AI, Data Science & Advanced Analytics
Leaders leveraging LLM and AI models, generative capabilities, predictive analytics, and data engineering to create competitive advantage, radically optimize process automation, improve fraud detection, and deliver real-time personalization in regulated, high-stakes environments.
Cybersecurity
CISOs and security leaders with domain expertise in data security and privacy, IAM, endpoint protection, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, application security, zero trust architecture, regulatory compliance (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR), and incident response for mission-critical payments and data transaction platforms.
Finance & Internal Audit
CFOs, Controllers, Heads of Treasury, M&A, and FP&A leaders who balance financial controls, capital optimization, and liquidity management with the flexibility to support rapid business growth, geographic expansion, and evolving compliance demands.
Growth & Commercial
Chief Revenue Officers, Heads of Sales, Partnerships, and Business Development leaders who drive multi-market expansion, develop partner ecosystems, unlock new revenue streams, and navigate complex go-to-market strategies in B2B, B2C and B2B2C environments.
Legal, Regulatory & Compliance
General Counsel, Chief Legal Officers, and compliance leaders with expertise in global financial regulation, data privacy, intellectual property, cross-border transactions, licensing, and regulatory change management. Experience spanning AI, payments regulation (PSD2, PCI DSS), open banking frameworks, digital identity law, and emerging areas such as crypto and digital assets compliance.
Operations
Chief Operations and Operating Officers and transformation leaders who build and optimize operational frameworks for scale, ensuring resilience, compliance, agility and efficiency across multi-jurisdictional and multi-channel transaction environments. Expertise in operational excellence, AI, Agile, service delivery, vendor management, and process automation in high-volume payment flows.
People & Culture
CHROs, Talent and Organizational Development leaders who build innovation-ready, diverse teams at pace while safeguarding culture and governance. Specialization in scaling talent functions for hypergrowth, leadership development, DEI, change management, and aligning talent strategy to digital transformation goals.
Product & Experience
CPOs, Customer Experience Leaders, and Chief Digital Officers who conceive, develop, and launch category-defining products, experiences, and propositions that blend usability, compliance, and innovation in highly competitive and regulated markets.
Risk & Fraud
Chief Risk Officers, Heads of Risk, Fraud and Compliance leaders with expertise in enterprise risk management, credit risk, operational risk, transaction monitoring, KYC/AML, sanctions screening, chargeback mitigation, synthetic identity detection, account takeover prevention, fraud analytics, behavioral biometrics, real-time fraud orchestration, and regulatory reporting.
Sales & Marketing
CMOs, Heads of Growth Marketing, GTM strategists, Brand, and Product Marketing leaders who can build market visibility, create demand, and drive conversion across digital channels. Expertise in customer lifecycle marketing, Sales Enablement, RevGen, Rev Ops & Solution Selling are always in high demand.
Technology & Engineering
CTOs, CIOs, Chief Architects, and Development & Engineering leaders who can scale and secure high-availability, low-latency systems; deliver market-shaping, differentiated products and solutions; develop and stand-up cloud-native architectures, API-first development, microservices, and scalable platform modernization.
Ecosystem Knowledge
The global payments and fintech landscape is as much about regulatory navigation and ecosystem collaboration as it is about technology. We operate across:
- Digital wallets and super-app ecosystems
- Open Banking & API-driven innovation
- Real-time payments and cross-border settlement networks
- Merchant acquiring, PSPs, and omnichannel commerce
- Digital assets, blockchain, and DeFi infrastructure
- AI, Machine Learning & Intelligent Automation
- Cloud-native architectures
- Data monetization leveraging advanced analytics and API ecosystems.
- Cybersecurity & Digital Identity frameworks
Niche Areas of Hyper Focus
Our market intelligence is sharpened by ongoing search mandates and advisory work in highly specialized areas including:
- Platform & System Modernization: Leading transformations from batch-based legacy systems to cloud-native, event-driven architectures.
- Cloud Technologies and Services: Multi-cloud strategies that balance latency, regulatory data residency, and cost optimization.
- Digital Identity: (KYC, AML, IAM, Biometrics & Tokenization). Building trust in high-volume, high-risk environments with next-gen identity frameworks.
- DevOps & Agile: Enabling engineering velocity through cultural change and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Open Banking & APIs: Orchestrating API ecosystems that enable secure data-sharing and new revenue streams.
