Fintech
Brian Lawlor | FinTech Magazine
“My career actually started in the telecommunications industry,” says Lawlor, who began working in the international department of a major global telecommunications provider.
“It was here that I held a sales support role covering the whole of Europe, so I gained early experience of travelling to meet customers globally and working with sales teams to sell to the world’s largest telecom companies.”
It was this formative career that gave Lawlor a taste for the commercial sales process and developed a keen interest in building customer relationships and selling solutions.
“This path led me to my first contact with the world of payments,” he adds. “I joined Edenred, which was then called Capital Incentives, and moved to the sales team to sell solutions and programs to major blue chip companies. Among them, several payment vehicles, which marked my first approach to this sector.
“I really got into payments when I joined Payzone selling prepaid card solutions, before moving to Visa, where I helped develop what was then known as the prepaid card market, but is now very much focused on all things fintech.”
A few years later, Lawlor was approached by Banking Circle Group, which wanted to enter the card issuing market. “I, along with others, including Jennings, joined Banking Circle Group to help lead the eventual acquisition of B4B Payments.
“After the acquisition, I went full-time into B4B payments and the rest is history.”
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