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Leda Glyptis

Leda Glyptis

The Disruption House (TDH)

Leda Glyptis is a Senior Advisor for The Disruption House and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of Loughborough London. She is the author of best-selling book ‘Bankers Like Us: Dispatches from an Industry in Transition’ (Taylor and Francis, 2023) and of the recently released ‘Beyond Resilience: Patterns of Success in Fintech and Digital Transformation’ (Taylor and Francis, 2025).

Leda works as an external advisor to boards and executive teams for banks, financial institutions and technology companies globally, supporting leadership teams in transition: be it a process of transforming themselves, their business or their software infrastructure. Additionally, Leda works with established technology and younger fintech companies as a board director and advisor.

Leda is the Chairman of the Board for Bourn and recently served as a Non Executive Director for Flagstone (who achieved one of the highest capital raises of its kind in the UK with backing from Estancia Capital).  She was a NED at Simply Pay Me (until its acquisition by MyTown Technologies) and she chaired the  Board of Geophy (now a Walker and Dunlop company) through its successful exit.

Leda served as the Chief Client Officer of 10x Banking and the founding CEO of 11:FS Foundry (both in the cloud-native core banking space); she was the Chief Innovation Officer of Qatar National Bank and held a variety of innovation and transformation roles at BNY Mellon.

Leda completed her undergraduate studies at King’s College Cambridge and holds an MSc and PhD  from the  London  School of Economics and Political Science.