After six years at the helm, co-founder and CEO Roland Folz is waving goodbye to Solaris next year. He will leave the company on April 30, 2023, to be succeeded by Carsten Höltkemeyer, former chairman of the supervisory board of lending platform auxmoney.
The position of Chief Growth Officer (CGO) was created at the Austrian paytech ready2order (website) in 2022 to establish intensely data-driven growth with complete management responsibility. The company appointed the former Red Bull and Bwin manager Arnold Blüml (LinkedIn) as its CGO.
Following its 45 million funding round in August, Berlin-based fintech Topi is adding two female developers to its management team. Bianca Garcia Gil and Nicky Wrightson join the fintech from the BBC and Financial Times media houses, respectively.
United Fintech has appointed Chris Codo as senior relationship manager of the fintech, which bills itself as a one-stop store for banks, hedge funds and asset managers founded by FX industry giant Christian Frahm, co-founder of CFH Clearing.
Following substantial funding round, investment company and fintech platform Stableton has expanded its top management team threefold. It promoted Roman Loosli (newly Chief Technology Officer), Christian Schmid (Head of Investments), and Freddie Cunningham (recently Chief Commercial Officer) to the company's senior management team, the company announced Thursday.
NYSE-listed payment processor Paysafe Ltd announced that it appointed Alex Gersh (LinkedIn) as its new CFO. Gersh joins the company on October 3, 2022, and will report to Paysafe CEO Bruce Lowthers. The new payment executive joins Paysafe from Nasdaq-listed Sportradar, a global sports technology company. He has a record of over 25 years in the financial services segment and previously held CFO positions in public and private organizations. Gersh replaces former CFO Izzy Dawood, who leaves the company later in the year.
Paytech company Abrantix has appointed former chief market officer of French payments giant Worldline, Roger Niederer, as its new CEO. According to a statement, Niederer brings global expertise in fintech and merchant services, M&A and internationalization experience, and a worldwide network. He replaces founder Daniel Eckstein, who will remain with the company.
German fund company DWS has appointed André Bajorat (LinkedIn) as head of the new Digital Strategy, Products and Solutions division. Bajorat is to take over the department on September 1. He has worked at Deutsche Bank since 2020 as head of the strategy at the corporate bank. Previously, he was the founder and chief executive of fintech Figo and worked at Giropay, among others.
The fund and financial data provider Mountain-View Data, which works not only with ESG data but also with data on cryptocurrencies is the new entrepreneurial home of former Telecom and Austrian Agriculture Minister Elisabeth Koestinger. The latter left politics in May 2022 as one of the closest confidants of former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
