Trustly expands leadership team in preparation for European expansion
Swedish paytech firm Trustly has announced the appointments of Annika Poutiainen as chief legal officer (CLO), and Georg Kaltenbrunner as group chief risk and compliance officer.
Trustly announces new CLO and chief risk & compliance officer
Founded in 2008, the payment solutions vendor says the expansion of its leadership team comes as the company “gears up for further expansion in Europe”, and follows its recent acquisitions of SlimPay and Ecospend.
Trustly says its new CLO, Poutiainen, has vast regulatory and financial experience, including tenures as the head of market surveillance Nordics at Nasdaq, as executive chair of the council for Swedish Financial Reporting Supervision, and as chair of the board for SMB developer Rebellion, where she has served for the past two years.
On her appointment, Poutiainen claims the company has a “strong human-centric approach where rules and regulation are seen as crucial enablers and contributors to the company’s success”.
Kaltenbrunner, who will join the firm in March, will manage compliance and risks across the group. Before this, he was the group chief risk officer at Luminor Group. Additionally, he has also held positions for Nordea Group, and was a partner at McKinsey & Company.
Kaltenbrunner says he will work to ensure “Trustly’s business resilience” and support its long-term ambitions.
The news of Trustly’s leadership expansion comes after it announced the hiring of Eileen Chibb as chief operations officer (COO), and Jussi Lindberg as chief revenue officer (CRO) last September.
