Martina King

Martina is the CEO of Featurespace and leads a team of technology experts on a mission to make the world a safer place to transact. Over the last ten years, Martina and the Featurespace team have built a leading enterprise software business that protects people and organizations from the rising threats of fraud and financial crime. Featurespace’s award winning machine learning technology is trusted by over 50 leading financial institutions globally including HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest Group, eftpos, Danske Bank and ClearBank. Featurespace has raised more than £100 million in funding, attracting investment from leading technology funds: MissionOG, Highland Capital and Insight Partners.

Martina was formerly the Managing Director of augmented reality company Aurasma. Prior to this Martina had an extensive career in media and technology, including leadership roles at Yahoo! Europe and Capital Radio.

Martina has received international recognition for her services to the payments industry, bringing new ideas, and helping to develop technology that changes the way people exchange money. Since 2018 PaymentsSource has honored Martina with the “Most Influential Women in Payments” accolade – very rarely awarded to individuals – for the fourth consecutive year. The award followed her 2019 “Industry Achievement Award from Cards & Payments”, Silicon Republic naming her a “Top 40 Powerful Women in Tech”, Cambridge News crowning her as its “Business Person of the Year” and Martina named as “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year” in Business Weekly’s 30th Anniversary Awards. In 2022, Martina received the highest accolade in a room filled with high-level achievers.

Known as the ‘Oscars for Technology Entrepreneurs’, the judges recognized her outstanding personal and company achievements by awarding her with the “Special Achievement Award.” Under her leadership Featurespace continues to go from strength to strength, picking up a Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation in 2021, alongside 15 industry awards for fraud and financial crime risk protection.