Vetted. Trusted. On the journey with you.
The products, and the people behind them.
Every vendor pitches you a demo. Most of it is noise. I spent ten years working with C-levels in global fintech, separating the tools that move revenue from the ones that just look busy, and I vet the people behind every product as hard as the product itself: the founders, the history, how they show up when something breaks at 3am. Only what survives earns a place on the shelf. Pick wrong and you burn budget, months, and credibility with your board. Pick from my Top Fintech Vendors and you don't.
My network took ten years of showing up and delivering to build: founders, CEOs and the people who sign. One bad recommendation would burn it overnight. That's why my shelf is short. Real ROI, real integrity, real service, or it doesn't make the cut. The list is short because my name is on every line of it.
I sat through the demos. I pulled apart the pricing line by line. I tested every claim against operators who'd know, and I vetted the people as hard as the products: who built it, how long they've carried it, how they show up when it breaks. Almost everything got rejected. What survived are the Top Fintech Vendors, and when I bring one of them to your table, my reputation arrives with it.
That's the entire business model.
Every filled seat earns its place the same way: it grows revenue, protects revenue, or frees the capacity to chase it. I compounded ~15% growth for nine straight years, so I know exactly what moves a P&L and what just looks busy. Nobody buys a seat on this list. Products earn it, and the people behind them earn it too, because I've known most of them for a decade. That's what a recommendation from this list is worth.
Every name on this shelf has already survived my vetting. The only question left is which one goes to work for your business.
Book DiagnosticThe Business Brain, AI Transformation and Executive AI Agents don't care what you sell. They care that you have revenue, ambition, and a constraint you haven't found yet. If your board meetings run on opinion instead of clarity, that's the problem I solve.
You don't need a board mandate to move. Executive AI Agents are hired one seat at a time: a CEO with an advisor that pressure-tests every call, a marketing lead with an SEO brain that outthinks the agency. If you carry the number personally, this one is yours.
This is home. I know your P&L, your sales floor, your churn curve and your risk book, because I spent ten years building growth for the companies that supply you. Engagement, risk, infrastructure, plugins: most of this list was built for exactly this floor.
You tell me where it actually hurts: growth, conversion, operations, clarity. I tell you straight, on the same call, whether I have your answer. If I don't, I say so on the spot, and you've still spent 30 minutes with someone who knows your market cold. No follow-up email trying to keep the deal alive.
A short, sharp audit of how you handle the problem today, not a sales deck dressed up as discovery. You keep the findings whether we go further or not. I'd rather lose the deal than recommend into the dark, because a bad recommendation costs me more than it costs you.
Senior people, not sales reps. Terms that make sense because I've negotiated both sides of this exact table. And I don't disappear after signature: I'm in the demo with you, an insider's eye across the legal process, deep in the onboarding until it runs, and still on the journey with you years later.
30 minutes. No deck, no pitch. If I can't help, I'll tell you inside the first 10.
Book DiagnosticI'm Bazil De Bruyn. Baz, to an industry that's shaken my hand for a decade. For nearly ten years I was the commercial engine at Autochartist: roughly 15% revenue growth, every single year, nine years straight, trusted directly by ownership with no layers in between. That growth played a direct role in the company's acquisition by oneZero Financial Systems, a billion-dollar fintech and the largest technology provider in the space, where I served as Director of Business Development.
Since then: SVP of Partner Solutions in stablecoin payments, and a career spent evaluating platforms, pricing and vendor claims for a living. I've sat close enough to legal, finance, marketing, product and growth, not as a spectator but as the one making the pieces fit, to know when a pitch will survive contact and a product will thrive with your actual business, and when it's just a good deck.
Every deal across that decade was won the same way: diagnose first, recommend second, stay in the room after signature. Elevate Edge is that judgment, working for you.
Enterprise value sales in B2B fintech is challenging: long cycles, technical buyers, multi-year contracts and senior stakeholders across the globe. Bazil thrives in exactly that environment. He took the time to genuinely understand what a prospective client was trying to solve, and then built a compelling case around their specific context. He had a regular cadence of closing large deals.
His consistency was key in helping maintain a 15% annual growth rate in a mature, highly competitive market. Highly capable of mapping out multi-phase enterprise deals and engaging professionally with senior decision-makers, always backed by thorough preparation.
The most tenacious sales person you'll ever meet. Never takes no for an answer. Process driven, meticulous.
Working with Bazil across both Autochartist and oneZero Financial Systems was one of the more genuinely positive professional relationships I have experienced in this industry. I was conducting a rigorous, research-driven evaluation of competing platforms at the time, and Bazil supported that process with exceptional responsiveness, product knowledge, and a level of personal investment that is rare in a vendor relationship. He is someone who genuinely invests in the people he works with, and that makes all the difference.
In a world where people often go quiet after the contract is signed, Bazil was the opposite. Proactive, attentive, and genuinely invested in making sure the solutions we had implemented were delivering real value. He set the bar for what great client relationship management looks like.
