Al Lukies

BIO

Alastair Lukies CBE Alastair has been at the forefront of the UK’s Financial Technology industry, working with financial institutions, investors and regulators to promote collaboration and mutual benefit across the ecosystem. Alastair is a UK businessman and entrepreneur best known as a pioneer and champion for the UK’s global FinTech industry. He founded Monitise in 2003. Three years later Monitise was recognised as a ‘Technology Pioneer’ by the World Economic Forum and in June 2007 Alastair led the company’s demerger from Morse and listing on the LSE’s AIM market. During his time as CEO, Monitise grew to a market cap of $2 billion, employing 1700 staff on four continents. In January 2014, Alastair was appointed by the UK Government as a Business Ambassador to the Prime Minister for the Financial Services industry, and today acts as the sole Business Ambassador for FinTech. He was Non-Executive Chairman of FinTech industry body, Innovate Finance, from the launch in August 2014 until 2017. In September 2015, Alastair was part of the founding team of Motive Partners, an investment firm based in London and New York focused on investing in and building the next generation of financial technology. Alastair remains Vice-Chairman of the Global Advisory Council at Motive Partners, alongside John Thompson (Chairman, Microsoft) and Larry Summers (Former Secretary of the US Treasury). In June 2014 Alastair was awarded a CBE for services to mobile banking and charity and was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2011 Growing Business Awards. Alastair’s entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking has produced other inspirational ventures , and notably, as a fore runner to Monitise, he was a co-founder of epolitix.com, the portal for Westminster, Whitehall and the devolved institutions.