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This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Payments space. If you think a Director 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.
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.
Jose Galarza
Engineering Director of Wise
Jose Galarza, joined TransferWise 3 years ago. Currently works as a Tech Lead in the London Office and has been one of the engineers focusing on the migration of TransferWise to the cloud and kubernetes.
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
Zhomart Tleuzhanov
Director – Asset Backed Finance & Securitization of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Director & Counsel EMEA Data Protection Legal team of American Express
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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.
Jose Pettoruti
Director of Engineering of Currencycloud
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About Currencycloud: Currencycloud specializes in a fully cloud-based platform for B2B cross-border payments.
Smriti Vicari
Exec Director, Business Strategy, Europe FinTech of Visa
Smriti Vicari is the Head of Fintech at Visa Europe. She oversees Fintech engagement, strategy and delivery activities, ensuring that Visa remains partner-of-choice for Fintechs, platforms and intermediaries. Smriti joined Visa in 2011, initially working in the Strategy team and then forming and leading the CEO Office. Prior to Visa, Smriti held a variety of roles in the US and UK financial services sectors. She began her career as an analyst in a US-based private equity fund-of-funds, where she analysed and recommended investments to multi-billion dollar pension funds, representing some of the largest institutional investors in the country. She then went onto lead a team of analysts at Moody’s Investors Service, assessing credit and investment risk within the Structured Finance group. Smriti held strategy and executive office roles at State Street Bank in London before joining Visa. Smriti holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from London Business School.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
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.
Stuart Jeffrey
Executive Director and Co Founder of Fly Now Pay Later
Stuart Jeffrey is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Fly Now Pay Later.
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About Fly Now Pay Later, Krzana, Movebubble: Fly Now Pay Later is a fintech company that helps consumers split the cost of their travel in monthly installments.
Jan Farrarons
Founder & Director of Judopay
Jan Farrarons is the founder of Dojo, Capital On Tap, and Judopay.
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About Capital on Tap, Dojo, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Catherine Wines
Executive Director & Co-Founder of Zepz
Catherine is a qualified accountant with public company board experience and extensive commercial experience in the money transfer industry. Previously she was the Managing Director of First Remit, an international money transfer business subsequently acquired by Travelex Money Transfer where she became the Regional Director for UK, Ireland and Benelux as well as Operations Director. Catherine was one of the founding team members of WorldRemit.
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About Beam, Cambridge Judge Business School, Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
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.
Adriana Marques
Managing Director, Europe and Global Network of Zepz
Adriana Marques is responsible for growing WorldRemit’s business in the European region as well as driving the expansion of the network globally by integrating new pay out partners, and launching money transfer services in new geographies. Adriana has over 20 years of experience in leading and developing teams, having previously held senior strategy and business development roles at Sodexo and American Express. Prior to joining WorldRemit in October 2017, Adriana served as Head of Merchant and VAS at Samsung launching Samsung Pay in the UK. Adriana holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA in Economics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.
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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.
Costas Frangeskou
Director of Sales of Goodlord
Costas brings more than 14 years experience in the property industry to Goodlord. This includes over a decade with Rightmove, where he held positions including National Sales Director and Commercial Operations Director.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Matt Chatters
Finance Director of Goodlord
Goodlord’s resident Kiwi Matt has worked in London since 2013 at a number of exciting start-ups, and he has a particularly keen interest in the subscription-based SaaS business model. Away from Goodlord he enjoys travel, cycling, talking about how great New Zealand is, and being cannon fodder in PUBG.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Matt Sloan
Managing Director EMEA of Discover Financial Services
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About Discover Financial Services: Discover Financial Services is a direct banking and payment services company.
Daniel Cox
Financial Director of Fingopay
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About Fingopay: Identity authentication platform
Julian Colls
Customer Success Director of 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.
Daniel Harden
Dealing Director of Global Reach Group
Daniel joined Global Reach in 2011 to build out its Options business before taking on the role of Dealing Director in 2017. A native of New Zealand, he began his career at ANZ Bank in Wellington after being recruited for its graduate programme. Two years later he joined HSBC in London, where he continued to develop his foreign exchange career as a Manager within the Institutional FX Sales business, trading currency for large corporate clients and institutions. He then moved to World First as Head of Corporate Dealing before joining the Global Reach team. Daniel holds a degree in Economics and Accounting and a Bachelors in Law, and is fully RDR and MSTA qualified.
