We started with a simple idea.

What is your remit at Velo?

As a member of the board, CTO, and CISO our staff comes first, then their families. Happy staff lead to happy customers. John Partridge and I had a vision and it’s our job to keep that vision ahead of our competitors.

What drives you?

There is nothing more rewarding than improving someone else’s life. We play with cool technology, add a few ideas together, code it up and then proudly show it off. When people show it off with the same enthusiasm, that drives me at work.

Co-founder and CEO of Assetfort Wealth Management, Sophie Lo has a successful history as an international marketing and management consultant, an angel and real estate investor, and an entrepreneur.

Ms. Lo’s accomplishments are reflected in her former roles as founder and president of Sound Perfection Inc. and as Chief Business Development Officer and board director of Pacoma International Ltd., and her entrepreneurial expertise is valued by her long-standing and significant global investor network.

At Assetfort, Ms. Lo helps guide investments in growth-stage private equity, venture capital, and real estate funds. As a Velo board director, Ms. Lo offers her extensive business experience to help guide overall strategy and growth.

What is your remit at Velo?

Providing the strategic direction for the company and enabling an environment that allows people to do their best work.

What drives you?

To create a business payments solution that addresses their needs in a rapidly changing.

Joseph W. Saunders was named Chairman of the board and Chief Executive Officer of Visa Inc. upon its formation in May 2007, and retired from Visa in March 2013.

Saunders has an extensive history in the financial services industry and held leadership positions at Providian Financial Corporation, Washington Mutual, FleetBoston Financial Corporation, and Household International, Inc. in the years prior to Visa Inc.

Saunders currently holds board positions at Velo Payments; Green Visor Capital Management LLC; Happy Money Inc.; Flutterwave Inc.; and Mercury Financial Holdings LLC.

What is your remit at Velo?

Providing support to the CEO and Executive Management Team while connecting the dots across projects, people, and functions to improve decision-making, increase productivity and effectiveness as well as facilitate communications. In addition, I am responsible for the Human Resources function, am part of the Finance Team responsible for Accounts Payable and manage all board related activities. 

What drives you?

Improve our organization by making sure our people have what they need to get things done with purpose and passion.

What is your remit at Velo?

Overseeing the risk and compliance departments. This includes areas tied to fraud and risk monitoring, KYC and CDD/EDD, the BSA and AML compliance programs, company audit, and any other areas that require compliance or risk oversight.

What drives you?

Velo provides a unique opportunity where my years of experience in risk, compliance, and operations in the payments industry can help drive innovation and solutioning in a safe and sound manner.

What is your remit at Velo?

Lead the legal department at Velo. Partnering with the business on deal negotiations and legal strategy.

What drives you?

I have 13 years of inhouse legal experience launching first in market fintech products and building legal teams. I am passionate about the technological changes required to democratize and transform the fintech space. Outside of work I love the outdoors, karaoke and finding ways to help the planet.

What is your remit at Velo?

Ensuring day to day operations run smoothly and clients are happy. This involves working cross functionally, with different teams, to support and improve platform functionality and user experiences.

What drives you?

Working closely with clients and the relationships I’ve created with them drives me to keep improving our services.

What is your remit at Velo?

Managing the DevOps function across all timezones. Providing fully codified Infrastructure as a Service across multiple cloud providers, CI/CD infrastructure, security and site reliability functions to the business.

What drives you?

I have 28 years of commercial experience, building highly scalable software, networks and infrastructure, and I have an amazing team that I can rely on. Velo provides a rare potential to exercise all of our skills, building a truly planetary scale solution.

What is your remit at Velo?

I work covering 2 areas; firstly, the Velo platform – I am a newbie at this piece so working on understanding requirements and composing acceptance criteria. I also work with the HibanaPay team with focus on obtaining In Market Validation from pilot users and looking at product direction.

What drives you?

My chauffeur (joke) Working with people I like and admire to develop products and systems that people want to use. Outside of work it’s a mix of a spending time with a newly acquired blended family, some boxing, plus an unhealthy dose of the material pursuits (fashion, cars and holidays).

What is your remit at Velo?

At Velo, I support our teams with fraud monitoring and underwriting.

What drives you?

The thrill of working risk and compliance is what drives me. Everyday is a different challenge and is exciting to overcome.

What is your remit at Velo?

Leading global accounting, finance, tax, and liaison between internal and external business partners in these areas. Drive due diligence for audit/tax compliance and provide technical accounting guidance and oversight.

What drives you?

I believe in Velo’s vision and my passion lies in supporting and growing the company through responsible accounting, finance practices, and initiatives. Outside of work, I like to think of myself as an amateur filmmaker and piano enthusiast.

What is your remit at Velo?

Making Velo work for our clients. Velo’s seasoned Integration team provides the most comprehensive set of tools and the most insightful systems integration solutions to our clients. Whatever your internal systems require, we are committed to making your integration with our platform an elegant part of your payments process.

What drives you?

Ensuring that Velo not only provides a payment platform and software, but real, working, seamless payment solutions for business and financial institutions.

What is your remit at Velo?

At Velo I create thoughtful experiences that are built for everyone to use and enjoy. All in all, I believe that, as a designer, I have a mission to genuinely care for the people I design for.

What drives you?

I’m always trying to grow and learn something new.I understand the perfect user interface should look good and work even better and Velo gives me the opportunity to do all of that.

What is your remit at Velo?

I lead our Commercial Go To Market efforts by identifying future customers and working with the broader Velo team to present solutions to real-world money movement problems.

What drives you?

I have a passion for business development and the management of complex business partnerships. I enjoy the advantages of 23 years of experience and relationship building in the payments industry.

What is your remit at Velo?

Helping bring consistency and structure to Velo’s innovative payments projects.

What drives you?

I enjoy bridging the communication gaps between teams — both internal and external — to facilitate the advancement of projects and ensuring customer’s issues are satisfactorily resolved. In my spare time I am a scuba diving instructor and enjoy teaching about the amazing life under the seas.

What is your remit at Velo?

Working with Product and Engineering teams to help establish clear and robust requirements, then ensuring the frontend and backend software verification process is thorough and the application provides a smooth and intelligent user experience.

What drives you?

Striving to deliver the highest quality of software deliverables and working with the world class team at Velo to achieve this goal.

What is your remit at Velo?

Along with our quality assurance team, I monitor every phase of the software development process to ensure both functionality, and usefulness of our product. I compile rigorous tests to ensure our platform is client ready.

What drives you?

I have always had a keen eye for detail and to pair that with working alongside an amazing engineering team to build an innovative payments platform continues to truly be a treasure.