Deputy Chief Executive Officer
The Business
This is a rare opportunity to join one of the most dynamic businesses in the regulated payments infrastructure market. Headquartered in London and operating across Europe and Africa, the company provides mission-critical payment and banking infrastructure to a client base of non-bank financial institutions — including digital asset businesses, exchanges, liquidity providers, and fintechs — that demand reliability, regulatory credibility, and genuine operational scale.
The business is growing at 60% year-on-year, has exceeded £40m in revenues, and employs 180 people across its operations. Well-funded and with a clear mandate for continued expansion, it is now at an inflection point — and is looking for an exceptional operator to help drive the next phase of its growth.
The Role
The Deputy CEO is a newly created position designed to sit at the heart of the business and own its commercial and operational engine. This is not a conventional functional leadership role. The person appointed will be expected to identify new opportunities, build the business case, drive product development, test and iterate, bring propositions to market, and scale them — end to end.
The Deputy CEO will have oversight of all revenue-generating departments alongside product and technology, creating a unified mandate across the functions that matter most to growth. They will work closely with the CEO and senior leadership team to define and execute the strategic agenda, and will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy and pace.
Key Responsibilities
* Drive diversification and growth across existing and new markets, verticals, and products
* Own the full lifecycle of new commercial initiatives — from concept through build, pilot, launch, and scale
* Lead and develop all revenue departments, ensuring commercial teams are aligned, incentivised, and performing
* Oversee product and technology functions, ensuring the roadmap is commercially driven and competitively differentiated
* Act as a senior ambassador for the business with clients, partners, regulators, and investors
* Contribute to board-level strategy and work alongside the CEO on key decisions
The Candidate
The right person will have a proven record of building and scaling in regulated financial services or payments infrastructure environments. Critically, they will have done this before — having taken ideas through product development, market release, and meaningful scale — and will be able to demonstrate the commercial outcomes that followed.
We are looking for someone who combines the strategic vision to identify opportunity with the operational discipline to execute against it. Experience across both revenue leadership and product or technology oversight is essential. Exposure to digital assets, non-bank financial institutions, or cross-border payments infrastructure will be a significant advantage.
This is a role for a builder — someone who is energised by complexity, comfortable with pace, and motivated by the opportunity to leave a meaningful mark on a business that is genuinely shaping the future of financial infrastructure.
Engagement
This search is being conducted exclusively by Evolution Growth Partners. All enquiries are strictly confidential.