Patersons Adds Tim O'Donoghue and Richard Davies to Its Executive Management Team.

Patersons, a supplier of integrated global payroll services delivering expert solutions to clients in more than 160 countries, has announced two strategic executive new hires -Tim O'Donoghue as CTO and Richard Davies as VP of Delivery.

In a release, the Company said that as CTO, O'Donoghue will be responsible for leading the technology strategy and R&D investment behind Patersons' integrated global payroll services. A software product executive with 20 years of software engineering and software product development experience, O'Donoghue's expertise includes consumer internet, banking/financial services, enterprise software, interactive voice solutions, secure electronic payments, and high-tech research and development. Most recently, he served as the CTO for alternative investments at SunGard Financial Systems.

During his career, O'Donoghue also held the roles of VP of Custom Advertising Solutions for international markets and VP of Engineering for Europe and Canada at Yahoo!, as well as Head of Development at Misys Banking Systems.

The new VP of Delivery for Patersons, Davies has responsibility for Patersons' Delivery teams, ensuring all engagements are delivered on time and at the highest quality. He joins Patersons after serving as the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) services director at SaaS vendor Concur, a provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, where he led the Delivery function through high growth over the past six years.Davies' extensive career has included positions at Pegasystems (formerly Chordiant), the Financial Services Authority in the U.K., and Oracle. Davies is also a chartered accountant.

Headquartered in Salisbury, U.K. with offices in the U.S., central Europe and Asia, Patersons is a provider of integrated global payroll services delivering expert solutions to clients in more than 160 countries. The company's secure Internet-based software as a service is multi-currency and multi-lingual (covering over 30 languages), features an interface, supports implementation times and facilitates integration with existing systems.

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