Ben Jordan

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Ben has decades of experience in the payments industry. As managing director and chairman of CNS, he led the innovation and delivery of technologies that helped create value for the DCC Group’s businesses in the UK and Europe. Under Ben’s leadership as chief operating officer, Fuel Card Services grew turnover five-fold and profitability ten-fold, mostly from innovations related to card payments.

Bruce Bacon

Chief US Market Strategist

Bruce has an impressive record in strategic planning, business development and effectively entering new markets. At TSYS, he led international market growth including strategic entrances into Europe, China and Brazil. In his most recent TSYS role as Group Executive, he successfully led North American growth in Canada, Mexico and the US. Bruce’s leadership and experience in payments and international business are a benefit to Safecypher’s North American customers.

Richard Pickard

Project Management and Finance Manager

Richard has delivered many highly successful IT projects for Ben for over 15 years, managing budgets and delivery of technologies across the UK and Europe. These projects included vehicle fleet management, emissions reporting, retail petrol card loyalty scheme and digital fuel card applications. His experience and firm hand help Safecypher ensure that mission critical projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Dave Smith

Vice President of US Commercial Operations

Dave is a British American resident of California with a strong background in the payment and financial services industries, having held senior positions with GE Capital, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and SAV Credit, which is now Newday. Dave is on the Safecypher board and leads on commercial dealings with issuers and processors in the United States.

Andrew Perry

Chief Technology and Product Officer

Andy has extensive experience of the fast-evolving technological landscape that processors and issuers operate in worldwide. At Global Payments Inc., he was Vice President of Infrastructure and Operations. Andy supported global operations in his role as Vice President of Business Services Management at TSYS in the UK. Andy’s technical expertise and commercial insight into processor and issuer technologies, supports Safecypher’s ongoing technical innovation.

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