Duygu Tasdelen-Stavropoulos brings over 20 years of experience in financial services, including more than a decade in the Payments industry. Her career spans Turkey, Greece, and the UK, where she has worked with leading institutions such as Ernst & Young, Citibank, Barclays, and Bank of America.In her current role as Head of Commercial Card for EMEA at Bank of America, Duygu focuses on advancing commercial payment solutions, with an emphasis on improving B2B payments through strategic partnerships. Her work supports the expansion of product offerings and enhances customer experiences across diverse markets.Outside of her professional responsibilities, Duygu is a mother of two and values maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Based between the UK and Greece, she manages the challenges of an international role while prioritizing family life.

Robin is in charge of product strategy, partnerships, and commercialization, for Citi’s B2B Payments offering. He joined Citi at the start of 2020, as part of the Commercial Cards Division within Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions.

Ian Cheng is a visionary business executive with the proven track record of driving innovation and profitable growth at Fortune 500 companies across automotive, luxury retail, supply chain, semiconductors, and financial services sectors.

Currently serving as the enterprise digital strategy leader at Jaguar Land Rover, Ian is spearheading the AI, Data, Cloud, and Technology strategies, and transformation initiatives in partnership with the C-suite. By aligning technology with the company’s modernist design philosophy, Ian is driving desirability and emotional engagement with global clients. He is instrumental in shaping the company’s digital vision and priorities, overseeing a global innovation portfolio of AI, Web3, automation, connectivity, and electrification initiatives. By prioritising actionable execution and managing the end-to-end process, Ian ensures these initiatives deliver tangible business outcomes and a sustainable competitive advantage.

A passionate advocate for using technology to build a more connected and sustainable future, Ian graduated from London Business School in MBA with Distinctions, and Harvard University in Computer Science, Data Analytics.

Linda Weston is an accomplished payments executive with more than 25 years of experience in the Payments Industry. She is currently leading the strategic business and cultural transformation of the commercial cards division at Lloyds. Recognised for her authentic leadership style, Linda has a strong history of formulating and implementing effective strategic plans that support sustained growth and scalability. Her leadership has consistently resulted in exceptional outcomes for customers and teams alike, demonstrated throughout her distinguished career at Barclaycard Payments, J.P. Morgan, and NatWest.

Brian Tomkins is managing director, global head of commercial cards for HSBC’s Global payments solutions business. He leads the business, strategy, product development, and commercialisation for the full suite of Card products and solutions and has been with HSBC for 10 years. Prior to joining HSBC, Brian spent 15 years at Citi, where he held various senior roles in Europe and the U.S.

Nesrin has over 20 years extensive experience in the payments industry in commercial, strategic and product roles. Together with her teams she delivered multi-million euro’s results across markets. She is as passionate about people as about payments. Leading teams, clients and partners to results and growth. With her ‘can do’ mentality she has driven and adopted many strategic innovations based on client needs and centricity.

Nesrin joined ING Commercial Cards in 2011 where the business grew double digits year on year. Rolling out different solutions into many markets in Europe in different currencies establishing ING as a large European issuer.

Prior to ING Bank, Nesrin held several global relationship and business development roles within American Express.

Appointed in September 2018 Global Head of Commercial Cards Sales at BNP Paribas, leading the Sales and Account Management team in Europe.Prior to this role, Karim was Vice President the Global Clients Group team in Europe at American Express He started his career at American Express in 1992 straight after graduation where he held several roles in Marketing and Key Account Management in Germany, in the UK and in France. Karim holds a Diplom-Kaufmann (MBA) from the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. He also holds a Specialised Master in “Consulting & Coaching for Change” from HEC Paris and Saïd Business School, Oxford University.Karim is currently being trained to a Professional Coach. He is actively engaged in change management, diversity & inclusion topics.

Erwan is a commercial card expert with over 20 years’ experience in customer centric and leadership roles. Passionate building and leading diverse teams that drive exceptional business growth and delivers customer success.
With a strong focus on sales and revenue generation, he develops commercialisation strategies and leads a team of regional advisors for HSBC, spearheading Corporate Card consultations that leverage innovative card-based solutions to deliver working capital and process optimisation.

Robert Courtneidge is a pre-eminent payments expert and solicitor with over 30 years of experience across the cards and payment systems landscape. Formerly the CEO of an electronic money issuer and General Counsel for Citibank, he offers a unique 360-degree perspective on the industry, ranging from high-level corporate strategy to intricate regulatory compliance. Robert has been recognised by Chambers UK (Band 1) as an extremely prominent figure in payment law, particularly for his expertise in e-money, and has worked closely with HM Treasury, the Financial Conduct Authority, and the Bank of England. A frequent global spokesperson, he provides strategic guidance on the evolution of the European payments industry, specifically regarding the Payment Services Directive, blockchain, stablecoins, tokenised deposits, and Central Bank Digital Currencies. As a Co-founder and policy advisor of The Payments Association, Robert remains at the forefront of the sector, having been ranked No. 1 in the Payments Power 10 and serving as a judge for both the PAY360 and The Card & Payment Awards for over 15 years.

Based in Brussels since 2003, Monica is the owner and managing director of TrustEuAffairs. TrustEuAffairs advises its clients since 2013 on Eu legislative relevant initiatives, with a focus on payment systems and digital payments, including crypto assets.
Monica has previously been Senior Manager for EU Relations and Regulatory Affairs in the Legal Department of Visa for more than ten years, being responsible for the relations with the European Institutions as well as with various national regulators.
Monica holds a Master’s Degree in Economics, European Law oriented, from L.U.I.S.S.- Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy.

