Katrin
Herrling

Founder
& CEO

Katrin has been managing her family’s dairy farm for more than 15 years. She has helped to grow the farm and transform the operations. The business is much more than a source of income. It is a huge part of her family life.

Katrin has always worked with her bank to finance the farm and ensure smooth cash flow, but ran into difficulties in 2010 when her bank manager doubled her cost of credit overnight.

The frustration of running from one bank to another to secure offers inspired Funding Xchange. Katrin is passionate about making it easy, quick and transparent for businesses to find finance.

It probably helped that Katrin had a parallel career advising large banks and financial firms and understood that they often were not the right answer for a small business that needed funding. So, Funding Xchange sets out to get business owners in the position where they can easily compare terms available from many providers, increasing the chances that one of the offers is going to be right for the business.

Ultimately, Katrin wants Funding Xchange to give you control over finding finance that’s right for you and your plans for your business. Quickly and easily. So that you can continue to build your business and life.

Katrin would love to hear from you. Please let her know if we have helped you find funding or have feedback to help us build an even better service.

Sarah
Hollyhead

Chief Financial
Officer

Sarah does the sums at FXE! A qualified accountant with a background in consultancy and private equity, Sarah is also heavily involved in our commercial strategy supporting our vision of building long term sustainable and ethical value for our business. Having spent nearly a decade advising clients on transactions at KPMG, Sarah brings a wealth of financial experience across a broad range of industries.

Sarah combines her role at FXE with being a mum to Max and Phoebe and when she does get a rare moment to herself (!) loves to get an adrenaline fix downhill mountain biking or a leisurely round of golf!

Ben
Sher

Chief Commercial Officer

Ben is a financial technology leader with 20 years experience in the sector across Capital Markets, Commodities and SME Finance. Prior to joining FXE, Ben held various commercial leadership roles at SunGard and FIS for 10 years before delivering the growth of Cloud Lending Solutions in the SME Lending arena. He is passionate about the creation of value that drives access to capital for SMEs and has regularly spoken in industry forums about the need for broader digital advancement across our ecosystem.

Ben is responsible for the go to market, commercial and growth strategy of FXE with a particular focus on the scaling of our technology business.

On a personal front Ben is keen in keeping fit, growing vegetables in his garden and spending time with his two young daughters.

Gianni
Di Raimondo

Head of
Product

Product leader with 10 years of experience in digital strategy, product development and management consulting – specialised in fintech, insurtech and financial services.

Strong advocate of data and outcome-driven product management – at Funding Xchange Gianni focuses on building products and services that solve real customer needs, create strategic value and generate measurable commercial benefits.

Over the years, Gianni has successfully led an increasing number of cross-functional teams to devise, deliver and optimise 10+ innovative products and platforms in the UK and other countries – using Lean, Agile and SAFe methodologies to ensure continuous discovery and incremental delivery.

To date, Gianni’s biggest career achievement is being part of the core team that in 15 months envisioned, created and launched ‘TYL’ – an award-winning UK challenger Bank for SMEs that enabled the Royal Bank of Scotland to re-enter the merchant acquiring industry in 2019.

Once a hardcore online gamer, Gianni still loves spending his time playing videogames or trading Stocks, Forex and Cryptocurrencies. Although Italian, Gianni disappointedly doesn’t know how to cook.

David
Morris

Head of Software Engineering

As Head of Software Engineering, David works closely with our Executive Team and Head of Product to achieve immediate and long-term business goals. He helps facilitate the translation of business requirements, and makes sure the engineering department delivers within expected timelines. He has over 15 years’ experience in Software Engineering, archicture and design, working full-stack for the majority of this time and with Java, Javascript frameworks and Microsoft based development languages. His previous role was Director of Software Engineeering for a large US based Wholesale and Retail Domain and E-commerce business. He’s also a certified Agile Practitoner/Scrum Master.

Being Welsh, he is passionate about rugby and the Welsh national team, as well as the Scarlets.

Andy
Ballard

QA Manager

As the QA Manager within our Tech team, Andy is responsible for planning and implementing the necessary test processes and approaches to ensure the successful delivery of platform features and software quality across our entire tech estate.

In a career spanning over 18 years, he has worked for multiple companies in QA roles, from established tech companies to start-ups across various sectors, including EdTech and FinTech.

When he’s not hacking around golf courses, Andy spends his free-time enjoying countryside walks with his wife and beloved rescue-dog, Robyn.

Neal
Dutta

Head of Business Analytics

As Head of Business Analytics, Neal and his team drive commercial insights from Marketplace data – continually searching for opportunities to seize, issues to address and facilitating data driven decision making throughout the business. Prior to joining FXE, Neal worked in consumer credit risk analytics for a wide variety of financial services organisations – from the major high street banks to smaller challengers and fintechs. He’s previously held senior managerial roles, but was most recently an independent analytics consultant.

Originally from Canada, Neal still has his accent (doesn’t say “eh” as much as he used to though!), enjoys spending time with his wife and children (son aged 7, daughter aged 16).

Erikas
Kamaitis

Head of
Data

If data is a fruit, Erik is the person helping you squeeze a glass full of insight juice. He achieves this by leading a team of data scientists, creating funky visualisations, writing ravioli code and hunting for bugs in 3rd party APIs. Coming from a Mechanical Engineering background, he previously worked in the Energy sector and harnessed his analytical skills to help wind farms strive in the harsh environments they operate in.

Erik dabbles in game development… though like most hobbyist developers never really finishes a project. DO NOT bring that up in front of him – he’s trained in Jeet Kune Do (might hurt himself)!

Paul
Brown

Operations
Director

Operations Director with over 10 years of experience managing multidiscipline operations. Passionate about financial technology and business growth, Paul supports the operations at FXE ensuring that there is continuous improvement and robust processes to support sustainable growth.

Paul balances his time between his role at FXE whilst enjoying the challenges of having a 5-year-old daughter. Paul is a sports fan and enjoys watching football (especially Liverpool FC), boxing and the UFC.

Phil
Cook

Propositions & Delivery Director

Phil is a Commercial & Marketing leader with sweet spot in product & proposition development, strategy & execution. A track record of delivering step change in performance for household brands & digital start-ups. With a reputation for defining, building & delivering innovative, customer-centric solutions that drive commercial outcomes, built upon over 20 years experience within Financial Services and Telecoms. Phil joined Funding Xchange to support and drive end to end Client Delivery.

Outside of work, a lot of time goes into family, particularly his two young boys and what’s left goes into his passions of tennis, surfing and badly playing the guitar.

Liam Mayoux-Andrews

Solutions
Director

As Solutions Director Liam’s job is to work alongside the FXE Technologies sales and commercial teams to translate the problems our customers face into actionable solutions – working at the intersection between sales, product and delivery.

Prior to joining FXE Liam worked at fintech startup Divido, where as one of the earliest employees he was key in helping them to launch their white labelled POS finance platform, leading their solutions function to then deliver the platform to some of the worlds largest banks and retailers.

In his spare time Liam is a keen 5-aside football player, where on the west London circuit he has the nickname ‘the cat’ – which he likes to think is down to his fast reflexes but is more likely due to his love of snacks and refusal to do any running out field.