Kani Funds, the disruptive UK information reconciliation and reporting platform, in the present day declares the numerous appointment of Dan Clappison to Chief Working Officer (COO) to bolster the management group and drive operations throughout the corporate because it continues to develop and scale.
Clappison, who has over 17 years’ expertise within the funds house, began his profession at Newcastle Constructing Society alongside Kani Funds’ founder and CEO Aaron Holmes, constructing out a playing cards enterprise, working largely with early start-up e-money issuers.
Since then, Clappison has held tenure at TSYS in a spread of roles, together with pre-sales, product and partnership administration, and at Virgin Cash, the place he was a part of the group which launched the Virgin Cash bank card enterprise. This enterprise now has over 2 million prospects and is a UK market chief in bank cards.
As Kani Funds continues to scale, develop and develop globally from its house in Newcastle, the introduction of Clappison as a brand new COO will assist to reinforce operational effectivity and proceed to help the strategic path of the corporate all through this thrilling progress interval.
Clappison’s key tasks will embody overseeing the reporting and reconciliation groups in addition to liaising with prospects on their operational necessities. As well as, Clappison will be a part of Aaron Holmes, CEO, Melissa Beckett, CMO and Steven Licciardi, CTO as the brand new senior management group, who collectively will concentrate on enterprise and expertise progress for Kani Funds and the broader North East of England area.
Kani Funds already champions expertise within the North East of England by means of its apprenticeship programme with Baltic Apprenticeships, supporting profession adjustments or the event of recent expertise for individuals of all ages, ranges and experiences.
On his appointment to Kani Funds, Dan Clappison commented “A enterprise can’t scale and not using a strong basis and established operations. I need to be certain that, as we proceed to develop, our purchasers believe that Kani Funds will proceed to supply a fantastic, dependable service they usually know that we are able to help their companies as they proceed to develop.”
“I’m delighted to be becoming a member of Kani Funds at such a crucial second in its progress, to assist construct on the operational foundations the corporate already has in place. Having been based mostly in Newcastle since 2003, I’m additionally proud to be supporting such a powerful native firm and championing expertise within the North of England.”
The expansion of Kani Funds comes at a time when information volumes are surging exponentially, having an enormous impact on the data-heavy fintech sector: the quantity of knowledge globally is predicted to achieve 175 zettabytes by 2025, rising from an estimated 44 zettabytes in 2020.
The award-winning Software program-as-a-Service platform has already efficiently disrupted the fintech scene from Newcastle within the North of England and reconciled greater than €10 billion in processed funds quantity so far.
Named as an rising fintech hub within the 2021 Kalifa Evaluate of UK Fintech, Newcastle is quick turning into one of the crucial thrilling and interesting places for dynamic monetary providers and fintech gamers equivalent to Kani Funds.
Aaron Holmes, CEO of Kani Funds, added “Since its inception, Kani Funds has championed the expertise and alternative that the North East of England presents. In actual fact, we’re presently recruiting for numerous crucial roles that can assist the corporate because it develops and expands.”
“As a part of our progress we’ve been strengthening the senior management group and addressing all areas of the enterprise, to now additionally embody operations and gross sales. In flip, this implies we’ve strengthened senior steering all through the shopper journey. It’s improbable to have Dan on board as we embark on this thrilling interval of progress.”
The previous yr has been particularly thrilling for Kani Funds because it hit a number of milestones and introduced its choice onto the Mastercard Begin Path World programme. Kani Funds plans to construct on this success all through 2022 and past by additional extending its group, driving its international progress and increasing into new areas.