Rupert Lee-Browne

Rupert Lee-Browne is an investor and entrepreneur in technology businesses; the founder, Chief Executive and Chairman of Caxton FX, a UK-based business focused on financial technology, currency and international payments. 

Education and early career

Lee-Browne was born and raised in Gloucestershire. After attending a local comprehensive school and Malvern Boy's College in Worcestershire, he went on to University of London to study History of Art under Ernst Gombrich. His early career was in advertising and media, starting with a role at Chris Ingram Associates as a TV media buyer and planner. His work with media companies led him to BBC Enterprises where he worked on the launch of UK Gold, and on to Daily Mail General Trust where he established a cross-media platform for the London Evening Standard, Channel One and early-stage internet publishing for the newspaper.

In 1998, Lee-Browne invested in and co-founded the dotcom business EggsBenefit.com along with Mogens Tholstrup, then-owner of the Signature Group of Restaurants. The company was sold to Eskye.com for an undisclosed sum in 2001.

Caxton FX

In 2002, Lee-Browne started Caxton FX Ltd, a currency and payments company. With an investment of £25,000, he grew the company from one man and a telephone to a business turning over £1bn. During his time at Caxton he has been regularly quoted in the media on currency and wider market issues.
Lee-Browne launched the first Euro currency prepaid card in 2007 , an innovative retail bond to raise funds on a peer-to-peer basis in 2011, and developed blockchain technology to replace APIs. In 2017, the European Digital Banking Club named Lee-Browne as one of the Digital Banking Power 50

Media and Speaker engagements

He is a regular guest on national and international news programmes speaking predominantly on currency matters as well as being quoted regularly in the offline and online media Lee-Browne also speaks at business conferences to talk about starting and running a fast-growing company as well as fintech issues. He has been a regular speaker at the Goldman Sachs 10k Small Business programme. Lee-Browne was a judge on 2017 Women in Finance and The British Small Business Grants.

Personal Life

Lee-Browne is married with one son and lives in Chelsea, London.