Best Startup
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 Founder operating in the Payments space. If you think a Founder 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.
Taavet Hinrikus
Founder and CEO of Wise
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum’s Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; his investments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
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Kristo Kaarmann
Founder and CEO of Wise
Kristo Kaarmann is the co-founder and CEO of TransferWise, a peer-to-peer international money transfer business. The business is the first of its kind: it allows regular people to access the real mid-market exchange rate by cutting out traditional banking fees altogether. It charges only a tiny, totally transparent service charge. Prior to starting TransferWise, Kristo was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He worked with European banks and insurers to modernise their processes and systems. Stunned by their inefficiency, he teamed up with Taavet Hinrikus, then Skype’s director of strategy, to develop an entirely new system for moving money across borders. Kristo started his first business, an online investments tracking portal Investor.ee in 1999, when he was 19. Although the service was popular at the time, it never turned a profit and was acquired a few years later for an undisclosed amount (read: very little). Kristo is also involved in the organisation of Young Scholar Grant, where grants are given out to the brightest prospective university students of Estonia to study abroad in Europe’s best universities.
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
Guillaume Pousaz
Founder & CEO of Checkout.com
Guillaume Pousaz is CEO and founder of Checkout.com, a leading digital payments solution company. Guillaume believes that financial complexity is a barrier to innovation which is blocking global economic prosperity. Having witnessed the growth of the internet since he was young, he founded Checkout.com in 2012 with a mission to build the banking that businesses deserve. Over the last decade, he has worked with some of the world’s most innovative companies to provide them with solutions to complex payment problems. Checkout.com is now one of the largest fintechs globally with 13 offices and a team of 750+ people. Originally hailing from Switzerland, he has since lived all over the world as he drove Checkout.com’s ambitious international expansion.
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About Checkout.com: Checkout.com is a global payments solution provider on a mission to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy
Nikolay Storonsky
Founder & CEO of Revolut
Nikolay Storonsky is the Founder and CEO at Revolut. He is a former Equity Derivatives Trader at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers. Storonsky graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT) with a master of science in General and Applied Physics and earned a master of arts in Applied Economics and Finance at New Economic School.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Vlad Yatsenko
Co-Founder & CTO of Revolut
Prior to co-founding Revolut, Vlad spent ten years building financial systems at tier one investment banks. Serving as CTO, Vlad has been at the forefront of Revolut’s award-winning technology, building a next generation banking experience.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Bilal Al-Qureshi
Co-Founder and COO of Krowd
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About Krowd: Krowd to help people sift through the millions of products and services online.
Omar Rafii
Co-Founder and CEO of Krowd
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About Krowd: Krowd to help people sift through the millions of products and services online.
John Lunn
CEO and Founder of Gr4vy
John Lunn is the Senior Global Director of Developer and Startup Relations for PayPal and Braintree. John is focused on innovation, ensuring that developers and startups around the globe have access to the features, functionality and mentorship that they need. Prior to his current work at PayPal, John spent 15 years building systems for payment and fraud detection at several successful start ups.
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About Gr4vy: Gr4vy is a cloud payment orchestration platform that helps businesses manage their payment solutions
Ali Minaei
Co-Founder and CTO of Gr4vy
Ali is the Co-Founder and CTO of Gr4vy. who has more than 15 years’ experience in tech engineering, has been in payment for the past 8 years working at PayPal and Wonga prior to Yoyo. At Yoyo he is responsible for leading and scaling the Engineering team and building the next generation of Yoyo’s payment and loyalty platform.
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About Gr4vy: Gr4vy is a cloud payment orchestration platform that helps businesses manage their payment solutions
Cristiano Betta
Co-Founder and CPO of Gr4vy
Cristiano is the Co-Founder and CPO of Gr4vy.
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About Gr4vy: Gr4vy is a cloud payment orchestration platform that helps businesses manage their payment solutions
Stephen Lemon
Co-Founder | Vice President | Strategic Partnerships & Corporate Development of Currencycloud
Steve has worked in Foreign exchange and international payments, pretty much forever, and participated in the first FinTech of the late 90s wave (before it was even called Fintech) as founding team member of HiFX. The current, product lead revolution has tipped him over the edge and he’s now a fully paid up FinTech geek, of the opinion that we live in exciting times and that Open APIs will change the world. Stephen currently also serves as a Non-Executive Director and Advisor for a number of early stage FinTech companies, and has recently mentored for the 2017 cohort at Techsters. In his personal time Steve is a keen amateur photographer, motorsport lover and live music fan.
