Panelist:Paul Stoddart, Managing Director of Strategy and Business Development at Vocalink
Paul joined VocaLink as Managing Director of Strategy & Business Development in June 2012. He is responsible for corporate strategy, product and marketing covering both the UK portfolio incl. Faster Payments and Mobile, and VocaLink's international capabilities centred around the Immediate Payments Service. Paul's previous role was at Barclays Bank, where he was Co-Head of Corporate Finance at Barclaycard, responsible for M&A and Asset Disposals globally. Prior to this Paul spent over 10 years at NatWest and then RBS, starting in Group Corporate Development and moving to the Internet banking and E-commerce team that launched online banking and e-procurement solutions across the bank's core brands. Paul then moved to the Global Transaction Services Division in RBS where he became Head of Product and Marketing for WorldPay and then took responsibility for M&A and developing major commercial relationships with Fortune 500 companies globally. Outside of VocaLink, Paul is a Non-Executive Director of Invitation Digital whose Vouchercloud business is one of the market leaders in UK m-commerce and is now majority owned by Vodafone.