Monitise plc (LSE: MONI.L) is a global leader in Mobile Money solutions, with the proven technology and expertise to enable financial institutions and other service providers to offer a wide range of mobile banking and payments services to their customers in both developed and developing territories.
The British company has a global reach. As well as partnerships with most UK high street banks, Monitise provides services to over 240 financial institutions in the United States and has a global partnership with Visa International to deliver its services to more than 1.7 billion card-holders.
At the same time we are developing new markets in fast growing economies around the world including the Asia Pacific region and India.
Alastair Lukies has a proven track record of turning visions and concepts into real businesses. He founded Monitise in 2003. Two years later, Monitise was recognised as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and in June 2007 Alastair led the companys demerger from Morse and listing on the LSE’s AIM market.
He was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2011 Growing Business Awards. Prior to conceiving, financing and successfully building Monitise, Alastair was a co-founder of epolitix.com, the portal for Westminster, Whitehall and the devolved institutions.
As Vice President of Sales, Tony Frey is responsible for the strategy and management of Taulias global sales organization.
Tony has over 15 years of sales and executive management experience in the application and systems software industry where he has made significant contributions to high-growth startups as well as large, established organizations.
Prior to Taulia, Tony was Vice President of North American Sales at Monitise Inc., a leading provider of mobile financial services solutions. Tony was also Vice President of Americas Sales at Clairmail, a mobile banking solution provider. He has also led sales teams at Progress Software, IONA Technologies, Grand Central Communications, Kabira Technologies, NEON and Compuware Corp. Tony has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from The University of California at Berkeley where he was a member of the NCAA Collegiate Baseball Team.
Tony, his wife and two daughters live in the Bay Area.
Brian McBride is a Non-Executive Director on the BBC Executive Board. He joined the Board on 1 March 2012.
Brian began his career with Xerox and subsequently worked in Senior Executive/VP roles at IBM, Crosfield Electronics, Madge Networks, Dell Computers and as Managing Director of T-Mobile (UK).
He was Managing Director of Amazon.co.uk from January 2006 to September 2011, having led the company through its high growth period.
He was appointed Chairman of ASOS PLC, the leading on-line fashion retailer, in October 2012.
He is also a Non-Executive Director on the BBC’s Executive Board, Senior Non-Executive Director at Computacenter PLC, Non-Executive Director of Monitise PLC, a company specialising in mobile payments infrastructure, and is Senior Adviser with Scottish Equity Partners.
SVP, Strategy at Monitise
Lee Cameron is Chief Commercial Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Monitise. Lee joined Monitise in 2006 as General Counsel with responsibilities spanning legal, HR, business and corporate development.
Prior to joining Monitise, Lee was Legal Director at Morse plc, responsible for the legal, compliance and M & A functions. He has extensive international experience gained within the technology and financial services sectors at executive level.