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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 Manager operating in the Payments space. If you think a Manager 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.
Sarveen Chester
Global Expansion Manager of Revolut
Chester is the Growth Launcher for Revolut, responsible for growth launching Europe’s fastest-growing FinTech in Singapore. He also oversees aspects of data analytics, operations, and diversity and inclusion. He was involved in the creation and launch of start-ups in Singapore before completing his undergraduate and postgraduate at Hult International Business School in London, Shanghai, and San Francisco. He started the university’s start up incubation programme called the ‘Hult Founders Lab’ which has worked with various partners, including the Prince Andrew, the Duke of York’s Pitch@Palace Global Initiative, and also worked with the Hult Prize – the world’s largest social innovation competition for youths which awards the winners USD 1 million through President Clinton’s global initiative. He is also an advisor to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union’s start-up accelerator programme.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Si Jia Wen
Product Operations Manager of Revolut
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Ieva Elvyra Kazakeviciute
PR and Community Manager – Northern Europe of Revolut
Ieva Elvyra Kazakeviciute is a seasoned communications professional and PR and Community Manager for Northern Europe at Revolut – one of the fastest growing start-ups in the world, and UK’s first digital bank unicorn. With a degree in Political Sciences and a title of World’s Debating Champion, Ieva Elvyra has been leading a very colorful professional career in public relations and communication. Passion for writing led her to become the Deputy Editor-in-chief of award-winning design and food art magazine VMG, named World’s Best in 2015 and 2016. She then transferred to television as the Communications and Foreign Relations Executive at TV Play, the largest television production house in the Baltics. Inspired by Revolut’s vision of borderless mobile banking, Ieva Elvyra is now set to contribute to shaping the public discourse on fintech and have Northern Europe talk about Revolut as the future of radically better banking.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Jonathan Vaux
General Manager, EU of I2c
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About I2c: I2c provides the infrastructure that powers the next generation of commerce.
Sam Burton
Talent Acquisition Manager of Soldo
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About Soldo: Soldo is a multi-user expense account helping companies manage their budgets.
Jon Hodges
VP Product – Head of Buy-Side Portfolio Manager 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.
Deepak Colluru
Principal Product Manager of GoCardless
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About GoCardless: GoCardless is a payment company that makes collecting payments by direct debit easy for everyone.
David Stobs-Stobart
Senior Product Manager of GoCardless
David builds and leads enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) products and product teams for growth-stage technology companies. He brings a wealth of experience in product management and user experience (UX) within technically complex online environments, in both large and small teams. David specialises in products relating to analytics/ business intelligence (BI) and customer experience (CX) management. Users are increasingly mobile, social and demand a more personalized, human interaction with the brands they use. I’m proud to be working in the enterprise space helping organisations to engage with their customers, make better decisions and improve their workflows; solving complexity with well-designed applications users love. Over the last 10 years, he has taken the lead product role in 4 early-stage companies and built the product team and product management function. During that time, he has launched 7 products covering search, analytics, machine learning, content optimisation, conversion rate optimisation, self service, workflow management, data mining, social media, APIs, customer service and customer experience.
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About GoCardless: GoCardless is a payment company that makes collecting payments by direct debit easy for everyone.
Charlotte Wright
Senior Marketing Manager – EMEA of OFX
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About OFX, Open Mobile Media: OFX is a global provider of online international payment services for personal and business customers.
Richard Raynor
Business Development Manager of Flexion
I joined Flexion in 2009 after working with them as a partner whilst I was at 3UK on innovative payment solutions for mobile games and apps. I liked their product so much I wanted to be a part of it and help other businesses to monetise and find profitable distribution for apps. I’ve worked in the mobile industry for 20 years and in the mobile content area for the past 15 for a range of businesses from retailers to operators.
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About Flexion: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Jane Thorburn
Project Manager of Railsbank
Jane Thorburn is a project manager at Railsbank.
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About Railsbank: Railsbank, the global Embedded Finance Experience Platform.
Rosario Garcia de Zuniga
Product Manager of Wave Mobile Money
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About Wave Mobile Money: Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money.
