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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 COO’ operating in the FinTech space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Chris Barnes
Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Atomico
Chris is Partner & Chief Operating Officer at Atomico. Based in London, he works across all aspects of Atomico’s operations. He oversees portfolio management, fund management, investor relations, resource allocation, finance, legal and HR. Chris joined the company after thirteen years at private equity company Terra Firma, where he was CFO and a member of the Investment and Management Committees. While at Terra Firma, Chris was involved in the structuring, funding and execution of all of the portfolio investments, as well as the management of the firm’s operations. Prior to Terra Firma, Chris worked in the Private Equity group at Arthur Andersen for 10 years. Chris is a Chartered Accountant and has a Double First in Economics and History from Cambridge University. He ran his first (and last) marathon at age 12, which may explain why he now has a titanium hip and the knees of a ninety year old. A talented footballer in his youth, Chris gave up the chance of a playing career in the top flight to follow his dream of becoming an accountant.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
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Arman Tahmassebi
Chief Operating Officer of LendInvest
Arman began his career at IG Group where he started as a graduate trainee before progressing over the following 15 years to hold several senior management roles overseeing the Technology, Business Development and Operations departments. During his time at IG Group the business grew from a small UK only entity to over 1,400 staff located in 17 countries around the globe with operations underpinned by industry leading proprietary technology. Latterly Arman was CEO of ETX Capital, an award winning provider of retail trading technology and services.
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About LendInvest: LendInvest is the leading marketplace platform for property finance.
Louis Warner
Chief Operating Officer of Founders Factory
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About Founders Factory: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Oke Eleazu
Chief Operating Officer of Bought By Many
Oke is Bought by Many’s COO. He’s an expert in creating customer-centric services and is proud to be able to build insurance products that really work for people. When he’s not at work, he loves listening to good music and spending time with his family and friends.
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About Bought By Many: Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.
Richard Matthews
COO and Partner of Augmentum Fintech
Richard has 17 years venture capital and private equity experience in the technology, retail and leisure sectors on both sides of the fence. Having studied economics at the University of Manchester, Richard started his career as a Chartered Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand before leaving in 1999 to join Tim at Flutter.com (now Betfair) as CFO. In 2002 following the merger with Betfair he left to join Benchmark Capital Europe (now Balderton Capital), one of the early investors in Betfair. At Benchmark he worked on early stage technology investments both in the investment phase and assisting the investee companies post funding. He then joined Manzanita Capital in 2005, where he spent 5 years investing in the retail and leisure sectors globally before leaving to form Augmentum Capital. In 2018 Richard and Tim successfully launched Augmentum Fintech on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, in the process becoming the first Fintech focused public VC in Europe. Away from the office Richard enjoys spending time with his family, watching Arsenal and playing golf, though in the case of the latter 2 the word “enjoys” is used in its loosest sense.
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About Augmentum Fintech: Augmentum Fintech is a FinTech fund that invests in early and later-stage FinTech companies.
George Mantilas
Chief Operating Officer of Trading 212
George Mantilas is the Chief Operating Officer at Trading 212.
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About Trading 212: Trading 212 is a fintech company that provides free, smart apps to democratize the economic market.
Mark McDonald
COO of Concentric
Mark M. McDonald is the Financial Director of TLcom and joined the firm in January 2002. Prior to TLcom, Mark was the Finance Director at Digital Networks Global Ventures Limited, an early stage Pan-European technology venture capital firm based in London. Before joining Digital Networks, Mark was a Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers for six years, in the London and Toronto offices, where he served as a statutory and regulatory (FSA) consultant specialising in private equity. Mark qualified with Ernst & Young, Montreal, Canada. Mark is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a Graduate Diploma in Chartered Accountancy from McGill University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Finance from the University of Western Ontario.
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About Concentric: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
Peter Harris
Partner & COO of Generation Investment Management
Peter is a Founding Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Generation Investment Management. Previously, Peter was part of Goldman Sachs Global Operations Division, where he was responsible for global operations infrastructure projects, and management of the North American operations and latterly international operations for Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to that, Peter established the Marketable Securities Division Operations Department at CIN Management Ltd, before it was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 1996.Peter is qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant.
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About Generation Investment Management: Generation Investment Management is a private equity firm focused on integrated sustainability research and client alignment.
Eliza Eddison
Chief Operating Officer of Rentify
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About FabricNano, Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Venancio Gallego
COO of Ebury
Venancio Gallego Vindel is COO at Ebury Partners.
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About Ebury: Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally.