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About Global Reach Group: Global Reach Group is a leading foreign currency provider for corporates and personal clients.
Jacques de Villiers
Business Development Director of Global Reach Group
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About Global Reach Group: Global Reach Group is a leading foreign currency provider for corporates and personal clients.
Daniel Wray
Senior Executive Director of Global Reach Group
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About Global Reach Group: Global Reach Group is a leading foreign currency provider for corporates and personal clients.
Leandra McPhillips
Commercial Director of Global Reach Group
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About Global Reach Group: Global Reach Group is a leading foreign currency provider for corporates and personal clients.
Alex Sladen
Marketing Director of Western Union
Alex Sladen is the Marketing Director of Western Union.
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About Western Union: Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world.
Norman Butler
Managing Director – Visa Payments Limited of Visa Europe
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About Visa Europe: Visa Europe is a payment technology business that enables European consumers, businesses, and governments to make electronic payments.
Anthony Craufurd
Director, Venture and Startup Engagement of Visa Europe
Anthony joined Visa 6 years ago as an Visa 6 years ago as an apprentice, and has worked all over the apprentice, and has worked he business, from plugging in cables the business, from plugging in cables in the data centers to developing new propositions. • He now leads Vis’s venture and startup programme in Europe as part of Visa’s Innovation & Strategic Partnership division, connecting Visa with entrepreneurs to enable the next generation of innovation. • Anthony also leads Visa’s Everywhere Initiative in Europe, a global platform to promote and support early stage companies.
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About Visa Europe: Visa Europe is a payment technology business that enables European consumers, businesses, and governments to make electronic payments.
Jack Gavigan
Executive Director of Zcash
Jack has a background in financial technology, cyber security and trading systems, gained at companies like Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley (where he also worked as a trader). He has advised the UK government on digital currencies and blockchain technology, and currently occupies the role of COO at the Zcash company.
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About Zcash: Zcash offers payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain.
Marcus Hughes
Director of Business Development of Bottomline Technologies
Marcus Hughes serves as the Director of Business Development at Bottomline Technologies.
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About Bottomline Technologies: Bottomline Technologies provides corporations, financial institutions, and banks with e-payment, invoice, and document automation solutions.
David S. Wong
Chairman & CEO, Director of Midpoint
David is a London-based entrepreneur and investor in disruptive technologies and previously Managing Director of Expadis Capital. Prior to becoming an investor, he co-founded a publicly traded technology and media company. David has extensive experience in building, advising technology companies and helping businesses scale internationally. David started out as a client of Midpoint. He subsequently invested in the Company and joined the Board of Directors. David holds a BSc (Hons) in Engineering from the University of Liverpool and MA (Distinction) in Management from the University of Brighton.
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About Midpoint: Midpoint is a true peer-to-peer international payments platform for any businesses or individual wanting access to fair and transparent FX.
Andy Walker
Marketing & Operations Director & Founding Member of Yumpingo
Andy Walker is a Marketing Director at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Rodney Bain
Co-Founder & Managing Director of APEXX Global
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About APEXX Global: APEXX consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
Nisha Singh
Co-Founder and Director of TRANSPER
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About TRANSPER: Transper is a fintech platform that provides liquidity and transparency in deep tier supply chain reducing costs and credit risk.
William McMullan
Director of Sales – eCommerce of Trustly
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About The Carlyle Group, Trustly: Pay directly from your online bank
Chris Davies
Managing Director of Global Payments
Chris Davies is Managing Director at Global Payments.
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About Global Payments: Global Payments offers transaction processing services through their high-speed, robust electronic information networks.
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.
