Pascal is a Director with responsibility for the Paris office. He has been with Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC) since 1999 and has worked in the London, Sydney and San Francisco offices. Pascal has over 12 years of consulting experience in business strategy for financial services clients in multiple European, Asian and North American countries, and over four years of line management experience within the UK financial services industry. His core competencies include business case development, new product development, strategic planning, market entry strategy, benchmarking. Pascal has managed a large number of strategic planning, marketing strategy and implementation projects for clients including issuers, acquirers, card associations and large merchants such as airlines. He received his MBA from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and his Business Degree from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon in France.

In charge of Innovation, Alexandre founded and lead a brand new platform dedicated to innovation. Based in Luxembourg and in partnership with leading international financial institutions and large corporates, The Khube (KPMG Hub for Entrepreneurs) supports innovative companies to deploy their solution in Europe and abroad, and is part of the KPMG Global « Innovative Start-up » Initiative. Alexandre is also a member of the KPMG Global FinTech Group where he is in charge of the « Next Generation Payment » strategic area.

His background combines M&A transactions in the payments world, including acquirers, processors, pre-paid issuers and ACH operators, with transformation consulting to the banks and other industry players. His work has included advising a major bank on its FinTech payments partnering strategy, investigating a major payments outage for a global bank, mentoring various payments and FinTech startup companies, and working on aspects of transforming the UK inter-bank payments landscape including the Schemes and Payments Strategy Forum. He has worked with several banks, e-money issuers and Authorised Payment Institutions on obtaining their regulatory authorisations, and has been part of a European PwC team looking at the implications of PSD2. He manages PwC's relationships with the UK payments industry and is a member of the judging panel for the annual FStech Payments Awards.

Dave Cunningham is the CEO of Lean Startup Summit EMEA and is a founding director of Galway City Innovation District. After the successful Lean Startup Summit in May, Dave is currently focused on the development of the new payments platform Privity with serial entrepreneur and inventor of ADCC, Gerry Barry.