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Jakub Zmuda
Modulr

Jakub Zmuda

Managing director, Europe

Why watch

He joined Modulr at its founding as chief product officer and now runs its European business.

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Jakub Zmuda is managing director for Europe at Modulr, the UK and Dutch payment-accounts company. He was a founding member of Modulr in 2016 and its first chief product officer. Read our review of Modulr.

Launching Payment Initiation as Product Chief

As chief product officer he led the launch of payment initiation at Modulr in June 2020, a service that lets a business take a payment directly from a customer's bank account. "Payments are too important to get wrong," he said at the launch.

Leading Growth in Europe

After a spell as director of strategy, he took the European role in July 2026, when Modulr set out its leadership for growth in Europe. He also chairs the management board of Modulr Finance B.V., the Dutch e-money institution licensed by De Nederlandsche Bank.