Planday announces Dave Lee as new CEO

opment & Customer Experience at IKEA in London and Sweden, and Product Director at Spotify in Sweden.

Airwallex launches global payments in Canada, further building on expansion in Americas

AIRWALLEX TODAY ANNOUNCED

THE LAUNCH OF ITS GLOBAL PAYMENTS SERVICES IN CANADA. THE LAUNCH WILL EMPOWER CANADIAN BUSINESSES TO TAP INTO AIRWALLEX’S GLOBAL PAYMENTS AND FINANCIAL PLATFORM, OFFERING A FASTER, MORE COST-EFFECTIVE AND TRANSPARENT ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL BANKING PLATFORM.

Businesses in Canada can now access Airwallex’s key offerings, including local currency accounts in over 12 currencies, a multi currency wallet in 44 currencies and payouts to 150 countries with its proprietary local payment network. The full suite of Airwallex’s global products, including multi-currency cards, spend management and online payments will be progressively rolled out in the market.

Lee joins Planday from Nordic-focused fintech platform Lunar, where he was Chief Product Officer responsible for building and leading Product and Experience Design for the company’s more than 500,000 users. Prior to Lunar, Lee was SVP Product Devel-

Tasked with leading Planday’s business globally, Lee will be responsible for driving Planday’s go to market strategy and ongoing development of Planday’s scheduling and workforce management solutions that support more than 400,000 users around the world.

Xero Chief Growth Officer, Chris O’Neill said: “Dave is a proven product and digital leader with more than 20 years’ experience in building and overseeing successful product and innovation teams in rapid-growth startups and global organisations across a wide variety of sectors in Europe and the US. We look forward to working closely with Dave to make workforce management easier for more customers and their employees through Planday’s leading scheduling, time and attendance software.”

Dave Lee said: “I am very excited to join the incredible team at Planday and build on the successes they have already achieved in realising their workforce management vision by helping more businesses and their employees thrive together.”

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“To thrive in today’s challenging global economy, businesses must be able to scale without borders, move money across currencies with ease and manage their finances across markets with a single integrated platform,” said Ravi Adusumilli, General Manager of Americas. “Airwallex is excited to support the ambitious Canadian businesses who wish to grow internationally, quickly and economically, as well as international businesses who have operations in Canada.”

Airwallex already supports a number of Canadian businesses across eCommerce, professional services and technology sectors. These customers leverage the centralized Airwallex platform to simplify payments, from collections to payouts, streamline multi-currency management and optimize cost savings.

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