PAYTECH - Key Persons


Alan Hawkins

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant - PayTech Consulting
Alan brings a wealth of experience from a distinguished career in the commercial payments market. He has a proven track record managing commercial card teams for a range of financial institutions including: GE Capital, Mastercard, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and ING. In addition he has consulted for card issuers, networks and fintechs, applying his skills and knowledge to solve complex business issues in the commercial cards space. Prior to entering commercial payments, Alan spent 15 years with Royal Bank of Scotland in senior sales and marketing management roles across the corporate, retail, private banking and international divisions of the Bank.

Andre Hattingh

Job Titles:
  • Head of Operations - PayTech Consulting
Andre joined PayTech from Visa where he was heading up their commercial cards business in the CEMEA region out of Dubai. He is a seasoned leader in his field and has a wealth of experience in managing and delivering projects across different disciplines, regions and cultures. He will always secure tangible benefits to our clients across the board.

Bo Gustafson

Job Titles:
  • Head of Operations - PayTech Labs
Bo grew up in a Swedish family office that was established in 1966. Over the last three decades, he has built a career in the FinTech, Card, Payment and Travel industries, developing products and founding companies. Bo has also become deeply involved in property and real estate investments. He is an entrepreneurial spirit who relishes taking initiative and making things happen.

Dave Cook

Job Titles:
  • Commercial Payments Expert
  • Regional Lead APAC - PayTech Consulting - B2B Practice
Dave Cook is a true commercial payments expert, having worked in the industry for over 20 years. In this time his work has spanned numerous geographies and more a wide range of key functions, ensuring he has first hand experience in order to provide tangible and actionable insights for our clients from Product Design all the way through to Commercialisation of those solutions. Based in Australia for over 10 years is our Commercial Card Regional Lead for Asia-Pacific.

Didrik Cappelen - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Head of Operations - PayTech Academy
Didrik is an experienced CEO and MD with a demonstrated history of working in financial services, the leisure, travel & tourism industry. He has developed and launched loyal programs for several leading banks across Europe and beyond. Strong entrepreneurship professional skilled in Development of Loyalty Solutions, Marketing Management, Negotiation, Business Planning, Event Planning, and Entrepreneurship.

Doug West

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Head of Operations - PayTech Analytics
Doug is an experienced director with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. Skilled in payments and cards, IT strategy, business transformation, project portfolio management, data and analytics. Doug joined us from Visa Europe where he served as SVP Head of Operations for Visa Consulting & Analytics.

James Holt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant - PayTech Consulting
With a 20-year career and counting, James is a seasoned expert in commercial cards, travel and expense management, and procurement cards within the payments industry. Throughout his journey, James has held pivotal roles at some of the world's leading financial institutions, including Citibank, Bank of America, HSBC, and Accenture.

Jason Fryer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant - PayTech Consulting
Jason has been in the Commercial Payments industry for over 20 years and has a deep understanding of the payment needs of Corporate and Business Banking clients. His broad knowledge has been built from various roles in Strategy, Customer Management, Sales and Training with Amex, ANZ and Mastercard where he was Regional Head of Commercial Payments in Asia Pacific before joining PayTech.

Jennifer Brand

Job Titles:
  • Regional Lead Americas - PayTech Consulting - B2B Practice
Jennifer has built a reputation as an experienced Treasury & Trade solutions specialist to large and multinational companies. She offers proficiency in a variety of solutions across the product suites, She has worked with Corporate, Public Sector, and Non-profit organizations to optimize their working capital and streamline their business. Jennifer is a a proven resource and partner in a dynamic market with evolving needs.

Marcus Sim

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant - PayTech Consulting

Mark Lester-Smith

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director - PayTech Nexus

Nicki Bull Bisgaard

Job Titles:
  • Group Head
Nicki has enjoyed more than 35 years in the cards and payments industry internationally. Most recently as Group Head for PayTech - a specialist advisory services company supporting payment schemes, banks, processors and corporate clients on leveraging the opportunities provided in this highly specialized space worldwide.

Paolo Bortolotto

Job Titles:
  • Senior Executive
  • Senior Consultant - PayTech Consulting
Paolo is a senior executive with extensive experience in corporate environments, specifically within payments ecosystem

Steve Homeweood

Job Titles:
  • Head of Operations
Steve has a vast international experience in procurement, category management, process design, logistics and effective sourcing and deployment of card programs. He is skilled at leading and enabling teams to deliver success from complex or untried business opportunities. Steve has an unique ability to identify and resolve key issues in complex stakeholder or business environments.

Tim Chambers

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant - PayTech Consulting
Tim is a highly dedicated, experienced senior leader & consultant in the financial/technology industry, with 20 years' experience in the commercial cards & payments space across multiple roles & levels. He has a proven track record of successfully building effective strategic partnership & sales, business development, go-to-market & innovation teams.

Vernon Derby

Job Titles:
  • Consultant

Vince Eavis - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Vince has global expertise in B2B commercial payments with more than 20 years experience from more than 50 countries. He is an inspirational, authentic leader, thinker and facilitator with experience operating at a Managing Director level at Citi before joining PayTech. Vince is a regular speaker at payments industry conferences around the world.