# Boku, Inc. Appoint Stewart Roberts to the board

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/boku-inc-appoint-stewart-roberts-to-the-board/412801076
- Published: 2019-12-17T07:08:24+00:00
- Author: Giles Arbor

**Boku** (LON: BOKU), the world’s leading independent direct carrier commerce company,
has announced that Stewart Roberts will join the Company from the 1st January 2020
as an independent Non-Executive Director. He will also chair the Company’s audit
committee and be a member of the remuneration committee.

Stewart has over 30 years of experience in payments, banking and technology, across
both start-ups and institutional employers and is a recognised payments industry
expert in both the traditional and emerging payments space, as well as the mobile
application sector. Stewart had previous roles as Global Director of Innovation 
for Barclaycard and Head of International – Merchant Services for the Royal Bank
of Scotland Group. More recently, Stewart was CFO and then Executive Vice President
of iZettle AB and was a key member of the team that agreed the sale of iZettle to
PayPal in May 2018 for US$2.2 billion.

> **Jon Prideaux, Boku CEO, commented:**
> “We are delighted to welcome Stewart to the Boku Board. He brings very valuable
> experience and an in-depth knowledge of the global payments sector to the Company,
> which will further strengthen the Board. I and my fellow Board members look forward
> to working with him as we continue to execute our growth strategy.”

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