Management
Paul Templeman
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Providing the overall direction for PsiPay and its strong network of partnerships and solutions is Paul Templeman, who launched the Company in 2006 and continues to drive PsiPay’s success through unparalleled knowledge of the payment industry and strategic company positioning. As a key part in the Company’s product portfolio, Paul negotiated the acquisition of the EcoCard brand, a stored value internet based account platform.
Previously, as the Chief Executive Officer of Neteller UK, Paul, was instrumental in the successful IPO of the company, raising an initial £35m followed by a secondary placing of £219m. Paul steered the Company through the regulatory hurdles resulting in its successful application to become one of the very first e-money issuers to be authorised and regulated by the FSA under the EU E-Money Directive. Prior to this, Paul led the roll out of innovative payment solutions with Proc Cyber Services, a leading provider of payment solutions to the online gaming industry. He was formerly Business Development Director of Payment Trust, (now an RBS subsidiary), a payment processor offering sophisticated risk management solutions, whilst earlier in his career, Paul was Managing Director of Techad MK Ltd, where he negotiated the successful division and sale of the company to Danka and to Canon UK.
John Daw
Chief Finance Officer
John Daw has been part of PsiPay management team since 2008. John is qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte, and has more than 20 years of experience within the Financial Services industry.
Prior to joining the Company, John served as a Finance Director with the venture capital group Schroder Ventures (Permira) and subsequently left the group to set up his own payment processing organisation, founding the first European company to use the world ATM network for international money transfer. More recently, John created the Hertfordshire group of companies with interests in asset finance, telemarketing, and IT. At present, John Daw is responsible for both the financial management of PsiPay and all matters relating to FSA regulations and MasterCard.
Dennis Staines
Chief Technology Officer
Dennis Staines has more than 30 years of experience in Information Technology. Dennis started his career in IT with Wang and Data General and then he has been working for a number of specialist payment companies including Clear Commerce, ProcCyber (DataCash), IvoBank, and Neteller, where he was the CTO of Neteller UK.
Dennis Staines has an expert knowledge of solution design, transaction processing and credit card fraud, and therefore he is ideally placed to propel the PsiPay platform to the forefront of the global payments industry.
John Briggs
General Manager
John Briggs’s current role is PsiPay’s General Manager, where he is responsible for compliance, risk and security and product development. John has over 25 years of experience working within the international payments industry, beginning his career with American Express and then joining Visa International where he held management positions in EMEA VisaNet Sales and Marketing and EU acceptance. John then joined CyberCash, who were pioneers in internet card processing, micro payments and w-wallet technology, as UK Managing Director.
More recently he occupied the role of Managing Director of TrustMarque, a market leader in providing fraud detection services for high risk internet merchants, and following the successful sale of TrustMarque to the Royal Bank of Scotland, John founded Centurion Consulting Services to provide advisory consulting services in payment technology. John Briggs’s academic background includes an MBA from the University of Brighton.
