Meet FISCAL’s leadership team.​

FISCAL’s leadership team is committed to ensuring we stay true to our goal to always putting our customers first.

Board members.

Lesley Reeve

Lesley Reeve

CCO

Frances Lawrence

Frances Lawrence

CFO

Alan Laing

Alan Laing

Non-Exec Director

Nigel Savory

Nigel Savory

Chairman

David Griffiths

CEO

Leadership team.

Stewart Hayward

Stewart Hayward

Commercial Director

Gordon Bain

Director of Customer Development

Brendan Burke

Director of Services

Ian Bamber

Chief Technology & Product Officer

David Jewell

Chief Customer Officer

Paul Conway

Chief Revenue Officer

Dan Cashen

Daniel Cashen

Chief Product Officer

David Jewell

Chief Customer Officer

Stewart Hayward

Stewart Hayward

Marketing Director

Paul Ireland

VP of Engineering

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Lesley Reeve

Lesley Reeve

CCO

Lesley is FISCAL’s Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer & CISO who underpins the operational integrity of the business from its people to infrastructure.
She is a highly experienced executive operating at board level and ensures the effective execution of FISCAL’s strategic and operational objectives. 

She provides hands-on direction to ensure the company’s operations directly support business growth, and that its infrastructure can scale efficiently and securely.

At the heart of her role, she spearheads the organisation’s award-winning People and Culture by delivering strategic direction and support.

Frances Lawrence

Frances Lawrence

CFO

Frances Lawrence is a commercially driven and proactive chartered accountant with 20 years post-qualified experience in the technology sector within the UK and US including three years in Silicon Valley.  She has a strong track record of enabling top-line growth, closely managing working capital and ensuring stakeholder value.
 
Frances is skilled in collaborating with the leadership team to achieve the business strategy and is a highly effective communicator.
Alan Laing

Alan Laing

Non-Exec Director

Alan was previously at Sage whom he joined in 2014 initially as the Executive Vice President for Partners and Alliances, responsible for Sage’s indirect business worldwide and subsequently Managing Director: UK and Ireland – Northern Europe. 

Alan has more than 30 years’ experience working in the technology industry in Digital Equipment Corporation, Oracle and Avaya.  Alan also held the positions of CEO and CMS supplier Mediasurface, and GM of Portal Software, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco bay area.

Nigel Savory

Nigel Savory

Chairman

Nigel is passionate about innovation that solves across the payments and cash lifecycle needs of customers. He serves as Chief Product & Growth Officer for Bottomline Technologies, specialists in business payments transformation with 25 offices globally employing over 2,000 people.

He leads delivery of customer experiences and value propositions that digitally unify payments, payables, treasury & receivables to help customers see complete financial pictures of their businesses end-to-end. Nigel previously was Managing Director of Bottomlines Global Business Solutions.

Nigel has more than 25 years of experience in setting strategy and managing operations within the financial technology B2B solutions marketplace. Prior to joining Bottomline, Nigel led product strategy at Checkpoint Security Services

David Griffiths

CEO

David is the driving force behind FISCAL’s commitment to delivering solutions that provide customers with real value and a great return on investment. He has 25 years’ experience in growing technology organisations and has spent the last 15 years working with hundreds of Accounts Payable and Shared Service Centres to help protect their corporate spend.

David’s vision and leadership have been crucial in focusing FISCAL as a leading brand in the Procure-to-Pay function. Under his helm, the business has grown 50-fold in revenues across North America and Europe.

Prior to joining FISCAL, David was Head of European Marketing for Bottomline Technologies, and Commercial Director for European Internet Technologies, a supplier of e-business solutions. David holds an MBA and Honours Degree in Business and Accounting.

Stewart Hayward

Stewart Hayward

Commercial Director

Stewart joined FISCAL in April 2021 to lead the growth of the marketing function. With over 20 years’ experience in both startup and established high-growth technology companies, his goal is to drive operational excellence and measurable sales growth through best-in-class marketing and communications.
Stewart is working alongside our leadership team to ensure that our internal and external communications processes grow with the business, while remaining agile and focused on business growth and dynamic demand generation.

