About Auka
Pioneering financial technology since 2010
Our leadership
Board of directors
Susanne Brønnum
Chairwoman
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Susanne Brønnum
Chairwoman
Former Nets VP and Smart Payments CEO Susanne Brønnum, recently left the Nets group, which is the biggest financial payments provider in Northern Europe, after more than 25 years to pursue new opportunities. Susanne held a number of positions at Nets since she joined in 1997 – including Product Manager where she was responsible for the company’s acquiring business for the MasterCard, Visa and JCB brands.
In 2007, she was appointed Director of Cards, the largest Nets business unit. Susanne was appointed CEO of Nets Denmark A/S and Group Executive Vice President in 2010. Susanne has an Academy Profession Degree in Financial Management from Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and has completed The General Manager Programme (TGMP) at Harvard Business School.
Barbara Taudorf
Board member
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Barbara Taudorf
Board member
Barbara started her career in the Ministry of Finance and later as an adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office with focus on optimization of public sector, reforms and political negotiations. Barbara shifted from politics to the financial sector just prior to the financial crisis. Consequently, Barbara has taken leading roles in solving some of the most complex issues in the financial sector over the past decades, including major transformation on cost, digitization, regulatory implementations, public affairs and national financial infrastructure schemes.
As part of the Group Management in Nets, Barbara was responsible for the Infrastructure schemes and the financial sector as client in both Denmark and Norway, and later as part of the management group in Nykredit, she lead the implementation of critical regulatory schemes, E2E optimization, robotics and organizational implementation of new IT platform. Today, Barbara works as Business Angel and Non-Executive Board Member. Barbara has a MSc in political science from both London School of Economics and University of Copenhagen.
Maria Akkuratnova
Board member
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Maria-Akkuratnova
Board member
12 years of experience in client relations, new business development and product management at global financial services and technology companies (B2B and B2C). Maria joined Auka in 2015 from Nasdaq where in her role of Customer Relations Director, she was responsible for new product development, growth and internalisation of the company’s offering in global commodities markets, working with top tier investment banks and commodities companies in the US, Europe and Asia.
Thomas B. Carlsen
Board member
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Thomas B. Carlsen
Board member
Mr. Carlsen is lawyer with bar exam from New York and Oslo. He has experience working with M&A, contracts and finance at Norway's leading law firm Thommessen and Holland & Knight in New York. Mr. Carlsen has founded several real estate companies including Hovedstaden Eiendomsselskab AS holding some 60.000 square meters of prime real estate in the city center of Oslo. Mr. Carlsen co-founded mCASH (Auka) together with Daniel Döderlein in 2010 and serves as investor, board member and advisor to several start-ups, NGOs and international and Norwegian listed companies.
Edwin Poot
Board member
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Edwin Poot
Board member
Edwin has over 20 years of strong business and technology experience from finance, telecom and energy industries of which the last 10 years as an entrepreneur responsible for technology and product management leading high performance (product) development teams. Before devoting his work full-time to build Energyworx SaaS company, he served as multi-disciplinary technology strategist for several large companies and founded another product company and consulting company. He enjoys public speaking and is 1 part entrepreneur, 1 part executive, 2 parts geek and 2 parts forward-thinker.
Management
Daniel R. Döderlein
CEO & Founder
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Daniel R. Döderlein
CEO & Founder
Serial entrepreneur, fintech pioneer and top 200 European fintech influencer. 25 years of entrepreneurial experience in the fields of IT, product development, advertising and financial services. Awarded Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014 by the Norwegian Venture Capital Association, on the Google Cloud Advisory Board and fintech contributor at Forbes.
Maria Akkuratnova
COO
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Maria Akkuratnova
COO
12 years of experience in client relations, new business development and product management at global financial services and technology companies (B2B and B2C). Maria joined Auka in 2015 from Nasdaq where in her role of Customer Relations Director, she was responsible for new product development, growth and internalisation of the company’s offering in global commodities markets, working with top tier investment banks and commodities companies in the US, Europe and Asia.
At Auka, Maria has held roles within business development, product management and customer success prior to her current role as COO of the company. Maria is responsible for day to day operations and corporate growth strategy of Auka. She holds a MSc in Finance from the BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo.
Dimiter Gurdjilov
CCO
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Dimiter Gurdjilov
CCO
More than 15 years of investment banking, private equity and business development experience. Dimiter has most recently been involved with a number of fintech ventures and advisory mandates in Central and Eastern Europe having founded Challenger Capital Partners. Previously, between 2006 and 2010, he was Investment Director at NBGI Private Equity based in London. Vice President at Bedminster Capital (formerly Soros Funds Management).
Within JPMorgan he worked in investment banking covering a number of industries and regions. From 2001 to 2004, he worked in JPMorgan’s office in Australia covering natural resources, power and energy. In the period from 1998 and 2001, he worked in New York in the areas of Telecommunications, Media and Technology. Prior to JPMorgan, Dimiter had worked as an associate for Merrill Lynch Private Banking and as a senior in Arthur Andersen Bulgaria. Dimiter received his BA from the American University in Bulgaria and earned his MBA from the University of Miami.
Our journey
10 years of innovation, thought leadership and a long string of firsts.
Our license
License, certifications and memberships
Auka is an e-money institution with licence #108654 issued by the Norwegian financial supervisory authorities, passported with rights to provide its services across all EU member states, including Great britain.
Auka is PCI DSS 3.2.1 Level 1 certified.
Auka and it’s platform partners and sub-contractors adheres to GDPR and our data center and computing provider is subject to the following law, regulations, certifications, guidelines and standards:
- Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5)
- EBA Outsourcing Guidelines
- EU Model Contract Clauses
- GDPR
- HDS
- ISAE 3000 Type 2 Report
- NHS Digital Commercial Third-Party Information Governance Requirements
- Privacy Shield
- South Africa POPI
- Spain Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS)
- TISAX
- UK’s Cloud Security Principles
- ISO/IEC 27001
- ISO/IEC 27017
- ISO/IEC 27018
- SOC 1, 2 and 3
- PCI DSS
Our locations
Auka and our subsidiaries
Norway
Auka A.S.
Tordenskiolds gate 8-10
0160 Oslo
Norway
Croatia
Settle d.o.o.
Boškovićeva 24
HR-10 000
Zagreb
Romania
Auka Next S.R.L.
(under establishment)
Cyprus
Settle Cyprus Ltd.
c/o JCC Payment Systems Ltd
Bulgaria
Settle Bulgaria
12 Dragan Tsankov Suite 18
1421 Sofia
Bulgaria