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Leadership

Advisors

Advisors

Laurence Molke

Founder, Board Member

David P. Jackson

Board Member

Angus Walker

Board Member

Carol Grunberg

Board Member

Alan Morgan

Advisor

Jonathan Hughes

Advisor

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Laurence Molke

Founder, Board Member

Laurence has over 30 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience in technology and financial services including corporate finance and private equity. He is the founder of several digital and Cleantech businesses including Global3, Carboneco, Arclem and FNX.

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David P. Jackson

Board Member

Dave has been serving as the CEO of IC Group – Marketing since 2002. IC Group serves financial institutions of all sizes in card manufacturing, card personalization and fulfillment, and transaction processing. IC Group’s customer-centric focus helps clients navigate the ever changing payments ecosystem.

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Angus Walker

Board Member

Angus is a founding member and senior analyst of the investment team at EFM Asset Management, an alternatives global growth equities manager based in Hong Kong. EFM is a specialist investor in the technology and financial services industry where it takes high conviction positions in public and private companies backed by deep fundamental research. Prior to EFM, Angus’s roles include working in the Group Strategy team at Commonwealth Bank where he focused on the digital banking and payments landscape throughout Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Carol Grunberg

Board Member

Carol is a Venture Partner at Kitty hawk Ventures and former general manager of money movement and innovation at Northwestern Mutual which consistently ranks as one of the most admired companies in its industry.

Carol has led the creation of new products, growth and strategic partnerships at some of the world' s most recognized companies, including Ant Financial, part of the Alibaba Group, Google, IBM and Discover.

Her roles have spanned across technology and financial services in the U.S., China, Southeast Asia and India. She also serves on the Board of the American Red Cross of Wisconsin, on the steering committee for Milwaukee Women's, Inc. and Advisor to Money20/20 RiseUp and RiftPay.

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Alan Morgan

Advisor

Alan Morgan is co-founder and Chairman of MMC Ventures, an investor in early stage growth companies operating in the digital economy. He also invests via his investment vehicle, Adfisco, at start-up and seed stage in financial services businesses.

Alan formerly was a senior partner in McKinsey & Co. where he led the Financial Services Practice in the UK, Europe and then the Middle East. From the early 90s, he was a Board member of McKinsey’s Investment Office (now with approximately US$10B of staff and partner funds under management.)

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Jonathan Hughes

Advisor

Jonathan is the Co-Founder and President of Pollinate, a UK-based firm reinventing merchant acquiring with banks. Jonathan was previously the Chief Operating Officer for Technology at Worldpay Group plc. He spent four years with Worldpay while it was under private equity ownership, and was deeply involved in leading the program to separate the business from RBS and rebuild the core technology operating platform, as well as transforming the technology organization to meet the needs of a modern, engineering-led FinTech business.

Before Worldpay, Jonathan was a Partner at Bain & Company, the global strategic management consultancy, where he held leadership roles in the Financial Services and Technology practices.