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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based COO’ operating in the Payments space. If you think a COO’ 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.
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.
Venancio Gallego
COO of Ebury
Venancio Gallego Vindel is COO at Ebury Partners.
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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.
Richard Evetts
COO of Bink
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About Bink: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
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.
Andy Tomlinson
Chief Operating Officer of Cuvva
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About Cuvva: Radically better insurance, fit for the future.
Alison Conway
COO of MishiPay
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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.
Eimear O’Connor
Chief Operating Officer of Form3
Eimear leads operations and project delivery at Form3. She joined from Barclays where she was Retail and Commercial Director for Pingit, responsible for the global development and commercial management of the retail customer base for this award winning open market payments platform. Prior to this, Eimear led the Corporate Mobile Payments Team at Barclays where she was responsible for the product design, development and launch of the Barclays Pingit for corporates product set. Eimear has also held positions including Vice President of Strategy at Visa Europe and Business Consultant at both BearingPoint and Capco, working on multiple assignments in the UK and globally. Eimear holds a BSc. Finance from University College Cork and a MBS Strategic Management and Planning from the Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin.
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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.
Kunal Sharma
Cofounder & COO of AppsPicket
Kunal is a serial entrepreneur having cofounded iRunway- an intellectual property firm that helped clients drive successful outcomes in excess of $1.5 billion. Also part of founding team at Pangea3 and Evalueserve. He has studied entrepreneurship from London Business School, and has done his Masters and Bachelors from IIT Delhi.
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About AppsPicket: Frictionless secure two factor authentication based on innovative cryptographic protocol.
Per Lauritzson
Chief Operating Officer of Flexion
Per Lauritzson is a Co-Founder & COO at Flexion.
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About Flexion, Mobile Sensations Limited: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
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.
Dora Ziambra
COO of Azimo
Dora is responsible for Azimo’s business development, fundraising, strategic partnerships and international expansion. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and joined in Azimo in 2014.
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About Azimo: Azimo is an online money transfer company that provides a fast, secure, and low-cost alternative to legacy high street remittance 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.
Richo Strydom
COO of Bankable
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About Bankable: Bankable develops white-label payment solutions including e-wallets, remittance services, P2P money transfers and prepaid card programmes.
Jon Clarke
Chief Operating Officer of Onvi
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About Onvi, Viage UK: The mobile-first POS system for hospitality
David Duckworth
Co-founder & COO of Ben
David Duckworth is the co-founder and COO of Ben.
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About Ben: Supercharge your benefits, save time and money
Steve Pannifer
COO of Consult Hyperion
Steve Pannifer is the COO at Consult Hyperion, is a digital identity and information security expert. He has led Consult Hyperion teams delivering projects in these areas for both banks, telcos and payment schemes. Steve has a detailed understanding of the global digital identity market, the operational and information security implications of the main ID&V processes and tools, and the most efficient way to implement them in financial services, including critical financial infrastructures. He has advised clients in Australia, Europe, North America and the UK, successfully transferring the learnings and best practice from one market to another. Over the last four years, Steve has established and built up Consult Hyperion’s information security and penetration testing capabilities. Building upon Consult Hyperion’s proven Security Risk Analysis methodology, Steve’s team now includes individuals with experience in mobile penetration testing, secure code reviews and the technology available in a mobile device to secure personal and financial information. The aim is always to understand the business impact of security issues and to be able to present those in business terms in order that resources can be targeted where they are most needed. Prior to joining Consult Hyperion, Steve gained 7 years IT experience at Logica, in the areas of IT security, systems integration and database design. Steve is a member of the UK Government’s Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group.
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
Tracy Moore
Chief Operating Officer of TorFX
Tracy brought her skills and vibrant personality to TorFX in 2005 following fifteen years’ experience cultivating sales growth and increasing market share in the manufacturing industry. As well as supporting an expanding marketing team, Tracy is actively involved in all operational functions of Tor’s Penzance office, ensuring that the company is adequately resourced for optimal goal delivery. Another aspect of Tracy’s role is participating in key group projects, like CRM. An earlier interest in Graphic Design has also proved useful, helping Tracy to oversee design projects within her department. Her hobbies of home renovation, interior design and gardening compliment the creative energy and eye for detail she brings to her work.
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About TorFX: TorFX is international money transfer provider offering outstanding exchange rates, fee-free transfers and first-class personal service.