Patrick de Nonneville
Chief Operating Officer of October
Patrick is Chief Operating Officer of October. As a Partner at Goldman Sachs in London (2007 to 2014), Patrick was co-head of the European rates business and member of the Global Operating Committee for Rates. He began his career at JPMorgan in Paris and London (1997-2003) as a “market-maker” on Treasuries, before joining Deutsche Bank (2003-2007) where he led the complex products trading activities and Inflation products. Patrick is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique.
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About October: October is an online marketplace for business loans, enabling investors to lend money directly to small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Per Polland
Chief Operating Officer of Habito
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About Habito: Habito is a digital mortgage brokerage services company that offers a personal and modernized approach to the home buying experience.
Georgios Psonis
COO of Loal
George heads the operational and back office functions at Oakam. He ensures the execution of the Oakam customer journey throughout the credit lifecycle and manages continuous process improvements to better the customer experience and reduce wastage. He has been with Oakam since its inception in 2006 and has previously held roles in Product, Risk, and IT.
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About Akrod Limited, Loal: Loal equips those poorly served by mainstream providers to build their credit profiles and live life on another level
Louise Hill
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of gohenry
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About gohenry: Gohenry is a developer of a kids money management application helping young people to take part in the digital economy.
Alison Conway
COO of MishiPay
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About MishiPay: Mishipay is an app allowing you to never have to stand in line to pay at a store again.
Austin Kimm
COO, Co-Founder of Crypterium
Former CEO of Renaissance Life and Pensions (Russia & Ukraine) and CEO Renaissance Insurance Group. Austin led company to #1 Position for Life Insurance in Russia (by written premium – approx $250m per annum) and Top 10 Position for voluntary pensions in Russia ($800m assets under management. Company was sold for approx $200m in 2013. Former CEO of Workle, a high-profile digital startup with over $30 million business turnover and 200 000 active users in 2015, specializing in creating sales forces via online training and support systems Director for Strategy at PayQR, an electronic payment systems pioneer with a market valuation exceeding $20 million.
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About Crypterium: Crypterium mobile app allows instant payments in cryptocurrency. Whatever you can do with your money, you can now do with your crypto.
Andrew Newington
COO & CIO of Actis
Andrew started his professional career as a lawyer specialising in cross border transactions, including in Asia and the Middle East, before moving into private equity with BT Capital Partners after completing his MBA at Columbia.He then spent 13 years with BC Partners, a leading global investment firm, latterly as Managing Partner and co-head of their London office. At Actis, Andrew has operational responsibility for the firm as well as sitting on all of the firm’s investment committees.
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About Actis: Actis is a global growth markets investor in private equity, energy, infrastructure, and real estate.
Eimear O’Connor
Chief Operating Officer of Form3
Eimear leads operations and project delivery at Form3. She joined from Barclays where she was Retail and Commercial Director for Pingit, responsible for the global development and commercial management of the retail customer base for this award winning open market payments platform. Prior to this, Eimear led the Corporate Mobile Payments Team at Barclays where she was responsible for the product design, development and launch of the Barclays Pingit for corporates product set. Eimear has also held positions including Vice President of Strategy at Visa Europe and Business Consultant at both BearingPoint and Capco, working on multiple assignments in the UK and globally. Eimear holds a BSc. Finance from University College Cork and a MBS Strategic Management and Planning from the Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin.
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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.
Stephen Leggett
Chief Operating Officer of Calastone
Steve Leggett joined Calastone in 2008. Steve was one of the original members of the Calastone team who as Global Head of Operations, established the operational functions that underpin Calastone’s global network. Appointed as Chief Operating Officer in 2018, Steve leads Calastone’s UK and European business, as well as managing global operational functions including product development and service delivery. Prior to joining Calastone, Steve has held senior project management and operational positions at firms including Reuters, Lloyds TSB and digital brokerage Instinet giving him over 25 years experience of program, operational management and business transformation.
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About Calastone: Calastone is a global transaction network for the mutual fund industry.
Varun Sahni
Co-Founder & COO of CreditEnable
Varun Sahni has built and operated multiple successful companies over the past 20 years across emerging and developed markets ranging across financial services, healthcare and high technology firms. He is co-founder of Impact Investment Partners a UK based FCA regulated asset manager which operates across multiple markets and sectors. Prior to which he was head of Acumen India and has worked with Unilever, CARE and Oxfam to build up their SME portfolios. Varun is on a range of global advisory boards and fund investment committees focused on emerging markets and sustainable investing. He has been widely quoted in international media over the years and is a Chevening Scholar from the London School of Economics, a TED Fellow and an Asia Society Global Young Leader. Varun has an MA from Columbia University, and is also a Chevening Scholar.
