Remitly Bolsters Executive Leadership Team with New Chief Technology Officer
February 28 2022 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Company welcomes veteran Google and Microsoft
software engineering executive Ankur Sinha to help scale
business
Remitly Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: RELY) (“Remitly”), a leading
digital financial services provider for immigrants and their
families, today announced the appointment of Ankur Sinha as its new
Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Sinha will be responsible
for leading Remitly’s technology strategy and teams with a focus on
optimization of current platforms as well as ongoing
innovation.
Sinha brings more than 20 years of world-class technology and
leadership experience to Remitly, having worked on high-scale,
high-performance products and transformative technologies in senior
engineering and technology leadership roles at Google and
Microsoft. He has a proven track record of successfully scaling
technology and is passionate about developing teams and
leaders.
“We have a bold strategy for Remitly’s business, and we have an
enormous opportunity ahead of us. Ankur’s addition to our team as
Chief Technology Officer will enable us to execute on that strategy
and reinforce our commitment to our customers,” said Matt
Oppenheimer, CEO at Remitly. “Ankur has a shared passion for
Remitly’s vision, customers and people, and he embodies our
company’s cultural values. His extensive experience and cultural
alignment will help us architect systems that will drive product
velocity, quality, availability and security.”
“Remitly is a company that is not only hyper-focused on growth
but also on impacting the lives of its customers,” said Sinha. “I’m
honored to join the company as CTO and work alongside the team to
continue transforming the lives of immigrants around the world. I
have the exciting opportunity to build on Remily’s robust
technological foundation and help usher the company through the
next phase of its journey in a significant way.”
Current Chief Technology Officer Karim Meghji will transition
into an executive advisory role at the end of February. The company
thanks Karim for his years of service and empathetic leadership as
they welcome Ankur into his new role.
About Remitly
Remitly is a leading digital financial services provider for
immigrants and their families in over 135 countries around the
world. Remitly helps immigrants send money home in a safe,
reliable and transparent manner via its digitally-native,
cross-border remittance app, which eliminates the long wait times,
complexities and fees typical of traditional remittance processes.
Since its founding in 2011, Remitly has worked to transform the
lives of its customers by continuously innovating to solve key pain
points and broaden its suite of financial services products to
better serve immigrants across the globe. Remitly is headquartered
in Seattle and has offices around the world, including London,
Kraków, Manila and Managua. For more information, visit
Remitly.com.
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