Maria Roberti
Project Manager of Cake Technologies
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About Cake Technologies: CAKE is revolutionizing the way restaurants and bars engage with their customers.
Maria Roberti
Project Manager of Cake Technologies
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About Cake Technologies: CAKE is revolutionizing the way restaurants and bars engage with their customers.
Lili Piper
Business Development Manager of Paysafe
Lili Piper is a business development manager at Paysafe. She is a former sales executive at Secure Trading.
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About Paysafe: Paysafe is a global payments provider offering a range of payments solutions for businesses and consumers.
Nicole Willson
Communications Manager of Shopwave
Nicole holds a first class honours degree in English and American Literature in addition to a Master’s degree in Eighteenth-Century Literature. She has recently completed a PhD in American Studies, and has taken over as manager of all things comms at Shopwave. Nicole has a background in academic publishing, copywriting, and editing, and has published several articles in peer review journals.
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About Shopwave, University of Central Lancashire: Kitchen & Ops Automation, POS, App Integration & Payments. Shopwave helps the worlds leading restaurant and retail brands to scale globally.
Dotan Ginsbourg
General Manager EMEA of Idomoo
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About Idomoo, Idomoo: Idomoo delivers video-based digital CRM solutions for enterprises to improve communication with their customers.
Andy Downes
General Manager of Optal
Andy brings extensive experience in payments, card processing and banking to the role of General Manager, Europe. Prior to joining Optal, Andy was responsible for growing the Payment Services Division at Raphaels Bank into the largest issuer of e-money in the UK, with 5 million live cards and annual settlements of over £5bn. Previous roles include a number of Executive Management positions in industries such as wholesale banking, performance management and financial software, successfully providing services to some of the largest financial institutions in the world including Citibank, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan.
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About Optal: Optal operates as a global business-to-business payment solutions provider and virtual card specialist.
Richard Pijnenburg
DevOps Engineering Manager of FXC Intelligence
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About FXC Intelligence: FXC Intelligence is a financial data company specializing in the cross-border payments, payment cards and ecommerce industries
Robert Doherty
Product / Channel Manager of Allied Irish Banks plc
Robert has more than 20 years’ experience in the payments industry. He has seen it grow into the multi-million euro industry it is today. His current role as Head of Product involves the deployment of next generation POS such as Clover™, payment gateway integrations, value added products, authorisation analysis and identification of future product requirements. Robert has previously managed all of AIBMS partner relationships including MSPs, ISOs, and PSPs. Robert represents AIBMS at both Visa and MasterCard’s Irish Members forum. He is also part of the Card payments working Group within the National Payments Plan.
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About Allied Irish Banks plc: Bank
Nimmity Zappert
Operational Velocity Manager of Localz
With a broad experience across a range of international markets and software businesses, Nimmity is excited about the potential of the Localz Iconomy solution and is passionate about taking it to the world. Nimmity enjoys the challenge of developing markets from scratch and watching them grow through collaborative partnerships as a foundation to building a scalable business. Nimmity is passionate about social enterprise and is a strong supporter of Fair Trade and ethical business practices. In addition to helping build the Localz business, Nimmity has founded Nim’s Goods, which aims to make it easy to buy beautiful, ethical goods – that you love.
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About Localz: Localz is the leading provider of Day of Service software.
Neal Michie
Product Manager of Inside Secure
Neal Michie is Product Manager at Inside Secure for Code Protection; where he oversees Inside Secure’s foundational security products for protecting and hardening software applications. These are used by the largest players across industries that put security front-and-center, including IoT, content streaming, finance and health care. With a background in software engineering, Neal has spent the last decade building secure software solutions. These include the first to be fully certified by both Mastercard and Visa. This experience has led to Neal being an active participant in influential industry forums.
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About Inside Secure: Meontrust provides banking grade security for online identities and payments.
Henry Osabutey
Business Development Manager of Natromi Motors
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About Natromi Motors: Natromi Motors is a sustainable energy and transportation platform.
