New Appointment

The Paynet Group welcomes Mr Steve Evans who will be responsible for the group project and risk portfolios.

Mr Evans has more than 24 years experience in software development, coding, testing, integration and change management. He has specialised in the delivery of software projects, particularly those of secure systems to the financial services sector in the US and Europe and will utilise these skills, expertise and knowledge acquired for all the Paynet group companies.

Paynet set the lead as one of the first institutions in East Africa to achieve EMV(Chip card acquiring) ATM Certification as mandated by Visa. This ensured that the Group's PesaPoint ATM Network and those of its outsource customers achieved compliance to the EMV certification standard ahead of its competitors. Additionally, the Paynet Group embarked on the PCI DSS compliance journey a couple of years ago.

The `'Payment Card Industry, Data Security Standard'' is a global standard aimed at protecting card data at all points of its life cycle. Paynet secured the services of an international QSA audit firm and has been on a quarterly network audits and onsite audits for 3 years.

Those experts and operators in the card industry will appreciate the complexity of this compliance and the stringent requirements to achievement and Mr Evans is well positioned to lead the Group to fulfil its compliance. Mr Evans will continue to provide a dedicated focus, ensuring Paynet remains compliant and risk savvy and well armed to fight the `'War on Fraud'' for the Group and all of Paynet's valued customers.

Jenny Harber

Jenny Harber has recently been appointed as the Group Finance Director for the Paynet Group. Jenny has had over fifteen years of senior management experience in East Africa, with extensive knowledge in all aspects of group corporate strategic and financial management, including treasury function, taxation, IT, budgetary control, financial and management reporting.

Jenny initially came to Kenya with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) where she worked as an insolvency manager, and subsequently worked in senior positions in local and multinational companies in the region.

Jenny is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA), member of the Certified Public Accountants, Kenya (CPA-K) and holds an MBA with distinction from Warwick Business School, UK

Movements in the Team January 2010

Paynet Group

• Bernard Matthewman has been appointed Chief Executive Officer.
• Julia Matthewman has been appointed Group Managing Director.
• Richard Coate has been appointed Deputy Group Managing Director and Managing Director of PesaPoint.
• Jenny Harber has joined the team as Group Financial Controller.
• Mike Rogan has joined the team as Channel Director.
  

Paynet Kenya Limited

Romana Rajput has been made General Manager of Paynet Kenya Limited. With her energy, experience and incredible focus on absolute customer service, Romana is perfectly placed to grow this business which delivers top quality outsourced services and products throughout East Africa.

Other movers and shakers in Paynet Kenya include:

• Jack Ronoh who will take up the role of Head of Operations for Paynet. Jack has many years experience in ATM and Card Operations and is perfectly placed to drive forward the key areas of this valuable and key side of our business.
  
• Maseline Keya will take up the management of the Paynet Card Centre. This is a successful and highly sophisticated environment delivering first class services and Maseline, a founder member of this team has every ability and many years of experience required to drive this business forward.
  
• Peter Kabutu, also a founding member of the Paynet Card Centre team has been promoted as Assistant Manager.
  

EFT

Patrick Tendwa has been promoted to Assistant Manager EFT

 

Paynet Management

Bernard Matthewman
Chief Executive Officer
Bernard is the founding Managing Director of the business and has been involved with supplying banking solutions since 1990. He joined CF Tulley Associates Zimbabwe’s largest IT company in 1988 where he rose to the rank of Sales and Marketing Director. He left to set up Tradanet Zimbabwe, the forerunner to Paynet, in 1997. In 2000 he was appointed CEO of African Lakes Technologies. In 2003 Bernard led the Management Buy Out of African Lakes Technologies in Zimbabwe and Kenya and which were re-branded Paynet. Bernard has led many large project installations and has also been commissioned by banks to develop marketing and business strategies. With his experience in running a successful outsource service he provides the realistic balance in terms of what a business needs to do to ensure success, and his skills in relationship management and strategic evaluation are focused on ensuring further growth of the business.

Ron Webb
Group Technical Director
Ron is without question one of the leading experts in banking technology on the continent. A founder member of the business, Ron is the principle architect for all of the highly successful Paynet solutions. In the early 1990’s, Ron worked with First National Bank in South Africa and gained experience all aspects of electronic banking. He was the Project Manager for the Paynet installation of Oasis at CABS in Zimbabwe, one of the largest and most complex such installations in the region, as well as at NIC Bank in 2003. Ron has both the business and technical skills required to assist in strategy, development and implementation.

Julia Matthewman
Group Managing Director
Julia joined the company as a founder member in 1997 after completing a project administration contract with an international consortium in Denmark. With solid operational and administrative experience gained in Australia, Europe and Africa, Julia has developed a high level of expertise in this business over the past 9 years. She has been responsible for Paynet's regional product management and for the establishment of the outsource card processing and call centre operations. Her current portfolio includes management of outsource and internal operations and project implementation for customers joining the Card Centre, ATM Outsource operation and PesaPoint services. 

Richard Coate
Deputy Group Managing Director and Managing Director of PesaPoint
Richard is extensively experienced in operational and logistics management and is responsible for development of supplier agreements, especially for the PesaPoint network. He drives the end to end operations for the Service Delivery team, which includes ATM sites identification, lease agreements, architectural designs, licensing, civil works management, site preparation and sign off and ATM transport and installation. Richard worked with Homegrown (Kenya) Ltd a leading horticultural company in Kenya for 12 years and was for the last 2 years an Executive Director of the company.
Richard spearheaded the team that rolled out over 110 PesaPoint ATMs in 8 months.

Kathleen Ithau
General Manager –Business Development
Kathleen previously worked as Head of Electronic Banking at Standard Chartered Bank and has over seven years experience in e-banking sales, implementation and support. Kathleen now manages the Group’s Business Development division. She is directly involved in managing Financial Institutions and client relationships and in marketing Paynet's products and processes in the business environment.

Shaun Mumford
General Manager EFT
Shaun has been involved in IT since 1985 and is outstanding at understanding requirements and ensuring that the correct solutions are developed. Shaun is particularly strong in his overall IT knowledge and experience and he now leads the development of the Paynet product from a day to day perspective.

Jack Ronoh
Head of Operations
As Manager Card Centre Jack Ronoh, oversees the management of the centre’s operations and providing card related solutions from a day to day perspective. Jack has over seven years experience in the card business having been involved in the rollout for Standard Chartered Bank’s card projects in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. He has in depth knowledge of Visa International rules and procedures in card management.

Romana Rajput
General Manager – Paynet Kenya
Romana Rajput is the Service Standards Manager responsible for driving the Call Centre and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and has extensive experience in the IT Industry within East and Southern Africa having worked as an IT Business Development Consultant in Tanzania for 2 years and 11 years in Standard Chartered Bank Shared Service Centre based in Nairobi, as an IT Disaster Recovery Co-ordinator and IT Service Standards Manager managing customer and supplier Service Levels.