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About Currencycloud: Currencycloud specializes in a fully cloud-based platform for B2B cross-border payments.
Carlo Gualandri
Founder and CEO of Soldo
Carlo Gualandri is the founder and CEO at Soldo. Gualandri is an Italian technology entrepreneur whose innovative companies have broken new ground in the world of media (Virgilio), banking (Fineco), and gaming (Gioco Digitale).
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About Soldo: Soldo is a multi-user expense account helping companies manage their budgets.
Jasper Dykes
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Fly Now Pay Later
An experienced and highly operational Chief Executive with a successful track record in consumer lending and financial services across US, UK and European markets with specific leadership skills for creating, growing and developing high growth businesses. Approved Person by 2 financial regulators: PRA/FCA & Central Bank of the Republic of Lithuania, with extensive sector experience within alternative payments, consumer lending & debt capital markets having raised in excess of $200m throughout his career to date.
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About Fly Now Pay Later: Fly Now Pay Later is a fintech company that helps consumers split the cost of their travel in monthly installments.
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.
Shachar Bialick
Founder & CEO of Curve
Shachar Bialick is a serial entrepreneur, passionate about using technology to improve lives. He is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Curve -a fintech startup. Hefounded Curve to give people a simpler, smarter way to manage their financial life. It allows people to spend from all their bank accounts and cards through one smart Curve card, connected to an even smarter app. Cardholders can see all their business and personal spend in one place, cut out bank fees on business trips, make their existing cards more secure, manage cash flow with ‘financial time travel’, and never worry about doing their expenses again.
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About Curve: Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.
Victoria van Lennep
Co-Founder of Lendable
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Martin Kissinger
Founder & CEO of Lendable
Martin is the founder and CEO of Lendable (www.lendable.co.uk). Lendable provides personal loans to a broad range of UK consumers, by instantly matching them up with qualified investors through automated credit decisions and fully personalised risk-based pricing. Martin previously worked in venture development at Rocket Internet, and among other projects started the incubator’s first fin-tech venture, Lendico, now active in 6 countries and valued at €120M. Prior to Rocket, he spent time at venture capital firms including Accel Partners. Martin graduated at the top of his class with a research masters degree in Economics from Oxford, and also holds a BSc from the London School of Economics.
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Jakob Schwarz
Co-Founder & CPO of Lendable
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Paul Pamment
CTO & Founder of Lendable
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Christian Owens
Founder, CEO of Paddle
Christian Owens is a technology entrepreneur located in the United Kingdom. Christian has been involved with a number of startups but most notably his own two [Branchr Advertising](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/branchr-advertising) and [Mac Bundle Box](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mac-bundle-box). Christian is currently the Founder and Director of Branchr Advertising. A company with a new approach on CPC based internet advertising that allows fair ad distribution, without contracts or startup fees. Previously Christian was involved in the creation of various web based technologies and applications that have since been sold. Christian also started The Dream Apps, a privately funded Macintosh software development company.
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About Paddle, The Thiel Foundation: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Harrison Rose
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer of Paddle
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer at Paddle
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Juan Lobato
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Ebury
Juan Lobato is a tech entrepreneur based in London. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ebury, one of European fastest growing fintechs. Furthermore, he is an investor in over a dozen tech companies across the UK, Europe, and the US
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About BaseKit, Ebury: Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally.
Salvador Garcia
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Ebury
Salvador has led the creation and growth of Ebury. His passion and expertise in Financial Services has enabled Ebury to become one of Europe’s most successful fintech businesses, offering SMEs the financial products required to grow across international boundaries.
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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.
Piotr Pisarz
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Uncapped
Piotr joined DN Capital in 2017 as an Investment Manager. Previously he was a VC investor in Orange Growth Capital, where he focused on fintech. Piotr started his career in Citigroup, where he was an M&A Investment Banker covering an energy sector, and then spent several years in Google where he focused on Finance, Hardware and Sales areas. Piotr has a Masters degree from London Business School and B.Sc. in Finance and Accounting from Warsaw School of Economics.
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About Uncapped: Uncapped is a provider of revenue-based financing that enables founders to raise growth capital without interest or equity.
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.
Henry Ludlam
Founder of Percent
Henry Ludlam is the Founder at Percent.
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About Percent: Percent is the API-first fintech powering purpose worldwide.
