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 Board Member operating in the FinTech space. If you think a Board Member 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.
Lord Francis Maude
Advisory Board Member of OakNorth
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About : OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Greg Reeve
Advisory Board Member of Growth Street
Greg is the CEO for TranssNet Payments, a new entrant into the African Payments scene, backed by Transsion Holdings, Mediatek and NetEase. TranssNet is introducing a full suite of financial services, accessed directly from and embedded in the handset, providing an out of the box experience. Transsion Holdings are the manufacturers of Tecno, Itel and Infinix mobile Phones. In the African Business most admired Brands in Africa 2018 they were ranked 7, 16 & 28 – three brands in the top thirty! NetEase is valued at $43Bn and is China’s largest games company.
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About PalmPay: Growth Street is fast, flexible overdrafts for growing businesses.
Bernard van Bunnik
Board Member of dopay
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About : dopay provides a cloud-based payroll service that allows employers to calculate salaries and make payments electronically.
Miguel Abadi
Board Member of HedgeCoVest/SMArt Xchange (SMArtX)
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About : Award Winning Unified Managed Accounts Technology. Exclusive provider to SS&C Advent’s UMA platform the SMArt Xchange (SMArtX).
Andy Golding
Board Member of Monedo
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About : Monedo uses machine-learning technologies to provide access to better credit for the underbanked.
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.
Marco Taricco
Advisory Board Member of Satispay
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About : Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform.
James Alexander
Advisory Board Member of LANDBAY
James has been one of the main revolutionaries of British financial services over the past decade. He radically transformed the notion of financial intermediation as co-founder and UK CEO of Zopa, the world’s first peer-to-peer lending platform. Prior to that, he was Strategy Director of Egg, the groundbreaking online bank, where he launched the company’s digital TV and mobile services and the UK’s first and most successful account aggregation service. James is currently a Partner of The Foundation, a leading growth and innovation consultancy, where he has worked with clients including M&S, O2, Just Giving, Barclaycard, Tesco, Eurostar, The Guardian, Save the Children, A&n Media, Friends Life, Old Mutual and HSBC. He is also a Trustee for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), a Trustee and former CEO of Green Thing and a Chair of GEN Community, an industrial provident society that delivers low carbon investments as well as social impact.
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About : Landbay is a specialist Buy to Let mortgage lender using peer-to-peer technology to fund its loans.
Adel Kambar
Founding Angel & Board Member of Mobile Decisioning
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About : Mobile Decisioning is a technology company providing mobile value added services to mobile network operators in emerging nations.
Tom Spurgeon
Board Member of Syntheo Ventures
Tom Spurgeon serves as a MD Corporate Development & Company Secretary at Monitise plc.
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About : The #FinTech Factory. Syntheo Ventures is London’s first FinTech Venture Builder.
Tom Spurgeon
Board Member of Syntheo Ventures
Tom Spurgeon serves as a MD Corporate Development & Company Secretary at Monitise plc.
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About : The #FinTech Factory. Syntheo Ventures is London’s first FinTech Venture Builder.