Gordon Bain

Director of Customer Development, Alliances and Partnerships

Gordon joined FISCAL in December 2024 to lead the growth of our customer development and strategic partnership’s function. With over 20 years of experience in B2B sales leadership across financial services and SaaS sectors, he brings proven expertise in driving revenue growth, building high-performing teams, and developing strategic partnerships that deliver measurable value to our clients.

In his role at FISCAL, Gordon focuses on expanding customer relationships and developing strategic alliances that accelerate business growth while maintaining our focus on delivering innovative procure-to-pay solutions.  His track record of building and mentoring sales teams, combined with his expertise in developing repeatable sales methodologies, supports Fiscal’s continued growth in the procure-to-pay solutions market.

Brendan Burke

Director of Services

Brendan joined the company in October 2012 and currently serves as Director of Services. With over 20 years of experience in accounting and finance-related roles, he brings valuable expertise from his background in government tax education, public sector accounting, and corporate recovery auditing.

Brendan oversees our project deliveries and pre-sales support, working closely within our commercial team to identify project opportunities which add tangible value to our customers’ bottom line and helping them to optimise their P2P processes. Since starting his journey with us as a software trainer responsible for ad-hoc customer projects, Brendan has helped to grow the Services Team into its current structure, generating scalable revenue growth.

Ian Bamber

Chief Technology and Product Officer

Ian Bamber is an entrepreneurial product leader with over 20 years of experience shaping and scaling B2B solutions. As VP Customer Solutions at FISCAL, he’s focused on delivering smart, AI-enabled products that solve real customer problems, especially in the areas of risk and reconciliation. Ian’s known for his ability to turn complex challenges into practical, high-impact solutions, and for building teams that thrive on innovation. With a background that spans startups, scale-ups, and global enterprises, he brings a grounded, results-driven perspective to product strategy, growth, and transformation.

David Jewell

Chief Customer Officer

David joined FISCAL in August 2020, having spent more than 20 years in customer facing leadership roles in the technology industry. As Chief Customer Officer, David is focused on driving an exceptional Customer Experience across our Customer family and ensuring that the Customer is at the heart of everything we do at Fiscal.

Operationally, David leads our Customer Success, Education and Consultancy, and Project Delivery teams, ensuring we ‘Deliver the Wow’ throughout the customer journey.

All his career has been spent learning and developing in Customer led functions across multiple disciplines and industries. David brings a commercially focused desire to deliver an outstanding customer experience. All of David’s leadership experience has come in growth environments during his time as Customer Services and Operations Director at Bottomline Technologies, and latterly as Group Operations Director – Telematics for Radius Payment Solutions.

Paul Conway

Chief Revenue Officer

Paul is an engaging and innovative business leader with proven success in transforming enterprises, such as Bottomline Technologies, Manutan Group and Travelex, to deliver sustainable revenue growth and best practice client relationship management. He has experience accomplishing global strategies by empowering teams with a shared vision across numerous industries, including IT software, financial services and retail, throughout the UK, Europe and APAC.

He is an intuitive leader with acute business acumen and a proven track record of managing sales, partnership and business development activities. Having worked across Asia and Australia in senior leadership roles, Paul joined us as Chief Revenue Officer in 2022.

Dan Cashen

Daniel Cashen

Chief Product Officer

Dan is a successful Technology Leader with over 20 years’ experience in senior product and project management and technology roles. His expertise lies in delivering projects and product lines through the full lifecycle – from strategic market reviews, concepts, prototyping and into mass market adoption, and in the delivery of business-wide technology and transformational projects.
Dan is working alongside our leadership team to ensure tremendous progressive outcomes within the product function. He is a proven strategic and collaborative leader, confident in taking an Agile approach to deliver successful products and solutions for users.

Paul Ireland

VP of Engineering

Paul is an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in software development, quality assurance and DevOps. He has successfully delivered projects in areas as diverse as payments, rail and air travel, e-learning and asset management.

Paul is working alongside our leadership team to build high-performance Agile teams that are optimised to deliver exceptional customer value alongside high team morale.