Paul Taylor — Co-Founder

C-suite leader with 28+ years driving growth, transformation, and market leadership in financial services, fintech, AI, Agentic and B2B technology. From scaling SS&C Blue Prism (5x $80m to $420m) to leading global fincrime and payment innovations at SWIFT, my career has been defined by turning ambitious strategies into measurable outcomes - often in the most complex, regulated environments on the planet. I specialise in: Scaling organisations from high-potential to high-performance (5x ARR) Category definition, and high profile analyst relations work (14th place, to top 3 leader) Aligning sales, marketing, and operations into a single growth engine ($100m attributed pipeline p.a, with an 8x ROI) Positioning AI, agentic automation, and data-driven decision-making (inc Award winning Competitive Intelligence programs) Leading transformations that win customer loyalty and market share (churn defensive plays, 30 point NPS increases) I’ve steered budgets over $45M, led teams across EMEA, Americas, and APAC, and worked at the intersection of board-level vision and on-the-ground execution. My style blends strategic clarity with operational precision ensuring every decision moves the needle. Upshot - I help growth-minded companies maximise EBITDA, pivot GTM strategies, and build the operational resilience they need to scale.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AI expert with a strong focus on marketing and growth strategies.

Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

Experience: 28 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Go-to-market Strategy
Marketing Strategy
Strategic Planning
Marketing Communications
Product Marketing
Sales And Marketing
Product Management

Career Highlights

Scaled SS&C Blue Prism from $80m to $420m.
Led global fincrime innovations at SWIFT.
Achieved 30 point NPS increases in customer loyalty.

Work Experience

Sensore Health

Advisor (6 mos)

Hyphenated Limited

Founder (6 mos)

OpenDialog AI

Chief Marketing Officer (6 mos)

Magnus Consulting | Certified B Corp

Associate Consultant (6 mos)

Oculo

Strategic Advisor - Customer Advisory (0 mo)

Trust Links

Non Executive Director and Charity Trustee (2 yrs 2 mos)

SS&C Blue Prism

Chief Marketing Officer, Senior Vice President - SS&C Blue Prism (5 yrs 7 mos)

SWIFT

Global Head of Marketing Communications, Digital, Brand, CX, Innovation and Sibos (2 yrs 2 mos)

Global Head Financial Crime Compliance Product Marketing (4 mos)

Director - Head of Sales and Marketing Americas, UK, Ireland, Nordics Compliance Services (1 yr 11 mos)

Director - Product Marketing - Compliance Services (2 yrs)

Director - Global Head Matching Product Management/Marketing (1 yr 9 mos)

Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse AG - Vice President - EMEA Domestic Settlements (5 yrs 9 mos)

Credit Suisse First Boston - Euronext Settlements (2 yrs)

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank - Associate - EMEA Prime Brokerage Settlements (3 yrs)

Investec

Investec - Foreign & Unit Trust Settlements/Emerging Markets Middle Office (1 yr)

Schroders

Schroders - Unit Trust Settlements/Cash Management/Treasury (1 yr)

Royal Bank of Scotland

RBS - Corporate Client Services (2 yrs)

Education

Custom Program - Leading Forward at IESE Business School - University of Navarra

Law at SEEVIC

GCSE at Sweyne Rayleigh

Paul Taylor

Co-Founder

Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom28 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Scaled SS&C Blue Prism from $80m to $420m.
Led global fincrime innovations at SWIFT.
Achieved 30 point NPS increases in customer loyalty.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AI expert with a strong focus on marketing and growth strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go-to-market StrategyMarketing StrategyStrategic PlanningMarketing CommunicationsProduct MarketingSales And MarketingProduct Management

Other Skills

Healthcare ComplianceAI ImplementationDigital MarketingBrandingCompetitive IntelligenceDemand GenerationMiddle OfficeBack OfficePrime BrokerageSettlementInvestment BankingStrategyManagementSecurities LendingOutsourcing

About

Experience

28 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Sensore health

Advisor

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Providing Go to Market Advice to Graphene Trace, a pre-seed Healthtech company.
Sensore, developed by Graphene Trace, is an intelligent pressure sensing platform that helps prevent pressure ulcers, a £2.1 billion annual issue for UK health and social care.
With the right care, 95% of ulcers are preventable, yet most interventions rely on staff vigilance, manual checks, and inconsistent processes.
Sensore replaces this people heavy model with continuous, real-time monitoring that alerts carers to early risk - improving outcomes, reducing litigation, and strengthening Care Quality Commission (CQC) compliance.

