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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 United Kingdom based Product operating in the Banking space. If you think a Product 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.
James Gibson
Head of Product of Revolut
James Gibson, Head of Product for Revolut for Business oversees the team that is changing the way British and other European businesses manage their day to day business finances. An Oxford graduate with a background in consulting, James Gibson joined Revolut back in 2017. He spent a year in business development in the retail side of Revolut and his second year building the Revolut for Business product from the ground up. Today he oversees multiple product teams, business development and marketing.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Joshua Fernandes
Senior Product Owner of Revolut
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Si Jia Wen
Product Operations Manager of Revolut
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Swen Werner
Managing Director, Digital Product Development and Innovation of State Street
Swen Werner is currently part of State Street’s Digital Product Development and Innovation team responsible for designing new products, leveraging different emerging technologies, including distributed ledger technologies and engagement with industry partners to design industry-leading service and operating models. He has been working in the financial services industry for over 15 years and has held senior roles in Europe, the USA and Asia with JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Boerse focusing on product management for custody, clearing and collateral management. Mr. Werner has and continues to be actively engaged in regulatory and industry developments affecting the securities services environment. He holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) from Cass Business School in London.
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Pinar Emirdag
SVP, Head of Digital Product Development and Innovation of State Street
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Michele Curtoni
Digital Product Development & Office of Architecture of State Street
Michele Curtoni works as VP in State Street’s Digital Product Development and DLT team. Prior to his current role, he was manager and strategy leader for LSEG Emerging Technologies group. Michele currently focuses on working in the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and Digital Assets space, and has been in the space for the past 4 years. In his roles Michele has covered many aspects of the innovation cycle, from working on implementing business applications and proof of concepts with emerging technologies, to start-ups and wider Fintech space engagement. He also worked over four years in the LSEG Group Strategy division, taking a central role in several of the Group’s high profile acquisitions and corporate partnerships as well as other Group strategic initiatives. Michele holds an MSc from the University of Warwick in Economics and International Financial Economics (EIFE).
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Terry Cordeiro
Head of Product Management – Digital, Transformation of Lloyds Banking Group
A senior professional passionate about Digital, Product Management, Innovation and Design, Terry has recently been voted one of the 50 most innovative and powerful people in European digital financial services. Terry is also co-author for the Fintech Book, the worlds first crowd sourced book on Fintech. Terry has over 15 years Product Management, Solution Design and Proposition Development experience in technology areas such as fixed voice, VoIP, mobile banking/payments architecture and software design.
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About Lloyds Banking Group: Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009.
Ben Chisell
Director of Product of OakNorth
Ben Chisell is Product Director at Starling Bank, a modern mobile-only bank built to help customers gain better insight into their financial lives, and give them access to all of their financial products in one place through the Starling Marketplace. Ben wants to build a bank that truly puts the customer first, and solves meaningful problems that can have a positive impact on their lives.
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Bobby Chadha
Head of Product – Payments of Banco Santander
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About Banco Santander, MaxTax: Banco Santander is a retail and commercial bank that offers financial products for individuals.
Nick Turner-Samuels
Chief Product Officer of Ziglu
Product Leader with a proven track-record delivering successful digital services for start-ups and large companies in fintech, mobile & media, such as Ziglu, 11:FS, Mettle, HSBC, Microsoft, Samsung & BBC. MBA from London Business School.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
Brian Simpson-Adkins
Product Owner Infrastructure as Code & Principle DevOps Engineer of Barclays
Brian Simpson-Adkins is the Product Owner for Infrastructure as Code at Barclays and is responsible for the strategy, architecture and development of tooling covering this space. It’s his ambition to enable application developers to drive the hybrid clouds at Barclays using code based technologies and to teach their application teams how to deploy infrastructure in a consistent and repeatable manner using code. Brian has spent the past 20 years working in Infrastructure and the last 9 years with Virtualisation or Cloud technologies. He’s had a varied career having worked in both the media and service provider industries. For the last 8 years he’s been based at Barclays in the UK.
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Chris Johnson
Senior Product Manager, Market Data of HSBC
Chris joined HSBC Securities Services in 2006 and is the Head of Product Management, Market Data Services. Chris was previously at Threadneedle Investments where he was Head of Investment Information Services. Before then he was a Director at UBS. Chris started work in the city with Laurie, Milbank stockbrokers, in their futures and options operations team, continuing with Chase Manhattan for a further ten years, culminating in three years as head of the equity derivatives middle office. He also headed OTC derivative client valuations at Bankers Trust. Chris is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
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About HSBC: HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Nikita Filippov
Chief Product Officer of ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
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About ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin: Business Banking and Admin service
Chris Beckett
Associate Director of Data Science (Product and Marketing) of Monzo
Chris Beckett is the Associate Director of Data Science (Product and Marketing) at Monzo Bank.
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About Monzo: Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.
Jon Hodges
VP Product – Head of Buy-Side Portfolio Manager of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Ciprian Blujdea
Product Manager of Juni
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About Juni: Juni is a fintech company that develops a banking app and platform for e-commerce and online marketing entrepreneurs.
Mike Walters
Chief Product Officer of Form3
Mike joined Form3 from Barclaycard Payment Acceptance (card acquiring) where, as Product Director, he was a member of the Executive Committee and responsible for P&L, product management, strategy development, vendor selection and management, digital transformation and M&A. Prior to this, as Head of UK Corporate Payments for Barclays Corporate Bank, Mike held product management responsibility for all payment, receipting and reporting products and services delivered to Barclays corporate clients – this included defining the Barclays Corporate Bank mobile payments strategy and initiating, building and scaling the multi-award winning ‘Pingit for Corporates’ mobile payment solutions. Earlier in his career he managed client relationship teams responsible globally for the North American Financial Institutions and FTSE 250 sectors. With his significant experience across the payment and client landscape, Mike and his team is responsible for designing, scaling and managing the Solutions delivered by Form3.
