Open Banking Expo UK Speakers

Becky is currently Director of Payments for UK Finance leading a strong team with deep domain knowledge delivering thought leadership on policy working closely with the regulators in the UK and Europe for the good of the membership. She is also a member of SWIFT UK Board as an observer and represents the UK on the European Payments Council Board.

Becky has close involvement with the UK Payment System Regulator (PSR) and has sat on the Advisory Panel and the Payment Strategy Forum and chaired the Working Group for Implementation Planning for the New Payments Architecture which was part of the Payment Strategy Forum set up by the PSR. She was also chosen to be part of the Delivery group commissioned by the Bank of England and the PSR for the consolidation of the three Retail Payment schemes representing small and mid-sized financial organisations. Becky was a member of the Bank of England Advisory Board for the replacement of RTGS and has held non-executive Directorship positions for Pay.UK, Faster Payments Scheme, Payments UK and the setup of UK Finance.

At Metro Bank she was Head of Industry Engagement, responsible for payments and card change activity, as well as leading industry and third party engagement. Becky has extensive experience of working with the payments industry and delivering long-term, sustainable value to both customers and business.

Managing Director, Chris Hemsley, joined the PSR in November 2018 as Head of Policy and Strategy. In April, he became co-Managing Director, before being appointed as Managing Director in September 2019.

Chris has extensive experience working for UK regulators. He joined the PSR in November 2018 following his role as Deputy Director of Railway Markets and Economics and Chief Economist at the Office of Rail and Road.

Previously, Chris led the implementation of the UK government’s new support scheme for large-scale renewable electricity generation and before that, led the Civil Aviation Authority’s work on competition and consumer protection.

Moneyline is a leading not-for-profit, social business aiming to change the way lower-income households can access fair and affordable financial products.

Millions of people in the UK were excluded from the mainstream financial system before the economic fall-out of the pandemic.

Demand is now growing even further, just as many lenders exit this part of the market. This increases the urgency to scale more alternative, ethical providers.

Diane has been instrumental in building Moneyline’s capability into a brand that designs and delivers inclusive products that improve the financial resilience and wellbeing of the individuals and families they serve.

With almost 20 years’ experience in community finance, she shares sector knowledge through various advisory groups on financial inclusion and the availability of affordable credit. This includes working with JP Morgan, The Centre for Social Justice, The End High-Cost Credit Alliance, and the Cabinet Office. She is a member of the inaugural WISE100 (top 100 women in social enterprise) and in 2019 became a Senior Fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab, recognising a significant contribution toward creating a sustainable financial system.

As Chief Client Officer, Dr Leda Glyptis focuses on driving client success for existing and new 10x clients.

Leda is a former banker, technology executive and founding CEO of 11:FS Foundry, where she led the growth of its modular core digital banking offering. Prior to that, Leda was Chief Innovation Officer at Qatar National Bank, the largest bank in the Middle East and North Africa, with responsibilities for employee-driven and market-led innovation strategy and execution.

Before QNB, Leda was a Director at business and technology consulting firm Sapient, focusing on digital transformation and emerging technologies, and led EMEA innovation at BNY Mellon. Leda joined BNY Mellon from fintech start-up Great East London Software, where she served as head of services development.

Leda holds an MA from King’s College, Cambridge, and an MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has taught politics, global governance and management principles, while working in management roles across various industries.

Gavin Littlejohn serves as Chairman of the Financial Data and Technology Association, the Global Open Banking Trade Association, where he successfully led the campaign to have account aggregation added to PSD2 in 2013.  Through FDATA he is a leader of the Open Banking Movement and campaigns for common technical standards and a consistent liability models across the Globe.

​Gavin was appointed as Convenor of the Fintech Stakeholder Group of the UK Open Banking Implementation Entity in 2016 and is now working with a number of other markets engaged on the same mission.

Gavin is a fintech entrepreneur with experience of developing innovative solutions to mass market problems and is well-renowned as the Founder of Money Dashboard, and acted as its CEO until 2015.