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About CreditEnable: CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
Stephen Doherty
Co-Founder & COO of Nude
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About Nude: The new way to save for and purchase your first home.
Arik Oslerne
Chief Operating Officer of Vauban
Arik Oslerne is the Chief Operating Officer at Vauban.
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About Vauban: Vauban is the easiest way to pool & deploy capital to invest in private companies.
Christopher Varin
COO of Cazana
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About Car and Classic: Cazana data helps motor retailers, insurers and lenders digitally transform with big data and machine learning technology
Alexander Dunaev
Co-Founder & COO of ID Finance
In 2007, Alexander Dunaev graduated with honors bachelor degree from the University of Warwick with a degree in economics. In 2008, he received a master’s degree from the Imperial College London with a degree in mathematical finance. Alexander Dunaev is the Co-Founder of IDF Eurasia. In 2012, Alexander Dunaev left post occupied at Deutsche Bank and launched online lending service MoneyMan, and a year later he has founded fintech company ID Finance. Alexander is a Certified Financial Analyst (CFA).
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About ID Finance, IDF Eurasia: ID Finance is a FinTech company specializing in online lending in emerging and growing markets.
Ian Welch
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Callsign
Ian Welch is the COO of Callsign. Previously he held positions at Ladbrokers and Ascot Racecourse. Ian has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Coverntry University
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Uzair Bawany
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Traydstream
Founder of a boutique search firm, Fairway Search Partners which predominantly focuses on retained mandates in the front office within three distinct areas. They are Global Transaction Banking, Private Wealth / Asset Management and Equities Capital Markets – Sales & Sales Trading. Chairman of the Contact Recruitment Group. In Jan 2003, he initiated an MBO and acquired the company and then sold this business in November 2011. He was Vice Chair of an industry trade body which is the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). APSCo provides a powerful unified voice for the Professional Recruitment market and is proud to represent, promote and support such vibrant and innovative sectors of the recruitment industry. Board Director of the National Advisory Board and Chair the London Regional Group of Mosaic which is a Prince’s trust Charity. It focuses on mentoring and developing under privileged school children.
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About Traydstream: Traydstream automates the most critical aspects of converting, checking and managing trade finance documents.
Sarah Harvey
Chief Operating Officer of Prodigy Finance
Sarah is an experienced leader who is passionate about growing innovative businesses. Recently the Head of UK at fast-growing fintech Square, and previously the COO of Tough Mudder, Sarah has worked across 22 countries and is no stranger to international landscapes. Sarah started her career with large company experience at Diageo and Bain & Company, and at not-for-profit organisations in Africa where she worked on projects ranging from supply chain management for a medical charity in the DRC to advising on public health financing facilities for the Gates Foundation in Tanzania, Nigeria and Senegal. Sarah is also a board member for Securities Trust of Scotland Plc. Outside of work Sarah loves to read as many novels as possible whilst travelling, watch England play rugby and improve her boxing skills. MA Hons, University of Cambridge.
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About Prodigy Finance: Prodigy Finance provides postgraduate student loans to international students to attend a top school.
Michaela Bowen
COO of Certua
With a strong background in operations as well as project management since moving back to the UK from South Africa in 1997, Michaela brings a wealth of varied experience to Certua. Her core strength lies in the development, improvement and management of business processes, using technology, whenever possible. In South Africa, Michaela held senior management roles in Southern Sun Hotels as well as commercial and industrial catering companies, SFS and Feedem. Michaela has worked with clients and development teams in USA, UK, Greece, South Africa, Slovakia, Russia and Ukraine.
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About Certua: Certua is a data-driven financial solutions.
Gianluca Carrera
COO of Reward Insight
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About Reward Insight: Reward is a global data monetisation company that helps the worlds largest banks and retailers understand and change consumer behaviour
Andoni Piña Sigg
COO & Co-Founder of Novus World
Andoni Piña Sigg is the COO & Co-Founder at Novus.
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About Novus World: The impact banking app that turns your everyday spending into a force for good
Martin Leonard
Chief Operating Officer of Castlight Financial
Martin is responsible for driving Castlight Financial’s growth as the company continues to develop web-based financial products and forge effective relationships with financial retailers across the UK and internationally. Having previously worked for both Equifax and Callcredit, his extensive industry expertise in credit risk, market intelligence, anti-fraud and verification issues means he understands the nuances of our clients’ businesses and is ideally placed to work with them to develop and implement solutions.
