Our mission
Create virtually fraud-free and frictionless remote payments
Safecypher Limited is a technology company that develops innovations for the payments industry. Its customers are credit and debit card issuers that use Safecypher technology to make online card transactions secure and frictionless for merchants and cardholders.
Our goals are to help issuers:
- Strengthen security
- Improve customer experience
- Reduce cost of fraud
- Minimise challenges
- Avoid liability shift
- Increase revenue
Directors and investors
Different perspectives of the payments sector and an investor with impeccable credentials
Executive directors
Ben Jordan
Founder and CEO
- New product innovator and delivery expert
- Senior commercial roles within Esso, BNP Paribas and DCC plc
- Highly skilled in security and fraud prevention
Jo Bamford
Chairman and principal investor
- Board member of JCB Ltd for over 10 years
- Green entrepreneur, ensuring zero-emission transport is at the top of the political and consumer agendas
- Rescued Wrightbus from administration and built the first hydrogen-powered double-decker bus
Jamie Burns
Director
- Group CFO for Jo Bamford
- Board member across all subsidiaries and responsible for strategic opportunities assessment
- 17 years at PwC, leading Restructuring M&A team in London
Non-executive directors
Adrian Cannon
- Highly successful career in payments
- Ex-CEO at Omnio Group and Omnio EMI Ltd and Executive member of UK Payments Council
Lindsay Robertson
- Senior executive in financial services and the public sector
- Director at Witstock and currently runs Optimus Cards
Graham Peacop
- Extensive background in banking and payments
- Held senior roles at NatWest, MasterCard and was CEO of the UK Cards Association
Graham Lister
- Commercial strategist with a long successful career in the oil industry
- Built one of the largest UK fuel card resellers, later sold to DCC plc
Dave Smith
- Consumer lending specialist with extensive experience in venture capital-backed start-ups in the UK and Europe
- Held senior roles in the UK, US and Europe with GE Capital, RBS, SAV Credit (now NewDay) and specialist lending and recovery businesses