John was Senior Vice President of Marketing at Visa International before joining Accourt, and since has worked worldwide for a broad range of major companies, including many leading retail banks, the major card schemes, payment organisations and multi-stakeholder industry associations.

He has assisted numerous central banks and interbank committees across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in setting up domestic processing systems, with a focus on Treasury and particularly on the mitigation of exchange rate exposure, risk management and governance, together with technology selection and implementation.

John is very familiar with the merchant acquiring and issuing community and the current innovation that is taking place with eWallets and mPOS. In addition he understands the current and future planned regulatory changes and more importantly their impact on the issuing and acquiring community.

He has worked at a senior level with many of the global players across a wide range of strategic and operational projects.  As a founding Partner, John has been employed by Accourt for almost thirteen years.

Risk Strategy Manager for a large, diversified Blue Chip retail group. Vaughan’s subsequent consulting roles have utilised his extensive and diverse experience, particularly in multi-channel international payments, fraud and risk management.

In-depth industry and technology knowledge across a broad range of relevant initiatives enables Vaughan to deploy his well-developed problem-solving skills. He is able to rapidly understand, manage and communicate issues at senior management and board level.

Vaughan’s background includes multi-channel (e.g. ATM, ACH, e-commerce, mobile, face-to-face, etc.) product and service design and consultancy with major industry players such as American Express, Barclaycard, Boku, Faster Payments Scheme, Lloyds Banking Group, MasterCard, PayPal, Skype, Travelex, UK Payments (formerly APACS), Visa, VocaLink and a number of top- and mid-tier international retail banks and financial services institutions across the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Africa, APAC and LATAM.  Vaughan has been a partner at Accourt for 12 years.

CEO of Elavon Merchant Services, one of Europe’s major acquirers, and he was formerly also the CEO of S2 Card Services Limited (previously Switch), the UK’s major domestic debit card scheme, and a partner in Edgar, Dunn & Company, a US strategic consultancy specialising in payment systems. Roger started his banking career with Barclays Bank, where he spent 31 years in a variety of roles, culminating in 1994 in his appointment as a Director of Barclaycard and Managing Director of the Barclays Bank Emerging Markets Group.

merchant acquiring, alternative payments including mobile payments, PSP/ e-commerce gateway, prepay, ACH, ATM, money transfer, FX and cash.

Alex has a strong focus on start-ups and the launch of new businesses and products, understanding the complexities of tying multiple business streams together. He is also capable of working with senior management and board directors for budget acquisition and ROI justification cases.

Prior to joining Accourt Alex was VP business development at Paybox which went onto be acquired by Sybase. Alex then went on to work with the EMEA team at SAP bringing mobile banking, payments and remittance platforms to the regions banks.

product and marketing, with particular expertise in co-branding, strategic partnerships and product development, working with a number of blue chip issuing banks and latterly MasterCard. Jamie also successfully led and delivered a number of high-profile card launches across a broad spectrum of business verticals including Goldfish, Amazon, Asda, PayPal, JLP and Marriott.

Jamie has also worked extensively in the regulatory space assisting a number of organisations with both FCA and Scheme licence applications. Prior to joining Accourt, Jamie was VP Business Development for MasterCard in the UK specialising in the creation and development of partnerships for payments in both the traditional and non-traditional spaces for issuing and acquiring.

During his career he spent 6 years at Visa Europe where he was a senior member of the Implementation Management and Consultancy Team, responsible for managing high profile projects and working with some of Europe’s largest issuers, acquirers and processors. One of his last projects whilst at Visa Europe was managing the technical migration of RBS’s debit portfolio from Maestro to Visa Debit.

and leading international teams. Adaptable, solutions focused, has excellent analytical skills with strong commercial judgment and high levels of personal accountability. Having forged a strong career at Visa Inc as Head of Pricing and Client Deals, working on pricing strategy and client business deals development over a 12 year period, Mark is now involved in exciting initiatives such as the Payments Council’s Strategic Payments Roadmap (the commercial and pricing elements thereof).

For acquirers he has assisted the transition to chip by modelling the risks prior and post the liability switch, thus determining the optimum investment in new chip accepting POS devices. For several financial services organisations he has assisted with the selection of fraud detection and management solutions. The card associations have employed Peter’s skills for fraud modelling projects, projecting fraud patterns and providing future fraud reduction product development strategies. Peter’s experience includes a number of todays most leading edge payment initiatives, such as, mobile and contactless/NFC. Whilst most projects have been strategic and developmental in nature, Peter has also provided operational management support for a major UK issuer where he significantly reduced fraud levels and liability during his period of ownership.

From 1 million cards to over 120 million cards. While spearheading Merchant Sales and Solutions in the Visa Moscow office, he and his team were responsible for strategic partnerships with key merchants and for expanding VISA’s acceptance footprint across Russia. Prior to VISA Andrei worked across several Russian financial services companies, and consults in Russian and English.

and public utilities. He has strong planning and organisation skills, and is equally at home with technical specialists and with end-user staff, working at all levels within an organisation. His projects have included the very earliest stages of requirements analysis, through to the roll-out and marketing of the end products, with a recent emphasis on work in environments requiring the highest levels of financial and information security.

measurable business value from the effective and appropriate use of technology. Prior to joining Accourt, Joseph was the Solutions Director for a software development and systems integration company, and previously spent thirteen years with major global organisations, focusing on business and IT solutions, and including a series of senior roles during the development of the Intelligent Finance direct service bank in the UK.

in both B2C and B2B environments.  He has worked in every region of the world most notably with American Express, MasterCard and HSBC to deliver well-branded, well-marketed card and rewards propositions that are impactful in the marketplace and that deliver success based on premium value, sound economics and brand-enhancing customer experiences.   He has led the development and launch of hundreds of products and services including charge, credit, co-brand and affinity cards, rewards and loyalty programmes, assistance and insurance products, retail, travel and leisure services, 360 marketing campaigns and was the driving force and chief architect behind several industry firsts including Centurion, the original black card, the rollout of the Euro, co-brands with Air France, KLM and Accor and numerous product launches in all the major European markets.

their roll-out and promoting their benefits. Peter has very deep and current experience of contactless payment in the mass transit sector, both in the UK and Europe, as well as deploying the technology in vending, events and convenience stores. He is experienced in working with and for major retail banks, product vendors and the international payment schemes. During his career he has also served on a series of working groups and committees of the international standards bodies.

in over 30 different countries on six continents. He started his career at Midland Bank (HSBC) in a variety of roles, which included heading the bank’s Payment Strategy Unit before taking on the challenge of managing a 24×7 card operations centre. He then moved to Europay, working in business relationship and marketing posts. As a consultant since 1993 he has advised many “blue chip” banking clients on the development of their card payment businesses.

As a P&L owner, Charlie has proven his ability to deliver margin expansion during revenue growth through focus on strong operational practices, effective collaboration, while always maintaining a good grip of the finances.

Charlie is steeped in the payments technology ecosystem, able to understand and work with the detailed technology aspects, but especially capable of understanding, operating and communicating at operational and strategic levels. Charlie’s past technical and operational roles have included 6 years at Postilion International, before moving across to senior roles in the S1 side of the organisation for 3 years, followed most recently by 2 years with ACI Worldwide.