Gerald Kitchen
Chairman Of The Board at GJK
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGerald Kitchen is a seasoned payments executive and board leader with decades of cross‑continent experience leading card issuing, acquiring and payment processors across Europe, the UK, Australia and South Africa. He has held C‑suite roles including CEO, CIO and COO, chaired industry initiatives such as the UK chip‑and‑pin rollout, and has served as a director for both Visa and Mastercard. Gerald combines hands‑on operational transformation and turnaround experience with deep deal and CDD advisory work for PE and venture transactions, advising acquirers, processors and retailers on strategy, risk and integration. He now chairs a fast‑growing e‑commerce business and advises fintechs through his independent practice, leveraging a rare mix of regulator familiarity, boardroom experience and execution capability. Notably, his background in smart‑card technology and repeated leadership of Europe’s largest payment processors give him unique credibility on both technical and commercial fronts.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Smart card technology, MBA Smart card technology at Wits Business School, JohannesburgMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Wits Business SchoolMaritzburg College, South Africa
Github Skills (22)
payment-service9
adyen8
payment-processing8
payment8
payment-gateway8
payment-integration8
trading7
cryptocurrency6
api6
backtesting-trading-strategies6
finance6
json6
binance5
trading-bot5
python5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SecureTrading/st-python-api
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Secure Trading Python API
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
secureapipythonalgorithmic-tradingtrading-bot
SecureTrading/PHP-Unittest
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Helper methods for integration testing (wiping test directories; copying directories), mocking core functions, and wrapper functions around PHPUnit @dataProviders.
Contributions:2 releases, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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