About Sendi Young

Entrepreneurial and versatile fintech executive with +16 years’ international experience and Harvard MBA.

I have been described as a “thoughtful and pragmatic” and “compassionate leader”, and as someone with an “ability to move fast from the big strategic picture to the tactical and pragmatic action, and back.”

My style has been described as “naturally collaborative, inclusive and open without losing sight of outcomes and commercial impact.”

Passionate about the potential of emerging technologies to redefine payments – particularly Blockchain, DLT, cryptocurrencies.

Experienced in:

– building and leading high-performing teams

– developing and executing strategy

– sales/business development with a track record of achieving ambitious targets

– driving growth/ building new solutions/ business areas/ partnerships

– product commercialisation, developing and executing multi-market go-to-market strategies

– management consulting, including organisational optimisation

– financial services/payments industry, including fintech-corporate collaborations, innovation, Open Banking/ PSD2, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Fintech solutions, Real time payments, and national payments digitisation.

Member of 30% Club, Women on the Wharf and Envision UK Business Mentor volunteer.

Hold dual UK & EU nationality.