Ray Kyrson
Co-Founder of Propoly
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About Propoly: Propoly is a digital platform that enables letting agents to use the latest technologies to reduce on admin. (Acquired in 2021 by LFL)
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.
Ismail Ahmed
Founder & Executive Chairman of Zepz
Ismail Ahmed, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, founding WorldRemit was the culmination of 20 years’ experience in the money transfer industry – spanning academic, consulting and in-house roles. Before setting-up his own business, he worked for the United Nations Remittance Programme, helping African money transfer companies comply with tough anti-money laundering rules introduced after the 9/11 attacks. Ismail has published widely-cited research on the effect of remittances in Somaliland following the country’s civil war. He holds an MSc and PhD from the University of London and an Executive MBA from London Business School.
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About Zepz, Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
Tom Mundy
Co-Founder and COO of Goodlord
Tom co-founded Goodlord as a renter in 2014 after becoming frustrated with the inefficiencies in the tenancy process and discovering letting agents were fed up with it, too. Now Goodlord is a leading player in the UK Proptech community and with over £18m of funding they are on mission to make renting simple and transparent for all.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Richard White
Co-Founder and President of Goodlord
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About Goodlord, Pickles: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Jaco van Eeden
Founder of Humanstate
Jaco, the founder of GivenGain, studied theology, biblical languages and computer science at the University of Pretoria. Jaco received extensive programming training at Logos Research Systems and entered into the consultancy market as a SAP HR consultant for EPI-USE Systems. Prior to founding GivenGain, Jaco worked extensively in the CRM field, consulting at companies such as Sun Microsystems, Applied Materials, Hilton Hotels, Campus Pipeline, Webvan.com, Buy.com, Express Scripts and Buildscape.
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About Humanstate: Owns cloud-based transactional platforms GivenGain & PayProp & financial services company PayProp Capital.
Ola Oyetayo
Co-Founder & CEO of Verto
Ola Oyetayo is the Co-Founder & CEO of VertoFX.
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About Verto: We power cross‑border payments for the world’s fastest‑growing startups and enterprises.
Philippe Gelis
Co-Founder & CEO of Kantox
Philippe is a well-organized, detail-oriented professional with excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. He thrives on new challenges, and his innovative approach, along with his desire to progress, allow him to always reach outstanding results. I’ve had the opportunity to work with him during almost 3 years and he’s always been one step ahead, leading with ease multifaceted projects in multicultural environments, always thinking “out of the box†to offer a new vision to deliver high-quality work. As a visionary, he will one day excel in the planet “web†where he is already a first-class surfer!
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About Barcelona Activa, Decelera, Endeavor, Kantox, Syra Coffee, The Galion Project, YZR: Kantox is a leader in Currency Management Automation software that enables businesses to automate their end-to-end FX workflow
Nick Katz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of acasa
Nick Katz has worked in the US and the UK for nearly a decade in just about every segment of the real estate industry possible. He’s bought and sold commercial buildings, improved the energy efficiency of hotels, and deployed software to large property portfolios. In 2013 Nick joined VC backed Honest Buildings as Head of Europe before launching Splittable. Nick loves the idea of leveraging technology to help people live better at home. He’s an expert at dealing with housemate issues having rented and shared nine properties in London.
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About acasa, Locatable: acasa is a household management tool and bill splitting package that helps students, sharers and couples.
Freddy Macnamara
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Cuvva
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About Cuvva: Radically better insurance, fit for the future.
Mustafa Khanwala
Founder and CEO of MishiPay
Mustafa is a Mechatronic Engineer who has previously worked in and led projects with companies like Porsche, National Instruments, Barclays and TATA and has proven track record in successful innovation. He has sales experience through working in his family business and starting a food delivery venture in Manchester in 2011. Towards the end of his MSc Engineering with Finance degree at UCL, he thought of the idea for MishiPay after having waited too long in a queue to buy 1 just item. He then started MishiPay as a side project and designed and built the first functional prototype by himself. Having worked on MishiPay for several months and after seeing the technology working in real life, he rejected offers from Goldman Sachs, KPMG and Barclays to work full-time on MishiPay. He also called up Tanvi then, a brilliant computer systems engineer, his friend since 5 years and someone he’s worked with previously. He convinced her to join MishiPay as CoFounder and CTO and they haven’t looked back since. As proof of their teamwork, just look at their accomplishments since Nov 2015; live public trials in London, Cisco global partnership, seed investment, major retailer projects in India, Europe and the Middle East, awards from Mayor of London, Government of India, Anita Borg Institute, University of Manchester, UCL and others.
