Alston Zecha

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Alston Zecha is a partner at Eight Roads Ventures, the global venture capital firm backed by Fidelity, where he focuses on fintech and enterprise software investments across Europe. He joined the firm in 2015 and has progressed through director and principal roles, leading or supporting investments in Duco, Funnel, Juro, Mention Me, SenseOn and Tibber.

Before Eight Roads, Zecha was a co-founder and chief operating officer of Payleven, the mobile point-of-sale company that was the first to roll out chip-and-pin payments across Europe and later merged with SumUp. Earlier in his career he held roles at Apax Partners, Travelex, Bain & Company and Citigroup, working out of Berlin, Johannesburg and London.

Zecha studied philosophy and French at the University of Oxford and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He grew up in Hong Kong and speaks Mandarin and French. He sits on the board of contract management software company Juro.