10x Banking Recruits Former NatWest Boxed Executive To Spearhead Global Growth Strategy

10x Banking has appointed Tom Bentley as Chief Revenue Officer to its executive board, tasked with leading the company's global commercial and growth strategy as it expands across Europe, APAC, Middle East and Africa.

Bentley brings over 15 years of experience in core banking and fintech, having held senior positions at Temenos and Thought Machine, and served as Chief Commercial Officer at Vodeno, which was recently acquired by UniCredit Group. His most recent role was as part of the founding team at NatWest Boxed, the embedded finance venture from NatWest Group, where he served as Head of Growth.

Lewis Ide joining as Senior Vice President APAC

 

The appointment coincides with Lewis Ide joining as Senior Vice President APAC, based in Sydney. Ide will be responsible for strategy, growth and execution across Asia-Pacific, which represents a major growth engine for 10x Banking. He brings 13 years of financial services technology experience from leadership roles at SWIFT and Form3.
 

The senior appointments come as 10x Banking approaches a decade of operations in banking infrastructure transformation. The company is working with customers including Chase UK by J.P. Morgan, Westpac Group, Old Mutual, West Brom Building Society and Constantinople in Australia.

Tom Bentley, CRO at 10x Banking
 

"I've followed 10x for nearly a decade and have always admired the company's customer-centric approach and Antony's mission to reinvent banking from the core," said Tom Bentley, CRO at 10x Banking. “The industry is at a tipping point – the convergence of AI-driven migrations, modular product innovation and the rise of truly distributed embedded finance are reshaping what's possible. I'm excited to bring my banking technology expertise and fintech growth experience to the team to help more institutions unlock the power of the 10x platform to deliver modern scalable banking propositions for their customers.”

Antony Jenkins CBE, Founder and CEO of 10x

Antony Jenkins CBE, Founder and CEO of 10x, said: “Tom's appointment underscores our ability to attract world-class core banking talent and our investment in building the future of financial services. Tom's track record in expanding commercial operations and Lewis' focus on forging strategic partnerships across APAC in supporting this region will play an important role as we grow to meet strong client demand. The past nine years of focused R&D have brought our technology to a point of true scalability and repeatability – unique in the industry – with our cloud-native platform now powering significant banking transformations and live client environments at unprecedented scale and speed.”