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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.
Aron Alexander
CEO & Founder of WeGift
Serial entrepreneur with a background in retail, technology and payments. Incorrigibly curious. Continually learning. Driven by solving problems, building value and getting stuff done.
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About WeGift: WeGift’s cloud-based, open API solutions allow businesses to transfer value to consumers, in real-time and globally.
Baris Ozaydinli
Founder & CEO of Scooch
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About Fitwell, Founders Factory, Founders Factory, Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Ian Hooper
CEO & Founder of Scooch
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About Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Cameron Parry
CEO & Founder of Tally
Serial innovator and Chief Executive of listed fintech and natural resources public companies, including the world’s first blockchain company to IPO on a recognised stock market (Dec 2015). Founder and CEO of Tally® – the standalone physical gold monetary system and digital currency and first in the world to offer individual accounts with international bank account numbers for a non-government issued currency. Joint CEO of FCA-licensed 35-year-old London Stockbroking firm, First Equity Limited (FCA Licence No. 124394) and a Financial Conduct Authority approved person (FCA Ref No. CJP01234). Created the vertically integrated gold company Lionsgold Limited (LSE: LION). Founder and inaugural CEO of London Stock Market AIM-listed natural resources investing company Metal Tiger PLC (LSE: MTR) and co-Founder of Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX: COIN).
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About Tally Money: Tally® is a standalone monetary system, payments platform and commodity currency that seamlessly operates with the global banking system’s infrastructure whilst safeguarding customers from the systemic devaluation and risks of the fiat currency fractional reserve banking system.
Ohad Folman
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Practi
Founder & CEO at Practi.
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About Just Eat, Practi: Practi develops cloud based software solutions to manage retail businesses.
George Kazianis
Co-Founder & President of BlocSide Sports
George is the Co-Founder and President of BlocSide and the Only4Stars International Sports and Entertainment Corporation (I.S.E.C). He was a licensed FIFA player agent and official agent for the Hellenic Football Federation. Over his 30 years in the football industry, he has built up a client list of elite youth and well-established players. Furthermore, George is renowned and widely recognized by major football clubs, such as AFC Ajax, FC Internationale Milano, and Bayer 04 Leverkusen, for his scouting prowess, youth camps, emphasis on developing young talent, and professionalism. He also has managed to acquire the exclusive rights to start building the Ajax brand name in Southern Europe, starting with Greece and Cyprus. Previously, George was the owner of AllStar Sports Consultancy, a Players & Match Agency in Athens, Greece.
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About BlocSide Sports: BlocSide Sports is creating a digital platform that leverages frictionless payments, mobile ticketing and blockchain technology.
Dan Hughes
Co-Founder & CTO of Surematics
Dan Hughes is founder & CTO at Radix.
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About Radix, Surematics: Surematics is helping commercial insurance brokers structure complicated deals online.
Christer Holloman
Co-Founder & CEO of Divido
Christer Holloman is the CEO and co-founder of Divido (http://www.divido.com), a platform for retailers, lenders and payment providers that want to offer customers to pay anything in monthly instalments. Divido works with 500+ partners such as BMW, BNP and Mastercard. Prior to launching Divido, Christer set up Glassdoor.com in EMEA, now a billion-dollar Google-backed startup. Holloman holds an MBA from the University of Oxford.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Anders Hallsten
Co-Founder & CTO of Divido
Anders Hallsten is CTO and Co-Founder at Divido. Hallsten spent the last 10 years building e-commerce platforms for brands such as Hush Puppies and Fossil Watches.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Hammad Kayani
CEO, Founder of BitFutr
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About BitFutr: BitFutr is the home of your Crypto. The BitFutr app helps you spend your crypto, get up to 8% in saving and invest your crypto 24/7.
Richard H Harris
Group CEO, Founder of Ensygnia
Richard is known as a hands-on, technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and transforming early-stage technology companies such as Ensygnia, Swivel Secure, Mobix, SAVortex, Clearswift and Tumbleweed. As Chief Executive and a founder of Ensygnia, Richard conceptualised and patented a visual alternative to NFC called Onescan. Ensygnia’s Onescan platform enables a consumer to go from looking to buying in under 10s from first contact – including new customers! At the Mobile World Congress over 1500 industry leaders voted Onescan as one of top 3 the innovations most likely to have the greatest impact on the mobile industry over the next ten years! Ensygnia beat tough competition from AirWatch, CloudX, Metrical and SpatialBuzz to win the Mobile Industry Awards 2014: Best Use of Software. In his spare time, he enjoys Ceroc & Scuba, is a campaigner for the rights of vulnerable adults and mental health issues when possible working with Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and Mental Health Research UK as well as mentoring Nicholas Fearn a young man with Asperger’s. Also enjoys mucking around with molten glass, composing music, painting and digital art.
