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This list showcases the top United Kingdom 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.
Mark Hunter
Director Of Analytics 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.
Vanessa Hackett
Director Software Engineering of American Express
Vanessa joined American Express 20 years ago as an Executive Assistant. She went on to gain experience in analytical as well as project & programme management-related roles in Technology, before advancing to the role of Delivery Director 8 years ago, and the role of Vice President 2 years ago. Vanessa’s global Product Engineering team focuses on enabling digital customer experiences through global APIs, as well as releasing business value through one of the core back-end loyalty platforms. In addition, Vanessa is playing a key role in leading the increased adoption of automation throughout our development pipeline as well as continuing to mature the use of Agile practices and DevOps across her product teams. She is also passionate about building diverse talent, fostering a culture of inclusivity and she mentors people across the organisation. Vanessa is the executive sponsor for the Company’s UK Women in Technology network.
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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.
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.
Alex Ayers
Director, Information Security Risk and Engagement 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.
Michal Gondar
Director of Engineering of Paddle
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
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
Ian Perrett
EMEA Compliance Director of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
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.
Adrian James
Technical Director of Worldline
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About Worldline: Worldline is the platform that provides payments and transactional services.
Damien Byrne
Business Development Director of Boku
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About Boku: Boku is a global mobile payments network providing mobile-enhanced payments in e-commerce and at physical point-of-sale.
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.
Paul Randle
Director of Digital & Media of Visa Europe
Paul Randle is a digital specialist with 20 years experience across organisations such as Microsoft, Philips, Omnicom and AkzoNobel. His passion for technology saw him lead marketing at numerous tech start-ups during the first .com boom, prior to joining Microsoft where he spent seven years. Initially managing the Windows Server business in the UK he moved to the Windows XP team and Australia where he launched Windows Vista. A key company spokesperson he was on call when the Blaster Virus hit, a period that lead to Paul becoming the second most quoted Microsoft person after Bill Gates. Landing back in the UK, he took up the challenge of integrating digital marketing into Philips and the Omnicom agency network, prior to becoming the first Director of Digital for AkzoNobel. Inheriting over 750 websites, Paul drove the implementation of a strategy that turned digital into a strategic asset for the business. Championing the use of new ways of working and hybrid multi-function teams, Paul is passionate about the new capabilities and behaviours demanded of the marketing function, and the broader organisation, in the digital world. A passion that brought him to Brand Learning.
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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.
Paul Townsend
Chairman & Director of Vitesse PSP
Co-founder of Envoy (sold to WorldPay).Paul has over 20 years’ experience in mainstream banking with Warburgs and Bank of New York, plus 15 years in electronic payments with Earthport plc, Neteller, Envoy and Worldpay. Before co-founding Vitesse, Paul was Founder and COO of Envoy Services Ltd. He is also an angel investor.
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About Vitesse PSP: Vitesse is the smart way to make secure global money transfers.
Thomas Leitch
Director of Sales – Treasury of 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.
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.
Joanna Jenkins
Global Compliance Director – Growth and Expansion of Railsbank
Joanna Jenkins is the Compliance Product Manager at Railsbank and MLRO for Payrnet, an authorised E-Money Institution. Railsbank is a banking and compliance platform that connects a global network of partner banks with companies who want API access to global banking. Before Railsbank Joanna was the European Compliance Director and Money Laundering Reporting Officer at AFEX, a global payments and currency risk management firm. She was responsible for the European branches and subsidiaries and overseeing the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) programmes for the UK, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Jersey. She started her career at Bank of America and gained most of her AML experience at Deutsche Bank where she was the UK client on-boarding manager for Corporate Finance, Transaction Banking and Capital Markets. Joanna studied at Harberdashers and has a joint bachelor’s degree in Italian and business studies from University College London—her third year was spent at the University of Bologna, Italy, where she studied international law.
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About Railsbank: Railsbank, the global Embedded Finance Experience Platform.
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.
Mike Hutchinson
Director, Area Marketing of VocaLink
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About VocaLink: VocaLink develops and operates payments infrastructure solutions in the United Kingdom.
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.
Helen Child
Director & Lead Consultant of Striding Edge (UK) Ltd
Fintech and international card payments expert with over twenty years experience to share. Driven by delivering great ideas… …Inspired by working with like-minded people focused on a common goal. The Founder and former CEO of the UK’s first E-Money License holder to be awarded Issuing status by both MasterCard and Visa. My recent projects have been delivering large scale global transformational change in payments. Requiring the ability to seamless think strategically and execute operationally. Giving me valuable first hand, practical experience in building collaborative teams utilizing my relationship and communication skills across cross-cultural and multi- jurisdictional geographies. Negotiating internationally, engaging all the stakeholders to facilitate sustainable transformational change. Strong emotional intelligence, commercial acumen and a good sense of humour go a long way to creating a harmonious working environment for all stakeholders. Away from the payments I love nothing more than to start each day with a run along the beach or a blast on my bike. I look onto the Lakeland Fells – inspirational beauty irrespective of the weather!! Please take a look at: www.striding-edge-ltd.com One of my favourite quotes: “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” ― Dalai Lama
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About Striding Edge (UK) Ltd: FinTech & Payments Expert
Ian Benn
Managing Director, Northern Europe of Ingenico Group
Ian Benn is Managing Director at Ingenico Northern Europe where he is responsible for operations in the Nordics, UK and Ireland. Formerly COO of FIS in Europe, Middle East and Africa and previously CMO at Misys, Ian has spent his career in the join between financial services and technology. Author or “Strategic Outsourcing: exploiting the Skills of Third Parties” and, most recently, “Write to Win”, Ian is also an advisor to the Pennies Foundation and tech start-up, Obsidian Solutions.
