Our mission is to accelerate global money movement.
By unifying financial worlds, we empower businesses to grow.
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Award-winning payments technology.
2025
Most Outstanding Innovator in Payments, Finance Magnates
2025
Best Cross-Border Payment Solution, Merchant Payments Ecosystem
2024
Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces®
2024
The 100 most promising software-savvy startups, Sifted
2024
The 20 UK companies on the rise, Linkedin
2024
The Fintech 50 EMEA, Accel
2024
The 100 most promising private fintech companies, CB Insights
2023
Best Crypto Solution for Payments, Finance Magnates
Payments infrastructure for the next generation of fintechs.
Multi-rail, multi-asset, globally licensed and enterprise-grade. So innovators can seamlessly operate across financial worlds and create payments experiences that don’t exist yet.
Explore our platform
300+
team members
2021
year founded
$12bn
Annualised Volume
$90m
in total funding
Meet our leadership team.
Jesse Hemson-Struthers
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Jesse is a serial entrepreneur, his previous ventures in e-commerce and gaming were successfully acquired by global media giants Naspers and Sportradar respectively.
Donald Jackson
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Don has extensive experience in enterprise grade systems and blockchain technology. Previously founded Cue, a bootstrapped customer engagement platform, and Verity, a fraud reduction service.
Emma Mayer
SVP Marketing
Emma has 11 years of experience leading marketing teams in the fintech industry. Previously led TrueLayer’s marketing team as it grew to a $1bn+ company.
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Darran Pienaar
Chief Financial Officer
Darran has significant experience leading finance teams for publicly listed companies including Ebury, Marks and Spencer, and Tesco.
Heather Chalk
Chief Compliance Officer
Heather has over a decade of experience in regulatory oversight, intelligence operations, and risk management, previously at Clearbank and Barclays.
Chris Harmse
Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer
Chris is a chartered financial analyst, experienced FX trader, and was previously a partner at a macro/crypto fund before co-founding BVNK.
Simon Griffin
Chief Product Officer
Simon has a wealth of experience financial services, previously leading product and commercial teams at Silvergate, RBS, Barclays, HSBC and Chase.
Tina Meschino
General Counsel
Tina has over a decade of experience working for leading payment companies, previously acting as Deputy General Counsel for Clearbank.
Ian Beth
Chief Commercial Officer
Ian is an established leader, previously heading up the Customer team at Currencycloud (acquired by Visa in 2021) for 8 years.
Natasha Malola
VP Business Operations & Strategy
Natasha began her career in Investment Banking and has since gained experience across debt, corporate finance, and investments. Prior to joining BVNK, she was a transactor at JSE Listed investment fund, African Rainbow Capital.
Nikita Knezovich
VP People & Talent
Nikita has spent the past 6 years building teams in the fintech industry, supporting BVNK's growth from 50 to 270 employees globally.
Keith Vander Leest
General Manager – US
Keith leads strategy, sales and customer success for BVNK’s US business. Keith has 20+ years experience in payments at Cross River Bank, American Express, First Data and Western Union.
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