US financial IT and consultancy firm Carreker Corporation has appointed Ram Puppala as chief technology officer and Geoffrey Geane as sales director at its global payments technologies (GPT) division.
Puppala has thirteen years of experience in high-tech development, consulting and management roles, including head of technology for E*Trade International. He has also worked at FNStar.
Geane was previously director of financial industry sales for Oracle Corporation. Prior to this he was regional sales manager at TRW Financial Systems. He has also worked at HNC (now part of Fair Isaacs Company) where he was head, North America sales.