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streamlined data and integration management devised to enable businesses systems and open protocols using
to launch faster, get more data for less time and money, and scale with ease. applied cryptography. Before join-
ing Discreet, Anderson led crypto
ACQUISITION products at Ripple for over four
years, working on open protocols.
Paygaya completes EJF acquisition PayQuicker establishes
advisory board
Pagaya Technologies Ltd., which delivers artificial intelligence infrastructure
for the financial ecosystem, completed its business combination with EJF Fintech company PayQuicker intro-
Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. The publicly listed duced four members of its board
company is now Pagaya Technologies Ltd. and its Class A ordinary shares of advisors, which was created to
and public warrants began trading on the Nasdaq stock market beginning provide strategic guidance as the
on June 23, 2022. About these strategic moves, Gal Krubiner, CEO of Pagaya, company expands its payments
remarked, "We believe being a public company better positions us to con- platform into diverse market seg-
tinue becoming the trusted A.I. partner for the banking ecosystem, helping to ments. The appointed board mem-
expand the availability of life-changing financial products to more people.” bers include: John Filby, CEO of
Outseer, a technology company on
APPOINTMENTS a mission to liberate the world from
transactional fraud; Geoff Henry,
president of Jamba, a smoothie and
Discreet Labs promotes Warren Paul Anderson beverage brand; Vanita Pandey, for-

Discreet Labs promoted Warren Paul Anderson to the role of CEO. Previously, mer CMO of Arkose Labs, and prior
he was Discreet's vice president of product, where he was instrumental in vice president of product market-
developing and launching many technical milestones over the past year on ing at ThreatMetrix; and Tamara
Findora, a high-performance EVM-compatible public blockchain utilizing Romanek, director of payments
Zero-Knowledge Proofs to bring privacy to Web3. Anderson is a startup industry and financial institution
founder and a strategic product creator with expertise in building distributed partnerships and strategy for Meta.
Two industry veterans join NMI
NMI, a full commerce enablement
technology company, added Scott
Hart, as chief financial officer, and
Phillip Goericke as senior vice pres-
ident engineering, to its leadership
team. With decades of experience
in their respective fields, these lead-
ers are uniquely qualified to foster
NMI’s future growth and support
ISOs, ISVs and bank partners, NMI
stated.

Hart brings extensive expertise and
a successful track record in tech-
enabled growth companies, having
previously worked as CFO at Venn
LocalZone and head of finance at
Kaseya. He also held leadership
roles at startups and private equity-
backed companies in such indus-
try verticals as IT, cloud hosting
and telecommunications. Goericke
joins NMI from Alkami Technology,
where he served as vice president of
product engineering. He has more
than 15 years of experience work-
ing in software development. In his
new position, Goericke will play
a key role in enhancing the NMI
platform, features and services .

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