About Us | Tillo

Tillo is the embedded rewards and loyalty platform built for profitability and scalability.

Our award-winning API connects 2000+ of the world’s most popular brands with 100+ partners, helping them to supercharge sustainable and profitable growth and unlock new use cases for digital gift cards.

We're the fastest-growing global network, working across 36 markets in 16 currencies, and have processed over $2 billion worth of gift cards to date.

We make it easy to attract, engage and retain your customers.

Founded in 2016, Tillo’s (formerly Reward Cloud) goal was to transform the gift card market. We recognized the constraints of plastic gift cards in the digital age. Retailers and businesses were often hit by cash flow issues, procurement and settlement frustrations, and problems with distribution and scale.

Founders Gareth Gillatt and Alex Preece looked to technology to revolutionize the market. It was time to shake things up.

Within a year, the Tillo platform streamlined the way rewards and incentives could be used to support acquisition, engagement, loyalty, and payments. By 2019, we’d achieved 100% year-on-year growth. Today, over $2 billion worth of gift cards have been processed, making Tillo a market leader in rewards and incentives across 36 global markets.

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Our values

Remarkable Passion

We go over and beyond. We are here to help our customers have the best possible experience, and we carry out tasks with conviction and passion.

Drive for Results

As an athlete trains for a marathon, we do the same. It’s OK to fail, but learn from it, and feedback is crucial.

Collaboration is Key

We discuss and solve challenges together. Being human is key, so we remember to be kind.

Be Intentional

We are thoughtful and deliberate. Everything we do, we do for a reason.

Surprise and Delight

We’re in the business of delivering rewards, so we deliver delight to our customers with everything we do.

Our story

Gareth and Alex founded Tillo in 2016 after a series of unfortunate experiences trying to buy corporate gift cards.

The rest is history, and seven years on, a lot has changed...

2016

Founded by Gareth & Alex

2017

1 Million transactions reached

Won hottest newcomer at UKGCVA awards

2018

US & EU — Went live across global markets

Tillo’s network of brands reached over 1,000, making us a trusted market leader

2019

Tens of millions of transactions processed

2020

29 countries and 16 currencies expanded our reach across global markets

$575 million worth of sales on the Tillo platform

$15,000 donated to charity to date

2021

Growth to 50+ Tillo employees

21 million codes used with Tillo

$1 billion worth of gifts cards processed, and counting!

2022

$2 billion gift cards processed, 36 countries, 16 currencies, and 2000+ brands on the network.

Opened our US office
in Austin, Texas.

Meet the senior leadership team

Tillo’s Senior Leadership team is a talented and supportive bunch with years of experience across multiple sectors, including in-house development, payments, fintech, retail, finance, and more.

Careers at Tillo

Alex Preece

CEO & Co-Founder

Martyn Fagg

Chief Operating Officer

Lee Spencer

Chief Financial Officer

Sharon Forder

Chief Marketing Officer

Briony Robertson

VP of People

David Wall

VP of Sales UK & EU

Meet our Advisors

Tillo’s Advisory Board is made up of experienced advisors set to help drive growth within the world of fintech, including Neobanks, BNPL, Open Banking, and Crypto sectors. As innovators themselves, our Advisors are helping break the boundaries of traditional gift card use.

David Birch, Michelle Beyo, and Daniel Kornitzer bring decades of experience to the Tillo team from within the embedded finance, fintech, and payments world, helping Tillo to drive forth next-level innovation and deliver unmatched value to our customers across the globe.

David Birch

David is a world-renowned author, advisor, and commentator on digital financial services and is internationally recognized as a thought leader in digital identity and digital money. David has extensive experience consulting with some of the world’s biggest banks, financial services organizations, telecommunications providers, and IT companies.

Michelle Beyo

Michelle Beyo is the CEO and Founder of FINAVATOR, an award-winning Payments, and Future of Finance consultancy. With over 20 years of extensive industry experience, Michelle has expertise in Prepaid Payments, Loyalty programs, Blockchain, and Open Banking. She is also a TEDx and WEDO United Nations speaker, Money 20/20 Rise Up alumni, Board Advisor to Open Banking Expo, and the President and Board Member at the Open Finance Network of Canada (OFNC).

Daniel Kornitzer

Daniel has 20+ years of experience in technology management and has pioneered ground-breaking initiatives from ISO/ITU standards for video coding to FirePay’s digital wallet and risk management processes. Daniel is also a member of the advisory board of the Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE), a member of the ETA Canadian Working Group, as well as a crypto expert at the Blockchain Founders Fund.

Transforming the rewards, incentives, and gifting space

We’re proud to be backed by two of Europe’s most successful investors; Robert Dighero from Passion Capital (Monzo, Tide, GoCardless) and Paul Forster (Co-Founder and CEO of Indeed.com), as well as Conviction Investment Partners, a syndicate of global investors.

Charity partnerships

Tillo participated in the UK free school meals voucher project, and the team bonded closely over the initiative. Because of this impact, we wanted to help those most in need within the community. At Tillo, there was a real appetite to support a worthy local cause. When a member of the team recommended working with Chomp, it was the perfect opportunity for Tillo to give something back. Chomp is passionate about supporting families with children who find themselves in challenging circumstances. They provide integrative support that spans immediate needs, such as food, poverty, and holiday hunger, to meaningful engagement across interdependent communities. The team has worked closely with Chomp since July 2020, delivering food boxes last summer and Christmas gifts to families across Brighton and Hove. To date, Tillo has donated over $15,000.

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