Richard co-founded Endeavour Ventures in 2006 and has been investing and advising companies for over 30 years. He began his career at 3i plc where he spent ten years before starting Baronsmead and launched one of the first VCTs – Baronsmead VCT. He sold this to Friends Ivory & Sime plc in 1995 (it later became ISIS Equity Partners).

Richard was MD of their unquoted investment business at that time which had £180 million funds under management. Richard is a former chairman of the British Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (BVCA). He has significant experience as a non- executive director on both public and private company boards.

He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and has an MSc and PhD from Imperial College, London.

Charlotta has spent over 30 years working in investment banking and commercial organisations, principally with technology and telecom related businesses.  She qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young in 1989 and then worked in investment banking with S.G. Warburg (now UBS), Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan before moving into senior financial roles with Nokia Corporation, including acting as CFO for Vertu, its luxury mobile division.

Today, Charlotta has her own portfolio of non-executive director roles, including Keywords Studios plc, Gamma Communications plc and Polar Capital Technology Trust plc.

Charlotta currently serves as the Company’s Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee.

With over 20 years as an entrepreneur, sales and financial services executive, Mark Britto is currently the Chief Revenue Officer at PayPal.

Mark founded Boku after six years as the CEO of Ingenio, a service marketplace and performance advertising company, which he led to a 2007 acquisition by AT&T. Prior to Ingenio, Mark spent 4 years as SVP of worldwide services and sales at Amazon.com.

Mark’s first start-up, Accept.com, was bought by Amazon.com in 1999 and served as the primary backbone of Amazon’s global payments platform. Mark began his career in senior credit and risk management roles at leading national banks FirstUSA and Bank of America.

Meriel is an experienced customer focused technology entrepreneur and adviser, having worked across multiple sectors. She has been a member of several boards of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange and is currently a non-executive director on the boards of International Public Partnerships Ltd, Bluefield Solar Income Fund Ltd and Ikigai Ventures, as well as some private and third sector roles. Ms Lenfestey is the Chair of Boku’s Remuneration Committee.

Loren I. Shuster currently serves as the Chief People Officer & Head of Corporate Affairs on the Executive Leadership Team at LEGO Group. Before joining the LEGO Group, he held senior leadership positions within commercial and marketing at Google, and before that at Nokia and other multinationals. Loren is also a Board Trustee of the Institute of Business Ethics in the UK.

Jon has more than 25 years of payments experience. He was an early Visa Europe employee and key contributor to its growth, leaving in 2006 as EVP Marketing. He started Visa Europe’s ecommerce division, was the lead executive on the introduction of Chip and PIN technology and oversaw product launches such as Visa Electron and V PAY.

He served on the Board of EMVCo, was the Chairman of the Compliance Committee and was a member of Visa’s Global Product and Brand Councils.

Since leaving Visa in 2006, Jon served as Deputy CEO for SecureTrading, where he doubled transaction numbers and quadrupled profitability. He then led a management buy in at Shopcreator, the ecommerce software platform.

Stuart was Chief Financial Officer of Boku between 2012 and 2014 and between 2017 and 2019, both periods of considerable growth for the Company, and saw the company through its IPO, before being appointed Chief Business Officer of Boku’s Identity division, where he returned that business to growth, culminating in its successful  disposal to Twilio in 2022.  Previously, he was Chief Commercial Officer at Vocalink PaybyBankapp (acquired by Mastercard), building distribution channels and creating merchant demand.  Stuart was also Commercial Director at Barclaycard, then Europe’s second largest payment acceptance company, where he oversaw the roll out of contactless payments to merchants across the UK market.  In his earlier career, he held senior Commercial and Finance positions within a number of blue chip corporations including GlaxoSmithKline, Worldcom and Virgin Media.

Rob, a Chartered Accountant, joins the Boku executive team and Board having spent over 25 years at Natwest Group plc (formerly Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc) where he held a number of senior roles, including Finance Director for Commercial and Private Banking from 2014 – 2019, which accounted for £5.7bn annual revenues in 2019. More recently, he served as Group Chief of Staff and a member of the Group Executive Committee reporting to the CEO. Rob has also recently concluded a three-year term as a Non-Executive Director of Motability Operations Group plc.

Adam has been developing new products and services for startup ventures for over 20 years. At Boku, Adam leads product, design, and marketing, charged with finding innovative new applications for the 4B+ mobile phones the Boku platform is currently connected to.

Before joining Boku, Adam was at Intuit where he launched the world’s first consumer medical wallet used to understand, manage, and pay for healthcare expenses, distributed by two of the largest US healthcare networks, UnitedHealthcare and CIGNA.

Prior to Intuit, Adam had also worked for two major industry backed B2B platform companies, Neoforma and more notably GlobalNetXchange where he developed technology and services to drive better supply chain performance between companies around the world including Carrefour, Sears, Sainsburys, Metro AG, Karstadt Quelle, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, and Diageo.

Mark has over 20 years’ experience in mobile, digital and fintech services and is a leading member of the team that has brought the biggest digital brands to carrier billing: Facebook, Spotify, Sony PlayStation, Google, Netflix and Microsoft. 

He played a critical role in building Boku’s market-leading carrier billing network of nearly 200 carriers, and as Chief Business Officer – Payments, has direct responsibility for Boku’s Worldwide mobile payments business.  This includes the deployment of new mobile Alternative Payment Types onto the Boku platform, such as digital eWallets and mobile banking Apps.