Appointment of Chief Operating Officer

RNS Number : 2706Q

Bango PLC

05 November 2012

 



05 November 2012

BANGO PLC

("Bango" or "the Company")

Appointment of Chief Operating Officer

Bango plc (AIM:BGO), the mobile web payments and analytics company, today announces the appointment of David Keeling to the senior management team as Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this newly created position, David is responsible for service delivery, account management and will lead key operational functions currently reporting to the CEO or CFO.

David brings with him a respected fifteen year career of leading and growing customer service and professional service organizations with global operations spanning Asia, Europe, MENA and the Americas. Throughout David's career he has built extensive ties to mobile network operators around the world.

David has held key VP roles at Logica CMG and its spinout company, Acision. While SVP of Global Services at Logica CMG David led a $90m mobile payments program, shaping the organizational model to improve customer intimacy, introducing new processes and procedures, ultimately transforming the business into a high performing unit with increased revenue and contribution per head.

Ray Anderson, Bango CEO commented, "I am delighted to welcome David to the team at this very exciting stage of Bango's development as a business. Over the last two years Bango's market leading solution has become the platform of choice for some of the world's largest app stores, content providers and mobile brands. The appointment of a COO, a newly created position, will strengthen Bango's capability to consistently deliver the high levels of service expected by our customers and partners as the business continues to grow, transaction volumes increase and we continue to innovate with our products. It will also assist Bango to commercialize further opportunities that are now arising."

Bango has built direct billing connections into more than 90 global mobile operators and has signed billing partnerships with several industry leaders, including Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and MasterCard. Today Bango holds more than 200 million billable identities. In October, Bango announced that its total reach now exceeds one billion mobile phone users. Against this backdrop, and due to the levels of potential in business from new and existing customers, Bango established a need for the newly created COO position.

Contact Details:

Bango plc	Newgate Threadneedle	Cenkos Securities plc
Tel. [phone] www.bango.com	Tel. [phone]	Tel. [phone]
Ray Anderson, CEO	Caroline Evans-Jones	Ken Fleming
Peter Saxton, CFO	Fiona Conroy	Beth McKiernan

About Bango

In the era of mobile technology, collecting payments has emerged as a central and complex challenge. Bango (AIM: BGO) powers payment and analytics on the mobile web, providing users with a massively smooth payment experience.

Bango's pervasive presence across the web creates a platform effect for partners, identifying hundreds of millions of users and maximizing the number of one click payments. Global leaders plug into Bango: customers include Facebook, BlackBerry App World, Windows Phone Store, Amazon and major mobile brands including CNN, Cartoon Network and EA Mobile. Visit: bango.com

 

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