- AI Strategy & Implementation: Identifying leaders who can operationalize AI in payments, from real-time fraud detection to customer experience personalization.
- Product & Software Engineering / Application Development: Delivering user-centric, compliant, and scalable digital applications in regulated markets.
- Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure & Architecture: Designing fault-tolerant systems to meet five-nines uptime in mission-critical payments.
- UX and UI Design: Crafting intuitive interfaces for complex payment and transactional flows across multi-device experiences.
- Customer Experience: Driving engagement and retention with personalized, omnichannel strategies.
- Productivity Engineering & Enablement: Implementing developer experience (DevEx) and Developer Relations (DevRel) strategies that maximize output and innovation.
- Customer Acquisition & Life-Cycle Management: Scaling customer bases while optimizing cost-to-serve and churn rates.
- RegTech (Governance, Regulation & Compliance): Applying technology to streamline compliance in multi-jurisdictional operations.
- Treasury & Liquidity Management: Balancing liquidity optimization with real-time cash visibility.
- Localization & International Expansion: Adapting products, services and solutions for local market regulations, consumer behavior, and settlement norms.
- Data Science: Using predictive modeling to detect fraud, segment customers, and optimize pricing.
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Bridging traditional finance with blockchain-based protocols and tokenized assets.
Industry Adjacency & Sector Crossover
While our Practice Group is dedicated primarily to money movement, fintech, and payments, our expertise and network extend into adjacent digital verticals where leadership skill sets, technology capabilities, and market dynamics align. This includes:
EduTech
Companies driving digital learning platforms, subscription models, and secure payment integration for education ecosystems.
RegTech
Organizations or functional disciplines that are focused on applying advanced analytics, AI, and automation to meet evolving regulatory and compliance requirements across industries.
InsurTech
Companies pioneering digital policy administration, claims automation, risk modeling, and embedded insurance solutions.
Big Tech & Digital Platforms
Companies scaling global, high-availability platforms, managing complex data ecosystems, and driving innovation across diverse consumer and enterprise products.
MarTech & AdTech
Companies delivering data-driven customer acquisition, lifecycle engagement, and personalization solutions, leveraging AI, analytics, and omnichannel capabilities.
HealthTech
Companies applying digital innovation, AI, and secure data management to healthcare delivery, telemedicine, and patient experience platforms.
WealthTech & InvestTech
Organizations or divisions of companies that are focused on developing digital investment platforms, robo-advisory services, and next-gen asset management solutions.
PropTech
Organizations or divisions of companies that are focused on bringing digital transformation to real estate transactions, asset management, and smart building ecosystems.
ClimateTech & CleanTech
Innovators using technology, analytics, and data to advance sustainability, carbon management, and clean energy solutions.
RetailTech & eCommerce
Companies creating frictionless, omni-channel retail experiences, embedded payment solutions, and AI-driven merchandising.
GovTech
Companies modernizing public sector services with secure digital infrastructure, data-driven policy, and citizen experience innovation.
CyberTech
Companies or internal functions that are building advanced security platforms, threat intelligence capabilities, fraud, identity management and resilience solutions for high-risk industries.
In each of these adjacent industry sectors, we bring the same deep network, market insight, and precision search methodology that defines our work in fintech and payments, ensuring clients benefit from leadership that can deliver transformation across the broader digital economy.
Why Clients and Candidates Trust Us
Our reputation is built on decades of focus in this sector, enabling us to see around corners, understand and anticipate trends and engage with our clients and candidates in the language they understand.
We are present at industry inflection points, whether it’s PSD3 & PSR reshaping European payments; transitions to new regulatory frameworks for open banking and consumer driven finance; the acceleration of real-time rails; concerns around fraud, data privacy; questions around crypto or CBDCs or the rapid rise of agentic AI and generative AI and the need for tighter regulation, we are there to support and help our clients navigate the next wave.
Clients trust us because we work as part of their team, representing their brand with accuracy, discretion, and authority. By supporting both strategic C-suite hires and execution-critical intermediate leaders, we ensure every layer of leadership is aligned, capable, and ready to deliver.
This insider perspective, coupled with a global network of trusted relationships and an operator’s understanding of execution, makes us more than search partners...we are strategic allies. We connect you to leaders who will transform your business and redefine your industry.