We’re building a payments ecosystem to fuel your growth

By sourcing best in class payments providers in each region, so that you don’t have to

Helping your business scale globally

Global payments are painful — but they don’t have to be. With our platform, you can unlock access to new markets through one contract, and one API

Our mission is to make scaling simple. To enable you to grow quickly, and never be hindered by painful payments processes. It’s this mission that has inspired Paytrix - an ecosystem that allows you to unlock access to the world’s best financial services players through one contract, and one API - saving you time and resource.

From payment acceptance to settlement accounts to payouts - we’re building the full stack so you don’t have to.

Say goodbye to navigating multiple contracts, API connections, unfamiliar jurisdictions, and legal systems. It’s all smooth scaling from here.

Meet the Leadership Team

From Google to Currency Cloud; Travelex to Paysafe; Softbank to Houlihan Lokey — we’ve curated the best team possible.

Aran Brown

CEO
Eddie Harrison

Chief Product Officer
Ed Addario

Chief Technology Officer
Mike Southgate

Chief Compliance Officer
David Sola

Chief Financial Officer

Aran Brown

CEO

Aran has spent the last 15 years scaling and transforming payments companies. From accelerating Travelex’s growth in Europe through to its acquisition by Western Union for $1BN. Shortly followed by supporting Skrill's growth in emerging markets and FX, through to its sale to Optimal Payments for €1.1 billion. Following that Aran then launched HyperWallet in Europe, a leading marketplace payouts platform, pre-sale to Paypal. In 2018 Aran was made CEO of Ixaris Group, a leading virtual card issuance platform focused on travel marketplaces, now part of NIUM. Aran has industrialised everything across FX, payouts, card issuing, payment acceptance, and open banking - and now he is using that experience, along with the founding team, to bring the Paytrix curation platform to online markets, so that complex payment flows are no longer a barrier to rapid growth and entry into new markets.

Eddie Harrison

Chief Product Officer

Eddie's career spans both B2B and B2C markets across payment acceptance, issuance, and payment infrastructure. From building market leading global payment products at Fortune 500 businesses Western Union and Travelex, to innovating in the card space with market disruptors Loot and Ixaris, to growing payment acceptance at Token and Yapstone. Eddie has run Product, global strategies, and financial networks for his entire career. and is also a seed investor within the FinTech community. Now, he’s combining it all to build Paytrix’s curation platform and make scaling simple.

Ed Addario

Chief Technology Officer

Ed has successfully led businesses through the design, development and delivery of game-changing technological innovation across the Financial Services, Telecoms and Enterprise sectors. Ed brings a wealth of experience and expertise, having served as CTO at Salary Finance, Brady Technologies, Currencycloud and others prior to co-founding Paytrix. Ed is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE/ISO Standards Organization. He contributes back to the community as an active participant of open source projects in the areas of distributed computing, peer-to-peer networks, and crypto.

Mike Southgate

Chief Compliance Officer

With a background covering payment operations, legal, settlements and IT, Mike is a practical and hands-on leader with a focus on execution. Before joining Paytrix Mike was Compliance Director and MLRO at Google, Founder of ERMI (a Transaction Monitoring service), and held a series of senior roles across multiple payments unicorns including Travelex/WUBS, and Ebury. Outside of work he is also the AML and Tech lead, as well as the regulatory liaison to the FCA for AFEP (A trade body for payments firms) through which he has provided guidance and training to law enforcement and regulators across Europe. An expert in his field, Mike holds multiple degrees in: Law; Governance Risk and Compliance; A Postgraduate Diploma in Governance Risk and CCompliance (GRC); and a masters degree in the Prevention of Organized Crime and Terrorism.

David Sola

Chief Financial Officer

David has worked with rapidly growing FinTech, E-commerce and Internet Technology companies for the last 20 years, as an Investment Banker, Venture Capitalist, and Senior Management Executive. With a successful track record at UBS, Softbank, Houlihan Lokey, GSR to name a few, David's financing and M+A experience in the payments, crypto and e-commerce sectors will support Paytrix’s financial growth strategy and corporate development.

We’re on an exciting journey to change the payments landscape forever

You could be too

We’re an ambitious and creative team based across the UK and Europe. We are all hugely passionate about making payments simpler, and most importantly, about building a solution that enhances our partners ability to reach new customers.

Join us

and help build the future of global payments

We currently have a number of roles open across the business — from Marketing to Engineering.

smoothscaling@paytrix.io