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About Ensygnia: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Frans van Eersel
Founder & CEO of dopay
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About dopay: dopay provides a cloud-based payroll service that allows employers to calculate salaries and make payments electronically.
Justin Floyd
Founder and CEO of RedCloud Technologies
Justin Floyd Recognised as a leading Entrepreneur for almost 3 decades Justin Floyd has founded and invested in a number of innovative businesses. Since 1987 he has been involved in companies that have included Vecta Software Corporation, a leading Cloud Business Intelligence company and the world’s first leasing exchange that generated over $2 billion in transactions over two years. Mr. Floyd is a trusted adviser to a number of Entrepreneurs who’s products and services are changing markets. He is the Founding Partner of RedCloud VC, an investment company that backs entrepreneurs in emerging and developing markets focusing on mobile, cloud and disruptive technologies.
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About RedCloud Technologies: RedCloud believe technology will universally change the way in which services are distributed & accessed by people in new digital economy.
Yoyo Chang
Co-Founder, CEO and President of KodyPay
Yoyo is a Taiwanese born British entrepreneur who is a co-founder and the current CEO of KodyPay. Yoyo co-founded KodyPay in the final year of High School and successfully raised US$6 million over 2020/21. Hoping to build a career in investment banking, Yoyo had started to invest in the stock market at the age of 13. With returns of over 80% in Q4 2016, he led his school team to first place in a national investment competition. During Yoyo’s first year at the University of York, Yoyo self-invested £120,000 of trading profits to build a pilot product for KodyPay. Yoyo has studied at King’s College, University of Cambridge and Langwith College, University of York.
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About IIC Holdings, KodyPay, Nerd Ventures: Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Greg Marsh
Founder & CEO of Nous
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About Nous: Nous is a software company that deals with household utilities.
Phil McGriskin
CEO & Founder of Vitesse PSP
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About Vitesse PSP: Vitesse is the smart way to make secure global money transfers.
Adi Ben-Ari
Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain
Adi has over 20 years of enterprise experience, working as a solution architect for blue chip companies and leading major deliveries of blockchain solutions is widely recognised in the industry. Adi is a noted speaker at major industry conferences, experienced in educating the C-suite on blockchain, and acts as an advisor for a number of early blockchain startups. His work has also been noted by the UK Government, where he was invited to represent the industry at the Blockchain Round Table at the House of Lords. Additionally, Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents within the blockchain and mobile payments space. Adi holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.
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About APPII, Applied Blockchain, Nuggets: Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications
Igor Chugunov
CEO & Founder of Credits
12 years in business, including IT fintech projects, bank and credit e-services, affiliate marketing company for banks and PDL companies. Four years of experience in the blockchain business. Working with CREDITS platform since 2016.
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About Credits, Credits: Credits App makes your money, crypto and investing experience easier
Anders la Cour
Co-Founder & CEO of Banking Circle
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About Banking Circle: Banking Circle offers its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost.
Laust Bertelsen
Founders & CEO of Banking Circle
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About Banking Circle: Banking Circle offers its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost.
Anton Isaykin
Co-Founder of Fundraise Up
Anton Isaykin is the Co-Founder at Fundraise Up.
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About Campus On Fire, Fundraise Up: The new standard in online giving.
Dan Wagner
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rezolve
Dan Wagner began his career as a junior Account Executive at the advertising agency WCRS. While doing market research, that involved laborious searching of back copies of newspapers, journals, and research reports Dan first generated the concept of an electronic, PC-based information service. In 1985 at the age of 20, he left WCRS to pursue his ambition of creating such a service and established M.A.I.D. Dan was the driving force behind M.A.I.D.’s growth and development, including listings on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Throughout his career he has engineered numerous acquisitions and has been responsible for forging a wide array of strategic alliances. He led M.A.I.D.’s move into the Internet technology and eCommerce markets, being one of the first to understand their huge potential, and conceived the technology which is now Venda, in 1998. He has won a variety of business awards that recognize his achievements including The World Economic Forum’s Global Leader of Tomorrow in 1997 and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999.
