James Neville has extensive work experience spanning over two decades. Their most recent position was as the CEO of Citizen, a company where they served from December 2019 till the present. Prior to that, they held the role of CTO at Shopa for a brief period from March 2015 to August 2015. James also worked as CTO - Worldpay Futures at WorldPay, an online payment service provider, from February 2014 to April 2015. Before that, they served as the Product Delivery Director (CTO) at WGSN Group from May 2012 to December 2013. James also held various roles at other companies such as Just-Eat, Sportingbet, Babcock & Brown, Chiefagent, Colossos, and D3, where they played key roles in development, analysis, and management.
James Neville attended the University of Essex from 1993 to 1996, where they earned a BA(Hons) degree in Design. James later pursued further education at Cass Business School from 2007 to 2009, obtaining a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree with a focus on Strategy & Finance.
Citizen
Citizen is a European fintech, founded in 2017 by former Worldpay CTO, James Neville. Since then, it’s grown to three locations with a customer base across Europe from a wide range of sectors - all of whom are committed to delivering efficient payment options combined with an excellent customer experience. Based on open banking standards,Citizen’s PayBlox platform comprises a purpose-built online toolkit that traders and merchants can deploy to optimise every stage of their payment processes - reducing costs and materially enhancing the customer experience.Citizen became a regulated payment institute in 2019, and was one of the first companies licensed to provide payments and identity services using open banking. With headquarters in London, Citizen is backed by leading investors including Metavallon VC, SGH Capital and Fin VC.