Konsentus
Mike Woods has a diverse work experience spanning over several decades. Mike is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Konsentus, an infrastructure platform that ensures secure transactions in the open banking and open finance ecosystems. Prior to this, they worked at Hampleton Partners as the Sector Principle for Fintech, where they led M&A initiatives. Before that, they served as a Senior Advisor and Non-Executive Director for Fintech M&A at AND Payments. Mike also had a significant role as the CEO of Proxama, a digital payments company, for two and a half years. Mike served as the CEO of Aconite, a position they held for thirteen years, and as a Director at Royal Bank of Scotland for seven years. Mike's career started at M&S, where they held a directorial role for ten years.
Mike Woods has a background in English & Computing and attended Richmond University, although specific details regarding the start and end year of their education are not available.
Konsentus
Konsentus was established to provide consent & preference management services to financial institutions so that they can comply with PSD2 and open banking. They issue the consent management tokens on behalf of financial institutions through a SaaS platform, checking each time they are used that the third party is regulated.The company wasfounded by three Financial Service industry veterans seeking to deliver a simple and easy way FIs can comply with the new PSD2 regulations and open banking.Headquartered in the UK, just outside of London in the M4 technology corridor their team of professionals are creating a world class solution for every FI in Europe. They are delivering this through utilising the best in open standards, coupled with unique solutions and most of all a belief that they can deliver for clients a cost effective solution to meet their regulatory requirements.