ACI Worldwide recruits new execs to strengthen leadership
April 7, 2009
NEW YORK — ACI Worldwide has announced a number of key appointments across the business to take advantage of growth opportunities in the industry.
According to a news release, the appointments include a new chief product officer, a new vice president global risk solutions, a new vice president for strategy and planning in EMEA, and new vice presidents of services in EMEA and Asia Pacific as well as a vice president of operations for Asia Pacific.
The role of chief product officer has been filled by Louis Blatt, Ph.D., who joins ACI Worldwide from CA. He brings nearly 25 years' experience in the technology industry.
The new vice president for global risk solutions is David Nussenbaum, who will report directly to Blatt and will manage ACI's risk management product line. Nussenbaum, who has 16 years' experience in the fraud and compliance industry, joins ACI from TransUnion.
Bernard Delahaye joins as vice president for strategy and planning in EMEA. Following executive management roles at BIS, VeriFone and First Data, Delahaye brings 24 years' expertise in expanding global activities of financial technology companies that provide banking systems and payment infrastructures.
The new vice president of services for EMEA is Mike Pottinger, who previously held the role of services director for Europe at i2 Technologies Inc, where he worked for 10 years.
In Asia-Pacific, the vice president of services is James Campbell-Grant, who joins from IBM, where he was the Asia-Pacific and Japan ECM services lead. Previously he has worked at FileNet Inc, EMC, Documentum and Unisys.
John Northwood has taken on the role of vice president of operations for Asia-Pacific, with responsibilities for strategic development and operations. He joins ACI from CSC with 20 years in IT services.