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About this update from Bango Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 0667S Bango PLC 15 March 2016 \n\n \n 15 March 2016 \n \nBANGO PLC\n(\"Bango\")\n \nBoard Appointments\n \n- Strengthening of Board to support global expansion by Bango partners\n- Gerry Tucker appointed to Strategic Partnerships Director\n- Rachel Elias-Jones appointed CFO\n \n \nCambridge, UK. 15 March 2016. Bango plc (AIM:BGO), the mobile payments company, is pleased to announce a strengthening of its Board of Directors to accelerate the global rollout of the Bango Payment Platform with its major partners.\n \nGerry Tucker, who has served as Bango CFO from November 2012 to March 2016, has accepted the role of Strategic Partnerships Director. Gerry will focus high level attention on the financial and regulatory structures that Bango is putting in place to support the growth ambitions of our key partners around the world. The increased focus on deploying mobile operator wallets and other innovative payment instruments, will benefit from experienced senior management attention and direct Board level accountability.\n \nIn recent months Gerry has led Bango's activities enabling strategic partners to use the Bango Payment Platform to enter new, and traditionally complex markets for Direct Carrier Billing (DCB), including Brazil, India and Nigeria. Prior to joining Bango, Gerry had extensive experience delivering complex payments solutions, including establishing trading structures in Europe and Asia for major computer games publishers, Virgin /Sega and Take Two, and distribution networks for Activision's Guitar Hero. He is a representative Director on behalf of Bango plc in several Bango subsidiaries. \n \n \nGerry's successor as CFO is Rachel Elias-Jones, who is appointed to the Board with immediate effect. Rachel has worked as Bango's Financial Controller for four years, developing and running the finance team to drive innovation of critical finance functions and ensure commercial flexibility for Bango partners. She is highly qualified for this role, has attended Bango plc Board meetings since 2015 and holds a Board role in one of Bango's subsidiary companies.\n \nBango CEO Ray Anderson commented:\n \n\"Gerry has imp...