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Optomany Team

Back in 2013 a group of highly experienced payment executives came together with a vision of building a new payments platform with omnichannel at its heart. Their vision, which remains at the core of the business today, was to deliver a set of solutions that meet the needs not only of merchants, but also consumers who increasingly demand a consistent and seamless payment experience across all retail channels.

With offices in Kent and London, Optomany has grown to comprise of nearly 100 like-minded payment experts focused on delivering the new standard in payment processing.

Team Members

Ian Ripley

Chief Technical Officer

A highly-able, versatile & results-driven Programme Lead / CTO with a very successful background in B2B, B2C, financial services, payments, consulting and FTSE-250 corporates.

Recognised as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the acquiring and payment processing business sector with 24 Years’ experience across Issuing, Acquiring, eCommerce and Payments Acceptance.

Ryan Philo

Chief Product Officer

As one of the founding fathers of Optomany, with over 20 years of experience in the payment’s arena, Ryan has seen it all from product and platform design, development and testing.

Given his CPO role, he is responsible for Optomany's system architecture design and our product and solution strategy.

Giles Cooper

Commercial Director

Giles joined Optomany in 2014, and has over 30 years’ experience in both business development and sales leadership roles, and over 15 of those within the Payments sector.

Giles manages both the Retail and Payments as a Service sales channels as well as the major acquirer relationships for the company.

John Carr

Chief Risk Officer

Having worked in Financial Services for the last 30 years, John is vastly experienced within Retail and Commercial Banking working with SME customers and merchants ensuring their financial services products are working as efficiently and effectively as possible.

More recently, John has been working with Fin Tech companies ensuring firms provide cutting edge products to consumers using the latest technology to deliver a 1st class customer experience.

Natasha Towner

Information Security Manager

With over 10 years’ experience within the payment industry and a Certified Information Systems Auditor Natasha is responsible for information and system security within Optomany.

Natasha is responsible for maintaining certifications such as PCI DSS and P2PE, as well as ensuring GDPR compliance. At the same time ensuring that Optomany continue to strive to the highest security standards.

Operational Support

The Garden of England, otherwise known as Kent, is where all our ideas grow and come to life. In our office in Maidstone sit dozens of IT specialists who work every day to create our cutting-edge payment solutions.

Every time we launch a new product or a new iteration of a current one, you can rest assure that it has been developed with the love and care from our specialist team who are highly skilled and educated in what they do.

We enjoy seeing our Partners and Clients succeed, and their happiness is what drives us on every day to develop better and more advanced payment solutions.

Product Development

We take great pride in developing the most advanced payment solutions for our partners as possible. That is why we are constantly listening to feedback from all partners and evaluating market changes to help create new services and products every day.

IT Development

In today’s working world, a hands-on IT team is one of the most valuable assets a company can have. At Optomany we are lucky to have such a thing. Our IT team are responsible for implementing, testing and improving each product. Without this team, our products would not be fit for purpose for our partners and clients.

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