Flywire appoints Carleigh Jaques to its Board of Directors
November 20 2024 - 8:00AM
Flywire Corporation (Nasdaq: FLYW) (Flywire), a global payments
enablement and software company, today is announcing the
appointment of Carleigh Jaques to its Board of Directors, effective
immediately. Ms. Jaques will also serve as a member of the Audit
Committee of Flywire’s Board of Directors.
Ms. Jaques brings extensive experience in financial technology,
payments, risk and capital markets to Flywire’s Board of Directors.
She previously led multiple strategic and operational teams over
the span of a 15-year career at Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V), where she was
most recently the SVP, Global Head of Risk & Identity
Solutions. In this role, she accelerated the growth of Visa’s
global fraud detection business, which supports financial
institutions and merchants with capabilities to make real-time
decisions and authenticate account holders across Visa, the world’s
largest payment network, and other payment types. Prior to that,
Ms. Jaques was SVP and Global Head of Acceptance Solutions at Visa,
where she led the transformation of the company’s merchant and
acquirer capabilities including Tap to Phone, urban mobility and
merchant digital solutions. In her prior role as SVP and GM of
Visa’s Cybersource business, Ms. Jaques led one of the world’s
largest digital gateways, including its international expansion,
sales model transformation and entry into new markets, such as face
to face acceptance. Earlier in her tenure at Visa, Ms. Jaques
founded the Corporate Development and Venture function and led a
number of strategic investments through joint ventures and
acquisitions, including Visa's $23 billion acquisition of Visa
Europe. Prior to joining Visa, Ms. Jaques was a technology
investment banker.
Ms. Jaques is an Advisory Board Member at the Wharton AI &
Analytics Initiative and has previously been named among the Most
Influential Women in Payments by PaymentsSource. She holds a B.A.
from the University of Michigan and an MBA from The Wharton School
at the University of Pennsylvania.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Carleigh to our Board of Directors. Her
proven track record of accelerating growth across a number of
Visa’s most strategic initiatives makes her a powerful addition to
our team,” said Mike Massaro, Flywire CEO. “We look forward to her
guidance as we continue to grow and scale Flywire, creating great
value for our clients, payers and shareholders.”
“I’m honored to be joining Flywire at a pivotal time for the
Company,” said Carleigh Jaques. “I know firsthand how difficult it
is to tackle the complex payment challenges that Flywire continues
to successfully solve, and I believe that Flywire’s unique
combination of software and payments capabilities make it well
positioned to continue to drive value for its clients and payers
into the future.”
About Flywire
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company. We
combine our proprietary global payments network, next-gen payments
platform and vertical-specific software to deliver the most
important and complex payments for our clients and their
customers.
Flywire leverages its vertical-specific software and payments
technology to deeply embed within the existing A/R workflows for
its clients across the education, healthcare and travel vertical
markets, as well as in key B2B industries. Flywire also integrates
with leading ERP systems, such as NetSuite, so organizations can
optimize the payment experience for their customers while
eliminating operational challenges.
Flywire supports more than 4,000* clients with diverse payment
methods in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and
territories around the world. Flywire is headquartered in Boston,
MA, USA with global offices. For more information, visit
www.flywire.com. Follow Flywire on X (formerly known as Twitter),
LinkedIn and Facebook.
*Excludes clients from Flywire’s Invoiced acquisition
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Media Contacts
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Investor Relations Contact
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