WaveCrest Strengthens Executive Team With Three Senior Hires

CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, and GIBRALTAR, September 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

WaveCrest, a digital payment solutions provider for global corporations and governments, today announces the appointment of three senior executives: Aaron Carpenter, Chief Legal and Risk Officer; Leigh AuCoin, Chief HR Officer; and Doug Lawson, Chief Customer Officer.

WaveCrest offers a complete suite of global cutting-edge digital payments solutions, based on a bank-grade, highly-configurable payments platform tailored to customers local preferences and location-based rules.

This year the company has invested across every department and every office location as the business continues to grow and expand worldwide. The three recruits are:

Aaron Carpenter - prior to joining as Chief Legal and Risk Officer, Aaron was a Director at Ramparts European Law Firm where he provided external legal counsel to a number of companies in the online gaming and payments industries, including WaveCrest, and, as part of his role, he has advised the firm since 2015 on a number of legal, regulatory, fundraising and other corporate matters. Prior to Ramparts, Aaron was Head of Legal Services at Gocompare.com.

Aaron will be responsible for all legal and compliance matters, as well as leading a new internal team, Partner Assurance, which will be responsible for ensuring that the firm's business partners remain compliant with all policies set by WaveCrest and by their external stakeholders. 

Leigh AuCoin - joins from Cambridge Global Payments where she was responsible for HR and implemented improved processes and automation across five global locations. Before that, she worked for JLL, a financial and professional services firm, where she not only built and ran the core HR function but also oversaw a doubling of the company's headcount that included 250 hires in a single three month period.

Leigh will be responsible for WaveCrest's global HR function and will lead their people strategy through the next phase of growth.

Doug Lawson - WaveCrest's new Chief Customer Officer, joins from PayPal where he held various roles over eight years including Senior Director-Desktop Products & Operations; Director-Voice of Customer; and Director-Program Management, Global Products. Doug's contributions helped PayPal scale its global operations, support and product teams as the company grew to the $70 billion online payments leader that it is today.

Prior to PayPal, Doug was Director of Product & Program Management at Netflix and held various product and technology leadership roles at Capital One Financial Services. At WaveCrest he will help to develop and scale WaveCrest's teams and processes across multiple customer touchpoints, including sales, marketing, account management, delivery, partner services and cardholder support.

Brent Almeida, CEO of WaveCrest, said: "WaveCrest continues to expand the scope of our business and capabilities in many ways - by adding new products, new currencies, new partners, new geographies and new verticals. But the most important way that we grow as a business is by recruiting the best payments talent in the market.

"All three appointments bring with them a unique set of skills and expertise that will bolster and strengthen WaveCrest's executive team as the business embarks upon the next phase of its growth globally."

About WaveCrest 

WaveCrest is a licensed and regulated e-money issuer, offering a one-stop shop for the entire digital payment solution with the unique combination of technology, issuing and market expertise. Founded in 2008, it has an international team with unparalleled payments and technology experience.

Headquartered in Gibraltar with offices in the USA and India, WaveCrest offers a complete suite of global cutting-edge digital payments solutions, based on its world-class, bank-grade, highly-configurable payments platform tailored to customers local preferences and location-based rules. WaveCrest is a principal issuing member with both MasterCard Europe and Visa International.

SOURCE WaveCrest