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 United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Banking space. If you think a Founder 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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Vlad Yatsenko
Co-Founder & CTO of Revolut
Prior to co-founding Revolut, Vlad spent ten years building financial systems at tier one investment banks. Serving as CTO, Vlad has been at the forefront of Revolut’s award-winning technology, building a next generation banking experience.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
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
Janina Lowisz
Co-Founder and VP Marketing of Cashaa
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About Auxesis Group, Cashaa: Next Generation Banking Platform
Joel Perlman
Co-Founder of OakNorth
Joel Perlman is the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of OakNorth – the next-generation credit platform that’s redefining lending to lower mid-market businesses (loans of $0.5m-$25m). Joel previously co-founded Copal Amba, an outsourced research company, and served as President for 12 years. During his time building Copal Amba, it grew to 3,000 employees across 11 countries and was acquired by Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) in 2014. Joel began his career at McKinsey & Company and has degrees from the London School of Economics and Georgetown University.
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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.
Niall McConnell
Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Ziglu
Niall McConnell is the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer at Ziglu.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
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.
Nick Ogden
Founder & Main Board Director of ClearBank
Nick Ogden is the founder of ClearBank and the bank’s Executive Chairman. Prior to ClearBank, Nick founded and led a number of other companies. The most notable of these is WorldPay, which he founded in 1997. The first internet payment service to guarantee transactions worldwide, Nick helped WorldPay grow to over 270 employees, and 20,000 customers across 120 countries and e-commerce transactions in excess of $2 billion per year. The company was acquired by The Royal Bank of Scotland in 2002.Nick also founded Multi Media Investments Limited, a research and development company, in 1993, and Voice Commerce Group, the UK’s first non-bank payments institution, in 2009.
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About CashFlows, ClearBank: ClearBank is the UK’s first new clearing bank in more than 250 years.
Alexandre Harkous
Founder & Executive Chairman of OneWealthPlace
Alexandre, BI-SAM founder, has over 20 years of solid experience in strategy and information systems for the Capital Markets and Asset Management industries. He began his career at Mitsubishi Bank as Head of IT before joining Demachy Worms & Cie Bank as Projects Director and then SIP in 1995 as Client Management Director. In 1998 he joined Deloitte Consulting where he developed the Asset Management Expertise Center working closely with various global clients such as HSBC, Merrill Lynch, ABN Amro AM and Dresdner RCM Global Investors. Throughout his career, Alexandre gained a significant international experience in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific and a solid experience in business development, strategy, change management and systems for banking and asset management including securities services, portfolio management and analytics. Alexandre holds a Degree in Engineering and Computer Science.
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About OneWealthPlace: One Wealth Place’s mission to support the digital transformation of private wealth banks and global asset services companies.
Francois Barou
Co-Founder & CFO of OneWealthPlace
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About OneWealthPlace: One Wealth Place’s mission to support the digital transformation of private wealth banks and global asset services companies.
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.
Antoni Trenchev
Co-Founder of Nexo
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About Nexo: The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
Kosta Kantchev
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Nexo
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About Credissimo, Nexo: The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
Victoria van Lennep
Co-Founder of Lendable
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
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.
Jakob Schwarz
Co-Founder & CPO of Lendable
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Paul Pamment
CTO & Founder of Lendable
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Jonas Huckestein
Co-Founder of Monzo
Jonas Huckestein creates great products from scratch. After moving to the US from Germany in 2010 he was the first engineer at Campfire Labs (acquired by Groupon), founding CTO of Ark.com, and is a Director at the StartupBus. He got a Mathematics degree at 18, Computer Science at 21 and is on leave from technology management grad school. Before moving here he worked in management consulting.
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About HipDial, Monzo: Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.
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.
Alex Wheldon
Co-Founder of Rho Business Banking
Alex is a technology & finance entrepreneur and Co-founder of Rho Business Banking. Alex previously founded adtech platform Kanary, Europe’s first DMP/DSP ad buying platform (acquired in 2014), and served as an executive and investor in Lyst, the global fashion platform, and Smarkets, the world’s second largest betting exchange and prediction market. Alex is also an active technology investor in Europe and North America.
