Laurence Cooke

Co-Founder & CEO

Laurence is the Co-Founder & CEO at nanoPay. He is the former COO of Bell Mobility and Bell Distribution Inc. and the former VP Wireless for Shaw Communications Inc. Prior to this he was at Accenture in the UK, in the London Strategy Practice focused on High Tech and Telecommunications.Laurence also co-founded three businesses in the mobile space, two of which were VC-funded: Xtempus (wireless data platform before the launch of GPRS) which was sold to Cable & Wireless Plc and Melodeo (Mobile Music Service) which was sold to HP.Laurence holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the London Business School, and a BSc degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He also studied at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.