PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 12, 2014--
Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) today announced it has named Joshua
Goines as General Manager of GoBank. GoBank is Green Dot’s
award-winning, FDIC-insured checking account offering and in this
position, Joshua will be responsible for GoBank’s overall strategy and
operations.
Joshua Goines, General Manager of GoBank (Photo: Business Wire)
Mr. Goines joins Green Dot from PayPal, where he most recently served as
Senior Director, Head of Retail Market Development and played an
integral role in overseeing the strategy and execution to grow PayPal’s
retail offline business. In this role, Mr. Goines and his team quickly
scaled PayPal’s retail acceptance network. He also helped launch and
manage a series of key industry partnerships, including Discover
Financial Services.
“Josh has an impressive professional background with a strong track
record of success in establishing and growing innovative payments and
mobile technology businesses,” said Kostas Sgoutas, Green Dot’s Chief
Revenue Officer. “We are excited to have him on board and look forward
to his contributions as we continue to develop and drive growth of our
GoBank bank account.”
Prior to PayPal, Mr. Goines served as Chief Financial Officer of Tempo
Payments, Inc., a leading company in the decoupled debit card niche that
was named top financial services startup by Fast Company and was
acquired by Vantiv. While at Tempo, Mr. Goines developed the strategy
for the payment industry’s first SaaS solution that enabled customers to
cost-effectively offer co-branded payment cards and which received a
CODiE Award for Best Open Source Solution.
“Green Dot continues to be a pioneer in payments and technology,
bringing disruptive financial services products to consumers,” said Mr.
Goines. “I’ve watched the company innovate and evolve the prepaid debit
card space over the years and I’m looking forward to being part of the
team to do the same in the mobile bank account arena.”
Mr. Goines holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of
Business and graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Economics and Spanish
from Claremont McKenna College.
About Green Dot
Green Dot Corporation is a technology-centric, pro-consumer Bank Holding
Company with a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses. The
company is the largest provider of prepaid debit card products and
prepaid card reloading services in the United States, as well as a
leader in mobile banking with its GoBank mobile bank account offering.
Green Dot Corporation products are available to consumers at more than
90,000 retailers nationwide, online and via the leading app stores. The
company is headquartered in Pasadena, California, with its bank
subsidiary, Green Dot Bank, located in Provo, Utah.
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