Rapyd Expands Management Team to Drive Growth in FinTech-as-a-Service Market
Company Hires New Chief Product Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Operations
TEL AVIV, Israel and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Rapyd, a global FinTech-as-a-Service platform that enables any payment method or cash to support local and cross-border e-commerce, today announced that it has appointed Helcio Nobre to Chief Product Officer, Marc Winitz to Chief Marketing, and Eran Nachshon to Vice President of Operations. These experienced new hires will allow Rapyd to scale and penetrate the FinTech market by driving high-impact business outcomes.
Nobre will be responsible for the evolution of Rapyd's product portfolio and the expansion of these solutions into new markets and territories. He brings more than 15 years of global e-Commerce and product experience. Prior to joining Rapyd, Nobre was Senior Vice President of e-Commerce and mobile payment products at Visa where he drove Visa Token Services and Visa Checkout, a product with more than 30 million consumer accounts.
"I'm very excited to lead product management at Rapyd," said Nobre. "We are doing something truly unheard of in the industry by re-thinking smarter routes to market and creating new ways to scale hyper-local payments for global commerce - it's a great time to be leading the product team for Rapyd's Fintech-as-a-Service approach."
Previously, Winitz was CMO at i2C Inc., a software-as-a-service payment solution provider where he ran global marketing operations and worked with some of the world's largest banking and FinTech brands, and SVP of Marketing at Monitise Americas, a mobile money platform. Winitz will be responsible for driving worldwide marketing to gain market traction and awareness for the company.
Nachshon will be in charge of global operations and risk management for Rapyd. Prior to joining the Rapyd team, Nachshon was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank and the chief operating officer at BondIT, another FinTech startup.
"Rapyd is flipping the current global FinTech and e-commerce approach on its head," said Arik Shtilman, Chief Executive Officer. "No provider is achieving what Rapyd can do for merchants, on-demand/gig economy platforms or FinTech businesses worldwide and we're thrilled to have Helcio, Marc and Eran join our team to advance our mission."
Rapyd recently announced a $40 million Series B round in February to expand the company's footprint globally. For more about Rapyd and its solutions, please visit: www.rapyd.net
About Rapyd
Rapyd provides a FinTech-as-a-service platform that helps businesses create, launch, augment, and scale any FinTech application globally. Rapyd enables hyper-local payments for global commerce allowing enterprises and their customers to pay and be paid however they choose. The Rapyd platform supports any payment method for in-country or cross-border commerce use cases. Businesses can seamlessly integrate payment methods like bank transfers, e-wallets, or cash into any digital application from a single API and scale them globally across multiple payments networks. Rapyd operates the world's largest local payments network that connects to over 2B+ consumers transacting around the corner and across the globe.
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