Tom Platt is chief executive of Countingup, a London, England, business account for the self-employed with bookkeeping and tax estimates built in. He succeeded founder Tim Fouracre in November 2023, and Fouracre stayed on the board. Read our review of Countingup.
Small-Business Banking at Barclays and BCSG
At Barclays he worked in business banking innovation, building digital products for small companies. As commercial director at BCSG he helped grow a provider of software that banks and telecoms groups offer their small-business customers. Fouracre said the two first worked together a decade earlier, "when we tried to stitch banking and accounting together in our pre-fintech careers."
Scaling TotallyMoney to Five Million Users
He joined Countingup from TotallyMoney, where as chief operating officer he helped launch its consumer finance app and grow it past five million UK customers. On his appointment he described the problem Countingup works on: "It can be extremely difficult for them to focus on the day-to-day operations, when also playing the roles of finance, accountant, and tax-expert."
