Image credits: LinkedIn
TPAY MOBILE, a Cairo-based open mobile payment platform, announced on Monday that it has appointed Gaston Aussems, former CEO of Mollie, as its new CEO.
Aussems was replaced as CEO of Mollie by Shane Happach in 2020, after a seven-year stint at the European payments giant.
Has the Dutch workforce mastered all digital skills? Find out
He has since spent two years as a venture partner at firms, including Atlantica and Antler, and a board member of impact investor Oikocredit as well as various fintechs and telecommunications companies, including Yolt and Talk360.
Sahar Salama, founder and current CEO of TPAY MOBILE, will move into a Group Chairwoman position.
Gaston Aussems says, “I’m incredibly excited to be taking the baton from Sahar at such an exciting time for TPAY MOBILE. The company’s mission of empowering underserved regions’ digital economies is something I wholeheartedly support, and I look forward to being part of the next stage of its journey.”
Sahar Salama says, “All of us at TPAY MOBILE should be so proud of everything that we have achieved. We changed the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa for the better by delivering cross-border micropayments at scale, and significantly improving financial inclusion in the region. While we were always ambitious in our vision of what TPAY MOBILE could become, we never imagined that our services would be so rapidly adopted by our partners and customers, and this makes me excited for what the future holds, especially as TPAY MOBILE expands its payment capabilities to new digital merchants and non-digital services.
“The time is now right for someone new to take TPAY MOBILE to the next level, and I trust that Gaston is that person. His experience of successfully scaling a complex, multi-country payments company, combined with his technical background, product-focused mentality, and global, entrepreneurial mindset, makes him the perfect person to execute TPAY MOBILE’s ambitious plans. I will be moving on to focus on a purely strategic and advisory role for the Group in this exciting next growth phase for TPAY MOBILE,” she adds.
TPAY MOBILE: What you need to know
TPAY MOBILE is a mobile payments platform in the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey (META).
The company provides an end-to-end solution through single API integration, enabling digital service providers such as merchants and game developers, to accept payments from more than 30 countries in the region.
Currently, the company has 28M monthly users and makes over 1.5B transactions monthly, from games and dating services to online education.
TPAY MOBILE says its technology is used by regional digital merchants and international brands, including Google, Huawei, MBC, Tencent, Anghami, Marvel, beIN, and others.
TPAY MOBILE’s shareholders include Helios Investment Partners, the Africa-focused private investment firm, and A15, the Middle East’s tech-focused VC fund.
Babatunde Soyoye, current Chairman at TPAY MOBILE, says, “It has been a pleasure to partner with Sahar over the years and witness the passion, hard work, and dedication that has helped grow TPAY MOBILE into the innovative company it is today. Sahar laid a great foundation in building a unique mobile payments network of merchants and Telcos across the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey. The next phase of growth is about building on this incredible platform to make TPAY MOBILE the market-leading digital merchant acquirer and mobile payments enabler in its markets and we believe that Gaston will help us achieve this”.
Catch our interview with Paul Down, Head of Sales at Intigriti.
