Christopher Louden

Christopher Louden is a highly dedicated and professional sales and thought leader with 15 years of experience in sales leadership and customer-facing roles.

He excels in building, mentoring, and developing high-performing consultative solution sales and technical service delivery teams in a matrix environment, fostering collaborative and customer-centric team cultures.

With expertise in new business origination and strategic relationship management within complex technology and payments sectors, Christopher has established relationships with C-Level decision-makers.

Having worked extensively in financial services, he also possesses a deep understanding of commercial finance, lending, treasury, commercial pricing, marketing, and business strategy.

Christopher has a strong track record of collaborating cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to drive key strategic initiatives.

His strategic thinking abilities enable him to develop effective go-to-market, retention, stakeholder engagement, and growth strategies in competitive marketplaces, leading to increased profitability, client satisfaction, colleague engagement, and shareholder value.

With a background in channel management, Christopher has overseen numerous strategic and white-label partnerships within the technology and fintech ecosystem.

He is an experienced finance services and payments professional with expertise in digital and B2B payments, emphasizing commercial purchasing, virtual cards, t&e schemes, e-invoicing, payment acceptance, eCommerce integrated payments, open banking, and payments APIs.

Throughout his career, Christopher has successfully supported customers in defining, developing, and implementing payment and transformational projects, utilizing innovative solutions to drive operational and financial improvements.