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Current projects
- James4Nationwide – working to increase representation of members’ interests at the highest level of decision-making at Nationwide building society (2024-date)
- Crawley Down Health Action Group – providing administrative support to a grass-roots, apolitical group focused on achieving better primary healthcare access and outcomes for everybody in Crawley Down, a village in West Sussex(2025-date)
Experience
- Vocalink, a Mastercard Company (2017-23)
- Growth Street (2015-17, dissolved 2025)
- Mastercard Advisors (2014-15)
- Wonga (2013, dissolved 2025)
- Oliver Wyman – management consulting (2005-2013)
- ActiveMedia Tech (2003, acquired by 2ergo in 2009)
- Loronix Information Systems (1999-2000, acquired by Verint in 2000)
- Outwood Cricket Club – board director (2025-date)
- Member of NEDonBoard, the Institute of Board Members (2024-date)
- Fitzroy Camden Management Ltd. – board director (2016-date)
- The Fintech & Payments Advisory Network – associate of this expert group (2023-date)
- Dsruptiv – consulting and advisory work (2013-date)
- Sortcode Capital – General Partner, investing and advising fintech and payment start-ups (2023-date)
- d4 – CEO & founder of registered charity (2010-2014, dissolved 2014)
- Hitmatic – MD & co-founder of internet analytics business (2000-2011, dissolved 2011)
Press comments / coverage
- Nationwide pumps £1bn into Clydesdale Bank after Virgin Money deal (2026)
- Don’t turn up! Big firms bar investors from AGMs (2025)
- Nationwide forced to defend £50 takeover reward (2025)
- Nationwide hikes credit card rates by up to 50% (2025)
- Join our campaign… to save our shareholder meetings (2025)
- Challenger banks warn of SME finance gap (2016)
- What rate are you really paying on your business loan? (2016)
- Fury as small firms pay over 90% in hidden loan costs (2015)
Publications as author / contributor
- Co-operative bank: Customer champion
(EACB & Oliver Wyman, 2008) - Regulation of health apps: A practical guide
(d4, 2012) - Medical Applications: The Future of Regulation
(Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2012) - Advanced and mobile payments: what’s stopping you?
(Oliver Wyman, 2012) - Democratising access to real-time payments with managed services
(Mastercard, 2019) - How safe is your (e-)money?
(Dsruptiv, 2023) - Medium – various topics of interest (to me!), including payments and the greening of UK energy
Education
- Balliol College, University of Oxford – Engineering, Economics & Management (MEng)
- Charterhouse – Foundation scholar
Interests
- Aviation – I hold a Private Pilot Licence for aeroplanes
- Cricket – playing, umpiring, watching