SaaScada appoints Paul Payne as chief technology officer

Paul Payne joins SaaScada from Iris Software Systems

SaaScada, the new core banking platform and services provider, has appointed Paul Payne as its chief technology officer.

Payne will oversee the execution of UK-based SaaScada’s technology roadmap and the implementation of its cloud native core banking platform across a growing number of established institutions and challengers within the retail banking sector.

Educated to MBA level, with 20 years software development experience and a track record building and leading engineering and operations teams, Payne brings strong cloud platform engineering and delivery expertise to the executive team.

Payne joins SaaScada from Iris Software Systems, where he held a combined chief technology and operations officer role responsible for product, engineering, project delivery and support functions.

Prior to Iris, Payne held the position of digital portfolio delivery manager at Direct Line Group, and head of development at LexisNexis.

Nelson Wootton, chief executive officer at SaaScada, comments: “I am delighted to welcome Paul to the team; he brings a wealth of experience gained in the B2B SaaS and PaaS solutions sector to SaaScada. Paul will be instrumental in achieving our plan to expand and bring solutions that anticipate and truly meet the changing needs of customers to the wider retail banking sector.”

Payne says: “I am thrilled to join SaaScada at such an exciting time for the business. Deepening SaaScada’s configuration capabilities to enable rapid deployment of highly sophisticated savings and lending products is key to the next stage of our evolution and I look forward to working with the team to facilitate the level of innovation required by such a rapidly evolving market.”

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Mark Dugdale