About APEXX

"APEXX is a truly global Payment Orchestration Layer built for enterprise customers. Through our independence and customer - first approach, we simplify a complex payments ecosystem”

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Meet the executives guiding us to success at APEXX Global

Rodney Bain
President, USA & Co-Founder

Specialist in global acquiring, complex payment acceptance setups, and innovation in payment technology.

Previously worked as:

  • Vice President: Partnerships, EVO Payments International, the payment arm of Deutsche Bank, Bank of Ireland, CITI, and PKO.
  • Business Development Manager at Yoyo Wallet in-store mobile transactions and loyalty.
Peter Keenan
CEO & Co-Founder

Specialist in retail & eCommerce leadership, mobile payments, and payment innovation. Qualified Chartered Accountant.

Previously worked as:

  • CEO of Zapp, Fintech startup sold to Mastercard
  • HSBC Global Head of Customer Propositions
  • Managing Director & Group Executive Committee Member Dixons Group (Curry’s, PC World)
Toreson Lloyd
CCO & Co-Founder

Over ten years experience in the payments industry. Specialist in global acquiring, cross-border eCommerce & commercial strategy.

Previously worked as:

  • Vice President, relationship management: WorldPay
  • Senior Relationship Manager, Airlines: WorldPay
  • Business Development Manager: American Express
  • Captain: British Army
JJ
Senior VP Customer Service

Over 6 years of experience in the payments industry. Specialist in disruptive payments product development and payments implementation.

Previously worked as:

  • Project Manager & Implementation Consultant at CACI Ltd
  • Implementation Manager at Worldpay
  • Implementation Manager at Percolate Inc.
Tara Farrer
Senior VP Operations

Experienced in scaling operations of high-growth Fintech businesses. A seasoned operations professional with Prince II, Data Analytics and GDPR qualifications.

Previously worked as:

  • Developed the operations at Yoyo Wallet (mobile payment and loyalty solution) and Tradingpoll (a crowd wisdom theory platform predicting financial market direction).
Rajesh Nichani
Chief Technology Officer

Over 12 years experience delivering enterprise payments processing systems. Specialist in technology, architecture, agile software delivery. Payments industry expert.

Previously worked as:

  • Director & Advisor FinTech at RIA Advisory
  • Head of Application Delivery at Worldpay
  • Software Development Manager at Visa Europe
Katherine Wesolowski
Head of Legal

Head of Legal

Simon Hughes
Head of Global Sales & Partnerships

Head of Partnerships & Travel

One Team . Three Continents

Our teams work collaboratively across the business to deliver nothing short of perfection for our merchants. We’ve got 3 offices around the world, from London, New York to India. And we’re just getting started!

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Our Story

2015

APEXX founders had an epiphany

Our wide experience of the payments industry had revealed that the merchant community was being overcharged and under-serviced, encumbered with legacy technology systems, and the market was suffering from an innovation deficit. As a result, we decided to build a one stop shop for all merchant payment needs with complete provider agnosticism to always deliver the best result for the merchant.

2016

APEXX began an intensive tech build that would lay the foundation for the groundbreaking APEXX Gateway product that exists today.

During this period, we started to pull together the extensive partnership list that now gives us global acquiring services with partners all over the globe, as well as over 200 local APM integrations, and unrivalled access to additional providers of fraud, DCC, and much more besides.

2017

APEXX entered the marketplace

APEXX entered the marketplace to a fanfare of industry acclaim, scooping several innovation awards across the payments industry as the marketplace recognised the disruptive intent and capabilities of the APEXX platform. Recognition came from the Payments Awards in the form of the ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ Award as well as several other high profile industry accolades.

2018-2019

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships and dramatically increasing the number of processing merchants and APEXX staff operating from our home in Shoreditch on London’s tech-roundabout. Always keen to be early adopters we became the first UK-based gateway to offer the new Russian MIR card scheme to our merchants. This growth and vision led to APEXX becoming the first company to ever win successive ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ at the Payments Awards. This period also saw APEXX launch our Surcharge Inspector, which was the first tool of its kind to go to market globally.

2020-2021

APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style.

