We are delighted to announce the appointment of Tom Bentley to our Executive Board as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Tom will lead the company’s global commercial and growth strategy as it enters its next phase of expansion across key markets including Europe, APAC, Middle East and Africa.
Bentley brings over 15 years of global experience in core banking and fintech, having held senior roles at Temenos, Thought Machine, as well as Chief Commercial Officer at Vodeno which was recently acquired by UniCredit Group. His last role was part of the founding team at NatWest Boxed, the embedded finance venture from NatWest Group, where he served as Head of Growth.
Also joining the senior leadership team is Lewis Ide taking on the role of Senior Vice President APAC, based in Sydney and responsible for the strategy, growth and execution of the business objectives across Asia-Pacific - a region that represents a major growth engine for 10x. Ide has a 13-year career across financial services technology having worked in key leadership roles in SWIFT and Form3.
Bentley and Ide’s appointments come as 10x Banking approaches a decade of transforming banking infrastructure. The company is already working with several significant customers including award-winning Chase UK by J.P. Morgan, Westpac Group, Old Mutual, West Brom Building Society and Constantinople in Australia.
I’ve followed 10x for nearly a decade and have always admired the company’s customer-centric approach and Antony’s mission to reinvent banking from the core.
Tom Bentley CRO, 10x Banking
Reinventing banking from the core
Tom Bentley, CRO at 10x said, “I’ve followed 10x for nearly a decade and have always admired the company’s customer-centric approach and Antony’s mission to reinvent banking from the core. The industry is at a tipping point – the convergence of AI-driven migrations, modular product innovation and the rise of truly distributed embedded finance are reshaping what’s possible. I’m excited to bring my banking technology expertise and fintech growth experience to the team to help more institutions unlock the power of the 10x platform to deliver modern scalable banking propositions for their customers.”
Tom’s appointment underscores our ability to attract world-class core banking talent and our investment in building the future of financial services.
Antony Jenkins CEO, 10x Banking
Antony Jenkins CBE, Founder and CEO of 10x, said: “Tom’s appointment underscores our ability to attract world-class core banking talent and our investment in building the future of financial services. Tom’s track record in expanding commercial operations and Lewis’ focus on forging strategic partnerships across APAC in supporting this region will play an important role as we grow to meet strong client demand. The past nine years of focused R&D have brought our technology to a point of true scalability and repeatability – unique in the industry – with our cloud-native platform now powering significant banking transformations and live client environments at unprecedented scale and speed.”
