Regional CEO, ASEAN & South Asia of Standard Chartered Bank
Judy was appointed CEO Singapore in October 2015 and was appointed CEO Singapore and ASEAN Markets (Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Rep Offices) in October 2017. From June 1 2018 she will assume the role of Regional CEO, ASEAN & South Asia. Judy joined Standard Chartered in December 2009 as the Global Head of Wealth Management and led the strategic advancement of the Bank’s wealth management business. Prior to this, Judy spent 18 years at Citibank where she held various leadership roles in its Consumer Banking Business in Asia. Her last role in Citibank was Regional Head of Retail Bank for Asia Pacific and Country Business Manager for International Personal Banking in Singapore. Judy is a member of The Institute of Banking and Finance Council and sits on the Statutory Board of Workforce Singapore.
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About Standard Chartered Bank: Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
Simon Cooper
CEO of Corporate and Institutional Banking of Standard Chartered Bank
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About Standard Chartered Bank: Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
Bill Winters
Group Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank
Bill Winters was appointed to the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as Group Chief Executive on 10 June 2015, having joined the Group in May 2015. He is based in London. Bill has had a distinguished career in banking, having spent 26 years with JP Morgan in diverse leadership roles, becoming co-Chief Executive Officer of the investment bank in 2004 until he stepped down in 2009. Bill was the only career banker to be invited to be a committee member of the Independent Commission on Banking, established by the UK government in 2010 to recommend ways to improve competition and financial stability in banking. Subsequently, he served as advisor to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards and was asked by the Court of the Bank of England to complete an independent review of the bank’s liquidity operations. Bill founded the hedge fund Renshaw Bay in 2011 where he was Chairman and CEO until he stepped down from the company on appointment to the Standard Chartered PLC Board. Bill was previously a non-executive director of Pension Insurance Corporation plc before stepping down in October 2015. He is an independent non-executive director of Novartis International AG. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Colgate University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Standard Chartered Bank: Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
Tracy Clarke
CEO Private Banking of Standard Chartered Bank
An experienced banking and human resources professional. Group Head, People, Compliance, Communications and Culture at Standard Chartered Bank, Tracy has spent most of her career in banking roles both in the UK and in Hong Kong. A former Non-Executive Director of SC First Bank in Korea (2005-2007) and Non-Executive Director of eaga plc (2007-2011), where she chaired the Remuneration Committee. Tracy is a trustee of the charity, WORKing for YOUth. A member of the Institute of Financial Services and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
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About Standard Chartered Bank: Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
Benjamin Hung
Regional CEO, Greater China & North Asia and CEO, Retail Banking, and Wealth Management of Standard Chartered Bank
Ben was appointed Regional CEO, Greater China & North Asia on 1 October 2015, and CEO, Retail Banking on 30 November 2017. He assumed his additional role of CEO, Wealth Management in March 2018. Ben was previously CEO for the Greater China Region. He joined Standard Chartered in 1992 and has held a number of senior management positions spanning corporate, commercial and retail banking in the UK and Hong Kong. During 2008 to 2014, he was the CEO of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd. Ben was previously a board member of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority and a Council Member of the Hong Kong University Ben is a member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive’s Council of Advisers on Innovation and Strategic Development and the Financial Services Development Council. He also sits on the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee and is a member of the General Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and Hong Kong Trade Development Council Belt and Road Committee.
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About Standard Chartered Bank: Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
Norris Koppel
Founder and CEO of Monese
Norris Koppel is CEO & Founder of Monese, a service which enables customers to open a UK banking account in a matter of minutes, using a mobile app. Monese’s breakthrough technology can validate the identity of customers in real time. This enables the company to offer accounts to the hundreds of thousands of expats and migrants who find it slow and painful to open bank accounts with major banks across Europe. Monese’s fully-featured UK current account comes with cheap global payments and a contactless debit card. Norris founded Monese after his first-hand experience of the hassle involved with opening a bank account in a new country. Prior to starting Monese, he built multiple FinTech companies in the UK.
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About Monese: Monese is a digital banking option that provides mobile-only, multi-currency accounts in countries across the European Economic Area.
Salim Dhanani
CEO & Co-Founder of BigPay
Salim Dhanani is CEO & Co-Founder at BigPay
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About BigPay: Bringing fair and transparent financial services to Southeast Asia
Manu Choudhary
CEO of DMALINK
Tech Focused Entrepreneur, Venture Investor and Avid Visual Artist
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About DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Kingsley Duffy
Owner / CEO of Slovar
The founder and current CEO of HostelBookers is Mr. Kingsley Duffy. Mr. Duffy is a 44 year old British-national entrepreneur. He was also the reason why HostelBookers merged with Web Reservations International (WRI) in 2013 because Mr. Duffy is sitting on the Board of Directors of WRI.