Go-to-Market Strategy

Hyphenated limited

Founder

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Hyphenated was founded to help ambitious B2B companies navigate growth, transformation, operations and marketing complexity - without the overhead. Hyphenated partners fractionally with leadership teams to shape strategy, sharpen positioning, and turn ideas into impact.

Opendialog ai

Chief Marketing Officer

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Fractional CMO.
OpenDialog is redefining how businesses engage customers through intelligent AI agents that think, act, and communicate with context. Designed for complex, regulated sectors such as insurance, financial services, and healthcare, OpenDialog’s agents go beyond simple chatbots - they understand intent, manage compliance, and deliver outcomes that drive measurable business impact.

Marketing Strategy

Magnus consulting | certified b corp

Associate Consultant

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

I consult on strategic go to market challenges across a broad set of Magnus Consulting customers.
Magnus helps ambitious businesses align marketing and sales on where to play and how to win – embedding the strategy, behaviours, and systems for teams to succeed.

Oculo

Strategic Advisor - Customer Advisory

Nov 2025 – Nov 2025 · 0 mo · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Supporting Oculo's Leadership team with their Customer Advisory Program on a fractional, freelance basis.
Oculo empower's construction leaders to step effortlessly and confidently into a new age of insight-driven decision-making.

Trust links

Non Executive Director and Charity Trustee

Sep 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Essex, England, United Kingdom

Trust Links mission is to offer therapeutic gardening, recovery classes, social activities, employment training and coaching and more to people living with mental health conditions and for unpaid carer's, of any age.
Supporting over 1500 people in South East Essex, they are committed to building a stronger community and promoting sustainable, healthy, mindful living.

Strategic PlanningMarketing Strategy

Ss&c blue prism

Chief Marketing Officer, Senior Vice President - SS&C Blue Prism

Apr 2020 – Nov 2025 · 5 yrs 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

SS&C Blue Prism fuels the world’s most complex businesses with agentic automation that’s trusted, tested and ready to run.

Swift

5 roles

Global Head of Marketing Communications, Digital, Brand, CX, Innovation and Sibos

Feb 2018 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Responsible for marketing communications, digital marketing channels and design, Sibos and financial crime compliance product marketing.
SWIFT connects the global financial community, serving more than 11,000 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories.
By listening to their members’ needs and communicating effectively, Swift has a proven track record of mobilising their community to meet common objectives that increase security, encourage innovation, and strengthen the global financial system.
Judge for ING Fintech Village accelerator programme.
Led Sibos Sydney 2018 and London 2019, the largest Sibos ever and winner of three global exhibition awards.

Global Head Financial Crime Compliance Product Marketing

Promoted

Oct 2017 – Feb 2018 · 4 mos

Responsible for Product Marketing within Swift’s Financial Crime Compliance Division.
Financial Crime Compliance at SWIFT is a fast-evolving topic, with 10 new products launched in 5 years, covering Sanctions (Transaction and Name Screening, and Testing), KYC (for Correspondent Banks and Funds), and AML (Correspondent Bank Based).
The team was responsible for Marketing, Positioning, Launching, Lead Generation and Product and Sales Support globally.

Marketing CommunicationsDigital Marketing

Director - Head of Sales and Marketing Americas, UK, Ireland, Nordics Compliance Services

Nov 2015 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

Responsible for Marketing Swift’s Financial Crime Compliance solutions.
And regionally responsible for North America, Canada, Latin, Central and South America, UK, Ireland and Nordics Sales for Financial Crime Compliance Product and Services, delivering significant double digit growth of the footprint of all financial crime compliance products at SWIFT.

Product Marketing

Director - Product Marketing - Compliance Services

Nov 2013 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs

SWIFT, building upon already successful financial crime products in Sanctions Screening and Testing, launched an expanded financial crime product set including Data Analytic tools for Financial Crime Compliance, and a unique KYC Registry; in 2015 winning awards from FSTech and FTF News.
It was my responsibility to get those products to market!

Sales and Marketing

Director - Global Head Matching Product Management/Marketing

May 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

Global Post Trade/Matching Product and Market Management, including New Business Development, P&L ownership and Strategy. Incorporating SWIFT Accord, and SWIFT GETC product domains.

Product Marketing