Harcus Copper is Head of Integration and Information Services globally, responsible for SWIFT and Host-to-Host connectivity propositions, APIs and Open Banking for corporate clients and Non-Bank Financial Institutions. Harcus has over 26 years’ experience in Cash Management developed over a number of roles covering multiple disciplines during his 31 years with Barclays.

Harry Weber-Brown is the Digital Innovation Director for TISA which involves managing industry projects for the financial services that deliver better financial outcomes for consumers. This includes Digital Identity project for consumers of financial services products and the Open Savings, Investments and Pensions. Harry has managed a range of large-scale digital projects and pilots including a European Commission funded focusing on opening bank accounts across European borders using Digital Identity delivered through the eIDAS framework.

Harry has over 20 years of experience working in digital in strategic planning and programme management, resulting in the delivery of transformational services within complex stakeholder environments. He works as a senior consultant, an interim and as a Non-Executive Director.

Harry has worked across a range of sectors and clients including the Public Sector (Cabinet Office, Department of Health, Home Office and DWP), the Commercial sector (Old Mutual, Lloyds Banking Group, Reuters and Ask Jeeves) and the Not-for-Profit sector (NSPCC, Shelter and the BBC). He has more recently has been actively investing and mentoring digital start-ups with a focus on Advertising Tech and Digital Marketing services.

Whether it be a consumer sending a retail payment, a Corporate sending a Treasury payment or a Financial Institution acting on behalf of itself and its customers, the ability to create valuable solutions that meet customers’ needs has always been fascinating to me.

My journey through Financial Services started over 15 years ago, with an initial focus on delivering market leading global payment solutions to Corporates and Financial Institutions. Since then my career has led me most recently to the U.K. payments market and I am delighted to now be working on new payments solutions within ClearBank as part of my current role as U.K. Payments Product Lead.

Outside of work I am a keen runner both in training for marathons and also in a desperate attempt to keep up with my 2 year old, Olivia. I find my work within payments deeply rewarding but it is also important that it has allowed me to set an example for my daughter and ensure she understands the value of following her passion while also maintaining a balanced perspective on work and life.

James Hickman is CCO of Ecospend the UK’s leading open banking platform. Having won the most competitive and highest profile tender to date with the UK government, Ecospend is the exclusive open banking payments and data supplier to HMRC.

James is the Head of Department covering policy on General Insurance, Payments, Open Finance and Cryptoassets. He  joined the FCA in 2015 and has led FCA supervision of a variety of firms including life insurers, outsourcers, and investment platforms, focussing on using data to identify key firms and measure progress. Before joining the FCA, James developed financial services policy at Which?, and pensions policy on auto enrolment at NEST (National Employment Savings Trust).

Jason is Head of Open Banking, Digital Propositions & Partnerships at TSB Bank. Jason heads up a team focused on delivering open banking and partner led experiences that help improve TSB customer’s money confidence. Prior to TSB, Jason was at Starling Bank where he helped them launch their business accounts. Jason has also worked for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia where he led their digital financial wellbeing initiatives.

Leon is Chief Business Officer of Yolt; the smart money platform built to harness the power of open banking and PSD2. Yolt (venture of ING Bank N.V.) was born in 2016 and is currently available in the UK, Italy and France. A firm believer in the power of open banking innovation, Leon is responsible for Yolt’s new B2B proposition, Yolt for Business API, an API service which can provide access to accounts for businesses across Europe. As a driven fintech and retail banking specialist, Leon’s commitment to making open banking accessible to all has seen him be personally involved in Open Banking UK and PSD2. He is also a passionate speaker on this topic. Leon has vast international experience both professionally and personally, and currently resides near Utrecht with his wife and 3 young children. When he’s not sharing his Open Banking expertise, Leon enjoys sports, and is himself an active cyclist and runner.

