RedCloud Appoints Former Microsoft Exec as CRO to Expand AI Joint Ventures Across New Global Markets

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London, UK, May 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RedCloud Holdings plc (Nasdaq: RCT) (“RedCloud” or the “Company”), the company building intelligent infrastructure for global trade, today announced the appointment of Vikram Sharma as Chief Revenue Officer, Infrastructure. Sharma brings over 25 years of experience across commercial finance, infrastructure strategy and emerging market expansion. He has held senior roles at Microsoft, Alfa Laval and Sony Ericsson. This new CRO role brings dedicated leadership focus to accelerating infrastructure revenue across new joint venture markets, building on the Company’s first joint ventures in Saudi Arabia and Türkiye. Sharma’s mandate is to scale deployment of the Company’s RAID (Realtime AI for Distribution) engine through its capital-light JV model, targeting high-growth FMCG corridors without proportionate increases in capital deployed. His immediate focus will be developing a pipeline of JV opportunities across Southeast Asia and West Africa — markets where RedCloud’s RAID technology has identified significant unmet demand in FMCG distribution. This appointment follows recent milestones across RedCloud’s RAID technology and growth. In March 2026, RAID outperformed industry benchmarks for accuracy across 3.7 million live FMCG transactions in an R&D validation. In April 2026, the Company entered the deployment phase of RAID with a leading distribution network in Türkiye and signed a five-year licensing agreement of up to $30 million to deploy RedAI and RAID across Saudi Arabia’s $68 billion FMCG market. The Company also announced the planned introduction of three specialist RedAI agents, each intended to partially automate high-frequency FMCG supply chain decisions, with rollout expected in H2 2026.The Company’s JV model is structured to generate both a license fee and recurring, transaction-linked revenue with minimal upfront capital, with the objective that revenue scales significantly faster than costs. As RedCloud converts innovative technology into predictable Annual Recurring Revenue streams, JV expansion is expected to become a primary growth driver through 2026 and beyond. Justin Floyd, CEO of RedCloud, said, “RAID has now been validated in live market conditions across millions of transactions, and we are moving fast to deploy it at scale. Bringing Vikram on board gives us dedicated commercial leadership...

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