Stephen Wilcock

STEPHEN WILCOCK

Chief Technology Officer
Paddle
Enterprise SaaS Fintech
2025 TOP 30 EMEA CTOs 2025

Career History

Paddle is a UK-based payments infrastructure and Merchant of Record (MoR) platform for SaaS, app and digital product companies. Its all-in-one platform handles global payments, subscription billing, tax and compliance, and fraud protection, allowing software companies to sell in over 200 markets without managing local payment rails or regulatory filings. Backed by leading investors such as KKR and FTV Capital, Paddle powers thousands of software companies and processes billions of dollars in transactions annually as it expands across Europe and North America.

Stephen Wilcock was appointed Chief Technology Officer in September 2024, becoming responsible for the engineering function, technology roadmap and global infrastructure needed to support Paddle’s rapid growth.

Prior to Paddle, Wilcock was CTO at Bloom & Wild from January 2023 to May 2024, and before that Group Engineering Director at Cazoo, where he managed multi-site engineering teams of several hundred. He holds a BSc in Mathematics & Computer Science from Durham University.

About Paddle

Founded in 2012, Paddle provides a unified Merchant of Record platform that handles global payments, tax & compliance, refunds, billing, subscriptions and fraud prevention for over 6,000 digital product companies. Today more than 6,000 companies in over 200 markets rely on Paddle to process billions of dollars in transactions each year.

In mid-2025 the company raised $25m in debt financing from CIBC Innovation Banking to support its growth, product development and geographic expansion, bringing total funding raised to about $318m. The company’s estimated revenue was $90.9m in 2024, up from around $76.3m in 2023, reflecting over 40% year-on-year growth.

Headquartered in London, Paddle has over 300 employees with offices across London, Lisbon, Toronto, New York City and Austin.

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