Our Mission

Transforming the way
the world moves money

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Who we are

At paypump we are passionate about payments, and more specifically finding innovative ways to improve cashflows through improving efficiencies of payment flows.

We understand the complexities of international trade, and how foreign practices and legislation can cripple operations in certain markets. True to our passion for payments and efficiency, the paypump team has developed a range of payment solutions to ease the payment flow between individual end-users and global businesses, whilst addressing many of the underlying challenges that inhibit interaction in territories that are generally regarded as prohibitive to conduct business. With paypump, global businesses can leverage processes and infrastructure created and maintained by paypump to unlock and open challenging and complex international markets.

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What guides us

Our Mission
Transforming the way the world moves money.

 

Our Vision
To simplify and enhance financial interactions worldwide.

 

Our Values
Innovation, transparency, security, and reliability.

our team

Introducing our leadership team

Dominique September

Group Managing Director

Dom is responsible for the day to day management of the paypump group.

Dominique is an ICT veteran with more than 20 years’ experience in designing and delivering Business and Technology focussed solutions across a multitude of industries.

Heleon von der Fecht

Chief Financial Officer

Heleon is responsible for the financial record-keeping and financial affairs of paypump across all of its global structures.

Heleon is a seasoned CFO with most of his career spent in the e-commerce and payments industry.

Dr Malcolm Ratz

Chief Business Development Officer

Apart from Malcolm having the most contagiously positive personality, Malcolm engages and manages key and strategic paypump relationships.

Malcolm comes from an M&A background and holds a PHD in Law.

Richard Potgieter

Founder & Chief Innovation Officer

Richard is responsible for innovation, strategy and identifying and developing key use cases.

Richard is an entrepreneur with more than 25 years' experience in the global payments industry, and the founder of paypump.

Roux de Villiers

Chief Legal Counsel

Roux is primarily responsible for legals and regulatory positioning of paypump solutions.

Roux is an attorney at law, and regarded as one of the most accomplished payment industry legal specialists in Africa.

Andre Pelser

Group Chief Compliance Officer & MLRO

Andre oversees the underwriting and compliance function of the paypump group.

Andre is an attorney at law who acted as a specialised payment industry advisor on regulatory and compliance related matters before joining paypump.

Neville September

Chief Technology Officer

Neville brings a wealth of expertise to his role as Chief Technology Officer at paypump.

With over 15 years of experience in the ICT industry, Neville’s passion for technology and innovation drives his commitment to delivering exceptional results and advancing paypump's objectives.

Louise Potgieter

Financial Accountant

Louise works alongside Heleon to ensure accurate financial record-keeping across the paypump global group structure.

With over 12 years of global experience as a qualified financial accountant, Louise understands the reliance of corporate decision-making on accurate information.

Dominick Hardy

Chief Experience Officer

Dom is in charge of the group's user experience, branding and marketing.

He is a seasoned branding, digital marketing and web development expert that now focuses on user experience.

Techa Ittoo

Deputy MLRO & Compliance Officer

Techa comes from a strong operations background in the paypump group, but recently moved to a compliance role where she fulfils the deputy MLRO position.

Techa recently enrolled for a degree in law with her sights set on a career in compliance.

Alfred Botha

Compliance Officer

Despite advising the board on macro security and risk related matters stemming from a career in loss control, Alf forms part of the compliance team in matters related to onboarding, file reviews and general compliance risk identification.

Alf is a well experienced security veteran, with international experience and exposure to the multi-faceted security and risk management disciplines.

Sharon Charoux

Executive Assistant

More than 30 years Administrative / Secretarial experience of which 7 years were as Lead Administration on two large projects in South Africa prior to her current role at paypump.