Rupert Lee-Browne
| Rupert Lee-Browne | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏡 Residence | London, England |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 💼 Occupation | Investor and entrepreneur |
Rupert Lee-Browne is an investor and entrepreneur in technology businesses; the founder, Chief Executive and Chairman of Caxton FX, a UK-based business focused on financial technology, currency and international payments.
Education and early career[edit]
Lee-Browne was born and raised in Gloucestershire. After attending a local comprehensive school and Malvern Boy's College in Worcestershire, he went on to University of London to study History of Art under Ernst Gombrich.[1][2] His early career was in advertising and media, starting with a role at Chris Ingram Associates as a TV media buyer and planner.[2] His work with media companies led him to BBC Enterprises where he worked on the launch of UK Gold,[3] and on to Daily Mail General Trust where he established a cross-media platform for the London Evening Standard, Channel One and early-stage internet publishing for the newspaper.[4]
In 1998, Lee-Browne invested in and co-founded the dotcom business EggsBenefit.com along with Mogens Tholstrup, then-owner of the Signature Group of Restaurants. The company was sold to Eskye.com for an undisclosed sum in 2001.[5][6]
Caxton FX[edit]
In 2002, Lee-Browne started Caxton FX Ltd, a currency and payments company.[7] With an investment of £25,000, he grew the company from one man and a telephone to a business turning over £1bn.[8][9] During his time at Caxton he has been regularly quoted in the media on currency and wider market issues.
Lee-Browne launched the first Euro currency prepaid card in 2007 [10], an innovative retail bond to raise funds on a peer-to-peer basis in 2011[11][12], and developed blockchain technology to replace APIs.[13][9][14] In 2017, the European Digital Banking Club named Lee-Browne as one of the Digital Banking Power 50[15]
Media and Speaker engagements[edit]
He is a regular guest on national and international news programmes [16][17][18] speaking predominantly on currency matters as well as being quoted regularly in the offline and online media [19][20][21][22][23] Lee-Browne also speaks at business conferences to talk about starting and running a fast-growing company as well as fintech issues. [24][25]He has been a regular speaker at the Goldman Sachs 10k Small Business programme. [26]Lee-Browne was a judge on 2017 Women in Finance and The British Small Business Grants. [27][28]
Personal Life[edit]
Lee-Browne is married with one son and lives in Chelsea, London.[29][30]
References[edit]
- ↑ Huggins, Donata (12 December 2011). "Exchanging a career for entrepreneurial success". Cityam.com. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Rupert Lee-Browne is going the distance with Caxton FX - Elite Business Magazine". Elitebusinessmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "DMGT looks forward with multimedia skills". Independent.co.uk. 14 June 1996. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "The Story of EggsBenefit". 7 December 2003. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "What the weekend papers say". Thecaterer.com. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "Rupert Lee-Browne: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "Rupert Lee-Browne - Money20/20 Europe". Europe.money2020.com. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Caxton Leverages the Blockchain to Provide Faster, Safer, API-Free Connectivity". Finovate.com. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "Prepaid Currency Cards Revolutionise Business Travel Expenses". Fresh Business Thinking. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "Move over banks - retail bonds are a must for raising capital". Hemmingrobeson.com. 20 August 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "International Payments Service Caxton Adopts Blockchain Technology - Finance Magnates". Financemagnates.com. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "Finovate Europe 2017 preview". bobsguide. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "the 2017 European DIGITAL BANKING CLUB Power 50" (PDF). Intelligentenvironments.com. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "Lack of confidence in the Dollar". foxbusiness.com. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Yen strengthens from Japanese elections". foxbusiness.com. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Post-election fallout - British Pound's recovery". getmymarket.com. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ Hayward, Chloe. "Your money: Cashing in on holiday money". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ Johnson, Andrew. "Pound set for $1.40 if deep recession bites". express.co.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ Nagesh, Ashitha. "Pound rebounds after Trump says he won't end the 'special relationship'". metro.co.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Dream locations". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Caxton FX CEO". virgin.com. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Fintech 2015". level39.co. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Pay360 Innovate Speakers". yourgx.com. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Speakers - Rupert Lee-Browne". money2020.com. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Women in Finance Awards 2017". Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Small Business Grants". Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ Bounds, Andrew. "A quest to gain currency". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ Prevett, Hannah. "Rupert Lee-Browne is going the distance with Caxton FX - Elite Business Magazine". Elitebusinessmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
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