Having worked with Bazil for almost a decade in various roles, I found him an excellent collaborator. He is persuasive, communicative, competent and thorough, and of impeccable character. In other words, what a top executive should be. I would have no hesitation in recommending him to anyone.
Elevate Edge went public in October 2026. This is the coverage, in the industry's words, not mine. Media: every announcement lives in the newsroom, link straight to it.
Elevate EdgeElevate Edge has launched as a strategic technology and services advisory firm for online brokerages, proprietary trading firms and banks. The firm helps financial businesses identify where technology, external providers and commercial services are draining capital, slowing growth or creating operational risk. It then connects them with vetted providers that address those specific problems.
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FX News GroupFNG has learned that former Autochartist and oneZero executive Bazil De Bruyn has launched Elevate Edge as a strategic technology and services advisory firm for online brokerages, prop firms and banks. Based in Limassol, the firm helps financial businesses identify where technology, external providers and commercial services are draining capital, slowing growth or creating operational risk.
Read the article →Former Autochartist and oneZero Financial Systems executive Bazil De Bruyn has launched Elevate Edge, a Limassol-based strategic technology and services advisory firm serving online brokerages, proprietary trading firms, and banks. Rather than recommending software upfront, the firm begins with a business diagnostic before connecting clients with vetted providers aligned with their commercial and operational needs.
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FinextraElevate Edge starts with a business diagnostic and stays involved through vendor selection, commercial agreements, onboarding and post-deployment ROI review. Gartner found that only 48% of enterprise digital initiatives meet or exceed their intended business outcomes.
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Finance MagnatesBazil De Bruyn, a former executive at oneZero Financial Systems, has launched an advisory business that helps brokers and proprietary trading firms choose technology vendors. Elevate Edge, based in Limassol, Cyprus, announced the launch today and said it also works with banks.
Read the article →Elevate Edge says each engagement opens with a review of a client's revenue leakage, operational bottlenecks and fragmented systems. Only after that does it introduce vendors from its own portfolio, screened on leadership track record, product differentiation and client retention.
Read the article →Finance Magnates RUFormer oneZero Financial Systems business development director Bazil De Bruyn has founded Elevate Edge, a company that helps brokers, banks and prop trading firms choose technology vendors. The Limassol company analyses the client's business, selects vendors and supports the rollout of the chosen solutions. (Translated from Russian.)
Read the article →What I am seeing across brokers, prop firms and the vendors that serve them. Posted on LinkedIn, streamed here.
New in the fintech space: Elevate Edge, launched by Bazil De Bruyn in Limassol.
The firm advises brokerages, prop firms and banks on which tech and providers are actually worth paying for, and stays involved after the contract is signed.
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Type your brokerage name into ChatGPT. That answer is now the first impression for traders, IBs, regulators and liquidity providers.
AI search now ranks 1 earned mention in Reuters, Bloomberg or the BBC above all syndicated releases combined. The mistake was buying presence instead of authority.
Real authority takes a focused financial media strategy: earned placements, analysts on Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters and Al Arabiya, presence in Dubai and London.
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Most B2B solution initiatives fail for one simple reason: they were bought on a demo, not reality.
Only 48% of digital initiatives deliver the outcomes they were bought for (Gartner).
Poor contract management erodes nearly 9% of annual revenue value. $1 in every $5 spent on software is wasted. Employees lose 7 hours every week to fragmented systems.
Growth ends up funding the vendor, instead of the vendor driving growth. Elevate Edge exists to fix that.
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Gartner puts vendor failure at 50%+. That's before anyone gets to the part where it costs you revenue, hours, or a client walking.
Swipe through for what actually happens after the contract is signed.
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Nearly a decade at Autochartist/oneZero Financial Systems: ~15% revenue growth YoY. That growth played a direct part in the Autochartist acquisition by oneZero, a $1B fintech and the largest technology provider in the space.
Every deal across that decade was won the same way: diagnose first, recommend second, stay in the room after signature.
Elevate Edge is that judgment, working directly for the market.
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Thank you Sonata Naujokaitė and expo-consulting for an incredible event. Ayia Napa is on the annual event map.
Finance Beach Mixer: the video is out, for those who want to re-live Friday for a few minutes.
Beach Mixer by expo-consulting. Full day on the beach at Agia Napa, a lovely meal, and the people in the room made it easy to walk away with real connections, not just business cards.
If expo-consulting has another event on the calendar, go. Sonata has a gift for building rooms where people actually connect.
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4 packed days, incredible side events, and more meaningful conversations than I can count.
The real value of events like this isn't the venue. It's the conversations. Founders, CEOs and C-suite leaders across some of the most exciting companies in the space.
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If one of them solves it, you'll know exactly how, and I'll be beside you from first demo through onboarding and beyond. If none of them do, I'll tell you that too. This isn't a pitch, it's a door. Walk through it once and you'll know within 30 minutes whether I'm worth keeping in the room.
Vetted. Trusted. On the journey with you.