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About Rho Business Banking: Rho Business Banking is a digital banking platform for startups and high-growth companies.
Indiana Gregg
Founder /CEO of Wedo
Indiana Gregg born in Terre Haute, Indiana[1] is a singer-songwriter and tech entrepreneur living in Lenzie near Glasgow, Scotland.[2][3] Her music contains elements of pop, soul and folk. Releases include featured artist on Kool & the Gang’s “The Hits Reloaded” where she performed their hit titled “Tonight” and a 2007 debut release of her album “Woman At Work” with singles “Sweet Things”, “Love Is Blind” and “One of Us” released from the album in April, June and October 2007 respectively. Indiana was also founder and director of Kerchoonz.com, a social networking platform and artist aggregation and marketplace that was launched in 2008 and bought-out in 2010. The model for which changed the face of the music industry today In 2005 two of her songs, “Sweet Things” and “For Life”, made it to the top finalists in the Pop category (56 finalists out of the 4000 songs entered) of The UK Songwriting Contest. These two songs were later also released on her 2007 album titled Woman at Work.[12] In 2005, Indiana also did a supporting tour with Wet Wet Wet. Five additional songs by Gregg made the semi-finalist category in the same year: “Something like me”, “Crazy”, “How Many Tears”, “Love is Blind”, and “Oh Me Oh My” all of which were also included on her debut album “Woman At Work”. In 2005, the demo album “Something like me” had a limited release on the independent label Onestone Music.[13] Later that year, Onestone Music did a deal with Scottish label Gr8pop Ltd. In 2006, Gr8pop ltd. did a deal with Ingenious VCT with a view to release Gregg’s debut album in 2007. Career as an Executive Indiana was also founder and director of Kerchoonz.com, a social networking platform and artist aggregation and marketplace that was launched in 2008 and bought-out in 2010. The model for which changed the face of the music industry today. Other roles: Global managing director of Cosmetic Laboratory of Europe. CMO of Digitzs a Fintech company in the payments space. [16] She is a keynote speaker MIDEM on digital marketing and effective content delivery. Tippit Festival on the topic of Socially Conscious Creativity and Entrepreneurship.[16] Indiana has served executive and non-exec roles and has founded several companies including Kerchoonz, GRUV, Gr8pop, Digital-Unicorns and Eventous. Tours and “Home Concerts” Indiana received media attention in early summer of 2007 surrounding her “home concert” competitions where fans entered from all over the world to win a chance at having her play in their home for their friends. The competitions were covered in articles appearing in the Evening Times, Daily Record, Daily Mirror and various regional newspapers in the UK. Videos of her home gigs were posted to YouTube, Myspace, MSN and various other websites with a message about the free competition details. Winners for the series were announced on Myspace and subsequently, UKgigs TV began filming the new series in May 2007. Subsequently, videos of the home gigs were streamed on the front pages of Bebo and over the UK gigs and theatre networks. The Home concerts first appeared in the press when the Express wrote about a surprise concert she performed for a fan’s fiancée home in 2005 after he saw her live in Exeter supporting Wet Wet Wet. Indiana Gregg announced home concerts in the fall of 2005 which took place primarily in October. In December 2005, she embarked on Starbucks coffee house tour in every major UK city playing intimate acoustic sets in the coffee houses throughout 2006 whilst recording her debut album in the same year.[17] In February and March 2007, she played a UK support[1] tour with Lemar. Indiana, 35[18] married Ian Morrow, 50[18] during a 22-date[1] arena and theatre tour with Lemar on March 22, 2007, in Gretna Green’s Famous Blacksmith’s following her concert at the SECC in Glasgow. Immediately following the Lemar tour, in April 2007 she began a third “House Gigs” tour which led to UKgigs.tv taking interest in filming the home concerts. The first filmed home concert took place in her own Glasgow home on May 21. On May 23, she played a concert in Finchley North London for the Ovarian Cancer Support group. On May 25, she played a home concert for young fashion designer Hannah Marshall in Colchester. Subsequent gigs were scheduled and filmed across the UK in Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, and Edinburgh the week beginning June 10. Scotland’s Daily Record featured the Indiana Gregg Home gigs on June 12 along with a contest for Father’s Day where contestants could win a home concert for their father by texting or phoning The Daily Record in Scotland. On Wednesday, June 13, The Daily Mirror ran a feature on the front page of the “Your Life” section about Indiana Gregg’s house gigs featuring a home concert she did in Clare O’Hagan’s front room in support of Ovarian Cancer.[19] The general awareness at this early stage of her career led to performances in festivals in the UK in summer 2007.[20][21] Legal threats against The Pirate Bay On July 22, 2008, Indiana Gregg, instigated a series of e-mails with ThePirateBay.org concerning a perceived copyright violation. Indiana then wrote a lengthy article on the subject of respecting artists’ copyrights internationally.[22] Discography Sweet Things (March 26, 2007, Gr8pop) (Single) Woman at Work (April 2, 2007, Gr8pop) (Album) One of Us (October 8, 2007, Gr8pop) (Single) Sweet Things (November 6, 2007, Gr8pop/Playground Scandinavia) Woman at Work (November 12, 2007, Gr8pop/Playground Scandinavia) Tonight Kool & The Gang(August 2004)[23]
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About Wedo: The world’s first live streaming social platform & neobank for people to monetize their skills!
