WorldRemit CEO and leadership

Formerly CEO of Paddy Power Betfair plc, in 2016 Breon Corcoran led the merger of Betfair and Paddy Power to form one of the world’s largest online gaming companies.

Prior to this, Breon was the CEO at Betfair until 2016 and COO of Paddy Power until 2011. In the 1990s, Breon was a Vice-President, Equity Derivative Trading, at J.P Morgan and has also worked at Bankers Trust.

He has a BA (Mathematics) from Trinity College, Dublin and an MBA from INSEAD. In 2016, Breon was awarded the UK’s Sunday Times’ ‘Business Leader of the Year’ award. He is currently a non-executive director at the wealth management company, Tilney Group.

Hannah Wardroper is an Executive Assistant to the Founder & Chairman, CFO & COO at WorldRemit and is based in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. She has worked as Events Coordinator at SUSHISAMBA Duck & Waffle, Conference and Events Coordinator at Pier One Sydney Harbour, and Team Assistant/Front of House at Winch Design. Hannah studied at The Harrodian School and UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER between 2009 and 2012.

Andras Mecser is responsible for all WorldRemit’s financial functions including financial controlling, statutory reporting, planning and budgeting, treasury and liquidity management, and corporate finance.

Prior to joining WorldRemit, Andras served as CFO at Ebury. He previously held senior strategy and portfolio manager roles at Centrica PLC, as well as a senior manager role at McKinsey & Company, serving financial institutions, private equity clients and their portfolio companies.

Andras holds an MBA from London Business School, an MA in Financial Investments and Risk Management from Corvinus University of Budapest, and an MA in International Management - CEMS Programme.

As Chief Technology Officer for WorldRemit, Mark leads the company’s technology team in developing and running world class technology.

Mark has over 30 years’ experience in large companies and start-ups, several of which he co-founded and built from scratch. After working at IBM and Tivoli Systems, he co-founded Volantis Systems, an early pioneer of mobile Internet content delivery platforms. He served as the CTO and CEO there, until the company’s acquisition in 2011. In 2012 he took up the role of VP Engineering at Causata Inc., an innovative platform providing automated customer insights based on machine-learning and Big Data. In 2013, Causata was acquired by NICE Systems and Mark went on to co-found Skipjaq, a company which applies machine learning techniques to the field of cloud-based system performance and cost optimisation.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from the University of Nottingham.

Mary is responsible for the business support function at WorldRemit, in this role she leads cross functional teams on strategic initiatives.

Prior to joining WorldRemit, Mary worked at Paddy Power Betfair and Just Eat where she supported the CEOs. Mary spent more than ten years at Xchanging, a business process outsourcing company, supporting managing directors, board members and working on client projects specialising in project management and communications. After that Mary ran her own outsourcing business providing flexible concierge and support services to individuals and small businesses.

Sophie Krishnan is a Chief Executive Officer at CarNext. Sophie is responsible for WorldRemit’s growth and operations. Her teams make sure we are all working on what matters most for our customers, for making it easy and secure to send money abroad, for supporting customers if they have a problem, and for identifying the most critical areas to grow the business. Sophie has worked in senior operational management roles at consumer tech companies like Expedia and Trainline in Europe. She previously spent over a decade in investment and strategic advisory at Investor AB and Bain & Co, both in the US and in Europe. She holds an MBA from Stanford business school.

Stephen Lovell is responsible for defining the WorldRemit product roadmap and delivering innovative, fast and effective ways for our customers to manage their money wherever they are in the world. Stephen has worked across a number of industries to solve user problems through technology, reinventing conventional approaches to product and service design. These include gambling, banking, eCommerce and healthcare and Insurance. Prior to joining WorldRemit Stephen led Product and Technology at BIMA and held senior digital and technology roles at Open Banking, RB and Paddy Power. Stephen holds a Bachelor of Science in Managerial and Business Administration from Aston Business School and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Hannah Wardroper is an Executive Assistant to the Founder & Chairman, CFO & COO at WorldRemit and is based in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. She has worked as Events Coordinator at SUSHISAMBA Duck & Waffle, Conference and Events Coordinator at Pier One Sydney Harbour, and Team Assistant/Front of House at Winch Design. Hannah studied at The Harrodian School and UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER between 2009 and 2012.