RS2 Software p.l.c. announced the formation of its North American Board (RS2Software Inc.) with eight key appointments as from the 12 September 2018: Osama Bedier, OB Rawls, Souheil Badran, Kai Schmitz, Daniela Mielke, Radi El Haj, Mario Schembri and John Elkins who will serve as Chairman. Osama Bedier is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Poynt. Mr. Bedier also serves on the Boards of QIWI, VEON and PayRange. O'Bealie Rawls is the Strategic Advisor to the CEO of Paysafe. Prior to this role, O.B. was the CEO and President of iPayment and served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager, Partner Solutions, First Data. His expansive career also includes executive leadership roles with Hypercom, Caredata, Unified Merchant Services and Bank of America. Mr. Rawls also serves on the boards of Appetizer. Souheil Badran Souheil Badran served as President of Alipay, Americas and was responsible for driving the expansion of Alipay, one of the world's leading digital payment and lifestyle platforms. Prior to his executive leadership role with Alipay, Souheil served as President and CEO of Edo Interactive. His career also includes executive roles at Digital River, First Data Corporation, and VeriSign. Mr. Badran serves on the Presidential Advisory Council of the Electronic Transactions Association and the Board of the Children's Cancer Research Fund. Kai Schmitz leads IFC's Fintech investments in Latin America and Africa. Before joining IFC, Kai led the Remittance Team at the Payment Systems Development Group of the World Bank where he was advising governments, central banks and multilateral organizations on payment system regulation and policy. Amongst other things he led the groups advisory work with the G20 on market and regulatory issues. Previously Schmitz co-founded and later became Executive Vice President and COO of MFIC. Daniela Mielke is the CEO of RS2 Software Inc. In prior roles, Daniela served as the Chief Strategy and Product Officer of Vantiv (now Worldpay), VP of Strategy at Paypal and SVP of Global Strategy at Visa International. She started her career with Nestle and McKinsey. Daniela also serves on the Board of FINCA International. Radi El Haj is the CEO of RS2 Software. El Haj joined RS2 in 1997 as a Project Manager and was appointed Chief Executive Office in January 2012. Mario Schembri is the Chairman of RS2 Software Plc. Before joining RS2 in 1999 as a regional manager Schembri had more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry. He was the CEO of RS2 Software Plc from 2008 to 2012. John Elkins currently serves on the boards of FINCA International, ELATERAL Ltd. TRAVELEX INC. and RS2 Software P.L.C. John retired as President, International Regions from First Data in June 2015. A global leader in electronic payments with operations in 35 countries, John had full P & L responsibility for over 8,000 employees and all markets outside of the United States. Between 2002-7 he served as Executive VP and Global CMO for Visa International. John was the founder, former Chairman and CEO of FutureBrand, consultancies.