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About Bright Station Ltd., Bright Station Ventures, Rezolve, Venda: Rezolve allows any kind of product or media to instantly trigger a highly relevant, contextual engagement between consumer and retailer
Tom Beckenham
Founder & CEO of Comma
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About Comma: Comma is a platform that makes it easy for businesses to pay salaries, taxes, and invoices by revolutionizing the payments system.
Mushegh Tovmasyan
Chairman and Founder of Zenus Bank
Mushegh Tovmasyan is the Founder and Chairman at Zenus Bank.
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About : The first U.S. bank made for people outside the U.S.
Pete Cheyne
Founder of Bottlepay
Pete transforms Performance Horizon Group’s vision into deliverable products with his deep command of how technology powers the performance marketing industry. He has more than 10 years of experience in the affiliate marketing space as former head of technology integration at buy.at Affiliate Network where he managed the technical integration of 500-plus clients and all major third-party tracking vendors.
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About Bottlepay, Partnerize: Bottle Pay is an app company providing mobile payment, mobile banking, and financial services.
Daumantas Dvilinskas
CEO & Co-Founder of TransferGo
At the age of 28 Dvilinskas has already founded several companies and is currently heading TransferGo, a high-growth purely-digital global money transfer service. He is a well-known advisor in the fintech scene and was part of the Innovative Finance delegation at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2016.
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About TransferGo: TransferGo offers international money transfers for both migrant workers & businesses using their digital account-to-account business model.
Edvinas Sersniovas
Co-Founder of TransferGo
Edvinas Sersniovas Co-founder of TransferGo
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About TransferGo: TransferGo offers international money transfers for both migrant workers & businesses using their digital account-to-account business model.
Dmitry Gunyashov
Co-Founder & CEO of Cryptopay
Dmitry is a long-term bitcoin supporter and has been involved with the bitcoin community for more than 3 years. Moreover, he has an extensive experience in e-commerce and payment systems.
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About Cryptopay, LTC.Miner: Cryptopay is a digital currency firms, offering crypto-wallets, debit cards, B2B payments, & investments.
Clive Mitchell
Growth & Co-Founder at Railsbank of Railsbank
Clive Mitchell is Co-Founder of Railsbank Technologies and has been its Chief Operating Officer.
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About Railsbank: Railsbank, the global Embedded Finance Experience Platform.
Morgan Sowden
Co-Founder & CTO of paydesk
Currently a product-focused CTO at Lendinvest, a VC backed fin-tech disruptor in the mortgage-lending space. Formerly the CTO at the Octopus Group, where I co-founded and built octopuslabs.com, octopuschoice.com and octopuscash.com; built the Octopus digital design team from scratch, as well as their product and (distributed) engineering teams; and initiated the group transformation from waterfall to agile. I am also co-founder and CTO of paydesk.co, a B2B media platform with 6000+ journalists in 165+ countries. Prior to Paydesk, I was interim CEO and CTO of birthdayalarm.com, a very profitable online greeting card site with 55+ million active members. I’ve also been: Entrepreneur in Residence at Monkey Inferno, a San Francisco based startup accelerator; a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded (and sold) two other web businesses, including an early social network (2003); and a board member / NED. Mostly though, I am DJ and love Techno. Search for me on Mixcloud.
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About Facebook AI, paydesk: On-demand workforce platform disrupting the recruitment industry one sector at a time. Starting with media and doing it with payments
Adam Ward
CEO & Co-Founder of Airtime Rewards
Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Airtime Rewards Ltd.
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About Airtime Rewards: Airtime Rewards is an innovative loyalty platform pioneering unique rewards solutions with mobile operators.
Josh Graham
Co-Founder & CMO of Airtime Rewards
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About Airtime Rewards, Samply: Airtime Rewards is an innovative loyalty platform pioneering unique rewards solutions with mobile operators.
Gary Goodman
Founder & CEO of Yumpingo
Gary Goodman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer 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.
Rupert Schneider
Co-Founder of Gardenia Technologies
Rupert Schneider is the co-founder at Gardenia Technologies.
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About Gardenia Technologies: Insightful Innovation in Working Capital
Jonathan Schneider
Co-Founder of Gardenia Technologies
Jonathan Schneider is the co-founder at Gardenia Technologies.
