IBS Journal June 2015


On the move


Clive Bowles has left IT consultancy and Fairmort,


a UK-based developer of specialist data warehousing and migration tools for banks and FIs. Fairmort is one of Sofgen’s partners, with Sofgen using its data migra- tion tool in its core banking software pro- jects. Bowles was with Sofgen for over six years, as principal consultant and head of business development in the UK.


Ian Benn, COO of FIS in the EMEA region, has left the vendor. Benn was with the company since 2007, joining from rival vendor Misys. Prior to that, he had a long spell at Unisys. Meanwhile, Victor Kupcis has joined FIS as business development manager for South-East Europe. He moves from ana- lytics solutions provider, Fobiss, where he spent two years as sales director, Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe. Kupcis’ lengthy experience includes regional sales and business development roles at CR2, 3i Infotech, Infosys, Temenos and Misys.


Mikhail Kryuchkov has been poached by Redcloud Technologies from Diasoft, one of Russia’s largest banking software sup- pliers. Kryuchkov spent over a decade at Diasoft, most recently as international business development director and mem- ber of the management board. He is now executive director, responsible for Eastern Europe and Central Asian markets at Red- cloud, which specialises in mobile banking and cloud technologies.


UK-based payments solutions provider, Vocalink, has appointed a former aviation industry exec, Andrew Williams-Fry, as


link’s newly created regulatory unit and liaise with the UK’s Payment Systems Reg- ulator (PSR). Prior to this, Williams-Fry was chief economist at Gatwick Airport, and before that he was head of regulation at


specialist. Capco, has


recruited Rob Morgan as a partner in the UK. Morgan comes with over 20 years of


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worked for HSBC, JP Morgan and RBS. At Capco, he will focus on banking and pay- ments practices. He will also join a new team at Capco that is being created to manage the larger multi-service deals that Capco will be implementing in conjunc- tion with FIS. Elsewhere, Capco has opened an


It will be headed by recently appoint- ed Capco partners, Bao-Viet Le (oversee- ing wealth management consulting) and Charles Bokman (leading the banking practice). Le is ex-Accenture, whilst Bok- man is ex-PricewaterhouseCoopers.


Marc Mathenz has joined Fiserv as manag- First Data where he was SVP and head


spent over ten years at First Data, in var- ious senior roles in Europe and Asia, and before that he had spent three years at a -


derson Global Investors. Curren-


cy Cloud, has appointed Mitchel Lenson, former group CIO of Deutsche Bank, as a non-executive director. Lenson also sits on the board of Nationwide Building Society as a non-executive director.


Bart Boezeman, ex-director of global brand and marketing strategy at Microsoft (and Nokia before that), has joined Lend- invest


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invest is a UK-based peer-to-peer lender, which claims to be the world’s largest peer-to-peer marketplace for real estate.


Nordea has poached mBank’s MD in charge of marketing and business devel- opment, Michal Panowicz, to help with its digital transformation. Poland-based mBank has gone through an extensive technology and branding overhaul over the last few years, with a major focus on digital banking services. Panowicz’s experience includes sen- ior roles at Microsoft, eBay and the Boston


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is viewed as a strategic market for prepaid cards and e-payments by the vendor. Cur- rie moves from Visa, where he managed the prepaid product suite for Australasia including travel, consumer, commercial and government. Before that, he was with ANZ in Australia and New Zealand. Tuxedo is on an international expan-


sion spree, with recent partnership deals announced in the Middle East and the US.


Carsten Nelk has been named as new CTO of Top Image Systems, a provider of the eFLOW content processing platform. In this role, Nelk will oversee all of the ven- dor’s product management, strategy and R&D teams. He moves from Readsoft, a Sweden-based business process automa- tion specialist, where he was most recently -


cess automation. Nelk was with Readsoft for nearly a decade. Prior to that, he found- ed Ebydos (which was acquired by Read- soft in 2006). He also worked for SAP.


Consulting Group (BCG). He also advised on the launch of another Polish bank, Alior.


Yet another former SAP senior executive has joined Infosys. Yusuf Bashir has been appointed by Infosys to oversee its $500 million start-up fund. The fund will focus on early-stage investments and disruptive technology entities in India, Europe, Asia -


see Infosys’ newly created incubator pro- gramme.


Bashir spent around three and a half


years at SAP as VP of new products (includ- ing those across the HANA portfolio) and business development. Meanwhile, Infosys is readying for the


departure of chairman, KV Kamath, fol- lowing his recent appointment as head of the New Development Bank, a new $100 billion development bank and emergency reserve fund created by the Brics nations.


Tuxedo Money Solutions, a UK-based has onboarded Duncan Currie as region- Based in Melbourne, Currie will spearhead


appointments


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