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About Castlight Financial: Castlight provides real-time, affordability & financial capability analysis the Affordability Passport & Categorisation as a Service.
Sami Eid
COO & Co Founder of homie.rent
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About homie.rent: Homie is a tech startup that helps Londoners find great homes to rent.
Martin Threakall
COO of Yapily
Martin Threakall is the Chief Operating Officer of Yapily.
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About Yapily: Yapily offers API-based software to enable innovative products to connect to banks.
Matt Gatrell
COO and Board Executive Director of Nutmeg
Matt joined Nutmeg in April 2018 bringing over 20 years of financial services technology experience with him. As Nutmeg’s CTO, Matt ensures our technology strategy matches our business strategy. Prior to joining Nutmeg, Matt held the position of Chief Technical Officer at both Neilson Financial Services and MarketInvoice. His experience has been rounded out by 13 years at BancTec, a global top 100 financial services technology provider, where he held a number of roles, including R&D Director. Matt holds a PhD in Software Engineering from Brunel University.
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About Nutmeg: Nutmeg is an online investment service that specializes in investments, ISAs and pensions.
Andrey Dokuchaev
Founder & COO of ClauseMatch
Andrey is the COO of ClauseMatch. He has been with the company since March 2014. He also works as director for StickerRide. Earlier in life, he worked for Financial Advisory as audit manager. He has been with KPMG Moscow as senior auditor. Andrey attended The University of Texas at Dallas and studied bachelor of science and master of science in accounting.
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About ClauseMatch: ClauseMatch is a financial technology company that provides software-as-a-service platform for smart document management.
Neil Ambler
COO & Co-Founder of Banked
Neil leads our fundraising and continually fine-tunes our business strategy, while keeping the day-to-day finances healthy.
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About Banked: Banked is a fintech company that provides an account-to-account payment software platform offering an alternative to card schemes.
Benjamin Cambier
COO & Co-Founder of Mansa
Benjamin Cambier is a French entrepreneur. He is the co-founder & COO of Mansa. Mansa’s mission is to make it easy for freelancers to access credit offers.
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About Mansa: Mansa allows freelancers and gig workers borrow money with fair pricing and a genuine user experience.
Jamie Parker
Co-Founder and COO of Heron Data
Jamie Parker is the Co-Founder and COO at Heron Data.
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About Heron Data: We categorise and label bank transaction data.
Tom Platt
COO of TotallyMoney
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About TotallyMoney: TotallyMoney puts customers right at the center of their credit data, helping them make smarter financial decisions.
Paul Henry
COO of Funding Xchange
Paul Henry is the Chief Operating Officer at Funding Xchange. He is a former Managing Director of Experian pH and Director of Client Services at The pH Group. Mr. Henry graduated from the University of Oxford with a master of arts in Chemistry.
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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.
Veronique Merriam Barbosa
Co-Founder, COO of Flux Systems
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About Flux Systems: Flux Systems develops software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards.
Thomas Salter
Founder & COO of Netwealth
Over 15 years’ experience in financial services. Managing Director and global head of equity and multi-asset quantitative investment strategies at JPMorgan.
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About Netwealth: Netwealth is an online wealth management service that brings together an experienced team, user-friendly technology and lower fees.
Dora Ziambra
COO of Azimo
Dora is responsible for Azimo’s business development, fundraising, strategic partnerships and international expansion. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and joined in Azimo in 2014.
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About Azimo: Azimo is an online money transfer company that provides a fast, secure, and low-cost alternative to legacy high street remittance services.
James Deal
Co-founder & COO of PrimaryBid
James Deal is a Co-founder and COO at PrimaryBid.
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About PrimaryBid: PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows everyday investors fair & equal access to investing in public companies raising capital.
Samuele Pinta
Founder and COO of Satispay
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About Satispay: Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform.
Vivek Ahuja
Group CFO and COO of Terra Firma
Vivek is a senior finance leader with three decades’ experience in global finance and over 20 years in senior CFO roles. He has led successful business and functional transformations and has worked across Asia, the Middle East and Europe with major global financial institutions. Prior to joining Terra Firma in January 2018, Vivek spent 17 years with Standard Chartered Bank where he was Deputy Group CFO, and prior to that he was Group CFO – Wholesale Banking and Regional CFO – Middle East and South Asia. Prior to Standard Chartered Bank, he worked for HSBC and ANZ in a variety of roles spanning finance, strategy, and corporate and institutional banking. Vivek is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and was a Council member from 2013-2015 and a member of the Financial Services Faculty Board. He is a graduate of Mumbai University in India. Vivek is responsible for the overall financial management of the firm at a Group level and for its Portfolio companies, and oversees the firm’s IT, facilities, legal and HR teams. Vivek also supports the firm on the financial aspects of acquiring and selling businesses to ensure the delivery of maximum returns toinvestors.
