Terry clune

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman

Entrepreneur Terry Clune is the CEO and founder of CluneTech, formerly Taxback Group. ​

In 1996, inspired by his own experience after a summer working in Germany, Terry launched his first company, Taxback.com, to help students reclaim their overpaid tax. Since then, under Terry’s stewardship, the group has expanded to encompass a suite of companies that offer industry-leading technology to simplify global business. In late 2021, the group rebranded as CluneTech to reflect the breadth and depth of the solutions and services we offer. ​

Sinead Fitzmaurice

CEO

Following 10 successful years with PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) in both Ireland and the Channel Islands, Sinead joined Taxback Group as Financial Controller in 2005. Sinead was quickly promoted to the role of Chief Financial Officer by Taxback founder Terry Clune and within just 5 years, the duo began the process of establishing TransferMate. Their mission: to eliminate the cumbersome and expensive SWIFT, the banking system for managing international transactions.​

As CEO of TransferMate Global Payments, Sinead has led the company’s recent global expansion with a payments infrastructure footprint in 162 countries and partnerships with some of the world’s top banks and software providers. The company has seen significant growth under her leadership with investments from ING in 2018 and recent strategic relationships announced with Wells Fargo, Coupa, SAP Concur, FIS, Ivalua and WEX.  Sinead has been responsible for shaping the overall strategic direction of TransferMate as it developed technology for the financial services industry that delivers real value to companies of all sizes, worldwide.

Gary Conroy

Chief Product Officer

As Chief Product Officer for TransferMate Global Payments, Gary is committed to simplifying B2B cross-border payments. Gary brings more than 20 years’ experience working in banking and payments across consumer, business, card, international banking and FX with a proven track record of scaling payments and fintech companies globally. Gary has helped lead the change in growing the company into one of the world’s leading payments partners for banks and software providers, with recent deals with Wells Fargo, Coupa and TradeShift.

David Hughes

Chief Commercial Officer

David has over 14 years’ treasury banking experience in commercial, retail and operations, across locations in both Europe and North America. Recently David returned to Ireland having spent 11 years in the US in senior management roles with Royal Bank of Scotland and Citizens Bank. Most recently, he managed the Commercial Payments team for Citizens Bank, where he focused on the expansion of Citizens’ card issuing, acquiring and ePayables businesses. David leads the commercial department in TransferMate, responsible for strategic partners and growth across key verticals and territories including North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Alex Clements

Head of AML

Alex has over 20 years’ experience of Financial Crime Investigations and is a highly experienced Financial Crime Leader, MLRO and Compliance Expert, formally a serving Counter Terrorism Detective and accredited Financial Investigator.
Accomplished in Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud, Sanctions and Counter Terrorism Finance controls. Alex has a strong track record of delivering successful outcomes and solutions, including risk management and threats relating to anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing and other financial crime. Alex translates everything he has learnt in the last 20+ years into keeping our partners and clients money safe.

Brid Saruwatari

Chief Financial Officer

Bríd joined TransferMate as Group CFO in 2022.  Having trained as a Chartered Accountant with PWC, she has since had a lengthy and successful global career spanning over 25 years across a number of sectors including insurance, fund administration and credit unions. Brid’s broad skill set covers all areas of finance and provides leadership to the company in treasury management, financial control, corporate governance, strategic planning, budgeting, financial reporting, audit and compliance.

Una Downey

Head of Treasury

Una joined the TransferMate Treasury team in 2007 with a background in branch banking. Coupled with hands on experience gained in TransferMate Treasury over the past 16 years, Una provides a diverse knowledge of financial services. In her role as Head of Treasury, she supervises the management of multiple teams within the treasury function. Una is responsible for strategic review of global treasury structures and processes, identifying growth areas requiring treasury review, troubleshooting, planning and restructure.

Brian Calnan

Chief Operations Officer

Brian joined Transfermate in 2011, with a background in customer experience. Since 2011, Brian has worked across multiple departments gaining insights and experience that has helped shape the operational department to what it is today.
Brian manages the Global Operations function across the organisation with a key focus on streamlining all aspects of the business creating efficiencies and implementing new technologies while keeping the customer experience as the number one priority.

Margaret Corrigan

Chief Information Security Officer

Margaret joined the Taxback Group in 2016 with responsibility for implementing the ISO27001 framework and now operates as the Chief Information Security Officer for the Taxback Group. Margaret has over 20 years’ experience operating in senior IT roles within the finance sector and has an MB in executive leadership.

Maurice Murphy

Corporate In-House Legal Counsel

Maurice joined us in 2018 after 15 years in financial services and technology roles, working primarily as a commercial and regulatory lawyer. As the Corporate Counsel, along with supporting our business and product teams, Maurice oversees the entire contract lifecycle process across a range of areas ranging from humble NDAs and Online Terms, to Strategic Partnerships and Investments.

David Kinnear

Head of HR

David has over 30 years’ experience in Global HR and Management Consulting.
Working across several sectors including aviation, health, IT and financial services before joining TransferMate in 2020. David leads the Global HR team in developing and implementing our People Strategies across all areas of the business at operational and strategic levels.

Barry Henderson

Head of Internal Audit

Barry joined TransferMate in 2018 with 17 years of experience in various financial service and regulatory roles in global banks and with the Central Bank of Ireland. As Head of Internal Audit for TransferMate Group, Barry has overall responsibility for the internal audit function which includes the delivery of annual audit plans providing assurance and advisory services.