Houston Ross
TECHNOLOGY
“ When I arrived at Paidy , security was a part of our engineering operations . One of the first things I did was pull it away from engineering and set it on its own course ,” claims Houston .
There are several risks to consider within the fintech industry , with the P2P platform addressing operational risk , cyber risk , and risks within underlying technology . As the business grows , Paidy is adopting partnerships with companies such as Nexmo and AWS . “ We work with partners like Nexmo , which targets SMS messaging – a key factor to our technology operations as well our consumers and invoices . We run our business in the cloud on AWS Stack , and there are other services like Circle-CI that we ’ re leveraging as well because they ’ re on our continuous integration .”
The network is becoming increasingly popular in Japan as it is revolutionising the industry and targeting both the mass market and business . “ The relationship between users and merchants is critical to every interaction , and everyone involved is having to build trust . In that 157 EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Houston Ross
Houston Ross recently joined Paidy as the firm ’ s Chief Technology Officer . Prior to October last year , Houston was positioned as the Chief Operations Officer for Czech Republic and Slovakia at Nationale Nederlanden , as well as being a Board Member . The innovation-focused executive has also worked for NN ’ s Life Insurance Company as the Vice President , Chief Operations Officer , and Chief Information Officer , as well as AXA Life Insurance Japan as the Chief Technology Officer . Houston graduated from Barrington University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science and the University of Liverpool in 2007 with a Master of Business Administration degree .
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