Liz Barclay is a small business and consumer affairs broadcaster, producer and writer. She started her career as an adviser and then CEO with Citizens Advice before moving into radio and TV production and presentation specialising in business and consumer affairs. She is Financial Inclusion Commissioner; Chair of the BSI Consumer Forum and the Fair by Design Campaign; a non-executive Director of 2 organisations and a member of the Standards Boards of the Fundraising Regulator and The Equity Release Council. She is also an Ambassador for the Money Advice Trust and Business Debtline.

Liz works with Boards and small businesses on improving governance, trust and culture, diversity, and understanding customer behaviour. She coaches communication and presentation skills, chairs national and international conferences and has written several books on business.

Liz was appointed the role of Small Business Commissioner in July 2021 to spearhead the national effort to crackdown on delayed invoices – which cause thousands of small businesses to close every year.

Liz will be the first female Small Business Commissioner, a post which was created in 2016 to help small businesses secure the payments owed to them and to galvanise UK businesses behind a new culture of prompt payment.

Natalie leads the approach to vulnerability, accessibility and financial inclusion at Monzo Bank. She became the winner of the first Which? Your Consumer Champion award in 2019 for her work to create a gambling block that protects vulnerable customers. At Monzo, she uses her experience in inclusive design and technology to develop ideas to reduce barriers and empower customers, in order to help Monzo with it’s mission to make money work for everyone.

Neeta is a senior executive with over 20 years of global banking and insurance technology experience. She recently won the “Exceptional Women of Excellence Award” at Women Economic Forum, “Inspirational Women” in Women in Banking and Finance and Innovate Finance’s Standout 35 Women in Fintech.

Besides her full-time role at Salesforce as Financial Services Transformation Advisor, Neeta is the non-executive director, Head of Senior Business Leaders at Women in Banking, mentor at Natwest Accelerator and Advisor at RiseUp Money20/20. She is very passionate about technology disruption, transparency in financial services and an adviser to fintech and regtech start-ups and appears in various panel discussions. Neeta is an angel investor in fintech start-ups and is particularly interested in women led fintech start-ups.

Over the years, she has performed various roles ranging from building platforms, delivering large-scale transformation programs to top banks and insurance companies, outsourcing, management consulting to heading regions. She has managed P&L to build successful, profitable and scalable business units and led strategic mergers & acquisitions.

Nick Fahy is Chief Executive Officer of Cynergy Bank. He is a highly experienced financial professional having worked within the banking sector for over 20 years across the UK, Ireland and Australia.

Nick has been CEO of the bank since December 2015. During his tenure he has overseen the acquisition of Bank of Cyprus UK by Cynergy Capital Limited in November 2018, and the rebrand to Cynergy Bank in December 2018. The acquisition forms part of his ambitious plans for the future of Cynergy Bank, enabling the bank to grow its franchise across enterprising business owners and savers in the UK.

Nick joined Cynergy Bank from the Westpac Banking Corporation where he had been State General Manager for the bank’s retail and business banking operation in Western Australia. Prior to Westpac, he spent 17 years with Bank of Ireland Group in a variety of leadership roles, including Chief Operating Officer for Bank of Ireland’s retail banking operation in the UK and Ireland, and managing director for Northern Ireland; and MD for the Banks Post Office’s UK-wide financial services operation.

Noam Zeigerson is Chief Data & Technologies Officer at Tandem Bank. He oversees the Product’s Digital Proposition and Tech Development as well as enhancing Data and Analytics for better customer journeys and business outcomes. His expertise is at the core of the Tandem offering, leading on analysis and data insights that inform business strategy and customer value.

Before joining Tandem, Noam was Group Chief Data Officer at Bank Hapoalim, one of Israel’s largest banks. Here he built a Greenfield Data Lake to minimize disruption, introduced over 20 open source technologies and launched the Big Data environment to allow the ability for real-time analytics. He was also the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Aimee Soft from 2012 to 2017.

