It started with a simple idea.
How can we best serve the specific payment needs of the gig
economy as it evolves to dominate the global economy?
It started with a simple idea.
How can we best serve the specific payment needs of the gig economy as it evolves to dominate the global economy?
The Velo Story
Velo is the result of combining our understanding of rapidly evolving corporate needs from globalization, mobilization and new marketplaces with extensive expertise in payments and the enabling of systems and processes.
Our team is suited for the task with a commitment to change the world. We are delivering a set of solutions which enables beneficiary directed payments while giving corporates end-to-end visibility and control of payments.
The world deserves new payment infrastructure for global commerce. Velo is the first purpose-built platform for the gig economy and its payment providers.
Our Team
A global team of industry thought leaders and entrepreneurs. Our decades of combined experience and innovation in payments, banking and technology enabled us to build a world class, bank-grade SaaS platform to modernize payments for the gig economy and enterprises
Board
Leadership
John Partridge
Co-Founder & Exec Chair
Joe Saunders
Director
Drew Weinstein
Co-founder & CEO
Your Remit at Velo
Guiding our vision and building the team that can both rewire information management for payments worldwide, and help unbanked to come into parity with the banked in the global workforce.
What drives you?
Trying to figure out if I need all my other bikes now that I’m obsessed with my Parlee gravel bike.
Andrew Elmore
Engineering
Your Remit at Velo
Leading Velo’s Engineering teams to create & run a bank-grade payments platform at global scale, and engaging with clients & prospects to help them use Velo’s technology to realise their visions.
What drives you?
Raising the bar on the process of solving market demand through the delivery of rock-solid, elegant & efficient software.
Marc Keller
GTM Commercial
Your Remit at Velo
I lead our Go To Market efforts including our sales strategy, public image, channel partnerships, and our wholesale, direct, and long-tail commercial efforts.
What drives you?
I am passionate about bringing technology and capital to global efforts to leverage technology and innovation to improve payments, commerce, and digital identity across the developed (“banked”) world and the even higher impact developing world where many times technology leapfrogs stages that are required in the developed world via mobile, cloud, and block chain solutions that have huge impact on economic development.
Peter Strandell
Strategy & Finance
Your Remit at Velo
Leading our financial activities and acting as the strategic business partner to CEO and the executive management team. Providing our product developers and customers with problem solving solutions based on 20+ years of experience of complexed payment flows.
What drives you?
My passion is to overcome challenges both in my personal and professional life. I’m currently obsessed with my morning workout routine to prepare me for staying ahead of my kids on the slopes this winter.
Adam Tiberi
Product & Product Marketing
Your Remit at Velo
Leading innovation and industry thought leadership; defining the vision, strategy, delivery and communication of Velo’s Products and Services.
What drives you?
I am driven to build products with world class experiences that surprises and delights our customers.
Kyle Taylor
Operations
Your Remit at Velo
I lead block for the Velo team to clear any barriers on their way to helping accomplish our goals.
What drives you?
Getting.stuff.done. I bring a diverse background to the team and love to find creative solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
Phill Armstrong
Operations
Your Remit at Velo
Keeping it real. Velo’s operations team is responsible for bringing your payments solution to life. To solve your payments needs, we’ll be a partner during your integration of Velo’s world-class APIs or hosted web interfaces. We’ll help transition you to business-as-usual operations and care for you and your customer’s as you grow your business.
What drives you?
For twenty years my work has been performed at the crossroads where complex technology meets the human experience of payments. Whether you use mobile money in an emerging part of the world, a trucker depending on your last haul’s payment to fuel your 18-wheeler or you’re hedging currencies to mitigate enterprise risk, I get up every day and strive to make money movement more efficient and meaningful.
Mike Ashton
Engineering
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 26 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, used by billions of people.
Gloria Colgan
Sales & Marketing
Your Remit at Velo
Leading our marketing efforts for the broad community and generating new client opportunities for rapid growth.
What drives you?
I am passionate about making an impact through continual innovation and diverse thought leadership.
Bernadette Deang
Finance
Your Remit at Velo
Leading global accounting, finance, tax, and liaison between internal and external business partners in these areas. Drives due diligence for UK, US, and Japan audit/tax compliance. Provides service delivery for global accounting functions and practices. Provides technical accounting guidance and oversight. Partners with the business units on reporting, analysis and shared practices.
What drives you?
I believe in Velo’s vision and my passion lies in supporting and growing the Company through responsible accounting and finance practices and initiatives. Outside of work, I’d like to think of myself as an amateur filmmaker and piano enthusiast.
John DeRaedt
Engineering
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.
Dave Evans
Engineering
Your Remit at Velo
Leading the design and delivery of best-in-class User Experiences for a diverse spectrum of end users.
What drives you?
I try and set my teams up to be doing the best work of their career.
Rolf Haag
Product
Your Remit at Velo
Setting the Velo Product Vision and Strategy. Make sure we can meet our customers’ and their customers’ needs today and in the future.
What drives you?
I get a kick out of working with customers. Going straight to the source. And finding buildable patterns across markets, customers and technologies. I get an even bigger kick out of building business on the product we bring to life. On any given day you can find me spending free time obsessing over virtual racing, retro BMX, mountain biking, cars, building PCs, RC cars, ice hockey, surfing,….
Stuart Martin
Engineering
Your Remit at Velo
Enabling Velo’s world-class backend engineers to produce a highly secure, flexible and performant payment platform.
What drives you?
Researching and distilling decades of computer science best practises for the benefit of the payments industry.
Steve Miller
Product
Your Remit at Velo
Providing the link between the client-facing teams and the engineering group, I have to assess and balance competing client and internal needs by curating, managing and prioritising the product backlog and roadmap.
What drives you?
A harmonised, collaborative and co-ordinated group of product, engineering, QA and DevOps teams is a thing of power, beauty and awe – and what we strive for every day.
Hans Reisgies
Sales
Your Remit at Velo
I help future customers understand their money movement problems and how Velo Products and Service can solve them.
What drives you?
Money is one of the few things that interact in the lives of seven billion people. I’m driven by the challenge to make people’s lives better through new payments innovation they can trust.