Alastair Lukies – Monitise plc
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
CEO and Co-founder, Monitise plc
Alastair Lukies is the CEO and Co-founder of Monitise PLC. Listed on Aim in 2007, Monitise currently has a market capitalisation of around £240 million and blue-chip investors including Visa, Standard Chartered Bank, First Eastern, UBS, 3i and Norges Bank. Monitise is the leading global mobile money solutions provider with live operations in the UK, North America, Asia Pacific, India and Africa
Alastair’s focus in leading Monetise, is on creating the platform and partnerships required to evolve the mobile phone into the ‘secure remote control to money – for everyone’
He is a passionate believer in the potential of mobile banking and payments to deliver long term benefits to the developing world and believes that Monitise will allow greater access to financial services globally. This can only be achieved by combining the unprecedented reach of the mobile phone with the existing banking and payments infrastructure that is run by financial institutions and governed under regulatory guidelines in each territory.
Monitise was recognised as a ‘Technology Pioneer’ by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2006 on the basis of its ability to help social change. Alastair is a regular attendee at the WEF and has spoken on the challenges facing the World Economic Forum’s Global Growth Companies.
At 38, Alastair already has a proven track record of turning visions and ideas into real businesses. Prior to conceiving, financing and building Monitise, Alastair was a co-founder of epolitix.com, the network portal for Westminster, Whitehall and the devolved institutions. Alastair’s first business venture was the formation of a sports event and conference company in Malaysia. This followed an earlier career in professional rugby, playing at both club and international level.