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Metropolis appoints three new advisers Harlow CEO Diego Vazquez said Sidhom's experience
scaling payments businesses and serving merchants glob-
Metropolis appointed former DraftKings CFO Jason Park, ally will be instrumental as the company expands its
former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and retired U.S. product offerings, partnerships and merchant relation-
Navy Rear Admiral Hugh Wyman Howard III as advis- ships.
ers. Park will advise on financial strategy and growth,
Garcetti on public-private partnerships and urban infra- TRWD welcomes Jeremy Woertink
structure, and Howard on security and critical infrastruc- to its advisory board
ture. The appointments come as Metropolis expands
its AI-powered platform for checkout-free commerce, Technology and payments veteran Jeremy Woertink
mobility and digital payments. Following its acquisition joined the advisory board of Tradewinds Universal to
of SP+ in 2024, the company has become North America's support its financial services division. Woertink is cur-
largest parking operator, processing more than $5 billion rently engaged in developing payment infrastructure
in annual transaction volume. supporting subscriptions, token-based purchases and
creator payouts at Joystick.tv.
Harlow Payments appoints Ray Sidhom
He previously served as CTO of Namechk.com, helping
Payments veteran Ray Sidhom was appointed executive scale the platform to nearly 1 million username searches
chairman of Harlow Payments. Sidhom founded EVO daily and has experience in web and mobile application
Payments, building it into a global payment technol- development, software architecture, Ruby and JavaScript.
ogy company before its $4 billion acquisition by Global In his advisory role, Woertink will help develop a pay-
Payments in 2022. He previously helped lead Harlow's ment gateway application and evaluate potential technol-
acquisition of embedded payments provider PayFactory ogy acquisitions.
and has supported the company's international expan-
sion. As executive chairman, Sidhom will help guide
Harlow's long-term strategy and growth.

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