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About Slovar: Slovar invests in exciting, high growth potential technology companies.
Cameron Parry
CEO & Founder of Tally
Serial innovator and Chief Executive of listed fintech and natural resources public companies, including the world’s first blockchain company to IPO on a recognised stock market (Dec 2015). Founder and CEO of Tally® – the standalone physical gold monetary system and digital currency and first in the world to offer individual accounts with international bank account numbers for a non-government issued currency. Joint CEO of FCA-licensed 35-year-old London Stockbroking firm, First Equity Limited (FCA Licence No. 124394) and a Financial Conduct Authority approved person (FCA Ref No. CJP01234). Created the vertically integrated gold company Lionsgold Limited (LSE: LION). Founder and inaugural CEO of London Stock Market AIM-listed natural resources investing company Metal Tiger PLC (LSE: MTR) and co-Founder of Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX: COIN).
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About Tally Money: Tally® is a standalone monetary system, payments platform and commodity currency that seamlessly operates with the global banking system’s infrastructure whilst safeguarding customers from the systemic devaluation and risks of the fiat currency fractional reserve banking system.
Ayo Akindele
Founder & CEO of Kyshi
Ayo Akindele currently works as the Founder and CEO for Kyshi.
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About Kyshi: Kyshi is a fintech company that offers digital banking services.
Emmanuel Tahar
Co-Founder & CEO of Third Bridge Group
Emmanuel has led Third Bridge from its inception and overseen its growth into a leading provider of research to the financial services industry. He now concentrates on defining company strategy and making the development plan a reality. Emmanuel’s past career includes several roles at Bain & Company in Europe and North America, where he led consulting projects for major technology corporations and diverse financial investors. He has an MBA with Honours from the Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania and speaks French and English fluently. A self-confessed boffin, he’s never happier than when taking electronic components apart. His MSc in Engineering may help explain his success rate at re-assembly stage.
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About Cognolink, Third Bridge Group: Third Bridge Group is a provider of research services to private equity and hedge funds.
Mutaz Qubbaj
Chief Executive Officer of Squirrel
Mutaz graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science in 2000 and spent several years working at MIT’s Media Lab and an internet strategy consulting start-up (ZEFER). Subsequently, Mutaz has had a financial career that spans more than a decade at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and PIMCO as a trader, strategist and marketer. With an LBS Masters in Finance degree in hand, Mutaz has co-founded Squirrel, a financial wellbeing platform that directly plugs into an employers’ payroll designed to empower low-income employees to regain control of their financial lives. Mutaz was nominated by WIRED & Talent International as one of the ’15 To Look Out For in 2015.’ Mutaz recently won the WIRED Startup Pitch Competition presenting Squirrel to HRH the Duke of York and audience of 400+ WIRED2014 attendees.
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About Citi, Squirrel: Squirrel is an award-winning smart banking app that empowers people to take control of their money.
Hassan Waqar
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MoneeMint
Hassan Waqar has been recognised as one of the top 500 Global Leaders of the Islamic Economy 2018 by Islamica500. He’s a keen entrepreneur and pioneer whose establishing MoneeMint, a UK based digital platform that will provide shariah-compliant financial products and services to consumers. MoneeMint is built upon the foundations of ethical banking and accessibility for all. Fintech is changing the financial sector where Hassan and MoneeMint are helping write a new financial era.
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About Domino’s Pizza Group, HN Restaurants, Kiani Group, MoneeMint: MoneeMint provides banking services.
Joe Channer
Founder and CEO of Delta Capita
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About Delta Capita: Delta Capita is an International business & technology consultancy and managed services provider
Nadeem Siam
CEO & Founder of Fund Ourselves
Nadeem Siam is the Founder & CEO of Fund Ourselves. The first fully automated short-term credit marketplace. Nadeem graduated from Canfield University in the UK and Lulea University in Sweden with two masters of science degrees in Astronautics and Space Engineering and Space Technology; respectively.
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About Fund Ourselves, PTP Funding: Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Anders la Cour
Co-Founder & CEO of Banking Circle
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About Banking Circle: Banking Circle offers its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost.
Laust Bertelsen
Founders & CEO of Banking Circle
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About Banking Circle: Banking Circle offers its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost.
