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Sequent appoints Andrew Doyle as Managing Director for EMEA

Tuesday, July 22, 2014 — 11:51:56 (EDT)

Mountain View, Calif., July 22, 2014 -- Sequent Software, the world’s leading provider of digital issuance and open wallet platform-as-a-service, today announced the appointment of Andrew Doyle as the company’s Managing Director for EMEA. In this role, Doyle will be responsible for directing and accelerating the growth and presence of Sequent’s expanding business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He will be based in London.

“Andrew has a strong track record of selling emerging mobile security and payment solutions to global corporations,” said John Kirst, Chief Revenue Officer of Sequent. “He will be instrumental in leading our EMEA market initiatives and helping Sequent serve the increasing demand we have seen in this key region for Host Card Emulation (HCE) mobile payments and digital issuance.”

Throughout his career, Doyle has delivered consistent, significant organizational growth as well as driven sales in new markets. He comes to Sequent most recently from Oberthur Technologies, a French secure technology company that provides digital security solutions for the mobility space. As Head of Sales Solutions for Europe, Russia and CIS, Doyle was responsible for Oberthur’s strong new business growth in those markets as well as the management of internal channels through other divisions of the company.

Previously, Doyle headed up sales, pre sales, marketing, delivery and support teams for both start-ups and large corporations having held senior positions at Telepo AB (acquired by Mitel Corp), Connexn Technologies (acquired by British Telecom), Global Crossing (acquired by Level 3 Communication) and Racal Telecom (acquired by Thomson-CSN, now Thales Group).

“I’m very excited about my new role with Sequent. They have an established reputation in the industry for innovation on security products and mobile payments leadership,” said Andrew Doyle, Sequent’s Managing Director, EMEA. “Their game-changing patented solutions make it simple for existing mobile apps to perform payment transactions at physical merchants and are paving the way for a new global wave of mobile payments. Their HCE Solution is market leading and sets the gold standard for secure transactional payments in the Cloud.”

Doyle received a Degree in Business Studies from University College Dublin.

About Us Sequent is the world’s leading provider of digital issuance and open wallet platform-as-a-service that delivers secure mobile payments and value-added services to banks, mobile operators, merchants and access control providers. With Sequent, customers can extend digitized cards to trusted applications for an open ecosystem of partners and developers while maintaining the strictest requirements of highly secure, regulated industries. Sequent products include: Open Wallet Platform, Digital Issuance and Trust Authority. Sequent is endorsed and used by major customers on four continents. For more information visit www.sequent.com , follow us @sequentsw.

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Source: Company press release.