Ray Anderson, CEO and Founder
Ray is Chief Executive of Bango, he co-founded Bango in 1999 when he realized that the convergence of the internet with the ubiquity of mobile phones would open up huge opportunities. Ray wanted to create a platform that would streamline the process of collecting payments from mobile users for content and service providers. Ray positioned Bango to benefit from the opening up of the mobile operator portals in 2004, and the transition of the mobile content business from a traditional SMS messaging model to a customer friendly browse and buy internet model.
In 2005, Ray led the successful floatation of the company. Bango then became the first company to open up single-click mobile web billing on US networks AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. As smartphones became increasingly important, Ray's obsession with user experience excellence and building a stable and ubiquitous platform helped Bango secure strategic relationships with BlackBerry, Opera and Facebook. Ray continues to build and steer the Bango team forward into one of the most exciting markets in history.
In 1988, Ray established IXI which created the industry standard network GUI - X.desktop. IXI was an early leader in the creation of the web. It sponsored the first ever WWW conference at CERN and shipped the world's first commercial web browser. In 1993 the company merged with SCO and then floated on NASDAQ. Ray held senior executive roles in SCO, including General Manager, Senior VP Marketing, and Senior VP of New Ventures. He played a key role in transforming SCO from being a small "PC Unix" company to it becoming the industry standard Intel Unix provider and its acquisition of Unix Assets from Novell by the time Ray left in 1999.
Before IXI Ray was a Co-founder and Development Director of Torch Computers where he sold its graphical user interface software "OpenTop" to Steve Jobs during the start-up of his NeXT company. Before that he developed operating system software for Acorn Computers, optimizing compilers for GEC Computers, and worked for Sinclair Research.
Ray is an entrepreneur, innovator and investor with 20 years experience. He was named "Technology Entrepreneur of the Year" in February 2006, and in September 2006 at the ME Awards was given a special award for outstanding contribution to the mobile entertainment industry. A member of "The Cambridge Angels", Ray was a founding investor in a variety of growing companies including TeamStudio, Tenison Technology, Electronic Share Information (sold to E*Trade), Aspective, Trigenix (sold to Qualcomm), RE5ULT (82ASK), Shortfuze, Midentity and other technology businesses.
He holds a 1st Class Degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University. He is a keen pilot.
Anil Malhotra, SVP Alliances & Marketing and Founder
As Co-founder and SVP of Alliances & Marketing, Anil Malhotra is focused on building long-term relationships with Bango's key customers and partners, including mobile operators and OEMs. Anil is a highly experienced marketing and business development manager, spending the last 20 years at entrepreneurial, fast-growth businesses in the internet, software publishing and technology sectors.
Formerly with user interface specialist IXI, Anil put together worldwide agreements with US, Japanese and European industry giants including IBM, Digital, NEC and Sun Microsystems. In 1995 he joined the executive team at CyberLife Technology. There, he developed software licensing agreements with Sony, Hasbro, Mindscape and Warner Interactive.
In 1999 he founded Bango with former colleague Ray Anderson. He holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and an M.Sc. in Computer Science. He has worked at Bango continuously from start-up to its position today as a global leader in mobile payments.
Glenn Walker, SVP Development
Glenn is responsible for the technical development and delivery of products at Bango, working with Product Marketing and Sales to create and enhance the company's product proposition. He leads the technical direction and management of the development teams at Bango.
Glenn joined Bango in 2005 and contributed his extensive experience of financial systems design and enterprise grade architectures to the evolution of the Bango platform as transaction volumes increased. Glenn was architect of the Bango Analytics product, which enables customer's to analyze their mobile sites in real-time, leveraging the in-depth data and relationships which Bango has in the mobile space.
Prior to working at Bango, Glenn was Head of Development at Moneyfacts Group plc. Moneyfacts were the innovators of financial product comparison sites, compiling national data from all of the UK's Banks and Building Societies on credit cards, mortgages, personal loans, savings and more. He was involved in key projects such as Mortgage Comparison software, which was used in every UK branch of HSBC, as well as supplying data and analysis services to Virgin Money.
He is also a keen private pilot, and owns his own aircraft based at Old Buckenham, Norfolk.
Peter Saxton, CFO
Peter provides the financial leadership, direction and policy guidance to the company as it continues to grow rapidly. He is also responsible for ensuring the company's operational efficiencies are maintained as its global roll-out gathers pace. Peter has over 30 years experience in all financial disciplines including accounting, fundraising and acquisitions.
After achieving a BSc (Hons.) in Management Sciences from UMIST, Peter qualified as a chartered accountant in 1981. He joined Sinclair Research as Financial Controller, then as Finance Director at Nexus Payment Systems which provided services to clients in the LINK ATM network. He was part of the three-man management buy-out that led to a successful European expansion and subsequent disposal to Sligos, a leading French payment system business.
