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Banking Tech Awards
3rd December 2026
Hilton Park LaneLondon

Ed Adshead-Grant
Non Executive Director at AperiData
Judge

Profile

With over 25 years’ experience in the payments industry, Ed is currently a Non-Executive Director at the financial assessment firm AperiData in the UK and an Advisor to the global processing company Hightech Payment Systems in Morocco. Having worked at leading IT software and service companies for projects in over 30 countries, Ed has held a number of global strategy, product and client management roles with PwC, First Data Corporation, Pepper Consultants, Hewlett-Packard and Bottomline Technologies. He is passionate about supporting new Fintech talent coming into the industry and helping banks and corporates to power and protect their payments, covering industry domains such as Open Banking, financial crime, cross-border, blockchain and instant payments.