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
Sydney Paulsen
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.
Alex Moore
Alex is an experienced founder and restaurateur, most notably with Thai group Rosa’s Café. Prior to this, Alex founded Snagster and was Head of Business Development with TMW Digital Marketing Agency.
Ben Thomas
Ben looks after the customer journey bringing the code, ideas and concept alive. A farmer founder himself with Coachment and Management Consultancy Wonderous People.
Tom Kristenson
Tom is our finance guru and makes sure every penny counts. His career included 15 years in Investment Management and being Group CFO at Plymouth Argyle FC. More recently CEO of Rosa’s Thai Café alongside Alex.
Simon Bocca
Previously COO of Fourth and also founder of innovative payroll solution PayCaptain, Simon brings a wealth of experience to support our Tipping Revolution.
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.
