TAP GLOBAL HOLDINGS - Key Persons


Arsen Torosian - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer
Arsen co-founded Tap with David Carr in 2017. A fintech entrepreneur and early adopter of crypto, Arsen founded a crypto OTC desk in London in 2014 in which he achieved over £70m in trading volume. Arsen oversees Tap's technology enhancement and international expansion.

David Carr - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
David Carr co-founded Tap Global and initially took on the role of Chief Operating Officer before assuming the role of Chief Executive Officer in July 2021. David has significant experience in the fintech space, having worked on the first prepaid Mastercard in Europe in 2004. He has since consulted on the launch of over 65 e-money projects. David has been an Ambassador for the Payments Association for over 10 years.

Des Hellicar-Bowman

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Senior Executive
Des is a Senior Executive with 20 years' experience at board level within the payments industry. Responsibilities within regulated companies include board advisory roles, compliance oversight, MLRO and director appointments with significant European-wide experience within AML, compliance, risk, fraud prevention and detection, e-finance and payments regulation and policy sectors.

John Taylor - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Chairman
John works with small cap listed companies with their development. He is the chairman of Asimilar Group Plc, an AIM quoted investing company focused on high growth potential companies in the disruptive technology space and has held a number of small cap directorship roles both as an executive and a non-executive.

Tony Quirk - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
Tony is an FCCA qualified accountant and an FCA approved person. He has founded, co-founded and led the M&A activity on several FCA regulated fintech businesses including an International FX payments broker, a digital bank, an acquiring bank, an issuer processor, an issuing bank and a payment services provider.