FOOTHILL RANCH, California, January 4, 2012 (Business Wire) – Emida, a leader in the global prepayment and value transfer market, has announced that Patrick Neill has joined Emida’s management team as VP, International Business Development.
Patrick joins Emida with 10 years experience in the Telecommunication industry specializing in payment and processing platform deployments across multiple countries. In his previous role as Group Electronic Distribution Manager at Oceanic Communications Limited in the South Pacific, he successfully rolled out the first Pacific Prepaid Solution platform across 7 international markets. Patrick previously worked at Telecom New Zealand for 5 years in a variety of management roles including Prepaid Product Development, Channel Management and Prepaid Electronic Distribution. Prior to this, he worked for ExxonMobil and Enterprise Ltd in the UK across a variety of FMCG management positions. Patrick has a BA (Hons) in Business Management.
“Emida’s international success to date results from staff who know the working environment” said Dennis Andres, CEO of Emida. “Patrick brings experience in Mobile Money deployments and in managing relationships with customers, vendors, service providers, channel partners, and suppliers. We are delighted to have him join us.”
Patrick Neill said “I am excited to join Emida and help the company to continue its growth and achieve more.”
About Emida
Emida is a leader in the global prepayment and value transfer market, operating in 37 countries throughout North, Central and South America, the extended Caribbean, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and Europe. We support a network of more than 54,000 retail points with an annual dollar payment volume in excess of $1.5B, processing more than 240 million annual payment transactions.
Our network technology enables the domestic and international distribution and value transfer of many types of prepaid products and payment services. Our strategy is to build profitable, robust distribution networks for many prepaid products in targeted operating geographies, and to introduce unique cross border value products between regions. Our payment processing platform provides robust revenue solutions for distributors, ISOs, retailers, carriers and service providers alike.
For more information, please visit www.emida.net or email info@emida.net.
Media contact: Lisbeth Cabrera, Emida; +1 949-860-3599; lcabrera@emida.net