Executive Team

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Director

Shamsa has 25 years of experience in  helping businesses to define their focus and grow. She has worked with large corporates, smaller start-ups and the UN Global Compact, where she headed strategic partnerships. Her work has focused on product development and go-to-market approaches / strategies.

She began her career with KPMG UK where she was focused on the strategy and transformation of some of UK's leading businesses. She is an investor in start-ups and has helped to reframe business and operating models as a mentor. 

Advisor

Diana has held c-suite roles in global business development, client services and marketing. Her track record of creating and delivering sales and marketing strategies have resulted in revenue growth and customer retention for start-ups and some of the world’s biggest brands.  Her work includes brand, creative, digital, events, communications (including internal communications for employee engagement and retention), field and corporate marketing, CRM, Social and optimisation of revenue generating activities.

Diana’s mission is to deliver immediate value and facilitate growth by developing and executing strategy and plans to promote sales, brand recognition and help companies identify and articulate what makes them unique for competitive advantage in target market segments.  

Advisor

Sanjeev is a  well recognised Digital Economy business leader with  24+ years of work experience. He was Country General Manager for Microsoft India, Managing Director for Accenture India & South Asia, Executive with IBM, senior bureaucrat with Government of India and currently MD & CEO of Lahari to boost electronics design and manufacturing and create employment opportunities in the country. 

He is an investor and mentor in start ups and has advised companies to scale and grow beyond boundaries.

Advisor

Magdalena has built and managed projects and relationships with a diverse array of private, public, and civil society leaders for over 20 years. She began her career in Geneva at the World Economic Forum where she was responsible for selecting and managing its Young Global Leaders community and for launching initiatives on climate and gender. She subsequently joined The Elders in London where she was a part of a series of peace and human rights initiatives. For the UN Global Compact in New York, she managed projects on corruption and gender equity. Most recently, she was involved with several voluntary initiatives including Chance for Children, an NGO based in Ghana that strengthening street-connected children.

Advisor

Patrick is a highly experienced non-executive director, high impact marketing leader and consultant. He has helped build and assisted in turning around, some of the UK’s most innovative financial services businesses including as CMO Egg, Morgan Stanley and Citi. He has extensive marketing experience in driving strategy, brand building, digital marketing, branch based marketing and culture at operational and board level.
He is an experienced NED and  Chair of Remuneration committees and member of audit and risk committees under the FCA SMR.

Multi award winning and previously named by Marketing Week as one of the most influential marketers in financial services. 

Advisor

With thirty years' experience in banking, Steve has an unrivalled track record in conceiving, executing and running world-class breakthrough concepts in the financial service industry. He has been the driving force behind some of the most innovative and successful companies in the sector in the UK, including First Direct, Egg, Barclays, Hargreaves Landsdown and HSBC. He also founded MoBank, arguably the first Mobile App Bank in the UK. Steve served as a Director at NACUE (National Association of Colleges and Universities for Entrepreneurship), a Government sponsored body to promote enterprise in higher education.   

Seen as a leading authority on the future of banking and innovation in general he advises a number of banks and other financial institutions in the UK and Overseas. Steve is in demand as a Speaker at Conferences and Business Schools. His expertise also includes digital transformation, money transmission, cards, operational modelling, mobile banking, branding and customer marketing.