Virraj Jatania
Founder & CEO of Pockit
Co-founder of Pockit, a leading prepaid card provider in the UK. Second generation of leading personal care and cosmetics business Lornamead that was sold to Li & Fung in December 2012. Interested in investing into businesses as well as operating early stage tech businesses.
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About Pockit: Pockit is a financial technology company that provides a digital banking app for the underbanked masses.
Lee Britton
CEO EML Europe of Prepaid Financial Services Limited (PFS)
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About Prepaid Financial Services Limited (PFS): PFS is a payments technology and e-money specialist, providing a range of prepaid and alternative banking products.
Simone Mazzuca
CEO and Founder of Wallex Bank & Statutory Trust
Simone Mazzuca is the CEO and Founder of Wallex Bank.
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About Wallex Bank & Statutory Trust: Assets and Digital Assets financial service provider.
Rushd Averroes
CEO, Founder of BABB
Rushd is founder and CEO of BABB, leading a diverse team of industry veterans to make his vision a reality. He is a financial inclusion specialist and has an MA from University of Greenwich in Microfinance and Financial Inclusion. Before that, he attended the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne and was awarded an IT Science Degree in 2006. Rushd has managed a highly successful Authorised Payment Institution (API) in the UK – Wowpaymobi.
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About BABB: BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Brad Goodall
CEO & Co-Founder of Banked
Brad is a seasoned Fintech and consulting industry entrepreneur, having spent over 17 years building disruptive teams and businesses that challenge the status quo. As COO, Brad is leading the 10x business strategy development and building an exceptional team of transformation specialists to deliver the 10x vision.
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About Banked: Banked is a fintech company that provides an account-to-account payment software platform offering an alternative to card schemes.
Martina King
CEO of Featurespace
Martina is responsible for the strategic direction and corporate vision at Featurespace. She has served as CEO since October, 2012. Former Managing Director of augmented reality company Aurasma, Martina King has an extensive career in media technology. Her previous leadership roles include Managing Director of Capital Radio, where she doubled revenues as Sales Director and successfully defended the radio station’s number one position in London. Martina was also Managing Director for Europe at Yahoo!, where she rebuilt the UK and Ireland business after the ‘dot com’ collapse and subsequently led the rebuilding of Yahoo!’s European division. Martina is also non-executive director of Capita Group, Cineworld and Debenhams
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
David O’Loan
Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer – Treasury and Investments of Ahli United Bank
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About Ahli United Bank: Ahli United Bank offers global fund management and life insurance services.
Anne Boden
CEO and Founder of Starling Bank
Anne Boden is the CEO and Founder of Starling Bank, a UK mobile challenger bank. She is a banker and technologist with more than 30 years of experience building and running global banking and payments businesses. Before Starling she was the Chief Operating Officer of Allied Irish Banks Plc with responsibility for returning the bank to profitability. Prior to this she headed Europe, Middle East & Africa across 34 countries for Global Transaction Banking at RBS & ABN Amro. Anne was awarded an MBE in June 2018 for services to Financial Technology and in July 218 an honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University.
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About Starling Bank: Starling Bank is a mobile banking platform that offers personal, joint, and business accounts.
Joe Lee
Chief Executive Officer of Magnr
Founder of Btc.sx
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About Magnr: The world’s most trusted Bitcoin Bank
marco muccini
Group CEO of Topos Network
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About Papermine, Topos Network: The Borderless Bank of Migrants
Tim Fouracre
Founder & CEO of Countingup
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About Countingup: The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
Ferruccio Ferrara
CEO of Negentropy Capital Partners
Ferruccio is CEO, CIO and Founding Partner of Negentropy. He has spent his whole career in investment banking, from 1992 in London and from 1998 as MD, holding various responsibilities in sales and trading of Global Market products (FX, rates, commodities, credit and structured products) and covering financial institutions and asset managers throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Japan. Prior to founding Negentropy, from 2006 to 2008 Ferruccio was Managing Director Head of GRCC (Global Rates, Currency and Commodities) International Sales for Bank of America in London, and before that from 2003 to 2006 MD Head of Europe Rates Sales in Morgan Stanley International in London. From 1996 to 2003 Ferruccio worked for Deutsche Bank in London (first as Head of Italian Fixed Income sales and then as Head of Italian Investment Banking), and from 1992 to 1996 in Morgan Stanley International in London. Previously, from 1990 to 1992, Ferruccio was a Director for Baring Brothers in the Corporate Finance Department in Milan, and from 1986 to 1990 he was with Standard Chartered in Milan trading FX, interest rates and credit. Ferruccio holds a 1986 Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Milan Bocconi University with focus on Finance, and has been working as Assistant Professor with the Banking Department of Bocconi for a number of years.
