Leading connected payments provider, Checkout.com announces the key strategic hires of Ott Kaukver as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Nick Worswick as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Ott was previously CTO at Twilio and led engineering at Skype. Nick held the CRO position at both WeWork and GrubHub before joining Checkout.com. Their appointments reflect Checkout.com’s business momentum and global expansion following its recent Series C funding, which tripled its valuation to $15bn, making it EMEA’s most valuable venture-backed business and one of the largest fintechs globally.
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Guillaume Pousaz, CEO and Founder of Checkout.com said: “Today we welcome two world-class technology leaders to the business. Collectively, they bring unrivalled experience in scaling and building functions that will unlock our next phase of product and operational growth. I’ve been humbled and inspired by their wealth of knowledge, earned by serving as leaders at some of the most dynamic technology companies and look forward to our partnership.”
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Scaling global payments infrastructure
Ott Kaukver joins the business after serving as CTO at the leading cloud communication platform powerhouse Twilio, where he led the company’s engineering operations and technical architecture. There he scaled the technology organization to thousands and was a key executive growing the business for almost seven years. He brings years of experience in scaling global products with an agile microservices architecture, solving complex business challenges through developer-first technology, and building deeply integrated engineering organizations. Prior to Twilio, he was an early employee at Skype, where he launched SkypeOut and grew the business into a $1 billion product line.
Ott Kaukver, in-coming CTO of Checkout.com, said: “My passion is to build great products for the customers with modern technology on a global scale. Guillaume and the Checkout.com team share this passion. We are building a modern cloud-based infrastructure platform for global payments that enables growth for our fast growing customer base. I’m excited to be part of the journey and help our customers to scale.”
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