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Craig Agutter

Group Operations Director

Craig spent 14 years at WorldFirst, taking P&L responsibility for their flagship multi-currency collection product across Europe. He's been integral to both the Ant Group acquisition in 2019 and the Equals Group sale to Railsr and private equity in 2025.

Craig began his career in 2008 at WorldFirst, the cross-border payment specialists, where he specialised in helping online marketplace sellers manage their currency exposure and optimise their repatriation flows, particularly those from international storefronts on Amazon, Walmart and eBay. He spent over 14 years at the business, eventually taking over P&L responsibility for their flagship World Account'smulti-currency collection product across Europe.

In 2019, WorldFirst was acquired by Ant Group, the payments affiliate of the Alibaba Group and the company behind Alipay. In the subsequent 3 years, Craig was an integral part of the integration programme which focused on unifying commercial operations and digital initiatives. He then spent a further 3 years at Equals Group PLC from 2022 onwards, working closely with the senior leadership and executive teams and leading revenue operations in the run-up to the company being acquired by Railsr and a consortium of private equity companies.

Craig lives in south London with his wife and son, participates regularly in long distance running events, particularly 10Ks and half-marathons, and is an aspiring Hyrox athlete-in-training (putting it kindly!). He can also be found most weekends from March to December shouting at the television screen at little F1 cars going round in circles.

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Craig Agutter

Areas of Expertise

Commercial OperationsSales EnablementFX Risk ManagementeCommerce

Personal Interests

TechnologyNeurodiversity advocateFormula 1Man United

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Alistair Hesketh-Hutson

Alistair Hesketh-Hutson

Managing Director | Partner

Alistair has been working in the payment industry for 11 years, managing a range of complex commercial partnerships across media and financial services. His priority is delivering exceptional customer outcomes when it matters most.

Dominic Hutson

Dominic Hutson

Fractional CTO

Front-end Engineer, contracting for some of the biggest payment gateways in the world. Working on both apps for enterprise and start-ups.

Steve Paul

Steve Paul

Co-Founder

Steve led the carve-out and re-establishment of TSB at Lloyds—the largest banking divestment of its kind. Most recently, he spent 4 years at Equals Money driving their B2C to B2B pivot and European launch, culminating in a sale to private equity in April 2025.

Tom Kiddle

Tom Kiddle

Co-Founder

Recently, Tom exited Equals Group PLC after 3 years as Chief Commercial Officer achieving over 35% revenue growth YOY every year before taking the business private with a sale to PE, in a combined deal worth over £280m. Taking Equals from £44m revenue upon joining to over £130m on exit.