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About Form3: Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
Mark Winterburn
Chief Product Officer of Temenos
Mr. Mark Winterburn has been responsible for the product organization since joining in 2011. Mr. Winterburn has over 35 years’ experience in IT, 30 of them in financial services. Prior to joining Temenos, Mr. Winterburn held the position of VP Solutions Management & Product Development at Misys, and held a number of senior positions at Lloyds TSB, with a proven track record of driving large and complex IT change programmes. He has studied Leadership, Product, Cultural and Change Management at Harvard Business School, Cranfield University and Henley Management School. Mr. Winterburn studied a Software Engineering diploma at Coventry University, England.
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About Temenos: Temenos Group is a market leading provider of banking software systems.
Maria Parpou
Chief Product Officer and Barclaycard Commercial Payments of Barclaycard
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About Barclaycard: Barclaycard, part of Barclays Retail and Business Banking, is a payment business provides credit card business and online business.
Rohit Agarwal
Global Head (EVP), Product, Digital of HSBC Bank
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About HSBC Bank: HSBC Bank provides various banking and financial services worldwide.
Tam Holmes
Chief Product Officer of 10xbanking
Tam heads product management, client delivery, security, business development and partnerships. He is passionate about delivering platforms that make banking an easy, safe and rewarding experience for all. Tam has close to two decades of experience in digital banking, security and technology. His career has spanned technology consulting at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, co-founding a successful fintech start-up and spending ten years in digital banking at Lloyds Banking Group. He is a recognised expert in digital security, mobile security and fraud prevention and sits on the cyber leadership team of the Business Emergency Resilience Group (BERG), part of the Prince’s Responsible Business Network.
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About 10xbanking: 10xbanking offers a digital banking platform that will transform the way financial services providers operate.
Luke Reynolds
Chief Product Officer of Featurespace
Luke is responsible for Featurespace’s fraud clients in Financial Services and Insurance, and has over twenty years’ experience in banking fraud management. Prior to joining Featurespace, Luke held a position as Callcredit’s Commercial Director of Fraud and ID for a year, and prior to this he served in a variety of roles in Lloyds Banking Group (Head of Retail Audit, Head of Fraud, and Head of Group Security and Investigation). Before joining Lloyds Banking Group,Luke held fraud prevention roles at the UK Card Association (formerly APACS) and NatWest
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Sean Neary
Senior Product Officer of Featurespace
Sean joined Featurespace as the Financial Services Subject Matter Expert at the end of 2016. His role is to use his industry expertise and knowledge to ensure that Featurespace’s ARIC platform development matches the Finance sector’s needs and expectations. Sean’s been in the Financial Fraud industry for over ten years. Starting his career in the operational environment as a Fraud Analyst at Barclaycard, where he worked his way through the operational sectors, from complex fraud to special investigations & management. He then moved from the front line and into fraud strategy and analytics,where his main role was to risk assess new trends, technologies and project that affected fraud across the bank. This role enabled him to work within all areas across the bank, gaining an understanding of the holistic aspect of the business and how fraud was linked to everything! Sean spent the last three years leading the global fraud technology team at Barclaycard, covering issuing, acquiring & commercial.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Kristian Carter
Product Marketing Specialist of Featurespace
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Christopher Lomas
Global Digital Products Leader of Mercer
Christopher is an established senior leader in Digital Product Management, with 14+ years experience in Financial Services + Digital Products + Digital Marketing. Christopher currently works for Mercer (the world’s largest HR Consulting company), where he is the Global Digital Products Leader, focused on developing AI products, and lead’s the MercerX Artificial Intelligence community (with over 800 business leaders and managers). In the past he has held roles with American Express, Goldman Sachs, and Lloyds Banking Group, as well as being the founder of three companies. Christopher is exceptionally well connected in the HealthTech, HRTech, FinTech and AI startup scene, and is a passionate promoter of Start-ups and Digital Business. He is a public speaker and thought leader on Digital, Artificial Intelligence, Product Management and Career Management (see press references/ videos below).
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About Mercer: Mercer US is a human resource consulting service that includes compensation, employee benefits, communications, and investment consulting.
Matthew Thompson
Head of Production Services of Bankable
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About Bankable: Bankable develops white-label payment solutions including e-wallets, remittance services, P2P money transfers and prepaid card programmes.
John Ward
Lead Product Designer of Adhara
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About Adhara: Real time global liquidity management, FX and international payments on CBDCs and tokenized money for banks and central banks
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.
Dennis Nemerov
Co-Founder and Head of Product of Rizq
Dennis Nemerov is the Co-Founder and Head of Product of Rizq.
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About Rizq: Rizq is the first fully digital sharia-compliant, ethical account in the UK.
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Co-founder, Chief of Product of Coconut
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About Coconut: Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax.
Simon Shorey
Head – Product Management of BiBox
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About BiBox: Bibox offers integrated and orchestrated bank solutions through the BiBox Marketplace
Simon Shorey
Head – Product Management of BiBox
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About BiBox: Bibox offers integrated and orchestrated bank solutions through the BiBox Marketplace
Ramzi Yakob
Chief Product Officer of Upside Saving
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About Upside Saving: Upside is Intelligent Cashback as an API, fuelled by Open Banking.
Kathryn Daniels
Lead Product Owner – Authentication of Coventry Building Society
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About Coventry Building Society: Coventry Building Society focuses on banking, savings accounts, mortgages, savings bonds and financial services.
