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Long Beach, NY-based Planet Payment has Appointed Charles J. Giglia as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Payments without borders. Planet is a payments partner focused on international spenders with a mission to simplify complex payments, helping people spend freely. Founded over 30 years ago in Ireland, Planet now employs over 1,500 staff in 60+ markets across five continents. Serving over 500,000 merchants and 100 partner banks, Planet manages in excess of 500 million transactions worth more than €23 billion in value. Helping merchants, acquirers and shoppers navigate the complex world of international payments, Planet partners with businesses to exceed the needs of their international customers.
About the Person
Charles Giglia has been an Independent Management Consultant since April 2011, advising businesses on strategic and technology matters. Mr. Giglia was previously a founder of DealerTrack Technologies, Inc. serving as SVP Chief Information Officer from 2000 through 2009 and thereafter as Senior Vice President until 2011. As part of the executive team that spun off Dealertrack from JP Morgan Chase, Mr. Giglia helped build DealerTrack into a public company, as a leading provider of on demand solutions for the retail auto industry. Mr Giglia joined JP Morgan Chase in 1976 and rose to a position of VP Software and Infrastructure Engineering – Chase Retail Lending, in which capacity he served from 1994 until 2000. Mr. Giglia holds a BS in computer science and a MBA in management, with a specialty in management information systems from New York Institute of Technology.
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