Bank payment company GoCardless has appointed Shaun Puckrin from Checkout.com as its new chief product officer.
In his new role, Puckrin will lead the product teams with responsibility for the product development and innovation agenda, including new payment flows, Open Banking capabilities and continuous product improvements to help merchants collect and send payments from GoCardless’ bank payment platform.
He joins from Checkout.com, where he served as senior vice president product, leading a team of product managers and overseeing its core payment products, including card acquiring, issuing and authentication.
At Checkout.com, he launched new product lines, and led product expansion across Japan, the US, Canada and MENA.
Shaun Puckrin, chief product officer, GoCardless
Previously, Puckrin worked at issuer processor GPS, now Thredd, in the role of chief product officer, and at property startup Nested, where he was vice president, product and engineering.
He also held several senior leadership positions at Worldpay.
Hiroki Takeuchi, co-founder and chief executive officer of GoCardless, said: “Shaun’s expertise will be invaluable as we continue to expand our product offerings and strengthen our position as a full-service payment provider.
“His extensive experience in the payments and financial technology sectors, and proven track record of launching new products and features make him a great fit for GoCardless as we accelerate our path to profitability. I’m delighted to welcome him to the team.”
Shaun Puckrin, chief product officer at GoCardless, added: “Account-to-account payments are the driving force behind reducing complexity, cost and friction in the payment process.
“I look forward to building on GoCardless’ success to build a new generation of payment solutions that will help ease the challenges of collecting and sending payments and meet the evolving needs of our customers.”
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