Our company
We're here to make vendor dependency extinct.
A digital banking development platform out of the Netherlands, designed to stop financial institutions sacrificing time-to-market or independence as they build.
- 2022
- Independent product company
- $11M+
- Raised to date
- 4 Hubs
- Amsterdam, London, Miami, Vilnius
The mission
Why Plumery exists
Our mission is to enable financial companies of any size globally to launch composable digital and AI banking experiences fast without giving up control, so they can adapt freely as banking changes and their vision grows.
Who we are
Digital banking needs a more beautiful foundation
Our name is derived from Plumeria, a tropical flower that is considered sacred in some cultures, symbolising new beginnings, dedication, and beauty.
It’s a contrast to how ugly digital banking can get. We know where the industry's compromises came from because we once worked for the companies that built them. We were in escalation meetings when banks discovered their vendors’ technology was more limited than they anticipated. And we were powerless to offer more than license concessions as a consolation.
This was a situation we didn’t want to continue. So we launched a new beginning for banks: Plumery.
Company history & future
Our history and what we’re doing now
Backed by leading venture capital firms, Plumery has been an independent product company since December 2022. And our team has spent decades building digital banking platforms used by more than 300 banks worldwide.
That experience helps us understand how banking architecture got here, and where it needs to go next. We’ve built a platform that helps financial institutions launch digital and AI experiences fast and then stay structurally ahead of their competitors, regardless of whether developers or agents are writing the code.
Meet the team
The people behind the platform
Plumery brings together open-minded people with decorated careers across banking and fintech. Each person has the autonomy to move our platform and company forward based on their expertise.
Ben Goldin
Founder & CEO
Ben brings over 20 years of experience in financial services innovation, including executive roles at Mambu and Backbase. His contributions have been recognised by analysts from Gartner, Forrester, and Ovum. Today, Ben leads Plumery’s overall strategy and direction.
Gabriele Armonaite
Chief of Staff & Operations Lead
Gabriele has spent more than 17 years in financial services, including key roles at Mambu and SEB, where she led product and digital modernisation initiatives. At Plumery, Gabriele focuses on strategic growth and operational efficiency.
Danielle Cohen
Head of Product
Danielle is a product leader with over 10 years of experience in SaaS B2B startups and scaleups, particularly within the financial services domain. Her passion lies in fully using data for the advantage of product development, and she excels in leading cross-functional teams to build and scale these products.
Jonas Keturka
Engineering Lead
Jonas is an experienced engineering leader of fintech platforms, including leadership roles at Raisin. He supports both the technical and organisational sides of engineering: creating effective cross-functional teams and collaborating hands-on with engineers to tackle complex challenges.
Max Levitzky
Head of Engineering, Platform
Max brings 20 years of industry experience, with expertise in infrastructure engineering and leadership roles. He successfully managed critical cloud infrastructure at Mambu and now focuses on fostering a high performing engineering culture at Plumery.
Stacey Gower
Head of Delivery
Stacey is a fintech delivery leader with 10+ years of experience turning complex ideas into products that actually ship. Her career spans Starling, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan Chase, where she’s led cross border programmes across core banking, payments and machine learning, taking products from first sketch to global go live. At Plumery, she focuses on turning customer needs into products that get live, work brilliantly and make banking simpler, with a passion for making complex delivery feel a whole lot less complicated.
Cornel Dixon
Head of Growth
With 10 years of experience in enterprise sales and business development, Cornel is a skilled sales leader in fintech and digital banking. At Backbase and Adyen, he built strategic client relationships and new business across EMEA. Now, as Head of Growth, he leads Plumery’s global growth initiatives.
Verity Myers
Head of GTM
Verity is an experienced B2B fintech leader with a track record of scaling high-growth companies. Over five years at Thought Machine, she held senior roles spanning operations, product, and commercial as the company scaled to unicorn status. At Plumery, she leads go-to-market across marketing, partnerships, and business development. She's driven by learning fast and building teams where people can do their best work and thrive.
Alexey Lapusta
Head of Solutions Engineering, DevEx & Agentic AI
With 15+ years of experience in fintech and digital banking, Alexey is a seasoned leader in digital transformation, cloud-native banking, and AI. At Mambu, he helped drive the company’s growth to unicorn status, while at Backbase he worked with leading institutions including HSBC and Citi. Now, as Head of Solutions Engineering, DevEx & Agentic AI at Plumery, he helps banks build and launch next-generation digital banking experiences.
FAQ
Questions that may be on your mind.
If you can’t find the answers you’re looking for, speak with our growth team or solution architects.
Why did Plumery start?
Plumery was founded because we believed banks should no longer have to choose between building everything themselves and buying a platform they couldn't truly control. We set out to combine the speed of modern platforms with the independence of in-house development.
Who is Plumery for?
Plumery works with banks, credit unions, fintechs and neobanks that want to modernise their digital channels without becoming dependent on a single vendor or replacing their existing core systems.
What makes Plumery different?
Most digital banking platforms will offer you either speed or flexibility. Plumery is designed to provide both.
Customers start with ready-made digital banking journeys but retain the freedom to fully adapt and extend them as their business evolves. You maintain as much control as if you’d built the entire platform yourself, except you go live in months.
Why does Plumery talk so much about independence?
We believe institutions should control their roadmap and customer experience, building freely without depending on vendor-locked professional services every time they want to make a change.
How does AI fit into Plumery's vision?
We see AI as another interface to banking rather than another product category. We also believe it shouldn’t be tied to a vendor’s chosen model or predefined capabilities, so that banks don’t need a new platform every time technology, including AI, changes.
By exposing banking journeys as reusable capabilities, Plumery offers you a foundation that’s ready for today’s initial experiments with conversational AI as well as the more advanced agentic interfaces you’ll want to introduce over the coming years.
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