Provider of mobile payment solutions Boku Inc (LON:BOKU) announces that Stuart Neal was appointed CEO on 1 January 2024.
He is expected to be appointed as a director of the company on 17 January 2024.
Mr Neal was Chief Financial Officer of Boku between 2012 and 2014 and between 2017 and 2019, and saw the company through its IPO, before being appointed Chief Business Officer of Boku’s Identity division, where he returned that business to growth, culminating in its successful disposal to Twilio in 2022.
Previously, he was Chief Commercial Officer at Vocalink PaybyBankapp (acquired by Mastercard), building distribution channels and creating merchant demand. He was also Commercial Director at Barclaycard, where he oversaw the roll out of contactless payments to merchants across the UK market.
In his earlier career, he held senior Commercial and Finance positions within a number of blue chip corporations including GlaxoSmithKline, Worldcom and Virgin Media.