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About Gardenia Technologies: Insightful Innovation in Working Capital
Brad Goodall
CEO & Co-Founder of Banked
Brad is a seasoned Fintech and consulting industry entrepreneur, having spent over 17 years building disruptive teams and businesses that challenge the status quo. As COO, Brad is leading the 10x business strategy development and building an exceptional team of transformation specialists to deliver the 10x vision.
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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.
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.
Giulio Rossi
Co-Founder Head of Analytics and Onboarding of Previse
Giulio Rossi is the Co-founder & Head of Analytics and onboarding at Previse
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About Previse: Previse has pioneered algorithm-driven invoice payment decisions.
Luke Wingfield Digby
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Orbital
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About Orbital: Orbital aims to bridge the gap between traditional financial services and digital assets through its corporate treasury platform offering.
Peter Keenan
Co-Founder and CEO of APEXX Global
Peter is the Chief Executive Officer of Zapp. He brings a wealth of insight, combining management experiences from HSBC where he was responsible for developing and implementing new customer propositions globally together with deep experience in retail having been Managing Director of Currys.
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About APEXX Global: APEXX consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
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.
Toreson Lloyd
Co-Founder & CCO of APEXX Global
Toreson Lloyd serves as CCO at APEXX Fintech Limited. Mr. Lloyd has Over 7 years experience in the payments industry, specialist in acquiring and cross-border eCommerce. Mr. Lloyd served as Vice President of relationship management at WorldPay. He served as Senior Relationship Manager of Airlines at WorldPay. He served as Business Development Manager at American Express.
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About APEXX Global: APEXX consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
Laurence Molke
Founder / Board Member of QRails
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About QRails: QRails enables payroll providers, fintechs, and other financial services businesses to deploy innovative payment solutions.
David Excell
Founder of Featurespace
Dave is Featurespace’s Founder and CTO,responsible for working directly with our clients. Dave is an experienced technology innovator with over 18 years dedicated to the study of engineering. He has received several accolades in his field, including the ITC Enterprise Award for Young Entrepreneur. Under his leadership, Featurespace has progressed from a concept to a commercial success. Dave currently resides in the U.S. and is managing the Featurespace global expansion from Atlanta, Georgia.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Gabriel Le Roux
Co-Founder of Primer
Gabriel Le Roux is the Co-Founder at Primer.
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About Primer: The automation platform for payments. End-to-end payment flows with no code.
Paul Anthony
Co-Founder of Primer
Paul Anthony is the Co-Founder at Primer.
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About Primer: The automation platform for payments. End-to-end payment flows with no code.
Justin Pike
Founder & Chairman of MYPINPAD
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About : INVENTORS OF THE WORLD’S FIRST SOFTWARE PAYMENTS TERMINAL
Peter Randall
President, Founder of SETL
Peter Randall is the SETL’s COO, Credited with revolutionising the equity exchange market in Europe through the establishment of Chi-X Europe Ltd, Peter led the company’s growth as founder and CEO, from an unknown multilateral trading facility to become one of the top 5 trading venues in Europe by volumes traded. Subsequently, Peter was appointed CEO of Equiduct, where he restructured the business, and turned it into the fastest growing trading platform in Europe in 2012. Prior to Equiduct and Chi-X, Peter was COO at Instinet Europe Ltd, and Executive Director of FIX Protocol Ltd.
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About SETL: SETL is a technology company that focuses on blockchain settlements and payments.
Ricky Knox
Founder of Azimo
Ricky is a serial investor and entrepreuner. He has built five technology disruptors in fintech and telecoms, each of which also does a bit of good for the world. Before Tandem he founded Azimo and Small World, two remittance businesses, and is managing partner of Hexagon Partners, a private equity firm. He built Tandem to be a digital bank that helps improve customers’ lives with money. Ricky has a first class degree from Bristol University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Azimo, GSM Systems, Tandem: Azimo is an online money transfer company that provides a fast, secure, and low-cost alternative to legacy high street remittance services.
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.
Maggie Sanchez
CEO & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About myCircle: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
David Alstadter
Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About 20th Century Studios, ISPN, Microsoft, MSN, myCircle, Paramount Pictures, Skywalker Sound, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
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.
Anthony Venus
Co Founder & CEO of YayPay
Anthony is a Fintech entrepreneur who thrives on solving difficult problems with creative ideas. As YayPay’s CEO, he’s typically found listening to customers, strategizing where to take YayPay next and leading our executive team.
