Mangopay adds payments industry veteran Liz Oakes to its board as Non-Executive Director
Mangopay, a payment infrastructure provider for platforms and marketplaces, has announced the appointment of Liz Oakes to its board as a Non-Executive Director.
Oakes has enjoyed a long career in the payments industry.
She was most recently based at Mastercard, where she held executive roles in the company’s payments businesses and other global positions leading strategy, market and product development.
Before joining Mastercard, Oakes was a payments expert in consulting at McKinsey and KPMG where she provided strategic advice and advisory services to central banks, financial institutions and clients from the payments industry with a specific focus on cross-border payments and the roll-out of real time payments, Open Banking and embedded payments.
Mangopay, which was acquired by Advent International in 2022, has been providing its modular payment infrastructure since 2013 and counts leading European and global marketplaces among the companies it supports.
Oakes comes onboard as the company scales across Europe to address the needs of the rapidly growing B2C and B2B marketplace industries.
Romain Mazeries, CEO at Mangopay, says: “Liz joins us at such an exciting time in our journey and we are delighted that she will be a part of our board, to help us design and articulate the next steps of our strategic development at Mangopay.”
“Liz’s world class experience will be a great asset to us as we elevate the company to its next level of growth.”
Oakes comments: “Mangopay has a unique opportunity which sets the company apart in a very exciting area of the e-commerce market.”
“I am delighted to be joining the company at this key stage of growth. I am looking forward to working with Romain and his leadership team, along with Mangopay’s Chairman Xavier Garambois and the rest of the Board, to accelerate the growth of this fantastic business.”
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