Brandon Thompson Joins Green Dot Corporation as Executive Vice President of Retail, Tax and PayCard Divisions
May 21 2020 - 8:45AM
Business Wire
Fintech leader and bank holding company, Green Dot Corporation
(NYSE:GDOT), today announced that Brandon Thompson has been
appointed Executive Vice President of Retail, Tax and PayCard,
effective June 8. Mr. Thompson will be a member of the executive
management team and will report to Green Dot President and Chief
Executive Officer, Dan Henry. In this role, he will be responsible
for developing and delivering product strategy and growth across
the company’s retail, tax and paycard divisions.
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“Our tax, paycard and retail divisions are foundational parts of
the Company,” said Dan Henry, President and Chief Executive
Officer. “Brandon has extensive experience in driving revenue
through new products and solutions and I believe he’ll be able to
help each division realize even more potential and fuel future
growth for our customers.”
Mr. Thompson brings over 15 years of executive payments industry
experience to Green Dot. Most recently, he served as Chief
Commercial Officer at EML, a leading global payments solutions
provider operating in 28 countries around the world. In this role,
he was responsible for the global P&L of the business, global
business development, product strategy and technology. During his
tenure at the company, EML had record growth with EBITDA up 40% in
FY19. In the first nine months of FY20 to March 21, 2020, GDV
increased 55 percent year over year, revenue grew 20 percent year
over year and EBITDA increased 24% year over year. The company
issued in excess of 11M Gift and Incentive Cards and 2M GPR Cards,
annually.
Prior to EML, Mr. Thompson served as senior vice president of
retail at Netspend Corporation, a subsidiary of Total Systems
Limited (TSYS). While at the company, he led the expansion of sales
and load locations from 8K to more than 90K, established key
partnerships with PayPal and Western Union, and developed a number
of General Purpose Reloadable retailer white label programs. Before
joining Netspend, he served as the global product director at
Euronet Worldwide where he led the prepaid division’s product
strategy and development for the US, Europe and Australia.
“I am excited to have an opportunity to play a leading role as
the company enters its next phase and works to transform the
financial services industry,” said Thompson. “I look forward to
leveraging Green Dot’s bank charter and unique technology assets,
to provide value and enable seamless banking experiences when and
where consumers shop, file their taxes and receive their
paychecks.”
About Green Dot
Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) is a financial technology
leader and bank holding company with a mission to power the banking
industry’s branchless future. Enabled by proprietary technology and
Green Dot’s wholly-owned commercial bank charter, Green Dot’s
“Banking as a Service” platform is used by a growing list of
America’s most prominent consumer and technology companies to
design and deploy their own bespoke banking solutions to their
customers and partners, while Green Dot uses that same integrated
technology and banking platform to design and deploy its own
leading collection of banking and financial services products
directly to consumers through one of the largest retail banking
distribution platforms in America. Green Dot products are marketed
under brand names such as Green Dot, GoBank, MoneyPak, AccountNow,
RushCard and RapidPay, and can be acquired through more than
100,000 retailers nationwide, thousands of corporate paycard
partners, several “direct-2-consumer” branded websites, thousands
of tax return preparation offices and accounting firms, thousands
of neighborhood check cashing locations and both of the leading app
stores. Green Dot Corporation is headquartered in Pasadena,
California, with additional facilities throughout the United States
and in Shanghai, China.
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