Ashley Bowling is Vice President of the Corporate Solutions Business Development, Europe at Mastercard. He is based in London and leads a team of Payments and B2B Acceptance Specialists across Europe who work with strategic issuers and technology partners to support new commercial growth opportunities. Ashley has over 20 years’ experience in the Commercial Payments industry having worked across the T&E, B2B, and Cross Border Payments segments. Before joining Mastercard Ashley spent several years American Express where he held roles in business development, relationship management, product management & strategy. Ashley’ s early career also included leadership roles in Internet Technology and ERP Systems sales.

Patrick is senior advisor at Arthur Dr. Little managing consulting firm. He also active as business angel, board member and investor in travel & payment start-ups. Patrick was CEO at Lufthansa AirPlus where he headed their global expansion strategy and developed AirPlus into one of the leading commercial card issuers. Earlier he led Visa Germany, and was SVP consumer marketing at Commerzbank. In his career he worked in the USA, UK and Germany, several times in start/scale-ups. He holds a Master of economics degree of Hamburg University. 2017 Patrick was named one of the ‘25 most influential’ by Business travel news. Currently Patrick volunteers for VDR, the German business travel association. He leads their task force ‘restart business travel’.

Greg Toussaint is a director in the Paris office with Greg 15 years of consulting experience with EDC in business strategy for clients in Asia, Europe, North and South America. Grégoire has worked in EDC London’s, Sydney’s and Paris’ offices and developed global perspectives on payments.

Within EDC, Greg leads EDC’s B2B payments practice and has developed specific expertise in retail and travel payments, working for all actors in the payments value chain (e.g. central banks, issuers, acquirers, payment schemes, merchants and payment providers). Outside of work, Greg plays the saxophone and loves baking cakes.

Strategy consulting and M&A advisory for payments has been Frank’s career since 1996 when he joined the boutique firm First Annapolis Consulting, Inc. (“FA”) where he focused on card strategy, launch, and optimization for networks, national & regional financial institutions, technology companies, and private equity firms in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Latin America.  Following the acquisition of FA in 2017, Frank continued as a Managing Director within Accenture Strategy on the payments team.  Windward Strategy, Inc. was founded by him in 2020 to provide strategy consulting with a focus on B2B payments.

David has over 25 years of global experience in payments and digital infrastructure. As a fintech co-founder, advisor and product leader, he works with payment networks, banks, issuers, fintechs, tech platforms and investors in EMEA, US and APAC. Since establishing PaySavi in 2018, David has led product builds and launches, trained client teams and contributed to projects across commercial and consumer cards, Open Banking, regulatory readiness and financial data integration.

He also supports fintechs to go from funding to launch, supporting investors with due diligence and post-investment scale, and advising on strategy, regulation, and tech architecture.

Recognised as an industry expert, he is regularly invited to speak with business associations, end users and institutions like the Bank of England and UK Parliament.

Rene Stynen joined Boost Payment Solutions in 2006 to help build its business in EMEA, APAC and LAC, and currently serves as Head of business development for EMEA. Rene has 30 years of experience in commercial payments this year, starting out initially with Diners Club International, and prior to Boost having served in various roles at Citibank, as Head of large market & public sector products at Mastercard Europe, and as senior consultant at Paytech Group.

Simon has over 30 years of experience in finance, treasury and transaction banking across both developed and emerging markets. Simon was previously Chief Customer Officer at ClearBank and lead the client management, product & marketing teams at the UK’s first cloud based infrastructure clearing bank.

Prior to joining ClearBank in 2019, Simon spent over 20 years at JPMorgan. During his time at the bank, he was responsible for treasury solutions in EMEA, supporting clients around the world. He was also Head of Corporate Sales in EMEA from 2012 to 2015 and Asia Regional Executive for Treasury Services from 2006 to 2010, based in Hong Kong.

Simon is actively involved in UK FinTech as a Mentor for TechStars Accelerator programme.

Allan joined First Annapolis in 2010 working in Commercial Payments as well as the firm’s Amsterdam office.  After broadening his professional experiences through roles in brand management and e-commerce, Allan joined Windward in early 2025 to focus on e-commerce and payments convergence.

Louis is a Manager at the Edgar, Dunn & Company Paris office. He has joined the firm in March 2021 and has graduated with an MBA from ESCP Business school in 2020. Prior to joining EDC, Louis has combined 7 years of experience in the banking and aviation industries. Louis enjoys witnessing the modernisation of payments and payment related processes in B2B ecosystems that drive the ongoing change of the financial institutions landscape. When Louis is not supporting clients in various markets to solve payment problems, he will play competitive golf and plan surfing trips.

Lucy is senior vice president of Visa Commercial Solutions Europe. She is responsible for establishing and executing the strategy for Visa’s Europe commercial business, working closely with issuers, acquirers, technology partners and emerging providers to provide innovative solutions.

Prior to joining Visa, Lucy was a managing director at Barclays responsible for Fintech banking in Europe. Prior to Barclays, Lucy worked as global head of fintech banking at Standard Chartered in London, and previously in New York at J.P. Morgan. Lucy has deep experience advancing strategic payments and fintech innovation. She’s led banking, sales, digital solutioning and partnerships teams to deliver strong commercial results across corporate finance, transaction banking, treasury management and financial markets.

Jill leads Visa’s European SMB team, working closely with banks, fintechs, ISVs etc to bring innovative solutions to Europe’s small businesses. Jill has been at Visa for 8 years, working in product strategy and sales across commercial payments. Before joining Visa, Jill worked in corporate strategy the insurance and banking sectors.