About TechPassport

We are committed to igniting innovation in financial institutions. Without the friction.

Bridging the institution-FinTech divide.

Institutions seeking FinTech innovation can now quickly and easily connect with the right suppliers, at the right time. Without friction or risk.

The FinTech Pledge addresses the challenges faced by millions of people striving for innovation in the financial sector. Our founder has observed and experienced these complications first-hand, and from both sides.

She envisioned a better way. A way where FinTechs and institutions could bridge the divide, and connect, innovate, grow, and succeed, together. Her journey has started. The industry’s journey has started. Welcome to TechPassport.

The right connection, the first time.

Driven by the mission and principles of the FinTech Pledge, TechPassport sits at the epicentre of innovation in the financial sector, ensuring fast and frictionless onboarding. For all.

We have worked with the industry, including 14 leading banks, to develop the first and only platform that successfully connects regulated financial institutions with truly enterprise ready FinTechs.

Alongside a dedicated team of customer success managers, our solution is the bedrock of industry best practice for establishing partnerships between large financial institutions and enterprise ready FinTech firms.

Not only is it a unique marketplace that connects institutions and suppliers of enterprise-ready FinTech innovation at the point of need; it facilitates and fast-tracks the onboarding and initial engagement process, closing the requirements gap on each side.

Meet the team

We are a proudly diverse, determined, and energetic team of industry practitioners with first-hand experience of the institution-FinTech engagement challenges. We are problem solvers with a proven track record, aligned with a single vision and practical insight on what it takes to succeed.

Layla White
CEO

Layla White
CEO

Layla is the Founder of the first enterprise ready FinTech marketplace, TechPassport. She has over 10 years' experience working in vendor facing roles within Tier 1 banks, including commercial management, vendor management and procurement. Having seen the complications of banks and FinTech suppliers working together, she set up an industry wide solution: TechPassport.
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Gemma Young
CGO

Gemma Young
CGO

Gemma is the Chief Growth Officer for TechPassport. With a passion for diversity and inclusion, Gemma is also the Creator and Founder of the award-winning community, Women of FinTech, which is a movement of over 10,000 people within FinTech to promote gender equality in the industry.
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Paul Brown
COO

Paul Brown
COO

Paul is the COO of TechPassport, with a background in start-ups and Financial Technology. Paul has worked with many large financial institutions such as Tier 1 banks as well as smaller companies working with them on the business risk. Paul also has a compliance background with a great understanding of the ISO.
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Dave Togneri
CTO

Dave Togneri
CTO

Dave Togneri is CTO at TechPassport with over 30 years’ experience in Information Technology. Having worked for large enterprises, SMEs and government organisations on major projects and ongoing support contracts as a strategist, designer and implementor. Areas covered include Networking, Security, Client and Server Infrastructure, Virtualisation and Applications.
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Tom Kozlowski
Non-Executive Director

Tom Kozlowski
Non-Executive Director

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Steve Suarez
Bank Advisory Board

Steve Suarez
Bank Advisory Board

Steve is the Global Head of Innovation, Global Functions at HSBC, leading an innovation ecosystem to shape and deliver better ways of serving customers. With 30 years’ experience in consulting, telecoms and financial services, Steve has guided diverse teams, driving complex strategic initiatives across multiple organisations.
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Isabel Pitt
Bank Advisory Board

Isabel Pitt
Bank Advisory Board

Head of Core Services at Zopa, Isabel leads product strategy for core function enablers. Her career spans roles within the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Lloyd’s Bank, and Banked. With a passion for inclusivity at a financial and industry level, Isabel mentors via the Industry Mentor of Women in Payments, and is a member of Women of FinTech, Women in Payments, and 17% List.
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Tim Richards
Supplier Advisory Board

Tim Richards
Supplier Advisory Board

Tim is CEO of technology scale-up, Hoptroff. With 30+ years’ global media experience, Tim has launched and run media businesses in diverse markets such as Saudi Arabia, Poland, Japan, India, and South America. He understands the complexities required to run and scale technology companies today and has previously held C-level roles at Disney, Hallmark, and QVC.
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Simon Swords
Supplier Advisory Board

Simon Swords
Supplier Advisory Board

Simon is the founder and MD of Fundipedia, a data technology solutions and consultancy provider that has achieved significant growth, proudly servicing firms including HSBC, LGIM, M&G, and Barclays. Simon also works with regulators and industry associations such as the FCA, Investment Association and TISA.
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Duncan Stuart-Reid
Supplier Advisory Board

Duncan Stuart-Reid
Supplier Advisory Board

As COO for SteelEye, Duncan specialises in building and implementing technical operational processes, systems, and services. With over 25 years in the financial sector, Duncan has been Group CIO for Commodity Trading Company, Noble Group, has looked after the global interest rate derivatives technology team at Citi, and built a new derivatives technology group for Daiwa.
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James Varga
Supplier Advisory Board

James Varga
Supplier Advisory Board

James is CEO & Founder of DirectID, a global credit and risk platform powering greater financial inclusion through Open Finance data. Since 2010, he has pursued the opportunity to leverage financial services as a global trust network to help address global issues such as Identity, Credit & Risk and Financial Inclusion.
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Will Billingsley
Supplier Advisory Board

Will Billingsley
Supplier Advisory Board

Will is Co-Founder and CCO of Ap-Tap, a FinTech that connects institutions with merchants to embed e-commerce journeys that provide better consumer bill management. Responsible for sales, partnerships, finance, marketing, and HR, Will has negotiated and signed multiple commercial deals with financial institutions and retail merchants, in order to help consumers manage their money better.
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Zitah McMillan
Supplier Advisory Board

Zitah McMillan
Supplier Advisory Board

Zitah McMillan is the CEO and co-founder of Predictive Black, a predictive financial data management platform which brings together open finance data with industry data to create predictive financial forecasts rooted in sector specific data. Prior to making the leap into founding her own company, Zitah ran a European consumer and business lending company across a range of businesses and European countries.
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Lydia Ofori
Supplier Advisory Board

Lydia Ofori
Supplier Advisory Board

Lydia is the Founder & CEO of Hunter Labs Technologies, which helps financial services companies create and engage with their Millennial investors using an end-to-end intelligence platform. As an Advisory Council member for TechPassport, she brings her long-running financial services experience and insights to help expedite the new era for fintech and incumbent financial services innovation integrations.
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Turning the FinTech Pledge into action.

TechPassport Ltd, 31 Lovat Lane, London EC3R 8EB. Company Registration ID: 12135228.

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