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About Terra Firma: Terra Firma is a private equity firm based in London, United Kingdom.
Guy Willans
COO of PrimaDollar
Guy has extensive experience across all sizes & sectors of business, having worked with start-ups – £20bn T/O businesses, and having worked in organisations with 2 to 300,000+ employees. An experienced Financial Services professional he has lent > $1,000m to all size businesses including FTSE 100/250. He has led businesses & worked on boards in London & SE and has worked globally across EU, US, Asia, ME, and Australasia. Guy’s love of both technology and challenge saw him working in an AIM listed Dot-com in the noughties and now his second COO role in a growing FinTech in the twenty-tens.
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About PrimaDollar: PrimaDollar is an ESGTech and Fintech for international supply chains.(real-time ESG data and Trade Finance)
Richo Strydom
COO 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.
David Duckworth
Co-founder & COO of Ben
David Duckworth is the co-founder and COO of Ben.
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About Ben: Supercharge your benefits, save time and money
Pat Caldwell
COO of FundApps
A self-confessed people geek from Australia, Pat has spent most of his career in the Australian mining industry before packing his bags for the tech industry in London and New York. Pat is now building People Operations at FundApps, a high-growth bootstrapped software company. He has a passion for D&I, leadership development and bringing HR kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Outside of work, you’ll find him on the tennis court, exploring (that’s Aussie-speak for judging) local coffee shops or taking a board game too seriously.
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About FundApps: We help investment managers harness the power of community and technology to automate regulatory compliance.
Marina Comninos
COO of essDOCS
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About essDOCS: essDOCS enables paperless trade; focusing on digitizing paper-heavy shipping, trade and logistic processes.
Jeremy Phillips
COO of KITE EDGE LTD
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About StrategyEye: Customisable Search Platform for Asset Managers/Banks
Ines Cheaib
COO of Gaia
Ines Cheaib is COO @Gaia Ex- VP Growth and Strategy @Quiqup, Ex VC investor @C4Ventures.
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About Gaia: Gaia combines reproductive health data with financial technology to make IVF treatments more accessible, affordable, and personal.
Jonathan Hughes
Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Pollinate
Jonathan Hughes is the Co-Founder, President & Chief Operating Officer at Pollinate International.
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About Pollinate: Pollinate Networks is a platform that works with banks to create data-driven experiences for merchants and consumers.
Anna Tsyupko
Chief Operating Officer of tomato pay
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About tomato pay: tomato pay is a QR-code based payments and invoice app used by businesses and sole traders.
Richard Fitch
Chief Operating Officer of Spring Financial Group
Richard Fitch has been serving as Chief Operating Officer at Spring Financial Group since May 1, 2016.
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About MQube, Spring Financial Group: Spring Financial Group is set to transform the way people in the UK get a mortgage.
Jon Bundy
COO & Co-Founder of Aire
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About Aire: Aire provides credit assessment services that gives people a new credit score to help them qualify for essential financial products.
Francois Devillez
Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer of AlphaSwap
Francois is a Blockchain consultant and entrepreneur. He previously consulted at Espeo Software, Larvol and various multinationals. Francois has a Master in Law from Free University of Brussels, a Master in Tax Management from Solvay Business School and a Master in Business Management from Vlerick Business School.
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About AlphaSwap, Forbes, Forbes Business Council, LARVOL: AlphaSwap is an investment technology platform, bundling its analyst community’s best stock ideas into Data-as-a-Service
Mark Little
Co-Founder, COO & CMO of Pynk
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Pablo Vergara
COO of HUBX
Pablo Vergara is the COO at HUBX.
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About HUBX: The premier capital raising and private placement solution for professionals.
Azahara Egea
Co-Founder/COO of sync.
Co-Founder and COO at sync. A self-directed and a capable decision maker who manages and works with the team. I ensure that the business has the best working environment and processes needed for optimum operational efficiency by creating a performance culture with clear KPIs, employee reviews and pro-active improvements. I’m a primary director of event planning, recruitment and communication and I keep all departments coordinated and I’m heavily involved in determining the strategy and future goals of the company.
