Members of the Board

Education: Studies at Stockholm School of Economics. Magnus Lindquist has more than 20 years of experience from senior positions in global industrial companies, mainly as Group Vice President at Autoliv and Perstorp Group. He has also had a senior partner role at Triton and has experience from several boards, for example as Chair of the Boards of Munters and Cary Group, and member of the Board of Directors of Trust Payment Holdings Ltd.

Education: Master of Business Administration (MBA), INSEAD; B.Sc in Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University. Alon Avner has over 25 years of experience in asset and investment management, with a focus on performing and distressed credit as well as acquisition and management of non-performing loan portfolios across Europe. He most recently served as Partner and Head of Credit and Special Situations at Bain Capital in Europe. He has also held senior positions as a Manager at Bain & Company and Operations and Marketing roles at Comverse Technology and Creo/Scitex.

Education: English Literature, St David’s University College, Lampeter, UK. David Sear was one of the founders of internet payments pioneer WorldPay in 1999. He has spent the subsequent 27 years building and investing in global payments and technology related businesses, with a focus on running large and geographically dispersed sales organisations. He was CEO of Travelex Global Business Payments and Group Chief Executive of Skrill (now Paysafe). As a non-executive he was Chairman of mobile payments business BANGO (LSE:BGO) for ten years and a director of global payments business Planet, amongst others.

Education: BA in Business Studies, the Polytechnic of West London. Debra Davies has over 25 years’ of experience leading large global business units, mainly with American Express. She has strong experience in customer service, digital transformation, technology, marketing and relationship management from the UK, EMEA and emerging markets. She currently holds board positions with the Yorkshire Building Society and AXA UK plc.

Education: Madras University and Chartered Accountant Institute, India. Geeta Gopalan has over 20 years of management experience in payments and transaction services in commercial and retail banking across the UK, Europe, the US and emerging markets. She has a deep understanding of the digital economy, having developed digital products through her executive career and more recently working with fintech’s in a non-executive capacity. Her current board positions include AutoTrader Plc, NatWest Group, and ClearScore.

Education: B.A. Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK; Henry Fellow, Harvard University, USA. Perry Blacher has over 30 years of international experience as a fintech entrepreneur, investor and Board leader, with a strong track record of building, scaling and governing high-growth, digital financial services businesses. He most recently served as a Partner at Augmentum FinTech PLC, one of Europe's leading FinTech Venture Capital Investors. He also has experience as a founder and former Chief Executive at Covestor and Serum, operational experience with Microsoft and Zulily and as a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and has studied a Master’s program at Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo. Ragnhild Wiborg is the Chair of the Board of Energia AS and a board member of Rana Gruber and Kistefos. She was previously a board member of Gränges AB, Sbanken ASA, Cary Group and RecSilicon. She has also been active in asset management as CIO and Portfolio Manager for Odin Fonder and Wiborg Kapitalförvaltning. Prior to that, she worked for investment banks in the Nordics and London.