PassKit announces new hire Juliette Gimenez as Senior Vice President, International

SHEUNG WAN, Hong Kong - July 16, 2013 - PRLog -- Hong Kong, 16 July 2013 - PassKit, the world leading company powering Passbook, is pleased to announce the recent hire of Juliette Gimenez as Senior Vice President, International. Juliette will be leading the company's global expansion, sales team, and driving revenue, product strategy, as well as general management responsibilities.

Juliette's appointment comes exactly 1 year after PassKit was born; the day Apple announced Passbook. "PassKit has already made Apple Passbook possible for thousands of businesses, agencies and developers; businesses that, previously, never dreamed of delivering their customers this level of sophistication and convenience so easily, and affordably. Our products and services continue to help an ever growing customer base benefit the most from the Mobile Wallet revolution." said Paul Tomes, CEO & Co-Founder at PassKit. "Juliette's vast sales experience along with broad industry knowledge, leadership acumen, and track record of success are exactly what we need for the next major phase of growth."

Juliette comes to PassKit with over 9 years of experience in developing and managing multi-country sales teams, marketing and business development, consultancy within the Internet & Technology industry and Investment Banking in London and Asia.

As the former Director of Sales, Asia at LivingSocial, the Washington D.C. based international daily deals company, Juliette has played a key role in strategic sales planning & execution as well as dramatically scaling products and services revenue for its Korea & South East Asia

business. Prior to that, Juliette served as the Vice President of uBuyiBuy, the leading HK-based daily deal startup, which was subsequently acquired by Groupon, Inc. At Groupon HK, she was instrumental in growing its core daily deals business and expanding its product offering to both travel & retail sectors, helped growing the company’s revenue over 1100% within 1 year. Groupon Inc went officially public in Nov 2011.

Juliette holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics at University of Bath and she has lived and worked in 6 countries.

Juliette’s passion and charismatic leadership could be felt when she
said: “I am absolutely delighted to join PassKit at such an exciting time! PassKit shows enormous potential and opportunity to redefine the customer experience between retailers and their customers. We integrate advertising, communication, loyalty, offers and payment experience under a single touch through a smartphone. I look forward accelerating growth and taking the company global with both of my co-founders, Paul Tomes & Nick Murray. PassKit is defining the future, it is no longer necessary to carry both a phone and a wallet.”

About Passkit

Founded in June 2012, PassKit is the world leading company powering passbook and has been the leading authority in the mobile wallet revolution. PassKit provides users with the technology and capabilities to confidently and effectively realize the potential of the mobile wallet. Currently it has penetrations in USA, Japan, Sweden, Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong, issued 1 /2 million passes globally. More information about the company can be found at http://passkit.com/ and http://news.passkit.com

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