Our Team
We’re a team that’s trying to change the world! We’re unapologetically open banking and technology geeks and our diverse, global team at Ozone API is working to accelerate open finance around the world.
We asked some Ozonians to share what they enjoy most about working at Ozone API. This is what they had to say.
Co-Founders
Chris led the development of the UK open banking standard as CTO at the UK Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE).
With a 30 year career building technology companies, Chris has founded a highly successful digital agency and established the internal digital practice at Reckitt Benckiser.
Huw brings over 25 years in banking, leading payments globally at HSBC and former Head of Digital Payments at MasterCard.
He led the growth of open banking in the UK as Ecosystem Development Director at OBIE. He has successfully built high growth businesses both within large corporates and as stand alone start ups.
Freddi was the lead technical architect and author of the UK open banking standard. A career technologist with over 25 years’ experience as a lead developer, enterprise architect, coach and mentor. Freddi has delivered large digital transformation programmes across Banking, Telco and Government verticals.
Our leadership team brings together experts in their respective fields, a wealth of varied experience across multiple industries unified by a shared vision and set of values which cascade across our teams.
Evghenii Malevanchuk
Head of Product
Fábio Caldeira
General Manager LATAM
Fabio is passionate about connecting business demands with digital solutions to drive growth for the business and well being for the people.
His 20+ years of expertise were built across a diverse range of industries including roles at mobile telecom, manufacturing goods, internet and financial services.
James Bushby
General Manager for UK, EU, and NA
Katie Hayes
Head of Marketing
Katie specialises in scaling marketing departments, delivering rebrands and impactful campaigns to support business growth. She brings over 15 years global marketing experience across multiple industries including tech, finance, FMCG, fashion and wellness. Katie is an advocate for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and enjoys creating a healthy company culture.
Navneet Karnani
Head of Engineering
Navneet brings over 30 years experience in software engineering, team management and site ownership across multiple product sets. He has built enterprise datacenter products for Veritas, Netscout, Symantec and VMware and is passionate about building robust products and sustainable engineering practices.
Nihal Abughattas
General Manager MENA
Nihal has 20 years of cross-functional business expertise in banking technology. She is passionate about developing and delivering customer value propositions, and taking them to market. She has been a GTM advisor at the IFC [World Bank], helping FIs with their digital banking transformation projects. She is also a Founding Board Member of the MENA Fintech Association.
Richard Beeston
Chief Financial Officer
Richard is a chartered accountant and international finance leader with over 30 years of experience in multiple industry sectors. Since 2018, Richard has invested in and worked with start-up and scale-up businesses in Fintech, Edtech, Greentech and FMCG ventures, providing hands-on operational and strategic finance leadership.
Vaibhav Billore
Director of Engineering
Our diverse and global team is central to our ongoing success and the growth of Ozone API.
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