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platform. The primary purpose of the WhatCounts acquisition, New York Matt DeLauro joins SEON
City-based Zeta noted, was to acquire technology assets and certain employ-
ees. "We believe we can get significant synergies from integrating their Email Financial crime prevention technol-
Service Platform (ESP)," Zeta stated. "In doing so, we think we can take their ogy firm SEON hired Matt DeLauro
current customers as well as our existing customers and get them to be more as its new chief revenue officer.
significant over time." Working primarily from the com-
pany's office in Austin, Texas, he is
Zeta said that it expects the WhatCounts contribution to its revenue to be less expected to leverage his experience
than $4 million for the remainder of fiscal year 2023 due to known expiration as CRO and general manager of
and termination of significant customer contracts. Extend, where he led the business'
expansion from its Series A round
APPOINTMENTS through to Series C and built the
company's go-to-market strategy
from the ground up.
Sionic selects Susan Currey
He will also help SEON continue to
Sionic, a provider of omnicommerce, verified rapid payments solutions, prevent online financial crime glob-
appointed Susan Currey as chief compliance officer. With more than 15 years ally and align to evolving fraud pre-
of risk and compliance management experience in the banking and fintech vention needs across such industries
industries, Currey joins Sionic from PayPal where she led a global team as banking and payments, BNPL
focusing on consumer compliance, global financial crimes, operational and and online lending, igaming and
information security/privacy reviews. casinos, securities exchanges, travel
and hospitality, and ecommerce.
Reporting directly to Ronald Herman, Sionic founder and CEO, Currey is This is DeLauro's third appoint-
responsible for evaluating risk on various business initiatives and establish- ment as an SaaS CRO.
ing corporate governance and regulatory framework for Sionic’s payments
platform and real-time payments services. Additionally, she will develop Jay Choi joins Glia
and execute risk and compliance management , and testing programs for the
company. Glia, which unifies digital, phone
and automated customer interac-
tions on a single platform, appoint-
ed Jay Choi as its first chief prod-
uct officer. This newly created role
oversees product strategy, product
management and product market-
ing under a single product team
working closely with engineering
leadership to advance Glia's posi-
HOLIDAY PAYMENT tion in the interaction platform
sphere.
SOLUTIONS Choi officially joins Glia after serv-
ing as an advisor over the past
12 months, lending his deep expe-
ACH • LEVEL III • EMV rience in product management,
product marketing and the benefit
of bringing the two together. Choi
WEB • RECURRING previously served as chief strategy
officer and GM at AppFolio where
CASH DISCOUNT he led the vertical strategy for finan-
cial services.
CUSTOMER DATABASE Before that, he was chief product
officer at Qualtrics where he was
instrumental in creating the expe-
C A L L F O R A D E M O rience management category and
reaching the top spot in Forrester
8 0 0 - 2 9 6 - 4 8 1 0 Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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