Our Team
TiPJAR was founded by hospitality leaders, passionate about the sector and the amazing, diverse teams who receive tips as thanks for providing a great service. As word spread about our innovative and world-leading product, our team grew and now we have passionate group committed to helping tipped workers earn more and making it easier for the world to say… ‘Thanks!’.
James Brown
Ben Thomas
Ben leads the team to bring the code, ideas and concept alive for our users and customers. Previously Ben was co-founder and MD of consultancy Coachmatch (now Wonderous People) and was GM for one of the UK’s largest film extras’ agencies.
Paul Stancer
Paul is our resident geek and the brains of the operation. Years of experience working for World Remit (Head of Global Integration) and large scale payment concepts for blue chip companies, including ASSOS, Barclays and Hitachi.
Gary Dolman
Gary is the co-founder of the app-based bank Monzo and played a key role of getting them a market valuation of £1.2bn. Prior to his time with Monzo, he was CFO and COO for ABN AMRO Global Transaction Banking, a business with a turnover of more than €5bn handling payments across 40 countries.
Henry Allen
Henry has spent the last 7 years at Octopus, has a massive passion for startups, and currently acts as an adviser, non-exec director, or fractional CFO with a number of other early-stage businesses in fintech and beyond.
Julian Ross
Having been the CEO of Wireless Social over the last decade, Julian joins the board, bringing with him a wealth of knowledge and industry know-how.
Xen Lategan
Xen is an experienced Media-Tech Executive; ex-Google, ex-CTO at multiple International companies, and acts as an advisor to our board.
Anita Bodis
The very first TiPJAR employee, Anita juggles many tasks including signing up new clients, developing partnerships with third party apps and helping TiPJAR clients reach their targets by thinking outside the box.
Rasmus Hansen
Rasmus is highly experienced, with a proven track record of leading and coaching customer success, and developing innovative business operational changes. We are confident Rasmus is going to lead us into the future of TiPJAR, making sure our clients, users and CS team are as successful as they can possibly be.