Paris-based mobile payments firm Upaid has appointed Richard Owen and Ken Parkinson as senior vice president, business development and senior vice president, sales, respectively.
Owen was previously at Trintech Technologies where he was senior sales manager for the Emea region.
Prior to this he was sales director, western Europe, for Globeset, sales and marketing manager, Emea, at Intracom and UK sales manager, business electronics, for Philips Consumer Electronics.
Parkinson joins Upaid from Empower Interactive where he was regional director, southern Europe. Before this he was the senior vice president, sales and marketing at GlobeiD Software and European sales and marketing director at NetObjects.
He has also worked at Stream, Xircom, Travelling Software and Zenith Data Systems.