28th April 2008, Habtoor Grand Resort, Dubai

Glen Jennison

Glen Jennison
Managing Director – Near East, Africa and Russia


Glen’s Payments and Transportation background spans 20 years, delivering complex International Banking, Payments & Clearing, Transport and Internet in and out-source programmes. He has delivered and run on a P&L basis, full service operations in Moscow and South Africa for ACI Worldwide; back office systems and business process outsourcing in Mumbai, India for bmi – Heathrow’s second largest full service airline and set up international operations for micro-payments specialist - Magex.

In Transportation, he had responsibility for the National Smart card and E-Purse programme, implementing new ticketing / fulfillment technologies for all 26 Train Operators. Prior to ATOC, Glen led 275 staff and a £120m budget as Head of IT & Deputy IT Director at Network Rail responsible for Application Delivery, Operations, Professional Services and Account Mgmt.

In Payments, Glen was Vice President of IT & Operations at Magex, a micro-payments £50m buy out business from NatWest Bank. Responsibilities included product development such as Digital Rights Management (DRM), Content payment, Billing, Electronic Purse and set up of offices in UK, New York and San Francisco. His experience includes: Regional Delivery Manager at ACI responsible for set-up of operations in Russia, Poland and South Africa to support ACI’s Cards & Clearing business; Programme Manager at NatWest responsible for redeveloping Streamline’s merchant systems for card authorisation and back office support as well as leading multiple card payments projects developing world first’s for: a supermarket credit card; a Visa procurement card, an E-Purse clearing system and a back office workflow system for Merchant Acquisition.