Bio

Lucy is mobile banking and business-building services built to help entrepreneurial women who are overlooked, underestimated, and underbanked become unstoppable. One size fits all is really one size fits none - and so we’re making it personal. Lucy is designed by women, for women- their life, their challenges, their aspirations. Lucy’s responsible financial services and app empowers business growth to help transform lives, families, communities and countries. Lucy helps to bridge the financial divide - putting money back into the hands of women. What does that look like? - Entrepreneurs get fee-free accounts and business growth tools - Employers get helper salary payments & loan management - Household managers get a fee-free account, expense tracking & Mastercard. - Domestic helpers get salary advances & low-cost money transfers home. We partner with financial institutions to bring them a new market segment under a differentiated brand, giving them the benefit of a consolidated balance sheet without the expense of serving lower income customers directly. I have 20+ years of experience in technology for finance, mobile-enabled products and services, business and strategy consulting and management. I have led customer-centric market research and product development engagements; supported clients in technology platform needs assessment and implementation; built multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams in a number of countries; and acted as Project Director for a number of long-term multi-million dollar mobile money and financial services solution implementations. I have lived in Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Singapore over the past 20 years, and worked in 30 additional countries throughout Africa and Asia. My career in the UK included Operations Director for an ERP solutions provider and Head of Deployment for a commercial bank-enabled smart card-based electronic cash service.