Alick Varma
Founder and Chairman of Osper
Alick Varma is the Founder and CEO at Osper, established in 2012. Osper offers a safe MasterCard prepaid debit card with a simple mobile banking app with separate logins for young people and parents. All money on Osper is safely managed by a European regulated bank. Alick previously worked at McKinsey and Spotify, and also trained to be a maths teacher.
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About Osper: Osper is a prepaid debit card and mobile banking service empowering young people to manage their money responsibly.
Austin Kimm
COO, Co-Founder of Crypterium
Former CEO of Renaissance Life and Pensions (Russia & Ukraine) and CEO Renaissance Insurance Group. Austin led company to #1 Position for Life Insurance in Russia (by written premium – approx $250m per annum) and Top 10 Position for voluntary pensions in Russia ($800m assets under management. Company was sold for approx $200m in 2013. Former CEO of Workle, a high-profile digital startup with over $30 million business turnover and 200 000 active users in 2015, specializing in creating sales forces via online training and support systems Director for Strategy at PayQR, an electronic payment systems pioneer with a market valuation exceeding $20 million.
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About Crypterium: Crypterium mobile app allows instant payments in cryptocurrency. Whatever you can do with your money, you can now do with your crypto.
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
Alex Letts
Founder of Ffrees Family Finance
Alex loves great ideas. He was educated at Oxford where he read Classics. That might not have seemed a natural way into the glamorous world of advertising in the Saatchi heydays, but it served him well when dealing with the Greek ads on the Kentucky Fried Chicken account! Early on he decided he wanted to be an entrepreneur and in 1988 he set up the SMI Group, which went on to become the largest business-to-business advertising agency in Europe and 2nd largest in the world. He sold the agency to the French giant Publicis Groupe after it had become pre-eminent in understanding the potential of internet and technology. In early 2000 he founded RI3K, the reinsurance trading platform for the Lloyd’s of London insurance market. The platform went on to become the market leader in global commercial reinsurance trading, with billions of premium transacted. During the 10 years that he ran RI3K Alex raised over £40m for the project. RI3K was sold to the Qatari Financial Centre in 2010 and Alex left the company to found Ffrees. Alex’s vision for Ffrees has been to create the first digital alternative to traditional banking. He wanted to create a platform and brand that was trusted by families and which would help them with their struggle against the tough economic climate they faced. Above all, he wanted to get them a better deal, not just in their banking, but in every aspect of their finances. Ffrees is the first current account that pays its customers as they spend. It saves up rewards which earn bonuses that are better than bank current account interest rates, and it has a wide range of retail based and financial services rewards which are added to the family savings each time they spend. Alex believes that Frees is the new model for the way families manage their current accounts and family finances.
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About Ffrees Family Finance: Ffrees provides a digital current account service that provides access and tools to allow users to save up rather than to get into debt.
