About | Boku

We Care About Payments

Boku was born out of a desire to create a frictionless payment system allowing a mobile phone number to be used as a safe and secure payment instrument. In 2009, we partnered with mobile operators around the world to enable their subscribers to purchase virtual goods simply using their mobile number. Within 2 years, we grew to become the largest global mobile payments network servicing 66 countries through more than 240 carrier partners, connected to merchants such as Facebook, Disney, EA, and Zynga.

Our team strives to push the future of payments by partnering with carriers globally, ushering in a new era of mobile-enhanced payments in e-commerce and at physical point-of-sale.

Our management team consists of serial entrepreneurs with expertise in web, security, mobile, and financial services. They have held executive roles for Amazon, AT&T, Apple, Bank of America, GE, Google, mBlox, and Paypal.

Management Team

Mark Britto CEO

With over 20 years as an entrepreneur, sales and financial services executive, Mark Britto is responsible for making Boku the leading mobile payments platform. Mark joins Boku after six years as the CEO of Ingenio, a service marketplace and performance advertising company, which he led to a 2007 acquisition by AT&T. Prior to Ingenio, Mark spent 4 years as SVP of worldwide services and sales at Amazon.com. Mark’s first start-up, Accept.com, was bought by Amazon.com in 1999 and served as the primary backbone of Amazon’s global payments platform. Mark began his career in senior credit and risk management roles at leading national banks FirstUSA and Bank of America.

Jon Prideaux Chief Business Officer

Jon is a payments guy with nearly a quarter of century of experience. He was an early Visa Europe employee and key contributor to its growth, leaving in 2006 as EVP Marketing. He started Visa Europe’s ecommerce division, was the lead executive on the introduction of Chip and PIN technology and oversaw product launches such as Visa Electron and V PAY. He served on the Board of EMVCo, was the Chairman of the Compliance Committee and was a member of Visa’s Global Product and Brand Councils. Since leaving Visa in 2006, Jon served as Deputy CEO for SecureTrading, where he doubled transaction numbers and quadrupled profitability. He then led a management buy in at Shopcreator, the ecommerce software platform; he will remain as their Chairman while serving on Boku’s executive team.

Adam Lee Chief Product Officer

Adam has been developing online solutions for businesses and consumers for nearly 15 years. Before joining Boku, Adam was responsible for launching Intuit’s first online healthcare payment solution for two of the largest healthcare organizations in the US, UnitedHealthcare and CIGNA and began testing the idea behind payment linked marketing. Prior to Intuit, Adam had also worked for two major industry consortium backed B2B platform companies, Neoforma and more notably Globalnetxchange (ultimately merging with Worldwide Retail Exchange to form Agentrics) where he developed technology and services to drive better supply chain performance between companies around the world including Carrefour, Sears, Sainsburys, Metro AG, Karstadt Quelle, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, and Diageo.

Rohan Marr SVP, Engineering and Operations

Rohan brings fifteen years of experience architecting and developing high volume and highly available web systems and infrastructures. Prior to joining Boku, Rohan was an early employee at Livescribe – developer of “smart pen” consumer electronics devices – where he was responsible for building and managing the company’s web engineering teams, and designing its web services. Previously, he was involved in the Finance sector developing simulated Mutual fund trading systems.

Stuart Neal CFO

Stuart joined Boku in 2011 from Barclaycard where he was responsible for growing their merchant acquiring division, the second largest in Europe. He is a prominent figure in the European payments market, with specific expertise in deploying innovative payment solutions, such as the roll out of NFC capability in the UK. Prior to Barclaycard, Stuart held senior Commercial and Finance positions within a number of blue chip corporations including GlaxoSmithKline and Virgin Media (formerly NTL). Stuart is an Economics graduate and an ACMA qualified Finance professional.

Javier Martell General Counsel

Javier has been providing legal counsel to technology companies for twenty years. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he began his career at Pillsbury Madison and Sutro in San Francisco providing securities and intellectual property advice to many of the firm’s technology start-ups. After a brief stint with the FDIC San Francisco Regional Office, he joined Fair, Isaac and Company, Inc. (FICO), where he served as vice president and deputy general counsel responsible for the company’s legal department. The entrepreneurial spirit then drove him to co-found RedSpark, an Autodesk spin-off providing software solutions to manufacturing companies. Later Javier joined Autodesk, serving as division counsel for the Media and Entertainment Solutions and Location Based Services divisions. Most recently he has worked as general counsel for a number of technology start-ups including Ligos Corporation, BlackArrow, Berkeley Communications Corporation and mFoundry. Javier’s expertise is wide ranging but his key areas of focus are intellectual property rights, corporate matters, employment and labor, privacy, bank regulatory and strategic transactions.

Boku is honored to be backed by top Silicon Valley VCs.

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz was established in July 2009 by entrepreneurs and engineers Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz based on their vision for a new, modern VC firm created to support today’s technology-focused entrepreneurs through angel investments to large scale funding. Andreessen and Horowitz have a track record of investing in, building and scaling highly successful businesses. Andreessen Horowitz is based on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.

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Benchmark Capital

Benchmark Capital, a leading venture capital firm, was founded in 1995 to help talented entrepreneurs with original ideas build successful technology companies. Benchmark’s general partners take a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing to deliver a superior level of service to the firm’s portfolio companies. Benchmark’s portfolio includes high-profile start-ups like Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, PureDigital, Second Life, Tellme, Twitter, Yelp, and Zillow, and franchise companies such as eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat. The firm manages nearly $2.8 billion in committed venture capital.

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DAG Ventures

DAG Ventures is a venture capital partnership investing in and helping outstanding entrepreneurs create leading, long-term companies across a range of markets. With roots from the 1980s in cable TV, infrastructure, media, and wireless industries, the partnership today is privileged to work with world-class entrepreneurs as they build tomorrow’s leaders in the information technology, energy, and life science sectors.

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Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a leading European venture capital firm active in technology venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping top entrepreneurial teams in the Information Technology, Clean Technology, and Life Science sectors build their companies into market defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London, and Jersey and focuses on investments from seed through growth stage companies.

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Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures offers venture assistance, strategic advice and capital to entrepreneurs. The firm helps entrepreneurs extend the potential of their ideas in breakthrough scientific work in clean technology areas such as solar, battery, high efficiency engines, lighting, greener materials like cement, glass and bio-refineries for energy and bioplastics, and other environmentally friendly technologies as well as traditional venture areas like the Internet, computing, mobile and silicon technology arenas. Vinod Khosla founded the firm in 2004 and was formerly a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins and founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla Ventures is based in Menlo Park, California.

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NEA

Across three key domains—information technology, healthcare and energy technology—NEA applies its company-building expertise, vast network of resources and strong capital base to help our portfolio companies become leaders in their respective markets. While the majority of our investments focus on companies in the early stages of development, a significant portion of our capital is directed toward venture growth equity opportunities. These are later-stage companies where the amount of capital invested far exceeds what is considered ‘traditional’ venture capital, but other characteristics of the investment, such as the company-building opportunity and assumed risk, are consistent with the typical venture capital investment profile.

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