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This list showcases the top London based Partner operating in the Payments space. If you think a Partner 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.
Matt Blanks
VP MasterCard Enterprise Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Carlos Menendez
President, Enterprise Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Stephen Lemon
Co-Founder | Vice President | Strategic Partnerships & Corporate Development of Currencycloud
Steve has worked in Foreign exchange and international payments, pretty much forever, and participated in the first FinTech of the late 90s wave (before it was even called Fintech) as founding team member of HiFX. The current, product lead revolution has tipped him over the edge and he’s now a fully paid up FinTech geek, of the opinion that we live in exciting times and that Open APIs will change the world. Stephen currently also serves as a Non-Executive Director and Advisor for a number of early stage FinTech companies, and has recently mentored for the 2017 cohort at Techsters. In his personal time Steve is a keen amateur photographer, motorsport lover and live music fan.
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About Currencycloud: Currencycloud specializes in a fully cloud-based platform for B2B cross-border payments.
Mark Pettit
Executive Director, Innovation & Strategic Partnerships of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Rob Barr
Partnerships & Growth of Recharge
Rob Barr leads the agency partnership program at ReCharge, a recurring billing company for Shopify. In his role, he initiates and leads partnership deals with Shopify’s leading sites and Plus partners in the U.S., U.K., Australia and other regions. Prior to joining ReCharge, Rob was a sales engineer at Synthesio focused on driving sales to Fortune 500 companies in the EMEA. He holds a bachelors degree in Politics from Sheffield University.
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About Recharge: Recharge offers subscription management software for e-commerce businesses.
Alix Murphy
Director of Mobile Partnerships of Zepz
Alix Murphy A leading Mobile Money specialist, Alix helps build and support commercial relationships with telecoms operators all over the world. Before WorldRemit, Alix was at the GSMA, where she consulted mobile operators on revenue opportunities in Mobile Money and digital identity. She has on-the-ground expertise of the telecoms sector in regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, North America, East Asia and South East Asia. In her early career, Alix spent several years in international development, including at the Grameen Foundation and Aga Khan Foundation.
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About Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
David Lofthouse
Venture Partner of Clocktower Technology Ventures
David is London-based Venture Partner, leading Clocktower Technology Ventures in the UK and Europe. He is responsible for all fintech investment activity, including originations, investment execution and portfolio management in this region. David was previously Co-Founder and CIO of Prologue Capital, a highly successful fixed income global macro hedge fund. David’s earlier career in trading spans JP Morgan, Greenwich Capital and Goldman Sachs. David holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham. David lives in Mayfair with his wife and young child.
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About Clocktower Technology Ventures: Clocktower Technology Ventures invests in the insurance, payments, personal finance, lending, credit, and asset management sectors.
Saumeel Pachigar
Head of Partnerships of acasa
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About acasa: acasa is a household management tool and bill splitting package that helps students, sharers and couples.
Edward Chandler
Chief Commercial and Partnerships Officer of eNett
As Chief Commercial and Partnerships Officer, Edward’s job is to understand the needs of eNett’s customers and strategic partners, and match them with tailored payment solutions. A finance and payments enthusiast, Ed has held senior positions at MasterCard, as well as being CEO of Kalixa payments group and board director of Circulo payments. Before joining eNett, Ed provided Strategic and operational advice to board and management team at banking start-up Frees. Ed regularly blows peoples’ minds through his ability to drink from a glass without touching it.
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About eNett: ENett is a fintech company that’s redefining virtual payments for the travel industry.
Majid Daia
VP, Partnerships of Paystone
Vice President of Partnerships Paystone
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About Paystone, Paystone: Paystone is a provider of customer engagement services and electronic payment processing solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Dave Nicholson
VP Strategy & Partnerships & Co-Founder of Yoyo Wallet
Dave is a co-founder and VP Strategy & Partnerships at Yoyo Wallet, responsible for ensuring that Yoyo continues to innovate and scale in the digital loyalty space through building relationships with partners. Before starting Yoyo, he was co-founder and Head of Product at Zopa – the world’s first peer to peer lender.
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About Yoyo Wallet: Yoyo Wallet is a mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform.
Masha Cilliers
Partner of iBe TSE
Masha Cilliers is a Partner and her core focus is within online and mobile commerce and cross border. Since becoming a consultant in 2013, Masha has delivered strategy and product consultancy for several large international merchants, as well as fintech start-ups, banks and payment companies. She played key strategic management roles at DataCash, GlobalCollect and CyberSource where she established and grew new areas of the digital payments business. Before that, she spent five years at Microsoft where she oversaw the development of electronic and mobile payments for the company’s online sales platform in Europe and provided strategic direction and innovation for the region. Masha’s foundation in the payments industry was established over ten years at Visa International where she was driving business development in CEMEA region and subsequently product strategy and sales of smart card programs and online commerce. Masha is frequently a guest speaker at conferences and seminars and commentator on media outlets including the BBC. Masha also acts as a Non Executive Director at two fintech start-ups. She lives in London with her family.
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About iBe TSE: iBe is a consultancy organization in Europe for financial services.
Jermaine Trotman
Managing Partner of Nimble AppGenie
Jermaine Trotman is a Founder of Nimble Appgenie, a company that provides mobile app development services in iOS and Android platforms for global clients. He loves to write on mobile technologies, app development, startups, entrepreneurship, and mobile app marketing.
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About Nimble AppGenie: Nimble AppGenie is leading Mobile App development company in the USA. Also, we provides you highly customized, cost-efficient apps.
Andreas Habersetzer
Partner – Financial Services of EY-Parthenon
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About EY-Parthenon: EY-Parthenon is one of the leading management advisory firms in the payments industry
