Welcome today announced that Philippe Bontemps has been appointed Welcome’s EMEA Regional Director. Philippe is based in Paris.
Philippe has over 20 years of experience in the banking, smart card, payment and software solutions businesses. He held various consulting, management and business development positions at Bull Smart Cards & Terminals in Spain and the US, at Genuity (Verizon Communication Group subsidiary) and software providers.
"Philippe was involved in the world’s first nationwide deployment of smart cards by banks in France in the early 1990’s", said Philippe Vinci, Welcome CEO EMEA & AMERICAS. "He is in a good position to participate to the optimisation and enhancement of this payment tool in France and in Europe."
Welcome today announced that Craig Bennett has been appointed CEO of Welcome's Asia-Pacific region
Craig has been involved in selling, implementing and supporting software solutions for the Finance and Banking industry since 1988. For the last eleven years he has been based in the Asia/Pacific region working for Misys PLC and SunGard Date Systems in a number of business development roles.
His clients have included a broad base of major international, regional and domestic banks as well as government and semi-government institutions across the whole of Asia/Pacific.
"We are all very enthusiastic about working with Craig", said Sébastien Guillaud, Welcome’s CEO. "We are sure he and his team will be tremendously successful in developing Welcome’s business in this part of the world."