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About sync.: We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.
Phil Hunter
COO of Nimbla
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About Nimbla, Synaptiv: Nimbla is dedicated to providing small and medium-sized UK businesses with dynamic invoice insurance.
Marc Harris
Group COO of ThinCats
Inspired by the entrepreneurial drive of SMEs and their amazing contribution to the UK economy, Marc is passionate about being a catalyst for growth through the provision of finance to SMEs. As the COO, Marc effectively manages different strategic and tactical challenges across the business. Marc best describes his day as juggling many rubber balls and a few crystal balls; making sure that the crystal balls are always caught, and if the occasional rubber ball drops, it is encouraged to bounce back up!
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About ThinCats: ThinCats is an alternative finance provider dedicated to funding growing and ambitious mid-sized SMEs across the UK.
Ed Bardos
MD & COO of VentureFounders
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About VentureFounders: VentureFounders is an investment platform providing HNW client base with access to highly-curated and structured investment opportunities.
Julian Cork
Chief Operating Officer of LANDBAY
Julian joined Landbay in 2015 and is COO and board member of Landbay. He is also a non-executive director of Bud Financial and member of various advisory boards in the wider Fintech space. Julian is a strong supporter of innovation in financial services with over 25 years’ experience in the sector. Prior to Landbay, Julian held executive/MD level roles at JPMorgan and Macquarie Group in New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney.
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About LANDBAY: Landbay is a specialist Buy to Let mortgage lender using peer-to-peer technology to fund its loans.
Ben Davies
Co-Founder and COO of Hugo Save
Ben Davies is the Co-Founder and COO 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.
Scott Haughton
COO/ Co-founder of Envestors
Since co-founding Envestors in 2004, Scott has led investments totalling over £50m in over 100 high growth companies. Having gained his degree in Economics and Business and consequently an MBA, Scott spent 16 years working in senior sales and marketing roles for multi-national blue chip FMCG corporations, including Mars Confectionery and GlaxoSmithKline. Scott then left big corporate life to set up a unique, premium quality family leisure concept, personally securing funding totalling £680,000, which included venture capital backing, business angel investment and a DTI Small Firms loan. Outside of work, he now spends most of his time either skiing in France, playing club cricket or actively watching Saracens Rugby Club.
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About Envestors: Envestors digital platform connects entrepreneurs and investors
Daniel Ahmed
Co-founder & COO of Fasset
Daniel Ahmed is the Co-Founder and COO at Fasset.
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About Fasset: A globally regulated digital asset exchange for the next billion.
Maxime Jeanniard
COO of OpenGamma
Maxime is Chief Operating Officer at OpenGamma. He is responsible for designing and implementing business operations, from Product and Marketing to Onboarding and Support. Previous to his role at OpenGamma, Maxime worked at HSBC in Derivatives Clearing Technology and, prior to that, spent 5 years at Calypso Technology. His roles have included Market Specialist in the Clearing and Collateral areas, and also Analyst positions at Calyon and Accenture.
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About OpenGamma: OpenGamma is the analytics company dedicated to reducing the costs of trading derivatives.
Jonathan Hodge
Chief Operating Officer of RateSetter
Oversees the RateSetter technology and operations platform and supports the wider operating quality and efficiency of the business. Jon is a Chartered Accountant and worked in the Financial Services & Corporate Finance teams at PwC, having begun his career in the British Army.
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About RateSetter: RateSetter is a P2P lending platform allowing users to lend and borrow money directly from each other according to their own interest rates.
Nikolai Hack
COO of Nucoro
Nikolai comes from a consultancy background with extensive experience across European bluechip clients in various sectors for BearingPoint (former KPMG). Nikolai has spent the majority of his career focused on operational excellence and process consulting projects as well as roles globally in business and policy. Nikolai has an MSc in Political Economy from LSE.
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About Nucoro: Nucoro enables financial institutions to build digital savings, investment and wealth management propositions at speed and scale.
Antoine Rescourio
Company Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of Celoxica
Antoine Rescourio, who joined Celoxica as Chief Operating Officer in May 2008, combines more than 20 years’ experience, working at an executive management level, in both capital markets (for the buy side, sell side and exchanges) and financial technology providers. Previously Antoine was Chief Operating Officer at a leading hedge fund; Senior Vice President at AEMS; and Vice President at Morgan Stanley, where he spent eight years managing technology in continental Europe and implementing the European e-Trading platform. His earlier career includes ten years in technology and operations management with Reuters.
