Board of Directors

Gareth is a qualified solicitor and was previously a partner at law firm Pinsent Masons LLP, where he held both the positions of Global Head of Corporate and International Development Partner. He is currently a strategic consultant and an Executive Director of London Bridge Capital Limited, an FCA authorised corporate finance boutique. He has significant public markets experience and is Chairman of Nightcap plc and a non-executive director on the Board of Various Eateries PLC, both of which are admitted to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange

James has spent over 25 years in the Financial Services industry with the last 20 years’ experience within the FX and payments industries.

Most recently, James was Chief Revenue Officer at Dublin-based fintech business, Fire Financial Services Limited. Previously, James spent nearly five years as Chief Commercial Officer at AIM-quoted Equals Group PLC. Prior to that he was Managing Director at Caxton Payments Limited (formerly Caxton FX Limited), a provider of foreign exchange, international payments and prepaid cards. In each role, James was responsible for growing sales, operations and managing key relationships. At Equals, his role also included investor relations, fundraising and strategic acquisitions.

Judy is an experienced corporate executive and Chief Financial Officer with a background in fundraising, mergers and acquisitions and post-deal integration. Most recently Judy was CFO of XenZone (now AIM listed Kooth Plc).

Prior to that Judy was with AVG Technologies for seven years including a period after its acquisition by Avast Software in October 2016. Starting as finance director, Judy moved through a number of roles giving her responsibility for post-deal integration, management and guidance for AVG’s portfolio of acquisitions and acting as joint single point of contact during the $1.3bn sale of AVG to Avast. Judy commenced her career as a chartered accountant with Saffrey Champness.

William (“Bill”) has extensive operational experience within financial trading companies having worked in the industry for over 30 years.

He co-founded ITI Capital Limited (formerly ODL Securities Limited), a derivatives, equities and FX brokerage, where he held a number of senior management roles including IT Director. There, he designed various real-time risk and regulatory reporting systems and was responsible for all back-office development. He was subsequently appointed CIO for London Capital Group Limited and managed a reorganisation of its core systems and infrastructure.

Bill co-founded Cornerstone Payment Solutions Ltd, which was acquired by Finseta in September 2020.

Simon has over 30 years’ experience in CFO and other finance roles in public and private companies operating in the UK and internationally. He has worked in strategic and operational CFO roles across the technology and financial services sectors. This includes Caxton FX Limited, a provider of foreign exchange, international payments and prepaid cards; AIM-quoted Bonhill Group plc; Merit Group plc; Aurasian Minerals plc (now Adriatic Metal Services (UK) Limited) and OnTheMarket plc. Simon is a Chartered Management Accountant.

John has over 40 years’ experience in the payments industry and was involved in legislative policy development at the Financial Services Authority (now FCA) . Prior to joining the Financial Services Authority (FSA), he spent eight years at the Association for Payment Clearing Services and the Payments Council. Other experience includes various positions with Clydesdale Bank Plc and Lloyds Banking Group. John is currently Managing Director at Compliancy Services Limited.