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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Product operating in the FinTech 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.
Sharon Anne Kean
Product Lead – International Expansion of Wise
Product, UX, tech and start-ups. Excitable, empathetic, enthusiastic. Love a challenge.
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
Gregory Talon
Senior Product Director of Wise
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
Tessa Pettman
Head of Product Marketing. of Wise
Tessa Pettman is the head of product marketing at TransferWise.
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
Vincent Thome
Product of Klarna
Vincent Thome is the Product of Klarna.
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About Klarna: Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.
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.
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
Antonio Gagliardi
Vice President – Strategy, Product, and Analytics – Merchant Services of American Express
Before founding CompareEuropeGroup, Antonio was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company in their UK Financial Services practice. Prior to this, Antonio worked at Bain & Co and at JP Morgan Chase. Antonio holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, with a special distinction for finishing in the top 10%, and graduated summa cum laude from Bocconi University.
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Brett Pybus
Managing Director – Head of iShares EMEA Investment and Product Strategy of BlackRock
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About BlackRock: BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.
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.
David Histon
Head Of Product Development of Luther Systems
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About Luther Systems: Luther Systems streamlines enterprise processes leveraging blockchain technology.
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.
Samuel Coe
Product Manager of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Steve Farrugia
Product Owner of Pepperstone
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About Pepperstone: Pepperstone is an Australian online retail foreign exchange broker specializing in foreign exchange trading.
Timur Garifzyanov
Chief Product Officer of tulipshare
Timur Garifzyanov is the Chief Product Officer at Tulipshare.
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About tulipshare: Tulipshare is the first activist investment platform, with a focus on impactful project to make this planet better.
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.
Simon Taylor
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of 11:FS
Simon is Co-Founder and Director of Blockchain at 11:FS. Previously at Barclays, he established the bank as one of the leaders in blockchain thought and action. Simon also serves as an advisor to central banks and governments, in addition to consulting the top 20 banks on blockchain. He’s helped a variety of startups flourish through the Barclays Accelerator.
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About 11:FS: We build digital banks. Digital Banking is Only 1% Finished but we’re there for the 99%.
Karl Knoflach
Chairman, Co-Founder, Head of Marketing and Product of C88 Financial Technologies
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About C88 Financial Technologies: C88 connects banks and insurers in Asia to consumers buying financial products online.
Duncan Barrigan
Chief Product Officer of GoCardless
Founded in 2011, GoCardless is building a global network of recurring bank-to-bank payments, offering a solution for multiple direct debit schemes in Europe that will soon be launched in Australia. With its simple API and pre-assembled integrations with large software vendors, it enables businesses of all sizes to reduce losses, improve cash flows and save money. Winner in 2016 of the fastest growing FinTech business award at Deloitte Fast50, support 30,000 businesses and bill more than $ 3 billion per year with customers such as Box.com, TripAdvisor, Glovo and Podo. Its headquarters are in London and have as main software partners Zuora, Sage and Billin. Duncan joined the business in 2015 and has been building product management from scratch. Prior to working in technology he was a strategic consultant advising PE / VC investors at Fintech and M & A financial services at Oliver Wyman. He holds a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge
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About GoCardless: GoCardless is a payment company that makes collecting payments by direct debit easy for everyone.
Deepak Colluru
Principal Product Manager of GoCardless
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About GoCardless: GoCardless is a payment company that makes collecting payments by direct debit easy for everyone.
David Stobs-Stobart
Senior Product Manager of GoCardless
David builds and leads enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) products and product teams for growth-stage technology companies. He brings a wealth of experience in product management and user experience (UX) within technically complex online environments, in both large and small teams. David specialises in products relating to analytics/ business intelligence (BI) and customer experience (CX) management. Users are increasingly mobile, social and demand a more personalized, human interaction with the brands they use. I’m proud to be working in the enterprise space helping organisations to engage with their customers, make better decisions and improve their workflows; solving complexity with well-designed applications users love. Over the last 10 years, he has taken the lead product role in 4 early-stage companies and built the product team and product management function. During that time, he has launched 7 products covering search, analytics, machine learning, content optimisation, conversion rate optimisation, self service, workflow management, data mining, social media, APIs, customer service and customer experience.
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About GoCardless: GoCardless is a payment company that makes collecting payments by direct debit easy for everyone.
Darius Kumana
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Wrisk
Darius has worked in varied environments, holding executive/leadership roles in firms ranging from large corporates to small avant-garde firms, consultancies and green-field startups. He is an expert UX practitioner and led the Experience Design Practice for ThoughtWorks Europe (a top technical consultancy) for several years. During his time there he led several successful digital programmes, including large scale transformations for Thomson Reuters and launching TimeOut’s award-winning iPhone app.