Kebbie Sebastian
Managing Director of Penser
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About Penser: Specialist consulting firm focused on the payments and fintech industry
Alexandre Massart
Director of Penser
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About Penser: Specialist consulting firm focused on the payments and fintech industry
Vik Bhatti
Director of Technical Operations of Trussle
Experienced devops and backend software developer accustomed to working within startup environments. Knowledgeable in important aspects of running mission critical systems, dealing with web and database scalability issues, and running high traffic apps and stacks on top of cloud service providers. Specialties: Python, MySQL, JavaScript, Linux, Server Administration, Network Operations, Distributed Systems Architecture,, nodeJS, MongoDB, redis, chef
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About Trussle: Trussle is a free online mortgage broker that works with much-needed transparency.
Tom Samodol
Director of PayProp
Executive roles: PayProp Holdings, Member of the Board; Director Strategy & Corporate Development Mentor and advisor: Level 39, Accenture FinTech Innovation Lab, Barclays Techstars, Microsoft Venture and others Track record: from early stage startups all the way to global technology blue chips (e.g. Google, SAP, eBay, HP, Kaspersky Lab, etc.) Domain expertise in software, mobile, internet, software, fintech/payment technologies, media and IT services Previously, Head of Technology Investment Banking at Dresdner Kleinwort / Commerzbank with extensive experience in incubating and scaling startups, investments, fundraisings, IPOs and M&A of European technology companies
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About PayProp: PayProp is an automated cloud-based payment and settlement platform for the property management industry.
Eddie Bell
Director of Machine Learning of Ravelin
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Joanne May
Director of Integrations of Ravelin
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Marcus Kern
Co-Founder, CEO & Director of Duesday
Kern started as an entrepreneur in 1998 when he founded voiceIT communications, offering voicemail services. Prior to that Kern graduated with distinction in Physics at the University of Hamburg after completing a research year at the Optoelectronics Research Centre in Southampton. Early in the new millenium Kern led the architecture and implementation of O2’s strategic SMS platform. During 2004 Kern worked for T-Mobile International driving technical design and implementation of a £2 million SMS/MMS alerting platform across T-Mobile’s European footprint. In 2005 Kern co-founded Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) and started as CTO. He was imperative to MIGs expansion to 200 employees over six years. In 2008 MIG was ranked No.1 in the Tech Track 100, securing the title of fastest growing technology company in the UK. MIG was acquired by NASDAQ listed Velti plc in November 2011 and Kern then acted as VP of Technology for the corporation. In 2014 Kern co-founded Fonix Mobile and guided the messaging and payments venture throughout its three year growth phase. In early 2016 he co-founded CFT Group, a brand new payments provider re-inventing direct debits through a revolutionary consumer incentive scheme: DUESDAY. In December 2017 Kern was named Digital Entrepreneur of the Year by Cornwall Live,
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About Duesday, Fonix: Duesday is a Payment Institution.
Mark Standish
Director and Co-Founder of Q2i Group
Senior business and technology executive and investor in the financial and asset management industry. Former COO of Egerton Capital, founder of a hedge fund consulting firm and former professional services manager at Advent Software
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About Q2i Group: Blockchain Interoperability – Complex Transactions Monetised – Blockchain Agnostic Platform – Q2iD – ID Control – Q2iPay
Will Curley
Managing Director of DIP
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About DIP: DIP is a global advisory that focuses on payments (credit, debit, infrastructure, and digital) and sales force management.
Chris Henry
Sales Director of iSignthis
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About iSignthis: iSignthis Ltd is the global leader in dynamic, remote AML/CFT KYC enhanced due diligence identity proofing.
Bill Wrest
Director of Strategy & Business Development of The B2 Group
Bill has had a long and successful career within big banks such as the Bank of America and Barclays. He is UK based and is a long time associate of B2 (he first worked with the company back in 2003.)
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About The B2 Group: The B2 Group is an innovative software and services provider, specialising in the Payments, FX and funds markets across the globe.
Nicholas Chance
Director of RemitRadar
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About RemitRadar: RemitRadar services the needs of an emerging global community of 2.5bn people dependant on remittance services.
Colin Watts
Board of Directors of Enition
Colin is responsible for investments in the information and communications sectors. He brings to the team a combination of deep market knowledge gained in the telecoms industry and extensive international transactional experience gained as a corporate investor and as a partner of two international venture capital firms. Previously Colin has held investment management positions with Cisco Systems Inc, DFJ ePlanet and TLcom Capital where he invested over $80 million across 12 companies in Europe and Israel. This portfolio achieved 4 IPO’s and 6 M&A transactions worth in excess of $4.5bn. Colin graduated from Nottingham University with first class honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Colin has sailed across the Atlantic.
