Professor Stefan Allesch-Taylor CBE FKC FRSA is an entrepreneur, financier, and investor.  He has over 35 years of international business leadership experience, having co-founded and served as Chair or CEO of numerous public and private companies in the UK, Middle East, USA, Europe and Switzerland, including investment banks and asset management firms in first-world and emerging markets. An advocate of using entrepreneurship for positive social change, Stefan has co-founded and currently chairs several award-winning charities, which provide relief from poverty and hardship for 2.5 million+ people in the UK, Sub-Saharan Africa and Ukraine. He has served as the Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship at King's College London since 2016. In 2020, he was awarded a Fellowship of King’s College London for ‘Outstanding Service.’

Leading Quantum’s expert team, Floyd has exceptional experience in the fintech and security space. Floyd served with Special Air Service for 24 years, working with COBR and as Head of the UK Counter Terrorist Wing, before leaving the military and founding Quantum Group with Peter Malmstrom. Floyd has an excellent track record of success as a military leader, company director and negotiator — working with government agencies and police forces throughout the UK and overseas — and was named a Top 50 Fintech Founder by leading industry publication The Financial Technologist. Through his philanthropic foundation, Compass for Life, Floyd delivers elite performance training to executives of some of the UK’s biggest companies, as well as the UK National Health Service, the Police and First Response Agencies.

James is a skilled and commercially aware leader with a proven track record of bringing clarity, focus and success across a broad range of companies within the regulated fintech and banking space. As Director of Fintech & Banking and CEO of Volopa, Quantum’s key fintech subsidiary, James leads Quantum’s expanding suite of business payment solutions, international transaction management, and security and compliance capabilities. James brings more than 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry, including as CEO for Revolut UK for nearly four years, where he played a key role in scaling the board and executive teams – during which time Revolut’s value grew from $5.5bn to a $33bn valuation following its $800m Series E in 2021 – and subsequently served as CEO of Lycamoney, the mobile wallet and payment service unit of Lycamobile Group, from 2023 to 2025.

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Steven is an accomplished accountant with a strong financial, tax and advisory background. A Fellow of the ICAEW, Steven regularly advises and consults with corporate entities on a wide range of matters, including London Stock Exchange quotations, advising overseas Governments on tax matters, international structuring for multi-nationals, and advising on complex transactions at both corporate and shareholder level. Previously senior partner of top West End firm Simmons Gainsford LLP until he stepped down in 2017 to develop a number of commercial opportunities. He has been a director of several private companies in the financial services sector, including an international payments solution company, and is currently a trustee of a major UK charity.

International payment specialist Graham has an enviable track record of managing teams, strategic clients and programmes to deliver the highest levels of customer experience and generate return on investment for companies. With more than 31 years in the financial, retail and card payments sector, Graham has extensive knowledge of the fintech sector — particularly card payment solutions — and brings unrivalled regulatory expertise to Quantum’s FCA-regulated and unregulated products. Combining excellent programme director skills with strong client focus and financial insight, Graham is a calm leader who excels in building trusting relationships at all levels to power innovation and overcome traditional barriers to change. Graham is FCA registered as CF1 (Director).

An internationally experienced Financial Crime, Risk & Regulatory Compliance leader, Steven brings extensive knowledge of developing, implementing and reviewing strategic risk-based frameworks and transformation projects to Quantum. With a CV that includes global head of compliance roles at companies including LycaMoney and Vodaphone, Steven has significant knowledge of the international legal and regulatory environment as well as experience influencing politicians and c-suite executives through his role on the Cross Sector Advisory Group advising the Cabinet Office on the government’s financial crime strategy. He was commended by the UN Ambassador to NATO on his Anti-Corruption work, mentored Foreign Government officials and given advice on their financial crime frameworks.

Responsible for all IT as well as critical projects for Verve and Volopa, Shanawaz is a highly experienced and team-oriented professional, focused on fine tuning the collective efforts of Quantum’s design, product and sale teams to optimise tech delivery. With more than 25 years of IT and software development experience across financial services, captive finance, government and retail sectors, his demonstrated track record includes holding patents for blockchain security solutions, launching bitcoin wallet and blockchain exchange platforms, and initiating cost-saving frameworks for Maersk Line and Tungsten. A technologist at heart, Shanawaz is highly skilled at solving complex issues using social, cloud, mobile and big data technology and Gen AI, as well as interpreting blockchain at byte level to create commercial value.

Ali first joined Volopa in 2021 as Head of Product and is now responsible for steering the commercial strategy for Quantum’s Fintech Division at Group level. Ali's career spans pivotal roles at globally recognised institutions. Notably, during his tenure as a Product Manager at JP Morgan Payments, he managed the launch and expansion of the Global Mass Pay and the Global Earnings Credit Rate (ECR) products in the EMEA region. Ali also served as a senior product manager at American Express, where he played a key role in research and development, optimising the roadmap process, and contributing to the launch of the new Global Pay product. With a proven track record of transforming concepts into successful products, Ali continues to drive innovation and excellence in the realm of product development and commercial strategies.

Peter brings a wealth of expertise in fintech innovation and security solutions to Quantum Group through both his military and civilian experience. Peter trained as a commodity futures broker and foreign currency trader in the City of London, developing trading algorithms and pioneering deliverable FX platforms. After a period of time with the British Army, including 21 Special Air Service (not badged), he entered the world of specialist security providers, gaining more than 25 years of experience in the security sector, while also active in the development of several FX financial services companies. With extensive contacts and experience across several market sectors – both in the UK and internationally – Peter worked across several high-level projects with business partner Floyd Woodrow MBE DCM before establishing Quantum Group in 2015.

An HR and office management professional with 10 years of administrative experience, Katie has a demonstrated history working in the financial and private property sector. Katie is responsible for coordinating human resources management across Group companies, as well as developing inter-office communication, streamlining administrative procedures and maintaining office policies. She also oversees the daily operations and communications with all elements of the Group organising meetings, conferences and special events. Katie possesses excellent leadership, organisational and communicative skills, and ensures the effectiveness and welfare of the Group’s staff and processes.