Middle East And Africa Payment Leader, TPAY, Names Işık Uman, As New Group CEO

<h4>Middle East And Africa Payment Leader<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that TPAY&comma; the leader in payments in the Middle East&comma; Africa&comma; and Turkey &lpar;META&rpar;&comma; has named I&scedil;&inodot;k Uman as its new Group CEO&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The appointment is effective July 1&comma; 2023&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;I&scedil;&inodot;k Uman&comma; who has been acting Chief Product Officer as well as Chief Marketing Officer for the last year&comma; will succeed current CEO Gaston Aussems&comma; who will move into a strategic advisory role&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I am confident that under I&scedil;&inodot;k&&num;8217&semi;s guidance&comma; TPAY will witness tremendous growth&comma; remarkable achievements&comma; and setting new standards of excellence in the region&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Gaston Aussems&period; &&num;8220&semi;And I feel privileged to have had the chance to work with all talented members of the TPAY family&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am very excited to take the helm from Gaston now&period;”&comma; I&scedil;&inodot;k Uman commented&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Gaston and the team did a great job&period; My main focus will be to deploy a true merchant-centric approach that exceeds the region&&num;8217&semi;s expectations&period; I believe TPAY has enormous potential&comma; and we will work to deliver exceptional products and innovative solutions to our merchants&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">I&scedil;&inodot;k Uman has been working as the Chief Product Officer &lpar;CPO&rpar; at TPAY&period; He joined TPAY’s executive leadership in 2020<&sol;a>&comma; right after the acquisition of the Turkish payments start-up&comma; Payguru&comma; of which he had been a founding partner and the Chairman&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;I&scedil;&inodot;k brings a wealth of experience working with mobile network operators&period; He led the buy-out of Neomobile&&num;8217&semi;s Turkish mobile payment business&comma; which&comma; under the Payguru brand in 2016&comma; became the first Direct Carrier Billing &lpar;DCB&rpar; company to which the Turkish Financial Regulator granted a payment license&period; Under his leadership&comma; Payguru became a successful Turkish alternative payment provider&comma; processing &dollar;70 million a year through its DCB and Bank Transfer services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;