About Mint

Changing what’s possible in payments

Started in 2007, Mint Payments includes both the Mint Payments and IPG Group brands (acquired 2021). Collectively, The Group focuses on providing payments solutions for clients in the travel, education, insurance, ticketing and events, and general eCommerce industries operating across the Asia Pacific and Europe.

Mint’s mission is to help companies of all sizes transact in more rewarding ways—whenever, wherever, and however the world wants to pay. Offering a seamless, omnichannel payment suite that helps customers unlock profits, launch pioneering payment products, and enjoy more rewarding experiences.

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The Mint Team

With an experienced team that is driven by the desire to innovate, we are constantly working to create products that operate together seamlessly and challenge the status quo when it comes to payments.

Board

Terry Cuthbertson

Non-executive Chairman

B. Bus, ACA

Terry is Chairman of ASX listed My Net Fone Limited, Montec International, Austpac Resources NL, South American Iron and Steel and Sun BioMedical Limited. He is also Chairman of s2Net Limited. Terry has extensive corporate finance expertise, having advised several businesses and government organizations in relation to mergers, acquisitions and financing.

Formerly, Terry was a Partner of KPMG Corporate Finance and NSW Partner in Charge of Mergers and Acquisitions, where he coordinated government privatisations, mergers, divestitures and public offerings on the ASX for the New South Wales practice. Terry is the former Group Finance Director of Tech Pacific Holdings Limited, which was one of the largest information technology distributors in Asia with annual turnover in 1999 of approximately $2 billion and is a former Director of Tech Pacific Limited’s businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. Terry is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business Degree.

Alex Teoh

Chief Executive Officer

B. Sc (Business and Information Systems)

Alex has over 15 years experience in the IT, Telecommunications and Financial Services sector.

Alex was previously a Principal Consultant at the Hong Kong office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Consulting. He was a member of the practice’s senior management team responsible for its Customer Relationship Management strategy and solutions offering in East Asia (which includes Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines). Prior to PwC, Alex worked as a Senior Consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Consulting, assisting in securing and implementing supply chain and application development contracts.

Prior to Mint, Alex has held senior management positions in companies involved in the IT and supply chain industries.

Alex is one of the founders of the Mint Business and is primarily responsible for the strategic and corporate activities of Mint.

Bill Bartee

Non-executive Director

B.Sc, MBA and Juris Doctor

Mr. Bartee is the co-founder and Managing Director of Blackbird Ventures and co-founding partner of Southern Cross Venture Partners. He was CEO and co-founder of successful companies including Mantara, a company that makes high performance, content based message routing systems for global trading systems. He also was instrumental in helping start up and launch both Dilithium Networks and Sensory Networks, where he was a founding investor and Board Member of both companies.

He is passionate about working with management teams that are focused on building important and innovative companies. His experience is across a range of companies including software, telecommunications, security and internet businesses.

From 1997 to 2001, Mr Bartee helped build and lead the early stage investing for Macquarie Technology Ventures (“MTV”), a venture fund focused on software, telecommunications, internet and life sciences. At MTV, Bill led investments in several market leaders including Altium (ASX: ALU), LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK), Seek (ASX: SEK) and Telera (acquired by Alcatel) and onebox (NASDAQ: OPWV).

Prior to moving to Australia, Mr Bartee had 12 years of research, operational and entrepreneurial experience in the United States and he holds a Bachelor of Science, MBA and Juris Doctorate degree.

Martin Cowley

Non-executive Director

MA Modern Languages, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Martin has more than three decades of executive-level experience in aviation, travel and technology, two decades of which were spent at the Swire Group and Cathay Pacific Airways. He also spent ten years with Sabre as CEO of Sabre Pacific in Australia followed by his appointment (2007-2011) as Senior Vice President, EMEA, Sabre Travel Network, based in London.

Currently based in Sydney, Martin holds several board and advisory board roles with a number of multinational companies in the travel and technology sectors. He was, most recently, Interim CEO at Conferma Pay, the leading provider of Virtual Card Technology Solutions based in Manchester, UK. He is also Ambassador, Oceania at WTTC.

Executive Team

James Swan

Chief Financial Officer

B. Comm (Accounting and Finance), CA ANZ

James is a chartered accountant with over 10 years’ consulting experience in Australia and the UK. James specialises in financial modelling, M&A transactions, strategy and financial management, utilising these skills to help support and drive growth for Mint in the role of Commercial & Finance Director.

Previous consulting roles at Crowe Horwath Australia, Crowe UK and McGrathNicol have seen James develop strong expertise across a wide range of financial and M&A activity including acquisition and vendor due diligence, IPOs, transaction project management, financial modelling, integration and valuations.

In his time in professional services, James worked with a variety of clients, ranging from start-ups to global listed corporates across a broad range of industries including technology, F&B, construction, engineering, mining, aviation, telecommunications, retail, healthcare, education, sustainable energy and gaming. James was involved in supporting Mint in the acquisition of IPG during his time at McGrathNicol.

Sandra Willis

Chief Operating Officer

B. Tech, Information and Communication Systems

Sandra provides leadership, management and a strong vision required to ensure that Mint is focussed on delivering strategic goals and customer objectives while maintaining proper operational controls and reporting procedures. As COO Sandra’s primary objective is to be a seamless bridge between the end customer and technology.

Relying on her strong technology background and experience, as COO Sandra oversees the delivery of the extensive payment gateway platform alongside client projects in the pipeline.

Hugh Twomey

Chief Growth Officer

B. Tourism Management, M. Management

Hugh has more than 15 years of B2B sales and account management experience. Prior to Mint, Hugh held roles with AirPlus International which saw him develop and execute successful sales and marketing strategies for new and innovative payment products into the Australian market. Hugh’s work experience commenced in the travel industry, where he held Sales roles in wholesale leisure and airlines and as Product Manager for Helloworld.

Locations

Australia

Suite 1, Level 8,
10 Bridge Street
Sydney NSW 2000

Singapore

60 Paya Lebar Road
#08-13, Paya Lebar Square
Singapore 409051

New Zealand

AIG Building
Plaza Level, 41 Shortland Street
Auckland 1010

Hong Kong

IPG Group Ltd
Suite 1106-8, 11/F., Tai Yau Building
181 Johnston Road
Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Europe

IPG Europe Limited
Irodotou, 16
3095, Limassol, Cyprus

United Kingdom

Mint Payments UK Limited
Company number 14167728
55 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7JW