Ingenico Group adopts a customer-centric organization to support its global omnichannel acceptance leadership - Seite 2

• Patrice Le Marre is appointed EVP, Banks & Acquirers Business Unit. He will return from Singapore where he has spent the last 5 years leading and tremendously growing the APAC & China region. Jose Luis Arias, EVP Latin America, John Tait, SVP APAC, and Luciano Cavazzana, SVP EMEA, will lead the commercial operations in their respective regions. 

Jennifer Miles will join Ingenico as EVP, North America during the 2^nd half of July 2017 once she has honored her contractual obligations to her former employer. With over 20 years of experience in the payment and financial services industry, Jennifer is one of the most renowned executives in the payment space. She started her career with Wachovia Bank, and spent the last 16 years with Verifone in a number of global business lines and regional leadership and executive capacities.  With a nearly 5-fold growth of revenues in the USA over the past 5 years and over 80% market share in terminals in Canada, Ingenico has demonstrated that it is uniquely positioned to serve North American bankcard and retail customers, leveraging both Business Units' products as well as ROAM, its Boston-based mobile payment solution. Jennifer's unmatched knowledge of the complex US market will be of tremendous value as Ingenico pursues its expansion in this region. As Oscar Bello leaves the company, we want to thank him for his numerous achievements during his 9-year tenure with Ingenico, essentially spent leading and growing our Latin America business.

Corporate Functions: structure and Executive Committee members

Acquisitions Integration Management: acquisitions form an integral part of Ingenico's growth agenda. Ensuring their fast and efficient integration into the company is essential to the realization of their contribution to Ingenico's strategic and long term objectives. Jacques Guérin is appointed EVP, Acquisitions Integration Management. This role will be effective in July, as Jacques will initially focus on leading North America until Jennifer Miles joins the Group.

All other Corporate Functions are unchanged.

Michel Léger, as EVP Innovation, Nathalie Lomon, as EVP Finance & Legal, and Martine Birot, as EVP Human Resources & Communications, complete the Executive Committee membership.

"I am tremendously proud of our ability to develop leaders from within and attract highly talented executives from the industry who want be to part of our strategic growth agenda", commented Philippe Lazare, Ingenico Group Chairman & CEO. "This new operating model supports perfectly our ambitions to become the indisputable global leader in omnichannel payment acceptance. Customer-centric BUs that integrate offer management, delivery and sales will help us deliver the most relevant, innovative and cost effective products & solutions to our customers in a timely fashion, whilst securing our profitability."