FinTech50
TRANSFERWISE
TAAVET HINRIKUS, FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
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THUNDERHEAD.COM
GLEN MANCHESTER, CEO
A
recognized
technology
pioneer, innovator and entrepreneur with more than 20
years of global experience, Glen is
the founder and CEO of Thunderhead
renamed since May 17th, 2012 as
Thunderhead.com, a global provider
of cloud-based customer experience
and enterprise engagement solutions.
Today, Thunderhead.com employs
more than 300 people globally, has
180 enterprise customers predominantly in financial services, investment
banking (including 14 of the G15
global investment banks) and insurance, with a growing footprint in
public sector with US Federal Government and Australian Commonwealth.
About
Thunderhead.com is a global provider
of customer experience and enterprise
engagement solutions. Thunderhead.
com provides a powerful suite of SaaS
solutions that gives businesses the
ability to communicate, collaborate
and have real-time conversations with
their customers and partners across all
touchpoints throughout their journey.
The result is that businesses have
more power to drive revenue, brand
strength, and differentiation by delivering far beyond isolated interactions
and experiences but by creating the
rich relationships that great businesses are built on.
THIRTY
f you have a better way of doing
something, think about how it
could be applied to help others.
My friend Kristo Käärmann and I
came up with the idea for TransferWise when we first became expats in
London and were confronted by the
high fees banks charge to transfer
money abroad. I was paid in euros,
but lived in London. Kristo worked
in London, but had a mortgage to
pay in Estonia. We devised a simple
plan: every month Kristo put pounds
in my bank account and I put euros in
Kristo’s account, avoiding bank fees.
Within a few months we’d saved thousands of pounds and realised there
were probably millions of others that
needed a system like ours.
About
TransferWise is a peer-to-peer international money transfer platform that
uses technology developed by the
people who built Skype and PayPal to
remove all the fees the banking and
FX broking industry have kept hidden
for decades. Its new model is up to 10
times cheaper than using a bank.
@TransferWise @taavet