Alastair Lukies

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Alastair David Lukies CBE (born 1973 Harlow, United Kingdom) is a British entrepreneur who is involved in mobile communications.

Harlow Town & District in England

Harlow is a former Mark One New Town and local government district in the west of Essex, England. Situated on the border with Hertfordshire and London, it occupies a large area of land on the south bank of the upper Stort Valley, which has been made navigable through other towns and features a canal section near its watermill. Old Harlow is a village-size suburb founded by the early medieval age and most of its high street buildings are early Victorian and residential, mostly protected by one of the Conservation Areas in the district. In Old Harlow is a field named Harlowbury, a de-settled monastic area which has the remains of a chapel, a scheduled ancient monument.

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In 2003, Lukies co-founded Monitise. In 2006, he was recognised as a Technology Pioneer [1] by the World Economic Forum.

Monitise British company

Monitise Plc was a British company in financial services technology.

World Economic Forum Swiss non-profit foundation

The World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, was founded in 1971 as a not-for-profit organization. It was granted "other international body" status in January 2015 by the Swiss Federal Government under the Swiss Host-State Act. The WEF's mission is cited as "committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas".

Biography

Lukies was born to Robert Lukies and Melanie Harris. He studied at Bishop's Stortford College in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. At age 16, he left school to play rugby for teams including Middlesex U21s, Saracens U21s, London Irish U21s, ACT U21s, Bishop's Stortford and Upper Clapton.

Bishops Stortford College

Bishop's Stortford College is an co-educational independent day and boarding school for pupils from the age of four to eighteen, with a 130-acre (0.53 km2) campus located on the edge of the market town of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. As an "all-through" school it is a member of both the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools. The school has more than 1100 pupils and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2018. The current head is Jeremy Gladwin.

Hertfordshire County of England

Hertfordshire is one of the home counties in England. It is bordered by Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For government statistical purposes, it is placed in the East of England region.

Rugby football refers to the team sports of rugby league and rugby union.

He worked for sports hospitality company ICM, before co-founding start-up Epolitix.

A startup or start up is a company initiated by individual founders or entrepreneurs to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Founders design startups to effectively develop and validate a scalable business model. Hence, the concepts of startups and entrepreneurship are similar. However, entrepreneurship refers all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that never intend to grow big or become registered, while startups refer to new businesses that intend to grow beyond the solo founder, have employees, and intend to grow large. Start ups face high uncertainty and do have high rates of failure, but the minority that go on to be successful companies have the potential to become large and influential. Some startups become unicorns, i.e. privately held startup companies valued at over US$1 billion.

In 2003, Lukies founded Monitise (then Mchex) with Steve Atkinson. They wanted to link banks and mobile operators, letting consumers manage their finances or make payments directly from their mobile. Prior to this, Lukies was a co-founder of epolitix.com. In June 2007 he led the company's demerger from Morse [2] and listing on the LSE's AIM market.

A Mobile Network Operator or MNO, also known as a wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, or mobile network carrier, is a provider of wireless communications services that owns or controls all the elements necessary to sell and deliver services to an end user including radio spectrum allocation, wireless network infrastructure, back haul infrastructure, billing, customer care, provisioning computer systems and marketing and repair organizations.

In January 2014, Lukies was appointed as a Business Ambassador for the financial services industry by the British Government.

In June 2014, Lukies appointed Elizabeth Buse as his co-CEO. [3]

In June 2014, Lukies was appointed a CBE for services to mobile banking and charity. In August 2014, he was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of fintech industry body, Innovate Finance. In March 2015, Lukies stepped down as co-Chief Executive of Monitise after undertaking a strategic review of the company.

In January 2014, Alastair was appointed as a Business Ambassador to the Prime Minister for the financial services industry by the UK Government, and remained so until 2019 when he moved across to join the Prime Minister’s Business Council.

In September 2015, Alastair was part of the founding team of Motive Partners, an investment firm based in London and New York focused on investing in and building the next generation of financial technology. Alastair remains the Vice-Chairman of the Global Advisory Council at Motive Partners, alongside John Thompson (Chairman, Microsoft) and Larry Summers (Former Secretary of the US Treasury).

Alastair is Founder & CEO of Pollinate International.  Pollinate was created in 2017 to turn the tide for the world's largest and most complex financial services institutions. Working with banks and their legacy platforms, Pollinate helps launch new services that reinvent the payments and financial services sector.

Alastair is Chair of the Fintech Alliance, a government backed multifaceted digital engagement platform launched in 2019 which aims to bring the global FinTech ecosystem together in one easily accessible digital marketplace.


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References

  1. ↑ "Alastair Lukies recognised as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2006". World Economic Forum, 2006.
  2. ↑ "Morse plans to demerge its mobile banking business". Reuters, June 2007.
  3. ↑ "Monitise brings in Elizabeth Buse as co-CEO". Reuters, June 2014.
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