Richard Fitch
Chief Operating Officer of Spring Financial Group
Richard Fitch has been serving as Chief Operating Officer at Spring Financial Group since May 1, 2016.
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About MQube, Spring Financial Group: Spring Financial Group is set to transform the way people in the UK get a mortgage.
Azahara Egea
Co-Founder/COO of sync.
Co-Founder and COO at sync. A self-directed and a capable decision maker who manages and works with the team. I ensure that the business has the best working environment and processes needed for optimum operational efficiency by creating a performance culture with clear KPIs, employee reviews and pro-active improvements. I’m a primary director of event planning, recruitment and communication and I keep all departments coordinated and I’m heavily involved in determining the strategy and future goals of the company.
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About Find Exchange, sync.: We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.
Ben Davies
Co-Founder and COO of Hugo Save
Ben Davies is the Co-Founder and COO at Hugo Save.
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About Hugo Save: Hugo is a digital account that helps you spend, save and invest, starting with gold.
Clive Boddington
Chief Operating Officer of Oxygen Finance
Clive joined Oxygen in 2011 with responsibility for developing Oxygen’s delivery methodology and all supporting assets. Clive has led the delivery of all of Oxygen’s client implementations. Prior to Oxygen, Clive worked for 14 years at Accenture where he specialised in large scale multi-country Supply Chain and Finance transformations. Since leaving Accenture in 2004 he has held senior management positions at Cable & Wireless, Royal Mail and was a COO & CTO at a Telco start-up. During his career Clive has won numerous industry awards for delivery and solution excellence.
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About Oxygen Finance: Oxygen Finance brings innovation to early payment solutions, generating a new source of income for companies
Nick Lally
Founder & COO of Ravelin
Nick Lally is the Founder at Ravelin Technology Ltd.Nick Lally is an Employee at British Telecom, Hailo, NBC Universal, Canonical Ltd (Makers of Ubuntu), Village Roadshow Pictures. He holds Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of Australia in 2002 and studied at La Trobe University in 1999.
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Tommy Heptinstall
COO of OrbitRemit Global Money Transfer
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About OrbitRemit Global Money Transfer: OrbitRemit is an online money transfer service, providing a fast and secure way to transact cross border money transfers
Jamal Hirani
COO of Orderella
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About Orderella: Orderella is the leading mobile ordering and payment platform for the hospitality industry available in the UK.
Adrian Shedden
Co-Founder and COO of Lumio Technologies
Adrian Shedden is the Co-founder and COO at Lumio Technologies.
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About Lumio Technologies: Lumio is you Intelligent wealth mentor. With the simple aim to maximize your money around your lifestyle
Alina Alistarh
Chief Operating Officer of NordPay Financial
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About NordPay Financial: NordPay Financial provides hassle-free payment solution to make payments easy, fast, and secure for merchants.
William Lorenz
COO of Kwanji
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About Kwanji: Online FX Comparison Platform Bridging Emerging & Traditional Markets
Femi Opeodu
COO of Nea Genia
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About Nea Genia: Instant way to pay by cash, for everyday services, such as mobile top-ups, utility bills, and various online services.
Matthew Shaw
Chief Operating Officer of CMS Payments Intelligence
Matthew Shaw is the chief operating officer at CMSPI. Prior to joining CMSPI in 2012 as a marketing manager, Matthew served as a digital marketing manager at Marketing Cheshire. He holds an MBA degree from Alliance Manchester Business School.
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About CMS Payments Intelligence: CMS Payments Intelligence is an independent consultancy that helps merchants optimize and reduce payments costs.
Sam Bennett
COO of Frontierpay
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About Frontierpay: Frontierpay is a trusted, reliable and highly efficient payments provider.
Shaun Walker
COO of Golvercard
Shaun Walker is a highly experienced business executive. Brought groundbreaking and affordable consumer and financial technologies to global markets for banks such as HSBC.
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About Golvercard: Golvercard is an Innovative Savings and Payment System & #Cryptocurrency.
Sebastian Hermelin
COO & Co-founder of WarOnCancer
Sebastian Hermelin is co-founder of the community WarOnCancer.com. A global community that aims to unite patients all over the world.
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About WarOnCancer: WarOnCancer is a global storytelling platform.
Isaac Moore
Chief Operating Officer of DoshDash
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About DoshDash: DoshDash is a money transfer service provider.