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About Celoxica: Celoxica provides ultra-low latency market data access and order execution solutions for the advanced trading community.
Andy Byrne
COO and General Counsel of H4
Andy Byrne is the COO and General Counsel at H4.
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About H4: H4 is a digital platform transforming the documentation that underpins global financial markets and legal contracts.
Uruthra Kumar Sreedharan
COO of DSSC Digital Software Solutions Ltd.
Accomplished and versatile technology executive with 20+ years of experience of delivering outstanding results across the e-commerce, mobile payments, financial services, technology, telecommunications and business process outsourcing industries. A global citizen with a deep cultural empathy and ability to bring together high performing teams across organizational and temporal barriers to create innovative solutions, driving growth and delivering value based on a deep understanding of consumer needs and market opportunities. Strongly focused on leveraging networks and relationships to provide the best service capabilities to clients and partners. A technologist with a keen head for business and new opportunities. Specialties: Business Development, Client Management and Negotiations, Systems Architecture and Development, Senior Management Roles in Technology, Solutions Design, Call/Contact Center, Customer Relationship Management and Business Process Outsourcing, Financial and Banking Solutions in Remittance, Mobile and E-Wallet Platform Solutions
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About DSSC Digital Software Solutions Ltd.: DSSC is a B2B fintech software company specialising in platforms for financial ecosystem aggregation and improvement programmes.
Sasa Sarunic
Co-founder & COO of Bizzon
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About Bizzon: Bizzon allows you to charge cash, debit and credit cards, and billing with the help of a simple application.
Sergej Tolz
COO of Kasko
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About Kasko: Kasko is an insurance distribution network that allows you to quickly and easily integrate insurance products into a site, service, or app.
Tommy Heptinstall
COO of OrbitRemit Global Money Transfer
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About OrbitRemit Global Money Transfer: OrbitRemit is an online money transfer service, providing a fast and secure way to transact cross border money transfers
Grethe Vaughan
COO & Chief of Staff of Vizolution
Grethe Vaughan is COO at Vizolution.
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About Vizolution: Vizolution develops a screen sharing technology for businesses to directly interact with their clients.
Daniel Jeczmien
Founder & COO of flatfair
Daniel Jeczmien is the founder and COO of Flatfair.
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About flatfair: Secure your rental with flatfair’s flexible solutions
Khai Vualnam
Chief Operating Officer of Satoshi Systems Limited
Khai, our Chief Operating Officer, brings nearly 2 decades of leadership experience in commodity supply chain to Satoshi. After his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Khai has worked in several locations across Africa, Asia and Europe. He is enthusiastic about applying the latest technologies to the commodity supply chain which he believes will bring a transformational change. Whenever possible Khai is delving into the world of cryptocurrency and its unique opportunities.
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About Satoshi Systems Limited: Satoshi Systems provides state of the art software solutions for the trading space, currently focusing on the commodity.
John Sheekey
COO of Liberis
COO of Liberis Group.
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About Liberis: Liberis provides access to simple, flexible, and fair finance for small businesses.
André Flórido da Costa
Co-founder and COO of Betmarkets
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About Betmarkets: Betmarkets is a web platform that allows bettors to invest in sports betting.
Steve Wilks
Co-Founder and COO of For Good Causes
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About For Good Causes: For Good Causes is creating new ways to give by tapping into the £7 billion of unused loyalty points and enabling cashless giving
Fernando Ripolles
Founder and COO of Goldex
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About Goldex: Goldex is a smart trading technology platform that allows users to invest in physical gold through its mobile phone application
Diego Palacios
Chief Operating Officer of Demica
Diego A. Palacios is the Chief Operating Officer at Demica.
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About Demica: Demica provides innovative working capital solutions to major corporations and financial institutions.
Cramba Lucian
COO & Co-Founder of Beez
People person in the business world. Willing to take risks and aim high, while working the all-or-nothing way( but deleted the “nothing” part). Co-Founder and business owner @Beez, the future of shopping apps which solves the eternal duo problem- Time vs Money. Believer in technology as a way of providing people with adapted solutions for a better future Business Development, Sales, Advertising / PR, Product Management, Start-ups
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About Beez, FastOrder: We want to change the consumer finance market, change the way people shop & finance their spending while disrupting the credit card industry
Craig Peterson
Co Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Growth Capital Ventures
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About Carlton & Co, CoreHaus, Growth Capital Ventures: Growth Capital Ventures is a technology led financial services business.
