Mobile payment solutions provider Boku Inc (LON:BOKU) announces that Stuart Neal has been appointed CEO on 1 January 2024.
He is expected to be appointed as a director of the company on January 17, 2024.
Mr. Neal was Boku’s Chief Financial Officer between 2012 and 2014 and between 2017 and 2019, and saw the company through its IPO, before being appointed Chief Business Officer of Boku’s Identity division, where he returned that business to growth, culminating in successfully pitching it to Twilio in 2022.
Previously, he was Chief Commercial Officer at Vocalink PaybyBankapp (acquired by Mastercard), creating distribution channels and generating merchant demand. He was also Commercial Director at Barclaycard, where he oversaw the development of contactless payments to merchants across the UK market.
In his earlier career, he held senior commercial and finance positions at a number of blue chip companies including GlaxoSmithKline, Worldcom and Virgin Media.