About US

Meet our Kani team

Our payment gurus are FinTech and payments industry experts. We understand your challenges and are here to help.

Aaron Holmes

CEO & Co-founder

Aaron founded Kani following roles at Flex-e-card as General Manager, Global Processing Services as Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) & Chief Operating Officer (COO), and NBS Card Solutions (now Wirecard) as Senior Implementation Manager. Building on issuing, program management and transaction processing roles, Aaron now leads the Kani business from its Newcastle upon Tyne head office.

Melissa Beckett

CMO

Melissa heads up Kani's Marketing and business growth functions, having previously worked at Sage software and then onto leading the Entrepreneur Accelerator hub for NatWest, working with and coaching hundreds of disruptive start-ups and scale-ups. Melissa is also a mentor for The Girls Network and The Youth Group.

Steven Licciardi

CTO

Steven brings to Kani more than 15 years of varied experience as a leading software developer. Having previously worked for Sage, EADS, Condeco and having spent 10 years within the water, oil and gas industry, Steven has a variety of expert knowledge with his specialities including cloud integration, software development and emerging technologies.