Pacemaker.Global

Kathleen Tyson

Founder and Chief Executive

Kathleen Tyson started her career as a central banker at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She was a founder member of the Systemic Risks Studies Group. She moved to London to supervise the London Stock Exchange, Clearstream, Euroclear, and Swift, and oversee legal and operational reforms to digitalise UK securities. She globalised US dollar liquidity with Clearstream, co-inventing Triparty Repo (now $10.2 trillion in daily secured interbank lending) and adding clearing and settlement of US Treasuries, bonds and equities to the Luxembourg depository. Next she advised on CLS Bank governance and designed its operations with IBM. (Peak foreign exchange settlements in 18 currencies now exceed $14 trillion a day.) From 2013 to 2017 she worked with Intellect Design Arena to globalise fully digital, real-time, integrated solutions for central bank modernisation. Pacemaker.Global brings together all her experience and insight on global markets, liquidity, and systemic risk to ease the transition to a multipolar global economy.

Ayub Shaikh

Co-founder and CTO

Ayub and Kathleen worked together in Dubai International Financial Centre to build a multicurrency real-time gross payment system in USD and EUR. Ayub was CTO for DIFC through its period of most rapid growth, overseeing the operations and security of all DIFC technical infrastructure. He has 25+ years IT experience with 20+ years leading large and complex programs and projects for modernisation of technology platforms, data, infrastructure, network and security, including Cloud platforms and migrations.

Jeanine Long

Co-founder and COO

An established technology and business leader with over 15+ years experience. She has a passion for driving strategy, innovation and transformation. Jeanine brings commercially driven, operationally focused methods to tracking Pacemaker.Global progress as we build solutions and scale globally.

Martin Stephenson

Co-founder and CFO

A commercially aware Chartered Accountant with extensive start-up experience as CFO, blending operational roles with considerable experience of company funding, mergers, sales and acquisitions.

Jacques de Larosière

Formerly head of the French Treasury, Governor of the Banque de France, IMF Managing Director, and President of the EBRD “Pacemaker offers the solutions I have been seeking for 20 years!”

Tan Sri Andrew Sheng

Distinguished Fellow of the Fung Global Institute and advisor to the China Banking Regulatory Commission, formerly central banker at Bank Negara Malaysia, deputy chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority “Pacemaker is a game-changer for emerging market and developing economies.”

Professor Charles Goodhart

A pragmatic and empirical monetary economist, formerly on the global Financial Stability Board, Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, and chief economic advisor to the Bank of England

Tim Skeet

Career banker, Senior Advisor to the Bank of China UK, and currently Regional UK chair and deputy-chair of Committee of the Regions of the International Capital Markets Association