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About Negentropy Capital Partners: Negentropy Capital Partners is an investment manager that invests mainly in special credit opportunities.
Fadi Halout
Chief Executive Officer of BankMed (Suisse)
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About BankMed (Suisse): BankMed is a bank that specializes in providing wealth management services.
Myles Stephenson
CEO & Co-Founder of Modulr
Myles Stephenson is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Modulr.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
James Baillie
Founder & CEO of Wundr
I’m a crossborder commerce guy pioneering in-app ecommerce for consumer driven apps around the world. Millions of products from the worlds best brands for consumers to shop without ever having to leave the app they use day in day out. About me: I’m a single father of four. Cameron, Olivia, William and Jack inspire me every day. I grew up with nothing and every opportunity I have today has been carved out by myself. At the age of 12, I had two paper rounds, at 16 I went straight into work from school to support my family financially on a £30 a week two-year apprenticeship; I starting my first company with £80 in my pocket from my bedroom, recording £2m in sales year one – something I’m very proud of in 2006. My Business Overview: Founder, CEO, innovator, builder and leader of companies, growing businesses from scratch; building teams and powering $billions across international markets with a focus on emerging economies like China & South East Asia. I have spent the last 27 years in supply chain, distribution, ecommerce and tech where I am uniquely armed with a complete 360 view of business; all departmental functions and technology through to business development with some of the biggest companies in the world. In 2005, I relocated to China full time and over the next decade made a big difference to the supply chain and ecommerce sector working with global brands and tech companies in China including Alibaba, JD, Tencent and Amazon powering more than $1bn+ in digital sales over the last 15 years. Since moving back full time to the UK in 2016, I have focused on my family as a single father, building two start up companies in commerce, payments and banking, and advising boards and management teams across the world on crossborder commerce, ecommerce technology and ways to optimise and do things better.
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About Wundr: Next generation ‘Commerce as a Service’. Choose from a network of 1million+ brands for your customers to shop in-app
Ian Lonergan
Chief Executive Officer of Charter Savings Bank
As Chief Executive Officer, Ian leads the senior team and is responsible for delivering strategy, ensuring risk management is a core focus, and setting the values and standards to which employees work. He has over 20 years’ experience in financial services, focusing mainly on strategy, financial analysis and risk management. Ian qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, where he worked in the Financial Services Practice as both auditor and management consultant in both Europe and Asia Pacific regions.
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About Charter Savings Bank: Charter Savings Bank offer straightforward savings accounts, great rates and reliable service.
Jamie Cox
Co-Founder & CEO of TreeCard
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About Flare, TreeCard: Treecard is a fullstack green finance platform, allowing consumers to spend, save and invest responsibly.
Antonio Separovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Oradian
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About Oradian: Oradian provides a unique enterprise solution to financial institutions across South East Asia and Africa.
Sean Kiernan
CEO of Greengage
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About Greengage:
Greengage aspires to be a digital merchant bank that provides a platform of relationship-based banking services to digital companies, SMEs, and HNWIs to the highest ethical, secure and compliance standards.
Bridging traditional financial services and digital innovations in cryptoassets and blockchain, we provide access to the benefits of digitisation in finance. Our tailored services are delivered by people, empowered by technology.
We offer:
- E-money solutions to facilitate £, € and imminently $ payments and cards (coming soon)
- Wholesale crypto into fiat loans
- Bespoke Salesforce-based solutions for financial services firms
- Access to other third-party services and providers
As part of its mission to be the best in class, Greengage aims to obtain a full banking licence and add crypto-native solutions and additional technological solutions.
*E-money solutions are provided as an agent of Modulr FS Limited, Greengage is not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The Financial Ombudsman Service or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) do not apply to the cryptoasset activities carried on by Greengage.
Cyrus Kapadia
Chief Executive Officer, UK of Lazard
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About Lazard: Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm focused on income strategies, alternative investments, and private equity funds.
Brett Shanley
CEO & Founder of Knoma
Brett is the Founder and CEO of Knoma, the Knowledge Market, offering a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning. He passionate about equipping people for the future of work and providing sound financial options.