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About : A designer of network-centric payment technology and systems.
Alex Norton
Co-Founder and Director of Locus
Alex Norton is the Co-Founder & Director at Locus. He is also the Co-Founder of The Bureau Group and Private debt investments at Qbera Capital LLP and also the Investor at Freetrade. Mr. Norton was a Co-founder at Poochie. Alex studied Economics and Finance at Queen Mary, U. of London.
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About Locus: Locus provides one-click checkout & 30 minute delivery option for urban shoppers.
Fayimora Femi-Balogun
Co-Founder & Director of Technology of Locus
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About Locus: Locus provides one-click checkout & 30 minute delivery option for urban shoppers.
Mike Warriner
Non Executive Director of Classlist.com
Mike Warriner is SVP Engineering for Crypto.com, building a world class Crypto-currency engineering team across Europe. Previously VP/CTO for Skyscanner, Digital CIO at HSBC and Engineering Director at Google, Mike has 30 years of experience across all aspects of the technology industry. Mike has a passion for STEM and Computer Science education and making sure that our children are able to be instrumental in the amazing technical opportunities that are all around them. He holds a MA in Computer Science from Cambridge University and lives in the UK with his wife and two young children.
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About Crypto.com: Classlist enables parents at the same school to make trusted, secure connections; making their life easier and school communities stronger.
Joseph Darkins
Technology Director of Fonix
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About Fonix: Fonix is a cellular phone distributor that supplies telecommunication handsets.
Dominic O’Mara
Managing Director of PaymentPlus.ie
Dominic O’Mara is the managing director at PaymentPlus. Dominic earned his degree in electronics at The University of Edinburgh.
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About PaymentPlus.ie: PaymentPlus is a growing provider of merchant services and secure payment solutions.
Terry Chow
Operations Director of Sphonic
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About Sphonic: Sphonic is a Context-Broker that leverages 3rd party vendor data with a workflow engine to enable fraud prevention, AML, KYC
Chris Allen
Director of Universal Smart Cards
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About Universal Smart Cards: Universal Smart Cards (USC) provide a range of smart cards, card readers and printers.
Raakhee Thakrar
Director of Finance of Universal Smart Cards
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About Universal Smart Cards: Universal Smart Cards (USC) provide a range of smart cards, card readers and printers.
Raakhee Thakrar
Director of Finance of Universal Smart Cards
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About Universal Smart Cards: Universal Smart Cards (USC) provide a range of smart cards, card readers and printers.
Larysa Melnychuk
Managing Director of FP&A Trends
Larysa Melnychuk is a founder and managing director of FP&A Trends Group. FP&A Trends helps companies to realise their innovative FP&A potential through training, consulting, professional networking and debating. Larysa is an experienced FP&A practitioner and held senior FP&A positions at Invensys plc, Ace Group, Key Bank and HSBC Bank before setting up the International FP&A Board in 2013 – a global and well-recognized FP&A best practices think-tank. Since then, she has been running the Board that has successfully expanded into 11 countries in Europe, the Middle East, the USA, Asia and Australia.
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About FP&A Trends: FP&A Trends Group is a global UK-based consultancy that helps organisations.
Jack Bryant
Group Director of Operations of Equals Money
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About Equals Money: Equals Money combines global payments technology with currency expertise to help one manage cashflow & expenses, simply & cost-effectively.
Abdul Ojomu
Managing Director MMIT UK of Mobile Media Info Tech Global Limited
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About Mobile Media Info Tech Global Limited: Mobile Media Info Tech (MMIT) is a mobile payment processing company.
