Thredd, formerly GPS, appoints Ava Kelly as new chief product officer
Thredd, the payments platform formerly known as Global Processing Services (GPS), has appointed Ava Kelly as its new chief product officer (CPO).
Ava Kelly, new CPO at Thredd
Based in the US, Kelly brings more than 25 years of payments industry experience to her new role. She joins from i2c, a banking and payments platform, where she also served as CPO.
Prior to that, she spent nearly eight years at Visa in various senior roles, delivering products including the US Visa Signature premium product platform and leading the platform’s global strategy with market launches in Asia Pacific, North America and the Middle East. Kelly also previously spent around eight years working at American Express.
In her new role, she will be responsible for accelerating Thredd’s global expansion plans and driving innovation across its product offerings.
Thredd added three non-executive directors to its team in February, shortly before its rebrand from GPS in April. It says the new name “reflects the company’s pivotal role in weaving together the different ‘threads’ of the next-gen global payments ecosystem to drive the growth of electronic payments”.
The firm currently claims to process billions of debit, prepaid and credit transactions annually, “serving over 100 fintechs, digital banks and embedded finance providers, from consumer to corporate, across 44 countries”.