Adrian Shedden
Co-Founder and COO of Lumio Technologies
Adrian Shedden is the Co-founder and COO at Lumio Technologies.
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About Lumio Technologies: Lumio is you Intelligent wealth mentor. With the simple aim to maximize your money around your lifestyle
Giovanni Contini
Co-Founder, COO & Head of Business Development of Euklid
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About Euklid: Euklid is the new way to manage savings and investments through thousands of different algorithms.
Alina Alistarh
Chief Operating Officer of NordPay Financial
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About NordPay Financial: NordPay Financial provides hassle-free payment solution to make payments easy, fast, and secure for merchants.
Jason Cohen
COO of EBS BrokerTec
Jason Cohen was appointed Chief Operating Officer in May 2012. Prior to this, Jason was the COO for ICAP Electronic Broking in the Americas and before that, Director of Financial Analysis and Planning for BrokerTec (acquired by ICAP in 2003). Prior to joining ICAP, Jason was Vice President of Management Reporting and Analysis at Morgan Stanley and held consulting roles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen.
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About EBS BrokerTec: EBS BrokerTec is a leading electronic trading platforms and solutions business in foreign exchange and fixed income.
Tom Macura
Chief Operating Officer of WiseAlpha
Tom is managing WiseAlpha’s day to day operations, joining us after a 10 year career at Goldman Sachs where he became head of Europe Credit Trading Strategies. The European Credit Trading Desk helps Goldman’s institutional clients meet their investment objectives by facilitating transactions in corporate bonds, loans, and credit derivatives. Tom’s team was responsible for the mathematical models used by the desk for managing market, counterparty, and liquidity risks as well as the algorithmic quoting of bonds on electronic liquidity venues. Tom has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge and dual BS degrees in Math and Computer Science from University of Maryland (UMBC).
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About WiseAlpha: WiseAlpha is the UK’s leading digital bond market giving investors access to the world of corporate bonds.
James Harringman
Co-Founder & COO of Ease
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About Ease: Ease is a mobile app that puts a personalised financial tool in the pockets of those who need it most.
Areti Kampyli
COO of Alice SI
10 years of corporate advertising & business development experience. Founded Yasmo (UK-2009) & turned it into a profitable business in less than 2 years. Former Corporate Advertising Manager at Ogilvy & Mather with an MSc in Media & Communications from London School of Economics. Founder of CliqStart – the grassroots activism app, where passionate people join forces with activist groups & politicians to fix political and social issues, through concrete actions.
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About Alice SI: Alice SI is using the approach to provide donors
Carolina Larramendy
COO of Nous
Carolina is a seasoned professional and entrepreneur with a wide range of international experience in expansion, legal & commercial matters, project management, operations, partnerships, and customer relationship management.
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About Nous: Nous designs and develops virtual trading platform for financial market.
Ronny Feiereisen
COO of Lattice
Ronny brings 18 years of industry experience with him stemming from the sell side. Before joining Lattice as COO, Ronny was a Managing Director at JPM running the DeltaOne Sales desk globally from 2011 to 2014. Prior to JPM, he was a Managing Director at Nomura where he led the DeltaOne, Portfolio Trading and Quant Research Sales teams from between 2008 and 2011. Ronny started his career at Lehman Brother in 1999 where he grew into running the Quant Sales team. Ronny graduated with an MSc in Business Finance from the LSE.
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About Lattice: Lattice is an R&D-driven capital-markets Fintech company.
Kate Ropotilova
COO of Taplend
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About Taplend, Taplend: Taplend is a financial help platform, giving an access to fast, safe and 100% online loans,provided by people or financial institutions.
Kate Ropotilova
COO of Taplend
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About Taplend, Taplend: Taplend is a financial help platform, giving an access to fast, safe and 100% online loans,provided by people or financial institutions.
Yuriy Gnatyuk
Co-Founder & COO of KindGeek
Yuriy Gnatyuk is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at KindGeek.
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About KindGeek: KindGeek is a software development company that helps entrepreneurs with product development and technical aspects of their projects.
Jake Li
Co-Founder, COO & Data Scientist of Kuan Intelligence
Jake Li, PhD is Co-Founder, COO & Data Scientist at Kuan Intelligence.
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About Kuan Intelligence: Kuan Intelligence is a cross-border payment platform for E-Commerce backed by Blockchain Technology.
Jonathan Littlewood
Chief Operating Officer of Crowdstacker
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About Crowdstacker: Crowdstacker is a curated debt based investment platform.
