SecondFloor Opens New Business Unit in Paris

AMSTERDAM - SecondFloor announces the opening of their French office, expanding the network of the SecondFloor group to four business units in the Netherlands, Germany, the Nordics (in preparation) and France.

Paul Collard, former Senior Vice President of ING Card, will take the lead in establishing SecondFloor’s business unit in Paris as General Manager.

Paul Collard started his career at Postbank Netherlands. In 1995 he stepped up to the international retail division of ING where he was responsible for the marketing conception of ING Direct with the first successful introduction of direct banking in Canada. Later responsible for business development he and his teams implemented ING Direct in Australia, France and Italy. In 2000 he became a board member of ING Direct in France. After 3 successful years he joined ING Card, in charge of Marketing and International Business development, introducing the ING credit card concept successfully in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Romania and China, together with SecondFloor, who supplied technology, project management and business knowledge.

Paul Collard states “I’ve known SecondFloor for several years, having worked together on the various successful ING Card introductions and I strongly believe in the no nonsense project approach, team spirit and value for money qualities. Therefore, I’m very excited to join the team of SecondFloor. The time was right to open an office in Paris, from where we can now offer our trademark fixed price - fixed date projects with innovative software solutions, tools and services in the domains of Risk Management and Cards & Payments. With my experience and our combined expertise, we are convinced we can leave our mark in the French and Belgian financial market.”

About SecondFloor

SecondFloor is an innovative and dynamic IT company. With comprehensive expertise of the financial industry and ICT worldwide, we level up the effectiveness of your business by managing changes and delivering business solutions based on fixed price and fixed date agreements.

SecondFloor has levelled up the business of many renowned financial institutions in the domain of risk management, card issuance and payments. We listen well to our clients’ business needs and translate them into award winning IT solutions that will move their business up to the next level.

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Source: SecondFloor B.V.

SecondFloor France can be found at: Tour Pacific, 11, Cours Valmy, 92977 Paris La Défense, France, Telephone: +33-17329-478; For more information: Paul Collard p.collard at secondfloor.nl, +33-173294789/+31-650899885