Flexport

Business Development

Forward Advances

Built and scaled a venture backed B2B FinTech lender. Delivered 150% QoQ growth for over two years. Raised £15M in debt & equity. Reported to the board of a listed entity.

Venture CEO

Forward Partners

Sat on the leadership team of an early stage investor.

Managing Director

Earnt.It

Bootstrapped and launched a consumer FinTech enabling early wage access.

Founder

PayPal

Led a $10b card product and launched new lending businesses through strategic partnerships.

Product, Business Development and GTM

Scaled Buy Now Pay Later and Revenue-Based Financing products to a £2b originations run rate.

Head of Operations

HSBC

Program Manager

Bank of America

Head of Projects

British Army

IT and Telecommunications Engineer

Fractional operator for Founders & Innovative Corporates | Follow for insights on business and leadership

I've built and scaled fast-growing FinTech products as a founder and operator.

- Scaled PayPal’s Buy Now Pay Later and Merchant Lending business in the UK to a £2B annual originations run rate.
- Bootstrapped a consumer FinTech, enabling customers to access wages early.
- Founded and scaled a venture-backed FinTech, providing revenue-based financing to digital businesses.

I’ve developed expertise in early product validation, go-to-market strategy, growth, and operations.

Along the way, I've just been following my interests and solving problems for customers.

Oh, and I love riding motorbikes and climbing mountains.

Hasam Silva

Excited to announce the launch of The Trade Leaders Table.

This is a small, invite-only dinner exclusively for CEOs and CFOs of businesses over $100M in revenue who are focused on simplifying global trade in 2026.

It’s two hours, under the Chatham House Rule, focused purely on knowledge exchange.

You’ll be joined by other business leaders and a specialised group of experts in customs, freight, and finance.

The goal is simple: share the practical knowledge needed to simplify global trade in 2026.

The first date is on 15 January 2026.

#globaltrade #supplychain #customs #workingcapital #fintech

FinTech GTM & Growth | Scaling Flexport Capital in EMEA

📱Martyn Gould

CEO and Founder (acquired by DixonsCarphone)

Virgin Media

Deploying Nokia UDB to support PayM, Tesco and giffgaff migrations.

Senior Programme Manager - Nokia UDB 

Business Energy Scandal

Acquiring high quality leads via a digital funnel to deliver high quality and high value Energy Claims as this market stabilises and grows in the UK.   Using radical and tested methods to drive BES to become the largest and well trusted supply chain of validated Energy Claims in the UK

Supply Chain Specialist

rightcoverage

rightcoverage provides mobile and broadband connectivity ratings at any UK property, for any person or PropTech.   We provide a B2B SaaS service for large property companies and a B2C service through a simple website

Confidential

Delivering Use Cases and supporting system and people processes around exceptions / rainy day / edge case scenarios for a Third Party contracted to a UK Government GDS delivery.  
Day rate role delivering for an approved supplier who lacks the resource and capability to discover, map and document the required processes and outcomes.

GDS Lead - Use Case and Processes 

AllPoints Fibre

Leading discovery to enable APF to maximise commercial opportunities and simplify systems and processes.

Discovery & Systems / Engineering Lead - ISP Onboarding 

Payback.tax Ltd

Advisor and CCO

Virgin Media O2

Delivering multiple digital initiatives to reduce Cost Per Premise (CPP) and increase Homes Passed (HP) metrics for the ‘Fibre Up’ network expansion programme for VM O2

Helping the UK move towards a Gigabit society (sustainably!) by delivering complex things for VM O2.
Check out how VM O2 can power your household here ➡️https://tidd.ly/2ZFEIgh

Delivery Manager - FibreUp 

No7 Beauty Company

Driving ‘discovery’ to ‘delivery’ to enable Number 7 Beauty Company to quickly meet Environmental Tax obligations and Operational, Data and Financial divestment (from Walgreens Boots Alliance) and, in parallel, create Data and Sustainability outcomes for delivery of the Sustainability Roadmap.  Championed changes in the sourcing and supply chain to reduce the consumption of problematic materials, including plastic, to reduce environmental impact and levels of International taxation.

Sustainability Programme Manager 

N Brown Group

Driving ‘discovery’ to ‘delivery’ to implement people, process, technology and supplier optimisation to increase the pace of change within key tribes and squads.  Discovery has identified and validated ~3M in annual OPEX savings.

I created (and drove) the plan, hooks into Governance/Risk, requirement squads and CXO level sign off to move NBG FTE resource into ‘transition delivery’ in Q2 of 2022.

TOM Program Manager

TECH MANCHESTER

Volunteer mentor on Manchester’s business mentor programme for early stage technology companies. Paying it forward to help Manchester’s next generation of tech entrepreneurs. Working with start-up companies for 12 months to help support them as they develop their business idea to launch. 
https://techmanchester.co.uk/mentoring  
https://www.youtube.com/c/TechManchester

Business Mentor

I am a Discovery & Systems Lead at AllPoints Fibre, a leading provider of fibre broadband services in the UK. I am responsible for leading the discovery process to enable APF to maximise commercial opportunities and simplify systems and processes, using my TOGAF certification and agile methodology skills.

I am also a Founder and Consultant to other FinTech and SaaS businesses, with over 25 years of experience in the telecom, insurance, and digital sectors. I have built and sold a revenue-generating organisation from scratch, a world first acquired by DixonsCarphone. I have also helped companies to move faster, get more customers, and earn more money through my consulting roles, delivering multiple £20m+ digital transformation programmes and driving business optimisation and change.

rightcoverage provides mobile and broadband connectivity ratings at any UK property, for any person or PropTech.   We provide a B2B SaaS service for large property companies and a B2C service through a simple website 

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