Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. Announces Resignation of Mr. Afshin Yazdian as President, Effective January 17, 2020
January 14, 2020 at 09:43 pm
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On January 9, 2020, Mr. Afshin Yazdian informed Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. that he will resign from his position as President of the Company's Consumer Payments (core acquiring) operating segment, effective January 17, 2020. Mr. Yazdian joined the Company upon its merger with Pipeline Cynergy Holdings, LLC in 2014, where Mr. Yazdian had served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Upon resignation from his current role, Mr. Yazdian will serve the Company as an adviser to its board of directors.
Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a solution provider in payments and banking as a service (BaaS) industry, operating at a scale with 860,000 active customers across its small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), business-to-business and enterprise customer channels. The Company has three segments. SMB Acquiring Solutions segment provides full-service acquiring and payment-enabled solutions for business-to-consumer transactions, leveraging its proprietary software platform, distributed through independent sales organizations (ISO), direct sales and vertically focused independent software vendor (ISV) channels. B2B Payables segment provides accounts payable (AP) automation solutions to corporations, software partners and industry financial institutions (FI), including Citibank and Mastercard. Enterprise Payments and BaaS segment provides embedded finance and BaaS solutions for customers to modernize legacy platforms and accelerate software partners' strategies to monetize payments.