CPI Card Group President and CEO Scott Scheirman intends to retire Feb. 28, 2024. Scheirman will continue to serve until a successor is named, and the payment technology company’s board of directors expects to do so in late 2023 or early 2024, CPI Card Group...
ACI Worldwide has named Interim CEO Thomas Warsop as its official CEO and president. Warsop, a FinTech veteran and long-time board member, will become chief executive June 1, the payments company announced in a Wednesday (May 31) press release. “Since joining ACI eight years ago...
Panera Brands is making some leadership changes to prepare for its “eventual IPO.” The head of one of its brands, Einstein Bros. Bagels President and CEO José Alberto Dueñas, will become Panera Brands CEO July 1, succeeding current CEO Niren Chaudhary, who will become chairman, the company said in a Tuesday (May...
The chief financial officer of money transfer firm Wise is stepping down following a bicycle accident last year. Matthew Briers, who has served as the British company’s CFO for eight years, announced he is leaving his job Monday (May 22), the latest in a string of recent finance chief...
J.P. Morgan has named PayPal veteran John Frerichs to oversee its SMB payments operations. The appointment, announced Monday (May 22) in a news release provided to PYMNTS, marks a sort of homecoming, as Frerichs previously held a number of leadership roles in J.P. Morgan’s small...
U.S. Bank has named a payments industry veteran to head its global banks division. William Flyge, who spent seven years in a senior business development role at Fiserv, will now oversee U.S. Bank’s credit, risk management and payment solutions offerings to financial institutions (FIs) worldwide,...
Elon Musk has confirmed that former NBCUniversal ad executive Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter. “@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology,” Musk said in a Friday (May 12) tweet. “Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X,...
The incoming CEO of Twitter is reportedly NBCUniversal Chairman, Global Advertising & Partnerships Linda Yaccarino. Yaccarino is in talks for the role, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday (May 11), citing unnamed sources. Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted earlier Thursday that he had hired a new CEO, but he did not identify the...
Elon Musk has hired a new CEO for X, the company formerly known as Twitter. The new, unidentified CEO will start in six weeks, and Musk will transition to a new role, Musk said in a Thursday (May 11) tweet. “My role will transition to being...