About This Episode
This week, we meet up with Uku Tomikas CEO of Messente Communications, a fast growing business messaging service provider based on Estonia. Messente helps businesses communicate with their customers securely and at scale, without worrying about the complexity of global messaging or the risks of fraud. Its customer base includes banks and insurance companies and other message-heavy industries that need a reliable way of contacting their customers. In our conversation, we discuss why business messaging has become business critical to banks. For example sending OTPs for payment authentication and secure account log in. Uku also expands on how Messente is at the forefront of fighting fraud by detecting and preventing scam messages which have become a key part of the criminals tool kit. We discuss a lot besides so I do hope you enjoy this conversation with Uku from Messente.
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Episode Links
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ukutomikas/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/messente/
Guest Bio
Uku Tomikas is the CEO of Messente Communications. He is an advocate for honest entrepreneurship and an expert in telecommunications with extensive knowledge of fraud, global markets, and business messaging.With previous experience in managing a young company and customer service, Uku is a skilled communicator with a deep understanding of customer relations. He actively seeks to understand and help the companies Messente serves, working to improve his listening and communication skills in the process.
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Martin Koderisch is a Former Principal in the London office. He has 20 years of experience as adviser and operator within financial technology industry with a focus on payments. He specialises in accelerating digital transformation of client businesses through industry expertise, data analytics, and fintech enablement. His approach seeks to bridge the gap between strategy and execution with hands-on delivery of value creation initiatives to achieve growth, control or operational efficiency outcomes. He previously held senior leadership roles within industry at Mastercard, Citibank and start up Luup Payments covering digital product innovation, operations, and commercial partnership development. He hosted and produced EDC's popular podcast ‘Leaders in Payments and Fintech’ podcast available on major podcast platforms.