UK Management Team

Patrick Boylan - Executive Chairman

Patrick has more than 25 years of Senior Level experience in International Financial Services.  Before his involvement with UC Group, he served as Chief Executive of Card Services and E-Ventures at NatWest.  Prior to NatWest Patrick was a Group General Manager at HSBC Holdings Plc responsible for Global Banking Services.

Patrick served as a member of the Global Board of MasterCard, and Chairman of Mastercard and EuroPay UK.  He also served as Chairman of ClearCommerce International.

Tim Allitt - Head of Sales and Marketing

Tim has over 20 years experience in the payments industry working principally with acquirers and merchants, helping them adapt to new technologies and products as a means to grow their business.

Before joining SecureTrading, Tim headed up the European Acceptance team at MasterCard, mainly focused on the roll-out of Maestro in Europe and opening up cross-border opportunities in Acquiring.

Phil Deeker - Head of Human Resources

Phil has more than thirty years experience in Human Resources and Training within the financial services industry in the UK, Europe, the Middle and Far East.

He is a training facilitator and author for the ifs School of Finance and a visiting Lecturer for the Institute of Business Studies, Kuwait; Glamis Business School, Mauritius and the Singapore Institute of Management. He is also the Human Resources advisor to the UC Group of companies.

A former Human Resources Director in ecommerce and electronic payments for the NatWest Group Phil holds Fellowships with the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and the Institute of Financial Services.

Daniel Holden - Head of Group Finance

Daniel Holden is responsible for the commercial and financial aspects of SecureTrading.

Having studied law at Durham University and qualified as a barrister Daniel went on to complete his ACA.

Before joining SecureTrading, Daniel worked at Deloitte, Capita plc, as well as a Venture-Capital backed e-learning provider.

His work has included a number of accounting related fraud cases and Daniel has particular interest in forensic accounting, system analysis and fraud prevention.

Ian Hughes - Chief Technical Officer

Ian Hughes is responsible for all aspects of SecureTrading IT infrastructure and application development, support and maintenance, including information service delivery and security.

With 16 years of technical and IT management experience, Ian has held a wide variety of Information Technology roles within SecureTrading.  Prior to SecureTrading, Ian has worked for British Aerospace developing flight simulator software as well as Racal Radar Defence Systems and Euro DPC where he held IT positions with the companies.

Ian holds an MSc in Mathematical Modelling from Loughborough University and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from Bangor University.

Jane Jee - Head of Legal and Compliance

Jane has a background in law and business development in financial services and technology companies, underpinned by commercial expertise in brand management, e-commerce, mobile commerce and card payments.

A barrister, Jane has worked for almost 20 years in card payments and technology companies. She was Managing Director of Access, the UK bank owned credit card company, A key achievement was the doubling of brand awareness through the 'Flexible Friend' campaign. She has since worked at WorldPay, Mondex International (stored value chip cards), Simpay (mobile phone payments). Jane has been with SecureTrading for 5 years working in Legal and Sales and Marketing and in her current role since July 2010.