This week's London appointments: Featuring Global Processing Services, HyperJar & Acumentice

This week’s round up of London appointments includes Global Processing Services, HyperJar & Acumentice. Read on to find out more.

Kim Ohlrogge, Global Processing Services

Global Processing Services (“GPS”), a leading global payments technology platform, today announced the appointment of Kim Ohlrogge as chief product officer.

Ohlrogge joins GPS’ executive management team and will split her time between London (United Kingdom) and Berlin (Germany). She most recently held the position of Senior Vice President Product at Nexi/Nets Group in Germany where she led payment strategy and innovation, focusing on simplifying the payments process for European businesses and consumers.

Ohlrogge brings over two decades of experience in payments, e-commerce and financial services on both the issuer and acquirer side to GPS, having held senior roles at high-growth companies in the United States and Europe including TSYS and Digital River as well as consulting with various players in the industry.

“Kim is a truly outstanding individual who has a unique perspective in the global payments industry having spent time on both the acquiring and issuing side,” said Kevin Schultz, chief executive officer, GPS.

Kim Ohlrogge, chief product officer, GPS, said: “I’m excited to join the team with the broad remit of advancing GPS’s customer-centric product roadmap, prioritising our technology investments, and increasing our experimentation to see how we can further revolutionise the future of payments.”

Rob Rooney, HyperJar

Banking and tech industry veteran Rob Rooney has joined the board of UK tech firm HyperJar, his first corporate role since stepping down from Morgan Stanley senior management earlier this year.

Rooney was at Morgan Stanley for 32 years, where he served as a member of the firm-wide operating committee; CEO of Morgan Stanley International, Co-Global head of fixed income and most recently Global Head of Technology, Operations and Firm Resilience.

Commenting on his appointment, Rob Rooney said: “I am excited to join the board of HyperJar. The platform is unique, helping real people and real families to save, budget, and spend their money the way they actually live, and inventing a whole new way for merchants to meet consumers at the ‘Point of Intent’.

“The HyperJar team and the tech they’ve developed is world class, and their mission to help people in a cost-of-living crisis is something I believe in.”

HyperJar founder and CEO, Mat Megens, said: “We are delighted Rob has agreed to join our board. He brings huge general corporate experience from his career at Morgan Stanley as well as highly specific expertise in financial services, technology, and how they interact.”

Adam Ceney, Acumentice

London-based healthcare management consultancy Acumentice has strengthened the team with the appointment of two new members of staff.

Adam Ceney has also joined Acumentice as head of analytics, having spent over a decade in analytics and consultancy roles within the NHS in the Quality Observatories and on behalf of the healthcare, central government, and defence sectors.

Adam is currently developing analytics capabilities across the Acumentice portfolio to enhance their service offerings to clients whilst also supporting and advising clients to consider how they can make effective use of their data from strategy to becoming more data-driven in their operations.

Fizza Hassan has also joined the organisation as product manager. Following the completion of a Natural Science degree at UCL in 2016, Fizza has over five years of product development experience within consumer healthcare in an SME environment.

Managing director of Acumentice Karina Malhotra said: “Adam and Fizza’s appointments come at a really exciting time for the business, so we are thrilled to have them join the team of experts we already have here at Acumentice.”

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