21 July 2021

SaaScada appoints Paul Payne as Chief Technology Officer

22nd July 2021, London. SaaScada, the leading new core banking platform and services provider, today announced that Paul Payne joined as Chief Technology Officer. Paul will oversee the execution of SaaScada’s technology roadmap and the implementation of its cloud native core banking platform across a growing number of established institutions and challengers within the retail banking sector.

Educated to MBA level, with 20 years software development experience and a track record building and leading engineering and operations teams across start-ups, SMEs and FTSE100 companies, Paul brings strong cloud platform engineering and delivery expertise to the executive team. Paul joins SaaScada from hospitality PaaS provider Iris Software Systems Ltd, where he held a combined CTO/COO role responsible for product, engineering, project delivery and support functions. Prior to Iris, Paul held the position of Digital Portfolio Delivery Manager at Direct Line Group, and Head of Development at LexisNexis.

Nelson Wootton, Chief Executive Officer, SaaScada said ‘Over the last 2 years SaaScada has been on a growth path as we see increasing demand for intelligent banking platforms and product innovation in both challenger and established financial institutions. I am delighted to welcome Paul to the team; he brings a wealth of experience gained in the B2B SaaS and PaaS solutions sector to SaaScada. Paul will be instrumental in achieving our plan to expand and bring solutions that anticipate and truly meet the changing needs of customers to the wider retail banking sector.

Paul Payne, Chief Technology Officer, said: ‘I am thrilled to join SaaScada at such an exciting time for the business. Deepening SaaScada’s configuration capabilities to enable rapid deployment of highly sophisticated savings and lending products is key to the next stage of our evolution and I look forward to working with the team to facilitate the level of innovation required by such a rapidly evolving market.’

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Leonie Alsop

Non-Executive Marketing Director

Leonie has 25 years’ experience in all aspects of marketing strategy, programmes and brand for financial services and financial technology firms. Previously Leonie was the Chief Marketing officer for Lombard Risk, the collateral management and regulatory reporting solutions provider, and before that she held CMO roles at trading, treasury and risk management solution providers OpenLink and Wall Street Systems (both now acquired by ION Trading). Leonie also led Global Marketing Operations for Temenos, the global provider of banking software.

Leonie is CIM / CAM qualified. She has a focus on helping companies to grow through increased profile, winning market share and delivering customer satisfaction.