Tom Voaden
Head of Partnerships at BR-DGE
Tom has over 8 years of experience in payments, delivering product innovation and service excellence across digital commerce and strategic partnership programs.
Starting his career at Visa, leading projects across the UK, Ireland and USA, Tom has a strong knowledge of the payments ecosystem, connecting key stakeholders to deliver better outcomes for providers, acquirers and merchants alike. As a pioneer for partnerships, Tom helped establish the Enablers, Payment Gateways and Orchestration platform team at Visa, before bringing his expertise to BR-DGE to head up the the scaling BR-DGE partnerships function.
With experience spanning all key stakeholders across the payments landscape, Tom has designed and developed a forward-thinking partnership program for BR-DGE, connecting merchants with global payment solutions at scale. Tom understands first-hand how challenging and complex payments can be and is a strong believer that cross-functional collaboration is critical in ensuring merchants can deliver for their customers and that providers in payments understand the complex needs in the market.