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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 CFO’ operating in the Payments space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Fiona Tee
Chief Financial Officer of Currencycloud
Fiona joined Currency Cloud in April 2016. In her role as CFO, she oversees finance, human resources, compliance (risk and regulatory) and operations. With over 30 years’ industry experience across financial services, telecoms and tech, Fiona’s real passion lies with innovative high-growth companies. She is a strong believer that the role of CFO goes far beyond looking after the numbers – for Fiona, the most satisfying roles are those that bring true partnership with the strategic and commercial side of the business. In a nutshell, “putting things in place, and making things happen?” Previous roles include CFO at Mondex International, from the inception of digital payment innovation, and CFO at Intelligent Environments Europe, a market leader in mobile and online banking solutions, combining financial strategy and commercial focus to guide each business on its journey. Seven years of interim management within the VC community further fuelled Fiona’s interest in entrepreneurship and innovation. She has also founded a successful software business of her own. Fiona is passionate about the need to provide more role models for women in finance and technology. Away from her desk, she can be found skiing, or exploring the latest fitness fads in London with her two girls.
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About Currencycloud: Currencycloud specializes in a fully cloud-based platform for B2B cross-border payments.
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Raffaele Terrone
CFO of Scalapay
Raffaele Terrone currently works as Chief Financial Officer at Scalapay. He previously worked at ICAMAP as an Investment Director.
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About Scalapay: Scalapay is a payment solution provider that allows customers to buy and pay in three installments without any additional interest.
Hugo Grimston
CFO of Paddle
Hugo Grimston is CFO at Paddle, a platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps,games and other digital products.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Andras Mecser
Group Chief Financial Officer of Zepz
Andras Mecser is responsible for all WorldRemit’s financial functions including financial controlling, statutory reporting, planning and budgeting, treasury and liquidity management, and corporate finance. Prior to joining WorldRemit, Andras served as CFO at Ebury. He previously held senior strategy and portfolio manager roles at Centrica PLC, as well as a senior manager role at McKinsey & Company, serving financial institutions, private equity clients and their portfolio companies. Andras holds an MBA from London Business School, an MA in Financial Investments and Risk Management from Corvinus University of Budapest, and an MA in International Management – CEMS Programme.
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About DNA Payments, Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
Colin Nunn
Chief Financial Officer of MishiPay
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About Bare Conductive, MishiPay: Mishipay is an app allowing you to never have to stand in line to pay at a store again.
Sharof Sharipov
CFO of Token
Sharof was appointed the Chief Financial Officer of Token Group in January 2020 and is responsible for financial, legal, risk, compliance, business intelligence and investor relations functions. Token Group is the leading open banking payments platform driving the shift from traditional payment methods to bank payments with best-in-class, Pan-European bank connectivity, data and compliance capabilities. Since June 2020, Sharof is also a non-executive director of TBC UZ, the first next-generation greenfield digital bank in Uzbekistan, established by TBC Bank Group – FTSE 250 constituent financial services group and the largest bank in Georgia – as well as the European Bank for the Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and International Finance Corporation (World Bank). Before joining Token, Sharof was the CFO of 10x Banking – a developer of a full suite of cloud-native banking capabilities for enterprise clients such as JPMorgan Chase and Westpac Banking Corporation. Prior to that he spent more than a decade in corporate finance and investment banking roles at institutions such as Virgin Money, UBS Investment Bank and HSBC Group.
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About Token: Token is an open banking payments platform driving the shift from traditional payment methods to bank payments.
Nick Mottershead
CFO, Risk, Compliance & Group HR of dopay
Nick Mottershead is CFO and Group HR at dopay.
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About dopay: dopay provides a cloud-based payroll service that allows employers to calculate salaries and make payments electronically.
Justinas Lasevicius
CFO & Co-founder of TransferGo
He is founder of TransferGo.
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About TransferGo: TransferGo offers international money transfers for both migrant workers & businesses using their digital account-to-account business model.
Kerry Tremble
Chief Financial Officer of WorldFirst
Kerry is Group CFO of WorldFirst. Kerry was previously Deputy Finance Director for Lloyds Retail Bank and a partner in KPMG’s Corporate and Investment Banking Consulting practice. In the latter role, he worked with global investment banks in a range of areas including Business & Operational Strategy and Financial & Risk Management.
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About WorldFirst: WorldFirst is an international payments business helping businesses and people easy move money around the world at great exchange rates.
