Gabriel de Montessus joins FinTech platform Toqio as chairman

By Gloria Methri

FinTech SaaS provider Toqio has announced a new chairman. Gabriel de Montessus, CEO of Worldpay Global Enterprise, will lead the board to ensure Toqio stays on track in its mission to become the platform of choice for building FinTech solutions.

Montessus will draw on its background in the payments industry to help Toqio develop a winning strategy. He will be a key player in driving operational and organizational efficiency, act as a business partner to the CEO and advise on senior management execution in focus areas over the next 36 months. This will include Tokyo’s international expansion, revenue growth, governance and others.

The Toqio platform allows businesses to create and launch their own fully branded banking or finance solutions. It removes the need to build and manage complex software solutions through the SaaS platform and a marketplace for banking and FinTech partners.

When he joined the Toqio board, Gabriel de Montessussaid, “I have been following what Toqio has been doing for some time and am impressed with what the team has achieved so far. The company has the potential to revolutionize the FinTech industry and I look forward to helping the Toqio team achieve their mission to enable the creation and delivery of embedded finance through its world-class platform.”

At Worldpay, Montessus is responsible for the Global Enterprise business, with activities and teams worldwide (EMEA, APAC, Latam and North America). Prior to joining Worldpay, he was EVP of the Merchant Services Business Unit at Ingenico Group, which he joined in 2017 as CEO of Ingenico ePayments & Global Online, leading a successful turnaround of the company’s operations.

He has broad experience in technology and digital industries and has a strong interest in exponential technologies. Montessus is educated at Université Paris Dauphine, EM Lyon and Singularity University.

Eduardo Martinez Garcia, CEO and co-founder of Toqiocommented, “We are incredibly excited to have Gabriel lead our board! His extensive experience in financial services and scaling highly successful businesses will be incredibly valuable to Toqio. We are confident that he will contribute massively to our mission: to become the platform of choice for companies that require an excellent and accessible embedded finance solution.”