About Us

Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie has led a highly technical career in finance technology, forming a robust platform for solutions architecture and fintech innovation. He has helped Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Investment Bank (2004-15) and Lloyds Commercial Bank bring a number of strategic and tactical projects to fruition as a hands-on SME in derivative instruments, regulations and technology.

After nearly 20 years in investment banking Oliver founded BCB Group where his mission is to accelerate global adoption of digital assets as money, as ownership and as a commodity of value.

Noah Sharp is a pioneering, international Fintech banker and specialist in banking-as-a-service and embedded payment solutions for crypto exchanges, PSPs and marketplaces. He shares responsibility with the CEO for the corporate scaling strategy across geographies, client segments, products and licensing.

He was previously Chief Banking Officer at Paysafe, leading the global banking and payments division he created to run the rails on which Paysafe’s $100bn+ annual payment volume was processed. Before this, he hailed from Standard Chartered Bank as Director of Fintech Banking & Advisory and prior to that Sharp spent 11 years at Deutsche Bank, where he was a corporate banker covering global relationships for European and US headquartered Fintechs, card schemes, insurance companies and other non-bank financial institutions. He also spent time in Deutsche’s transaction banking and COO divisions with several roles in international locations, including India and the US.

Oliver Tonkin is a qualified solicitor with over 20 years of legal, operational and investment experience. He qualified at a leading City law firm and spent over ten years, both in private practice and in industry, advising on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions, with a particular focus on the financial services industry. Oliver co-founded and ran his own boutique investment advisory firm for a number of years before co-founding BCB Group with Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie in 2017.

Philipp Prince brings over two decades of experience built in corporate finance, advisory and management positions at BDO LLP and across blue-chip and start-up companies. He has held senior finance roles in both private and listed technology companies and is currently a non-executive director at medical technology firm Feedback plc.

Chris is an industry veteran, passionate about financial innovation, and was previously at Bitstamp, where he held the role of Head of Business Development and was responsible for helping financial institutions enter the crypto market and focused on identifying opportunities for integrating crypto with traditional finance. Prior to that, he launched the open banking payments platform, Token, and built the pipeline for the business in Europe.

Formerly a European regulatory policy expert at the Financial Services Authority (the precursor to the Financial Conduct Authority) Natasha went on to spend 10 years in senior compliance roles in RBS, Schroders and Barclays Capital. Most recently Natasha led her own independent consultancy specialising in regulatory transformation and innovation and providing regulatory compliance and financial crime prevention management advice to European hedge funds, asset managers and prime brokerage firms. Natasha is responsible for managing the company’s global compliance and financial crime prevention governance framework.

Angelique’s career has spanned numerous global roles in tier one banks and across multiple products, including HSBC, Nomura, Lehman Brothers, UBS and Citi. While at HSBC, she secured HSBC’s Market Operations Division a “Best in Class” award for customer service after a successful two-year turnaround. She has spent a substantial part of her time within Prime Brokerage, building out operating models in response to the needs of hedge funds and brings her significant experience of delivering excellence in customer relationships programmes to BCB Group.

Former Head of Emerging Technology at Royal Bank of Scotland, defining and leading their blockchain, AI and quantum strategy. He is now the COO of BCB Group and brings with him over 20 years of experience leading teams to deliver maximum business benefits through technology for the largest financial service institutions and FinTechs.

Farzad is the CTO of BCB Group. Since 2001, he has served in multiple roles across major tier 1 investment banks, including the platform architect and technical lead for the FX Options platform at NatWest Markets, Head of Credit Risk IT at Deutsche Bank and Head of Engineering for Risk at NatWest. He has been working with DLTs since 2014 – including Ripple, Ethereum and Corda. Notably, he is a key contributor to the Corda open source project. For his contributions and achievements in his career, he was awarded the title of Distinguished Engineer at NatWest.

Previously CTO of CreditEnable, Rego has also held senior technology leadership roles for over 25+ years with Citi, where his career spanned positions as Global Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions Technology and Global Electronic Banking Channels Head. He brings a wealth of experience driving successful delivery of large transformation and growth programs solving complex business challenges using technology across large-scale enterprise and fintech organisations.

Sheetal joins BCB Group after 3 years at Paysafe, where she successfully built a delivery team for the Banking portfolio for delivery of bank integrations, APMs, partner integrations, banking as a service, and other payment capabilities including FX Hub. Sheetal brings 18 years of experience in the payments services industry, with a vast understanding of building high performing delivery teams, driving enterprise vision to execution, risk management, and coordinating cross-functional program teams. She is a champion for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, especially focussing on mentoring in her previous roles where she helped launch ERG groups and led Families ERG for 2 years at Paysafe.

Former retail banker (BPCE) and Founder of a leading Fintech strategy consulting firm, advisors to Revolut, Edenred, Ebury, Railsr, Qonto, Mooncard on payments and international growth strategies. JJ also has 15 years of regulatory experience working with regulators in the EU, Switzerland and North Africa.

Ian brings 20+ years of banking and cash/liquidity management experience, previously working at Citi, JPM and Deutsche Bank. Most recently Ian ran banking relationships, including crypto, globally at Paysafe.