Full Name
Martina King
Job Title
CEO
Company
Featurespace
Speaker Bio
Martina is the Chair and CEO of Featurespace and leads a team of technology experts on a mission to make the world a safer place to transact. For more than a decade, Martina and the Featurespace team have built a leading enterprise software business that protects people and organizations from the rising threats of fraud and financial crime. Featurespace’s award winning machine learning technology is trusted by over 80 direct customers and 100,000 businesses including HSBC, NatWest, TSYS, Worldpay, Danske Bank, Akbank, Edenred and Permanent TSB.
Featurespace has raised more than £100 million in funding, attracting investment from leading technology funds: MissionOG, Highland Capital and Insight Partners. In September 2024 it was announced that Visa, the multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, will acquire Featurespace.
Martina was formerly the Managing Director of augmented reality company Aurasma. Prior to this Martina had an extensive career in media and technology, including leadership roles at Yahoo! Europe and Capital Radio.
Martina has received international recognition for her services to the payments industry for bringing new ideas, and helping to develop technology that safeguards the global payments system. In 2018 PaymentsSource honored Martina with the “Most Influential Women in Payments” accolade – very rarely awarded to individuals – for the fourth consecutive year. The award was followed with her 2019 “Industry Achievement Award from Cards & Payments”, Silicon Republic named her a “Top 40 Powerful Women in Tech”, Cambridge News crowning her as its “Businessperson of the Year” and “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year” in Business Weekly’s 30th Anniversary Awards. In 2022, Martina received the highest accolade in a room filled with high level achievers at the Enterprise Awards. Known as the ‘Oscars of the Technology Industry’, the judges recognized her outstanding personal and company achievements by awarding her with the “Special Achievement Award.” Under her leadership Featurespace continued to go from strength to strength, picking up another Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation in 2021, alongside 15 other industry awards for fraud and financial crime risk protection that year. Now in 2024, Martina has been shortlisted for the "Tech Businesswoman of the Year" award in the UK Tech awards.
Featurespace has raised more than £100 million in funding, attracting investment from leading technology funds: MissionOG, Highland Capital and Insight Partners. In September 2024 it was announced that Visa, the multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, will acquire Featurespace.
Martina was formerly the Managing Director of augmented reality company Aurasma. Prior to this Martina had an extensive career in media and technology, including leadership roles at Yahoo! Europe and Capital Radio.
Martina has received international recognition for her services to the payments industry for bringing new ideas, and helping to develop technology that safeguards the global payments system. In 2018 PaymentsSource honored Martina with the “Most Influential Women in Payments” accolade – very rarely awarded to individuals – for the fourth consecutive year. The award was followed with her 2019 “Industry Achievement Award from Cards & Payments”, Silicon Republic named her a “Top 40 Powerful Women in Tech”, Cambridge News crowning her as its “Businessperson of the Year” and “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year” in Business Weekly’s 30th Anniversary Awards. In 2022, Martina received the highest accolade in a room filled with high level achievers at the Enterprise Awards. Known as the ‘Oscars of the Technology Industry’, the judges recognized her outstanding personal and company achievements by awarding her with the “Special Achievement Award.” Under her leadership Featurespace continued to go from strength to strength, picking up another Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation in 2021, alongside 15 other industry awards for fraud and financial crime risk protection that year. Now in 2024, Martina has been shortlisted for the "Tech Businesswoman of the Year" award in the UK Tech awards.
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