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Jose Gomes
Head of Digital Product of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Richard Bentley
Chief Product and Engineering Officer of Calypso Technology
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About Calypso Technology: Calypso Technology provides an integrated trading, risk and processing platform for financial institutions and corporate treasuries.
Ollie Maitland
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Capitalise.com
Ollie Maitland is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Capitalise.com. He was the Innovation Practice Director of Inviqa.
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About Capitalise.com: Capitalise uses a little funding magic to identify the best financing options available for your business.
Janan Rejeevikaran
Head of Product of homie.rent
Janan is a Head of Product at homie.rent. He is also a biomedical engineer and serial entrepreneur with over a decade of software development and technical team building experience. Janan’s previous work includes developing a medical imaging device for a research hospital, building iPhone apps for established brands, and founding two consumer web companies. Janan has expertise in over 20 development languages and frameworks. Janan has a B. Eng in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Business from McMaster University.
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About homie.rent: Homie is a tech startup that helps Londoners find great homes to rent.
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.
Paul Manze
Head of Product of Funding Xchange
Paul Manze is a Head of Product at Funding Xchange and Founder of Chaordic Limited and Acuherb Academy. He was a Product Manager and Development Manager at Insurance intermediary and Divisional Director of mFormation Technologies. Paul received a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Westminster.
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About Funding Xchange: Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools.
Andrew Quan
Head of Product of Littlepay
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About Littlepay: littlepay is an Australian fintech start-up focused on transit contactless payments
Rosario Garcia de Zuniga
Product Manager of Wave Mobile Money
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About Wave Mobile Money: Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money.
Andrew Lawson
Chief Product Officer of Zopa
Andrew is responsible for Zopa’s overall product strategy and for how our products perform, including customer acquisition, credit risk management, pricing and managing customers through their product journeys. Andrew has over 17 years’ experience in consumer analytics and lending, and prior to joining Zopa in 2014 was an Associate Partner with Oliver Wyman, the international management consulting firm. He has worked with leading consumer facing business across Europe and North America on driving data enabled customer value growth. Andrew started his career at Capital One in the UK.
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About Zopa: Zopa offers peer-to-peer loans with low rates, flexible terms, and no early repayment fees.
Hariton Korizis
Co-Founder and Chief Product Architect of ResonanceX
Demonstrated history of innovating in the financial services industry, and running lean global business initiatives. Investment Banking professional expertise and Electrical Engineering academic background. Skilled in Derivatives Trading, Investment Strategies, Structuring Securities and Financial Technology. With an additional focus on Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Significant expertise in tailor-made quantitative trading strategies for hedging or investing – with strong quantitative and analytical skills obtained through a PhD focused in Signal Processing Methods for the Modeling & Prediction of Financial Data from Imperial College London. For the past 15 years, I’ve specialized in sophisticated investment products and services that extract real value from the markets in a scalable manner – and designed & built the tech to do so. First in Academia, and then in top tier Investment Banks where I was also responsible to establish all required business & governance and for selling them to Institutional clients globally. In the past, I have been responsible for managing approx GBP 2bio AUM of algorithmic investments and have built 160+ investable strategies & indices – some very successful and sophisticated.
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About ResonanceX: The Low-Code Fintech Agility Platform
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.
Javier Colón
Head of Product Development of Darwinex
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About Darwinex: Darwinex allows independent traders around the world to quote their strategies and thus access investor capital.
Tim Armstrong
Managing Director UK and Product Development of Greensill Capital
Tim Armstrong is a member of Greensill’s European team, focusing on developing partnerships within EMEA. Prior to joining Greensill, Tim worked at KPMG managing a Supply Chain Finance solution for clients which utilised partnerships with leading FinTech companies in combination with KPMG’s suite of advisory services. Prior to that, Tim worked in the corporate finance team in Deloitte, working closely with the UK Government’s Department of Business, and at Morgan Stanley, in their securitisation team.
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About Greensill Capital: Greensill Capital is a provider of structured working capital financing to businesses globally.
