Indigenous Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Company, Chams Plc, has announced the appointment of Mr. Gavin Young as its new Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.
Young succeeds Mr. Sunday Olufemi Williams, who is retiring from the company after 28 years of service. Young’s appointment takes effect from November 1, 2019.
A notification from the company signed by the Company Secretary, Mrs. Yetunde Emmanuel, stated that Williams would proceed on a three-month terminal leave from September 2, 2019, wherein Young steps into the GMD position in acting capacity until November, after which he comes substantive helmsman.
“I am very confident in the capacity of Gavin to lead Chams to the next level and assure all our stakeholders of a smooth transition as Gavin already understands the system,” Williams said.
Young is a seasoned Fintech professional with a proven track record in managing companies with specific focus on all areas of Electronic Banking and Fintech. His career cuts across 20 years at First National Bank of South Africa, seven years at Visa as Country Manager, sub-Saharan Africa. In 2007, he joined UBA as Senior General Manager, Cards, and since 2009, he has worked (on a full-time and part-time basis) with the Chams Plc Group of Companies as Managing Director of ChamsSwitch and Deputy managing Director of Chams Mobile, among other roles.
Chams PLC is Nigeria’s leading provider of integrated identity management and identity and payments transactional systems and solutions provider. Over the last three decades, Chams has evolved from computer and hardware maintenance to providing enterprise technology solutions in the identity management and transaction payments space to public and private sector institutions.
