About John Natalizia

A hands-on commercial and transformation executive-level leader with 20 years’ experience of which the last 15 years have been spent in the financial services, credit card and payments industry with strong focus on new and emerging digital technologies.

John is currently Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Snoop.

Formally Managing Director of Virgin Money’s new Digital Bank, reporting to the Virgin Money CEO, John was accountable for the design, build and launch of the E2E business covering Strategy, Proposition, Product, Commercial, Data & Analytics, Partnerships, Technology, Digital Enablement, Operations, Process Digitalisation, Business & Technical Architecture and regulatory responsibly for this business unit. During his 5 year tenure at Virgin Money, John held leadership positions designing, building and running new businesses including Programme Champion for the build, migration and successful launch of Virgin Money’s award winning Credit Card business; leading the team through a complex project, delivering both launch and migration on time and on budget.

Prior to joining Virgin Money, John was part of the Executive Team of MBNA Ltd with a focus on building the Bank’s new Strategic Development and Group Change function and designing and mobilising the largest transformational portfolio of work aimed at turning the organisation from product-centric to customer centric at the same time driving a significant process automation and digitalisation cost reduction programme for the UK business. Most notably, led the planning and execution of one of the most complex credit card and loan divestment programmes that involved 7 portfolios and businesses in the UK, Ireland and Spain originally part of the MBNA European business.

John is passionate about making a difference in the banking industry, Digital, FinTech and is driven by designing and implementing a truly improved experience to enable customers to understand, interact with, make the most of and importantly, feel better about their money.