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About Ingenico Group: Ingenico provides smart payment solutions to empower commerce across all channels, in-store, online, and mobile.
Gloria Benson
Director of Consult Hyperion
Gloria is a Director of Consult Hyperion who, prior to joining Consult Hyperion in 1987, has worked for a range of companies dealing with business administration and human resource management. She graduated with a Management MBA from City University Business School. Gloria brings a wealth of business and people knowledge to Consult Hyperion, having had many years experience in the IT industry. Gloria also represents the social commitment of Consult Hyperion to the local and wider community, and is Chair of the Industrial Advisory Board at the Department of Computing at the University of Surrey, where she has been a member of the Board for nearly 10 years and is now a Visiting Professor.
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
David Birch
Director of Consult Hyperion
David G.W Birch is Director of Consult Hyperion, the secure electronic transactions consultancy. He is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money; named one of the global top 15 favourite sources of business information (Wired magazine) and one of the top ten most influential voices in banking (Financial Brand); listed in the top 10 Twitter accounts followed by innovators, along with Bill Gates and Richard Branson (PR Daily); named one of the “Fintech Titans” (NextBank), voted one of the European “Power 50” people in digital financial services (FinTech Awards) and ranked Europe’s most influential commentator on emerging payments (Total Payments magazine).
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
Dave Birch
Director of Innovation of Consult Hyperion
David G.W Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. He is a Director of Consult Hyperion (the secure electronic transactions consultancy that he helped to found), Technology Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (the London-based think tank), a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School and holds a number of board-level advisory roles. Before helping to found Consult Hyperion (one of the very first companies on the Surrey University Business Park) in 1986, he spent several years working as a consultant in Europe, the Far East and North America. He graduated from the University of Southampton with a B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics. Dave was named one of the global top 15 favourite sources of business information (Wired magazine) and one of the top ten most influential voices in banking (Financial Brand); created one of the top 25 “must read’ financial IT blogs; was found to be one of the top ten Twitter accounts followed by innovators, along with Bill Gates and Richard Branson (PR Daily); was ranked in the top three most influential people in London’s FinTech community (City A.M.), was voted one of the European “Top 40” people in digital financial services (Financial News), was listed of the world’s top 100 most influential FinTech leaders (Hot Topics) and rated Europe’s most influential commentator on emerging payments (Total Payments).
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
Keith Watson
Director of DevOps of ADP
Keith has 30 years experience at all levels of software development, test, infrastructure and customer support. Keith currently manages a team which provides IT infrastructure provisioning services to internal software development teams at Ordnance Survey. Over the past two years, he has led a DevOps project to effect business change using a combination of culture change, DevOps principles, Open Source tools and changes to business processes. This project has dramatically improved the efficiency and effectiveness of the provisioning service and has resulted in the infrastructure team being seen as leading the way in business IT transformation. He has also spoken at various DevOps conferences and user groups.
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About ADP: ADP provides business outsourcing solutions that facilitate businesses in HR, payroll, and administration processes.
Nigel Fox
Managing Director of TorFX
During his career Nigel has held sales and senior management positions in large and medium size companies, working for Rio Tinto, Peter De Savary and the Combined Universities in Cornwall. Before taking on the position of Managing Director, Nigel spent seven years as the Sales Director of TorFX, with his focus being on supporting sales growth and managing an expanding sales team. As Managing Director, Nigel uses his experience, drive and determination to spur his team forward and ensure consistency in all areas, citing being part of such a successful, dynamic and expanding business as the most rewarding aspect of his job. When not working Nigel indulges his passion for photography and music, spends time with his children and hones his sporting skills.
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About TorFX: TorFX is international money transfer provider offering outstanding exchange rates, fee-free transfers and first-class personal service.
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.
Phil Gower
Director and Co-Founder of Q2i Group
A senior technology leader and development manager, experienced from greenfield to enterprise. He has formerly worked at State Street as Development Manager and Head of Strategic Technology
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About Blue Spear Software, Q2i Group: Blockchain Interoperability – Complex Transactions Monetised – Blockchain Agnostic Platform – Q2iD – ID Control – Q2iPay
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.