From 1996 to 2001 Peter was Finance Director at PayPoint, the UK's leading branded utility bill payment company. From start-up, Peter was responsible for all finance activity and enabled the company to profitably process more than £2 billion of payments per year.
From 2001 Peter worked with a number of technology and other companies in East Anglia as Financial Consultant or Finance Director, before joining Bango as CFO in 2004.
Martin Harris, SVP Strategic Accounts
As SVP Strategic Accounts, Martin is responsible for managing the long term relationships with Bango's key customers in the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Working with global app stores, online publishers and network operators his role covers business planning and strategic sales. His 11 years experience in the mobile industry and wealth of knowledge in the mobile content and payments space means he often speaks at industry events.
Previously, as Sales Director at iii.co.uk (Interactive Investor International plc) Martin helped drive the company to a leading market position and through a subsequent IPO in February 2000. Martin spent 12 months with AT&T Labs, heading global new technology sales. Before that, he was at Sun Microsystems for 10 years in sales and sales management positions where he was one of Sun's most successful European salesmen. He has also held senior roles at NCR and Torch Computers in the USA and Canada.
Elaine Bramley, SVP Customer Services
Elaine has over 15 years experience in developing and managing the customer experience within software, internet and mobile technology sectors. Elaine provides high end customer service and account management for Bango's corporate customers through engaging closely with Sales, Operations and Product Development. She is an expert in operator compliance, and manages compliance operator relationships.
Elaine's team is responsible for managing customer support globally, handling thousands of queries a day from different customer segments, time zones and languages. Elaine delivers multi-channel service strategies, based on a thorough understanding of market requirements and conditions.
Elaine joined the Bango team in 2000 supporting all Bango customers and managing special projects. She has managed the Vodafone Live! launch, the 24/7 operation team, and the launch of new services globally. Prior to working at Bango Elaine was head of Customer Services for an EDI/XML Electronic Commerce company. Elaine has a degree in Business Management.
Andy Bovingdon, VP Product Marketing
Andy has a real passion for technology, especially anything mobile or web related. At Bango he leads the company's product strategy and is responsible for the interface between products and markets; considering product proposition, requirements, roadmaps, positioning, communication and promotion. He works closely with top brands, mobile leaders and end users to ensure the Bango Payment and Analytics products remain at the forefront of innovation.
Andy has 20 years experience within the global internet market, working for both start-ups and established brands in Europe and the USA. He has been active with the World Wide Web from its inception and was involved in the first web conference, at CERN in 1994. Andy integrated a wide range of web technologies into the X-desktop product range for IXI Ltd; he introduced the world to the web-based Desktop (Webtop) at SCO; and designed the first web-based remote application access solutions for Tarantella Inc., allowing mobile workforces to use mission critical applications from centrally located Unix, Linux and Windows servers over the Internet.
Before joining Bango, Andy was Head of Marketing and Product Management for ANT plc, the leading supplier of web-based user interface platforms for the IPTV market. Prior to that, he was responsible for worldwide marketing at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Andy holds a BSc in Computer Science from Staffordshire University.
Tim Moss, Chief Data Officer
Tim is an expert in the field of high volume, database backed content management systems as used by mobile operators and news portals, with many years of experience in internet businesses offering internet based services and products. Tim's primary role is to lead the team that ensures Bango's datacentres and databases provide high levels of availability and performance for all of Bango's customers, according to the service level agreements. He is also responsible directly to the CEO for safeguarding the privacy and integrity of all customer and end user data, and for ensuring the implementation of Bango privacy and security policies.
Prior to working at Bango, Tim was Chief Technical Architect at Sportal International, who ran Europe's leading and award winning sports news portal, where he helped them take traffic from 1M pages per month to 1.5M pages per hour, from over 2.5M unique sports fans. Tim previously developed the systems underpinning financial products used by Tier 1 investment banks, where high systems availability, security and auditability was crucial.
Tim has a background in software product development and systems administration and architecture, holding positions at blue-chip organisations such as IBM, O2 and SCO, he has a degree in Software Engineering from Edinburgh University.
Karen Oakley, VP Operations
As VP Operations Karen is responsible for the strategic management and support of internal systems. She manages the integration of operator billing including launch and post-launch activities, financial reporting and analysis, legal and regulatory compliance.
Karen has over 20 years experience in managing operations in the High-Tech sector. Formerly with IXI, Karen managed the finance and operations from start up to $11m. After IXI's merger with SCO, she was responsible for Human Resources, Operations, Financial Control and Management Accounting for two SCO development sites. She has an MBA, a post graduate diploma in Management and is AAT qualified.