Steve O’Neill joins PayPoint as Marketing Director

Welwyn Garden City, 3 February 2014:  PayPoint, the UK’s leading payments and services provider, has appointed Steve O’Neill to the newly created position of Marketing Director for its retail networks in the UK and Ireland.

Steve O’Neill has extensive experience as a marketing leader in the banking, telecoms and retail sectors. Having joined HSBC in 2008, he was most recently Head of Retail Marketing, with responsibility for the development and delivery of marketing communications across the both the retail and direct to consumer channels. Prior to HSBC, Steve held senior roles at Carphone Warehouse, Orange and John Lewis.
 
Steve will be responsible for the development of PayPoint’s strategic marketing, consumer insight and brand development agendas across the retail network’s key stakeholders of retailers, clients and consumers.

Seamus Smith, Managing Director of PayPoint UK & Ireland, said: “I am delighted to welcome Steve to PayPoint. This is one of several key appointments to ensure we effectively build on the innovation, investments and achievements of the last few years to become the best performing retail payments and services network in the UK.”

Steve O’Neill added: “The PayPoint brand is already well recognised throughout the retail industry and among its loyal customer base – it’s exciting to be joining a business that has such consumer reach, breadth of services and real social benefits at the core of its proposition. I am looking forward to engaging with our customers, clients and retailers in creative, insightful and innovative ways that help drive real value for them and for the business.”

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