Jonathan Farnell
Co-Founder and Director of Arro Money
With over 17 years’ experience working in the UK banking sector, Jonathan specialises in regulatory & operational risk management, compliance and the development of business performance and management information systems. He has undertaken a number of directorships and senior roles, including Risk Management Director at a UK based money remittance consultancy and Director of Management Information at a General Insurance Brokerage.
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About Arro Money: Arro Money is a fast-growing provider of personal and business accounts.
Muhammad Asim
Co-Founder and Director of Arro Money
Awarded the Youngest Successful Business Entrepreneur by the Ministry of Information, Government of Pakistan, Muhammad Asim is a business start-up expert having previously established and developed a number of successful companies. With a particular expertise in strategic planning, brand development and marketing, Muhammad Asim has undertaken a number of senior roles, including Finance Director and General Manager of Administration at AA Exchange Company (PVT).
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About Arro Money: Arro Money is a fast-growing provider of personal and business accounts.
Mahmood Kamran
Co-Founder and Director of Arro Money
A former Inspector of financial institutions for the State Bank of Pakistan, Mahmood Ali Kamran’s areas of expertise include finance, audit and business administration. He has held a number of senior leadership team roles in different multinational companies in United Arab Emirates and Pakistan.
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About Arro Money: Arro Money is a fast-growing provider of personal and business accounts.
Alan Wilson
Co-Founder and Director of Arro Money
Alan Wilson is the Co-Founder and Director at Arro Money. A financial services expert with over 30 years’ experience working in the UK banking sector, Alan has undertaken a number of directorships and senior roles, including Regulatory Compliance Director & Money Laundering Reporting Officer for a large UK based Money Services Business and Compliance Director for an FCA regulated Insurance Brokerage. Areas of expertise include the European Payment Services regulations, anti-money laundering policies and training & competency schemes.
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About Arro Money: Arro Money is a fast-growing provider of personal and business accounts.
Norman Frankel
Regional Managing Director- UK/Europe of Stanchion
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About Stanchion: Stanchion provides payments security, consulting, payment management support and systems integration solutions for banks and credit unions.
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.
Gavin Scruby
CIO and Director of Smartdebit
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About Smartdebit: Streamline payment handling, improve your cashflow and increase customer retention with SmartDebit.
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.
Kevin Loveman
Technical / Operations 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.
Graham Lilleystone
Managing Director UK & Ireland of Castles Technology
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About Castles Technology: Castles Technology is a leading global provider of state of the art innovative, secure and affordable payment solutions.
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.
Simon Chorlton
Managing Director of We Fight Any Claim
Simon Chorlton is a managing director at We Fight Any Claim, a claims management company that specialises in claiming compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance for those who were mis-sold the policy in the last ten to fifteen years.
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About We Fight Any Claim: Mis-sold PPI Claims Management Specialists
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.
Andy Hollingdale
Director of Change Management of Bacs Payment Schemes
Andy Hollingdale joined Bacs in 2008 after a career in the payment card industry specialising in product management, operations and fraud. He has developed solid project, relationship, supplier and people management skills and joined Bacs as a project manager before moving into his current role as Director of Change Management. Andy has delivered a number of key and high profile projects for Bacs including; the automation of the Direct Debit Indemnity Claim process (DDIC). In addition he was instrumental in the development of the Cash ISA Transfer Service, launched in 2012 and more recently, the Current Account Switch Service. In 2014 Andy lead the renegotiation of Bacs’ core supplier contract with VocaLink; this resulted in an amended and restated agreement between Bacs and VocaLink that incorporated a number of new and improved provisions for Bacs and its members.
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About Bacs Payment Schemes: Bacs is responsible for the schemes behind the clearing and settlement of automated 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.
Nat Davison
Sales Director of Frontierpay
Nat Davison has 13 years’ experience in the currency world. Starting at TTT Moneycorp Ltd, he ran the Key Partnerships team before moving to Sydney to set up the company’s new dealing hub in Australia. On his return to the UK, Nat became Division Head for a City based broker, assuming responsibility for all aspects of its business. Throughout his career, Nat has excelled in forming and maintaining relationships with industry leading brands. He is married with two young children and is an accomplished runner.
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About Frontierpay: Frontierpay is a trusted, reliable and highly efficient payments provider.
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.
Alberto Pavan
Service & Infrastructure Director of IPS
Alberto has over 15 years of experience in the payment industry and joined IPS in 2015. At IPS, Alberto is responsible for the payment gateway infrastructure, ensuring that the services we provide meet the standard in terms of security and reliability. Prior to joining IPS, Alberto has worked for Verifone, a global leader in secure electronic POS solutions where he led the Italian application development centre.
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About IPS: IPS is helping merchants accept payments across multiple countries, in multiple currencies through a single platform.
Bill Thomson
Director of Payatrader
Bill Thomson, MD, has over 18 years experience in the cards and payments industry. A former FD and MD at Barclaycard Business, MD at Payzone and a founder of NetBanx – the UK’s first generally available agnostic online PSP at the outset of e-commerce in the UK.
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About Payatrader: Payatrader is the UK’s leading segmented card services provider.
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.