Lisa Armstrong
Founder and Innovation Director of Ugogo
Lisa Armstrong is a passionate entrepreneur who believes that everyone, whether rich or poor, deserves access to the global online market. She is the founder and CEO of Ugogo, an award-winning ecommerce platform for people without bank accounts. Ugogo is expanding the traditional marketplace for entrepreneurial men and women in Africa who may be earning as little as $1USD per day. By enabling them to sell their wares online, the Ugogo platform will empower these artisans and micropreneurs to lift themselves out of poverty. In 2015 Ugogo was chosen from over 3,555 applicants to win the world renowned Publicis 90 award. Lisa has also received the WACL Future Leaders Award, an award given on behalf of the most influential women in advertising, marketing, commercial media and communications. Born in Zimbabwe, Lisa graduated with a BA in Business Law from London Metropolitan University and later received a scholarship for Executive Business School at the London School of Economics. Prior to setting up Ugogo, she ran a successful startup and has also spent four years working on high profile projects at SapientNitro, one of the world’s leading digital agencies. She has an avid interest in digital innovation and how we, as innovators, can improve people’s lives with the simple click of a mouse.
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About Ugogo: Marketplace for Artisans
Michael Ingelog
Board of Directors of Basware
Board member, Investor and advisor with an expert area within Finance and Digitalisation. Former CEO for Credit Suisse in the Nordic region, and Head of Markets for Deutsche Bank in the Nordic. Extensive experience in regulation, capital markets and build up of high performing teams within the financial sector.
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About : Basware provides enterprise purchase to pay and financial management solutions.
Simon Kelton
Co-Founder & Director of pepperhq
Simon is a relentlessly determined, passionate and ambitious entrepreneur, writer, film producer and angel investor with twenty-five years of broad-ranging creative and business experience. With an exceptional international network of friends, colleagues, investors and commercial contacts, Simon is able to combine his visionary creativity and communication skills as a professional writer to guide and sell his companies strategic goals and products. He has founded, financed and managed eight companies in entertainment, technology, publishing, event management and the snowsports industry. He has Master’s Degrees from Oxford, Stanford and UCLA and is a member of the British Academy of Film and TV. As a professional writer, Simon has published two books, written more than thirty screenplays for Hollywood including the British hit comedy EDDIE THE EAGLE starring Hugh Jackman and produced by Matthew Vaughn, and penned numerous articles for the likes of TIME, the Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Harpers and Queen, and Worth.com. An avid and competitive sportsman, Simon represented Oxford University at golf, is a member of the Royal & Ancient G.C. and the Queen’s Club, has ski guided for the Ski Club of Great Britain, and taken part in the British and World Extreme Snowboarding Championships.
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About pepperhq: The Pepper platform supports white label apps for mobile payment, discovery, digital loyalty, social media marketing, and actionable data.
Simon Edhouse
Managing Director of Edgelogic Ltd.
Managing Director Simon Edhouse handles overall strategy, production coordination and design. Simon holds a Masters degree in Commercialization of Science & Technology, writing his Master’s thesis on future applications of digital currencies in 2006.
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About Bittunes, Bittunes, Edgelogic Ltd.: Edgelogic works with distributed technologies like peer to peer and blockchain systems to create new platforms and applications.
Andrew Williamson
Director & Co-founder of Delv
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About Delv: Delv is a management and advisory firm that address the real issue of late payments.
Ben McSweeney
Managing Director – UK of ZipZap
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About ZipZap: ZipZap is a technology platform for moving money around the world.
Neil Lover
Board Directors of The UK Cards Association
Neil Lover is Board Directors at The UK Cards Association.
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About : The UK Cards Association is the leading trade association for the card payments industry in the UK.
Malcolm Woolliams
Director of Direction Forward
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About Direction Forward: Working with enterprises, businesses, organisations and individuals on how to best leverage digital technologies to deliver maximum value.
Samee Zafar
Director of Edgar, Dunn & Company
Samee is a Director in the London office of Edgar, Dunn and Company, a global management consulting firm. Samee has worked with some of the world’s largest organisations in North America, Europe, Middle East and East Asia working at the Board level. Samee leads the firm’s Advanced Payments consulting practice and has advised banks, payment companies, mobile operators, internet innovators, eCommerce and eWallet providers on competitive and operational strategy. He previously worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York and Visa International in London. He is a regular speaker at key industry events and has co-authored a book “Developing and Managing a Successful Payment Cards Business” published by Gower Publications.
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About Edgar, Dunn & Company: Edgar, Dunn & Company is an independent global financial services and payments consultancy.
