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We’re on a mission to revolutionise cross-border settlement, and that starts with a remarkable team and workplace culture.

Behind the scenes, you’ll find a fast-paced, hardworking and flat structured environment that encourages collaboration to challenge the status quo of how cross-border settlements are done today.
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Our People & Culture

We’ve assembled a team of pioneering industry experts. From engineering to business development, customer success and everything in between; it’s one team, working together to change the way cross-border settlement is done.
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Our Team

Marcus Treacher
Executive Chairman and Interim CEO
Marcus has over 40 years’ experience driving innovation in the transaction banking and payments industries worldwide. Marcus has held executive leadership positions at HSBC, Citigroup, and Ripple and has served on the Boards of SWIFT, CHAPS UK and ClearBank. Marcus works with start-ups, fintechs and industry groups to help create the payments landscape that will power our future digitised world.
Phil Kenworthy
Member of the Board of Directors
Phil is an expert in Financial Market Infrastructures, Payments and Settlement having worked at the Bank of England, CRESTCo and CLS before becoming CEO of CHAPS. He is now an INED at ClearBank and a Founder and NED at the Digital Pound Foundation.
Nikki de Kretser
General Manager, Marketing
Nikki holds a Masters in Marketing and brings 25 years of experience in marketing leadership roles within the communications technology industry. With a track record of delivering revenue growth in international environments, scaling divisions of global firms including BT, RingCentral and NTT, Nikki also has general management experience, having achieved profitable growth at Cirrus via an indirect GTM strategy and helped to secure investment. Nikki is a growth marketer who partners with Sales to achieve high impact customer outcomes and thrives in cross-cultural teams.
Jan Říha
Chief Revenue & Strategy Officer
Jan has 15+ years’ experience in financial services and technology, with an MBA from Imperial College and a Master’s in Computational Finance. He has worked across Europe and spent over a decade in Asia, focusing on banking, insurance, payments, and private equity. Jan has driven strategic value by scaling operations, entering new markets, and building partnerships that align business goals with measurable outcomes. His work bridges strategy and execution, focusing on sustainable growth and innovation in financial infrastructure.
Felipe Hillard
Chief Client & Network Officer
Felipe drives client growth and strategic partnerships at RTGS.global, bringing over 15 years of experience in banking and consulting across London, São Paulo, Chicago and Bangkok. A former Partner & Managing Director at Accenture and founding Executive Committee member at Bank of London, he has shaped and executed go-to-market strategies for some of the world’s most ambitious financial institutions. At RTGS.global, Felipe helps clients unlock new markets, deepen trust and scale with purpose — all as part of a relentless focus on commercial impact and long-term value creation.
Swetha Ramesh
Product Owner
Swetha is a Product Owner and Senior Business Analyst with 14 years of experience in the Banking and Payments Industry. She is a delivery specialist leading and delivering the build of new products in organisations like StateStreet, DTCC and HSBC. She has been with RTGS.Global for 2.5 years and works very closely with Clients on their integration journey.
Jane Mercer
Head of Product
Jane is Head of Product at RTGS.global, where she leads the strategic development of next-generation cross-border payment solutions. With a decade of experience in the financial services industry, she has worked with major banks and wealth management institutions to deliver high impact initiatives. In recent years, Jane has transitioned into the FinTech sector, where she has specialised in driving the expansion of payment services into global markets and lead the implementation of cutting-edge cross-border payment infrastructure.
Dirk Cavens
Chief Product Officer
Dirk is a Financial Market Infrastructure expert with 25+ years' experience in settlement, payment and central clearing institutions including Chief Business Analyst at CLS and advisor on product strategy at LME Clear.   Dirk’s deep expertise across FX Settlement, CCPs, RTGSs, Payment Systems, Risk Management and Collateral & Liquidity Management makes him a sought after speaker and thought leader in the settlement space. Dirk is an active member of the CPMI task force on cross border payments.
Gary Day
VP of Engineering
Gary has over 30 years’ experience in software engineering, 15 years acquired in the financial service industry. More recently, he has focused on utilising cloud technologies to bring increased flexibility of scale, resilience and security to financial services while keeping cost under control and improving operational excellence. He is passionate about all aspects of technology, and on improving and streamlining software engineering processes to enable businesses to derive value from their products at the earliest opportunity while embracing change.
Andrea Webb
Head of People
Throughout her 25+ year career, Andrea has focused on building high performing teams and cultures. Prior to RTGS.global, she was People Director of global talent solutions group, Morgan McKinley, where she led the people strategy, helping to grow the business to nearly 1,000 employees in 10 countries through successful acquisitions and organic growth into new markets and territories. Before that she held HR roles at CLS Group and Scotiabank.
Andrew Sen
Head of Finance
Andrew brings over 25 years of experience in senior finance roles across the financial services sector, having held key positions at CLS, ICAP, Mizuho, Willis Towers Watson and Panmure Gordon. As a founding member of the CLS finance team, he contributed significantly to its development from the pre-launch phase through to its growth into the leading provider of FX settlement. Andrew has a proven track record of executing numerous large-scale finance and business transformation initiatives. He is passionate about PayTech.
Pegeman Khorsan
Chief Legal &
Regulatory Officer
Pége gained a postgraduate degree in EU Competition Law from King’s College, London then trained as a corporate solicitor in the City. Prior to joining RTGS.global, Pége held Legal Counsel roles at Pay.UK, WorldPay, the Kuoni Group and GTA (a subsidiary of Kuoni) as General Counsel, as well as undertaking a number of legal consulting roles where he specialised in the field of financial technology, digital assets and blockchain.
Joana Vicente Leal
Head of Programme Delivery
Joana is the Head of Programme Delivery at RTGS.global, bringing over 18 years of expertise in large scale transformation and programme management leadership in financial services. Joana has previously held delivery positions with CLS and the Bank of England. At RTGS.global Joana leads the team responsible for overseeing the successful execution of high-impact client projects, consistently driving a culture of continuous improvement.

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Our Career Champions

Joana Vicente Leal
Head of programme Delivery
The thing I love most is being able to be part of creating something new and innovative with such an amazing team. This is not only great professionally, but it's exciting to know we are playing a key part in something which will ultimately transform liquidity and settlement across the world. It's such a unique opportunity.
My interests: Family, baking and travelling
Simon Chiu
Principal Engineer
It's the most interesting and challenging technical problem I've worked on in my entire career, and the engineering team are really at the heart of solving that problem. We're empowered to choose the right tools and have the autonomy to get on with the job at hand. I'm excited for what lies ahead.
My interests: Cycling, reading and travelling
Jane Mercer
Product Owner
To work on such an ambitious initiative which has the potential to transform the entire international settlement landscape is incredibly exciting. It's great to be challenged by completely new problems to solve, aiming to eliminate perceived limitations based on legacy processes. That, coupled with a tremendous team, is why I'm proud to work at RTGS.global.
My interests: Cycling, skiing, hiking, going for breakfast.
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