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London, Gb

Technical Advisor and fractional CTO for Property Developers

Hong Kong, Hk

As Investment, Technical, and Operational Advisor to meed, I help drive the company’s mission to redefine loyalty through simplicity, connectivity, and data-driven insights. meed addresses a major gap in the $27 trillion retail market: fragmented loyalty systems that overwhelm consumers and hinder businesses. This platform consolidates multiple loyalty programs into a seamless, app-free experience, where consumers access rewards with a single scan, and businesses easily launch programs without complex integrations.meed’s three-tier subscription model accommodates businesses of all sizes, allowing brands to connect with customers through a unified, effortless platform. Each business added amplifies meed’s network effect, creating a dynamic loyalty ecosystem that fuels discovery for consumers and organic customer acquisition for businesses. This model has achieved strong traction in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand, with plans for expansion across Europe, North America, and the Middle East.In my role, I advise on investment strategies to support meed’s expansion, leveraging funding and partnerships to sustain growth. I also guide the technical roadmap to ensure the platform remains resilient and future-ready, with innovations like Web3 and tokenized loyalty on the horizon. Operationally, I optimize processes that enhance platform efficiency and align with our global growth strategy.Together, we’re building a loyalty ecosystem that is scalable, privacy-centric, and designed to meet the needs of modern consumers and businesses alike. I’m proud to support meed in setting a new global standard for loyalty engagement.

Leicester, England, Gb

Supporting Founder with Technology and Investment Advice

I am thrilled to announce my latest venture where I serve as the Founder of a pre-seed stealth startup focused on revolutionizing the payment industry. We are at the intersection of digital assets, payments, and artificial intelligence, crafting innovative solutions that will redefine how businesses and consumers interact with financial technology.While the specifics of our mission are under wraps, our goal is to leverage cutting-edge AI technology and the vast potential of digital currencies to create robust, scalable solutions that ensure seamless transactions and enhanced security in the digital space.This new chapter is not just a business endeavor but a passion project aimed at addressing some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in the fintech sector today. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of technology and financial services to provide groundbreaking products that are as secure as they are innovative.Stay tuned for more updates as we progress on our journey to transform the financial landscape.

Manchester, England, Gb

Role: Provided leadership for strategic initiatives, overseeing the company's vision, and commercial and ensuring operational excellence. Managed board interactions, collaborated with the management team, and executed key initiatives Accomplishments: Closed commercial collaboration agreement with one of the biggest physical security companies in the world to sell Custodiex products together with their physical security services to their financial institutions. Drove and supported due diligence process for a potential acquisition of Custodiex from a third party including steering RFP responses, due diligence, and negotiations. Led customer pitches, fostering contacts for future customers and collaborations and also initiated vital partnerships and engagements. Re-established crucial partnerships, participated in conferences, and initiated marketing campaigns. Optimised board meetings, strategic moves, and workshops including facilitating smooth office relocation, and engaging vital stakeholders. Initiated HR investigations, ensuring adherence to standards. Temporarily served as interim CEO, demonstrating effective leadership, strategic vision, and impactful contributions towards organisational growth and stability. Managed a broad spectrum of responsibilities, including internal investigations, strategic partnerships, fundraising initiatives, and process optimisations.Addressed anomalies, initiated investor search, and contributed to fundraising.

Manchester, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Role:Ownership of the technical direction, leading a talented, fast-growing offshore and onshore team, setting the vision of how technology will be used, and lead the strategy for the various platforms including Lending, Savings, Payments, and Data. Leading and shaping how the business works to achieve the strategic goal of operational excellence and be the visionary and driver of the technology strategy, in a hands-on role. Accomplishments:Big-ticket Epics delivered: 15 min Bullet Loans, Nationality and Companies House API, moving from salesforce to React for UI Portal, Launching a new internal (non-credit union) lending book for Amplifi/MCF, Top Up Loans / Rescheduling, Access management for queues and logons for Salesforce, GDPR Remediation & ISO 27001, Motor Finance, Decision Engine Roadmap, Office Move - Technology, Xero integration with Mambu for GL entry reconciliation, Open Banking via aggregator optimisations, automatic settlement quotes for customers via portalRFPs: Devised, delivered and vendor selected and programmes driven in Machine Learning / AI and Collection / Arrears Management SystemCloud Re-architecture: AWS Usage and Cloud Architecture Optimisation including AWS Framework reviews and actions for stabilising and future proofing platform Product Evaluations: Cybersecurity, for Customer tracking analytics, and Email Management SystemResourcing Plan: Creation of graduate programme & replacement of offshore team members with onshore internal resourcesVendor Management: Renegotiated Salesforce contract for 36 months – reducing payments in short term and moving from prepaid yearly to prepaid quarterly helping with cash flowPayments: Delivered improvements in Payments Processing Design and Financial Reconciliation ReportingData: Delivered Data Strategy to enable Data Architecture, Data Optimisation, Data Lake and Repository management, Reporting and Analytics Support, and Data Science and Machine Learning

