Former banking and fintech leader, Jon Burrell, joins Weavr as deputy CEO
Embedded finance specialist, Weavr, has appointed Jon Burrell as its new deputy CEO. With extensive experience across banking and fintech, Jon is ideally positioned to drive Weavr’s growth ambitions in 2025 and beyond.
As deputy CEO, Jon joins to accelerate the company’s next phase of growth, using his extensive experience in scaling financial services businesses internationally. A specialist in operations and compliance, Jon spent several years in international transaction banking and fintech as Global VP of Operations and Head of Compliance at CurrencyCloud. Based in London and later New York, he played a vital role in scaling the company from a 50-person start-up to a global organisation with hundreds of employees. Most recently leading product and engineering teams, Jon played a key role in taking Codat from Series A to subsequent rounds. His deep compliance and operations expertise, combined with experience in scaling fintechs, positions him well to make an immediate impact as the embedded finance specialist’s new Deputy CEO.
The financial services sector has made remarkable strides over the past two decades in the consumer space, but Jon recognises that there is still much work to be done to bring the way businesses interact with financial services into the new era. Increasingly, the way businesses access financial services is changing, from dealing directly with traditional or even neo banks towards accessing finance directly within the business software they use day to day.
Commenting on his new role, Jon said: “Today, most businesses store their data and build their workflows on SaaS, and increasingly they want their financial services to be part of these workflows. My goal at Weavr is to help realise our vision of making it easy and safe for B2B SaaS to embed financial features their customers need and deliver a fantastic user experience. I am delighted to join Alex and the team on this exciting next chapter of our journey.”