Liesl Smith, former Head of Global Payments Communications at Western Union has moved to a regional Marcomms role with Verifone.
Prior to joining Verifone, Smith was responsible for the B2B global payments communications at Western Union, across five major markets including US, UK and Australia. At Western Union, she helped to launch the WU EDGE web-based platform which facilitates cross-border payments between businesses.
Smith had a distinguished twenty-year career at the BBC and led the media and communications function at the Federation of Small Businesses representing circa 200,000 enterprises across the UK.
Verifone is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California that provides technology for electronic payment transactions and value-added services at the point-of-sale. In Europe, it has clients throughout the region with offices across all key European cities.