Carolyn Rand
Chief Financial Officer of Bango
Carolyn is responsible for overall financial management of Bango, for corporate financial functions and financial relationships with Bango partners. The global reach of Bango requires a wide range of financial models, Carolyn ensures the smooth running of the team delivering this commercial flexibility. Carolyn has responsibility for innovation and management in critical finance functions, and is closely involved in budgeting, forecasting and monitoring the projected performance of Bango. Carolyn works with product development to ensure the Bango Platform can scale and handle complex requirements. Experienced in CFO roles at fast growing technology businesses and public companies, Carolyn is accomplished at maintaining tight financial control and driving profitability in global businesses. Before joining Bango Carolyn held executive roles at, Zinwave, Isogenica, Birdlife and Sepura PLC. Carolyn is a Fellow and Chair for Chartered Institute of Management Accountants East Midlands and East Anglia Region and Chair for the Institute of Directors Cambridgeshire Region.
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About Bango, Institute of Directors: Bango is the standard platform chosen by leading global stores to deliver mobile payments to everyone.
Jonathan Crossfield
CFO of Featurespace
Jonathan leads Featurespace’s finance team and is responsible for financial reporting and investor relations. He works closely with the commercial and operational teams around all aspects of internal analysis and business planning.Prior to joining Featurespace, Jonathan worked in strategic consultancy and equity research, including several years as a senior technology analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jonathan studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Neil Cooper
Chief Financial Officer of TorFX
Neil joined TorFX in June 2017 as CFO. Neil leads the Finance, HR and compliance functions, as well as providing support to the Board and business across a range of activities, including tax, insurance and banking. Neil has worked in a range of industries including FMCG, Leisure Retail and Housebuilding, having spent 10 years in listed-company CFO roles immediately prior to joining TorFX. Neil is a Fellow of the institute of Chartered Management Accountants.
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About TorFX: TorFX is international money transfer provider offering outstanding exchange rates, fee-free transfers and first-class personal service.
William Billingsley
CFO, Cofounder & Chief Commercial Officer of ApTap
As the co-founder of ApTap, he is fully involved in the operations, planning and strategy of the company. Upon graduating from Imperial College he delved into the world of business, inspired by experiences in tech and science, in order to learn and make an impact. With work experience in research labs, in the field and abroad, as well as in business development, alongside his BSc in Biology with Management (hons), He is excited to have started a company, to drive his aspirations to change the world.
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About ApTap: ApTap offer a simple bill management API for banks to cancel, compare and switch their service providers with just a tap.
Adrian Wilding
Chief Financial Officer of Optomany
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About Optomany: Optomany specializes in omnichannel payment processing technology, delivering reliable and secure solutions to the retail sector.
Mark Boote
CFO of Zapaygo
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About Badminton England, Pro Active Financial Consultants, Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
Michael Zeitler
CFO of Orderella
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About Orderella: Orderella is the leading mobile ordering and payment platform for the hospitality industry available in the UK.
Martin Steenkamp
Co-founder & Chief Financial Officer of FC Exchange
Martin co-founded FC Exchange and before this worked in the Convertible Bonds team at Deutsche Bank. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Martin qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte in South Africa. He also moved to the US with Deloitte, working on energy trading clients, including American Electric Power and Columbia Gas. Martin holds a B.Acct (Hons) degree in Accountancy from the University of Natal in South Africa.
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About FC Exchange: International payments and money transfer services for individuals and businesses at bank-beating rates.
Mike Feely
CFO of Paymentology
Mike joined Dealflo as CFO in 2015. He has over 20 years’ experience in Financial and Commercial roles within the technology and telecoms sectors. As CFO of Excelian, a Financial Services technology consultancy, Mike provided the financial leadership to manage the business through International growth and prepared the business for a successful sale to Luxoft. Mike was previously Finance Director of Telstra International EMEA, where he significantly improved business performance through restructuring and repositioning the company to focus on Enterprise managed services contracts.
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About Paymentology: Paymentology offers an array of issuer side payment processing solutions from consultancy, hosting, white label products and modules.
Paula Downey Jones
Chief Financial Officer of Smartdebit
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About Smartdebit: Streamline payment handling, improve your cashflow and increase customer retention with SmartDebit.
John Butler
Chief Financial Officer of CardEasy
John Butler is the Chief Financial Officer of CardEasy.
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About CardEasy: CardEasy offers a stable, PCI DSS compliance payments system for contact centers for both audio and digital channels.