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Tim Slesinger
Founder & CEO of LendingWell
Tim Slesinger is Founder & CEO at OSG Records Management
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About easyStorage, LendingWell: LendingWell is the single platform p2p investment partner.
Alex Hunn
Founder & CEO of Freemarket
Alex Hunn is the Founder and CEO at Freemarket.
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About Freemarket, uchoose: Freemarket accelerate’s businesses growth by giving them access to cross-border payments and currency exchange optimized for their needs.
Georg Ludviksson
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Meniga
Georg is a co-founder and oversees Product Management activities at [UpDown](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/updown-com). Georg Ludviksson is an MBA candidate at the Harvard Business School and holds a BS degree in software engineering from the University of Iceland. Georg Ludviksson has over seven years of experience as an IT entrepreneur. In 1998 he co-founded Dimon Software, an Icelandic enterprise mobility company, which he helped guide to profitability as a major software provider to Nokia. From 2004 to 2006, he was the VP of Sales for Men & Mice, a provider of specialized network management software to many of the world’s largest organizations.
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About Meniga: Meniga is a digital banking platform that helps banks, businesses, and individuals manage their financial data.
Mark Lusted
Chief Executive Officer, UK of MagiClick Digital
Mark founded Dock9 in 2008 and grew it into one of the most respected digital agencies serving the financial services sector. Dock9 was acquired by MagiClick in 2021 and Mark moved to the role of CEO of MagiClick UK. Having previously been included in the BIMA list of the top 100 most influential people in UK digital (the BIMA Hot 100) he is also a regular speaker at Fintech events on the subjects of financial technology, user experience (UX) and emerging technology trends. About MagiClick: MagiClick is a leading provider of multi-platform UX/UI design, development & marketing capabilities helping businesses create great digital services. Our team of over 160 digital specialists are based in our 4 offices in London, Istanbul and Dubai. Since our inception in 1996 we have served numerous multinational companies & brands within financial services, e-commerce, telecoms, travel, food & beverages, automotive and healthcare. We have over 30 financial institutions as clients including HSBC, Bank Audi, QNB, BNP Paribas, BBVA, First ING, Abu Dhabi Bank, Metlife, Masthaven Bank, Castle Trust Bank, Akbank, Denizbank, Vakifbank and Ziraat Bank. Our clients in other sectors include IKEA, Turkish Airlines, Vodafone, Domino’s, Turk Telekom, Mercedes-Benz and Microsoft.
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About MagiClick Digital: Digital technology & design agency with a strong focus on the financial industry and presence across the UK, Turkey and the MENA region.
Nasir Zubairi
CEO of The LHoFT
Nasir is CEO of The LHoFT – The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology, a public/private sector initiative to drive fintech innovation in Luxembourg. Nasir has worked in Financial Services for nearly 20 years. He spent 13 years working within Capital Markets at RBS, ICAP, HSBC and EBS. He has been immersed in the Fintech and startup sector for the past six years. As an entrepreneur, Nasir has built multiple Fintech businesses across verticals. He has advised the boards of leading financial institutions, central banks and governments. Nasir is included in the “Top 40 innovators shaping the future of financial services -2014” by The Wall Street Journal/Financial News. Nasir has a BSc from the London School of Economics and is a Sloan Fellow from London Business School.
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About The LHoFT: The LHoFT is Luxembourg’s dedicated FinTech platform where finance and technology interact to foster innovation.
Ivan Zhiznevskiy
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of 3S Money
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About 3S Money: 3S Money offers international business banking services in 190 countries.
Catherine Lewis La Torre
Chief Executive Officer of British Business Bank
Catherine joined British Business Bank Investments as CEO in September 2016. Catherine was previously Head of Private Equity at Cardano Risk Management where she was responsible for a global portfolio of private capital investments with in excess of £1 billion of committed capital. Prior to this, she was a Partner with Fondinvest Capital and was one of the Founding Partners of Proventure Private Equity, where in both cases she was an investor in mid-market funds and companies across Western Europe. Catherine holds a B.Sc. (Econ.) from the London School of Economics where she graduated with First Class Honours.
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About British Business Bank: The British Business Bank aims to make finance markets for smaller businesses work better.
Jason Cozens
CEO of Glint
Jason David Cozens is a Founding Partner of Bite Digital Limited. Jason Cozens has 17 years’ experience in making companies profitable via the Internet and has a deep understanding of digital solutions from eCommerce design & build, through to all aspects of digital marketing. Previously an architect, he started in the ‘90s on the evolution of consumer and B2B e-Commerce channels for the likes of JD Sports, Mitsubishi and Weidmuller. He also directed the development of cutting edge solutions in the fields of email marketing, eCommerce, artificial intelligence & virtual reality.
