Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages and payments, today announced key new sales appointments.

Rick Salk joins Volante as Global Head of Sales. Additionally, Nihit Ahuja, Ali Mentesh, Vidya Subramaniam and Peter Martin join as Sales Directors. Nihit, Ali and Vidya will be based in Volante’s London City office while Peter is based in Volante’s Dubai office.

2015 saw the launch of the VolPay suite of products designed to enable Volante’s customers to benefit from improved business agility in the on-boarding, integration and orchestration of payments processing.  Increased market interest in Volante’s VolPay suite, has necessitated the need for a significantly enhanced sales operation.

Rick Salk joins from Misys Banking Systems in the US where he was a key member of the sales team for more than twenty years and was most recently, Director North America.  At Volante, Rick will be based at Volante’s Headquarters in Jersey City and will oversee the further development and expansion of Volante’s global sales operations. Rick reports into Vijay Oddiraju, Chief Executive Officer, Volante Technologies.

Nihit Ahuja joins from Fundtech (now D+H), the firm he was with for more than ten years ending his tenure in the role of Senior Sales Manager – UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa.  Ali Mentesh joins from FIS where he was responsible for bringing end-to-end payments solutions and financial supply chain propositions to market. Prior to FIS, Ali was at ACI and Visa. Vidya Subramaniam, also joins with over fifteen years experience of account development in Investment Banking in senior business and account development roles at Syntel and Polaris.  Nihit, Ali and Vidya’s responsibilities will focus across the UK and European region.

Peter Martin joins Volante from Misys Middle East where he was responsible for account management and new business development.  Peter will be focusing on new business development within the Middle East.

Vijay Oddiraju, CEO, Volante Technologies, commented, “We are experiencing a clear and growing appetite for our VolPay suite of payment integration and processing products which is reflected in the need to expand our sales team. The fact that executives of the calibre of Rick, Nihit, Ali, Vidya and Peter are attracted to Volante, I see as testament to the progress we continue to make in the payments space. I look forward to their contribution towards our growth plans in the coming years.”

Rick Salk, Global Head of Sales, Volante Technologies, added, “I have followed Volante for some time now and their experience in the field of financial message integration and processing is abundantly clear to me as market leading.  The launch of the VolPay suite in 2015 and understanding how it could positively contribute to the payments industry is a compelling and exciting proposition for me. I look forward to developing and growing Volante’s global sales operations to enable the market to take full advantage of Volante’s products.”