Gigs appoints Adyen alumni Steven van Bommel as head of finance
Telecom-as-a-service platform Gigs has appointed Adyen alumni Steven van Bommel as its new head of finance, effective this month.
Steven van Bommel joins Gigs (Image: LinkedIn)
Van Bommel will be tasked with building out Gigs’ finance and accounting teams and scaling financial operations across the company as it looks to lay the groundwork for its next stage of growth.
Leveraging “a strong track record of building and optimising the financial engines of high-growth and high-discipline organisations”, according to Gigs co-founder and CEO Hermann Frank, van Bommel joins Gigs from Dutch payment processor Adyen, where he most recently served as head of strategic finance.
The appointment marks the continued migration of fintech talent to the Gigs platform following the appointment of Nubank’s head of corporate strategy, Rafael Plantier, in April to lead its fintech strategy.
Gigs also claims to have tapped talent from the likes of PayPal, Klarna, Sumup and Revolut and now has around 60 employees in total. The company enables banks and fintechs to embed phone and data plans within their existing services.
In August, it partnered with Indian neobank start-up Zolve to combine both telecom and financial services into one offering. Gigs claims that it experienced a “surge in demand” from the fintech community following the partnership’s debut.
Founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, USA, Gigs is backed by Google, Y Combinator, Crane Venture Partners, Speedinvest, BoxGroup, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Instacart CEO Fidji Simo, and DoorDash co-founder and CEO Tony Xu, among others, and last raised $20 million in a Series A funding round in September 2022.
