Anthony Cashel

Chief Operating Officer PayByPhone

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Anthony Cashel is Chief Operating Officer of PayByPhone, the mobile parking payments company. He became its first COO on 1 January 2025, when the company split its commercial and operational functions. He is responsible globally for marketing, implementations, technical operations, client and customer support and partnerships, sits on the management board and reports to CEO Jonny Combe. He has been with PayByPhone since 2017, first as Managing Director of the UK business and then as Chief Client Officer. He also represents the company on the board of the UK’s National Parking Platform.

Career Highlights

• First Chief Operating Officer of PayByPhone, effective 1 January 2025, with global responsibility for marketing, implementations, technical operations, client and customer support, and partnerships.
• Chief Client Officer and a member of the management board from 1 February 2023, after serving as Interim Chief Client Officer from September 2022.
• Previously Managing Director of PayByPhone’s UK business, having joined the company in 2017.
• Joined the Board of Directors of the National Parking Platform, the UK scheme delivered by an industry consortium including PayByPhone.
• Director of PayByPhone Limited, the UK operating company (Companies House).

Professional Journey

Cashel joined PayByPhone in 2017 and ran its UK business as Managing Director. The company said at the time that the job drew on his experience across sales, marketing and operations. In September 2022 he stepped up as Interim Chief Client Officer, and on 1 February 2023 the appointment was made permanent and he joined the management board. At that point PayByPhone described itself as the global leader in mobile parking payments and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Financial Services, working in nearly 1,400 cities.

In December 2024 PayByPhone announced a restructuring that separated its commercial and operational functions. Chief Executive Jonny Combe took direct charge of the commercial business, run through three regional managing directors, and Cashel was named to the newly created post of Chief Operating Officer from 1 January 2025. “I am delighted to be taking on this newly created role,” he said, “and am already looking at how we can optimize our operational excellence.”

In 2025 he also joined the Board of Directors of the National Parking Platform, which lets drivers pay for parking in participating car parks through the app they prefer. It is delivered by a consortium of PayByPhone, RingGo and JustPark led by the British Parking Association. Cashel said the platform was “designed to create a competitive, multi-vendor parking environment” and that as a director he would make sure it had “the governance needed to support a fair and sustainable system”.

Education

No education record was found in a first-party source.