Ashwind G. Soonarane
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of DMALINK
Ashwind Soonarane is an institutional electronic foreign exchange specialist drawing from his multi-displinary management and technical expertise to formulate and implement strategic plans aimed towards generating competitive advantage for sustainable growth. Ashwind holds an MSc in Finance, MBA and a Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) degree. He is a a certified technical analyst of the Society of Technical Analysts, UK.
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About DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
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.
Rodolphe de Hemptinne
Co Founder of Third Bridge Group
Rodolphe is Co-Founder of Third Bridge, and CEO of its Intelligence division. He is responsible for executing Third Bridge Intelligence’s strategy and growth plan. Before founding Third Bridge, Rodolphe’s career included consultancy work at Bain & Company in Boston, Johannesburg and London, and five years’ management experience with Shell Corporation in Belgium and the Netherlands. Rodolphe has an MBA from Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. A true polyglot, he is fluent in French, Dutch, English, Spanish and German. He has four children and, quite coincidentally, a passion for climbing mountains in increasingly remote locations.
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About Third Bridge Group: Third Bridge Group is a provider of research services to private equity and hedge funds.
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.
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
Xen Lategan
Founder of Ophin Ventures
Xen Lategan is a Startup Mentor, Investor and Advisor based in London, Shoreditch. He holds various Non-Executive Director and advisory roles, while running his own venture company, Ophin Ltd. Prior to this Xen was the Chief Technology Officer for News International, a subsidiary of NewsCorp. Xen also previously worked for Google, Microsoft and Accenture.
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About Ophin Ventures: A Venture company which will invest in, incubate and foster high potential startup companies
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.
Tuomas Hietanen
Co-Founder and CTO of Fund Ourselves
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About Fund Ourselves: 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.
Mushegh Tovmasyan
Chairman and Founder of Zenus Bank
Mushegh Tovmasyan is the Founder and Chairman at Zenus Bank.
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About : The first U.S. bank made for people outside the U.S.
Clive Mitchell
Growth & Co-Founder at Railsbank of Railsbank
Clive Mitchell is Co-Founder of Railsbank Technologies and has been its Chief Operating Officer.
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About Railsbank: Railsbank, the global Embedded Finance Experience Platform.
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.
Neil Ambler
COO & Co-Founder of Banked
Neil leads our fundraising and continually fine-tunes our business strategy, while keeping the day-to-day finances healthy.
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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.
Antony Jenkins
Founder & Executive Chairman of 10xbanking
Antony’s focus on driving innovation in the digital economy also extends to his role as Group Chairman of Currencies Direct, the leading UK non-bank provider of foreign exchange and international payment services; and his role as a board member of Blockchain, the world’s leading software platform for digital assets. He is a Board Director of Fannie Mae, sitting on the US mortgage lender’s Strategic Initiatives and Technology Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Antony is a strong believer in the need for businesses to support the future workforce to acquire the right skills to thrive in the digital era; his commitment to education is recognised in his role as Chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships, an employer-led organisation established to promote high-quality apprenticeships by 2020. He was previously the Group CEO of Barclays plc for three years until July 2015.
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About 10xbanking: 10xbanking offers a digital banking platform that will transform the way financial services providers operate.
Luke Wingfield Digby
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Orbital
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About Orbital: Orbital aims to bridge the gap between traditional financial services and digital assets through its corporate treasury platform offering.
David Excell
Founder of Featurespace
Dave is Featurespace’s Founder and CTO,responsible for working directly with our clients. Dave is an experienced technology innovator with over 18 years dedicated to the study of engineering. He has received several accolades in his field, including the ITC Enterprise Award for Young Entrepreneur. Under his leadership, Featurespace has progressed from a concept to a commercial success. Dave currently resides in the U.S. and is managing the Featurespace global expansion from Atlanta, Georgia.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
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.
Samuele Pinta
Founder and COO of Satispay
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About Satispay: Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform.
David Hoggard
Co-Founder of Monolith
David Hoggard is the Co-Founder at Monolith
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About Monolith: Monolith is a decentralised banking alternative that integrates the DeFi economy into your daily life.
Mel Gelderman
CEO and Co-Founder of Monolith
Mel Gelderman is the CEO and Co-Founder at Monolith
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About Monolith, Monolith Studio: Monolith is a decentralised banking alternative that integrates the DeFi economy into your daily life.