The unusual, and difficult, year that has been 2020 has seen APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style. The year began with the successful completion of our Series A fundraise, which secured $10m in funding to be put towards the development of more ground-breaking products. The APEXX vision for payments orchestration has also been hugely backed by the enterprise merchant community. Far-reaching processing partnerships with Tier 1 merchants such as ASOS and Avon are a tribute to this, as well as strategic partnerships with PayPal and the PayPal Commerce Platform (PPCP) are a testament to this.

With 2021 approaching we have never been more confident in our mission to be the world’s most merchant centric payments provider.

2015

APEXX founders had an epiphany

Our wide experience of the payments industry had revealed that the merchant community was being overcharged and under-serviced, encumbered with legacy technology systems, and the market was suffering from an innovation deficit. As a result, we decided to build a one stop shop for all merchant payment needs with complete provider agnosticism to always deliver the best result for the merchant.

2016

APEXX began an intensive tech build that would lay the foundation for the groundbreaking APEXX Gateway product that exists today.

During this period, we started to pull together the extensive partnership list that now gives us global acquiring services with partners all over the globe, as well as over 200 local APM integrations, and unrivalled access to additional providers of fraud, DCC, and much more besides.

2017

APEXX entered the marketplace

APEXX entered the marketplace to a fanfare of industry acclaim, scooping several innovation awards across the payments industry as the marketplace recognised the disruptive intent and capabilities of the APEXX platform. Recognition came from the Payments Awards in the form of the ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ Award as well as several other high profile industry accolades.

2018-2019

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships and dramatically increasing the number of processing merchants and APEXX staff operating from our home in Shoreditch on London’s tech-roundabout. Always keen to be early adopters we became the first UK-based gateway to offer the new Russian MIR card scheme to our merchants. This growth and vision led to APEXX becoming the first company to ever win successive ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ at the Payments Awards. This period also saw APEXX launch our Surcharge Inspector, which was the first tool of its kind to go to market globally.

2020-2021

APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style.

The unusual, and difficult, year that has been 2020 has seen APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style. The year began with the successful completion of our Series A fundraise, which secured $10m in funding to be put towards the development of more ground-breaking products. The APEXX vision for payments orchestration has also been hugely backed by the enterprise merchant community. Far-reaching processing partnerships with Tier 1 merchants such as ASOS and Avon are a tribute to this, as well as strategic partnerships with PayPal and the PayPal Commerce Platform (PPCP) are a testament to this.

With 2021 approaching we have never been more confident in our mission to be the world’s most merchant centric payments provider.

2015

APEXX founders had an epiphany

Our wide experience of the payments industry had revealed that the merchant community was being overcharged and under-serviced, encumbered with legacy technology systems, and the market was suffering from an innovation deficit. As a result, we decided to build a one stop shop for all merchant payment needs with complete provider agnosticism to always deliver the best result for the merchant.

2016

APEXX began an intensive tech build that would lay the foundation for the groundbreaking APEXX Gateway product that exists today.

During this period, we started to pull together the extensive partnership list that now gives us global acquiring services with partners all over the globe, as well as over 200 local APM integrations, and unrivalled access to additional providers of fraud, DCC, and much more besides.

2017

APEXX entered the marketplace

APEXX entered the marketplace to a fanfare of industry acclaim, scooping several innovation awards across the payments industry as the marketplace recognised the disruptive intent and capabilities of the APEXX platform. Recognition came from the Payments Awards in the form of the ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ Award as well as several other high profile industry accolades.

2018-2019

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships and dramatically increasing the number of processing merchants and APEXX staff operating from our home in Shoreditch on London’s tech-roundabout. Always keen to be early adopters we became the first UK-based gateway to offer the new Russian MIR card scheme to our merchants. This growth and vision led to APEXX becoming the first company to ever win successive ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ at the Payments Awards. This period also saw APEXX launch our Surcharge Inspector, which was the first tool of its kind to go to market globally.

2020-2021

APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style.

The unusual, and difficult, year that has been 2020 has seen APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style. The year began with the successful completion of our Series A fundraise, which secured $10m in funding to be put towards the development of more ground-breaking products. The APEXX vision for payments orchestration has also been hugely backed by the enterprise merchant community. Far-reaching processing partnerships with Tier 1 merchants such as ASOS and Avon are a tribute to this, as well as strategic partnerships with PayPal and the PayPal Commerce Platform (PPCP) are a testament to this.

