James leads Stripe’s growth across the global hospitality, travel & leisure industries, ensuring potential & existing customers - from enterprise, to tech-platforms to startups - are able to build strong valuable partnerships with Stripe and benefit from its powerful financial infrastructure built with global disruptors like Lyft, Doordash and Shopify, to improve customer experiences, innovate faster & build more productive operations.

Prior to Stripe, James founded & exitted a global hospitality mentoring & peer-to-peer platform, Otolo, and consulted across the travel industry including hotels, tech, start-ups & Private Equity. His previous industry experience includes COO of Hostmaker, the airbnb property mgt company that become Marriott Homes & Villas, and leading strategy teams for hotel chains (IHG) and traveltech (Travelport). James is also kept busy as a father of 2 and based in Wimbledon in the UK.