Bank payments company GoCardless has appointed former Checkout.com SVP product Shaun Puckrin as its CPO.
Puckrin will lead the FinTech’s product teams with responsibility for product development and innovation agenda.
He will be tasked with developments including new payment flows, open banking capabilities and continuous product improvements to help merchants collect and send payments from GoCardless’ bank payment platform.
During his time at Checkout.com, Puckrin launched new product lines and performance optimisation solutions using machine learning and led product expansion across Japan, US, Canada and MENA.
He has also worked as CPO at issuer processor GPS (now Thredd) and VP product and engineering at Nested, a property start-up that aims to re-invent estate agency. As well as these, he has held multiple leadership positions at Worldpay.
“Shaun’s expertise will be invaluable as we continue to expand our product offerings and strengthen our position as a full-service payment provider,” said Hiroki Takeuchi, co-founder and CEO at GoCardless.
“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.”
Puckrin 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.”