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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Advisor operating in the Payments space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Robert Howes
CTO & Board Advisor of Judopay
Rob co-founded Algomi to build on a strong technology background engineering sophisticated solutions to complex problems. Drawn to opportunities where technology can be used to challenge the status quo, Rob has spent many years successfully leading the delivery of ambitious Fixed Income solutions, including Credit List Trading at UBS and more recently a first of its kind anonymous crossing platform for bonds. Rob holds a M. Eng. in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College.
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About Judopay, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Shaun Springer
Advisory Board Member of Bink
Shaun Springer, is a dynamic and seasoned global commercial marketer with experience gained across a wide range of industries, sectors and brands from MasterCard, Sky, BT to Sainsbury’s. He has been heavily engaged in building successful programmes and brands and most recently MasterCard’s Iconic Priceless Brand & Priceless Programmes as Head of Brand, Digital, and Consumer Marketing. Also, from his entrepreneurial and creative approach throughout his career, in defining and understanding consumer insights and their passions he has significantly driven business value across key business areas such as, Loyalty, ARPU, Sponsorship and Retention.
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About : Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Ed Matthews
Advisory Board Member of Bink
Investment Banker being lead advisor for FTSE100 and 250 companies and is a specialist in the Retail and Luxury Sector
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About : Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Matt Varughese
Tech Advisor of Propoly
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About : Propoly is a digital platform that enables letting agents to use the latest technologies to reduce on admin. (Acquired in 2021 by LFL)
Matt Varughese
Tech Advisor of Propoly
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About : Propoly is a digital platform that enables letting agents to use the latest technologies to reduce on admin. (Acquired in 2021 by LFL)
Claire Bridel
Board of Advisors of Kantox
Kantox’s goal is to create a transparent and fair market place for FX transactions, bringing unprecedented value to its clients. I am very excited at the prospect of helping this young, professional and passionate team to grow their business.
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About : Kantox is a leader in Currency Management Automation software that enables businesses to automate their end-to-end FX workflow
Sir Alan Collins
Board Advisor of Ensygnia
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About : Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel 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 Downton
ICO Advisor of Monetha
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About : Monetha is a financial services company that decentralizes Trust and Reputation Systemon the Ethereum blockchain.
Jean-Stephane Gourevitch
Advisor of Mespo
Jean-Stéphane Gourévitch has over twenty years’ International, European and UK senior management experience in the Digital and Mobile Communications ecosystem in particular in key Regulatory, Public Policy/Affairs and Strategy fields. He has specialized and is currently advising clients on the strategic, business, regulatory and policy risks and opportunities resulting from the emerging Digital and Mobile Convergence Ecosystem such as Mobile Money, Mobile Payments, Mobile Wallets but also m-Health, m-Education, m-Content, Machine-to-Machine Communications and Smart connected living (Smart Buildings, Smart Cars, Smart Cities). He has held senior management positions with a number of blue-chip International telecoms and media businesses such as Everything Everywhere Ltd. (EE), Orange, Global Crossing, France Telecom, Verizon Business, Colt Technology Services Ltd, leading and advising on strategic, operational, policy/regulatory, compliance and lobbying issues in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia. He has worked for OFCOM, the UK digital communications regulator, focusing on strategic and policy work on spectrum and mobile technologies issues. He has also held senior management positions with Deloitte Consulting and with strategic marketing and PR/Communications firms. He has two main functional expertise pillars: First pillar: European and International Affairs; Public Affairs; Regulatory Strategy, Public Policy; Compliance; Competition Policy; Government Relations. – Second pillar: Corporate Strategy/Planning; Competitive; Market & Policy Intelligence; Issue management; Crisis Management and Communications; Stakeholders Relationships Management.
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Mark Falcon
Advisor of Mespo
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
James Ashe-Taylor
Advisor of Mespo
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Richard Dallas
Advisor of Mespo
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Amit Kahana
Advisor of Finiata
Amit Kahana is a Chief Risk Officer with over 10 years of experience in SME lending, within Risk and Product Management. Amit has worked in Fintechs across the UK, US, Israel and Europe.
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About Finiata: Finiata provides working capital financing for freelancers and SME’s over a fully automated data driven scoring technology.
Iain Blackwood
Advisor of RemitRadar
35 years of international consumer retailing and financial services experience as a Director of Thomas Cook Remittance background as CEO MoneyGram International 1993-2003 Extensive leadership experience in the consumer, global payments and tech sector
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About : RemitRadar services the needs of an emerging global community of 2.5bn people dependant on remittance services.
Tom Sullivan
Advisor – Americas 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
Janet Thomas
RIsk Advisor of Moneymailme
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About : Moneymailme is a mobile application that enables its users to receive and transfer payments with others.
