Simon Taylor

Co-Founder

Romford, England, United Kingdom24 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of Fintech Brainfood with 45k subscribers.
Two decades of experience in financial services.
Expert in Blockchain and Embedded Finance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a focus on Blockchain and payment solutions.

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ConsultancyProduct DevelopmentProduct DesignMobileThought LeadershipProduct ManagementMarketing StrategySocial MediaMobile PaymentsMobile CommerceNFCPayment SystemsPayment SolutionsMobile BankingProduct Innovation

About

Simon Taylor is the Founder of Fintech Brainfood 🧠. Simon has been immersed in the technology of financial services for as long as he’s been working and is consistently voted one of the most influential people in Banking, Insurance and Fintech by banks, his peers and a number of industry bodies. Simon runs Fintech Brainfood, the weekly newsletter subscribed to by over 45k people at banks, fintech companies and VCs. A regular speaker, media presenter and podcaster, Simon has spent two decades in financial services in payments, banking, crypto and consulting. Simon is now focused on bringing payments onchain at Tempo, the payments-focused Blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. Specialties: Embedded Finance, Blockchain, Crypto Assets, Fraud, Cryptocurrencies, FinTech, FinServ, Digital Strategy, Digital Compliance, Digital Operating Models, User Experience Design, Service Design, Mobile Banking, Personal Financial Management tools, eCommerce, Online Proposition Development,, 金融科技.

Experience

24 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs

Average Tenure

8 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Tempo

Head of Market Development

Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Sardine

Strategic Advisor

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

11:fs

2 roles

Co-Founder

May 2021 – Apr 2022 · 11 mos

Co-Founder / Head of Ventures

Jun 2016 – May 2021 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Leading client engagements

Fintech brainfood

Founder

May 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Global digital finance

Board Member and Founder

Feb 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Global Digital Finance is an industry body driving the acceleration and adoption of digital finance to support the next era of digitised commerce, dedicated to the advancement of next generation technologies in finance.

Barclays

2 roles

Blockchain R+D VP

Jul 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

VP Mobile Delivery

May 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

Tsys

2 roles

Innovation Lead

Mar 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Project Manager

Mar 2009 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr

Delivered £2.5 Million Network link between key Data Center sites, under budget and on schedule despite Vendor delays
Managed the Migration of vital Server Infrastructure, co-ordinating a service outage with clients, timing changes and co-ordinating resource to relocate an Enterprise web Service in the space of one weekend.
Negotiated tough P3 Infrastructure Upgrade despite a series of historic issues with the system and lack of business process
Developed Key Relationships across an international team to deliver a high profile IBM VTS system under budget and ahead of schedule.
Owned project budgets, accountable for 5 year spend budgeting within Data Center
Resourced to lead high visibility, client driven project which is the result of a Service Improvement Plan with intensive client focus

Bt global services

Business Analyst

Sep 2000 – Jul 2008 · 7 yrs 10 mos

Strategic Business Analyst 2006 – DATE
Implemented Software Development Lifecycle across Infrastructure business directorate
Delivered 51% efficiency improvement
Key contact for all feedback on planned and implemented changes.
SDLC rolled out on time, and on budget.
Ensured all contractual milestones met for software delivery - ‘right first time’