Know Your Customer, a Hong Kong headquartered Regtech specialist has announced the appointment of new senior level executive in its leadership team. As per statement released by the firm it has on-boarded Mr. Jamie Anderson to serve as its Head of Sales for the Asia-Pacific region. Know Your Customer was established in 2015 by a group of like-minded industry veterans in-order to build a state of the art platform which can revolutionize KYC compliance and digital customer onboarding process. Over the course of last five years the firm has grown to become one of the leading specialists in the sector which provides best in class anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) compliance digital solutions to firms from across the world. The firm has achieved this status by centralizing the KYC/AML process for all kinds of clients within one product solution thereby bolstering compliance process while also facilitating cost reduction and exceptional onboarding experiences to both individuals and corporate entities.
The incoming executive is an experienced sales leader with more than fifteen years of experience in implementing highly successful sales strategies and building sales teams in financial services markets from both Asian-Pacific and European market regions. Prior to joining Know Your Customer, he held numerous senior level management roles across industry leading firms having most recently served as Senior Sales Manager at FIS responsible for the firm’s banking and financial services domain across North and South East Asia. Before that he served as Head of Investment Banking and Private Equity for South East Asian region at S&P Global Market Intelligence based out of Singapore and as Director of Sales division for sell side clients at S&P Capital IQ Financial Communications in London. He began his career in financial services industry as a business analyst at Thomson Reuters post graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business information system from University of West England.
Commenting on Jamie’s addition to the team, Claus Christensen, CEO & Co-Founder of Know Your Customer said, “It is my pleasure to welcome Jamie Anderson as Know Your Customer’s new Head of Sales in APAC. Jamie’s financial technology expertise and experience in building highly effective sales teams will be fundamental in further developing Know Your Customer’s sales function across the region. As a fast-growing RegTech organization, we recognise the importance of Hong Kong, Singapore, China and the overall APAC region, and we are deeply committed to expanding our business across these highly strategic markets”.
Speaking about his new role at the firm, Mr. Anderson stated, “I am responsible for the strategic development of Know Your Customer’s sales function and routes to market across APAC. My primary focus is to successfully engage compliance experts across regulated sectors and guide clients at every step of their innovation and RegTech implementation journey” in his LinkedIn account.