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About YayPay: YayPay is intelligent accounts receivables automation
Kimmo Soramaki
Founder & CEO of FNA
Kimmo Soramäki is the Founder and CEO of Financial Network Analytics (FNA) and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Network Theory in Finance. Kimmo started his career as an economist at the Bank of Finland where in 1997, he developed the first simulation model for interbank payment systems. In 2004, while at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he was among the first to apply methods from network theory to improve our understanding of financial systems. During the financial crisis of 2007-2008, Kimmo advised several central banks, including the Bank of England and European Central Bank, in modeling interconnections and systemic risk. This work led him to found FNA in 2013 to solve important issues around financial risk and for exploring the complex financial networks that play a continually larger role in the world around us. Kimmo holds a Doctor of Science in Operations Research and a Master of Science in Economics (Finance), both from Aalto University in Helsinki.
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About FNA: FNA is a deep technology analytics company that offers financial system services.
Juan Montalvo Bressi
Co-Founder & Chief Risk & Analytics Officer of Tymit
Juan Montalvo Bressi is the Co-Founder and Chief Risk & Analytics Officer of Tymit.
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About Tymit: Tymit is a provider of credit cards that offers financing purchases overtime and manages the monthly budget.
Rajesh Parmar
Co-Founder & Group CEO of Cloud Africa
Rajesh is the co-founder of Cloud Africa Ltd. He brings a wealth of hands on experience having previously worked for Reuters and Investis in London for 10 years (Investis the leading corporate communications and investor relations company in the UK for web and mobile services providing online innovations to the London Stock Exchange which works for over 70% of the FTSE 100 companies) before moving to Barcelona to head up business development for NFC and beacon technology company Futurlink, a startup backed by La Caixa, the second largest bank in Spain. Under his guidance Cloud Africa has built up a very strong market reputation in Africa. A mobile and technology visionary and one of the early movers into the African region where he commands great respect from his peers in Africa and innovators looking to enter the market. He brings credibility and most importantly trust and gravitas both at the highest level in the African continent and with vendors and partners across the globe looking to successfully deploy products and services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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About Cloud Africa: Remittances to Africa.
David John
Founder & CEO of Loyalize
David has worked for a number of financial organisations, from Private Equity to Commodity Trading. Most recently, he worked as a Financial Services Consultant, focussed on developing and supporting national and international businesses going through strategic change. Outside of business, David is a keen and accomplished rugby player, and attempting golfer!
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About Findr, Loyalize: Loyalize is a white label payment, loyalty and customer engagement platform
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.
Myles Stephenson
CEO & Co-Founder of Modulr
Myles Stephenson is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Modulr.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
Jakub Zmuda
Co-Founder & CSO of Modulr
Jakub Zmuda is the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder at Modulr Finance.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
Kevin Hayes
Company Secretary & Co-Founder of Modulr
Kevin Hayes is the Co-Founder and Company Secretary of Modulr.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
James Baillie
Founder & CEO of Wundr
I’m a crossborder commerce guy pioneering in-app ecommerce for consumer driven apps around the world. Millions of products from the worlds best brands for consumers to shop without ever having to leave the app they use day in day out. About me: I’m a single father of four. Cameron, Olivia, William and Jack inspire me every day. I grew up with nothing and every opportunity I have today has been carved out by myself. At the age of 12, I had two paper rounds, at 16 I went straight into work from school to support my family financially on a £30 a week two-year apprenticeship; I starting my first company with £80 in my pocket from my bedroom, recording £2m in sales year one – something I’m very proud of in 2006. My Business Overview: Founder, CEO, innovator, builder and leader of companies, growing businesses from scratch; building teams and powering $billions across international markets with a focus on emerging economies like China & South East Asia. I have spent the last 27 years in supply chain, distribution, ecommerce and tech where I am uniquely armed with a complete 360 view of business; all departmental functions and technology through to business development with some of the biggest companies in the world. In 2005, I relocated to China full time and over the next decade made a big difference to the supply chain and ecommerce sector working with global brands and tech companies in China including Alibaba, JD, Tencent and Amazon powering more than $1bn+ in digital sales over the last 15 years. Since moving back full time to the UK in 2016, I have focused on my family as a single father, building two start up companies in commerce, payments and banking, and advising boards and management teams across the world on crossborder commerce, ecommerce technology and ways to optimise and do things better.
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About Wundr: Next generation ‘Commerce as a Service’. Choose from a network of 1million+ brands for your customers to shop in-app
Prask Sutton
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Onvi
Founder & CEO of Wi5.
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About Onvi: The mobile-first POS system for hospitality
