Bango plc announced a strengthening of its board of directors to accelerate the global rollout of the Bango Payment Platform with its major partners. Gerry Tucker, who has served as Bango CFO from November 2012 to March 2016, has accepted the role of Strategic Partnerships Director. Gerry will focus high level attention on the financial and regulatory structures that the company is putting in place to support the growth ambitions of key partners around the world.

In recent months Gerry has led the company's activities enabling strategic partners to use the Bango Payment Platform to enter new, and traditionally complex markets for Direct Carrier Billing (DCB), including Brazil, India and Nigeria. Prior to joining the company, Gerry had extensive experience delivering complex payments solutions, including establishing trading structures in Europe and Asia for major computer games publishers, Virgin /Sega and Take Two, and distribution networks for Activision's Guitar Hero. He is a representative Director on behalf of the company in several Bango subsidiaries.

Gerry's successor as CFO is Rachel Elias-Jones, who is appointed to the board with immediate effect. Rachel has worked as the company's Financial Controller for four years, developing and running the finance team to drive innovation of critical finance functions and ensure commercial flexibility for Bango partners. Rachel is responsible for overall financial management of the company, for corporate financial functions and for the company's financial relationships with partners.