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About Glint: Glint is a FinTech with an app and debit card that enables clients to save, exchange, spend and send multi-currencies and physical gold.
Cameron Goldie-Scot
Co-Founder & CEO of Musoni System
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About Musoni System: The award winning banking software for microfinance organisations
Nick Lukic
CEO & Co-Founder of Digital Vega
Nick has 20+ years in FX, derivatives, ecommerce, technology and consulting. Nick was a founding member of Atriax, the first FX ECN where he was responsible for product development and bank relationships. He went on to form worldflow, an e-commerce specialist software and consulting firm where he worked on setting up new ecommerce businesses for banks including several FX and retail CFD businesses. Nick was global head of FX and Interest Rate Derivatives technology at Chemical/Chase Manhattan Bank where he ran the quant analytics and risk management teams. He was also global head of FX and FX options IT at Citibank where he helped start the Citi FX e-commerce business.
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About Digital Vega: Digital Vega is a privately held company operating the Medusa FX Option trading platform.
Stevan Bajic
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Manigo
Stevan Bajic is Founder & CEO at Manigo.
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About Manigo: Manigo is a full stack Banking as a Service (BaaS) provider
Robert King
Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Acuity Knowledge Partners
Robert King is the executive director of Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services.
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About Acuity Knowledge Partners: Acuity Knowledge Partners is a provider of research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector.
Andrea Orcel
Group Chief Executive Officer of UniCredit
Andrea Orcel was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer of UniCredit on 15 April 2021. He started his career working in Fixed Income at Midland Montagu 1987. A year later he moved to Goldman Sachs and later in 1990 he joined The Boston Consulting Group. Andre Orcel spent the next ten years working at Merrill Lynch (then Bank of America) in various senior roles including Executive Chairman of the Investment Bank and President of Emerging Markets ex Asia (2009), President of International Global Banking, Securities & Wealth Management; Head of International Corporate and Investment Banking (2009), Head of Global Origination. His positions at the Bank included also President of EMEA Global Markets & Investment Banking and member of Merrill Lynch Management Committee (2007), Head of Origination and Co-President of Global Markets and Investment Banking for Europe, Middle East & Africa (2004), Head of Global Financial Institutions Group (2003), Co-Head of Financial Institutions Group for Europe, Middle East & Africa (1999). In 2012 Andrea Orcel joined another global Bank UBS as a Member of the Group Executive Board and then President, Investment Bank where he managed diverse businesses and geographies. His positions at the Bank included CEO, UBS Limited and UBS AG London Branch (2014); Member of the Board of UBS Americas Holding LLC, senior contact for US industry regulators and Senior Officer Outside of Australia and senior contact for Australia industry regulators (2016). In addition to his corporate career Andrea Orcel was also a Member of the Board of UBS Optimus Foundation, Senior Sponsor and Leader for Diversity and Talent Development in the Investment Bank and the UK.
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About UniCredit: UniCredit is a European financial leading Group in banking services with thousands of branches distributed in 17 countries and 50 markets.
Jeanette Carlsson
Founder & CEO of Tech Nordic Advocates
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About newmedia2.0, Tech Nordic Advocates: Tech Nordic Advocates is Northern Europe’s largest and only pan-Nordic/Baltic tech/startup community.
Michael Simeon
Co-founder & CEO of VPD.money
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About VPD.money: VPD.money is a financial services company that provides borderless mobile banking experience and other financial services for customers
Lennart Asshoff
CEO of Nucoro
After years working at one of Europe’s largest quantitative asset management firms, developing made-to-measure investment portfolios for institutional clients and UHNWIs, Lennart became the driving force behind Exo Investing. Exo is the first AI-powered wealth manager, delivering tailored portfolios and individual risk management to retail investors in the UK. Lennart graduated with an MSc in Investment Management from Cass Business School and is a CFA Charterholder.
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About Nucoro: Nucoro enables financial institutions to build digital savings, investment and wealth management propositions at speed and scale.
Gerald Chappell
CEO and Co-Founder of Fintern
Gerald Chappell is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fintern. Prior to starting Fintern, Gerald was a partner at McKinsey where he lead the digital lending and credit analytics practices globally.
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About Fintern: Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.
