Directors

Paul Marks -Non-Executive Chairman

Paul has extensive experience in mortgage and financial services. Paul was a significant founder shareholder of Chase De Vere, a UK mortgage broker, in 1982 and was managing director until 1995 when he became non executive chairman. In 1991 Chase De Vere was sold to Sun Alliance Plc where he became a director until 1994 when a company of which he was a significant shareholder brought the mortgage brokerage business back. In 1996 Paul became the executive chairman of The Mortgage Operation, the UK's largest independent intermediary network servicing the needs of over 7,000 specialist mortgage brokers. Paul has also been chairman of Mortgages plc of which he was a founding shareholder and an executive chairman of Creditweb. Between early 2004 to 2006 Paul worked as a consultant for Goldsmith Williams Solicitors. In 2004 Paul set up a commercial property company, Whittingehame Property Investment LLP. In 2006 Paul was also appointed as non executive director to Crown Mortgage Management Limited and Convex Conveyancing Limited, positions he still holds.

Lewis Findlay – Chief Executive Officer

Lewis Findlay, has been managing the company's Crewcard Network's business since October 2007. Before that he was with Cantor Index Ltd. Where he was a founding managing director and previously he was a Head of Financial Spread Betting at City Index Ltd. Other prior senior roles include Head of Eurobond Trading at Tokai Bank Europe, Global Head of ECU Trading at J.P Morgan & Cie S.A. (Paris) and Head of ECU Trading for J.P. Morgan Securities Limited in London.

Damian Mifsud - Non-Executive Director

Damian has been involved in the card payments industry since 1998, in the UK, Ireland, Belgium and Malta for a variety of organisations including a software vendor, third party processors, acquirers, issuers, and also at scheme level. This has covered both domestic and multi-currency/regional environments in high level consultant/project management roles at Barclaycard Merchant Services, First Data Merchant Services (Omnipay), MBNA, and Mastercard TM. Damian was one of the early members of Altair where he established both the Operational and Business Development functions. Prior to this Damian was a consultant to the Office of the Prime Minister (Malta) leading a number of public service reform initiatives. Damian is a graduate (B.Sc.) of the University of Buckingham.

Paul Seakens- Finance Director

Paul Seakens has worked with CCN from its early days. Paul has held a number of senior positions in financial services organisations over a career spanning thirty years. He was Head of Group Operations at SG Hambros Bank and Trust Limited from 2002 to 2003, and he was Head of Operations at First Equity Limited in 1999. More recently he has been involved in running his own consulting company, Countermand Consulting, again working with various companies on finance, compliance and management related projects.

Alexander Lubin -Business Development Director

Alex started his career working in the City on the private clients' desk at Williams de Broe in early 2000. In mid 2001 Alex set up a boat charter company based in the Balearics, which continues to trade today. In mid to late 2005 Alex was involved with Altair through his close relationship with the founding shareholders, and in early 2006 he joined Altair as the fifth member of the Altair team. During his time with Altair Alex helped to set up the sales and marketing function as well as establishing relationships with 3rd party suppliers. Throughout Altair's growth Alex has worked at every level of the business and was involved with the acquisition of the backend processor, Symmetrex. He was instrumental in establishing key business relationships with various international banks as well as direct relationships with MasterCard ™ and Visa ™. In 2006 Alex helped define the CrewCard proposition and in late 2007 Alex joined CCN as a full time employee.