After 20 years of building a successful career in the financial industry, Mary has set up her own consultancy business in the UK, called Breakfree Independent Consulting Services. She has experience across a wide spectrum of payments markets - from credit cards to mainstream banking to heading up the business development area of the UK's automated clearing house, BACS.

Mary’s experience in payments strategy has been in particularly fast moving environments such as the evolution of the European market in the wake of EMU. Many of her roles have been largely client-focused, with emphasis on strategy-building and establishing customer requirements for new products. She has a wide network of colleagues and contacts within the UK and European financial industry.