Richard Wagner
CEO of Cashplus
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About Cashplus: Cashplus is a digital challenger to UK banks and has served more than 1.6m customers since launching in 2005
Waleed Sarwar
CEO of CoVi Analytics
Waleed Sarwar joined CoVi Analytics as CEO in 2015.
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About CoVi Analytics, RegNut: Productivity solutions for regulated firms, reducing compliance effort & freeing staff to focus on business.
David Genn
Chief Executive Officer of Goji Investments
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About Goji Investments: Investment platform providing access to regulated investment products from across the direct lending sector
Benjamin Gedeon
CEO and Founder of MatchPlace Limited
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About MatchPlace Limited: New generation Fintech platform. Integrating Financial Services solutions, bridging the gap between Financial Institutions and SMEs
Pablo Ruiz
CEO & Co-founder of The PayPro
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About The PayPro: The PayPro is an online tool designed around the needs of professionals and small businesses to make payments in over 30 currencies.
Julian Roberts
CEO of Old Mutual
Julian Roberts has been Group Chief Executive of Old Mutual plc since September 2008. He is also a member of the Nomination Committee and a non-executive Director of Nedbank Group Limited, Nedbank Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa) Limited. He joined Old Mutual in August 2000 as Group Finance Director, moving on to become CEO of Skandia following its purchase by Old Mutual in February 2006. Prior to joining Old Mutual, he was Group Finance Director of Sun Life & Provincial Holdings plc and, before that, Chief Financial Officer of Aon UK Holdings Limited.
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About Old Mutual: Old Mutual Group is an international investment, savings, insurance, and banking group.
Andrew Thatcher
CEO and Founder of Flagstone
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About Flagstone: Flagstone is a UK starup developing a cash deposit marketplace that gives users easy access to hundreds of cash deposit accounts.
Raja Palaniappan
CEO & Co-Founder of Origin
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About Origin: Origin is the primary marketplace for fixed income borrowers and dealers.
Imogen Wethered
CEO & Co-Founder of Qudini – Retail Choreography
Imogen Wethered is Founder & CEO at Qudini.
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About Qudini – Retail Choreography: Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Charles McIntyre
CEO & Co-Founder of IBIS Capital
Charles’ experience has been in building businesses in a number of industry sectors including financial services, media, media tech and most recently edtech. He co-founded IBIS Capital in 2003 in order to create a flexible, boutique investment bank that could both invest in and advise companies and their shareholders. 12 years on and IBIS Capital has evolved into a leading specialist asset manager and investment banking operation with over 60 successfully completed transactions. Charles also sits on the boards of a range of entrepreneurial companies in the media and education sectors. In 2013, Charles started focusing on the e-Learning and edtech markets and was responsible for a number of key industry initiatives including co-founding EdTech Europe, an annual summit for strategic players and investors interested in the online education market. Charles began his career with the investment banking arm of Apax Partners, one of the leading independent private equity firms in the UK where he helped build the company’s media franchise. In 1998, together with other senior management, Charles spun off the investment banking arm of Apax Partners to form Altium Capital. Over the next two years the business was built up into a pan-European investment bank operating with offices in 7 countries with 140 people, before being sold in 2000 for $225m. Charles was the Managing Director responsible for European media investment banking and was involved in a wide range of fundraising and M&A transactions.
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About IBIS Capital, Immerse: IBIS Capital is an investment and corporate finance advisory group focusing on Media, Education, Training, and Health sectors.
Shahid Amin
Chief Executive Officer of Rizq
Shahid Amin is the Chief Executive Officer of Rizq.
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About Rizq: Rizq is the first fully digital sharia-compliant, ethical account in the UK.
Sam O’Connor
CEO of Coconut
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About Coconut: Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax.
Johnny Vowles
CEO (Founder) of Expend
Founder and CEO of Expend. Tech and product guy. Innovating in the FinTech sector.
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About Expend: Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Maysam Rizvi
CEO and founder of Elifinty
With numerous roles leading enterprise teams and initiatives at some of the world’s biggest financial institutions, plus multiple award wins to boot, Elifinty Founder & CEO Maysam has consistently driven innovation and change throughout two decades in banking. His last role as Head of Change for Global Trade & Loans at J.P. Morgan, saw him tackle some of the biggest challenges in banking. Maysam’s career is defined by problem solving and tapping fruitful new areas of opportunity. He is a keen advocate for the fair use of technology in finance and is a thought leader on open banking and artificial intelligence. Maysam is a Financial Health Fellow (2017) of the Financial Innovation Lab and holds an MBA. He is passionate about personal finance and financial inclusion.
