
Steve Chambers joins Monitise.
Monitise has announced the appointment of Steve Chambers. Visa Europe’s CIO Steve Chambers joins Monitise as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
Steven Robert Chambers, aged 54, has extensive technical expertise, having spent most of his career in the payments sector. As Chief Information Officer at Visa Europe, Steve has been responsible for Visa Europe’s processing business which means regional data centres and business operations, enterprise architecture, technology and system build, all change management and Visa Europe’s processing centre of excellence.
Steve joined Visa in 2005 and managed the delivery of the Visa Europe authorisation service in 2006 as the first step in the creation of a European payments platform. At the same time he built the organisation and infrastructure needed to compete this journey and deliver best in class service to the Visa Europe world.
Monitise Chief Executive Alastair Lukies commented on the appointment: “We are delighted that Steve is joining the Board at such and exciting time. Steve’s deep understanding of combining the very latest technology trends in payments and banking with the essential levels of reliability and scalability as well as his wealth of commercial experience will be an invaluable addition to our Board as we focus on the next phase of our growth.”
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