With over 20 years of experience in Data & Analytics, Noam is a charismatic and confident speaker in Digital Transformation, Product Development, Big Data, Machine Learning, AI, Predictive Analytics and Data Monetization.

Dr Phil Gosset is the Head of Innovation at Nationwide Building Society, bringing a Grounded Innovation approach to Nationwide innovation, and architected both the Nationwide Incubator in partnership with Fair By Design and also the Open Banking for Good (OB4G) challenge.

Previously he spent 10 years as an innovation consultant at Microsoft Research, and prior to this worked at Vodafone for 10 years where he led both the User Insight workstream and the Social Futures component of the Future Vision work.

Phillip is currently employed as Principal Adviser to UK Finance, the trade body for the financial services industry, with a portfolio including payments policy and open banking.

Before that, Phillip worked at the Local Government Association leading on local government finance and public service reform. And at HM Treasury in a variety of policy roles, including leading policy reviews (the Independent Commission on Local Government Finance and Russell Commission on Youth Volunteering) and as the Budget Project Manager.

On secondment from the Treasury, he was CEO of the Giving Campaign, a national partnership between government and the voluntary sector to encourage charitable giving.

Phillip has a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree from Loughborough University.

Sendi is a fintech executive with more than 16 years international experience in financial services/payments and consulting, with focus on strategy, business development, partnerships, and product commercialization. She is currently the Managing Director of Europe for Ripple. In the last 5 years, Sendi held several leadership roles at Mastercard’s Data & Services business, with global responsibility for strategy, commercialization, partnerships, and business development. Most recently, Sendi led the Fintech & Digital Segment. Previously, she led commercialisations of services around real-time payments, open banking, artificial intelligence and government; and led sales to UK&I banks. Prior to Mastercard, Sendi delivered rapid operational optimisation to large corporates at the consultancy, AlixPartners. Before that Sendi led the development of a global cash management solution at HSBC. Sendi holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and BA in Economics from Brown University.  

Tim is Chief Revenue Officer of Banked and has over 14+ years of experience in the management of Fintech, Saas, Ecommerce and Marketing based businesses from pre-seed through to Series B. Specialising in building out Go-To-Market strategies, Tim has built Sales, Marketing, Support and Customer Success teams across the US,UK, EMEA & AU and has been involved in raising over £30M+ in funding. Outside of Work, Tim grew up living in Africa, India & Thailand and you can usually find him outside on the trails either running, climbing, Mountain Biking or in the sea scuba diving & swimming and relaxing with his wife & daughter.

Todd is an established operator of Silicon Valley software companies. He has a twenty-year track record of bringing groundbreaking technologies to market, including e-learning, internet banking, mobile banking and now open API banking. Token is Todd’s fifth technology start-up and he has navigated his previous four to successful exits including one $2B exit. Todd joined Token in 2016 to modernise payments through a new state-of-the-art infrastructure and recently relocated with the company to London.

Vicki is Product Owner at Mettle, the business account backed by NatWest. She is a Chartered Accountant with nine years’ experience in banking across a broad range of roles in Finance and Strategy.

After six years, Vicki turned her attention to developing FinTech propositions and joined Bó, NatWest’s retail challenger brand, where she led the delivery of their Open Banking APIs.

Since joining Mettle, Vicki has focused on the development of Mettle’s accounting and bookkeeping solutions as well as expanding the use of Open Banking APIs. She is passionate about creating and delivering digital solutions that make it easier for individuals and small businesses to understand and manage their finances.

Winston Pearson joined Goldman Sachs TxB in 2021 as UK Open Banking Product Manager.  Based in London, he is responsible for the online product delivery – working with partners and leveraging the benefits that Open Banking can bring to Corporates.

Prior to joining, Winston worked at AccessPay developing multibank corporate connectivity applications and cash management tools for treasury and finance.

After seeing the power of embedding Open Banking as part of existing solutions, he continues to seek new and innovative use cases that can deliver value to corporates and treasury.