Eli Rosner
Chief Product and Technology Officer of Finastra
Eli Rosner is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Software Solutions for NCR Corporation. In this role, he is accountable for the company’s strategy, formulation, development and cross-functional delivery of NCR’s software portfolio. Rosner also participates in the NCR Leadership Team led by NCR’s President, CEO and Chairman Bill Nuti. Prior to his role leading NCR’s Software Group, Eli was the CTO and Head of Product Management for NCR’s Retail Solutions Division. Eli led software development teams across all Retail segments. He originally joined NCR as Vice President of Global Software Engineering and Development. He oversaw architecture definition, technology selection, solution development and testing. Eli’s previous positions before joining NCR include: Vice President and Chief Business Delivery Officer for the Americas and as Vice President for Global Technology Strategy at Solera Holdings. Prior to this role Eli was accountable for the Office of Strategy Management (OSM) for the overall product strategy for Solera. Eli held numerous leadership roles in product management, engineering and operation, including CIO and SVP of Product Development and GM of International Operations at Mitchell International Inc. He was also CTO and Vice President of Product Management and Engineering at Autodesk (ADSK) Location Based Services. Rosner is a proven leader with more than 25 years of experience in managing diverse product portfolios and strategies, and in working closely with channel partners to drive software innovation. He has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and Computer Science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
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About Finastra: Finastra provides the broadest portfolio of financial services software.
Dickie Smith
Product Manager of Nimbla
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About Nimbla: Nimbla is dedicated to providing small and medium-sized UK businesses with dynamic invoice insurance.
Oliver Smith
Product Director of Credit Benchmark
Oliver Smith is responsible for managing Product and Content within Credit Benchmark. Before joining Credit Benchmark, Olly was co-head for Markit Securities Finance Europe, also managing product Development. He previously held roles at Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters within sales and business development.
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About Credit Benchmark: Credit Benchmark is a financial data analytics company.
David Szabo
Product Manager of Capdesk
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About BrandVee, Capdesk: Capdesk is an equity management platform helping companies manage cap tables, shareholder registers, and employee shares.
Andy Sweeney
Head of Fixed Income Products of Aviation and Tech Capital
Andy graduated from Cambridge University with an MA (Hons) in Law. He has over 16 years of experience in debt capital markets, all gained working in major global investment banks. He began his career at Citigroup with a focus on raising short term finance for companies via the commercial paper market. Subsequently he worked in the bond syndication teams at RBC Capital Markets and Mizuho International, advising banks, governments and corporates on issuing bonds across a range of currencies for periods of anything from one year to fifty years and in sizes ranging into the billions of pounds. He enjoys innovation and has been responsible for several innovative bond transactions, including creating a retail bond for a major UK bank and designing structures to effectively manage interest rate risk for borrowers. One of his roles in banking was to work to create liquid secondary markets for securities and he looks forward to bringing that experience to the peer-to-peer market. Andy understands that investment is about creating a fair transaction for both borrowers and investors.
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About Aviation and Tech Capital: Owner of Ablrate.com an asset backed peer lending platform specialising in capital equipment and the world’s first to offer aircraft loans
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.
Ollie Cadman
Chief Product Officer of Vela
Ollie Cadman is Head of Business Operations responsible for providing leadership support and guidance to the European teams. His broad remit includes spearheading integration efforts from the OptionsCity and Object Trading acquisitions in Europe. Prior to his current role, Ollie was Head of Product and Strategy, EMEA, responsible for driving product development, strategy, and roadmap priorities at Vela. His role also included identifying new market, partnership, and product opportunities through ongoing engagements with the firm’s global client base. Ollie joined Vela from Intercontinental Exchange (previously Interactive Data) and has a proven track record in global rollout and development of a wide range of products and services. He has an extensive background in electronic trading, exchange connectivity, and real-time data. Combined with his strong analytical skills, he has an ability to adapt to market challenges and optimize new business opportunities. Ollie has held senior roles at Citihub Consulting, JP Morgan, and the London Stock Exchange. Ollie holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire.
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About Vela: Vela is a leading provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading.
Robert Cookson
Product Manager of Stockopedia
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About Stockopedia: Stockopedia is an Oxford-based research network & community site, offering tools for investors to analyse, filter, connect investment ideas.
Marc Irvin
Head of Product of Secco
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About Secco: UK based startup creating a mobile social economic network
Christopher Welch
Head of Product of Brismo
Chris Welch spent nine years in the natural resources space initially as a minerals economist and then as a metals and mining analyst at both global and boutique investment banks. Chris gained a BSc (Hons) in geology from University College London and also holds an advanced certificate in Economics and an MSc in International Business Management.
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About Brismo: Brismo is a provider of lending performance data.
Christopher Welch
Head of Product of Brismo
Chris Welch spent nine years in the natural resources space initially as a minerals economist and then as a metals and mining analyst at both global and boutique investment banks. Chris gained a BSc (Hons) in geology from University College London and also holds an advanced certificate in Economics and an MSc in International Business Management.
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About Brismo: Brismo is a provider of lending performance data.