With 2021 approaching we have never been more confident in our mission to be the world’s most merchant centric payments provider.

2015

APEXX founders had an epiphany

Our wide experience of the payments industry had revealed that the merchant community was being overcharged and under-serviced, encumbered with legacy technology systems, and the market was suffering from an innovation deficit. As a result, we decided to build a one stop shop for all merchant payment needs with complete provider agnosticism to always deliver the best result for the merchant.

2016

APEXX began an intensive tech build that would lay the foundation for the groundbreaking APEXX Gateway product that exists today.

During this period, we started to pull together the extensive partnership list that now gives us global acquiring services with partners all over the globe, as well as over 200 local APM integrations, and unrivalled access to additional providers of fraud, DCC, and much more besides.

2017

APEXX entered the marketplace

APEXX entered the marketplace to a fanfare of industry acclaim, scooping several innovation awards across the payments industry as the marketplace recognised the disruptive intent and capabilities of the APEXX platform. Recognition came from the Payments Awards in the form of the ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ Award as well as several other high profile industry accolades.

2018-2019

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships and dramatically increasing the number of processing merchants and APEXX staff operating from our home in Shoreditch on London’s tech-roundabout. Always keen to be early adopters we became the first UK-based gateway to offer the new Russian MIR card scheme to our merchants. This growth and vision led to APEXX becoming the first company to ever win successive ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ at the Payments Awards. This period also saw APEXX launch our Surcharge Inspector, which was the first tool of its kind to go to market globally.

2020-2021

APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style.

The unusual, and difficult, year that has been 2020 has seen APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style. The year began with the successful completion of our Series A fundraise, which secured $10m in funding to be put towards the development of more ground-breaking products. The APEXX vision for payments orchestration has also been hugely backed by the enterprise merchant community. Far-reaching processing partnerships with Tier 1 merchants such as ASOS and Avon are a tribute to this, as well as strategic partnerships with PayPal and the PayPal Commerce Platform (PPCP) are a testament to this.

With 2021 approaching we have never been more confident in our mission to be the world’s most merchant centric payments provider.

2015

APEXX founders had an epiphany

Our wide experience of the payments industry had revealed that the merchant community was being overcharged and under-serviced, encumbered with legacy technology systems, and the market was suffering from an innovation deficit. As a result, we decided to build a one stop shop for all merchant payment needs with complete provider agnosticism to always deliver the best result for the merchant.

2016

APEXX began an intensive tech build that would lay the foundation for the groundbreaking APEXX Gateway product that exists today.

During this period, we started to pull together the extensive partnership list that now gives us global acquiring services with partners all over the globe, as well as over 200 local APM integrations, and unrivalled access to additional providers of fraud, DCC, and much more besides.

2017

APEXX entered the marketplace

APEXX entered the marketplace to a fanfare of industry acclaim, scooping several innovation awards across the payments industry as the marketplace recognised the disruptive intent and capabilities of the APEXX platform. Recognition came from the Payments Awards in the form of the ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ Award as well as several other high profile industry accolades.

2018-2019

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships

APEXX consolidate its place in the payments market by enacting several high-profile partnerships and dramatically increasing the number of processing merchants and APEXX staff operating from our home in Shoreditch on London’s tech-roundabout. Always keen to be early adopters we became the first UK-based gateway to offer the new Russian MIR card scheme to our merchants. This growth and vision led to APEXX becoming the first company to ever win successive ‘Most Disruptive Payment Solution’ at the Payments Awards. This period also saw APEXX launch our Surcharge Inspector, which was the first tool of its kind to go to market globally.

2020-2021

APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style.

The unusual, and difficult, year that has been 2020 has seen APEXX rise to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in some style. The year began with the successful completion of our Series A fundraise, which secured $10m in funding to be put towards the development of more ground-breaking products. The APEXX vision for payments orchestration has also been hugely backed by the enterprise merchant community. Far-reaching processing partnerships with Tier 1 merchants such as ASOS and Avon are a tribute to this, as well as strategic partnerships with PayPal and the PayPal Commerce Platform (PPCP) are a testament to this.

With 2021 approaching we have never been more confident in our mission to be the world’s most merchant centric payments provider.

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