Peter Sidenius
Director of Edgar, Dunn & Company
Peter Sidenius is the Managing Director of Edgar, Dunn & Company. He has over 25 years of experience in strategic consulting in payments. He joined the firm as a Director in 1999. Peter leads the firm’s regulatory practice which works with banks and financial institutions as well as central banks providing pragmatic advice on payments regulation across multiple regions. He has wide geographic experience of providing strategic payment consulting across European, North American, Middle Eastern, Asian and African markets. His expertise extends to advice on future payment business and economic models, competitive analysis, business performance reviews, benchmarking, and customer and product profitability measurement using a wide array of strategic analysis tools. He has worked in a wide range of markets, leading strategic consultancy assignments within the physical and emerging product sphere of financial services, providing advice on payment systems strategy, regulation, profitability analysis, operational reviews and benchmarking studies for industry leading clients. His clients include national and central banks, international payment schemes, financial services organisations, payment processors, fintech companies and national financial services associations. Peter holds a Masters of Science from Denmark’s Technical University and a Masters of Philosophy in Management Studies from Oxford University. Prior to attending Oxford University he spent five years with Schlumberger Oilfield Services in a number of African countries.
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About Edgar, Dunn & Company: Edgar, Dunn & Company is an independent global financial services and payments consultancy.
Marco Kapp
Founder & Director of Citicus
Marco Kapp’s 40+ years of experience of IT includes developing and running major systems and providing advice and assistance to leading IT users and suppliers around the world. As a Director of Coopers & Lybrand’s UK consulting practice, he led a major study into the security of network system which was supported by the European Commission and over 50 other organizations throughout Europe, and was instrumental in establishing the European Security Forum (ESF) as a successor organization – which itself went on to become the Information Security Forum (ISF). He directed the ESF during its first year of operation. He subsequently directed, managed or contributed to numerous ESF and ISF projects, including: development of the 1996 and 1998 Information Security Status Surveys evolution of the ISF’s Standard of Good Practice for Information Security statistical analysis of results of the Survey, culminating in the key factor / benchmarking process employed in recent Surveys numerous publications on the results of the Survey (eg Driving information risk out of the business, information risk reference guide) development of FIRM – a rigorous, research-based and easy to apply methodology for managing information risk and similar areas of risk across an enterprise contributing to the ISF’s fast-track-project on e-commerce. Marco was the chief architect of the FIRM methodology and is a founder and Director of Citicus Limited. He was a member of the Group of Experts on information security charged by the highly influential OECD with developing Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems. When published, these stimulated and shaped the development of security legislation around the world. He also contributed to the development of the widely used COBIT 4 framework for managing information security enterprise-wide, published by the IT Governance Institute® (ITGI) in 1998.
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About Citicus: Citicus develop and sell world-class security, risk and compliance management software, plus supporting services.
Simon Oxley
Founder & Managing Director of Citicus
Simon Oxley moved into the IT industry after obtaining a science Doctorate at Oxford University. He gained a background in systems development and has now been working in the information security and risk fields for over 30 years. Having helped Logica establish one of the first two computer security evaluation facilities for the UK government, he had a career in commercial security management through heading up the information security departments at National Power and Reuters. He took both organizations into the Information Security Forum (ISF) and was a member of the ISF’s Council during 1992-94. As an independent consultant in information security from 1996 to 2000, Simon advised a range of blue chip clients and contributed to many projects for the highly-respected ISF. He was the author of the ISF’s research reports on secure e-commerce, cryptography, web security, security architecture and active content, and contributed to many others, including the project that led to the FIRM methodology supported by Citicus ONE. Simon is a regular speaker at international conferences on information security and risk. He has a strong interested in education, helping the British Computer Society to develop their information security qualifications and being a regular lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway Information Security MSc course. Simon is a founder and Managing Director of Citicus.
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About Citicus: Citicus develop and sell world-class security, risk and compliance management software, plus supporting services.
Loren Barton
Founder, Managing Director of Kaleidoscope Group Ltd
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About Kaleidoscope Group Ltd: Consultancy and advisory firm focused on bridging the gap between innovation and performance in the market
