Last checked at 4 Feb 2016 07:00
4 February 2016
VIPERA PLC
("Vipera" or the "Company")
Board change
Vipera (AIM:VIP), the specialist provider of mobile financial services, is pleased to announce that Jeremy Nicholds has joined the board as a non-executive director with immediate effect, to provide further independent board governance and to proactively assist the Company with strategic partnerships, sales and marketing matters.
Jeremy Nicholds is an internationally experienced marketing and commercial director in the fast evolving global payments field. Jeremy has worked in a number of different geographies for companies such as Visa, MasterCard, NatWest Bank, Reuters and the Prudential.
Jeremy's most recent position was as Executive Director, Mobile at Visa Europe, where he drove mass market mobile payment across multiple markets enabling compelling new mobile 'pay propositions' such as Apple Pay and Android Pay, whilst also supporting bank programmes using Visa Cloud Based Payments and HCE technology.
Prior to joining Visa in June 2006 he was Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing at MasterCard Europe, responsible for all marketing activity, and before MasterCard Jeremy headed up NatWest Bank's consumer card business. Jeremy's early career was in developing information products for Reuters, and marketing insurance, savings and pensions products at Prudential.
Marco Casartelli, CEO of Vipera, commented: We are delighted to welcome Jeremy to the Board of Vipera. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience of the global mobile financial services business and we look forward to working with him and building on our success."
The directorships/partnerships held by Mr Jeremy Nicholds, aged 54, in the previous five years are:
Current
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Nn'N Consulting Limited | None |
On his appointment Mr Nicholds will be granted options to subscribe for 4,000,000 new ordinary shares with an exercise price of 5 pence which vest and become exercisable, based on his continued employment, in stages from 3 July 2016 to 31 December 2019.
There is no further information to be disclosed under Schedule Two (g) (i)-(viii) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
Vipera PLC Marco Casartelli (CEO) Martin Perrin (CFO) Simon Pearce (CMO)
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Tel: +39 02 8688 2037 Tel: +44 (0) 207 193 0833 Tel: +44 (0) 207 193 0833 |
Sanlam Securities UK Limited (Nomad and Broker) Simon Clements (Nomad) Jamie Moyes (Baden Hill Sanlam)
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 7628 2200 |
IFC Advisory Ltd (Financial PR and IR) Tim Metcalfe Graham Herring Heather Armstrong | Tel: +44 (0) 203 053 8671 |
About Vipera:
Vipera Plc (AIM:VIP) a cutting edge Digital Financial Services and Customer Engagement Solutions provider, serves financial institutions worldwide with differentiated mobile banking, card management and customer engagement capabilities based around its proprietary multi channel bank-grade platform, MOTIF. Headquartered in London and Milan, Vipera supports end user financial applications for its top tier bank customers worldwide. Customers and partners including Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, Mashreq Bank, MasterCard and Equens.
For further information, please visit www.vipera.com