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.
Mike Moate
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer 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.
Cyrus Wadia
Payment Strategy Director & Co-Founder of Modulr
Cyrus Wadia is the Co-Founder and Payment Strategy Director of Modulr.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
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.
Jakub Zmuda
Co-Founder & CSO of Modulr
Jakub Zmuda is the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder at Modulr Finance.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
Kevin Hayes
Company Secretary & Co-Founder of Modulr
Kevin Hayes is the Co-Founder and Company Secretary 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
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.
Sunny Miah
Founder and Managing Director of CutPay Merchant Services
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About CutPay Merchant Services: Cutpay Merchant Services provides card payment online and offline.
Edward Budd
Co-Founder of Adhara
Ed has performed a broad range of leadership and transformation roles both in Deutsche Bank’s Investment Bank (1998-2010) and GTB (2011-Present) including Head of eCommerce, Distribution Product Development/Autobahn, CIB and Head of Product Strategy & COO for Product Management, GTB. In 2015 he was selected as one of the rising stars in Brummel’s third annual Ones to Watch/Rising Stars awards, acknowledging outstanding talent in London’s financial-services sector and related fields.
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About Adhara, Deutsche Bank: Real time global liquidity management, FX and international payments on CBDCs and tokenized money for banks and central banks
Jonathan Hughes
Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Pollinate
Jonathan Hughes is the Co-Founder, President & Chief Operating Officer at Pollinate International.
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About Pollinate: Pollinate Networks is a platform that works with banks to create data-driven experiences for merchants and consumers.
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.
Chris Hulatt
Co-Founder of Octopus Investments
Chris Hulatt is Chief Financial Officer at Octopus and one of its founders. He is responsible for Octopus’ financial strategy and assessing opportunities to expand the company’s activities into new areas. Chris is also on the investment committee of several Octopus funds. Before starting Octopus, Chris led one of the Global Equity sector research teams at Mercury Asset Management. Chris has a first class MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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About Enthuse, Octopus Investments, Octopus Property, Octopus Ventures: Octopus Investments is an venture capital investment firm
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.
Chris Donnachie
Co-Founder of UniZest
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About BESPOKE, UniZest: Global banking for international students
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.
Jonathan Rowland
Chairman and Founder of R8 Group
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About R8 Group, Redwood Bank: R8 Group is building the next-gen banking ecosystem for a decentralized economy.
Andrei Dikouchine
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer of 3S Money
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About 3S Money: 3S Money offers international business banking services in 190 countries.
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.
Azahara Egea
Co-Founder/COO of sync.
Co-Founder and COO at sync. A self-directed and a capable decision maker who manages and works with the team. I ensure that the business has the best working environment and processes needed for optimum operational efficiency by creating a performance culture with clear KPIs, employee reviews and pro-active improvements. I’m a primary director of event planning, recruitment and communication and I keep all departments coordinated and I’m heavily involved in determining the strategy and future goals of the company.
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About sync.: We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.
Ricky Lee
Founder of sync.
Founder / CEO at sync. Experienced Product and Design Strategist, expertise in banking technology, cross-border FX payments and mobile wallets. I have been concepting, designing, and producing consumer products for over 19 years in all sectors. I have a wealth of experience in the financial sector, having designed and architected apps and products from the start to the end: – Revolut (disruptive neobank) – Lloyds Banking Group (Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland) – Mergermarket Group (M&A Deal Platform)
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About sync.: We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.
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.
Mark Suter
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Digital Vega
Mark has 30+ years of front office experience in the Global FX market. Mark has managed cash and derivative businesses for Chase Manhattan, Royal Bank of Scotland, Banque Paribas and Standard Bank. In 2000, Mark joined Dresdner Bank to help build and roll out the Piranha and Click and Trade online platforms. With a strong mix of experience in Option trading and development of online trading systems. Mark was approached by FXall to develop a multi-bank FX options trading platform; as the shareholding and business focus changed, the option project was shelved in 2007. Mark’s view was that an opportunity clearly existed, backed by increasing demand from a range of clients, partnering with worldflow, an e-commerce development specialist. He went on to co-found Digital Vega.
