Education
UCL
Bsc, Astronomy 1983-01-01 - 1986-01-01Work Experience
The Fintex Group
Current
The Fintex Group
incept5
Current
incept5
Velo Payments
2017-01-01 - 2024-03-01
Velo Payments
incept5
2008-05-01 - 2020-11-01
incept5
LJP Technologies Ltd.
2016-03-01 - 2016-12-01
LJP Technologies Ltd.
C24 Technologies
2011-04-01 - 2016-10-01
C24 Technologies
Visa
2010-06-01 - 2012-03-01
Visa
Verifi Inc.
2009-06-01 - 2010-06-01
Verifi Inc.
Progress
2008-09-01 - 2009-04-01
Progress
Revolution Money
2008-03-01 - 2009-01-01
Revolution Money
Skills
Summary
Over 30 years in IT from hardware though C, C++, Java to enterprise architecture, board member and AI. Lived all over the world from the Far East, though Europe to the US. Currently working on a stealth product in a stealth company, more when we pop above the radar. I co-founded Century 24 (C24) with 3 others in 2000, specialising in investment banking integration, predominately SWIFT, FpML and ISO-20022. We sold C24 to Iona Technologies (NASDAQ:IONA) in 2007, Iona was then sold to Progress Software in 2008, we bought C24 back in April 2011 and sold it again in Oct 2016 to Gresham Computing PLC. My expertise is large scale and high performance architectures, enterprise to global. I've run the FX trading systems at Paribas, headed up global architecture at BNP Paribas, global head of architecture at JP Morgan Chase and chief architect on Visa's V.me (now Visa checkout) in the innovation team. I am a regular speaker at Java and banking conferences around the world, QCon, JavaOne, Devoxx, JAX etc. I live in London but travel a lot, typically to the US every few weeks (mostly NY and San Francisco), Tokyo frequently, Singapore, Europe almost every other week. I have 3 wonderful sons (Luc 20, James 18 and Pierre 16) and a gorgeous French wife who between them make it all worthwhile. I can be reached on +44 7770 697272 or by private email at John at JohnTDavies dot com. Specialties: Global Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise modernisation, Scalability and high performance, complex integration.