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About Elifinty: Elifinty is a financial app that helps individuals take control of their finances and create a better tomorrow.
Oliver Mitchell
Founder & CEO of Ripula
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About Ripula: GBP-denominated Ripple gateway and developing payment platform.
Luke Webster
CEO of Eight International
Luke Webster is a well travelled, educated, professional with many different business interests. A Nottingham University law graduate, Webster moved onto the College of Law, Guildford, Surrey, where he received his LPC with a commendation before qualifying as a solicitor with Nabarro in the City of London. Luke has built a large network in Hong Kong, Beijing and London and has extensive “on the ground” experience of completing deals in Asia and advising on cross border transactions – advising both foreign investors(UK/Middle East) and Chinese nationals. Luke has become a trusted adviser to several family offices looking to make direct investments into businesses/assets across sectors where they may not have the necessary skills in house. Luke has been retained by several family offices / entrepreneurs to deliver projects/solve issues and manage those investments going forward.
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About Eight International: Eight International is a family office advisory firm based in London and Hong Kong.
Werner von Guionneau
Chief Executive Officer of InfraRed Capital Partners
Werner is the Chief Executive Officer of InfraRed, a leading global investment manager focused on infrastructure and real estate. InfraRed operates worldwide from offices in London, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul and Sydney. With over 120 professionals it manages in excess of USD 9bn of equity capital in multiple private and listed funds, primarily for institutional investors across the globe.
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About InfraRed Capital Partners, The Renewables Infrastructure Group: InfraRed is a leading global investment manager focused on infrastructure and real estate.
Sunil Bhardwaj
CEO of Globatalent
Sunil Bhardwaj is a CEO at Globatalent.
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About Globatalent: The Sport Neobank. An App that allows you to acces discounts on sport products, buy tickets and invest in young athletes.
Brian Weakliam
Founder & CEO of Bankhawk Analytics
Brian Weakliam is the founder and CEO of Bankhawk. He is the previous managing director of Banking Solutions. Brian earned his bachelor’s degree at Dublin University & Terenure College.
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About Bankhawk Analytics: Bankhawk helps companies to transform financial management by using banking data for instant insights and large savings.
Matt Dolton
CEO of Kynetix
Co-founder and Director at Kynetix, adviser and business leader with a solid understanding of commodities markets, technology and business change, improving business value and the opportunities afforded by the agile application of technology. Specialist commodities knowledge includes the processes around warrants and receipts, derivatives physical deliveries including metals and softs, depository processing, clearing and settlement, warehousing and rent, trade finance & collateral. Accountable for enterprise projects including large scale physical deliveries platforms for London Metal Exchange, NYSE Liffe and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) as well as Exchange Traded and OTC derivatives processing including reconciliations and exception workflow management.
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About Kynetix: Digital transformation for post-trade in capital markets
George Johnston
CEO of Tech City Ventures
George Johnston is passionate about using technology to shape cities of the future, with a belief that this can be achieved through building a self-sustaining innovation ecosystem through data, knowledge, and connections. He founded Tech City Ventures to bring great ideas to market faster, regardless of their stage in the startup lifecycle. Through his network of businesses, he works with national and international corporations and government bodies from across the world. He has provided counsel to the then Department of Business, Innovation and Skills around EU digital policy, and more recently, to the Greater London Authority and Mayor’s Office around London’s digital strategy.
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About IncuBus Ventures, swiftscale, Tech City Ventures: Tech City Ventures is a network of companies with a shared vision to accelerate sustainable innovation.
Andries Smit
Founder & CEO of Upside Saving
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About Upside Saving: Upside is Intelligent Cashback as an API, fuelled by Open Banking.
Mike Woods
CEO & Co Founder of Konsentus
Mike spent 17 years in the corporate world at board level which included being a director at Natwest Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland. He also founded and was CEO at Aconite, a global payments technology software company.
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About Konsentus: Konsentus provides consent & preference management services to financial institutions so that they can comply with PSD2 and open banking.
Petko Karamotchev
CEO of INDUSTRIA Technology
One of the founders of the enterprise blockchain/DLT consultancy and development company INDUSTRIA.tech, Petko Karamotchev has 20 years of experience in the financial services and the enterprise IT. Holds degrees from University of Portsmouth, UK and Cotrugli Business School, Croatia. Free market advocate and part-time social theorist.
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About : INDUSTRIA creates enterprise blockchain, confidential computing, process automation, and digital experience solutions.
