The CannyApp Team
With a combined passion and experience for travel and finance, the CannyApp team are here to make sure that our customers get the best and trusted experience with CannyApp.
Steve Endacott
Co-founder & Chairman
Steve has worked in the travel industry all of this life, holding Board positions (CEO) in PLC businesses, and launching his own business to fill travel niches, such as Holiday Taxis Ltd which carried 7 million passengers when it was sold in January 2019 for £60.5m.
CannyApp is his latest business designed to service a customer need he has experienced many times when travelling the world.
Jane Atkins
Managing Director
Jane has also worked in travel her entire career and was formerly Managing Director for divisions of well know travel brands such as Shearings Holidays and Coop Travel Ltd as well as holding directorships at Airtours Holidays and Superbreak.
Jane has the wealth of managerial experience to manage a fast moving financial services business and is used to working in a heavily regulated environment.
Andrew Mabbutt
Director
Andrew recently sold the Review site “Feefo”, which built its consumer review business by partnering with companies, in multiple sectors including high street retail and travel, to ensure that only customers who had purchased a product could leave a validated review.
Andrew has extensive experience in managing customer facing calls centre and partner relationships.
Alan Whiteley
Legal
Alan is a corporate lawyer having been a partner with Eversheds for 10 years before moving into mainstream corporate finance.
Former CEO at Cardiff City Football Club, he now holds a number of board and advisory positions specialising in assisting growing companies.
Alan works alongside Doug in advising the board.
Doug Lee
Finance
Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand, subsequently PwC. specialises in acquisitions, disposals, and corporate transaction work.
Doug is acting CFO for the business.
Richard Ney
Lerex
Experienced leader ensuring the success of fintech solutions for over a decade. Proven track record of business growth through innovation and results driven mentality. Driving the next level of expansion at Lerex Technology to enable fintech’s and mid-size enterprises to enter the payments arena.
Previously co-founder of innerExchange (a fully featured stock exchange solution provider), Richard has spent the last 10 years as a consultant for customers such as The London Stock Exchange, JP Morgan and Deloitte Ventures.