Role:For over 10 years, the Fintechsss team has been providing consulting services to the world’s leading financial services companies. From IT strategy, architecture and design, to project delivery and software development, the team enables institutions to rapidly capitalise on the latest technology and market drivers to reduce costs, boost revenues and ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards. Our Unique Selling Points are Size, Experience, Partnerships, Cutting Edge technology and innovation, speed to market and agility to respond to customer needs.

London, England, Gb

Role:Supporting client engagement with a wealth of commercial, business, and technical experience at UK, European and global levels particularly in the areas of merchant acceptance, client management, new product development, and EMV implementation in Europe from the outset to maturity.Accomplishments:• Workshops and consultancies focused around Payments Market Insights, Profit Optimisation, Future-Proofing Payments Architecture, Vendor Analysis, Payment Systems Migrations, Fintech Payments Partnerships

Role:Supporting client engagement with a wealth of commercial, business and technical experience at UK, European and global levels particularly in the areas of merchant acceptance, client management, new product development and EMV implementation in Europe from outset to maturity.

London, London, Gb

Role:Worked directly for the CTO, working with the leadership team and alongside the architecture team to produce a Technology strategy paper outlining the understanding of the business vision and challenges, architecture philosophy, business architecture view, IT architecture view (Infrastructure, Data & application), roadmap and key initiatives (for each of the value streams), KPIs &measurements and multi-year spend profile for Paysafe GroupAccomplishments:• Delivered a consolidated presentation that articulated Paysafe’s strategy, containing Group level breakdown, Digital wallets LOB, eCash LOB, Payments processing LOB, and Back-office.• Delivered a three-year technology roadmap including a Group High-level solution architecture, a plan for transitioning from the current state to target state including short/mid/long term actions and recommendations, recommendations on decisions to buy vs build vs refactor/consolidate, Major phases, Critical success factors and best practices for approach/TOM for recommendations, a Technical design, NFRs and Software development life cycle

Palo Alto, California, Us

Role:With frank, honest, open communication:ASSISTANCE:• Assist in thinking through the overall direction of the Company and where it sits relevant to other firms• Assist in recruiting great engineering talent to build out the management team• Assist in co-producing a business vision and marketing strategy that reflects the Company’s competitive grid, challenges ahead and fulfilling its potential• Assist the sales teams in building effective case studies and next prospect and funnel lead generation tools. HELP:• Help design an architecture and model that can scale• Help identify other like-minded individuals that may accelerate Company growth, financial prospects and long-term success• Help build a culture of greatness that can scale• Help identify / introduce customers, vendors and partners in banking, to offer or facilitate product and servicesOFFER:• Offer ongoing insights to Company management• Offer insights in vendor solutions and recommend technical direction• Offer ongoing insights to Company management• Offer support in co-producing and iterating investment decks and/or business plans that is attractive to investors

Essen, De

Role:Overall responsibility for architecture and design of digital landscape, providing digital leadership throughout the business unit for website, app and mobile solutions

Role:For customers in the gig economy who not unbanked but underbanked by traditional financial institutions, Cogni offer focused financial services which will manage their money and save them money. We are looking to launch the bank to this potentially 100m person population in the USA in Q1 next year on our open architecture. Subsequently follow-up with launches in Europe and South America)We are looking at taking our 10,000 sign-ups to one million in the next 12 months

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Uk, Gb

London, Uk, Gb

London, Gb

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Gb

Mclean, Va, Us

London, Gb

London, Gb

Les Clayes-Sous-Bois, France, Fr

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Leicester, England, Gb

Leicester, England, Gb