My Global Payments, B2B, ERP, SaaS & Wider Fintech Journey
Career Biography: My Corporate MA Journey
Headquartered in Ireland, Cashbook was acquired by Clarus Corporation (Nasdaq) in 2001. In 2003, the Cashbook leadership team completed a management buy out/buy back of the original business
Privately held since 1994, GlobalCollect was acquired by Ingenico Group in 2014 and subsequently by Worldline in 2020
Digital River World Payments, a business unit within Digital River (publicly traded, then privately owned by Siris Capital), was acquired by Worldline in 2017
Sage Payment Solutions was divested by Sage Group to GTCR in 2017, rebranded to Paya, went public in 2020 and was then acquired by Nuvei in 2022
Yapstone, a privately held organization since 1999, was acquired by Velo Payments in 2023
Founded in Australia in 2012, Till Payments was acquired by Nuvei in 2023. In April 2024, Nuvei announced it was transitioning from being public to private in a transaction valued at $6.3B
Corporate Leadership Roles: Select Organizations
Headquartered in Ireland, Cashbook is a leading, global intelligent cash management software and B2B payments company. With native integrations into the world’s leading ERP platforms and hundreds of global banks, Cashbook automates key AR, AP, reconciliation and treasury functions for more than 100 Fortune 1,000 clients in 25 countries. The company is privately held
Worldline is the fourth largest payment processing company in the world and the number one merchant acquirer on continental Europe. They support a global omni-channel technology platform in >200 markets, and have been executing on an aggressive acquisition strategy since 2014, acquiring First Data Baltics, SIX Payment Services, Digital River World Payments and Ingenico along the way
Formerly known as Sage Payment Solutions, Paya is a leading provider in integrated omni-channel payment and commerce solutions in North America, processing greater than $40B in payment volume annually. Post divestiture from the Sage Group, it expanded it’s integrated solutions beyond the Sage universe, including Acumatica & Microsoft Dynamics and penetrated deeper into the ISV ecosystem
EBANX is a financial technology company headquartered in Brazil. Founded in 2012, the company supports the regional payment requirements for global enterprise brands, PSPs and SaaS platforms in 29 markets across LATAM, Africa and Asia. In June 2021, Advent International invested $430M in EBANX to fuel future organic and inorganic growth
Established in 2016, Kushki is one of the fasting growing payment technology companies in Latin America, and in 2022 became the first fintech unicorn headquartered in Ecuador. To date, the company has raised in excess of $200M through Series B rounds