Chief Technology Officer Kuan Archer is Green Dot’s new COO.
After two years leading the company’s technology organizations, Archer will add oversight of vendor management and procurement, business continuity, human resources, supply chain and retail execution to his responsibilities.
Steve Streit, chairman and CEO of Green Dot said, “Kuan has proven to be one of the most impactful leaders in the company’s history. He incited an immediate and lasting shift in our ability to create meaningful technology developments.” Archer will report directly to Streit in his new role.
Before joining Green Dot, Kuan Archer served as vice president of the Cloud Services Platform division at Rovi Corporation. Previous to Rovi, where he spent more than six years, Archer worked at Symantec Corporation. At Symantec, Archer was responsible for designing the company’s first web and mobile-based consumer ID protection and transaction security solution for FIs and e-commerce merchants.
A specialist in consumer financial technology, Green Dot provides reloadable, prepaid debit cards and cash reload processing services throughout the U.S. Beginning 2014 by winning four categories at the 2014 Paybefore Awards, the company announced an extension of its contract with Walmart in December, and in September purchased TPG, adding tax refund processing to its list of services.
Headquartered in Pasadena, California, Green Dot demoed a beta version of its mobile checking account, GoBank, at FinovateSpring 2013.
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