LONDON, May 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Earthport, the
global payments specialist, is pleased to announce the appointment
of Amanda Mesler as Chief Executive
Officer with effect from 1st July 2018. Amanda will
join the Board as an Executive Director once the Regulatory
Approvals have been received.
Amanda replaces Phil Hickman who
had been serving as interim CEO, who will resume his previous role
as non-Executive Chairman of Earthport. In conjunction with this
appointment, Hank Uberoi will step
down as Executive Chairman of Earthport. He will remain on the
Board as a Non-Executive Director and Senior Advisor to the CEO and
board.
Amanda has over 25 years of experience at senior management and
board level for large international companies as well as smaller,
high growth enterprises. Currently, Amanda is General Manager at
Microsoft, where she recently managed the Enterprise Business in
Central and Eastern Europe across thirty-three countries.
Amanda will be stepping down from this role in June 2018. Prior to this, Amanda was the Chief
Operating Officer of Misys, a private equity backed financial
services software company with operations in over 120
countries.
Hank Uberoi, Executive
Chairman of Earthport, said: "We are delighted to
have such a talented and experienced global technology leader as
Amanda join us to guide Earthport in the next stage of its growth.
Everyone on the management team and board is excited to welcome her
as CEO. I would also like to extend my thanks to Phil for
running the company during this interim period and welcome him back
into the chairman role. Phil and I very much look forward to
supporting Amanda in her leadership of the firm."
Amanda Mesler, commented on
her appointment: "I am thrilled to accept this opportunity
to become Earthport's CEO. The scale of the opportunity at
Earthport is substantial and I am confident that my experience,
working for a wide variety of businesses within the technology and
fintech sectors, will help the Company reach its true potential as
a leading global payments network."
From 2007 to 2012 Amanda was on the Executive Committee and
Operating Board of Logica plc, a FTSE 250 business with £4 billion
revenues. From 2010 to 2012 she served as Logica's CEO of Global
Business Consulting, managing 4,000 employees and a $750m P&L with the remit of growing business
led technology services. From 2007 to 2012 she served as Logica's
CEO of North America, successfully
transforming an unprofitable software business into a high margin
solutions business. Clients at Logica included some of the largest
enterprises in the world within the Financial Services,
Telecommunications and other industries.
Prior to this Amanda worked at Electronic Data Services where
she led a $1 billion global business. Amanda also has
extensive experience in compliance, having worked at KPMG from 1994
to 1999 where, in 2000, she created the Oil and Gas practice which
become the fastest growing practice within KPMG.
Amanda's board experience includes serving as a Non-Executive
Director on the Audit and Risk, Remuneration, and Nominations
Committees at Pace plc, a former FTSE 250 provider of technology
solutions to the PayTV and Broadband industries. She is currently a
Non-Executive Director of Ensygnia Limited, a UK based
technology company, as well as a Non-Executive director at National
Grid plc, a FTSE 100 company. In addition, Amanda plays an active
and longstanding role in women's rights advocacy and has engaged in
significant work in this arena.
About Earthport:
Earthport provides cross-border
payment services to banks and businesses. Through a single
relationship with Earthport, clients can seamlessly manage payments
to almost any bank account in the world, reducing costs and
complexity to meet their customers' evolving expectations of price,
speed and transparency.
Earthport offers clients access to global payment capability in
200+ countries and territories, with local ACH options in 65+
countries and an evolving suite of currencies and settlement
options.
Earthport continues to invest in the establishment of in-country
bank partnerships across the world, bringing together its deep
market and regulatory expertise in order to maintain compliant and
commercially competitive services.
The result - a global payments network accessed via a single
relationship, delivering significant cost and operating
efficiencies for banks and businesses servicing high volumes of
lower value payments.
Headquartered in London with
regional offices in New York,
Dubai, Miami and Singapore, Earthport is a public company,
traded on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: EPO).
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