Tony Gimple, Managing Director

Before founding Survivor Card, Tony had a number of senior roles at American Express, Chancery Law Group and the Towergate Partnership. He pioneered placing mortgage brokers in estate agents, helped to set up the UK's first mainstream fee based financial planning business, co-founded the UK's first deregulated law firm and developed usable Business Continuity Planning for SMEs.

He is the subject of a Cranfield University School of Business MBA thesis and report on Entrepreneurship, and has written articles and features for “The Times”, “The Sunday Telegraph”, “PostMag”, “Financial Adviser”, “Money Marketing” and “High Net Worth” Magazine.

Matthew Gilchrist Bennett, Director

Matthew originally trained as a lawyer before moving into Financial Services where he specialised in planning for high net worth clients. He returned to the Law in 1991 and subsequently co-founded the UK’s first deregulated law firm, working closely with many of the country’s leading financial, accountancy and affinity groups, and was Chairman of the Small Business Network.
 

He is an experienced relationship manager, trainer and presenter, and highly skilled in developing and maintaining the interface between a company and its clients.

Bill May, Director

Bill has worked for many of the big names in the insurance industry including Aon and Marsh, where he was Vice President Technical Strategy and Innovation, and has been leading BIBA's work groups on terrorism and climate risk.  He enjoys regular contact with his opposite numbers at both the ABI and Lloyds, as well as with a number of government departments and the OECD.

Steve Carey, Director

With over thirty years in corporate public relations and consultancy, Steve has a wealth of experience in providing strategic communications counseling and public affairs advice and support.

Steve has twelve year's experience working in the payment cards sector representing a major card issuers as well as MasterCard in the UK.  Prior to the completion of the Thames Tidal Barrier Steve was activly engaged in emergency planning in the event of flooding from the River Thames.

Paul Lucraft, Director

With over 25 years experience in the financial services industry, Paul Lucraft now works as an independent advisor in the payments cards industry. He offers business and strategic advice and has worked on a number of projects for both bank and non bank card operators, and is an expert on fraud and risk management.

Paul worked for 9 years at MasterCard where his career spanned fraud and risk, operations, e-commerce and chip, scheme governance, market development, industry affairs, member relationship management as well as public relations and general scheme management. By the time Paul left the organisation in 2006, he had risen to General Manager UK and Ireland.