Tom Schapira

CEO & Founder Imagine Capital Group

Tom Schapira is Founder and CEO of Imagine Capital Group, a merchant bank focused on investing, cross-border M&A, and growth capital for fintech, payments, wealthtech, insurance, and financial services businesses. 

  

He works with fintech scale-ups, founders, boards, and investors on M&A, strategic growth capital, and strategic investment, helping companies sharpen their positioning, articulate a credible equity story, and engage the right sponsors and counterparties across Europe, the UK, and North America through its investment banking partnership with Wellesley Hills Financial. 

  

Tom has spent more than two decades advising businesses across financial services and fintech, with earlier roles at FIS, SunGard, A.T. Kearney, and Accenture. His background combines investment banking, strategic advisory, and operating experience, particularly where growth, capital, and strategic transactions intersect. 

  

He speaks regularly on fintech scaling, valuation, M&A, and growth capital, with a practical focus on how ambitious companies prepare for institutional capital and strategic transactions.