The team

People who have done the job — not just advised on it.

Every advisor at Lazuli Tech Consulting has held senior engineering leadership roles in real companies, made real decisions under real pressure. We bring that experience — not theory — to every engagement.

Principal advisor
Meet the team

Small by design. You work directly with the people named on this page.

Anna Almén
Founder & Principal Advisor
"The most important thing I can do is tell you the truth about your system — and help you understand what to do about it."

Anna founded Lazuli Tech Consulting in 2025 after 20+ years in engineering leadership roles across major companies, including a high-growth fintech scaleup. Her career is defined by the intersection of engineering excellence and business impact—building systems that scale, teams that perform, and organizations capable of sustaining both. She brings a proven track record in platform modernization, cost optimization, and scaling through acquisitions.

Her most formative experience comes from working within private-equity–backed companies such as Infront and Bambora—the latter a startup later acquired by the 10,000+ employee listed company Ingenico. During this period, she played a key role in advancing service-oriented architecture and strengthening cross-team collaboration. In recognition of her contributions, she received the Ingenico Leadership Award in 2021. During this time, she successfully led up to 300+ global FTEs.

She is known for clear communication, strategic thinking, and building empowered, high-performing teams.

Anna works with a maximum of three clients at any one time. This is a deliberate constraint: the level of advisory that truly moves the needle requires genuine availability—not just a calendar slot every two weeks.

Areas of expertise
Distributed systems Engineering org design Cloud architecture (AWS) M&A due diligence Platform migrations Technical hiring FinTech compliance
Past roles
CTO - Infront Technologies2022 – 2026 · Acquired by PE fir 
CTO eCommerce — Worldline/Ingenico2017 – 2022 · Payments & Identity
Engineering Manager — Bambora2016 – 2017
Senior Consultant - AddQ2016 – 2017
Coverage
Where I go deep

Backed by 25+ years of leading technology, product, and engineering organisations across financial markets, payments, and wealthtech.

Leadership
Executive Technology Leadership

20+ years in C-level and senior leadership roles (CTO, CEO), building high-performing organisations, driving transformation, and leading 200–300+ global engineering teams across Europe, the US, Canada, and India.

Financial Markets
Trading, Exchanges & Clearing

Deep domain knowledge from NASDAQ/OMX, ORC and Infront: trading platforms, clearing & settlement, front/middle/back office systems, quality-critical environments, and large-scale system migrations.

Payments
Acquiring, eCommerce & Merchant Services

Senior leadership roles at Bambora, Ingenico, and Worldline. Led global eCommerce tech (300 FTEs), drove shared-service architectures, and built cloud-native, PCI-compliant acquiring and payment solutions.

Architecture
Cloud & Modern Platform Design

Led cloud transformation programmes, moving monoliths to microservices and serverless architectures. Strong grounding in AWS, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and secure development practices.

Transformation
Organisational & Cultural Change

Experience through PE acquisitions, integrations, restructuring, and hyper-growth. Skilled at aligning teams, embedding agile & DevOps ways of working, and shaping strong engineering cultures.

Product & Delivery
Product Strategy & Execution

From product management at OMX to defining Bambora Flow and leading multimarket platforms, blending customer insight, technical feasibility, and commercial outcomes into coherent product roadmaps.

Security & Compliance
Regulatory & Quality Frameworks

PCI-DSS, secure development processes, quality assurance frameworks, and test strategy for critical financial systems. Built and scaled test organisations and quality cultures across global teams.

M&A
Technical Due Diligence & Integration

Active contributor in acquisition processes (Bambora → Ingenico → Worldline, Infront → Inflexion). Responsible for integration planning, technology consolidation, and organisational alignment.

Our commitment
What you can always expect

These are not aspirations. They are the minimum standard we hold every engagement to.

Direct access, always

You have a direct line to your named advisor at all times. No account managers, no routing through a team inbox.

Honest assessments

We will not soften findings to protect a commercial relationship. If something is a serious problem, you'll hear it clearly.

Capped capacity

Each advisor takes a maximum of three concurrent engagements. If we're at capacity, we'll tell you and suggest a timeline.

Full knowledge transfer

Every engagement ends with the work documented and the team briefed. We don't create dependency — we eliminate it.

Ready to work together?

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