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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
Ben Davies
Co-Founder and COO of Hugo Save
Ben Davies is the Co-Founder and COO at Hugo Save.
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About Hugo Save: Hugo is a digital account that helps you spend, save and invest, starting with gold.
Braham Djidjelli
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Hugo Save
Braham Djidjelli is the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Hugo Save.
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About Hugo Save: Hugo is a digital account that helps you spend, save and invest, starting with gold.
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.
Povilas Ruzgaila
Co-Founder / CCO of Guru Pay
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About Guru Pay: Guru Pay provides e-money and payment services for private and corporate clients.
Jose Maria Carbajo
Co-Founder and Director of Nucoro
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About EtsFactory, 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.
Alex Crocombe
Co Founder, Chief Financial Officer of Goji Investments
Co-founder and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for an FCA regulated private asset investment platform. Qualified accountant with a background in fintech M&A and strategic advisory.
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About Goji Investments: Investment platform providing access to regulated investment products from across the direct lending sector
Vinay Chauhan
Founder of Maxmywealth
Vinay is an investment professional with over 10 years of investing experience in India, Singapore, and the UK. Prior to Heathwalk Advisors, he was working with Anthemis Group, a leading fintech investor, based out of London, as Principal (Investments) focussing on emerging financial technology trends. Vinay is passionate about the ability of technology to redefine delivery and consumption of financial services. Previously, Vinay has worked with leading investing firms and investment banks – Softbank Investment Holdings, J.P.Morgan, and Avigo Capital. Vinay has invested in varied sectors across stages including consumer, consumer technology, and financial services over his career. Vinay is an engineer and an MBA from Delhi University, and Masters in Finance from London Business School. He is also a member of CFA Society of the UK.
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About Maxmywealth: Maxmywealth is a really intelligent way to save, invest, and reduce taxes.
Andrew Irvine
Chairman of the board 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
Christophe Monget
CTO 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
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
Toby Hanington
Co-Founder of The Baobab Network
Toby Hanington joined The Baobab Network as Co Founder in 2016.
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About The Baobab Network: The Baobab Network is a tech accelerator that backs early stage ventures in Africa.
Tom Fairburn
Co-Founder of The Baobab Network
Tom Fairburn joined The Baobab Network as Co-Founder in 2016.
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About The Baobab Network: The Baobab Network is a tech accelerator that backs early stage ventures in Africa.
Nick Wakefield
Founder & Managing Director of inAsia Media
Nick has over 18 years of experience in technology, media and finance. He started his first tech business in 1999 building an e-commerce platform. He spent 7 years in London focusing on financial sales in the risk management and derivatives market, before moving to Asia to help build Euromoney’s portfolio of conferences across emerging markets. Over this period he ran teams in New York, London and Hong Kong. In 2010 he setup inAsia Media and in 2013 launched Regulation Asia, the leading regulatory information service. He still plays an advisory role in the business. His passion for technology and experience working within the financial markets partner well for Bambu in the role expanding into Europe. He holds a Diploma in Economics and is currently studying a Software Engineering MicroMasters at University of British Columbia.
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About : Online publisher headquartered in Singapore. Publishes market leading titles Regulation Asia & ESG Investor
Jonathan Farnell
Co-Founder and Director of Arro Money
With over 17 years’ experience working in the UK banking sector, Jonathan specialises in regulatory & operational risk management, compliance and the development of business performance and management information systems. He has undertaken a number of directorships and senior roles, including Risk Management Director at a UK based money remittance consultancy and Director of Management Information at a General Insurance Brokerage.
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About Arro Money: Arro Money is a fast-growing provider of personal and business accounts.
Muhammad Asim
Co-Founder and Director of Arro Money
Awarded the Youngest Successful Business Entrepreneur by the Ministry of Information, Government of Pakistan, Muhammad Asim is a business start-up expert having previously established and developed a number of successful companies. With a particular expertise in strategic planning, brand development and marketing, Muhammad Asim has undertaken a number of senior roles, including Finance Director and General Manager of Administration at AA Exchange Company (PVT).
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About Arro Money: Arro Money is a fast-growing provider of personal and business accounts.