ACI Worldwide opens headquarters in Brazil

ACIs new executive appointments include: Andreas Suma, vice president and general manager for Latin America, Jonathan Lerner, vice president and general manager for US Banks, and Cliff Elam, vice president of Americas operations and planning. They join recent appointments Rob Cameron, vice president and general manager for US retail, US processors and Canada, and Erik Golz, vice president of solution consulting. They will report to Jeremy Wilmot, senior vice president and managing director of Americas, ACI Worldwide.

Andreas Suma joins ACI from IBM Global Business Services, where he worked with financial services companies on business analytics and optimisation.

Jonathan Lerner joins ACI from SAP, where he spent the last ten years in senior sales positions, most recently as North American vice president, database and technology.

Cliff Elam has a ten year experience as senior sales operations at Oracle, leads Americas operations and planning at ACI. At Oracle, he was vice president of the North American proposal response group, vice president of business development for North America sales and vice president of North America and global sales operations.

In recent news, ACI Worldwide has extended its relationship with VocaLink, an operator of the UK’s national payment infrastructure, with a nine-year agreement.