Saturday 17th June 2023 | No. 57
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GoCardless appoints new Chief People Officer and Head of Corporate Development to accelerate growth
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OCARDLESS, A GLOBAL LEADER IN DIRECT BANK PAYMENTS, HAS APPOINTED ALAN CAIRNS AS ITS NEW CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER AND KAMILA MCWILLIAM AS HEAD OF CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT. THE MOVE COMES LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER THE FINTECH’S FIRST ACQUISITION, THE PURCHASE OF OPEN BANKING DATA PROVIDER NORDIGEN, AND SIGNALS ITS STRONG INTENT TO SCALE AND GROW AS IT BUILDS THE WORLD’S BANK PAYMENT NETWORK. Cairns joins GoCardless from iTech Media, where he helped to scale the organisation from 60 to several hundreds of people during his tenure as Chief Operating
Officer. With more than 30 years of experience in operations, people and talent, and having led brands like MoneySuperMarket, MOO and GE through transition and growth, Cairns will focus on building a diverse, inclusive and high-performance culture at GoCardless. Cairns is also a passionate and active member of the startup community, acting as a mentor for Ambitious Ladies in Tech and a fellow of London COO Roundtable, in addition to sharing advice on people and talent development for SeedCamp’s Expert Collective. McWilliam comes to GoCardless from digital payments infrastructure provider PPRO, where she was VP, Head of Corporate...
STARLING SIGNS UP SOUTHAMPTON FC WOMEN FOR THREE MORE YEARS
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TARLING BANK HAS SIGNED A THREEYEAR DEAL AS OFFICIAL PRINCIPAL PARTNER OF SOUTHAMPTON FC WOMEN. THE BANK WILL CONTINUE AS FRONT OF SHIRT SPONSOR FOR THE TEAM AFTER INITIALLY PARTNERING FOR THE 2022-2023 SEASON, WHEN
The three year deal follows a number of initiatives launched by Starling and the Saints to create more grassroots football oppor-
tunities for women and girls. The bank, which has created 500 jobs at its Southampton base, launched the Coaches of Tomorrow programme to train up 20 women from the region into FA accredited coaches. Starling also funded a free ticket giveaway to a Conti Cup match in 2022, resulting in a record num-
ber of ticket sales for the women’s team at St Mary’s Stadium against Tottenham Hotspur Women. Charlie Boss, Chief Commercial Officer at Southampton FC said: “Our club is extremely proud of everything our women’s...
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