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Turgeon as head of channel. In his role, de Graaf will He joined GPS from Worldpay where he was senior vice
build and lead Infosec’s global sales organization. He president group executive for the EMEA region and led
has more than 20 years' experience as a sales and market- a commercial team of over 450 people. He has more than
ing professional, with a strong emphasis on IT security 20 years of commercial experience, predominantly at
and channel relations. He was most recently responsible global technology and telecommunications businesses
for leading KnowBe4’s operations across Europe, the including Samsung Electronics and O2.
Middle East and Africa.
GoCardless welcomes Paul Stoddart
Turgeon brings 30 years' experience driving indirect and
direct revenue, ensuring customer success, delivering Paul Stoddart is the new president of GoCardless. He
global GTM programs, leading corporate channel and joined the company from Mastercard where he was pres-
distribution strategy, recruiting and onboarding busi- ident of New Payment Platforms, executive chairman of
ness partners, and building global sales and support Vocalink and a member of the Mastercard Management
teams. Most recently, she was CRO of VIPRE Security Committee. At GoCardless, he will have global responsi-
Group. She has also held senior leadership roles at such bility for the go-to-market organization including strat-
companies as KnowBe4, Tech Data, Inspired eLearning egy, sales, product, marketing and customer teams, with
and AccentHealth. a view to accelerating growth.
Simon Stanford joins GPS Previously, Stoddart was CEO of Vocalink after its
acquisition by Mastercard and subsequently promoted
Global Processing Services appointed Simon Stanford to president of Mastercard’s New Payment Platforms
as chief revenue officer. Based in London, Stanford sits where he expanded Mastercard’s role in payments
on GPS' global executive committee and leads the com- beyond cards to account-to-account payments. Prior
pany’s global commercial, partnerships, customer rela- to Vocalink he was co-head of corporate finance at
tionship management and marketing teams with a focus Barclaycard. He also spent 10 years in senior roles at
on partnership development, marketing and branding, NatWest.
and revenue growth worldwide.