SmartSearch names Zowie Lees-Howell as new VP of enterprise sales

Zowie is a well-respected identify inside regtech, fintech and monetary providers, with greater than 25 years of expertise with world, publicly buying and selling knowledge and analytics corporations. She joins from Equifax the place she most just lately served as gross sales director, with earlier tenures at Dun & Bradstreet and over 13 years at Experian.

Zowie will use her perception and numerous expertise to move up SmartSearch’s enterprise gross sales group and be answerable for the agency’s continued growth into markets reminiscent of banking, monetary providers, crypto, utilities and telco.

SmartSearch offers anti-money laundering software program to at least one in three of the UK’s high 200 legislation corporations and 30 per cent of high 100 accountancy corporations.

In whole, their digital resolution offers digital verification (EV), full sanction screening and enhanced due diligence to greater than 5,500 shoppers and 50,000 customers worldwide.
Zowie’s goal is to work with SmartSearch’s clients to assist them with their anti-money laundering and compliance choices.

Zowie Lees-Howell commented: “Becoming a member of an modern and agile agency like SmartSearch that’s been vastly profitable is a unbelievable alternative and one I’m actually excited by.

“Over the previous decade, SmartSearch software program has set the usual for digital compliance, not solely delivering an environment friendly and cost-effective resolution, however a aggressive benefit to companies of all sizes. Fraud and cash laundering presents a really actual risk to all sectors, with digital verification and digital monitoring providing the one viable method to mitigate that danger.

“I sit up for working with the SmartSearch group to additional penetrate these rising markets by offering extremely priceless providers to firms who could not have had entry to them earlier than. I’m thrilled to be presenting this priceless proposition to companies to assist hold them each secure and compliant.”

Talking on the appointment, Martin Cheek, managing director of SmartSearch mentioned: “We’re actually happy to welcome Zowie to the group. Her expertise and wealth of expertise throughout vertical markets might be an enormous asset as we glance to increase and proceed our bold progress technique.
“Because the complicated world of cash laundering continues to vary quickly, I’m proud that we haven’t stood nonetheless. Not solely has our product providing continually developed to fulfill the rising compliancy burden, however we’ve continued to strengthen, each by harnessing the potential of our proficient group and by making key strategic appointments.”