Future of Money

FUTURE OF money DOMAIN EXPERTS

For this cohort the later stage experts featured leaders and disrupters entrenched in the fintech industry.
The collab was complimented with domain experts with a wealth of experience in advising scale ups
in this vertical.

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Martina King

CEO at Featurespace

Martina King joined Featurespace in 2012. Under King’s leadership, Featurespace has become the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Financial Crime prevention software, risk scoring events and preventing fraud and financial crime in more than 180 countries. The company has also raised more than £100 million in funding.

Tim Chong

CEO at Yonder

Tim's the co-founder and CEO of Yonder; a consumer lifestyle Fintech that's disrupting American Express. Since its inception in 2021 Yonder has raised over £20m in venture capital funding and over £62m in debt financing. Since launching Yonder has processed over £100m in card transactions with over 40,000 visits to Yonder's partners.

David Jarvis

CEO and Founder at Griffin

David was previously an infrastructure engineer at companies like Airbnb and CircleCI for almost a decade. He also worked on the core banking system at API banking startup Standard Treasury. Along with Allen, he is the author of Learning ClojureScript.

Richard Davies

CEO at Allica Bank

Richard is the CEO at Allica Bank. Before joining Allica, Richard was group COO at digital bank Revolut. Prior to that he was CEO of OakNorth and held leadership roles at TSB and HSBC.

Shameer Sachdev

MD & Founder at Growth Gorilla

Growth Gorilla is a team of experts with a proven track record of helping fintech brands go from start-up to scale-up. Shameer also launched the FML podcast, where he explores real-life growth tactics with some of fintech’s hardest-hitting marketers.

Dan Sinclair

Head of Early Stage Strategy at Mishcon De Reya

Dan's role includes managing MDR lab (the firms incubator and investment programme), creating new products and services for startup and growth clients as well as managing relationships with partners across the early-stage ecosystem.

Kieron James

CEO & Co-Founder at Wonderful

Kieron is an entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the ICT sector, currently serving as CEO and co-Founder of Wonderful. With a background in technology, BD, strategy, and intentional leadership, he has co-founded and exited nine businesses, including two to NASDAQ-listed companies.

Maeve Heneghan

Fintech Business Development at Amazon Web Services

Maeve leads AWS’s engagement effort in FinTech in the UK, Ireland & France. She focuses on customers’ commercial growth, complementing the sales’ teams support of technological growth. This entails supporting go-to-market strategies using Amazon’s vast network, and connecting FinTechs that sell into Financial Institutions. Maeve joined from Revolut.

MEET THE COHORT

The Future of Money cohort comprised of 15 innovative seed to series A early stage businesses across the fintech vertical.

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Gosia Furmanik

Fena

With a background in digital and product marketing, Gosia’s experience spans both large corporations and startups. Previously, she has been a part of marketing teams at Realla and Costar (following an acquisition), Cannes Lions, De Agostini, YMCA, and MDA Designs.

Rostislav Haliplii

Profit.com

Rostislav is the CEO and founder of Profit.com, a pioneering fintech company reshaping the landscape of trading analytics, financial research, and trading education.

Will Smith

Tred

Tred cofounder Will is building the U.K.'s leading green online bank with its first product, a green debit card that helps people make their everyday spending more sustainable

Daniel Rose

Doshi

Daniel is a seasoned founder having founded a brand & fashion incubator for influencers and new business models for brands like IKEA. His mission is to bolster financial confidence across all age groups- Doshi provides a crypto wallet targeted to teenagers and parents.

Robert Pasco

Plend

A Kiwi in London. Robert co-founded Plend in 2020 after an eight-year career in finance to build a better way to borrow. The consumer lending platform uses open banking to increase financial inclusivity for borrowers who cannot typically access affordable, long-term credit

Giuseppe Caltabiano

Everup

Co-founder and CEO of everup – a business focused on prize-linked digital branded prepayments. everup is now a unique gamified shopping experience in the branded prepaid and curated goods market. We help you save money, while bringing entertainment and excitement.

Jinesh Vohra

Sprive

CEO and founder of a FinTech, Sprive which helps homeowners in the UK be mortgage free, faster. 14 years of experience at Goldman Sachs; Managing global teams within Operations with a focus on effective execution, strategy and designing technology solutions.

Johnny Ridd

Johnny is the CEO and Founder of RQ who seamlessly manage professional referrals, conduct due diligence on partners, and diagnose clients wider needs - all in a single compliant platform. Helping clients who need their accountant, solicitor, and IFA to work together.

Benefits to the cohort

UNITY AS A GROUP

A curated peer group of 15 CEOs at the same stage and all in the fintech space.

BOLSTERING THE FOUNDER JOURNEY

Access to laterstage CEOs who have been there and done it.

CONNECT WITH INDUSTRY EXPERTS

Tailored networking with relevant investors and industry experts.

"Loved the in person open and close events - so inspriring, well attended and fun! In the CEO Circles connecting with the rest of the cohort I loved the honesty, authenticity and realising that it is not easy for everyone, not just you. Finally - loved the love! Everyone was so supportive, well meaning and respected the hustle and the grit."

Amit Patel

Peachy

"The CEO Circles, meeting up with other CEOs online, were excellent. The connections to professional service providers was also very valuable."

Michael Valstar

BlueSkeyeAI

"The highlight, as the program for me was about bringing people together as much as anything else. It was brilliant getting to meet and hear stories from others on the same journey. and the CEO Stories hearing from later stage CEOs was a key motivator for joining the program."

Sam Milliken-Smith

Hibi

"The CEO Circles were really valuable and well orchestrated, I would definitely attend recurring post programme basis if available. Also thoroughly enjoyed thein person events and connecting with other founders: it was very worthwhile."

Johnny Ridd

"Great bunch of founders, good selection of CEOs, and the potential ability to forge strategic connections moving forward. The open & close events were great with a good group dynamic and ability to network. I found the CEO Stories sessions with Yonder and Griffin really valuable from a learning perspective."

Moshin Rashid

ZipZero

"Overall I believe the programme has been exceptional. I have found VentureCEO immensely valuable. Despite my diary pressures it has had a tangible impact on our ventures."

Rob Passmore

Additive.earth

"The CEO Circles were the main reason I wanted to be on the programme: to share the trials & tribulations of being a founder and gain support through connection and shared experience. Overall it was a really good balance, with a great group of people going through the same challenges at the same time."

Andrew Nicolson

Osprey Flight Solutions

"The funding session and trial pitches especially were hugely beneficial for me, in fact possibly transformative. I took a huge amount away from that day."

Andy Howard

CSX Carbon

"I’m genuinely happy I was part of VentureCEO: the time commitment and duration was just the right level. The f2f sessions were great and the frequency made sense to build a connection throughout the programme without it being ‘too much’. It provided great insight while allowing sufficient time to get to know the other founders."

Sabrina Palme

Palquee

"The Future of Data was a really great blend of exciting companies and best in class professionals. The face to face events and substance were fabulous! I enjoyed most the cohort and CP support."

Alex Burton

Alchem Technologies

WHAT EACH SESSION PROVIDEs

CEO Stories

The unique opportunity to hear from and grill later stage CEOs in fintech who have been there and done it (Series B and beyond).

CEO Strategy

Topic specific deep dive sessions with subject matter experts. From maintaining a resilient & adaptive culture to embedding a competitive strategy, these sessions will provide practical tools to adapt these concepts to early-stage company growth.

CEO Circles

Join a curated community of CEOs in the same sector and at the same stage to share challenges, experiences, and ambitions. You'll learn how to manage your mindset and energise the founder journey.